April 9, 1970
Maroon and Gold
Page 3
Baseballers Pull Record Up To .500
Gary Brown, Elon’s big right-hander, struck out
12 Catawba batters, and also made seven New Hamp
shire batters go down swinging. Brown’s pitching
record is 1-1.
Defeat Akron 7-3,
Smith-Capps Star
Rick Smith, Terry
Williams, and Dewey
Capps led the Elon base
ball team to their first
victory of the season over
Akron Univ., 7-3.
Akron started the scor
ing when they pushed a-
cross two runs in the top
half of the second, both
runs were unearned off
Elon starter Donnie Oak
es.
Elon bounced back with
two runs in the bottom
of the second, when Jay
Simpson drew a walk,
Rick Smith reached base
on an Akron error and
Curly Hazelette singled,
while pinch - hitting
for Oakes. Joe Rinaca tied
the score at 2-2 with a
fly ball to rightfield,
scoring Smith.
The Christians added
three more runs in the
third inning on four hits,
the big hit of the inning
was a homerun by Elon’s
Terry Williams, over the
Jimmy Friensinger,
Rick Smith, and Joe Ri
naca, led Elon past the
Univ. of New Hampshire
on March 31, in a slug-
fast in the Christians fav
or 17-2.
Elon started the fire
works in the bottom of
the first, by pushing a-
cross four runs on four
"Its, and adding four more
runs in each of the next
two innings.
Elon combined 11 hits,
Mne walks, andeisrht N.H.
errors to score theirl
runs.. The i Elqn pitchers:
left-field fence.
Dewey Capps turned
in a superb pitching per
formance; Capps struck
out eight Akron batters
and walked only one.
Elon scored two addi
tional runs in the fifth
inning, when Terry Will
iams got his second hit
of the game. Jay Simpson
walked, Don Brady reach
ed first on a fielder’s
choice, and Rick Smith
lined a basehit through
the Akron defense.
Elon not only outhit Ak
ron but also surpassed
them on defense. Rick
Smith was the defensive
standout by making sev
eral outstanding plays in
centerfield. Terry Will
iams led the Elon offen
sive attack with a home-
run and two singles, while
Don Brady and Rick Smith
each had two hits for Elon.
Jim Moryan and Russ
Howard had two hits
apiece for Akron.
struck out 12 batter .3 and
walked five. Gary Brown,
who started the game on
the mound for Elon,
struck out seven batters
and Mike Futrell, who re
lieved Brown in the sev
enth inning, struck out
five.
New Hampshire used
four pitchers to try and
tame the Elon bats, but
made no Elon batters go
down on strikes, while
walking nine Christians.
Rick Smith and Joe Ri-
nace each had three hits
for Elon, and Jim Frie-
singer had two hits..
Lose Opener
To G-W 6-1
By RICHARD YOUMANS
Coach Jerry Drake's
baseballers lost to the
Gardner - Webb “Bull
dogs,” in the season op
ener, in anything but ideal
baseball weather, 6-1.
Gardner - Webb com
bined good hitting along
with good pitching, from
both Bennie Lail and
Weyne McCauley to out-
score the Christians.
Dewey Capps started
the pitching chores for
Elon but found himself
with early control tro-
ble. The Bulldogs scored
two runs in the first inn
ing, on three hits and an
Elon Infield error. Elon
bounced back in their half
of the inning, when Jim
Morris was hit by the
pitcher, Joe Rinaca drew
a walk, and Jimmy Frie-
singer, Elon’s veteran-
second - baseman, drove
in Morris with Elon’s
first hit of the season.
The Bulldogs scored a
solo-run in the top of the
second, with the help of
three walks by the Elon
pitchers and another in
field error.
Capps found himself in
trouble once again in the
fourth inning, when after
getting the first two Gard
ner - Webb batters out.
Capps 13 K’s
Brady HR’s
Dewey Capps struck out
13 batters and gave up on
ly one run, leading Elon
past David and Elins 4-1,
to make the Elon record
two wins and three losses.
Elon struck first for
two runs in the second
inning, when Joe Rinaca
reached base on an error
and Donnie Brady smash
ed a homerun, for the E-
lon first two runs. The
Christians scored their
next and final two runs
in the bottom of the fourth.
Joe Rinaca reached first
and stole second, Brady
and Rick Smith walked,
and Jay Simpson gave up
an out by a sacrifice bunt,
pushing Rinaca across the
plate. Dewey Capps, Elon
pitcher, helped his own
cause by flying out to
center, enabling Brady to
score.
Davis and Elins scor
ed their only run in the
top of the fifth inning.
Bob Mann led off with a
basehit to right and Dave
Simione drew a free pass
to first from Capps. With
runners on first and se
cond, Capps got the next
two batters to go down
swinging, but John Little
singled to right scoring
Mann from second.
Capps, once again turn
ed in a superb pitching
perform ance, y i elding
only three hits, striking
out 13, and walking only
one.
Ronnie Noe lined a double
to left-center and scored
on Gary Wiley’s basehit.
With a runner on first,
Drake pulled Capps and
sent Jerald Campbell out
to the mound. Campbell
got Elon out of the jam,
when he struck out Mike
McDaniel to end the Gard
ner - Webb threat.
Elon tried to get a few
runs back in the sixth.
Richard Smith walked and
Donnie Brady singled,
sending Smith over to
third. With runners on
first and third, and one
out, Lail got Marty Bon-
nett to hit into a force
play, and Jerry Ward,
batting for Campbell
struck out.
Elon’s third pitcher,
Jim Ramsey, found him
self in the worse jam of
the cold afternoon. After
getting the first batter to
ground out in the seventh,
Joe Stepp smashed a
homerun, making the
score 5-1. Ramsey made
Roger Swain pop-up, but
The Catawba "Indians”
behind strong pitching and
hitting, defeated Elon in
a doubleheader last Tues
day by the scores of 2-0,
2-1.
In the first game, Ca
tawba scored their two
runs in the fifth inning
on three hits, a walk,
and a fielder s choice,
Elon’s big right-hand
er, Gary Brown, stood out
on the mound, striking out
12 Indians and only al
lowing three free passes.
Brown gave up only three
hits in the ballgame, but
the hits proved to be tim e-
ly.
Jimmy Friensinger,
three successive Gardner
- Webb basehlts scored
another run.
Gary Brown replaced
Ramsey in the eighth,
making it the fourth Elon
pitcher to be used and he
looked very impressive.
Brown struck out the first
two batters he faced,
walked one, and got the
last batter to pop-up.
Gardner - Webb’s Ben
Lail was replaced by
Wayne McCauley in the
eighth inning and did not
permit an Elon batter tcJ
hit the ball out of the in
field.
The Gardner - Webb
pitchers permitted four
walks and struck out ten
Elon batters, while the
Elon pitchers gave up
eight walks and struck out
nine Bulldog batters.
Ron Noe and Joe Stepp
both had two hits apiece
for Garner - Webb, while
Jim Frieslnger, Jim Ar
rington, Don Brady, and
Dewey Capps hit safely
for Elon.
2-1;
CC
Elon’s third baseman, led
the hitting attack for both
teams, getting basehlts
his first two times at the
plate. No other batter had
more than one hit.
In the second game,
Jerald Campbell pitched
a one-hltter as did Cataw
ba’s Bailey but Catawba
scored more runs to win.
The Indians once again
put their runs on the
scoreboard first in the
sixth Inning. Elon fought
back several times, but
all attempts proved un
successful, Campbell
struck out seven and
walked two, while Bailey
struck out four and walk
ed three.
BASEBALL
SCOREBOARD
Gardner-Webb 6 Lail, LP Capps
Elon 1
mon" 7 Capps (1,1) LP Parlsl
Catawba - '2
Elon
Q -WP Hardison LP Brown
Catawba 2 (O.I)
gjQj, 1 WP Bailey LP Campbell
Dav^s & Elkins 1 *p o.pp, (2,1, LP Llttle
Ne^ Hampshire 2^ wp Brown (1.1) LP Norris
Wins 3 Losses 3
Elon Pitchers Strike Out 12
Defeat New Hampshire 17-2
Elon Loses^
Drop 0-2 In