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ACC Baseball Race Tightens Up
As One Game Separates Top Three

Only one game separates
leading North Carolina State,
runnerup Clemson and third
place Maryland in the Atlantis
Coast Conference baseball race.

N.C. State made its conference
record 11-3 by sweeping a
doubleheader from North Carolina
Tuesday, 5-0 and 5-1.

Mike Caldwell was the winning
pitcher in the first game
on a six hitter. The losing
hurler, his first loss in five
games, was Eddy Hill. Tommy
Smith's
triple with the bases
loaded in the last inning
helped the Wolfpack win the
second game.

Rusty Gerhardt and Alan
Demarest combined to limit
South Carolina to two hits and
Clemson won 4-0. Gerhardt,
who pitched the first six
innings, was the winning
pitcher, his seventh triumph in
10 starts. Clemson has won 9
conference games and lost
three.

Maryland took a pair from
Virginia, 5-3 and 7-4, and
brought its league record to
11-5.

Duke and Wake Forest split,
the Duke Blue Devils winning
the first game 9-3 and the
Deacons the second 4-3.

Although the Blue Devils
made only six hits in the first
game, they took advantage of
three Wake Forest errors. And
their leftfielder, Tim Teer,
stole three bases, including
home.

The tables were turned in
the second game, in which
Duke committed four errors
and also had a passed ball.
Only one Wake Forest run was
earned.

Clemson is at Georgia in
today's only game for ACC
teams. On Thursday Clemson is
at Georgia Tech, Maryland at