Tough softball battle

Press, 13 December 1982, Page 35

Tough softball battle

Noel Leeming Burnside had its toughest battle yet in senior men's softball this season when it shaded United, 2-0, at Western Ball Park on Wednesday evening. The win. Burnside's seventeenth on end, was not assured until the bottom of the sixth innings when JimmyHall and Graeme Anderson came home. Hall scored on a hit by Roy Ah Kuoi and Anderson on a passed ball. In the previous five innings United's Ross Fife, in good form on the mound, had kept the Burnside batters very quiet. The only one to hit safely had been Robert Tangaroa w-ho in the third innings hit to the fence between centre field and right field, but a superb throw by Neil Stuart had him tagged

out trying to, make third base. While Burnside's batters did little, their United counterparts had no success at all. Twenty-one of them came up to face Tangaroa and all of them failed to make base. Tangaroa took 10 strikeouts in pitching a no-hit no walk game. Calling the pitches was the reserve, Glyn Eades, substituting for John Daly who was nursing an injury. The game was marked by good outfield catches from United’s Dean Couch and Burnside's John Kottier. The Kottier catch was from a towering Tony Mountford hit that all but cleared the fence. In their previous encounters this season Burnside

has taken clear leads early on and gone to easy wins by 7-2 and 8-1. Points: Noel Leeming Burnside 34. Papanui 22, United 22, Western Suburbs 12, Richmond 4. Albion 4.