BLACKSTONE VALLEY MEMORIES July 30

1980 Buffi Plante landed the last blow, singling in the

game-winning run in the top of the ninth inning, to pace My Brother’s Pub to a 10-9 win over Fred’s Place to take sole possession of the first place in the Pawtucket Recreation Women’s Softball League. Jo Ann Wyllie rapped three singles, good for three RBI, and Joan Messina laced a single, double and triple for the winners, while Betty Woodcomb knocked in three of Fred’s runs with a pair of safeties and a homer. In other action, Ann Duval hurled a shutout, lashed two singles, a homer and drove in three runs to lead Bird’s Nest Pub to a 15-0 whitewash over Benefit Street Pub.

1990 Marc St. Martin fired a two-over-par 73 at his home

course of Kirkbrae Country Club to enter today’s second round of the Rhode Island Open Golf Championship only four shots behind the leaders. St. Martin had 10 birdie putts, connected on four of them (including a 60-foot curler on the ninth hole) and used only 29 putts to get home. Regarding other locals, Greg Richard, St. Martin’s buddy at Kirkbrae, suffered through a difficult round of 79, father and son Stan and David Baluik came in at 78 and Pawtucket Country Club legend Norm Lutz shot an uncharacteristic 81 while trying to tame the short but treacherous links on a sunny and warm day.

2000 Steve Dube’s two-run double and Ray Pado’s RBI

single in the third inning was enough to propel Cumberland Post 14 to a 3-2 thriller over Collette Tours/Post 25 in the opening game of the R. I. American Legion Final Four double-elimination state championship tournament. Collette had scored first on Chris Iannetta’s solo homer in the third frame and the Pawtucket-based nine added another run in the sixth in Nick Foss’ RBI single. Collette, which expects manager George Patrick Duffy to quit the hospital today after a weekend bout of pneumonia, will face New England Frozen Lemonade next.