From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball.college
Subject: Miami sweeps FSU; ACC update
Summary: retirement party for Ron Fraser
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:39:55 GMT
Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
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Organization: SCRI, Florida State University


 Report from the "Ron Fraser weekend" in Tallahassee:

    Coach Ron Fraser was honored for his 30 year career coaching at 
Miami during pre-game festivities Saturday night.  Fraser, who is in 
the FSU sports hall of fame, was joined by Danny Litwiler (his coach 
at FSU, later coach for many years at Michigan State) and many others.
He was treated to a parade of sorts, entering the stadium in an open car. 
Later, on Sunday, he was made an honorary 'animal' by the denizens of 
Section B.  He also left town with the only sweep in all the years 
that Miami has played in Tallahassee.  Some going-away party!

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      Friday line score (from Tallahassee Democrat):

 Miami          320 400 100 - 10 12 1 (9 LOB) W-Alkire(7-2)      4/10/92
 Florida State  110 040 000 -  6 13 1 (7 LOB) L-Bailey(9-2)     A - 5,179

Bailey struggled for the fourth time, only making it through 1.2 innings. 
He has given up 25 ER in 22.2 innings in those outings.  DiGiacomo's 
three-run homer in the fourth was the clincher.  

      Saturday line score (from Tallahassee Democrat):

 Miami          200 002 002 - 6 10 0 (10 LOB) W-Gandarillas(4-1)   4/11/92
 Florida State  200 100 000 - 3  8 3 (9 LOB) L-Roberts(5-2)       A - 5,945

FSU wasted several opportunities early, then was shut down by Gandarillas' 
5 innings of 2-hit relief pitching.  Roberts got his 10th HR of the season 
to help his own cause, but it was not enough. 

      Sunday line score (from Tallahassee Democrat):

 Miami          400 001 100 - 6 10 1 (6 LOB) W-Censale(7-0)      4/12/92
 Florida State  010 100 300 - 5  9 1 (7 LOB) L-Davis(4-3)       A - 3,830

It was a beautiful day for baseball - mostly sunny, 85 degrees, Seminoles 
in their Sunday yellow and Miami in orange - but the crowd stayed home. 
FSU got a complete game from Davis, who had trouble with his curve in the 
first inning.  Censale baffled FSU until the 7th, where an error set up a 
bases loaded, no out opportunity to take back the game.  FSU fell short. 

 Story of the series: Miami speed (9 SB vs 2 CS), balanced hitting, and 
 solid pitching and defense.  They should make it to Omaha. 

 FSU falls to 9-10 against top-25 opponents, as they pass the midpoint of 
 a series of 8 games against in-state rivals ranked 2 and 5 in the nation. 
 The sweep at home was the first in 20 years.  

> next up: Wednesday against Florida in Tallahassee, followed by a 
           weekend road trip to Miami, then final exams... 

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      ACC standings (4/9/92, Tallahassee Democrat):

                Conference     All Games
                ------------   ------------
  Clemson       18  3  0.857   36  6  0.857
  Wake Forest    9  6  0.600   22 13  0.629
  Florida St.   10  7  0.588   30 13  0.698
  N.C. State    10  8  0.556   34  9  0.791
  Georgia Tech   7  7  0.500   29  8  0.784
  Duke           8 10  0.444   28 11  0.718
  N. Carolina    8 10  0.444   22 16  0.579
  Maryland       4 10  0.286   16 17  0.485
  Virginia       2 15  0.118   16 22  0.421

--
J. A. Carr                                    |  "The New Frontier of which I  
jac@gw.scri.fsu.edu                           |  speak is not a set of promises
Florida State University  B-186               |  -- it is a set of challenges."
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute |   John F. Kennedy (15 July 60)
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