By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
In the first head-to-head meeting between the two leading teams in the Bambino (9-10) League, it was C.R. Sand taking a 7-4 win over Mulay Saturday morning at the Sports Complex as the teams spent the day playing makeup games.
Sand finished the makeup schedule Saturday with a perfect 3-0 record to improve to 9-1 for the year and alone in first place.
Mulay finished 2-1 Saturday to stand at 7-2 for the year, slipping from second place to third.
Food Giant won all three games it played Saturday to move into second place at 8-2.
After defeating Mulay, C.R. Sand put away Pearson Insurance 7-4 and McDonald's 8-2.
Food Giant defeated Title Company 14-7 and then took care of Sanyo 18-4 and Farm Credit 10-4.
After losing to Sand, Mulay rebounded to defeat Napa 11-5 and McDonald's 19-4.
Sanyo won twice and lost once to stay in fourth place in the league standings while Napa lost twice to fall to fifth.
The league will jump back into action tonight with a full schedule of games and will make up the remaining four rain out games on Wednesday, June 20.
The Bambino (11-12) League played a regular schedule of games Friday at the Sports Complex.
Cochran Auto, 10-1, maintained its hold on the league's top spot with a 12-8 win over Hess Shoes.
Rotary Club lost to Taylor Glass 9-8 and falls into a tie for second place with Hess. Both teams are 6-5 for the year.
Taco Bell defeated Bonanza 15-6 while the POPS and Vaccaro Lumber game was halted before a winner could be determined.
The game has been declared a "no contest" by Youth Baseball Director Kenneth Taylor.
C.R. Sand 9-1
Food Giant 8-2
Mulay 7-2
Sanyo 5-4
Napa 5-5
Title Company 4-6
Pearson Insurance 4-6
Farm Credit 2-8
McDonald's 0-10
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Taylor-Casbeer had it a little easier than most of the Minor League teams during Saturday's make up day.
Taylor-Casbeer played only one game Saturday, defeating M&T Paving 10-7 to stay on top of the league standings at 11-1.
M&T, 10-2 for the year, has lost both games to Taylor-Casbeer.
Friday night, in regular season action, T-C downed Lion's Club 13-6.
By contrast, M&T Paving played a Friday night game and then returned Saturday to play four games. The team finished 4-1 to stay in second place in the league standings.
Mr. T Auto also played four games over the weekend and won all four to improve to 9-4 for the year, keeping the team in third.
Mr. T Auto, which finished second at the preseason Wynne Tournament last month, defeated Joey's Muffler 13-6 Friday night and returned Saturday to down Easley Law 18-16, Lion's Club 12-9 and Easley again 11-5.
M&T Paving beat Lion's Club and Farm Bureau on Saturday.
In other games played Saturday, Joey's put down Lion's Club 20-9 and Dr. Beasley held off Lion's Club 9-8 to improve to 3-8 for the year.
Lion's Club, 6-7 after the weekend, lost all six games played during the Friday-Saturday stretch.
League play continues tonight and the final two make up games will be played Wednesday, June 20.
A Minor League pitching machine tournament will be held this weekend at the Sports Complex and more details of that event will be given later this week.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
An errant call led to an unusual ocurrance in girls' 10-under slow pitch softball Friday night.
The Forrest City Bank-Mom's game ended in a 10-10 tie after the umpires called the game at the end of the time limit, refusing to allow the two teams to play extra innings to decide a clear winner.
While the rule to let "time-limit tie games" stand has been put into effect this season in the 12-under and 16-under fast pitch leagues, the rule does not apply to the slow pitch league, which has been allowed to play out ties at the end of regulation.
In other 10-under games, Dr. Schwartz defeated Steven's 13-6, Food Giant downed True Value 9-7, Title Company beat Walker Insurance 8-2 and league-leader Sanyo ran past Southern Furniture 15-1.
Sanyo stays unbeaten at 12-0 for the year.
Dr. Schwartz and Title Company are tied for second place in the standings at 9-3 while Food Giant is third at 8-4.
The 10-under league will make up three rain out games tonight when Forrest City Bank plays Mom's; True Value takes on Food Giant and Dr. Schwartz plays Steven's. All three games begin at 6 p.m.
There was a tie in the 12-under league Friday, the second one this season, when Giffin's Grins and Debbie's Flowers played to a 12-12 tie.
Crowley's defeated Children's Clinic 14-6.
The 12-under league has two regular season playing dates remaining this week.
Dr. St. John stayed unbeaten on Friday by putting away Clay Funeral Home 13-1.
St. John, who clinched the league title last week, stands at 11-0 with one game to play.
In other Friday games, Bonanza improved to 6-5 for the year by defeating Sanyo 12-5 and McDonald's moved to 8-3 in the league with a 14-10 win over Boar's Head.
The 16-under league will play their final regular season games on Tuesday night.
By FRED CONLEY
T-H Sports Editor
Fred's won twice on Saturday to retain their hold on first place in the Junior Babe Ruth League standings.
Fred's defeated Freeman's 16-1 Saturday morning and returned later in the day to defeat Hunton Office 5-1 as the league played its make up games.
Fred's stands at 8-0 for the year.
Planter's Bank, 6-1, and in second place in the league standings also won twice on Saturday, downing the VIP's 20-12 and then putting away Houser's 9-1.
Houser's, despite the loss, remained in third place, one game ahead of Ridout in the league standings.
In other games played Saturday, Freeman's beat the VIP's 13-12 to improve to 2-5 for the year while Ridout was awarded a forfeit win over Hunton Office in the final game of the day.
The league has three more make up dates scheduled besides the final two regular season playing dates this week.
Tonight's schedule of games begins at 6 p.m. when Freeman's takes on the VIP's on Field 8 and Houser's gets Planter's Bank on Field 2.
Fred's and Hunton will close out tonight's action when they meet at 7:45 p.m., on Field 8.
The league's make up games will be played on Tuesday, June 19, Monday, June 25 and Thursday, June 28.
Fred's 8-0
Planter's Bank 6-1
Houser's 4-4
Ridout 3-5
Freeman's 2-5
Hunton Office 2-6
VIP's 1-7