The Pirates of Sugarcreek and the Panthers of Stone Creek will vie in the county's fall baseball tournament final next week. Both teams clinched berths in the championship encounter yesterday with the Pirates stopping Bolivar, 5-0 behind the pitching of Clyde Stingle and the Panthers dropping Gnadenhutten, 5-1 behind Melvin McAfee. The final will be played either next Tuesday or Wednesday at a field to be selected. Arrangements for the game were to be completed this afternoon. Stingle shutout Bolivar on three hits at the Strasburg field Thursday. He fanned nine and walked one one. Meanwhile the Pirates coached by Jim Stull broke on top in the initial inning as Bob Stress singled, stole second and tallied on two fielder's choices. They iced it with three markers in the fourth with Centerfielder Dan Bear's two-run homer featuring an added insurance run in the next inning. Sugarcreek collected five hits off Studer. At the Baltic diamond McAfee limited Gnadenhutten to four singles as Stone Creek qualified for the final. McAfee, who lost a shutout in the second panel, struck out seven. The winners garnered seven safeties off Porter and Rauzi. The Panthers of Leo Gower also scored in the opening frame with singles. A single by Ben Wherley as the only hit. Two walks, a fielder's choice and two errors also figured. Gnaden tallied once in the second on a sacrifice and one-basers by Roth and Hines, but Stone Creek wrapped it up with single runs in the fourth and seventh sessions. Wherley and Larry Shererts had two hits apiece for the Panthers, while Clark clubbed a triple and Shaw a double for the losers. In another tourney tussle yesterday Baltic outlasted Port Washington, 5-3 in a game limited to six innings, because of rain and darkness. Jim Uher held Port to a pair of singles and fanned six, walked four. Baltic slapped out five singles off Jim Hannahs. The Eagles now turn to meet the winner of the Mineral City-Dundee game.*
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Friday, September 30, 1955
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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