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Special to Highlands Today

The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 10, 2009

Tuesday, February 3rd was the only day of softball play last week for the Sebring Senior Softball League at the Highlands County Sports Complex. Three of the four games finished with a one-run deficit.

The game between two evenly matched teams, the Blue Jays and Silent Salesman, turned out to be a nail biter, with the Salesman winning 9-8. The Salesman scored four runs in the first inning, but the Jays took the lead in the 5th inning by a 6-4 score.

The Salesman's bats heated up again in the seventh to score five more times. The Jays scored two runs, but fell one run short for the 9-8 final.
Setting the pace in hitting for the Salesman were Mike Jurmu going 2-for-4 with a double and a triple, while Don Cunningham, Jerry Johnston, Syd Collins and Richard Godfrey all contributed two hits.

Blue Jays top hitters were Don Sheets and Dick Schiltz, with each banging out a home run, while Don Day hit a triple.

Another close call was Highlands Ridge and Highlands Merchants ending with a 7-6 score in favor of the Ridge. Highlands Ridge scored five runs in the first inning and scored no more until they edged out Highlands Merchants in the bottom of the eighth inning. Ridge was trailing by one run when Dan Smart started it off with a hit, Curt Brown then drove in Doug Ebeling for the win.

Brown went 3-for-4, John Bielman and Walker Spence both had two hits and Smart, Tommy Gaiowonik and Doug Ebeling each went 2-for-3.

Ridge made some good defensive efforts to win the game.

Highlands Merchants' contributors were Wayne Hill with three hits, Bobby Fulcher, Jose Torres and Bob Roth each had two hits.

Victor Rodriquez hit a triple with two RBI, several good defensive plays were made and it was a well pitched game by Ron Lewis.

The third one run game for the day was between the Rebels and Highlands Independent Bank with a final score of 13-12.

The Bank was in the lead for four innings 6-0. The Rebels mustered seven runs, before the score went back and forth giving the Rebels the victory.

For the Rebels, Les Reab went 3-for-4 with a home run. Jim Munroe was 4-for-4 and Jack Grosso, Tony Caristo, Jerry Mattis and"Moose" Tom Morrissette contributed two hits.

Going 3-for-3 were Diz Jones, Stan Turl and Jim Strietzel.

The Bank played a very respectful game and is showing signs of real improvement.

The only wide-spread score was between Royal Palms and Aluminum Discount.

The Palms came out on top with a 14-4 win as Doug Hammond went 4-for-4 with a home run and three RBI.

Discount Aluminum's James Gilbert hit a home run, driving in three runs, while Robert Fox had three hits and Paul Stevenson chipped in with two hits.

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