Midvale And Baltic Advance Into Semi-Finals Of Tourney (4-17-57)

Midvale (1-0) advanced to the semi-finale of the County Baseball League yesterday by whipping the Strasburg Tigers (1-1) 11-3 as Lonnie Wolfe scattered six hits, walked six and struck out 14. In other tourney action, Baltic (2-0) trounced Tuscarawas (0-1) 16-2. The game between Port Washington (0-0) and Dundee (0-0) was postponed until a later date. After Strasburg had scored once in the first frame, Midvale raced three runs across in the second and was never in trouble there-after. Another run in the third, three in the fourth and five in the fifth gave the Blue Devils the easy victory as they collected 11 safeties off the slants of Sam Jacobs and Jerry Froman. The two Tiger hurlers collectively struck out six and walked nine. Lonnie Wolfe and Charlie Colleiti each smashed out a triple and single. Jerry Benedum smacked a double and single and Dave DeMattie had two singles to lead the Midvale attack. Bob Haswell's home two in the sixth inning was the big blow for Strasburg. Bob Feller and Bill Metzger each had two hits, one of Feller's a double. With John Rice on the mound for Baltic and limiting the Bronco batsmen to only four hits, the Eagles romped to the victory easily as they collected five runs in the first, four in the third and fifth and three more in the fourth. Tuscarawas collected two runs in the second inning and after batting in its half of the sixth inning decided to call the game. John Rice fanned nine and walked only two en route to the victory, while Smith, Robinson and Eckert, on the mound for Tusky, gave up a combined total of eight hits, eight walks and fanned seven. Ron Huprich led Baltic with two hits, one of them a double, and Sam Jacobs also collected a double . The rest of the Baltic hits were spread out as the entire team hit well. Cavendish, Vesco,, Keffer and Robinson each hit singles for Tusky.
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Wednesday, April 17, 1957
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio