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Last summer, Stoeckel devoted himself full-time to baseball, swinging a wood bat at the IMG Academies’ Florida Collegiate Instructional League. He will have to hold his own at the plate, Stoeckel knows, to hold down the job at short...
Vance, on the other hand, is a leading candidate to fill the power shortage in the Harvard order, which lost several big bats to graduation after last season. In designing prospective lineups, the coaching staff has been torn between putting his explosive bat in the middle of the lineup or his burning speed at the top. Though he went deep only once in 2006, Vance found the gaps with regularity, tallying 10 doubles and five triples—and the hitters coming up behind him were more than happy to drive him home...
Vance’s quick bat and quick feet on the basepaths will be instrumental to Harvard’s success no matter where he hits in the lineup—and no matter where he plays in the field. So keeping Vance in centerfield for the time being, then alternating Stoeckel and Vance at shortstop as the shoulder heals, may be Harvard’s best...
...strong bat,” Allard says. “Anything [St. Joseph’s] pitched to her, she hit. She will be a great bat for us in the line...
...subcontinent, crossing religious and caste boundaries as it went. India played its first international game in 1932, and it was popularized with the advent of television and the introduction of one-day matches (in which each side is limited to facing only 300 balls during its turn at bat - as opposed to the traditional five-day test match in which each side bats twice, with no limit on the duration of an inning). After India's unexpected triumph in the 1983 World Cup, cricket became a cornerstone of popular culture in India - and South Asia (neighboring Pakistan, Sri Lanka...