Sam Cunningham

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March 1, 2004

The Emory baseball Eagles put up six wins this week, setting the pace for all contending teams in the South Region at 10-0. The bats backed solid pitching performances up and down our staff by scoring runs in bunches. As of now the team has outscored opponents 98 to 32, posting a .350 team batting average.

Though Coach T attributes the team's success to "good coaching," the general feeling in the dugout is that we have been riding the strength of our superior D to victory. Anchored up the middle by captains Rob Segear and Adam Schorr (who went the distance this weekend with 35 innings behind the plate), the defense has committed only 12 errors in 459 chances. The 10 rally-killing double plays turned by the defense attests to the ability of our D to come up big in the clutch.

A week of winning culminated with a tournament championship in the annual Rawlings Tournament held here at Emory. It is fortunate that the team is already displaying mid-season form with the tarp as the weekend action saw rain, frost and warm sunny skies.

The on-field action was strong preparation for the UAA tournament coming up in just over a week. The depth of our pitching staff set us above the competition last weekend. While our hitters enjoyed the tired arms from deep in our opponents' bullpens, we rode clutch pitching performances in all four tournament games.

Both wins on Sunday were claimed by first-time winners for the Eagles: Jason Glushon threw 7.1 innings of scoreless relief through several tenuous situations in Game 1 and Kris "Country" Herring picked up his first win in Game 2. When asked for a comment on the weekend, one excited fan replied, "Those teams just flat out ran into a buzzsaw."

Sam Cunningham is a sophomore from Atlanta, Ga. He would love to answer e-mail questions from Emory recruits and fans.