1949 District Tournament

Centre Hall's Tuck Emery, who had pitched three successive no-hitters in Penns Valley competition this season, was the losing pitcher.

McMullin slammed the first hit ever given up by the Centre Hall southpaw for a home run, over the left-centerfield fence for one of the longest blasts ever seen in the Lock Haven park.

Marlin Stover relieved Emery in the sixth inning. Bellefonte collected five hits, including doubles by Shultz and Paul Noll, in addition to McMullin's homer.

Emery got into trouble in the first inning and the game was never in doubt from that time. The McMullin-Shultz duo retired 18 men in order in the six-inning game. Emery was hit by a pitched ball from Shultz in the sixth inning and advanced to third on a wild pitch and a passed ball, but the Bellefonte catcher pegged him out to Shultz covering the plate when he attempted to score on another wild pitch.

In the first inning, Bellefonte lead-off batter Bob Hood was hit by Emery and went to third on a wild pitch and a passed ball. He scored when Emery dropped catcher Russel Lair's peg on another passed ball.

Coslo was safe on a fielder's choice in the first inning and advanced to third the usual way, scoring on Shultz's fielder's choice. Shultz tallied on two wild pitches and a stolen base to give Bellefonte a 3-0 lead in the first inning.

In the fifth frame, Noll led off with a double and tallied on Braucht's error after moving to third on Hood's sacrifice.

Bellefonte scored two in the sixth. Shultz opened the inning with a double, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on Braucht's error on Hoover. Hoover was nipped at the plate and Jim Bruno, who walked as the first man to face Stover, tallied on successive singles by Frown and Noll.

Penns Valley pulled a neat double play in the final inning with the bases loaded. Noll was trapped with too much lead off first base and Stover fired the ball to Emery to erase Noll. Then Emery pegged to home to catch Cole who broke for the plate.

Shultz went into yesterday's game to relieve Buddy McMullin in the third inning and proceeded to set down the haughty but good Lock Haven kids with hit in four innings on the mound. That one was a homer by Clintonian clean-up hitter Paul Walker.

Coslo who rivalled Lock Haven's very promising Booby Bubb as the catcher of the season, socked three of Bellefonte's five hits - all of them clean singles, two into leftfield and one into center.

After spotting Lock Haven four runs in the first two innings, the Bellefonters battled back with one in the third and two more in the fourth.

The loss knocked Bellefonte out of the district tournament and gave Lock Haven the right to meet the Inter-Community circuit all-stars in the tourney finals tomorrow at 6:15 p.m.

Little Mike Quiggle started on the mound for the winners, and Bellefonte was properly impressed the first time around. But when the kids came up for their second licks, they promptly sent Mike out for another hunk of bubble gum and brought on Steve Romeo, righthanded strike-out artist who fanned 17 batters in Wednesday night's game against the Centre-Mifflin league all-stars.

Coslo immediately plunked Romeo for a single and then Steve retired the next six men to face him. Quiggle, however, was credited with the win over McMullin, the loser.

In the first inning, Wee Willie Keeler, Lock Haven shortstop, slapped a double into leftfield and scored on Walker's single.

Lock Haven posted three runs in the second inning. Johnny Englert led off with a single and Little Dynamite Condo worked McMullin for a walk, going all the way to second on a fourth-ball wild pitch which Coslo retrieved in time to make the play at the plate for Englert. McMullin dropped the ball on that play and then chucked it into centerfield while Condo scooted down to third.

Pete Sigmund sent a skimmer down to first base which got through Bob Hood, and Keeler single him to second. Boyd Heckman hit a double which scored Sigmund and Bob Schreffler pegged the ball to Paul Noll to get Keeler going to third to end the inning.

Noll walked to open the third and scored on Sigmund's error on Shultz' grounder after Coslo had poked him around to third.

In the fourth inning, Jim Bruno opened with a double and moved to third on Ward Cole's infield out. Then Hood lined a single to drive in both runs. Then Hood lined a single to drive in both runs, Hood took second on the centerfielder's error and was caught at third when Bubb tossed him out after retrieving a wild pitch.