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CONT’L TEAMMATES SLAM 5 HITS EACH AT BEDFORD
BARLUND & BARR BELT BUNCH OF BASE HITS AS BROOKLYN BOYS BEAT BEDFORD BY TEN

LONG ISLAND (May 21, 1870) – Continental BBC scored early & often at Brooklyn Championship foes Bedford in the Long Island Cricket Club, going up six over the first three innings before eventually winning by an even ten runs:

Continental was led by a two-man wrecking crew in the game, as Lage Barlund & Edwin Barr combined to mete out ten of the team’s eighteen base hits.

The afternoon for the two in summary:

• Lage Barlund (CF): 5/6, 2B, 3 R, 1 RBI, SB, 6 TB
• Edwin Barr (2B): 5/5, 2 2B, 4 R, 2 RBI, 7 TB

William Vickers & Roel Woudenberg also had multiple hits for Continental, while pitcher Earl Quinn both scored and drove in one run as part of the team’s fifteen-run outburst.

Bedford never stood a chance here, as the score was 15-2 before the hosts scored a few consolation runs in the 8th inning.