CAL LUTHERAN CAN'T GET THE OFFENSE GOING.Byline: Daniel Uthman Special to the Daily News Margins of error shrink the longer a team goes in the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III
Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. baseball tournament. On Thursday night in the first round of the 1996 championship series, Cal Lutheran's vanished. Wisconsin-Oshkosh's Andrew Kimball, a sophomore named Wednesday night to the All-America second team, threw a two-hitter Thursday and sent the Kingsmen to a 4-0 loss. Cal Lutheran didn't get its second hit until the top of the ninth inning in·ning n. 1. a. Baseball One of nine divisions or periods of a regulation game, in which each team has a turn at bat as limited by three outs. b. innings (used with a sing. on a single to left by pinch-hitter Adam Rauch. No Cal Lutheran players made it to third base and only two made it to second. The Kingsmen (30-13-1) meet Rensselaer (N.Y.) in a losers' bracket game today at 4 p.m. (PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT ). The tournament is double-elimination. The Titans (34-4) will be off until 4 p.m. Saturday, when they face Methodist (N.C.) in the winners' bracket. Early on the game appeared to be held firmly in the palms of Kimball (11-0) and Cal Lutheran starter Andrew Barber. Barber allowed just four hits until the fourth inning, when an error by first baseman Sean Smith Sean Smith may refer to one of the following:
abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in single by Chuck Anderson that scored Kundert. Oshkosh added two more in the sixth with back-to-back triples by Zappa and first baseman Sam Russ. Russ drove Zappa in with a gapper to the same right-center-field spot that Zappa had just hit. Then Kundert got Russ home for a 4-0 lead on a flyout to center. ``It's the best pitching performance we've seen this year,'' Cal Lutheran coach Marty Slimak said of Kimball. ``We watched earlier games today and they were slugfests. I felt that this game would be a pitchers duel. Barber struck out nine, while Kimball struck out seven. Zappa, a first-team All-American, led the Titans at the plate, going 3 for 4. Other winners Thursday were Upper Iowa, 6-5 over top-seed Marietta (Ohio) and William Paterson Several notable individuals have been named William Paterson:
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