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Show CSU Loses First . Baseball Games j By Small Margins j The College of Southern U-1 tah Thunderbird baseball team opened the 1968 season this past week with a double! header encounter against the Rebels of Nevada Southern in Las Vegas, Nev. The T-Birds suffered losses at both ends of the double 1 header but nevertheless turned turn-ed in a fine performance for their opening series. Coach Cleo Petty 's crew lost by a score of 6 to 4 and dropped the nightcap by 4 to 3 on a homerun in the final inning of play. Robert Jewkes, a junior from Keniiworth and a former star lor Carbon High School started start-ed on the mound in the opener and went three and a third innings. in-nings. He suffered the loss in the contest with Larry Eyre, a veteran of last year's team coming on in relief. , The T-Birds, although con-i' con-i' fined to indoor practice ses-j ses-j sionsy -Came up with five hits in the contest, all singles. In the second encounter: Dave Jenson went all the wavj on the mound for the Thund-1 erbirds losing the game in the j final inning of the seven inning in-ning contest. The Rebels pounded a two-run two-run homer in the first inning j to take the lead but Doug Woiter of the T-Birds came up with a three-run homer to put the T-Birds out in front by a single run. That lead held up to the bottom of the seventh when Jenson gave up a walk and a homer to give the Rebels the victory. In the second contest the T-Birds picked up six hits. |