B2 The Knoxville Journal Tuesday, May 11, 1982
Farragut, Bearden
to battle each other
to battle each other
Jimmy Bailey continues to swing a hot bat for Bearden’s baseballers.
The Bulldogs third baseman smacked a double into right-centerfield to drive in the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning in Bearden’s 5-4 victory over Halls in Region 3-AAA action at UT’s Lower Hudson Field Monday.
Bailey, who also had a triple and a single, is on a hot streak. He has hit safely in 11 of of his last 13 times at bat, including eight straight in last week’s District 4-AAA tourney.
In the other Region 3-AAA first-round game at Doyle, winning pitcher Jeff Glover struck out 15 batters in six innings and Craig Schnupp collected two hits and two RBI to lead Farragut past Clinton 4-1.
Pat Dorwin had three stolen bases and scored two runs for the Admirals. Patrick Cotter got two of the Dragons’ three hits.
Bearden (23-8) will meet Farragut (21-4) in Thursday’s Region 2-AAA championship game at UT.
Bearden took an early 1-0 lead lead on Todd Rechenbach’s two-out triple.
Bulldog starter Fred Grubbs hurled perfect ball through the first four innings.
The Red Devils went ahead 4-1 in the sixth.
The Bulldogs battled back as Bailey clouted a triple to open the sixth. Neil Mary followed with a RBI single in the gap between third and short. Following Mark Snyder’s deep sacrifice fly to center, Hodge tripled and Rechenbach doubled home Hodge to tie the score.
Ray LaBelle tripled to leadoff the Halls’ seventh, but the Red Devils failed to score.
Mickey Snyder opened the Bearden seventh with a walk. Greg Williams’ bunt was thrown into centerfield to put runners on first and second and set up Bailey’s fame-winning two-bagger.
Snyder’s mound win was his sixrth straight without a loss.
HALLS..................................000 004 0 - 4 4 0
BEARDEN............................000 103 1 - 5 9 1
Bloomer and Arms; Grubbs, Snyder (6) and Rechenbach.
FARRAGUT........................110 002 0 - 4 7 1
CLINTON............................000 000 1 - 1 3 0
Glover, Jordan (7) and Huffaker; Holbrook and Sweat.
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