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TIGERS POUNCE

FOURTH OF JULY RESULTS

Lenox beat Nodaway Valley 12-0 Thursday in Pride of Iowa Conference action. For more on the Tigers, see SPORTS, page 7A. >>

Parade and talent show results from the 10,000 Crestonians Fourth of July celebration in Creston Tuesday can be found on page 6A. >>

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Members of Creston’s state championship Pee Wee baseball team returning for a 50th reunion this week included, in front, Deb Veitz, wife of the late Gary Veitz, who served as the team batboy. Middle row from left are Kim Hanson, Clint Steele and Bill Antisdel. Back row from left are Mike Montague, Paul Buchanan, Steve Betts, Greg Kenyon and Duane Huey. Not pictured are Rene Toledo, Bob Lesan, Pat Montague, Mike Veitz and coach Johnny Jackson.

portunity to reconnect. “Paul Buchanan’s family moved away shortly after that summer, and he had not been back in 50 years!” Hanson said. “Two of the guys from the class of 1972, Mike Montague and Bill Antisdel, said they never came back for a class reunion. But they came back for this.” Those unable to attend were Mike Veitz, Bob Lesan, Pat Montague, Rene Toledo and coach John Jackson, now residing in Florida. Posing for the current team picture Tuesday were Mike Montague, Paul Buchanan, Steve Betts, Greg Kenyon, Duane Huey, Kim Hanson, Clint Steele, Bill Antisdel and Deb Veitz, wife of the late Gary Veitz, who served as the team batboy.

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“EVEN though it had been a very long time since some of us had seen one another, the connections we made as kids remained.”

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had more than 170 strikeouts for the summer. Huey was the catcher and known for throwing out stolen base attempts at second base. Hanson often played third base as Lesan and Veitz rotated between pitcher and shortstop. Several players moved around positions, but coach Jackson said Antisdel “could run out there like a billy goat” chasing fly balls in the outfield. Curtis Jeffryes led the Midget team in batting at

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state title, but two of Council Bluffs’ best players were on vacation and team officials decided to forfeit after watching the Creston team play against Sioux City. That left Creston with an 18-0 season record, which they ran to 20-0 by finishing with a championship in their own tournament in early August. Veitz and Lesan were the primary pitchers, finishing with records of 18-0 and 10-0 combined with their participation in the older Midget age division. Veitz

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without realizing it at the time. Mike Veitz scampered home with the second run on a little roller that Hanson beat out, and Creston held on to defeat Sioux City, 2-1, in a game played at Kingsley (see related story). “I had hit some home runs that year, and I swung as hard as I could on that pitch,” Hanson said. “It went about 6 feet out in front of home plate. All I remember is running to first and touching the base right before I heard the ball caught. So I knew I was safe. I looked back and Veitz had already touched home plate. I was pretty fast, but he was really fast.”

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“Even though it had been a very long time since some of us had seen one another, the connections we made as kids remained,” Kenyon said. “It only took a short time for us to rekindle some long dormant friendships.”

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A group of young teenage boys in Creston held the title of the best baseball team in Iowa 50 summers ago. They did so by beating Sioux City, 2-1, in the game that decided the State Pee Wee baseball championship. The Creston all-star team, competing in the Pee Wee 14-and-under state series, completed a 21-0 season in 1967 under coach John Jackson. Many of them also played on the town’s shorthanded 16-and-under Midget division team. That team went 17-4-1 that year, despite relying on several players much younger than the age limit. That team was also coached by Jackson. Jackson, then a player for Ron “Fox” Clinton at Creston Community College, coached those teams two years to a combined record of 59-10-1. Eight of those 12 players returned for a 50th reunion over the Fourth of July celebration in Creston this week. They played golf on July 3 at Crestmoor Golf Club and rode together in the community’s annual Independence Day parade. “A couple of times everybody clapped when we went by,” said Kim Hanson, the only team member currently residing in Creston. “Our coach’s brother, Tom Jackson, came up to our trailer during the parade to say hello. He remembered that team.” After the parade, the group assembled for a team picture at the VFW ballfield, where they achieved so many special memories as youths 13 and 14 years old. They relished the op-

(The following is the Aug. 7, 1967, account in the Creston News Advertiser, written by Sports Editor Max Sandeman, about Creston’s state championship in the Pee Wee State Baseball Tournament with a 2-1 victory over Sioux City.) KINGSLEY — Creston’s 7th and 8th graders moved to the finals of the state Pee Wee tournament Sunday night when they defeated Sioux City, the northern Iowa champions, 2-1. The victory sends John Jackson’s club against the seventh district champions (Council Bluffs) at 2 p.m. next Sunday at Kingsley. (That game was not played as Council Bluffs forfeited because of lack of available players.) Sioux City had won the northern title by taking 12 straight victories in a 61-team district meet. Creston won the Diagonal tournament and is undefeated. Unlike Pee Wee play here, boys up to 14 are eligible to play in this tournament. Creston scored first in the third inning as Bob Lesan singled home Greg Kenyon, who was on via an error and advanced on a single by Mike Veitz. Creston made it 2-0 in the fifth as Veitz singled and came home on Kim Hanson’s safety. Sioux City got a run back in the sixth to make it 2-1 as a double and a sacrifice fly brought in a run. Two walks in the seventh inning made things look bad for Creston, but a strikeout and two groundouts ended the Sioux City threat. Veitz hurled three-hit ball for Creston, striking out nine and walking four. He also aided the hitting with two singles and scored the winning run. Lesan singled in the first run, Bill Antisdel collected two safeties and Hanson had a run-producing single. Creston had six hits while the Sioux City pitcher struck out nine and walked two. The Creston team will be action here this week in their own tournament at VFW Field.

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