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Wahoo Batmen Head Homeward;
Bring Back Even Won-Lost Record

By FLETCHER THOMPSON

Virginia's baseballers
wound up an extended stay on
Tobacco Road Monday by
splitting a doubleheader with
N.C. State and then returned
home for yesterday's meeting
with Maryland only to find it
postponed by wet grounds.

The Cavaliers' record is
holding steady at the
break-even point on all fronts
with a 6-6-1 overall mark and a
3-3 league ledger.

Two-hit pitching by
Captain Steve Brindle and the
fancy bat work of
second-baseman Duval White
did in the Wolfpack in the first
game, 5-1, while three
unearned 'Pack runs spelled the
difference in a 6-3 State victory
in the nightcap.

Wahoo tallies came in
bunches in the first contest as
the Cavs put two men across in
the second inning and then
rammed home three more in
the fifth. State responded
weakly with a sixth-inning
score by shortstop Ken Juday,
who received one of the seven
walks doled out by Brindle.

Along with White, who
knocked in three runs with a
double and a single, leftfielder
Pete Anderson also gave the
'Pack problems at the plate.

Anderson contributed a
double, a single and an RBI in
three at-bats while Brindle
accounted for the other Cav
run with a sacrifice fly.

First-year moundsman
Harry Thomas, in his effort to
gain a Cav sweep, was not
blessed with anything near the
defense accorded Brindle.

In his three and a third
innings of work, Thomas was
tagged for five runs by the
aroused Wolfpack, of which
only two were earned.

State posted four runs in
the third and added single
tallies in the fourth and fifth,
the last off reliever Joey
McMahon.

The Cavs finally got around
to doing something in their
behalf in the sixth and seventh
scoring three runs on four hits,
but were too late to change the
outcome.