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Bulldog baseball 'Best in the West'
The Bulldog baseball team came up
with either solid pitching or timely hitting
when it needed such in wi nning all four of
its games and its own Best in the West
Classic last week.
When it came to solid pitching, sophomore John Hoover struck out 11 batters'
in his complete game win over Nevada-
Las yegas to open FSU s action.
As far as timely hitting was concerned,
freshman third baseman Joey Xavier and
pretty much the Bulldog bench came
through. Xavier hit .389 over the four
games TSU played and turned in some
fine defense for the Bulldogs.
Xavier was named to the all-
tournament team at third and was also
tabbed as the most valuable player. He
had a bases-loaded single with one out in
the bottom of the ninth inning to give
Fresno a 3-2 win over Long Beach State.
* The win over the 49ers allowed the Bulldog to clinch the tournament before it
actually ended.
As it turned out, the game last Friday
night was the last. Rain forced cancellation of games Saturday and even Sunday.
The tournament committee ultimately
called off the rest of the tourney, declaring
Fresno Slate the winner.
Outfielder Terry Pendleton, pitcher
Kurt Walker and catcher Rob Geels were
also all-tournament selections announced
yesterday. Walker was also named the
tourney's outstanding pitcher for his four-
hit, seven strikeout win over South west-
n Louisiana Friday.
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baseman/catcher Frank DeSantis. LBS
second baseman Steve Moore, LBS shortstop Bob Wesley, UNI.V outfielder Jon
Maldonado. USL outfielder Mike Watson, Long Beach designated hitter Tony
Laurenzi and USL pitcher Robert
Dunphy comprised the rest of the all-
tourney squad.
Watson was the outstanding hitter,
according to the tournament committee.
The committee's Bulldog Award went
to Hoover of Fresno Stale.
■ Watson burned up the tourney by batting . 727 for Southwestern Louisiana, but
Maldonado banged out 11 hits in hitting
.478. Maldonado's 11 hits equalled the
tourney record for hits, held by former
Bulldogs Ron Johnson, who was the first
baseman for the Minnesota Twins for a
while, and Dan Gladden, now in the San
Francisco Giants organization, and Ron
Hudson of Portland State, all set in 1978.
Hoover tied former Bulldog Steve Wit-
cos with his 11 strikeouts. Wilcox set the
Dave Sevenn of LBS and UNl.V's
Chris Smith each belted two home runs in
Hoover had nine of 11 strikeouts in the
first four innings, including three in the
first. But after the fourth, the young hurler
appeared to struggle.
*l lost a little bit of my rhythm after the
fifth inning,* Hoover said. 'I was getting
the ball up a little bit."
Hoover surrendered back-to-back singles to UNl.V's Alan Uughlin and Maldonado before walking DeSantis. The
Rebels scratched for a run and then added
one more in the seventh.
Nevada also threatened the other
frames, stranding a total of seven runners
from the fifth on.
But Hoover had bat support from his
teammates. Fresno rallied for two runs in
the first and added on in the second. As it
turned out. it was all the 'Dogs would
need. FSU got an insurance tally in the
ninth when Rebel pitcher Bob Korden-
brock walked Geels with the bases loaded
to force in a run.
"It was important for us to get the complete game in a tournament like this," Bulldog head coach Bob Bennett said. "We
might get in a sitation where we might
need three or four pitchers and we want to
keep them fresh."
Hoover has struggled off-and-on this
season but has not let the string of bad
luck get him down. Hoover, a product of
Fresno High School, has thrown well all
season, with only a couple of exceptions.
The problem has often been simply the
lack of offense behind him. That corrected
when Nevada-Reno was in town recently
and the 'Dogs have Hoover an 18-run lead
to work with.
Still, Hoover came into the tourney
with a 3-5 record and a nice earned run
average. Hoover says the so-called
Sophomore Jinx has not been on his
"I kinda laugh when I think about that,"
Hoover smiled.
Bulldog assistant coach Mike Rupcich
said at the beginning of the season the
Jinx would not get to the pitcher, saying
Hoover was "too much ofa competitor to
let it."
The next night it was timely hitting and
not pitching. Mound ace Randy Graham
was hit for four runs in six and a third
innings, but the Bulldogs put away USL
Geels. pinch hitting for starting reciever
Emery Phillips, stroked two-run double
to spur the rally.
Fresno had earlier erupted for four in
the fifth frame, helped along by a two-run
double by Tim Trnessen.
Bennett said the chilly weather at
Beiden Field contributed to Graham's
less-than-desirable outing. Bennett said
the junior pitcher's back tightened up and
he eventually left the game after striking
Bob Jacobsen tossed two and two-
thirds innings of one-hit relief, fanning
three and walking just one.
Graham was able to get the win for
Fresno, his eighth without a defeat. He
still ranks among the nation's leaders in
Walker worked the 4:30 p.m. contest
Friday afternoon on the hill and turned in
his'four-hit gem. a 6-0 victory over USL.
"I was ahead of the hitters and had my
slider working good." Walker said. "I
worked on mechanics all week (before the
tourney) and I straightened out a few
Walker said he had developed some bad
habits after winter league play and he and
Bennett were able lo correct those.
"It helps for the catcher to call a good
game and Robby (Geeb) did." Walker
added. 'I think I only shook him off
The Bulldogs scored a 6-0 win in that
one, behind three-hit ■performances by
Pendleton and Dalena. Pendleton drove
in three runs and Dalena ripped his fourth
home runs of the season, a solo shoe in the
sixth inning.
The night contest saw FSU score a 3-2
win over Long Beach
made Bennett look like a getuaus.
Bennett km up three straight pinch hitters in the bottom of the ninth inning,
including tittle-used Jim Cranford and
Cal Cain, and also sent in reserve outfielder Rod Davit as a pinch runner (for
Cranford). Gceis. Cain and Cranford all
came through with sharp singles and Xavier followed with his game-winning hit to
give Fresno the win.
The big inning almost overshadowed a
gutty mound performance by Rob Emerson. Emerson, who had thrown only 10
gave up just two runs for his third win of
But Bennett said the junior, used
mainly in long relief, came very close to
not finishing the game.
"He had the same stuff, but was getting
the ball up." Bennett explained. "If he
would have given up one more run. he
would have had to come out."
The 49crs stranded nine runners and
touched Emerson for eight hits.
. "They played well, we played well — it
was a good game." Bennett said.
That was Fresno's fourth win of the
Classic. Since the rest of the field had at
least three losses. FSU had it clinched.
Still. Bennett said he was looking forward to playing the games Saturday. He
said the fact the Bulldogs had the tourney
clinched did not lake away any competitiveness from the .games.
"All these teams want to win every game
— they want to have good season
records," Bennett explained. "Ratings are
not everything, but they're part of it."
Bennett said the tournament was -a
good for Fresno and he said he had a
chance to took a quite a few people who
will be able to contribute in second half
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