Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, June 2, 1990                   TAG: 9006020233
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: RAY COX SPORTSWRITER
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MISTAKES COSTLY FOR GLENVAR IN 3-2 EXTRA-INNING SETBACK

Neither Glenvar nor Cumberland made much noise Friday night with their aluminum bats, but the Dukettes managed to exploit the Highlanders' mistakes for one more run than they surrendered and came away with an eight-inning 3-2 victory in a Group A semifinal at the Salem Civic Center fields.

Cumberland (23-3) advances to meet New Kent today at 1:30 p.m. in the title game. New Kent also required eight innings to win, beating Parry McCluer 4-3.

Glenvar, the defending state champion, concludes its season at 19-5 but will have 13 of 14 players back next year.

The heroine for Cumberland was its pitcher, hard-throwing junior Win Hazlegrove. She tossed a three-hitter, striking out 14. She also walked and eventually scored the tying run as Cumberland rallied from a one-run deficit in the bottom of the seventh.

Glenvar never really caught up with her pitching all evening, but the Dukettes didn't do much against freshmen Bobbie Jo Wright and reliever Nikki Hall, who came on in the seventh.

"That was the ballgame," said Spike Harrison, the Highlanders' coach. "All the runs scored on mistakes."

The most expensive blunder came in the eighth. Pamela Eanes had drawn one of Cumberland's eight walks and took second on a wild pitch with two out.

Then, a third strike to Jennifer Stimpson was mishandled by catcher April Watt. On a fielder's choice grounder hit by Hazlegrove, second baseman Tammi Beamer overthrew shortstop for the force as the winning run crossed the plate.

"We usually score early, but tonight we couldn't hit," said Cumberland coach Juanita Hazlegrove, whose team played Thursday night in order to qualify for the long trip to Salem for the semifinals. "I don't know what the problem was. We're used to seeing girls who throw [hard] like ours does. Glenvar's pitchers were almost throwing changeups by comparison and we had trouble with them."

Ineffective bats were a shared problem.

"If we could have laid the bat on the ball, I think we could have made some things happen because I think they had some weaknesses in the field," Harrison said. "But we couldn't do it. We usually have been able to hit no matter how hard the pitcher throws, but tonight we couldn't."

Cumberland took a 1-0 lead on Michelle Green's RBI single in the fifth, but Glenvar came back with two runs in the sixth. Hall beat out an infield single and both runs scored on a throwing error by shortstop Catina Randolph.

"Both teams are good defensively, but I think they were nervous tonight," said the Cumberland coach.

New Kent took advantage of seven Parry McCluer errors to improve its record to 21-2. Kim Peddicord reached on an eighth-inning error by center fielder Angel Hamilton and scored on Roxanne Bowery's single.

Hard-throwing Kerri Cobb had a 14-strikeout two-hitter for the winners. The Fighting Blues finished 16-5. Glenvar 00000200-243 Cumberland 00001021-333

Wright, Hall (7) and Watt; Hazlegrove and Jamerson. W - Hazlegrove (23-3). L - Hall (3-3). Parry McCluer 00210000-327 New Kent 00110011-466

Williams and Coleman; Cobb and Bowery. W - Cobb (21-2). L - Williams (16-5).