
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, May 21, 1990                   TAG: 9005210238
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Staff report
DATELINE: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.                                LENGTH: Medium

SPIRITS FINISH OFF DEMOLITION OF BUCS

Sunday was rerun night at Ernie Shore Field.

For the second straight game, the Winston-Salem Spirits tagged the Salem Buccaneers with an eight-run second inning en route to scoring 14 runs in Carolina League baseball. This time, the Spirits won 14-3.

Salem, which lost 14-4 on Saturday, took a 2-0 lead in the first on RBI singles by Domingo Merejo and Mandy Romero and led 2-1 going into the bottom of the second.

Then, shaky defense and pitching helped doom Salem and starter John Latham. Elvin Paulino walked, Scott Taylor singled and Fernando Ramsey beat out an infield single to third to load the bases.

Jim Murphy then grounded to third, where Flavio Williams' misplay allowed two runs. A walk to Paul Blair loaded the bases again and that was followed by a run scoring wild pitch.

After Winston-Salem made it 7-2, Mike Pomeranz relieved Latham and gave up a run-scoring single to Scott Taylor before striking out Ramsey to end the inning.

The Spirits added five runs in the eighth off Chip Duncan.

Carolina League President John Hopkins attended the game to investigate the teams' brawl in Saturday's game, touched off when Romero charged the mound after being hit by a pitch. Hopkins did not announce any fines or suspensions Sunday night.

SALEM WINSTON-SALEM ab r h bi ab r h bi Sims cf2100 Blair 2b2110 Estep2010 Smith 2b1110 F.Williams 3b5000 White ss5211 Merejo dh3111 Roberson rf4101 Raisanen dh2100 E.Williams rf1112 Morrison rf4000 Scott 3b3131 Romero c2011 Welch dh-c3002 Shelton 1b4000 Paulino 1b4212 Pennye lf4010 Stroud p0000 McNab 2b4021 Taylor c-1b5121 Bailey ss3000 Ramsey cf4220 Murphy lf5222 Totals35 3 7 3 Totals 37 14 114 14

Salem200 000 010-3 Winston-Salem180 000 50x-14

E-F. Williams, White. DP- Salem 1, Winston-Salem 0. LOB-Salem 9, Winston-Salem 9. 2B-Blair, Scott, Murphy, E. Williams. SB-Sims (14), White (5), Scott 2 (6), McNab (2). SF-Welch 2. IP HRERBBSO Salem Latham L,1-4 159532 Pomeranz 440024 Duncan 135520 Deller 120000 Winston-Salem Jones W,4-2 632237 Stroud 241115 Strauss 100001

WP-Latham, Jones. HBP-Ramsey by Duncan.

Umpires-Home, Kraus; bases, Lehner.

T-3:02. A-896.

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