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...southpaw, Nickens relies on control rather than speed. He tries to confuse the batter with curves and changes of speed rather than fasthails. Nickens led the team with 40 strikeouts in 49 innings last season...
Kirkland, which finished with a 6-0 record, scored first on a long pass from southpaw quarterback Pete Bernhard to Dave Lambrix. Another pass- Beruhard to end Randy Enger- for a two-point conversion gave Kirkland an 8-0 lead...
Against the Indians, Harvard hitters walloped starter Glen Culbertson for six runs and six hits, including triples by Bill Kelly and Turco in the first inning. Dartmouth tagged southpaw J. C. Nickens for five runs in as many innings and tied the game in the seventh...
Starting this afternoon's match is sophomore left-hander J. C. Nickens. Although the southpaw's statistics are not impressive, 4-4 for the season with a 3.18 earned run average, his last two performances have been encouraging. Against Brandies, Nickens struck out seven and allowed just two hits in a six-inning shut-out. At Brown last week, he limited the Bruins to two hits in seven innings of relief pitching...
Sophomore Bob Flanders came in to check the Harvard rally for the last three inning, and Nickens's mastery of the Bruins ended in the ninth. After a lead-off single, southpaw Nickens retired the next two batters safely, although the Brown runner managed to advance to third. One out away fro extra innings, Brown got the run-scoring single it needed. The game and the league race were over or the disappointed Crimson...