Today the Steve Hill Dukes hosted Loren Fabian's Flyers on Field D . Both teams stared fast with 5 runs each in the first . Doubles by Fred Dampier and Tom Capozzi for the Flyers and a George Vanderhyde home run and a Joe Peskie double were the teams big blows .
The Flyers slowed down scoring one each in the 2nd and 3rd and two in the 4th innings , While the Dukes added 7 runs to take a 12-9 lead after four .
The Flyers add a run in the 6th on a Ray Levesque hit .The Dukes seemed to put the game away with four in the 5th and five in the 6th inning on hits by Willie Morton , Bob Vandenburg , Steve Pinnick and Bob Skidmore .To take a 21-10 lead after six .
The Flyers mounted a comeback with 4 in the 7th on hits by Tom Benson , Ron Thompson , and Don LaMay , then 5 more in the 8th on hits by Kirt Essenmacher , Jerry Dejongh and Ralph Boswell , while the Dukes could manage only a run in each inning . 23-19 Dukes after eight .
The Dukes defense and Willie Morton's pitching stepped up in the top of the 9th with a one , two, three inning . Final 23-19 Dukes .
Game stars , Flyers , Kirt Essenmacher , Jerry Dejongh and Ralph Boswell 4-4 , Dukes , George Vanderhyde 5-5 , Ed Spegel 4-4 .
Submitted by Steve Hill
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