North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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lohnson pitclictl I ' ourliii hall ,is Si.ilc sl,ui ;hu ' r(. ' tl Carolina. 12-2. in the series opener, lowler liii a home run. and L ans paeed the attaek, with lour lor five. Katka cck oot three for fi e. 0 er at Chapel 1 lill. Pianisex hurled the seeond ietorv in an I 1 -inning; duel, which State won. t-4. The Red Terrors clinched the uame. with two rims in the top of the elcnenth. Carolina scored one run in the hottoni. hut were halted at that point. () er 4,000 attended the oame. Stanton douhled to lead off the eleventh, then Riehkus, Evans, and Gardner sinoled in succession. Lefty DiLorenzo hurled four-hit hall to blank State, 4-0, in the third game of the series. Fowler got two of States hits. With onlv two days rest, DiLorenzo defeated State in the tinal game of the A close one. season, 5-2, before over 5,000 fans— probably the largest crowd ever to see a Big Four game. -Mac McDuffie Did voit see it, Ump? Where ' s the hall? BASEBALL CONFERENCE RESULTS State 5 Duke State 6 Duke 5 State 8 Duke 5 State 5 Duke 8 State 4 Wake Forest 8 State 6 Wake Forest 5 State 7 Wake Forest 5 State Wake Forest 2 State 12 U. N. C 2 State 5 U. N. C 4 State U. N. C 4 State 2 U. N. C 5

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Ramsey strikes another one out. runs by Charlie Richkus and Fowler tied and won the game. Johnson and Edwards teamed on the mound to defeat Wake Forest, 6-5, in a 10-inning thriller. John- son allowed four hits in eight innings and Edwards gave up two in two. Katkaveck, with three for four, Evans, with three for five, and Fowler, with three for six, paced the Red Terrors ' attack. akc Forest scored two runs in the top of the ninth, but State came back with a pair to knot the score. The Deacons took another lead, with a lone run in the tenth, but two for State in the bottom clinched the victory. Bill Stanton walked, and pinchhitter Warren Bailey sacrificed. Evans singled, his third of the game, anrl Hank Utley walked to load the bases. Katkaveck came through with his second double of the game to drive in the winning run. Ramsey limited the Deacons to seven hits as State won, 7-5. With the score tied, 5-5, and two men out in the ninth, Katkaveck tripled with Stanton and Richkus on base. Earlier in the game, Fowler had hit a home run. In the third game with Duke, Ramsey made it three straight o ' er the Blue Devils, with a five-hit performance as State was winning, 8-5. Duke collected all its runs in the eighth while Ramsey was having trouble with his control. Utley paced State ' s attack, with three for four. Evans and Katkaveck got two for four each. In a heartbreaking 12-inning game. Wake Forest triumphed over State, 2-0. Moe Bauer and Bo Bell went the route for the Deacons, giving up seven hits. Johnson pitched for State. Fowler led the Red Terrors at the plate, with two for five. State apparently had a run in the third which probably would have won the game, but Willie Evans, who was on third, was called out for leaving the bag too soon, when he attempted to score after Pinky Gard- ner ' s long fly had been caught. Duke finally beat State, 8-5, with Ramsey on the mound. It was Curt ' s first loss in two years. Fowler and Katkaveck were the big men in State ' s attack, ith two for four. At this point of the season. State had four games left— all with Carolina. The Red Terrors won the first two and with Duke and Wake Forest both finished. Coach Sorrell ' s charges needed one more victory for a tie, and both games to clinch the pen- nant. Thev lost both games.

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