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DeLand Blanks Leesburg Nine By 11-0 Score, May 1, 1959

1959 Leesburg High School Varsity Baseball Team


Sports Staff
The Daily Commercial
Friday, May 1, 1959

DeLand's fastball pitching Burnett kept the L. H. S. baseball team scoreless last night with DeLand's 11 runs ending the game at the fifth inning.

Though Randy Brown and Barry Stegall hit in the third, Doug Mumford and Padgett (hitting for Hornstra) in the fourth, and Johnny ward in the fifth, Leesburg was unable to get a man past second base.

DeLand scored four runs in the first inning. In the third , a three base hit by Underhill opened the gate for five runs.

Barry Stegall, pitching for Leesburg, held the visitors to one hit in the fourth, but they scored two in the fifth.

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