60-and-over Aces roll over Rattlers

TOTS Senior Baseball Network (TSBN)

60-and-over baseball

The 60-and-over Aces rolled over the Rattlers this morning at Udall Park 14-5 in a senior league baseball game. The Aces scattered 20 hits around the confines of Udall with 66-year-old right fielder Jim Sears providing a big part of the attack with a 3 for 4 day while scoring two runs and knocking in two more.

Arnie White (above photo), a 71-year old right-hander, allowed just two runs in the first six innings. White struck out two and walked four, but did run into a little trouble in the seventh inning when 71-year-old Tom Barrow, with the bases loaded, slapped a shot just inside the first baseline, clearing the bases.

"It was a good day," said Aces' manager Jerry Hamelin. "We hit well and played good defense."

White helped his own cause with a three-hit day, while Tony Contreras, Pete Peters, Lloyd Barzell, Tim Tolson, Pete Cerenzia, and Pigpen Price collected two hits apiece.

Bob Daliege and Dennis Crowley added to the Aces' attack with hard-hit singles, while great defensive plays were turned in by Crowley (on a running catch in center field), by 83-year-old Billy Heiny, who was the middle man at second base on a double play to squash a rally by the Rattlers, by Barzell, who made a shoestring catch on a hard-hit line drive in the hole at shortstop and by Price, who made a diving stop at third base and threw out the runner at first.