Thursday, June 5. 1975
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Summer league baseball opens Saturday
by Jim Thomas
Sports Editor
The North Carolina Collegiate Summer
Baseball League begins its fifth year of
operation this weekend despite the
withdrawal of two schools for one year
because of financial difficulties.
Appalachian State and Campbell College
dropped out of the summer league last week,
reducing the number of teams from seven to
five Carolina, Louisburg Junior College,
East Carolina, UNC-Wilmington and
Methodist.
The Tar Heels open their 32-game
schedule against East Carolina Saturday at
Greenville before returning to Cary
Boshamer Stadium for home contests
against Wilmington Monday and Louisburg
Tuesday. The fifth league member,
Methodist, gets its season underway Sunday
with a home game against East Carolina at
Fayetteville.
Louisburg was the runaway regular
season champion last summer with a 21-8
record. Carolina finished second with an 18
1 2 mark but captured the tournament title by
defeating the Hurricanes 6-4 in II innings.
The Tar Heels won their last nine regular
season games plus two more in the playoffs
to wind up the summer with an 11-game
winning streak.
UNC coach Mike Roberts is optimistic
about the Tar Heels chances of defending
their summer league title with
approximately half of the regular season
varsity squad staying in Chapel Hill this
summer.
"Wilmington and Louisburg should be the
favorites at the beginning of the season, but 1
feel we have the talent to compete with them
from the start," said the confident young
coach. "I will be disappointed if we don't
come in either first or second place."
With formal practice just beginning last
Monday, only Steve Rackley, -Early Jones
and Jimmy Baldwin are assured of starting
positions, but Bill Lee, Mike Fox and Kevin
Haeberle should man three of the four infield
spots with Bob Thomson and Clay Johnson
leading the mound staff.
Thomson was scheduled to be the opening
day pitcher Saturday, but the rising junior
recently jammed his hand through a car
window and had to undergo surgery on his
left thumb. However, the 6-5 righthander
should be available for the Tar Heels' first
home game Monday at 7:30 p.m. in
Boshamer against Wilmington.
The Seahawks, who are currently
competing in the NA1A national
championships at St. Joseph, Mo., loom as
the pre-season favorites to takeihe summer
league crown.
Wilmington failed to make the playoffs
for the first time in league history last
summer, finishing with a 6-25 record, but
compiled a 27-9 record this past spring with
the addition of three outstanding freshmen
hurlers-Phil Lambert (7-1), Parker Davis
(6-3) and Mike Hunter (4-2). Junior Randy
Prosser, who was a starter early in the
season, provides relief from the bullpen.
Coach Bill Brooks also has a couple of
.300 hitters -Van Lewis (.336) and Robert
Pittman (.318), along with Larry File, who
batted over .400 the last half of the regular
season, to give UNC-W a potent hitting
attack in addition to a strong pitching staff.
Louisburg features two Carolina-bound
players, outfielder Steve Coats and third
baseman Randy Warrick, who UNC coach
Walter Rabb is counting on to strengthen the
Tar Heels' lineup next season.
Coats batted .330 and set a school record
with 12 home runs this past spring despite
being hobbled by shin splints all season. The
Louisburg slugger also smashed a record five
home runs and four consecutive
roundtrippcrs as the Hurricanes (31-5)
finished third in the National Junior College
Baseball Tournament last week at Grand
Junction, Colo.
Warrick, who was overwhelmingly voted
the most outstanding player in last year's
summer league, blistered the opposition for
.a .380 batting average during the regular
season. .
Joining Coats and Warrick in the lineup
are fleet centerfielder Charlie Stevens and
first baseman Sonny Wooten, who hit .335
and knocked 1 1 home runs this past spring.
The only significant loss of last summer's
regular season champs is Clemson-bound
hurler Ron Musselman (9-2), who
Louisburg Coach Russ Fraser called "as
good as any college pitcher 1 saw all season."
East Carolina returns to the league after a
year's absence. The Pirates, who dropped
out last summer as a result of losing 1 1
players off the varsity squad, recovered from
a slow start this past spring to finish the
season with a 17-12 record and third in the
Southern Conference.
The Pirates, who defeated SC champ
Citadel (21-7) twice during the last week of
the season and split with pre-season favorite
Wilmington, will have their top three
pitchers competing this summer Steve
Herring (3-2. 2.79 ERA), Bob Feeney (4-0,
2.62) and Dean Reavis (6-2, 1.8 1) -along
with the second leading hitter, second
baseman Steve Bryant (324). In
addition, the lineup will be bolstered by the
return of Glen Card, who batted over .300
for Louisburg last summer but missed the
regular season due to a knee operation.
Methodist will be joining the league for
the first time this summer. The Monarchs
compiled a 27-14 record this past spring and
reached the finals of NCAA Division 29
before bowing to Wilmington in extra
innings.
Coach Paul Sanderford has his top three
pitchers competing Sam Tolar(4-4, 1.44),
Mitch Davis (6-2. 2.56) and Earl Bunn(6-4,
1.58) in addition to the leading hitter, second
baseman John Donaldson (.333, 35 RBI),
who is considered to be a prime pro prospect.
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