WINTER SPRING SPORTS

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1 WINTER SPRING SPORTS

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3 WRESTLING Delaware wrestlers preceded a second-place MAC finish with an 8-6 season record that included overwhelming victories over Tampa (33-16), Johns Hopkins (34-6), Bucknell (34-9), Drexel (43-0), and American (33-9). The relative strength of the squad was apparent even in defeat as the widest loss margin was only 13 points. Outstanding individual performances were turned in by Roy Baker (19-0-0), Ed Janvier (20-3-0), and Nick Martin (12-2-0). Baker led in the superior decision category with four and tied with Robin Dunlap for pins with five apiece.

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6 BASEBALL A cumulative.308 batting average and 2.53 ERA gave the Delaware baseball squad an equal balance of offensive and defensive skills and a overall slate for the 1974 season. The Hens took first place in the MAC West by virtue of a doubleheader sweep of Lehigh and a split with Lafayette, but hopes for postseason play were shattered as the team dropped two of three play-off games to Eastern Division champion St. Joseph's (5-6, 6-2, 8-9). Frank McCann finished as Delaware's leading hitter with a.420 batting average and led the team in runs (39), hits (60), triples (7), home runs (9), and RBIs (44). Greg Deihl's five complete games led the pitching staff as he finished at 6-3 with a 1.86 ERA. Diehl, Rick Shaw (6-1, 2.40), Mike Comegys (2-3, 2.61), and Rick Brown (4-0, 3.21) formed the crux of the pitching corps with 72% of the innings pitched.

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9 LACROSSE An early loss to powerful Baltimore dealt the death blow to dreams of an undefeated season and a later four-game losing streak settled the season's tally at 7-5 for the Delaware laxmen. Games dropped to Washington College (6-16), Franklin & Marshall (7-14), Drexel (3-7), and Bucknell (3-9) ruined the second half of the schedule for the Hens as the losses dropped the squad to 5-4 in the MAC. Attackman Rich Mills became the premier scorer for coach Jim Grube's squad by his 22 goals and 37 total points. Robbie Gearhart led the team in assists with 20 as he finished behind Mills with 34 total points. Mills scored four goals and four assists against Stevers Tech for the individual game scoring high. A revamped junior varisty outlasted a dwindling schedule and a disappearing bus to finish at a compromising 1-3 for first-year coach Chuck Kamp.

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13 SPRING TRACK

14 The cancellation of the Delaware Invitational Relay proved to be a bad omen for the Hen runners as they dropped four of the first five dual meets and finished at 3-4. Consecutive losses to Bucknell, St. Josephs, and Lafayette erased all chances of a winning season. After a blasting of Rider, the Hens finished a distant tenth in the MAC final meet.

15 GOLF A 16-match winning streak snapped only by a six-stroke final match loss to Rutgers gave the Delaware golfers the winningest season in the sport's history at the university. The iron men settled for a fourth-place tie early in the semester at the 18th Annual University of Miami Invitational Golf Tournament, but later captured firstplace as the host school in the 1st Annual Delaware Sea Scape Invitational. A third-place finish in the Middle Atlantic Conference Tournament brought the record season to a close.

16 TENNIS A match spread of gave the Delaware racket men a 19-3 season and Middle Atlantic Conference title. Five shut-outs and a 6-3 victory over Eastern Division titalist Hofstra highlighted a season that saw only a trio of defeats at the hands of Davidson (3-6), Miami-Dade South (4-5), and George Washington (3-6). Individual honors were garnered by Jeff Dumansky (20-2) who finished as ECAC Division II No. 1 Singles Champion and MAC Singles Champion and Jeff Olmstead (18-4), the ECAC Division II No. 2 Singles Champion. Allen Shukow (12-10) and Jon Zolin (21-1) rounded out the singles squad, while the Steve Shukow-Robert Cohen and Dumansky-Olmstead doubles teams finished at 12-2 and 18-3 respectively.