CAPE LEGION ADVANCES TO TITLE GAME

BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. -- The Ford and Sons American Legion Post 63 baseball squad of Cape Girardeau advanced to the championship game of the Caisson Classic with a 12-5 forfeit victory over Caruthersville Saturday.

With the score set and Caruthersville at bat in the bottom of the sixth inning, both of that team's coaches were ejected for arguing with the umpire and Caruthersville was forced to forfeit.

Cape will play the winner of Saturday night's semifinal match between Blytheville and Sikeston. That game was still underway at press time.

Ford and Sons tallied 13 hits led Robert Kern with four hits, including two doubles and two RBIs. Lance Craft added two hits, including one double, and two RBIs and Jeremy Johnson had two hits and one RBI.

Talley Haines was the winning pitcher. In five innings of work he struck out five and gave up six hits. Three of Caruthersville's runs were earned.

Caruthersville led 3-0 after two innings, but Cape scored twice in both the third and fourth innings to take the lead. They added three more runs in the fifth and five in the sixth. Caruthersville's other two runs came in fifth.

Ford and Sons remains undefeated this season with a record of 7-0.