I? Baseball Notebook I Dickerson spark: By DAVID BULLA Chronicle Sports Editor J.D. Dickerson said it was the best week of his m baseball career. "I've never had a week like that before." 1 Winston-Salem's soft-spoken Dickerson said last Friday night before the Spirits' doubleheader with Peninsula at Ernie Shore Field. "Not in high school, not in college, not in the minors. Only, I wish it hadn't stopped." In one week, from May 11-18, the outfielder slammed five home runs. He hit a homer in five of six games that week. That's not all. He batted .483 with 13 runs batted in and 12 runs scored. "I was just seeing the ball real well," Dickerson said. "But I haven't seen too many fastballs this week." The 5-foot-Sf, 175-pound Dickerson, nicknamed "Fire Hydrant," went without a homer for five days. But he jacked the first pitch -- a fastball -- to I him out of the park Friday night to raise his season total to 13, which leads the Carolina League. That left him just one shy of his career high (14), which he set last year at Quad City of the Midwest League. t4I had been chasing a lot of bad pitches out of the strike zone," said the Charlottesville, Va., native. "I got behind and had to hit the pitcher's "But 1 started to sit back and I was ahead on the count more frequently. 1 think that allowed me to 3V see the ball a lot better." The hot week caused Dickerson's batting average to jump to .267, the highest it has been since the first week of the season. Eight nights into the season, Dickerson turned in a game that foreshadowed the torrid week that would come a month later. Against Hagerstown, he went four for five with two solo homers, including one 420-foot shot over the center-field wall at Ernie 1KIU. By the end of April, Dickerson cooled and his averaged dipped to .206. He even was out of the starting lineup in four consecutive games. Since, then he's hit a steady .294 with 19 RBI and 19 runs. The former UNCC standout has 12 of his vj ' 18 extra-base hits in that period. Dickerson comes from a baseball-rich community. While he was growing up, one of his chief competitors was Chris Cubbage, brother of Lynchburg Mets' Manager Mike Cubbage. "Chris and I took batting practice together in the summertime," the 23-year-old Dickerson said. "I yjr remember Mike as a quarterback at UVa. Chris was picny j(uuu in *uascuaji, out nc was quue a lenms 4'' fcftayef.' Todky he1 worK? is' a ^ro* Ifif "Washington, ? D.C." Mike Cubbage, after his college football and baseball career a^Virginia, was a journeyman inHamilton hurls 1-h Another 4-3 week for Winston- average, whicl Salem allowed the Spirits' lead to those first two grow to 31/2 games over second- 2.96. place Durham in the Southern Division. , Meanwhile. The Spirits closed the week by Lenderman ear taking three of four from third- ral^e ls t?am"' place Peninsula. ^ecently-aa Four of the games were decid- J"*" Ke D,*,,, ed by one run, with ManagerCal ?ul! in un a Emery's team winning three of eninsu athem. The Spirits are now 10-8 in In transactio one-run games. Steve Roadcap The week's highlight was Carl triple-A Iowa. Hamilton's second one-hitter of Roadcap was the season. Hamilton blanked the Spirits, bu: Peninsula 3-0 for his fifth his defensive straight victory after losing his Damon Berry first two decisions of the season. starting catch Four of those five wins have single-A since i come in complete games. cond year in th< The left-hander's earned run Please i B J ^ V ' M J I k H I I I a . BATTINQ STATISTICS !!se ??a ? 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