"Tucson boys" do well in opening game of MSBL World Series

Men's Senior Baseball League World Series

Game 1

70-and over Central Division

The "Tucson Boys" did well at the Men's Senior Baseball League World Series today.

At Fitch Park in Mesa, Arizona, the 70-and-over San Antonio Texans, with five players on the roster  from the 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers, belted the Seattle Mariners, 24-8.

All five -- Bob Daliege, Pigpen Price, Bill Mishler, Lloyd Barzell and Pete Peters -- reached base safely today. Daliege went 2 for 3 with an RBI and two runs scored, Price went 2 for 3, knocked in a run and scored twice, Mishler got hit by a pitch and walked twice and scored four runs, while Pete Peters reached base on an error and caught the first four innings. Mishler, who played all eight innings in center field, threw out two runners at second base.

Barzell went 1 for 3, knocked in a run and scored a run, but more importantly he came in to pitch in the sixth inning and hurled  2 1/3 innings of shutout ball.

"It took me a while to find my release point," Barzell said. "But once I found it, I was fine." Barzell snuffed out a Seattle rally when he relieved Skip Bradley from Adkins, Texas with two outs in the sixth inning. Barzell breezed  through the final two innings of the three hour and 20 minute game.

San Antonio and the "Tucson Boys" are back in Mesa Monday for a 9:30 game at Hohokam Stadium against the Kansas City Athletics.

Note: Danny Boxberger, a sixth member of the Tucson Old Timers, played for Seattle today. Boxberger was the starting catcher and went 1 for 3. Boxberger and the Mariners take on Driscoll, a team from Oklahoma on Monday at Tempe Diablo Stadium. Game time: 12:30 p.m.

Photo: Center fielder Bill Mishler scored four runs today and threw two runners out at second base at the MSBL World Series.