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son with a seven-game winning streak before traveling to George Washington University.

In the opening game of a doubleheader, the Colonials handed LBC their first regular-seasondefeat. However,Mike Moon and reliever Doug Smith combined for a four-hitter in thesecond game, leading LBC toa 3-0 victory

Coming home with a record of8-1, the Flames met the Raiders of Shippensburg State The Raiders carrieda 10thplaceranking inNCAA Division IIinto the three-gameseries

The Flames took the Friday night game, 2-1, when Renard Brown's fourthinningtriple scoredMark deYmaz Brown scored on a grounder by Sid Bream On Saturday, first baseman Bream ralliedLBC toavictoryin thefirst oftwo contests, with agrand slam home run inthethird inning In the second game Shippensburg came back to narrowly defeattheFlames, 65, on a solo home run in the 11th inning

Lateinthe11th inning, Bream took a throw at first base and was spiked by the Shippensburg runner. Bream missed the next seven games with stitches and a broken bone.

The Colgate University game was the firstof 10 games with DivisionI opponents Sophomore Darrell Manuel,batting .429,paced theFlames' offense with a triple, double and single to edge the Red Raiders, 6-5 Righthanded freshman Kyle Bryan went the distance on the mound for LBC the nextday, strikingouteight batters in nine innings Lee Guetterman led theLiberty attack with threehitsand three RBIsas theFlamesrallied froma 2-1 deficit to down Colgate, 12-2.

LBC's next opponent, George Mason University,lostthree out offour meetingstothe Flamesin the previous season. This year was different as George Mason erupted for four-run bursts in the first,fourth and sixth innings to rout the Flames,17-3, behind 19hits

The Flames continued their homestand by meeting Colgate one last time

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Sophomore left fielder Renard Brown singles home Julio Santibanez in thebottom ofthe ninth to lift theFlames over Howard University, 2-1.Brown also had a first inning home run.

SeniorLee Guetterman's final seasonat LBC was highlighted by two victories over Division Ipower Virginia Tech. Guetterman also carried a .362 batting average into the Area 8 playoffs.

Gonzalez, a Miami, Fla., freshman,went five innings in this 6-5 victory over Colgate University and pickedup his fourth win.

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(continued from page 142) in 1981.LBC broke two single game recordswith25hits and 22runsin the 22-3 victory. Reserve catcher Mike Horsely led the offense with one home run and six RBIs. Winning pitcher David Schauer struck out 11 batters enrouteto his first regular season victory.

The Flames finished their ninegame homestand with adouble-header against Virginia Commonwealth University The Rams of VCU explodedinthe openerwithfourruns in the fourthinning and two more in the ninth to beat the Flames, 6-4.

Lee Guetterman and Darrell Manuel homered in the first inning and theFlames went on todrop the Rams inthenightcap, 5-4, with Mike Moon picking up hisfirst victoryofthe season.

With an overall record of 14-4, the Flames were on the road again.

The site was Blacksburg, Va.,and the team was the Virginia Tech Hokies.Coach Worthington's team was still without first baseman Bream, who was batting .412 before his injury Left fielder Renard Brown, a .347 en against the Hokies number three, four, five and six hitters

The next contest was against the University of North Carolina Tarheels.The Flames were narrowly defeated by the Atlantic Coast Conference team, 3-2 The Tarheels scored the winning run on a two-out, twostrike infield single in the bottom of the ninth inning prove the Flames'record to 20-5. hitter, was alsomissing becauseofan injuryand illness Tech came into the game with an 18-2 record and a 13game winning streak LeeGuetterman pitchedacombination of fastballs and slidersall night tohold theHokiesto onlyfive hits while shuttingthem out 3-0 Back-up catcherTom Sweat made his season debut at first base, scored twice and sacrificed the final run home on a fly ball Ozzie Romero, who played outfield in Brown's absence, went four-for-four with four singles Guetterman collected nine strikeouts in thegame including sev-

Three days later the Flames faced Howard University for a twin billin Washington, D.C. Lee Guetterman, who picked up hisfifthpitchingvictory,set school records for the most total basesand RBIs inasingle game. In the opener he drove in seven runs with a home run, two triples and a double to lead the Flames to a 16-4 victory The Flames also took the nightcap behind Sid Bream, who drove in three runs, and freshman shortstopGary Wagner'sfive-for-five batting performance. Kyle Bryan picked up hisfourth pitching victory against nolosses

LBC finished up its road tripwitha 14-0 victory over Longwood College withLeeGuetterman pitchinga threehit shutout

Coming back home, the Flames faced Howard University one last time. LBC,behind Kyle Bryan andrelief pitcher Doug Smith,squeaked by Howard,2-1, in 10innings

The Flamescollected12hits in their next game against William and Mary College and Mike Moon picked uphis secondvictoryintwo decisionstoim-

The Flames'record jumped to 22-8 when the NAIA directors ruled that the Florida exhibition games would havetobeadded totheregularseason record Sports Information Director Kevin Keyes said LBC might have won two ofthosegames exceptfor the experimenting ofpre-season play. Individual performances were also added to the regular season statistics Despite the ruling,LBC was ranked 20th in the fifth NAIA national poll. The Flames' next stop was North Carolina to play High PointCollege Lee Guetterman led the LBC offense with a two-run homer in the second inning and solo blasts in the fourth and seventh innings.Sid Bream also hit a two-run homer and drove in threeruns.

The Flames returned home toplay High Point again Third baseman Mark deYmaz hit a double in the fourth inning which was followed by a Side Bream two-run home run The double by deYmaz was his13thof the season, which setanew schoolmark Longwood College was theFlames' next opponent.A grand slam by Lee Guetterman, a solo homer by Sid Bream and two solo homers by Renard Brown, powered the Flames toa

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Doug Smith appeared in 17 regular season games in reliefwhileposting four saves. Smith, ajunior, had a5-1 recordand a2.51 ERA before the Area Eight playoffs.

Junior Sid Bream completed the regular season withonlysix errors at first base. Here, Bream fields a pick-off throw from Kyle Bryan and puts thetag on the Howard base runner.

Doug Keck, afreshman, relieved inseven regularseason games with onesaveand a3-1 record. Keck s onlyloss was to ShippensburgState ona solo home run in the11th inning.

BASEBALL TEAM: (front row) Coach Al Worthington; Eugene Sutton, trainer; Hector Gonzalez; David Schauer; Chris Miller; Darrell Manuel; Mike Horsely; Jim Ruoss; Assistant CoachJeffMincey. (second row)Gary Wagner, Julio Santibanez, Aner Gonzalez, Doug Keck, Peter Guy, Steve Younts, OzzieRomero, Mark deYmaz. (back row) Jeff Overton, manager; Sid Bream;Kyle Bryan;Rick Wells; Doug Smith; Tom Sweat; Lee Guetterman; Renard Brown.

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Al Worthington, head coach for the eighth straight year, comments on theupcoming seasonat the LBC press day. Worthington's teams have won 201games in hiscareer at LBC.

JulioSantibanez, afreshman infielder, committedonly eight errors in 38 games for a .934 fielding average before theArea Eightplayoffs.

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19-13 victory.Freshman Aner Gonzalez raised hisrecord to 5-1.

The Flames left Lynchburg again for Hampden-Sydney where LBC rolled toa 14-5win Freshman relief pitcher Doug Keck, 2-1,recorded the victory.

On the second stop of the trip, George Mason University ended the Flames' nine-game winning streak. Guetterman, who had lost against George Mason earlier in the season, was pulled in thethird inning of the 8-3 game In the nightcap Sid Bream smashed athree-run home run in the firstinning and broke a 7-7 tiein the lastinning with a solo blast towin it for the Flames, 8-7. LBC's seriesrecord against George Mason standsat 3-6

The Flames traveled again to the University ofVirginia,a team which had beaten Virginia Tech theday before The game was even until the eighth inning when the Flames'second baseman, Peter Guy, drilled a pitch over the right field fence to break a6-6 tie A senior, Guy entered the game with a .175 batting average The eighth inning tie-breaker was Guy's first collegiate home run Sid

Bream finished off theCavaliers with a two-run homer intheninth inning, his 10th of the year Kyle Bryan,in relief, won hisfifth game of theyear against nolosses

The Flames came home 28-9 and went to Lynchburg City Stadium to face theUVa Cavaliers a second time. A "noisy partisan crowd",as the local newspaper described it, sawLBC post another victory as Mark deYmaz and Renard Brown rapped three hitseach. Mike Moon held UVa tothree hits in five innings before being relieved by Kyle Bryan in the sixth Moon,4-0, collected the victory The win gave LBC a 3-2 edge in theUVa series

Two nights later, thesitewasagain Lynchburg City Stadium andthe team was Virginia Tech The Hokies, ranked 19thnationally in NCA A Division I, had only been shut outonce in theseason—by LBC No team had beatenTech more than once duringits 44-6 season and the game was declared the unofficial state championship LeeGuetterman,with a 3-1 lifetime mark against Tech, went nine innings astheFlames topped the Hokiesbefore anexcitied home crowd of 3,018. The win was Guetterman's eighth of theyear in 13decisions.

LBC jumped out toa1-0lead before Tech scored twice in the second Sid Bream, batting .441,rapped a basesloaded single in the fifth toput LBC back on top,3-2.Tom Sweat singled in thesixth followed by a Peter Guy double to givetheFlames a4-2 lead In the eighth inning the pair reversed roles when Sweat doubled and Guy singled giving LBC a 5-2 lead. Mark deYmaz capped theFlames'5-3leadin theeighth with asolohome runto left field.

The victory marked the third 30win season under Coach Worthington.

Before the lastregular season game, LBC was ranked 10th in the NAIA with a 30-9 record

The Dukes of James Madison came to LBC and handed the Flames a 9-2 loss The Flames collected only four hitswhile scoring onerun inthe second and one in theeighth inning.

With a 30-10record, LBC entered NAIA post season play for thefirst time hoping tomake agood showing in thecompetition.

The 1981 Flames areallsmilesafter winning the Area 8 tournament. The Flamesheaded forthe nationals thefollowing week where they finished fifth in the nation.

The Flames' home run leader, Sid Bream, strokes a two-run fifth-inning single against Virginia Tech. The win boosted the Flames into the districtplayoffs in Norfolk, Va. Bream was later named an NAIA All-American.

Freshman Kyle Bryan was the winning pitcher in the game that clinched thedistrict playoffs for the Flames. Bryan's record stook at 6-1 with an ERA of2.59 before the nationals.