West Palm Beach beats St. Pete 6-1 By JOE BONIKOWSKI for extra bases," Alou said. "But hits. He struck out six and walked we got some good pitching by Lo- two. gan, too. When we got the first two runs (in the bottom of the first), I Clearwater 6, St. Lucie 1 knew it would be tough to beat CLEARWATER ST. LUCIE him." ab r h bi ab h bi West Palm Beach added a run Neitzel 2b 4 0 1 1 Saunders 2b 01 Paulsen ss 5 0 0 0 Diaz ss in the fourth and gave three-run Logan a five- Taylor Lockett rf 1b 4 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 Fordyce Morrisette c 3b 4 1 0 1 -00000 run lead with a fifth. Nuneviller If 5 2 1 1 Pride cf Catcher Bill Cramer led off and Brady 3b 3 2 2 1 Thomas If 3 0 000 Hyde dh 3 1 2 2 Hoffner dh 4 0 1 was hit by a Daryl Green (4-6) Ventress cf 3 0 1 O Harris 1b 3000 Todd Mayo's single sent Totals Agostinelli c 34 3 6 0 01 9 1 6 Totals Cameron rf 31 1 010 61 pitch. Cramer to second and brought on Clearwater 001 203 000 6 fielder St. Lucie 000 000 100 reliever Mark Smith. Right -Morrisette, Cameron. DP-Clearwater 1, St. LuJeff Barry singled to load the cie 1. LOB -Clearwater 8, St. Lucie 6. 2B-Hyde, bases. McDonald doubled to score SF Nuneviller, -Neitzel. Saunders, Brady, Hoffner. S-Agostinelli. Cramer and Mayo and one out Clearwater IP H R ER BB SO later, Lake singled to score Barry. Elliott W,3-1 6⅓ -0 2 6 Sullivan 2⅔ The Expos scored a run in the St. Lucie fourth inning when Lake, who had Walker L,5-8 5⅓ reached on a fielder's choice, Sample McCann 2⅔ 1 ON o -0 scored Ron T-2:36. A-6,230. on a triple by shortstop Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH - • Pitching and defense carried the West Palm Beach Expos through the first- half of the Florida State League season. Wednesday night, the Expos added a revived offense to beat the St. Petersburg Cardinals 6-1 in front of 5,532 at Municipal Stadium. The St. Lucie Mets' 6-1 loss to Clearwater 1 moves the Expos into a first-place tie with St. Lucie in the East Division. " Third baseman Chad McDonald drove in three runs with a sacrifice fly and a two-run double, and designated hitter Ken Lake had two hits and two RBI. "A lot of things that we hadn't been doing lately came back to us," Expos manager Felipe Alou said. "We've been working on a lot of areas, and we're starting to gather the fruits of a more mature club. "It usually is tough for us to play in front of big crowds, but everyone here was great tonight." •The crowd, which watched a postgame fireworks display, also was treated to a solid pitching performance by right-hander Joe Logan (5-6), who broke his fourgame losing streak and, aside from one inning in Saturday's FSL AllStar. game, hadn't pitched since June 17. He struck out five, walked one and allowed five hits and one run over eight innings. "I don't feel like I did anything different tonight," Logan said. "I was a little behind in the beginning, and I was a little rusty by not being out there in so long.' "We had some big hits, especially for extra bases," Alou said. "But FLORIDA STATE LEAGUE Krause. Designated hitter Steve Fanning gave St. Petersburg its first run when he led off the top of the fourth with a home run, his first of the season. West Palm Beach scored its first two runs in the bottom of the first. Mayo led off with a double, Barry followed with a bunt single and McDonald's sacrifice fly scored Mayo. Barry advanced to second on a fielder's choice and scored on Lake's double. WPB 6, St. Pete 1 ST. PETERSBURG WEST PALM BEACH ab r h bi ab h bi Beanblossm dh 2b 4 4 0 1 0 2 0 1 Barry Mayo rf cf 4 4 N- Fanning 2 Thomas If 4 0 0 0 McDonald 3b 3 0 Ellis c 4 1 0 Bargas 1b 4 0 1 Hamlin 1b 4 0 1 0 Lake dh 4 1 2 Lewis rf 3 0 O Krause ss 4 0 Ochs 3b 3 00000. 0 0 Woods If Herrera cf 3 0 0 0 Ramirez 2b 4 0 0 0 Cromer ss 2 0 1 0 Cramer C 21 0 Totals 31 1 6 1 Totals 31 6 9 5 St. Petersburg 000 100 000 WP Beach 200 130 00x 6 DP-West Palm Beach 2. LOB-St. Petersburg 4, West Palm Beach 5. 2B-Lewis, Mayo, Lake, McDonald. 3B-Krause. HR-Fanning. SF--McDonald. IP H R ER BB SO St. Petersburg Green L,4-6 o U 5 - Smith 2 ow -O- 00 Gorton 0 - ON West Palm Beach Kilgo Logan W,5-6 00 - 5 - -0 0 5 HBP---By Green (Cramer). T-2:15. 1 A-5,532. Clearwater 6, St. Lucie 1 PORT ST. LUCIE - Donnie Elliott (3-1) pitched 6⅓ innings to lead the Phillies (5-6) over the Mets (6-3) at Thomas J. White Stadium. Elliot gave up one run on six