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The News and Observer Raleigh NC Sunday June 3 1990 3B 4 ults' Popeye Cole fattens average with 5 for 6 night 60 I BILL WOODWARD Staff wrItar Baseball notes 050 walked one batter only his third of the season in 24 innings to go with 27 strikeouts He has given up only two runs all season one of them earned Bulls first baseman Brian Champion hit 353 in a two-week stint at Class AA Greenville Since returning to Durham on May 15 Champion hit 328 for the remainder of the month to raise his Bulls average to 279 "I saw a lot more strikes (at Greenville" Champion said "I came back with a better idea of the strike zone "I felt like if I took a strike I could still look for a better pitch later in the count Champion named Carolina League batter of the week for the period ending May 27 after hitting 440 (11-for-25) has cooled off batting 1-for-13 entering Saturday night's game trip to Omaha the first ever by an all-military college The Bulldogs topped the second-seeded Pack in the first round then bumped No 3 seed East Carolina and beat top seeded Miami two straight to wrap up the title "They got great pitching played great defense and were getting timely hitting" Tanner said "You are going to win a lot of games when you do that" NC State and North Carolina each padded their school-record season win totals with two NCAA regional victories last week State the third-place team at Coral Gables wound up with a 48-20 record topping its previous high-water win mark of 45 set in 1988 Tanner's first year as head coach North Carolina No 1 seed at the Northeast Regional at Waterbury Conn won its first two games before losing two straight on the third day of the regional The Heels finished 51-14 only Durham outfielder Popeye Cole had an average night on Thursday as the Bulls won 11-5 at Peninsula An hverage-boosting night Cole went 5-for-6 the first 5-hit "guile of his four-year professional career to raise his average from 278 to 311 Except for a strikeout in his second at-bat he stung the ball each time up There were no flares or seeing-eye grounders in the five-spot Cole low-keyed the accomplishment Friday as the Bulls began a three-game series at home against Southern Division leader Kinston "You can't dwell on it too much" Cole said Friday "You just get on the bus and come home and try to do it again But every -bit helps you can go 0-for-6 the next night' Not quite Cole went 0-for-4 the fifth time that an Atlantic Coast Conference team won 50 games to easily eclipse their previous best of 44 set in 1984 Senior left-handers Brian Bark of NC State and Michael Hoog of North Carolina capped their standout college careers with winning pitching performances Bark put together one of his most impressive outings when he retired the first 17 batters he faced as the Pack topped Stetson in the second round "That's the best run he's ever had" Tanner said of Bark's perfection for 6141 innings "He pitched very well late in the year" Bark an outfielder-pitcher who set school records at State in both offensive and pitching categories is projected as a pitcher by most pro scouts The showing at Miami will raise his stock in this week's baseball draft which begins Mon day 102380 fans for 26 home dates This is the earliest the Bulls have surpassed the 100000 attendance mark The Bulls who set a modern Class A record in 1988 with a total attendance of 271650 and topped it in '89 with 272202 are likely to make it three record-setting years in a row The Citadel entered the Atlantic Regional at Coral Gables Fla last week as the fifth-seeded team The Bulldogs exited with four straight victories headed for Omaha Neb and the College World Series with the respect of the coaches who saw them rip through the field of the regional at Miami's Mark Light Stadium "They were flawless" said NC State coach Ray Tanner whose second-seeded Wolfpack was a first-round loser to the Bulldogs "They couldn't have written a better script" The Citadel beat the top three seeds at Miami to gain its first a Mil Passenger MICHEILINXZX' 14513 A Eff 53873 NOT 14513 Indians nip Bulls in 10 innings to strengthen grip on top spot BE UNDERSOLD! 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Bulls took a 2-0 lead in the first on a pair of doubles sandwiched around a walk with Edwin Alice's drive to left-center driving in a pair of runs But Kinston charged back getting a run in the fourth and three in a wild sixth Bulls starter Chris Czarnik who came in with a league-leading 076 earned run average surrendered a one-out homer to Marc Tepper his first of the season in the sixth Czarnik then hit the next batter with a breaking pitch There was a brief exchange and several players from each team edged onto the field but cool heads prevailed Zambrano followed with a single that chased Czarnik Preston Watson came on and served up a pair of pivotal wild pitches A pair of runners scored on the second Lane coming home from third and Zambrano scoring all the way from second Bulls catcher Brian Deak threw back to home to try and get Lane and the throw got away Umbrano never stopped running beating a return throw home easily "Wild pitches are going to happen" Bulls manager Grady Little said "But a runner scoring from second on a wild pitch that should Sports quotes of the week The Associated Press "I'm a loser now I've got a bad taste in my mouth I want to get it out real quick "Sure I had a great record But like a batter you're only remembered for your last at-bat In my last at-bat I'm 20-22" Davey Johnson one day after he was fired by the Mets "This pretty much finalizes my future I can't see me coming back" Darryl Strawberry after Mets manager Davey Johnson was fired this week Strawberry's contract expires at the end of the season "It's just a shame we didn't play better You cut through all the fat and that's what it comes down to That's why Davey lost his job" Met pitcher David Cone "He (Coble) is a no-good human being He doesn't like me and I don't like him He's a liar I'll probably get a nice big fine and maybe a suspension I'm sure their (umpires') report will be favorable to their side" more manager Frank Robinson after being ejected by Drew Coble during the eighth inning of a 64 loss to Minnesota Robinson was suspended for three games 2 IZ LES ROBINSON 1990 WOMACK BASKETBALL CAMP R6M AV :0 it to' 2il 370 1110)37 mANs BELT BO ITOU CIP101117 By BILL WOODWARD Staff writer DURHAM The beat goes on the Kinston Indians And the hole keeps getting deeper for the Durham Bulls Kinston maintaining its hold on first place in the Carolina 'League's Southern Division at the Same time it pushed the Bulls further into third place pushed across a run in the 10th inning to score a 5-4 victory The DAP crowd of 5786 pushed Bulls over the 100000 mark this season It was the second consecutive decision for the Indians who upped their record to 34-18 and moved six games in front of the Bulls with 18 games left in the first half of the season "This seems to be the way we have played these guys all year" Kinston manager Brian Graham -said "Except for one game at our park they have all been close" Kinston which lost three of four games at Durham to begin the season evened the season series at 5-5 with one game left in this 'weekend's three-game series the last time the teams will meet in the first half of the season It was a pivotal weekend with the Indians taking advantage in the first two It was not just a must-win situation for the Bulls who were trying to play catch-up Graham said "I think our team knows they have to win too" Graham said 'We are in a situation where we know we have to take things into our own hands We played with a little enthusiasm tonight" Eddie Zambrano hitting just 226 coming into the game had the big night for the Indians getting four hits including the game-winner in the top of the 10th Nolan Lane rapped a one-out double off Bulls reliever Rodney Richey and Zambrano followed with a liner up the middle to make it 5-4 and hand Richey his first loss in four decisions Garland Kiser 3-1 who came on New scores service The News and Observer is offering a service besides Score line that provides up-to-the-minute national and 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