Two teams from Clay County and two from the host league will battle at 6 p.m. today at Riley for district Cal Ripken League baseball championships.
Clay County’s 10-year-olds are unbeaten in three games, but none of those was against the Riley Smodilla team that Clay County plays today. The Riley Smodilla team avenged its only tournament loss to Parke County in Sunday’s last game to reach the championship round.
Riley Flack is the unbeaten team in the tournament for 11-year-olds and plays a Clay County team it defeated 3-1 in an earlier round. Clay County reached tonight’s championship round with a pair of wins over Linton.
Because both tournaments are double-elimination affairs, a second game would be played tonight if either Riley Smodilla or the Clay County 11-year-olds win at 6.
Tournament scores so far are as follows.
At Riley
10-year-olds
Clay County 13, Riley Williams 6
Clay County 7, Monrovia 4
Parke County 4, Riley Smodilla 3
Clay County 4, Parke County 2
Riley Smodilla 12, Riley Williams 7
Riley Smodilla 10, Monrovia 0
Riley Smodilla 11, Parke County 2
Clay County vs. Riley Smodilla, 6 p.m. today, second game to follow if necessary
11-year-olds
Clay County 7, Linton 2
Riley Flack 14, Riley Biggs 6
Riley Flack 3, Clay County 1
Linton 8, Riley Biggs 2
Clay County 19, Linton 4
Riley Flack vs. Clay County, 6 p.m. today, second game to follow if necessary
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In other baseball:
• Post 346 loses twice — At Moline, Ill., Jacob Hayes was 4 for 7 with a pair of doubles but Wayne Newton Post 346 lost a pair of American Legion games Sunday in what would have been the Moline Tournament.
Weather wiped out the entire Saturday schedule and several teams went home, manager John Hayes noted, so Post 346 played two Illinois teams not on its original schedule. Terre Haute lost 3-1 to Palatine and 9-5 to Arlington Heights.
Wayne Newton Post 346 000 000 1 — 1 5 0
Palatine Post 690 100 020 x — 3 7 1
O’Laughlin, Patterson (6) and Collett; Towchman, Brano (4), Schoolcraft (7) and Concialdi, Getoy (6). W — Towchman. L — O’Laughlin, 3-2. Sv — Schoolcraft.
Highlights — For Post 346, Jacob Hayes was 2 for 3, Dougie Collett had a double and Michael Eberle and Nick Pilipovich had singles.
Arlington Heights 310 401 0 — 9 9 1
Wayne Newton Post 346 100 010 3 — 5 7 3
Carlson, Puguese (7) and Kapka; Goldman, Patterson (4), Eller (6) and Pilipovich. W — Carlson. L — Goldman, 5-1. HR — WN: Reed (8).
Highlights — For Post 346, Jacob Hayes had 2 doubles, A.J. Reed had a solo homer and Michael Eberle had an RBI.
Next — Wayne Newton Post 346 (19-8) has a 7 p.m. home game Tuesday against Vincennes.
• Juniors win — At Effingham, Ill., the Wayne Newton Post 346 junior team won the rain-shortened July 4 Invitational on Sunday by beating Flora 6-1 and the host team 11-7.
Michael Mace was 5 for 6 with 3 doubles for the day and Dalton Sexton, Mace and Garrett Peabody drove in the four tie-breaking runs in the
seventh inning of the
championship game.
Flora 000 100 0 — 1 6 0
Post 346 juniors 002 022 x — 6 12 0
Bailey, Taylor (6) and Lewis; Maxwell (W) and Peabody. L — Bailey.
Highlights — For Post 346, Scott West was 2 for 3 with a double, 2 runs and 2 RBIs; Dalton Sexton was 2 for 4 with a double; and Michael Mace was 2 for 2.
Post 346 juniors 321 100 4 — 11 11 1
Effingham Post 120 000 241 0 — 7 9 5
Nacke, West (5) and Peabody; Schmidt, Hecht (3), Thoele (7) and Wohltman. W — West. L — Hecht.
Highlights — For Post 346, Michael Mace was 3 for 4 with 3 doubles and 3 RBIs; David Knight was 1 for 3 with a double that started the seventh-inning rally; Garrett Peabody was 1 for 5 with 3 RBIs, two in the seventh inning; and Dalton Sexton had a tie-breaking RBI single in the seventh.
Next — Wayne Newton Post 346 juniors (22-5) have a 7 p.m. home game Tuesday at Terre Haute South against Effingham.
Golf
• Jones-Nicoson team wins — At Hulman Links, Tom Jones and Tommy Nicoson teamed to win the annual Mundy Holiday Tournament, a two-man best-ball event played Saturday and Sunday.
Jones and Nicoson finished with a 14-under-par 130 score to take tourney honors. They also had the low round of 61 on Sunday and tied for low score on the front with 30.
The Terre Haute Golf Association Mini-City will be played this coming weekend.
Mundy Tourney results
Saturday front nine
31 — Gregg Kluesner-Scott Cassell, Chris Cassell-Larry Tackett, Tim Mundy-Ron Readinger, Ken McVey-Chris Pearson
Saturday back nine
31 — Mike Wright-Roger Nelson
Sunday 18-hole
65 — Jim Stewart Jr.-Troy Weber
Sunday front nine
30 — Tom Jones-Tommy Nicoson, McVey-Pearson, Cassell-Tackett
Sunday back nine
29 — Blayd Horrall-Joe Hayes
Sunday 18-hole
61 — Jones-Niccoson
Overall
130 — Jones-Nicoson
Auto racing
• Beliles prevails — At Osgood, Adam Beliles was a big winner in SCORA sprint car racing Friday.
The driver from Martinsville, Ind., won his heat, one qualifier, the dash and feature.
Two SCORA races are set this week in Illinois for Friday and Sunday.
Friday’s results
Heat winners — Adam Beliles, Robbie Shuttleworth.
Qualifier winners — Beliles, Steve Thomas.
Dash winner — Beliles.
Feature — Beliles, Ray Kenens, Thomas, Matt Humphrey, Randy Johnson, J.T. Stapp, Joe Varvel, J.L. Brewer, Clayton Brishaber, Dave Gross, Aaron Shutt, Alex Pettas, Jamie Frederickson, Tommy Shields, Dave Peperak.
SCORA point leaders — Stapp 524, Craig Budde 470, Alex Coonan 460, Peperak 448, Pettas 390.
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