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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Baseball best p ngseason ted in the second place slot all year in his first yearL in the outfield. L hasn t had a huge number of hits this year, even though his batting average has been L weiiover 300 ii eason. uH 'sa lead on else on the team, Hamilton said. An important player to the Eagle team ear was Br n Capnerhurst . years go as a freshman, Capnerhurs led the team in all statistics. After sitting out of school for a year, he's back and according I L his return EVeh though he played most of the season with painful injuries Capner-hurst hit well and played good Third basem n Gary Jones, a sophomore, had a good defensive year Even though the ERA might not reflect it, Hamilton feels that the Eagles have the hing st t ' players in the pitching rotation. along wit the relief pitchers, combined to give t was the anchor man on the pitchin staff, according to Coach Hamilton '1 fe tinned Another prominent force on th Eagles pitching staff was Bobby Hamilto Hamilton started off with several excelle games, but aback injiiry at mid4seaso forced him into relief position for a while. third pitcher on the Eagle staff wa sophomore Andy Morrison, who was he had a good season, Coach Hamilto feels his record didnt reflect it becaus shouid have won. The final pla er wh made up the starting pitcher rotation wa freshman Scott Smailwood, who had T o pitche who received much of th relief work for the Eagles were Scott Pan cake and Kirk Maddox Pancake combine THE baseball team ad a successful season this year which was to no doubt of the fans. They beat out ell of