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With Duke, Wake Forest

Baseballers Split Three Games

By Steve Giannini
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

This past weekend the baseball
team got back onto the winning
track by beating Duke, 6-2, Friday
afternoon and splitting a doubleheader
with Wake Forest Saturday
by a 6-0 win and a 15-0 loss.

The games were characterized
by the abundance, and then the
lack, of good pitching, as Coach
West found satisfaction in the performances
of the first two games,
and frustration in the last.

In Durham Friday night the
Cavaliers played their game prior
to a Carolina League game before
a large crowd. Blue Devil starter
Phil Wilhelm gave up two runs
in the first inning and the University's
nine never did trail. Joel
DeBoe, Bob Schultz, and Yates
Hall all singled and then DeBoe
scored on a passed ball. Duke's
catcher made a bad throw and
Schultz scored.

The Blue Devils scored in the
second and fourth to tie the game.
DeBoe then drove in a run in
the seventh, and then after a run
in the eighth by Steve Bryant, DeBoe
homered and Charlie Seabolt
scored ahead of him.

Pitcher Bill Kelly went the distance,
striking out eight men and
walking three. His season record
stands at 3-6.

Against Wake

Saturday, first-year man Ed
Kihm made his first appearance
since being injured in early spring
practice. The Deacons only
managed to get 4 hits and 2 walks
off him, while having pitching
troubles themselves as the University's
nine slapped out ten hits.
Bob Schultz, Rowdy Yates, and
Kihm all hit doubles to push in a
run apiece.

Four Deacon hurlers were used
before the Cavaliers had won 6-0.

After two good performances
from the pitchers, the Cavaliers'
luck fell. In the second game,
Wake Forest collected four runs
in the second inning and a staggering
11 runs in the fourth. Wake
managed only 7 hits all singles,
for the entire game, but the Cavaliers
yielded four crucial walks
in the second, and seven in the
fourth. Otherwise, Virginia
pitchers only walked one other
man.

Overall, Coach West was happy
with the team's performance, and
stated, "The boys played as well
as they are capable of playing."
The players did not make as many
mental and physical mistakes in
the first two games as they have
been.