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Panners win under midnight sun The Anchorage Bucs learned this early this morning as Boone's Alaska Goldpanners won their ninth straight Midnight Sun Game and 21st in the last 23 years 5-3 in front of a soldout crowd at Growden Memorial Park. Boone, the Panners' all-time save leader, came into the game in the eighth inning with the bases loaded and the lead tenuous at best, and got his team out of the inning with two strikeouts. He then sent the Bucs (3-6) down in order in the ninth for his third save of the season. The lights have never been turned on during the Midnight Sun Game and the 91st rendition lived up to that tradition, although the Bucs tried to get the lights turned on. Twice, at 12:30 and 12:40 this morning, Anchorage players got plate umpire Joe Stegner to request the lights be turned on, but Panner officials quickly notified the man in blue that lights are not turned on during Midnight Sun Game. The Panners were chippy Friday, getting 10 hits--all singles--and scoring four of their five runs in the first two innings. Starting pitcher Adam Pettyjohn (2-0) got himself into trouble with two errors, but shook off his defensive problems with seven solid innings in which he gave up all three Bucs runs. Pettyjohn struck out nine and walked four. --By Chris Talbott June 22, 1996, Daily News-Miner |
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