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...those returning will be co-captain Rachel Heit (386 defensive digs, 23 serving aces, 179 kills), junior Jenn Jose (235 kills, 69 blocks, 283 defensive digs, 18 serving aces), sophomore Lisa Grant (190 defensive digs) and sophomore Heather Rypkema (175 kills, 17 blocks). Grant, Rypkema and Heit are outside hitters, while Jose is a middle hitter...
Rypkema and Grant are the only two returning sophomores. In addition to Jose, the team will return two juniors: outside hitter Alexandra Green and setter Mika Sampson. And the team will return three senior besides Heit: co-captain setter Judy Iriye, outside hitter Jessica Dowme and middle hitter Kelli Avers...
...Cleveland, Ohio, nor anywhere else in the green cathedrals of what Annie Savoy in Bull Durham called "the Church of Baseball." The 1994 major league season may have ended for good late Thursday night in Oakland, California, with the sadly appropriate third strike as A's pinch hitter Ernie Young whiffed on a fast ball from strikeout king Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners. With that final, futile swing, the national pastime went down for the count as the more than 750 members of the Major League Players Association began their long- dreaded strike, baseball's eighth work stoppage since...
...This is baseball the way the game is meant to be played: on intimate terms. It is baseball virtually free of mortifying drug scandals -- no player making $1,000 a month can afford a cocaine habit for long. It is baseball on a human scale. When Peoria Chiefs designated hitter Alex Cabrera was fined $50 this month for illegally grooving his bat, he complained that it was "too expensive." A carpenter or a schoolteacher can relate to that. Fifty bucks is a lot of money. By comparison, the average millionaire in the major leagues seems to be laboring...
...Payton has a .403 batting average as the Pittsfield Mets begin their pennant-stretch run. He's facing pitchers from the minors, sure -- but the lighting around the New York-Penn circuit is bush league too, giving the pitchers an edge. In addition, Payton and every other hitter at Wahconah has to deal with a delightful idiosyncrasy. In 1919 Wahconah was laid out with day baseball in mind. Home plate faces west -- precisely the wrong direction for Mets games that now begin at 7 p.m. As the sun slips toward the horizon, it slides into the line of sight between...