Morgan Park, East Reach '26' Finals

Morgan Park, backed to the wall and shut out for six innings, broke loose with three hits in the seventh and defeated Esko, 2-1, in a spine-tingling nightcap of the District 26 baseball semifinal doubleheader Wednesday afternoon at Wade Municipal Stadium.

In the first game, Duluth East crushed Proctor with an eight-hit barrage, including three extra-base blows. The score was 9-2.

Morgan Park and East meet for the championship and the right to enter [the] Region 7 tournament at 7:30 p.m. today at Wade. Lefthander Gene Ross is East's likely pitching nominee, with Tony Milich scheduled to go for Morgan Park.

Proctor and Esko will play a consolation game at 5 p.m. at Wade...

...East wasted little time in climbing on Proctor righthander Ron Swenson. The first three batters hit the ball hard but all three were retired.

It was an omen of things to come, however. In the second, the Greyhounds rallied for three runs when Benjie Wolfe and Dick Hawley crashed back-to-back triples to get things rolling. It was all the support Billy Enrico needed, though he was touched for seven hits.

East scored two more in the fifth and three in the sixth, two of them when shortstop Bob Thompson rapped a double to the left field corner.

Yount was forced out of the game in the third when he sustained a dislocated elbow in a play at first base. Wolfe grounded to third baseman Don Hanson, whose throw pulled Yount, Proctor's first baseman, into the runner at the bag. Yount went sprawling in the collision and was taken to a hospital for treatment.

(Duluth News Tribune, May 28, 1964)