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The Rappahannock Athletic Association All-Stars, who went to Madison last week to play in the area-wide Babe Ruth Baseball League tournament, were elimi-nated after losing their first two games.
Although the county team failed to advance beyond the first round, Coaches Don Dorrell, Walter Grimsley and Butch Zindel pronounced themselves satisfied with the team’s performance. The play at the tournament was excellent, they said, and the Rappahannock AllStars just fell victim to superior teams.
But, Coach Zindel noted, every member of the county team saw action in the two games, which is the objective of Little League baseball.
The first game saw the All-Stars fall behind early and never recover to lose 4-2. In the second contest, they battled back from a large deficit to pull within one run of tying the score. However, with pitching problems allowing the opposition several key hits, the Rappahannock team lost their momentum and dropped the game, 8-7.
League play was suspended during the tournament last week, but several of the teams played exciting games during the week before the Madison tournament.
On Saturday, July 1, the Yankees moved to closer to first place as they beat the Blazers 18-6 at Rappahannock field, at the elementary school.
The Blazers scored first in the top of the first on a single, a walk, and another two-RBI single by Aaron Griffith.
However, the Yankees bounced back in the home half of the first to score five runs, with Mark Jenkins doubling in two runs and Scotty Updike reprising with another two bagger which also scored a pair of runs.
In the second, the scorefest continued with the Blazers adding another two runs, then tied the game in the third with another score.
The Yankees, however, upped the ante again in the bottom half of the inrfing with another three runs on another double by Jenkins, sint gles by Julius Norwood and Tim D’Meara, and three stolen bases.
In the fifth, the Yankees pulled another two runs ahead on Tim O’Meara’s two-run homer, which scored Allen Groves, who had
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