Leaside scores eight in 8th inning to defeat Thornhill 12-11

The Leaside Leafs Seniors refused to accept defeat Friday when they staged a stunning eight-run comeback in the bottom of the eighth against the Thornhill Reds. They had trailed all through the game in the Greater Toronto Baseball League tilt at Talbot Park but their heroics at the end turned the Reds11-2 lead into a 12-11 Leafs victory.  The Reds scored two runs in each of the second and third innings and one in the sixth to lead 5-0. After Leaside scored two in the bottom of the sixth but the Reds launched a barrage of six runs in the seventh to take an apparently unassailable 11-2 lead. Leaside however soldiered on getting two runs in the seventh and eight in the eighth.