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10 Sports CFP 7-1-09.Indd 1 7/1/09 3:57:27 PM FREE PRE ss Page 10 Colby Free Press Wednesday, July 1, 2009 SSPORTPORT SS Colby Legion team up by two 20 games into summer season By Kevin Bottrell win over Burlington. team’s longest hitting streak at four earned three wins as pitchers. Colby Free Press Corey Sager leads the team in games. Cade Carter has scored Kryzcki and Garrett Rogers have [email protected] batting, driving in 28 runs on 25 the most runs so far, crossing the one each. Rasmussen has pitched hits. Sager has a .410 batting aver- plate 29 times in 20 games. Carter the most innings, with four com- The Colby American Legion age. So far, he has hit two triples, also has the most stolen bases, a plete games. He also has the high- baseball team finished the first 20 six doubles and 17 singles, but whopping 24, and has never been est strike percentage at 66 and has games of the summer season last has not hit a home run. caught stealing. walked just seven batters. weekend at the North Platte Tour- The home run leader is Eric Overall, the team has scored Dinkel has 46 strikeouts, the nament in Nebraska. Blanton with four, half the team’s 151 runs off 152 hits. They have team’s best, and has also pitched The team has 11 wins and nine total. totaled 8 home runs and 134 runs the most games. Carter, who has losses, picking up several impres- Brent Arnberger has the most batted in. only pitched seven and one third sive shutouts, including a 14-0 at-bats for the Legion team with Kevin Lang, Brandon Rasmus- innings, has the lowest earned run win over Scott City and a 14-1 67, and Preston Kryzcki has the sen and Stephen Dinkel have each average on the team at 2.46. Races start up again after rain outs KEVIN BOTTRELL/Colby Free Press By Eric Gaede Econo class. the season points. Dustin Daniels, seventh. There were 14 cars in the First baseman Brent Arnberger fielded a foul ball in a game Thomas County Speedway Schoenberger, No. 6, took the No. 33, back racing in the Stock Hobby Stock class. against Ellis last week. Arnberger has 67 at bats this summer, win for the second time in his Car class, ran a close second, with Normandin, No. 01, was also a the most for the Colby American Legion team. The weather was perfect for rac- career at Colby. Nick Tubbs, No. Rogers right behind them for third. winner for the first time this year, ing at the Thomas County Speed- 737, tried hard on the restarts but Wheat Lippelmann, No. 44, came holding off John Luckert, No. 37. way on Monday after having sev- just couldn’t get to the lead and in fourth and Bruce Plumisto, No. Joe Austin, No. 07, finished third eral races rained out. This week’s finished second. Matt Morris, No. 01w, was fifth. BJ Wagoner, No. and Dusty Pennington, No. 13, race was a makeup for one rained 21m, had a good lead built up but 51w, finished sixth and No. 7 Rod came in fourth. Alex Crossland, Toll Free Number 888-671-3238 out two weeks before. the restarts allowed the field to Bencken was seventh. No. 27, must have had a backup All four racing divisions had bunch up and he ended up third. Glassman, No. 16, got his first car, as he had a spectacular crash Clearance Prices on All Stock Units - Price new winners for the year. Brady Coen, No. 3, was coming win of the year and held off the on the front stretch and rolled Vehicle Miles Price • Jason Schoenberger won the up through the field quick at the hottest driver of the year, B.J. right in front of the grandstands Modified division, moving to sec- beginning of the main and finished Dauer, No. 33. Dauer came from in the heat race. 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Mathew day at the Thomas County Fair- 2007 Chevy Avalanche - Loaded - Gold ....................$31,430 fourth place in points. of the year and moved into a tie Crowell, No. 2c, finished sixth grounds. 2007 Dodge Dakota - Quad Cab - White..25,500......$16,995 • Chad Normandin won the with Jason Rogers, No. 37, for and Chad Fields, No. 10f, was 2008 Chev Impala LT ...............................38,500......$14,995 2008 Chev Silverado ..................................2,900......$22,500 Rockies within striking distance in West Division 2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser Touring ............12,985...... $11,995 2008 Chrysler Sebring LX ........................45,800...... $11,495 LOS ANGELES (AP) — If the third career shutout. The complete Anaheim. He is 5-0 with a 1.84 “Tracy talked to us and told us 2008 Chrysler 300 C - Gold ......................22,950 ..... $19,995 Colorado Rockies are going to game was his sixth in 214 career ERA in his last eight starts against what he wanted out of us,” Mar- 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT - Silver 10,500......$20,995 catch the Los Angeles Dodgers starts and second this season. the Dodgers going back to Sept. 4, quis said. “He told guys to be held 2008 Dodge 2500 Reg Cab - Gas ............19,500......$21,995 in the NL West, they’ll need more “That was something special,” 2004. more accountable for their actions, of what Jason Marquis gave them Rockies manager Jim Tracy said. “A pro of his caliber who throws positive and negative, and guys 2009 Kawasaki 1700 Voyager NEW 6 spd ...........Come Look Tuesday night against the team “In the seven-plus years I’ve sat up a stinker like he did the other responded to that real well.” Kawasaki Motorcycles & Dixon Mowers with baseball’s best record. behind a desk like this, that’s day over in Anaheim and then Billingsley (9-4) gave up three Marquis pitched a two-hitter the first time I’ve seen a starting bounces back like he did tonight runs and five hits in 7 2-3 innings www.oakleymotors.com to become the league’s first 10- pitcher throw a nine-inning, com- says everything there is to say and tied a season high with 11 game winner, leading the resur- plete-game shutout and do it with about who this guy is and what a strikeouts — two more than he gent Rockies to a 3-0 victory. The less than 90 pitches. And a lot of great pro he is,” Tracy said. had in his previous three starts SEE Dustin, Larry, Eric OR Dan TODAY! 30-year-old right-hander also hit that had to do with the way he Brad Hawpe homered for the combined. He threw 118 pitches. a two-run single and out-pitched pounded the strike zone early in Rockies, who set a franchise re- Chad Billingsley in a match up of the count with his fastball.” cord for wins in a month with 21. potential All-Stars. Marquis did not issue a walk Colorado was 14 games behind “It definitely was fun to pitch and retired 19 consecutive batters the Dodgers on May 27 after get- a game like that,” Marquis said. between James Loney’s one-out ting swept in a three-game series “I just tried to attack the bottom single in the second and Juan Cas- at Chavez Ravine and outscored of the strike zone and get early tro’s two-out single in the eighth. 31-13. swings. I was executing better He became the fourth pitcher in Two days later, Clint Hurdle than I have probably all year, and club history to win 10 games be- was fired as manager and Tracy THE NEXT GENERATION OF obviously you saw the results.” fore the All-Star break, joining took over. Marquis (10-5) tied Kevin Kevin Ritz (1996), Shawn Chacon The Rockies’ surge is reminis- Slowey, Zack Greinke, Roy Halla- (2003) and Aaron Cook (2008). cent of the team’s 21-1 run to the PRECISION FARMING. day and Tim Wakefield for the ma- It was quite a turnaround for 2007 World Series. Colorado has jor league lead in wins, facing two Marquis, who allowed seven gone from 10 games under .500 to batters more than the minimum earned runs over 3 1-3 innings last five above, winning 14 of 17 on and throwing just 86 pitches in his Wednesday against the Angels in the road. 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