Tiie win gave H-SC a 6-1 over all record, and a 5-0 clean slate m the Little Eight race. Hampden-Sydney's baseball players left for Easter vacation in good spirits. A split with Big Six champions. Richmond, and a 3 to 1 win over Randolphp-Macon for tiie week just preceding tiie spring vacation saw to that. Wednesday afternoon's 8 to 6 victory against the Spiders te sulted from a ninth inning rally for three runs, and duplicated the come-from-behind method Rich mond used last week to give H-SC its only lose in eight starts. Trailing 6-5 in the ninth. Buck Dodson, the freshman infielder from Portsmouth, singled m a pinch hitting role, moved to sec ond on a sacrifice and scored on Tom Davis' single to make it 6-6. Bob Humphreys also singled r gainst Pat Lamberti. who reliev ed Spider starter Mel Harowita, No. 1 mound ace Humphreys stole second, then Carnes walked Hunter Cox to load tiie bases just before Gene Cooke came through ■> ith a clutch single to right cen ter to score tiie deciding run. Humphreys scored a moment later to rive H-SC an insurance i un on Wayne McLean's fly to i ■ titer field. Bii! Tynes. .senior righthafcder. ••'...<> los1 tiie dicision to Richmond la ; week at Death Valley, came on in tiie sixth in relief of starter Warren Carter to get credit for tiie win. Coach Weenie Miller used pitchers Joe Leafe and Ed Drew in the ninth to subdue Richmond and protect the lead.
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