Page 14 The Rocket April 22, 1983 Dmmondmen sufi By JOJOBODNAR Rocket Sports Editor As the temperature keeps dropping, so does the Rock baseball team's record. The Rock (6-15) had a 3-6 record in a seven-day affair this past week. It all started with three splits against Point Park and Cal. State. The Rock then took a game from Edinboro. They ended their last two out- ings with losses in both doubleheaders. The Rock split with Point Park in a doubleheader last Thursday. The niners won the first game, 6-5 and dropped the second, 6-4. Slippery Rock got things started in the second inning when Tom Kahn singled to drive in Lane Baker, who had doubled. Gene Vallecorsa followed with a blast over the fence as SR took a 3-0 lead. But Point Park tied the game and in the fifth inning took a 5-3 lead when Joe De- Carlo hit a two-run home run. The Rockets cut Point Park's lead, 5-4 when Mike Fitcher doubled and Tom Konop hit a sacrifice fly to score Fitcher. After John Samsa walked, Jim Pescatore hit a two-run home run to put the Rock a- head and secure the win. In the second game, Sal Agostinelli tripled and drove % — N B § & - 3 —3 Slippery Rock’s destinated hitter Lane Bkot 32) awaits the pitch from the IUP pitch- er. in Tuesday’s nightcap game. The Rock dropped a one-run decision, 4-3 (Photo by Jeif Sullivan). in two runs. Pescatore then drovein a run on a base hit as SR took a 3-2 lead. Keith Toy came in’to re- lieve Mike Filson in the se- venth. After fanning the first batter, Park’s DeCarlo did it again as he doubled in a run. Following that play, the Rock made two sthrowing errors which produced two Point Park runs. The Rock could only score one more run as they lost the second game. Two davs later, SR split a- nother twinbill, this time with Cal. State. The Rockets lost the first 3- 0 and rallied in the second game with a 6-4 victory. The Rock could only manage five hits in the first game, and had three errors. In the second game, SR had three runs in the first inn- ing. Joe Lacey singled and Agostinelli reached first after he was hit by a pitch. Softball team takes two from Cal St., 3-0, 14-4 By CHARLIE SLAIGHT Rocket Sports Writer The Slippery Rock State College softball team racked up two more wins with a sweep of Cal. State by scores of 3-0 and 14-4. The highlight of Slippery Rock’'s 3-0 victory in game one was the pitching o* tresh- man, Cheryl Stev:nson. Stevenson hurled an mpres- sive two-hit shutout, striking out seven and walking none in her first SR start. Slippery Rock got Steven- son all the runs she needed by plating three in the home half of the first. Shorty Bul- lock started things for SR by reaching first on an error and moved to second when Jean- nie Bloom ripped a single. A wild pitch moved both run- ners into scoring position at second and third and Debbie Feather knocked both runs in with a single. Feather eventu- ally came around to score on a single by Elaine Ventura. Pacing the Rock in game one were Bloom and Ventura who stroked two singles a piece. Slippery Rock pounded out 15 hits in the second half of the twinbill enroute to a 14-4 thrashing of the visiting Vul- cans Leading the Rock hitting attack in game two, was Feather who ripped five sin- glesin five plate anpearances while scoring four times and three in another knocking runs. Laura Yorouski was three for three with a walk and an RBI while scoring three times for the Rock. Teammate Bullock scored three times for SR while clubbing two hits and batting in one. Laura Morgan went the dis- tance for Slippery Rock upping her season mark to 2 and 0. Morgan pitched a tour hitter, walking two and fanping three. Rock cbach Jan Kasnevich has been impressed with the Rock's defense so far and hopes that the pitching can be as strong and consistent for the rest of the campaign as it has been thus far. Kasne- vich still points to the team's hitting as the key. "The hit- ting has to become more bal- anced throughout the order for us to do well against tougher teams,” Kasnevich said. Kasnevich cited Lock Haven, Clarion and Edinboro as being the Rock’s tough conference foes. The Rock will face Edin- boro this afternoon with the first game of the two game set slated for 2 p.m. Tomorrow the Rock will travel to Wheeling for the Wheeling Invitational. Slip- pery Rock will be facing teams trom Wheeling, West Liberty State in this round- robin non-conference tourn- ament. Kasnevich plans on taking a good look at some of her reserves in this tourna- ment. Samsa doubled to bring home Lacey, and on a single by Baker, Agostinelli scored. Konop then grounded to third and on a Vulcan error, Samsa scored as the Rock held a 3-0 edge. The fifth inning brought three more runs for the Rock. With one out, Samsa singl- ed and then advanced to third. On an error, Baker reached first. Pescatore load- ed the bases with a walk. This sent Kahn to the plate, who pounded out a RBI. The Vulcans got four runs in the sixth, but the Rock held on for the victory. Sunday came and so did the snow, as the Rock got in only one game out of a doubleheader. The Rock shutout the Edin- boro Fighting Scots for a 9-0 thrashing. The baseballers pounded er cold week out 12 hits off of three Boro pitchers. In the first inning, Brian Herb reached first on a field- er's choice. Agostinelli tri- pled to score Herb. Samsa walked, and Baker scored i Agostinelli on a Boro miscue. The Rock had a 2-0 lead. The niners scared a run in the second when Vallecorsa singled to rightfield to drive in Kahn, who had doubled. The third inning brought a- nother two runs for the Rock. In the fourth inning, the W Rock had back-to-back tri- ples off of Eric Shuman, who replaced Lacey, and Herb The Rock now had a 6-0 lead. The game was delayed for awhile, but when it resumed the Rock racked three more runs for a 9-0 win. The Rock dropped a twin- bill with IUP Tuesday by one- run differences, 3-2 and 4-3. The Rock had leads in both games and outhit the Indians in both games. The Rock had a 2-0 lead until the sixth inning, when reliever Scott Hunt gave up a pair of runs. Hunt replaced Tom Begley, who has a his- tory of arm trouble, IUP won the first game on a pinch single from Joe Car- penter in the seventh inning. Again, the Rockets had a 2- 0 lead in the second game. Samsa had a two-run blast to put the Rock in front in the first. But IUP came back for a 3- 2 advantage when Indian Jim Lamey hit a two-run homer in the sixth. The, Rock rallied to tie the game, , but Bruce Sweger hit a home run in the ninth for the IUP win. The Rock dropped their second consecutive twin-bill Wednesday, as they lost to Westminister by the scores of 3-2and 5-4. 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