Word: shortstop
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...Shortstop Mariene Schools summed up well. "We wanted to show Bridgewater we are a far better team than we were...
...yesterday's opener with Penn, the batsmen took a two-run deficit into the top of the seventh. With two out, Quaker hurler Pete Shutte gave shortstop Brad Bauer a free pass to load the bases, then walked Vinnie Martelli to bring Harvard to within one. But Donnie Allard popped to Shutte, and Billy Doyle fell victim to a 2-1 defeat despite tossing a three-hitter...
...sixth, with the Crusaders leading 9-7, freshman shortstop Tony DiCesare rapped a single to center, scoring Martelli and Brad Bauer, both of whom had connected for solid base hits. DiCesare just about made up for a horrendous three-error day in the field with a two-for-four performance at the plate...
Third baseman Pat Horne speared a line drive headed for deep left to save at least two runs and retire the side in the third. And in the top of the fourth, with the bases loaded, one out, and three runs already across, shortstop Marlene Schools went to her left for a one-hopper, and gunned it to second baseman Alissa Friedman--who relayed to first just in time to complete a twin-killing, and uncommon play in softball...
...commentator myself " and thus knows the tricks of the trade. To Voice of America employees not long ago, he did a fast-delivery imitation of how, as a young radio sports announcer in Iowa with only minimal telegraphed clues, he embroidered on a game he could not see ("The shortstop is going over after the ball and makes a wild stab, picks it up, turns and gets him out just in time"). This showed, he said, how the basic truth can be "attractively packaged." But that is closer to a pitchman's attitude toward facts than a reporter...