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6-DELR1O (TEXAS) NEWS-HERALD, Tuesday. July 21, 1970 Ortega Homers Win Area Title for Del Rio i i QinacVi Vi 1 Kail rv hom trv a no iv j- Rn tf IP PfiSS By CARLGUYS News-Herald Staff Little Al Lopez put the big britches on the Eagle Pass hitters and big Eddie Ortega knocked the pants off the visitor's pitching to give Del Rio the 1970 Area Little League championship Monday night in Pop Word Park. The Val Verde Stars, led by the pitching of their mini-mite and the long ball hitting of their husky left fielder, defeated Eagle Pass 74 to win the title. Lopez, the 4-4, 90-pound, right bander allowed only three hits to the normally potent Eagles. Ortega belted two tape-measure circuit smashes that accounted for four of Del Rio's runs.

Lopez used his bag of curves with an occasional fast ball to baffle the Eagle Pass hitters. Watch It! Before you get worked up into a foamy lather about Little League catching in a pressure-packed final game, take into consideration: No. 1 The fine little chunk er out there on the mound is putting everything on that old pelota he knows how to do. No. 2 The pitch is coming in there dipping and darting and not swift, straight and true like a couple of guys playing catch.

No. 3 There's a batter waving a club in front of you and an umpire crouched over your shoulder when the ball caroms off of your mitt to the screen. No. 4 Eleven jillion fans are screaming to tell you where the ball hid and you're doing your best to find it all by yourself. No.

5 A couple of runs score and it seems like the whole park is down on you, but then you glove a couple of high twisting foul balls and in the end your team wins and everything is rosy again. There probably isn't one guy in the entire park and its surroundings who could have done as well. And besides, the game is over and you are thinking about Thursday and Pleasanton. Hang in there. Fish Fry Bob Fitzsimmons of the Coyote Dusters Motorcycle Club will have proof that his mates can do something besides ride those cycles.

Members of the group have been fishing and on Friday, at 8 p.m., there'll be a big fish fry at Hiway 90 BBQ with the femme members of the group bringing side dishes. Fitz drew Alaska as his next assignment and since he was such an active Coyote Duster the club will fete him fare-welly. Hoffman at 298-3223, has the answers to questions regarding the fish fry if club women need to know what side dishes to bring. Ken called Ken Hildreth, president of the Val Verde Little League, dialed to say the Pleasanton Little League Park is on the northwest side of that city. Fans who expect to make the trip in support of the Val Verde Area champions need to go out Highway 90 East to a mile east of the Hondo city limits and turn south through Devine and into Pleasanton.

Game time is 8 p.m. and game night is Thursday, July 23. The Del Rio players '-will travel in private cars and Hildreth says everything; is all arranged with sufficient loot to feed the kids after the contest. This one is sudden-death all the way, as will be all other Little League playoff games from here on out. Concerned When the report of that commercial fishing bit on the Mexican side of Amistad Lake became known a lot of folks became concerned on both sides of Big Friendly.

Authorities in Ciudad Acuna are setting the deal right and only sport fishing will be tolerated in the international reservoir. Of course if there was a way to let them netters harvest all the gar and rough fish without molesting the game fish, the setup would be ideal. But trammel nets, small barrel nets and other types of fish traps imprison brother bass along with the other species so it is best that all sorts of illegal angling be prohibited. P.S. When we were hawking "things to do in Del Rio" a column ago we did not mention the Miss Del Rio Beauty Pageant which goes Tuesday in the Civic Center.

This is an annual classic that judges talent, charm, poise and pulchritude and decides the Miss Dei Rio for another year. The while bit is a wonderful way to recognize the city's lovlies and to aid the Val Verde County and Laughlin AFB Little Leagues. Miss Little League will also be introduced at the pageant. Big Game If you think that the professional rodeo sport is not big time, take a gander at this. There'll be 666 contestants competing in 794 events at the 74th annual Cheyenne Frontier Days with the finals for Sunday, July 26, after six days of rodeoing sets the stage.

All 10 leading cowboys in all events are entered in the Wyoming classic now known as "Daddy of 'em All." The field at Cheyenne will be doing their respective riding, roping things for part of a purse in excess of ONE HUNDRED GRAND. One feature of the Wyoming rodeo is that only fresh, untried stock is used in the competition to give all the contestants an even break at the start. That's 30. holding them to a pair of doubles and a single over the six inning route. Touched for a ringing single by leadoff batter Apolinas Garza, Lopez got the second man, Rodolfo Vera from third baseman Jim Fernandez to Billy McDonald at first base.

Two passed balls plated Eagle Pass's initial run and also brought home Jesus Ovalle, who had walked. Lopez fanned the cleanup and number five hitter to gel out of further trouble. Del Rio went down the drain in order in their first trip to the plate but tied the score at 2-all in the second stanza. Roland Zavala led off with a long single. Jim Fernandez worked the Eagle hurler for a base on balls.

Raul Rivas waited out the pitch and loaded the bases with Vera's second walk in a row. Billy McDonald drilled one that second baseman Chuy Escontreras couldn't handle to plate Val Verde's first two tallies. Jim Fernandez and McDonald became home plate victims and Lopez popped out to Eagle catcher Jesus Rodriguez. Del Rio cut the Eagle lead to one run in the top of the fifth when Ortega hit relief pitcher Arturo Perez's first pitch plumb over the spectators and a line of cars that lined the left TOP HAND-Eddie Ortega, Val Verde County Little League All-Star left fielder, is shown coming home to hands full of welcome Monday night at Pop Word Park. Ortega drove in four runs with two homers in Del Rio's 7-4 Area championship game win over Eagle Pass.

(News-Herald Photo) Wrestling Set Here Wednesday All-Star Wrestling is coming to Del Rio Wednesday at the 4-H Club Show Barn at the Fair Grounds. These matches will feature the top stars of the weekly television show seen on Channel 2 on the cable in Del Rio. The starting time for the first will be 8:30 p.m. The main event will feature Mil Mascaras, the wrestling idol of Mexico, against former Texas Heavyweight Champ Johnny Valentine. Mil Mascaras was the man who took the title away from Valentine a few weeks ago.

This promises to be an action-packed match between two of the most feared men in wrestling. The semi-final match sets Big Bob Orton (6 ft. 275 Ibs.) against Jolting Joe Blanchard, who is substituting for the injured Cyclone Soto. Blanchard can be remembered as commentator on many All-Star Wrestling programs. The supporting match will feature Mark Starr against San Antonio's Ben Malta.

AU events will feature heavyweights and the referee will be the well-known third man of the ring, David Cantu. The producers of this event, Wrestlethon, have leased the 4-H Club Show Barn for one year in the hopes that All-Star Wrestling will attract a big crowd on Wednesday. Promoter Frank Brown, who is also president of Wrestiethon, Inc. told the News-Herald that he has scheduled other top wrestlers from the Southwest and surrounding areas for future bouts. Tickets will go on sale at 3 p.m.

the day of the matches. The tickets will be $2.00 and Fight Results By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA George Foreman, 220, Hay wood, knocked out Roger Russell, 188, Philadelphia. 1. WASHINGTON-Ronald Miller, Washington, stopped Ivelaw Easman, 139V4, New 'York, 1. $2.50 and may be purchased at the 4-H Club Show Barn.

Baseball Standings By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS American League East Division L. Pet. G.B. Baltimore 57 36 .613 Detroit 52 39 .571 -1 New York 50 42 .543 Boston 47 43 .522 VA Wash'n. 43 50 .462 14 Cleveland 42 49 .462 14 Division 57 30 .655 55 37 .598 44 57 61 63 49 34 33 32 .527 .374 .351 .337 Wi 11 25 27 Vj 29 West Minnesota California Oakland Kansas City Milwaukee Chicago Monday's Results Baltimore 14, Chicago 5 Minnesota 4, Cleveland 2 Kansas City 3, Detroit 0 New York 6, California 1 Oakland 3, Boston 2 Washington 2, Milwaukee 0 Today's Games Baltimore (Hardin 2-1) at Kansas City (Johnson 3-6), Chicago (John 7-12) at Cleveland (Hand 3-8), Detroit (McLain 0-2) at Minnesota (Zepp 5-0), California (Wright 13-6) at Boston (Nagy 3-1), Oakland (Dobson 8-10) at Washington (Bosman 9-7), Milwaukee (Lockwood 1-6) at New York (Bahnsen 7-6), Wednesday's Games Baltimore at Kansas City Detroit at Minnesota, Chicago at Cleveland, Oakland at Washington, Milwaukee at New York California at Boston, 2, day- night Pittsburgh New York Chicago Phila'phia St.

Louis Montreeal West Cincinnati Los Angeles Atlanta San Fran. Houston San Diego National League East Division W. L. Pet. G.B.

52 42 .553 49 43 .533 2 45 46 .495 5 41 50 .451 41 51 .446" 10 39 54 .419 12V5 Division 66 28 .702 5-1 38 .587 11 46 46 .500 19 44 46 .589 20 40 53 .430 38 58 .396 29 TIGER PAW For High Styling Reversible, Dual White or Interrupted Orange Created to enhance the individualistic look of your AUTO MARINE CENTER i 700 E. Gibfci PRO-FOOTBALL 775-8505 I DEL RIO LIONS CLUB TV IN PERSON WED. July 22 Mil MASCARAS -vs- John VALENTINE Big Bob ORTON -vs- Joe BLANCHARD Mark STARR MATT A David Cantu Referee 4H-CLUB SHOW BARN FAIR GROUNDS DEL RIO 2 50 Go On Safe 3 P.M. Day Of Matches At Above Location field fence. The visitors got the run back and another one with it in the bottom of the fifth when Jesus Santoya singled, took second and scored on Jesus Ovalle's two-out double.

Perez walked, stole second and scored on Jesus Ovalle's two-out double. Ovalle was out on a rifle throw from Henry Fernandez to cousin Jim Fernandez trying to take third base on the play. Del Rio, down 4-3 going to bat in the final inning, blew the game wide open. Raul Rivas led off with his second straight double and Lopez promptly singled him home with the tying run. McDonald, who has been a real asset to the Del Rio cause since taking over first base in the second game against the Kinney County All Stars, singled up the middle and Ortega unloaded his second home run, a Mickey Mantle-type job that cleared the center field Scoreboard and a Kinney County pickup parked beyond the barrier.

Lopez took command of the situation in the bottom of the sixth, getting pinch-hitter Greg Nowlin on a fly to Zavala, Vargas on a tall foul fly down the third base line to catcher Fernandez and fanning pinch-hitter Roberto Garza. The win gave Del Rio the Area title and the right to represent Eagle Pass, Brackettville, Laughlin AFB and Val Verde County in the District's one-game, sudden-death playoff Thursday, July 23, with Pleasanton, winner of Area C. Lamontagne, cf Ledesma, 2b H. Fernandez, Zavala, ss J. Rivas, rf Lopez, McDonald, If Ortega, If DEL RIO ab 4 4 3 4 2 2 3 3 3 28 EAC LE PASS ab A.

Garza, ss Vera, Ovallc, cf Rodriguez, Nowlin, ss Vargas, 3b Escontreras, 2b R. Garza, rf Bohmfalk.lf Santoya, Ib 1 bi 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 7 Perez, Del Rio E.P. Lopez Vera Perez 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 02001 4-7 10 0 200020-4 3 2 ip er bb so 634445 120700 587735 1 1 2 2 1 20 bi 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 Monday's Results Atlanta 1-0, 2nd game innings, rain San Diego 3, Montreal 1 Los Angeles 5, Philadelphia 0 Houston 5, Pittsburgh 4,12 innings Cincinnati 4-4, St. Louis 3-0 San Francisco 7, New York 4 Today's Games Cincinnati (Simpson 13-2) at St. Louis (Carlton 5-12) New York (McAndrew 4-8) at San Diego (Kirby 5-11), Montreal (Morton 11-6) at Los Angeles (Sutlon 11-6), Chicago (Jenkias 10-11) at Atlanta (Jarvis 10-7), Philadelphia (Wise 7-7) at San Francisco (Marichal 3-8) Pittsburgh (Moose 7-6) or Nelson 4-0) at Houston (Wilson 3-4, Wednesday's Games Cincinnati at Chicago Atlanta at Pittsburgh, Houston at St.

Louis, Montreal at Los Angeles, New York at San Diego, Philadelphia at San Francisco Astros Beat Pirates In 12 5-4 HOUSTON, Tex. (AP)-Rook ie RrfiyCook pitched three extra inning's Monday night and claimed his first major league victory as the Houston Astros beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-1 in the 12th inning. Cook was the seventh Houston pitcher to face the Pirates as the game seesawed wildiy. The Astros used three pitchers in the eighth. Jesus Alou singled with one out in the 12th, went to second on a wild pitch and scored the winning run on a single by Astro's first baseman Bob Watson.

Pittsburgh jumped ahead 1-0 in the first inning on Roberto Clemente's home run, his llth this year. Denis Menke duplicated the feat for the Astros, hitting his sixth homer of the year into the left field seats in the second inning. The Astros edged ahead 2-1 in the third when catcher John Edwards singled to center, went to second on an error on Denny Lemaster's bunt, reached third on a passed ball and rode home on a single by Joe Morgan. Another Pirate home run, this time by Bob Robertson, tied it again in the sixth. Houston reclaimed the lead in the seventh on a double by Doug Rader and a single by Cesar Cedno, only to see the score tied again in the eighth on a double by Clemente and a single by Manny Sanguillen.

Again the Astros grabbed the lead, going ahead 4-3 in their half of the eighth after Morgan walked, stole second and scooted home on Menke's single. The Pirates sent the game into extra innings by tying the score at 4-all in the ninth. Pinch hitter Fred Patek singled to center and went to second when Cedeno bobbled the ball. Matty Alou then singled E'atek home. The Pirates and the Astros NATION ALATHOU.TrON PITTSBURGH HOUSTON ab bi ab bi MAloucf G03UA)oulf 6130 Alley ss 600 0 Morgan 2b 3111 Clcmcmcrf 5121 Torres ss 0000 Sangujtlnc 600 OLampardph 1000 BRobrtsnlb 3111 RCookp 0000 StarKdl If 2011 Wyrin ph 0000 301 DNMUlcrrI 1000 302 OWuUonJb 6011 200 OMt-nkf ss 5121 4 0 0 ORadc-r 2b 6110 300 OCcdcnocf 5011 1 1 O.IEdwrcls 5120 0000 Lorn aster 3010 1 0 1 OJHay 0000 000 ODIt.au.rop 0000 000 0 Gladding 0000 000 OMarttnez 1010 0000 play again tonight, winding up a Houston home stand.

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