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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- Contact: Bill
Tharp, Assistant Sports Info. Director
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- March 25, 2003
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Baseball Splits Double-Header with Hartwick- Panthers Suffer First Loss of Season, Avenge
Loss in Nightcap
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- Ferrum, Va. -- The Ferrum College baseball
team split a double-header with Hartwick College today. The
Hawks took advantage of Panther miscues in the first game to
prevail 7-3. Ferrum dominated the nightcap, jumping out to a
13-0 lead after the first inning, and cruised to a 26-2 win.
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- Hartwick took advantage of four Ferrum errors in
the last three innings of game one in order to erase a 3-0
deficit. Sophomore pitcher Mike
Tonzola (Powhatan, Va./Powhatan) absorbed the loss, allowing
six runs (two earned) on five hits while striking out seven
through six innings. Senior Jason
Beale (Charlottesville, Va./W. Albemarle) went 3-3 with two
doubles and an RBI for the Panthers.
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- In game two, every Ferrum batter scored at least
one run in the first inning as the Panthers bolted out to a 13-0
lead. Twelve different Panthers scored runs and registered
hits. Ferrum out hit Hartwick 27-8 for the game.
Sophomore Pitcher Daniel
Reynolds (Martinsville, Va./Fieldale-Collinsville) picked up
his first victory of the year by allowing just five hits in four
scoreless innings of work.
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Ferrum now stands at 18-1 on the season, while the Hawks are 2-2.
The Panthers will try and improve upon their 4-0 Dixie Conference
this weekend as they travel to Fayetteville, N.C. for a weekend
series against Methodist College. For more information, please contact the Ferrum sports
information office at (540) 365-4306.
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