Tuesday, April 25, 1961
Caverna 6 Larue Co. 3
“Run, run, run, run, runaway.
Run, run, run, run, runaway.
Run, run, run, run, runaway.”
Del Shannon, April 1961
“Runaway” would top the music charts from April 24 until May 20, 1961.
Caverna would move to 5-0 on the season with a victory that was anything but a runaway. In three of the wins so far in the season, the Colonels have scored an average of 18 runs, but in the other two wins they have only scored 6 runs in each game. Defensively, the team has surrendered an average of 4 runs per game including one shut out. No pitcher has pitched a complete game yet with Joe Campbell pitching in four of the games, and Dennis Doyle, Phil Rogers, and Gary “Slim” Logsdon each pitching in two games. Rogers would be making his second start of the year on Tuesday, April 25, against Larue County in a home game played at the Horse Cave Diamond. For the second time in five games the Caverna men would have to come from behind to pull out a victory, this time against a district rival. Sandridge of Larue County was probably the third best pitcher in the district and had always posed a problem for the Caverna hitters. Last season, Caverna had nervously taken a 3-0 lead into the final inning against this same team and same pitcher, before adding two insurance runs, as they won the district championship 5-0. This year Larue County took the early 3-0 lead after three innings as Rogers had trouble finding the plate with his pitches. Joe Campbell came on in top of the 4th inning with two runners on base and nobody out and would shut the Hawks down over the last four innings. In the bottom of the fourth, Rogers would redeem his pitching failure to drive in two runs including the game winning run to break a 3-3 tie and put the Colonels up 5-3. Campbell would strike out 6 and give up only one hit in picking up his second consecutive win to make his record 2-0. On Wednesday, Dennis Doyle would be making his second start of the season as Caverna goes on the road to play at regional rival Campbellsville. The Eagles are the only team to have more than one win over Caverna during the last four seasons.
April 26, 1961, The Park City Daily News
Front page stories:
French President Charles De Galle Crushes Revolt in Algiers.
Castro, Cuba remain in the news as does the continuing Nazi war criminal trial in Jerusalem of Adolf Eichmann .
President Tshombe is arrested by Congo troops.
Aid to Laos steeped up by United States.
Locally:
Floyd Hays Ellis is new Bowling Green Jay-Cee president.
Car collides with locomotive.
Body of 16-year old recovered from river.
Weather, Entertainment, and Sports:
The real news was that the paper reported that Caverna was “Once-beaten”. Not true, Caverna remained undefeated.
The line score shows Caverna scored ¾ runs and had ¾ hits. Or maybe it was ¾ errors that was the error?
Whatever the situation regarding runs, hits, and errors, the fact is Caverna won the game 6-3.
Caverna ~ The Early Years 1950-1962 