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Show I Uteville Baseball Begins All eyes on the Ute baseball diamond are focused on the mound, for pitching will be the key to Utah's chances of dethroning northern north-ern division power Brigham Young. COACH PRES SUMMERHAYS wrapped up a somewhat revealing California trip last weekend and will bring his club into Salt Lake for it's first home outing against Mesa Saturday. Brent Arnold leads the returning Ute mound staff. He posted a 3-2 Ray Lowe, a sophomore from Par-owan Par-owan round out Utah's young and hopeful pitching staff. Junior second baseman Craig MacKay led the northern division in batting last season with a .452 average and will be back this year. He also led the north in total bases, home runs, stolen bases, and fielding. field-ing. JERRY FISHER, third sacker, was among the leaders in hitting record in '63 play and held a 3.14 earned run average. Arnold is a junior right hander and was the northern division's number two hurler las tseason. Senior Jerry Chruma and George Sluga had ERA's of 5.48 and 4.99 respectively in posting .500 win-loss records last season. NEW TALENT include sophomores sopho-mores John Noriega of Davis high, and curve ball artist Wally Douglas of Salt Lake City's Olympus high. Both throw from the right side. Other righties include transfer Dave Varvel of Lakeside, California, big Frank Roy of the football team, and Dennis Udy of Dixie College. with a .313 mark and will return along with first baseman Duane Freeman who finished the '63 season sea-son wit ha .289 batting average. Doug Wasko hit .391 overall last season and will be the only mainstay main-stay in the Redskin outfield. He will be back in center field where he played most of Utah's 29 games. Granny Lash, freshman, will join a host of sophomore talent in the outfield. SOPHOMORE Dave Disorbio of Highland high joins veteran Gary Selby behind the plate to finish the Ute battery and round up a quick preview of the '64 diamond nine. I |