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DU Runnerup

ATO Takes Softball Final

Combining a near faultless defense
and a three-run second inning.
the ATO softball team downed the
DU's in the High Point Championships
on Wednesday afternoon, 5-2.

Having finished second during
the 1968 Mad Bowl season, the
ATO's returned to take full honors
this year by rapping twelve hits
through the DU infield. Steve
Reville was the big man at the plate
for the winners as he accounted for
three hits in as many at-bats and
tallied two runs.

It didn't take the ATO's long to
get on the scoreboard as they
bombed the DU's in the second
with a pair of consecutive base hits
by Reville and Bobby Bird followed
by a double by Joe Braintwain
driving them in. The third run of
that inning was scored when Bill
Beason knocked the fourth ATO
hit in a row to score Braintwain and
up the margin to 3-1.

At this point the ATO defense
took over allowing only three hits
and two runs for the rest of the
game, both in the top of the sixth
when the DU's began to tally with a
home run by Tom Peyton which
also drove in Ron Thomason.

For DU the offensive fireworks
were few and far between as two of
their total of four hits came on
fielder's choice situations. The ATO
mittmen, especially the left-fielder,
seemed to magnetize the field as fly
balls fell ever so often into the
comforting gloves of the eventual
victors.

In the consolation game St.
Anthony routed Phi Gam, 10-2, an
seven hits. Bob Crozer got on base
four out of four times of lead the
St. A's in the winning effort.