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Douglas Barnes, (rf) Joe Bland, (lb) Bill Frazier, (3b) Alton Lowe, (p) Nelson Hardister, (rf) Chowan Braves Snap Seahawks Unbeaten League String, 5-2 Coach Hawkins' Baseball Braves Have Good Hitting and Pitching Chowan 9, Loulsburg 2 j The Chowan College Baseball j Braves journeyed to Louisburg on Tuesday, April 22, for a con ference clash with the Louisburg College nine, and returned home on the long end of a 9-2 count. Southpaw Tommy Winston held the Purple to four scattered hits, all singles, while his team mates were shelling two Louis burg hurlers for 13 safeties. The Louisburg runs, both un earned, came in the seventh inning on two walks, a scratch single by O’Quinn, and two Brave errors. The Braves got two in the first when leadoff man Rod Page walked and Ray Rose homered. They tallied three more in the third on a pair of walks, Henry Kitchings double and Tommy Frazier’s single. Inning number six was the big frame for the Irdians. After the first batter was retired, the next three Braves singled and Joe Bland followed with a slashing drive good for three bases. Bland scored on Frazier’s sacrifice fly to left. Henry Kitchings led the Brave attack with 3 hits in 5 trips to the plate. He was ably assisted by Ray Cox, Ray Rose, and Tommy Frazier who contributed two hits apiece. Chowan 8, E. M. I. 2 Continuing their hot scoring punch, Chowan pounded out 8 ■uns and 13 hits and another vic tory was give*! to the Braves. The 8-2 score was mainly be cause of the fine hitting of Ray Rose, Joe Bland, Billy Frazier, Doug Barnes, and Alton Lowe who each got two hits for the Braves. Rookie Alton Lowe was also the winning pitcher for the Braves. Campbell 5, Chowan 4 Lacking the scoring punch, the Chowan baseballers were defeat ed April 14, to a hard hitting Campbell College nine by a score of 5-4. The Camels from Camp bell collected 10 hits off Braves lefty Tommy Winston. The big man for Campbell was Shelly who had 4 hits in 4 trips to the plate. Rose, Bland, and Cox got 2 hits apiece for Chowan. Chowan 7, Baltimore 6 In the second game, played on April 4, the Braves were a little too much for the visiting Balti more players. This time the score was 7 to 6. At the plate Henry Kitchings and Doug Barnes were the leading hitters of the day, each getting two hits apiece. Chowan 8. Baltimore 2 After losing their game against R. P. I., the Chowan nine bounced back and won two games against Baltimore. In their first game on April 3rd, the Braves practically had a field day. The diamond-men col lected a total of 8 runs and led the hitting department with 11 hits. Turning in fine perform ances at the plate were Rod Page who had three hits in five times \ip, and first-sacker Joe Bland had two hits. Rookie Alton Lowe was the winning pitcher, striking out 16 Baltimore players. Chowan 4, Louisburg 3 Coach Jerry Hawkins display ed his brand new baseball nine March 24, when the Chowan Braves met Louisburg at the Chowan diamond. It was a close game, the Braves out on the better end of a 4 to 3 score. Ray Cox, hard slugging Brave, led the field in batting with three hits out of five trips to the plate. Closely following him was another Brave outfielder, Douglas Barnes, who went two for four. Collecting four runs from ten hits and committing two errors, the new nine looked as if they were in for a promising season. Backing them in the pitching department was rookie right hander, Alton Lowe, who im pressed all the fans with his first win of the year. The strong Louisburg team collected three runs from eight TOM WINSTON . . . winning pitcher hits and they committed one er ror. Gormly led the visitors with two hits out of three trips to the plate and West followed closely with two for four. R. P. I. 7, Chowan 5 The Baseball Braves opened their second game of the season on March 24, against a powerful R. P. I. nine. Coming out on the short end of a seven to five score, the Braves could only hope for a better day the next game. Collecting five runs from 13 hits and committing three er rors, the Braves went down fighting. They almost came back with a last inning rally but fate seemed to be against them. Joe Bland, Brave first sacker led the team with thre:; hits out of five trips to the plate. Second base man, Ray Rose, improved his batting average by collecting two hits from four trips up. Rookie lefthander, Tommy Win ston started for the Chowan nine. Meyer, of the visiting team, led the pack with one homer and two singles out of five trips to the plate. The team collected seven runs from 12 hits and com mitted 1 error. Title Dimmed The hopes of a conference title were dimmed when the Chowan baseball team lost a double- header to a strong P.J.C. team at Maxton Saturday, May 2. In the first game, Chowan was beaten by a 3-2 score and in the second game, a very close one, by a 1-0 score. Tom Winston and Alton Lowe were the losing pitch ers for the Braves. By FRANK W. BARNDOLLAR Wilminglon Sports Editor Billy DeBruhl pitched master ful baseball for eight innings Saturday night, but it was not enough. Rules still call for nine innings, and that was the inning when DeBruhl “lost it”. Chowan College then came up with a five-run rally to defeat Wilmington College 5-2 at Legion Stadium under the lights, and hand the Seahawks their first conference defeat. It ended the Seahawks con ference victory string at seven games. For Chowan, it was an important win, for it gave the Braves a 5-2 conference record, putting them only a game and a half behind Wilmington. DeBruhl’s effectiveness is quickly shown by the 16 strike outs he threw, and by the fact that the chunky righthanded pitcher gave up only four hits in the first eight innings. But Chowan got four hits in the top of the ninth — two of them for extra bases — and the Seahawks made their only mistakes of the night in the field, which didn’t help the situation. During all this time however, Chowan’s Tom Winston wasn’t sitting on his hands wasting his night. The Braves’ lefthanded pitcher gave up but three hits over the first seven innings, and yielded but six after nine full frames. One of the Seahawks runs was unearned, also. Winston, a curveballer, didn’t strike out many, but few Wil mington batters could get a good piece of the ball. His control was unquestioned, as he gave up but one walk, and that one came in the final inning. The Seahawks, gunning for their eighth straight conference win, got the first run of the game in the eighth inning. Berry Cauble, the outfielder who went into the game with a rocketing .444 average, knocked a high bouncing ball over the pitcher’s head. Both the short stop and second baseman charged the ball, but it was too late for a play and Cauble had a single. Although there was one out, DeBruhl was called upon to lay down a bunt and the Hawk pitch er sacrificed Cauble to second base. Then Jerry Richardson picked on a 3-0 pitch and slashed a dou ble into right-centerfield to score Cauble. Richardson headed for third on a passed ball, and when catcher Henry Kitchins threw to the base the ball hit the base runner on the head. Richardson however, had kept his batting helmet on, and the ball bounced into left field, allow ing him to score the second run. The rally was over. But Chowan, quiet for eight innings, suddenly came alive. Ray Cox opened the inning by slamming a long ball to deep right-centerfield which Jerome Pittman apparently lost for a minute and it went for a triple. On the relay to third base, Rudy Groomes’ throw hit Cox, and he came on in to score. Billy Frazier then singled and when Nelson Hardister hit back to DeBruhl, the Hawk pitcher wheeled to fire to second base but his throw was in the dirt. All hands were safe. Pinch-hitter Tillet flied out, but DeBruhl lost Winston on four balls to load the bases. Rod Page dragged a bunt down first base line that Roger Coon fielded, but no one was covering first and it went as a hit, bringing in Fraz ier with the tying run. CHOWAN ab z h bi Page ss 5 1 2 1 Rose 2b 4 0 0 0 Kitchins c 5 0 2 2 Bland lb 4 0 0 0 Cox If 4 1 2 0 Frazier 3b 4 1 2 0 Hardister cf 2 1 0 0 Barnes rf 3 0 0 0 Winston p 3 1 0 0 Tilden 1 0 0 0 TOTALS 35 5 8 3 WILMINGTON ab r h bi Robinson ss 4 1 1 1 Groomes 2b 4 0 1 0 Bedford c 4 0 0 0 Coon lb 4 0 I 0 Richardson 3b 4 0 1 0 Morgan If 3 0 0 0 Pittman rf 3 0 0 0 Cauble cf 3 1 2 0 DeBruhl p 2 0 0 0 Tillet rf 1 0 0 0 TOTALS 32 1 6 1 Chowan 000 000 005—5 Wilmington .,. . 000 000 020—2 E: Kitchins Groomes De- Bruhl. PO-A; Chowan 27-1, Wilmington 27-7. 2B: Groomes, Kitchins, Richardson. 3B: Cox 2. Robinson. SB: Morgan, Cauble. S: Hardister, DeBruhl. LOB; Chowan 8, Wilmington 5.
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