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On this date ...
1972: Randy Adrian pitched the Eagles to a 14-3 victory over the Bankers in the first game of a Mickey Mantle League baseball doubleheader in Clovis.
The Rangers led the league with a 10-3 record.
The Indians were in second place at 8-5.
1972: Travis Haynes, 60, a Quay County deputy sheriff shot in the head in May, had been released from the intensive care unit at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock.
Haynes was shot after he'd been abducted by two men.
A special fund set up to help offset the law officer's medical bills had accumulated $3,073.
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