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...hand Wednesday to watch the University of Rhode Island beat the Harvard baseball team, 4-0. Responsible for all of New York and New England for the Twins' organization. Stein made the trip to Kingston. R.I., to get a good look at a pair of prospects. Crimson hurler JIM CURTIN and URI's sophomore backstop TONY CARLUCCI. But often as not, Stein admits, a totally unknown player will end up impressing him more than those he came to see. "Often, you come up with a better name," he says...
...those hitters plus two less strenuous games against lackluster Penn on Saturday, that induced Crimson coach Alex Nahigian to use his best hurler, Bill Larson, this afternoon. Larson, 3-1, leads the club in just about every pitching category, and although his strikeouts (13) are nothing like Lundgren's, he doesn't have a three-week slump to worry about, either...
...outstanding thinclad performance of the afternoon ironically came in the men's hammer throw--one of the two events that traditionally is not calculated into the overall standings. On his first throw of the season. Crimson hurler Colin Bell chalked up a loss of 58.56 meters. That mark eclipsed the nearest competitor by a full six meters and qualified Bell for the nationals and the IC4As...
...Yeah, it gets you down," the senior hurler said after the game. "We have to play as good as we can just to stay in the game with these guys, and the problem is when you make one error you start pressing, and pretty soon you make another...
...NOTEBOOK: Rob Alevizos, last year's star hurler who moved on to a short but distinguished career in the Chicago Cubs organization last summer, was on hand to watch his old mates. "I miss it like anything." Alevizos said of throwing his legendary sailing fastball, "but I'm learning the real-estate business now." Despite a 4-1 record with the Cubs' Geneva outlet in the single-A New york-Pennsylvania League and the promise of a raise. 'Zos decided to hand up the cleats because he "saw the extent" of his abilities. Good luck and see you around...