Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Number-one man Ron Stewart (1-0) and freshman Bill Larson (1-1) will take the mound this afternoon against the hard-hitting Friars who sport a 6-4 overall mark. Bill Doyle, who combined with Larson for a doubleheader whitewash of Columbia last weekend, will put his 1-1 record on the line Monday, and Jim Keyte, a fireballing junior, will make his season's debut against the Engineers the following afternoon...
Rookie hurlers Billy Doyle, Bill Larson and Greg Brown will join vets Jim Keyte (3-2 with a 3.21 Earned Run Average in '79), John Sorich (0-1, 3.86), Rob Alevizos (3-1, 4.22 with arm trouble) and stopper Ron Stewart (3-3, 2.48) to form a potentially spectacular mound corps. Sure, Brown and Tim Clifford's eleven wins will be missed, but a healthy Alevizos ("I feel like I'm ready to pitch right now," he says) and a few more performances from the freshman like Sunday's twin shutouts of Columbia will help to fill the void...
...real villain of Squaw Valley was a stretch of snow on the women's downhill course. Shooting down the steepest part of the run, skiers would suddenly hit a bumpy, hard-packed mound that sent them flying just as they reached a 90° bend, appropriately dubbed "the airplane corner." The high hopes of the American women crashed at that turn: Betsy Snite and two teammates spilled. Pitou did not fall, but she tottered, squandering precious ticks of the clock and losing the gold medal by 1 sec. to Germany's Heidi Biebl...