Tigers Nip Audubon; Knights Rap Lake City Timet Herald, Carroll, la. Brechler Blanks Blue Moon Saturday, June 8, 1969 Randy Lengeling 2 in 10 innings; the New York Clips Birds Yankees topped California 4-1 Foe On 3-Hitter and then lost to the Angels 8-4, Boston edged the Chicago White Wins League Test It was clearly a strong pitch- Fuller went down on strikes, On 1-Hitter Sox 3-2 and Detroit nipped ing duel here Friday night as but the third strike slipped past Cleveland 5-4. LAKE CITY - Randy Lenge- Two cushion runs wore the Carroll Tigers upped flheir the Audubon catcher and the iy The Associated Prose "If ho hadn't broken the bat, ling, Kuemper's sophomore scored by the Knights in the league record to 2-1 by defeat- alert Fuller sped to first. On The Moon shone brightly ex- maybe the ball would have car- pitching find, passed his first sixth. With one down, the Ea- tag the Audubon Wheelers, 1-0, the next pitch, Fuller broke for cept tor brief eclipses In the ried a little further and would conference test with flying col- gles let Mark Wiedenfeld's in- in a West Central League con- second and a loose ball gave first and ninth innings. have been caught," Odom said ors as he checked the Lake City field pop drop for a hit. test at Carroll Stadium. Richardson the go-ahead at of Dave Johnson's ninth-inning Eagles on an eight-hitter and one down, Daeges fanned but third, but the Carroll catcher John "Blue Moon" Odem of single. fanned 14 batters as the reached first on a dropped Steve Brechler, the sopho- couldn't quite make it and was the Oakland Athletics gave up a However, the ball dropped Knights won, 11-4, here Friday. third strike. more pitching sensation for nailed at home plate. Denny first-inning run on three walks into right field and kept Odom The third stolen base of the the T t g e r s, chalked ,up his Vetter popped up to shortstop and a sacrifice fly and then from becoming the second Oak- It was the third successive game by Daeges set the stage second win of the season and and Ken Kieck drew a pass to ytelded a broken-bat single with land pitcher to hurl a no-hitter Wt»t Central League victory for Baldus to deliver a sharp, his first shut-out, frechler keep the Bengals alive. A two out in the ninth. this year. Jim "Catfish" Hunter for the Knights and kopt thorn two-run single to left. hurled a no-hitter at Jefferson passed ball sent both baserun- at tho top of tho hoap in loop But the M-year-cId right, pitched a perfect game May 8. Denny Headlee, starting Ea- on his first outing, 7-1. The ners into scoring position, but The sacrifice fly by Brooks standings. gle hurler, yielded a hit to lanky southpaw checked the Bruce P e 11 i 11 went down on handor finished with • one* hitter and a 6*1 victory over Robinson in the first inning Lengeling didn't get a lot of Friedman to start the seventh Wheelers with three hits, but strikes to end the side. came close to being much 'more and was derricked for Bill Al- his own club managed only It looked as though the tho Baltimore Orioles Friday hitting help from his mates, de night. than that. Rick Monday raced to spite the splurge of runs, but bright who promptly walked four hits off veteran Audubon Wheelers would enter the scor- the fence in left center to haul four batters in a row and pitcher, Kirk Mclaughlin. the six safeties they collected ing column in the top of the Oakland also won the second in the drive. It scored Paul were timely blows. Add an forced in two runs. Rick Hucka third frame. Joe Sklenar got —Staff Photo game of the twi-night double- Blair who had walked and ad- came on in relief and forced in The lone Carroll run came in Pick-Off Fails . Roger Fuller, right, scrambles over-par quota of walks, errors, the bottom of the fifth inning on things moving for the Audubon header 6-0 behind the four-hit vanced to third on a pair of hit batsmen and wild pitches the final run with a hit bats- a hard, line drive triple to cen- club with a one-bagger to left. safely back to first base in fifth inning action be- pitching of Jim Nash. one-out passes. man as the Knights batted tween Carroll High and Audubon here Friday night. and the Knights were able to ter by pinch-hitter Gary Lehr- Campbell followed suit with an In other American League ac- Odom walked a total of eight cruise to victory without undue around and scored three runs kamp, and a single shot to right identical shot to left, but an er- Dan Gilbert, Audubon first sacker is shown at left as tion, Minnesota split with Wash- in boosting his record to 5-4. He cause for concern. off one hit in the final frame. by Mick Everett which brought ror on the left fielder sent he takes throw from Kirk McLaughlin, the Wheeler ington, winning 5-3 and losing 3- struck out four. Kuemper hosts Jefferson to- Lehrkamp across the plate. Campbell around to third and itcher. Carroll won the West Central league contest Tho bright spot was tho work night in the only league action. Both teams mounted threats Ey a 1-0 count to share a four-way tie for second of the tall, young right-hander place in the loop standings. KUEMPER in the opening two innings, but on the mound. He got into a AH R H RBI neither could seem to pull ttie AUDUBON * Sklenar across the plate. A pro- Shades of Koufax mild jam in the second after Daeges, cf ............ 4 3 runner across the plate safely. AB R H RBI test was registered by the Car- Kuemper picked up a 2-0 lead Baldus, 2b ............ 4 2 Lykke, 3b 2 0 in the first. Bill Meinen reached Neary, 2b .............. 0 0 Paul Lykka opened things for roll third baseman that Sklenar Prep Loop Sklenar, rf 3 0 had not touched the bag and As Dodgers Climb base on single past second and Goins, 3b ............... 3 0 Che Wheelers with a base on Campbell, ss 3 0 Rusty Meinen moved him to Badding, c 4 1 balls. Lykke stole second and the run was revoked. w Riddle, c 1 McLaughlin, p .... 3 0 By The Associated Pros* innings, and Don Sutton turned third with a shot to left. A wild 0 Jog Sklenar flew out to left for Garber, c 3 0 Carroll came back with Kuemper 3 pitch scored Bill Meinen. Then Friedman, Ib 4 1 the first out. Warren Campbell Carroll „.... 2 in another six-hitter for a 4-2 Staiert, rf 3 1 Gilbert, Ib 3 0 their one, big run in the bot- Sandy Koufax might be gone victory. Rusty Meinen tried to steal popped up to the catcher and Fancher, 2b „ 2 0 tom of the fifth frame, and Denison 2 but it's business as usual on the home and was nailed at the Wiese, (a) 0 1 Kirk McLaughlin reached first Petersen, cf „ 3 0 neither club could mount the Jefferson , 2 mound for the Los Angeles That's 26 hks «nd three runs plate on a fine play by catcher Walden, If 1 0 on a second base error, putting Vaughn, If 2 0 steam in the final two innings Perry 2 Dodgers. in the last 46 innings by Dodg- Bill Badding. Bellinghausen (b) 0 1 Lykke in scoring position at Totals 24 0 to raise the tally. Breda i 2 ers' pitching. Not bad, without Wiedenfeld, ss .... 3 1 third. Husky Mike Garber Picked by many to finish in The Eagles didn't count again Audubon o 3 the retired Koufax. until the fifth at which time Foley, ss 0 0 fanned for the IMnl out. Gar- CARROLL In the final pitching duel be- Lake City o 3 the second division in the Na- Lengeling, p 3 0 ber was the first of eleven AB B HRBI tween Brechler and McLaugh- tional League, the Dodgers have The New York Mots, who also they were t r a i 1 i n g 6-1. Bill Everett, Ib 2 Friday Results- have shown fine pitching al- Gregory led off in the bottom of Totals 30 11 strike-out victims for Brechler. 0 lin, statistics show the Carroll Carroll 1, Audubon 0 moved only 2% games from the (a) batted for Staiert in 7th Scott Richardson got Carroll Baudler, cf ...„ 3 0 southpaw with only three hits lead with the kind of pitching though with less success, rode the fifth with a shot off Lenge- Brechler, p 2 0 Kuemper 11, Lake City 4 the combined four-hit efforts of ling's glove. An error on a be- (b) batted for Walden in 7th tinder way in the bottom of the against him, and eleven strike- Denison 3, Perry 1 that won them pennants in 1963, second with an arching triple Richardson, e .... 3 0 puts and two walks to his cred- 1965 and 1966. Nolan Ryan and Cal Koonce to a lated attempt to nail Gregory LAKE CITY Fuller, 3b 3 Jefferson 1, Breda 0 AB R HRBI to deep center field.