The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1948-09-02
SUNBURY HERE
(Friday, August I'D

Sunbury took the first game of
their four-game series with the Owls
on Friday night, by a score of to 2.
Jim Lawrence, the starting and
losing pitcher for Hagerstown, was
taken out in the ninth, after load
ing the bases with two out and Sun
bury ahead, to 2. He was relieved
by Bolton. Crumling was behind
the plate. Dair, a Highlander,
started for Sunbury and pitched five
innings, retiring from the game at
the end of the fifth, with the score
tied %. Mike Rooms took over in
the sixth and shut the Owls out on
one hit in the last four frames to get
credit for the win. Art Young did
the catching.
With both starting hurlers pitch
ing shutout ball in the first three
frames leach pitcher gave up one
hit), the Owls took 20 lead in the
fourth. Keller the first man up,
walked and Christie followed with
double to left, sending Keller to
third, Daddario flied out to Van
Heuit in deep centerfield, with Kel-
Ter scoring after the catch and
Christie taking third. Yeash walk
ed, but Crumling grounded to Dair
who threw to Mclean at third and
Christie was tagged out when he
tried to get back to third, with
Yeash moving to second, from where
he scored on Martins single to right.
Lawrence then struck out to end the
inning.
After being shutout again in the
fourth, Sunbury scored their first
run in the fifth after two were out
Young, the third man up, singled to
center and went to third on Dair's
single to the same spot, from where
he scored on EckdahPs inield hit
DePrima walked, but Bernhardt
made the third out when he ground
ed to Ermer.
Sunbury tied it up in the sixth.
Filipowicz and Ticco both got in
field hits to put men on first and
second with none out. Mclean then
laid down a sacrifice bunt and when
Lawrence fielded the ball and threw
wild to third Filipowicz scored, with
Ticco moving to second. VanHeuit
forced Ticco at third for the first
out and Young hit into a double
play to end the inning.
Rooms went to the mound in the
bottom half of the sixth and set the
Owls down in order. Then, in the
top half of the seventh, Sunbury
went ahead 80 Rooms, the first man
up, singled to left and Eckdahl sac
rificed him to second, from where he
scored on DiPrima's single to CEN
ter. Bernhardt then flied to Christie
in right and Filipowicz hit a high
bounder that Lawrence fielded in
time to throw him out at first for
the third out
After striking out Lawrence and
Ermer in the seventh, Rooms walked
Jenis and Keller and then turned
round and struck out Christie. In
the eighth after getting Daddario on
fly to DiPrima, he gave up his on
ly hit, a single by Yeash. But he
then forced Crumling to hit into a
double play.
Sunbury cinched the game in the
top half of the ninth. Rooms again
led off with single Eckdahl took
a third called strike and DiPrima
lined to Yeash and it was two out,
with Rooms still on first. Bernhardt
then singled to left, with Rooms stop
ping at second. Filipowicz walked,
filling the bases and that was all
for Lawrence and Bolton went to
the mound. Ticco, the first man to
face Bolton, grounded to Jenis at
first, who let the ball 60 through
him and both Rooms and Bernhardt
scored on the error, with Filipowicz
moving to third, from where he was
thrown out at the plate when he
tried to steal home.
In the bottom half of the ninth