St. Raphael 7, East High 5 - May 1, 1951

St. Raphael Academy's baseball team shaded East High, 7-5, for it's fourth straight Eastern Division triumph yesterday at McCoy Stadium. The victory enabled the Saints to maintain their first place tie with De La Salle of Newport.

It was the third defeat for East in four league starts. The Redjackets play an exhibition fame this afternoon with Moses Brown at the Moses Brown Field.

A four-run outburst in the eight inning and some great relief pitching by sophmore Johnny Fiori [Paul Fiore] spelled victory for St. Raphael.

Fiori Fans Side

Fiori came on in the last of the ninth to replace the tiring Bill Parenteau after Tom Ingham and Pete Kosty led off for East with solid singles to center. Fiori walked the first batter to face him, loading the bases, but then settled down and struck out three in a row for the ball game.

For five innings it was a pitchers' duel between Parenteau and John Lund of East. Lund gave up all of the Saints' seven hits before giving way to sophmore Stan Kleon in the eighth, while Parenteau was touched for nine blows by East.

However, Lund was generous with bases on balls, pasing eightr, two of which gave the Saints their first runs of the game in the sixth to break the scoreless duel.

Lund had retired Jigger Higgins and Ralph D'Ambra on fly balls before walking Joe Dragon and Parenteau. Roy Guarino then rapped a ground ball into the hole between first and second. Bob Sullivan went over to field the ball but threw wild to Lund covering first, both Dragon and Parenteau scoring.

Coach Alex Nahigian argued with Umpire Baker that only one run should have scored on the overthrow, but Baker permitted both runs to count, giving St. Raphael a 2-0 lead.