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 Tuesday, July 10, 1984

SPORTS

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Upper Perkiomen rallies to beat Gilbertsville 6-4



By Jack Lapos
 Of The Morning Call


Whenever Upper Perkiomen and Gilbersville face each other in the Tri-County League, just about anything is liable to happen.

So said managers Bill Solivan of Upper Perk and Todd Slonaker of Gibertsville yesterday after the teams battled furiously for two hours with Upper Perk emerging with an extra-inning 6-4 win at Gilbersville.

"Another emotional Upper Perk-Gilbertsville game," Solivan noted. "I definitely think this is the best rivalry in the entire league and you could not see a better amateur baseball contest in this area."

"Yes, everytime we play each other it is a back-and-forth game and you never know who is going to come out on top in the end," Slonaker stated. "Just when you think you have the game in the bag, you wind up losing."

Slonaker was so right. Gilbertsville did indeed appear to have the game in the bag in the top of the seventh. Gilbertsville was ahead 4- 3 and Upper Perk had two out and two strikes on batter Bob Graber.

Graber then was served a fastball down the middle and he blasted the ball over the head of center fielder Bill Sassaman for a triple and two runs batted in. Jim Stratton and Pete Hoff were the runners on base.

Gilbertsville, refusing to surrender, came back with a run in the bottom of the inning on a booming triple to center by Mike Kline with Sassaman on base. That tied the score at 4-all and sent the game into overtime.

Upper Perk then came up with its two deciding runs on only one hit and two errors in the top of the eighth. Todd Swenk walked. Kevin Stahl singled. Tim Fox's bunt was mishandled permitting Swenk to go all the way home. John Yeakel walked and eventually scored on another error.

Each team used only one pitcher, both entering the game unbeaten. Graber lifted his record to 5-0 as Kevin Mackey's fell to 7-1. Graber gave up eight hits, Mackey six. Upper Perk played errorless ball. Gilbertsville committed five errors in all.

The triumph enabled second-place Upper Perk to move to within three games of pacesetter Gilbertsville in the Southern Division. Upper Perk is now 12-5 and Gilbertsville is 16-3. The loss ended a seven-game Gilbertsville winning streak.

Each team is playing a 27-game schedule. So the season is better than half over, and both amanagers agree the championship is still very much up for grabs.

The contest was scoreless until the bottom of the sixth when Gilbertsville tallied three times on three hits, including a two-run single by Charlie Baer and a one-run single by Joe O'Such.

It then remained for both teams to come up with their late-game fireworks but as both managers said, anything can happen and usually does in an Upper Perk-Gilbertsville game. In three meetings so far this season, they are 1-1-1, and they still have to face each other one more time.

That should be another corker of a game.



  

From The Morning Call -- July 10, 1984

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