Morehead State University - Raconteur Yearbook (Morehead, KY)

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Baseball Winning Season won the Northern Division of the Ohio Valley Conference, beating out 'rivals mEastern, Youngstown and Austin Peay. t contributions a , both a fielder and akcutch hitter. ttl f' sure he ll make All-Conference again, sai Coach Hamilton We not seen a bett shortstop in the 0V and this has bee n We lost, we finished third. We won the , ,' game in the ninth Inning. Winning games in the late innings has been a trademark of the Eagles this season. ' ' Coach Hamilton 5 'd I'fyntyhe Eagles wereyinh' baseball mos their strength uUp In t e middle. One ma jor positIon included In the analysis is the catcher. The Eagles had two players in the catching position this season. The starting Brian Staley, a Lophomore. Staieyle the team in horn. Another position up the middle is shortstop. The Eagtes shortstop this season was Mike Ishmael. Not only has has the distinction of being one of only six? defensive player. All three outfielders wer new to their positions, so Trimble had a di ficult task in centerofield. He had to do Larry Tacke POlNTING OUT a strategy. the coaching staff of th baseball team proved well at doing. The baseball tea had a lot of talent.

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DISCUSSING the situation, Head coach Seelig tdks with one of the umpires at a home game. Seelig con- sidered this year to be a success since that two-thirds of last year's players were lost because they were graduating seniors. RUNNING for third base, a Lady Eagle softball member watches to see if her teammate makes it home all right. CONTEMPLATING the situation is MSU's softball pitcher. Pitching is a position which requires full con- centration and coordination of the player.

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