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Eagles face Eyford in baseball final

SKYLINE won the North Van-
couver Central Major Little
League regular season title June 18
with a 5-0 win uver Eyford, but
was knocked out of the league
playoff race by the same team.

Skyline, with a record of 14 wins
and four losses, was tied with the
Eagles but took the league title by
virtue of its four-win, two-loss re-
cord against the Eagles.

In June 21 semi-final playoff ac-
tion, Eyford beat Skyline 5-1.

The winning pitcher was David
Hartley, who struck out 15 batters

THE REBELS charged into the
lead in the Forest Hills Major
League by going undefeated in the
first half of regular-season baseball
play.

The team got off to a fast start
in the season’s opener, beating
Skyline Sports 8-0 behind Adam
Derkach’s one-hit, 16 strike-out
pitching performance.

The league’s opening ceremo-
nies, where presentations were
made to long-time executive
member Red Robinson and former
president John Wittig, were
followed by the Rebel’s 9-5 victory
over Highland Optical.

Michael Koch’s home run and
Jamie Commerford’s key double
overcame a Highland lead that had
been sparked by home runs from
Brandon Armstrong and Stuart
Doyle.

Stong’s, with strong pitching
from David Byron and Kevin
Milos, kept close to the leaders
with wins over Skyline Sports and
Highland Optical.

The early season activity set up a
first place battle between Stong’s
and the Rebels.

After five scoreless innings,

tong’s took advantage of two
Rebel errors and a key hit by Milos
to take a 2-0 lead, but the Rebels
fought back with five hits.

Brent Follett’s double drove in
the winning run in the 3-2 victory.

In the minor league, 7-Eleven
won six of their first seven games
to take a large first-place lead,
thanks to their consistent pitching.

After losing 11-9 to Whitman
Electric, 7-Eleven came back to
beat Bonanza Restaurants 8-5,
Mac’s !2-2 and Whitman 17-5.

STANDINGS
JUNE 1/87

MAJOR LEAGUE
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Stong’s

Highland Optical
Skyline Sports

MINOR LEAGUE

7-Eleven 6
Mac’s i
Whitman Electric |
Bonanza Restaurant 0

PEEWEE LEAGUE
Tigers

Indians

Dodgers

Giants

Mets

Cardinals

Yankees

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in the game.

Jason Travers led Eyford with
two singles.

In the other playoff game June
21, the Eagtes went into extra inn-

ings to trim Legion 7-6 with pitch-
er David Earland recording the win
in relief.

Earland led off the eighth inning
with a single. His twin brother

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Mike then hit a sacrifice bunt
single and Jessie Collins followed
with a sacrifice to score the winn-
ing run,
Gordie

Warner and Cam

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McLeod led the Eagles offence
with two hits each.

The Eagles will now play Eyford
Thursday in the league final at
Zuehlke Park starting at 6:30 p.m.

PARK ROYAL (NorthMall) 922-9308

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