The Cavalier daily :: Friday, March 22, 1968 :: University of Virginia Library

Entering upon their 80th season
of intercollegiate play, the Cavalier
baseball squad will travel to Greenville,
North Carolina to face the
East Carolina Pirates on March
25th.

The team will put the Spring
vacation to use as they play eight
games in six days, all on the
road.

The mittmen will swing into
Atlantic Coast Conference action
on Friday, March 29 against Clemson.
The Tigers were 11 and 2
in the ACC last year and 29
and 9 overall.

The Cavaliers wind up their
road trip on Saturday as they
face South Carolina in a doubleheader.

Coach Jim West, starting his
seventh season as head coach of
the Cavaliers, is very enthusiastic
about this year's team. West said
that "We will be a young team,
and we will make some mistakes,
but we have a hustling group
of players who really want to play
and there is a great deal of competition
going on."

The only person who appears
to be a sure starter is first baseman
and team captain Yates Hall. Hall
batted 277 last year and also led
the team in runs-batted-in with
21, doubles with 5 and hits with
23.

There is a battle going for the
second base position between returning
lettermen Robert "Buzzy"
Shultz and Joel DeBoe, a transfer
from Ferrum Junior College. At
shortstop, second-year man Dick
Witt is challenging Dickie Hopkins,
a third-year letterman.
Rounding out the infield will be
returning letterman Dave Counts,
last years' starting third baseman.

Five outfielders are in the running
for three regular positions.
They are fourth-year man Stuart
Evans, third-year men Lou Paulson
and William Yates, and
second-year men Bubba White and
Steve Bryant. Evans, Paulson, and
Yates lettered last year, and Bryant
led the first-year team in hitting
with a .514 average.

The catching duties will probably
be divided between third-year man
Chuck Seabolt, last years' starting
catcher and second-year man
Kalvin Moore.

According to Coach West, "Our
34 game schedule is going to require
a whole lot of pitching. If
our youngsters can come through
on the mound, it should be a pretty
good year for us." With pitchers
Keith Liskey and Larry Gammon,
who last year combined for 151
out of 195 innings, gone, the
Cavaliers will be relying on Coach
Ralph Law's undefeated first-year
team for mound assistance.

Of the seven pitchers Coach
West will carry on the spring tour,
only one, Geoff Gordon, lettered
in 1967. The others will be Dave
Greer, Bill Kelly, Stan Owens,
Hunter Hollar, Jan Luse and Ed
Kihm. Kelly was 5-0 for the first-year
team last year and is counted
on to be the number one pitcher
this season for the varsity.