Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-07-27
Lions Take County Western Juniors
As HOLSTER Wins Over Coop, al
Newcomers Take
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the championship of the To-
team Western League in the
County Boys Baseball Asso-
citation Junior Division last |
Saturday, winding up the
regular season with a record
of Is wins and 2 losses.
(The top four teams of the
Western and Eastern Leagues |
were slated to begin a series of |
County championship play-off |
games late this week.
In the Saturday contest at
North Bethesda Recreation Cen
ter, the Lions knocked off Coop |
Al on the two-hit pitching of AL
Ian Hollister. The Kensington |
clubs alright defense was
highlighted by a Tied Williams
shift" that kept Co-op's cleanup
slugger Mike Carroll hitless in
three times at bat. Twice the
port.side batter left runners
stranded as he dumped the ball
into the waiting hands of the
shifted Lions infield.
Newcomers to the Junior Di-
vision this year with preseason
forecasts for good but not like
ly championship performance,
Ed Compton's Lions showed
aside the top-rated veteran clubs
of the League to seize first place
at the start. They went seven
games before suffering a defeat
and never were ousted from the
top rung of the ladder.
In the 18-game regular sea-
son, the Lions chalked up 157
hits and scored 154 runs while
their opponents gathered 81 hits
and IS runs. Their season bat
ting average was $40 and as
squeeze artists they time and
again dizzied the opposition.
Six of their games were shut
outs, including three no-hittcrs
and one one-hiter. They had two
additional one-hitters to their
credit. Five Lions pitchers
hurled a total of 127 innings,
striking out 10 and walking
rs. The pitchers won.loss rec
ords were: HOLSTER, Al; Hickey
Deutsch, Al; Phil Corddry, 80;
Dick Richards, 80, and Mike
Hutto, 20.
In their season-ender with Co.
op, one of the two teams that
had beaten them earlier, the
Lions got all their runs off Bob
Jones in the first inning with.
out getting a hit.
Chris Rightsell walked and
went to second on passed ball.
Joe Morris skied out. Dick Rich
ards grounded to Dwight
Greene at third. Greene bobbled
the ball, pulled Buddy Kupka
off first with his throw and
then Kupka dropped it. Right.
sell went to third and Richards
pulled up at second. Craig Ro-
her walked to fill the bags. Hol-
lister walked, forcing In a run.
Glenn Hottie hunted and was
safe as Richards scored on the
play at home. Nelson Riddle
slSied out. Corddry grounded to
shortstop John Yogi who over
threw second base and two
more scored. Eddie Compton
was out on fly to short.
The Lions later gathered five
hits off Jones and reliefer Vince
Nelson but were unable to con.
vert them into runs. Jones got
only two strikeouts and Nelson
none.
HOLSTER got into trouble in
the first but went on to strike
out 10 while walking three in
his six innings. Deutsch relieved
for the last inning.
Coop scored in the first when
kupka was hit by pitched ball
Skinner got on on pitchers err.
ror and Yogi walked. Kupka
dashed home on CarrolIs fIv.
out to center. For Carrolls an.
pearances, Compton shifted his
team TO the right, leaving third
base and left field unnamed.
II paid off as Mike grounded
once to Eddie Compton far to
the right of second base and
once to Richards behind second,
stranding runners both times.
FINAL STANDINGS
County Western Junior.