Word: shortstopped
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Columbia is far from being an Army, but the Lions are still a respectable ball club. The Lions' leading hitter is shortstop Steve Richman, who owned an incredible .475 batting average after last weekend's victories over Penn and Princeton. Richman, however, is a ham-handed fielder, as are the other Lions. In their first ten games this year, they committed 37 errors. The two recent wins given the club a 2-3 record in the EIBL, the same an Harvard...
Brandeis's best hitter, Larry Bates, broke his wrist in the M.I.T. game, but the Judges still have a couple of capable batsmen, including shortstop George Frost, who is hitting .333, and long-ball hitter Jim Boyce...
...inning later, Harvard took the lead, again doing the damage with two away. Left fielder John Dockery singled and stole second base. George Neville cashed in on the Crimson captain's base-running by grounding through the shortstop hole to drive in the winning...
Left-hander McCandlish was a little shaky at the start of the game, but settled down and was in control during the late innings. Cornell shortstop Chip Stofer led off the seventh with a double. But McCandlish dispatched the next three hitters. Futile two-out singles were the only offense Cornell could muster in the eighth and ninth...
With ten games (and seven victories) behind them, the Crimson can boast some at batting averages of its own. Sophomore shortstop Jeff Grate leads the team at .457, followed by Jim Tobin at .352. Another sophomore, first baseman Bob Welz, is hitting .342. Dan Hootstein, the Crimson's balding cleanup hitter, is coming on strong after a slow start. His average is up to .273, he leads the team with 12 RBI's, and he slugged a long home run against Navy...