CAL LUTHERAN IS ELIMINATED : WISCONSIN-OSHKOSH 5, CAL LUTHERAN 3.Byline: John A. Montgomery Special to the Daily News It was a long trip for a short stay. In less than 20 hours, Cal Lutheran lost its second straight game 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, 5-3 to Wisconsin-Oshkosh on Sunday. That, combined with Sunday's 7-6 loss to Aurora (Ill.), eliminated the Kingsmen. They were the first of the eight teams competing in the five-day tournament to depart. Wisconsin-Oshkosh (41-4) entered the tournament as the top-ranked team in the country but was sentenced to the losers' bracket when Eastern Connecticut State upset the Titans 9-3 Saturday. ``The longer we can stay alive, the more it's going to help us because we do have some pitching depth,'' said Wisconsin-Oshkosh coach Tom Lechnir. Starting pitcher Noun 1. starting pitcher - (baseball) a pitcher who starts in a baseball game baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; Kevin Grater allowed seven hits against the Kingsmen. The Titans nicked Cal Lutheran (28-15) pitcher Tom Canale (4-5) for a run in the first inning on back-to-back two-out hits by right fielder right fielder n. Baseball The player who defends right field. Noun 1. right fielder - the person who plays right field outfielder - (baseball) a person who plays in the outfield Erik Morrell (a single) and Casey Kopitzke (a double), and then scored two more runs in the fourth when the Kingsmen made several mistakes. Designated hitter designated hitter n. Baseball Abbr. DH A player designated at the start of a game to bat instead of the pitcher in the lineup. Noun 1. Craig Glysch was hit by a Canale pitch, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored when CLU (language) CLU - (CLUster) An object-oriented programming language developed at MIT by Liskov et al in 1974-1975. CLU is an object-oriented language of the Pascal family designed to support data abstraction, similar to Alphard. second baseman Joseph Jauregui booted Sam Russ' grounder. After a passed ball by catcher Eddie Romero sent Russ to second, Titans shortstop Brian Horn brought him home with a single. ``We shot ourselves in the foot and I think our guys know that,'' Cal Lutheran coach Marty Slimak said. ``We made more errors (four) in these two games than we made during a 10-game stretch (during the regular season).'' |
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