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Brindle, Pallotta Brothers Foil Maryland
By BOB BARRY
Steve Brindle's third
consecutive clutch pitching
performance and the timely
hitting of brothers Dean and
Gene Pallotta powered Virginia
over Maryland, 7-1, Thursday in
the opening round of the ACC
baseball tournament in
Durham.
Brindle gave up only two
Terp hits in the game which
brings his total of hits yielded
to only seven in the last 24
innings pitched. The
ten-strikeout effort was also his
third complete game in his last
three starts, all against ACC
competition.
The Cavaliers' scoring
started in the fourth when they
cracked out back to back
knocks –a double by Dean
Pallotta and an RBI single by
brother. Gene. Then in the
sixth, the same script still
worked as Dean doubled and
Gene's single sent him home.
Lucky Seventh
In the seventh, the Terps
showed eminent generosity by
handing the Cavaliers three
unearned runs on two walks,
an error, a wild pitch, and
Dean Pallotta's third hit. Three
more runs were scored in the
eighth on singles by Jonathan
Williams and Steve Sroba's
third hit in the game.
In all, Virginia the ACC's
best hitting club, put together
13 hits in routing four
Maryland pitchers. While
Virginia was embarrassing
the Terp pitching corp, the
Maryland batters could not
return the compliment, scoring
only an eighth inning run when
the game was already decided.
In other first-round games,
State crushed Duke 9-1, and
Wake Forest outslugged UNC
10-6. The tourney now moves
to Chapel Hill's Boshamer
Stadium with Clemson, rested
after an opening round bye,
facing Wake at 2 p.m. and
Virginia playing State at 7:30.
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