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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Gary Holden, Sports Info. Director
(540) 365-4306
April 4, 2004
Ferrum Earns USA South Baseball
Championship- Panthers Claim Third Straight Regular-Season
Title
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- Ferrum, Va. -- For the third straight year,
the Ferrum College baseball team has earned the USA South Athletic
Conference (previously the Dixie Conference) regular-season
title.
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- The Panthers picked up a 5-1 win over Christopher
Newport University at home this afternoon to claim at least a share
of this year's USA South title.
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Box Score and Play-By-Play
The title is Ferrum's seventh overall, the fourth in the past six
seasons and the third consecutive. Ferrum also claimed baseball
titles in the Dixie Conference in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2002,
and 2003. All seven titles have been under the direction of
Head Coach Abe Naff, who is now 556-189-1 in his 19th season at the
helm of the Panther baseball program.
Senior All-American Thomas
Meeks (Rocky Mount, Va./Franklin County) pitched 8.2 innings
this afternoon, allowing just one hit, walking six and striking out
eight. Meeks, pictured above, improved to 4-0 with a 1.93 ERA
and 36 strikeouts in 32.2 innings this season.
The win improve Ferrum to 22-6 overall and 14-4 in the USA
South. Christopher Newport is now 16-11, 11-7 in league
play. Ferrum returns to action Wednesday, April
7, when it hosts non-conference opponent Bluefield College at 7 p.m. For more information, please contact the Ferrum College Sports
Information Office at (540) 365-4306.
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