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By Kevin Goheen
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Mike Cameron doesn't remember going through a slump like it in his 32 years of coaching baseball at Moeller. The Crusaders were 5:6 enter· ing Wednesday's play against undefeated St. Xavier, including losing their first five Greater Ca.tho· lie League· games by a total of seven ~uns. Scott Byrnes Brad Alvis and Moeller's offense brought that st~ealt to an end at Crosley Fi~ld in Blue Ash. A pair of wins- 8-5 in the completlon-of a game that began March 28 and 16-11 - have Cameron and Moeller feeling better. Moeller scored three runs in the top of the lOth inning to win the first game. Byrnes led off the inning with a single and later scored what proved to be the winning run on an Andrew Bradley two-run single. He earned a 10-inning compl~te game by ending the contest with a swinging strike-
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ST. XAVIER 080 000 3-11 14 4 at MOELLER 014 191 x-16 16 0 WP-Aivis (Hl). LP-Ryan (1·1). HITIING LEADERS:SX-Jackson 3-5. 4 RBI; Slone 2-3: Ellis 2-3: Mooney 3-3. 2B. 2 RBI; Kuh!man 2-3. 2 RBI; Gruber 2-4. 28. M-Tabler 2-3: Bradley 2-5: McNeely 2-4. 2B: Frietch 2-5. 3 RBI. 3B. 28: V•snic 2-2. 2 RBI: Wood 2-5: Cunningham 2-4. 2 RBI: TerwiWger 3-3. 2 RBI. RECORDS: St. Xavier 6-2, 4-2 GCLS: Moeller 7-6, 2-5.
out of St. Xavier shortstop· Keith Jackson, his 14th of the game. Byrnes had pitched the first seven innings in March, striking out 10. He came back and started the regularly scheduled game, pitching a perfect first frame. The second inning was anything but per· feet. Byrnes didn't retire any of the seven batters he faced in the inning as the Bombers scored eight times to take what looked to be a command· ing lead. Jackson got a measure of revenge by stroking a two-run single to knock Byrnes out of the game. Se· nior John Frank came in and finished up the inning before turning the pitching duties over to Alvis: The junior right-hander shut out St. Xavier the next four innings. By the time the Bombers finally plated three runs in the seventh inning, it was too little, too late. Moeller got" single runs in the second, fourth and sixth innings, four more in the third and a gamebreaking nine in the fifth. Senior right fielder Paul Frietch's three-run triple off the base of the wall in rightcenter field gave Moeller the lead for good, 11-8. Eight of the 10 Crusaders who batted in the second game had two or more hits. That's the kind of offensive performance expected of a team that has five Division I signees on its roster. Playing near .500 baseball is as frustrating to the team members as it is perplexing. "We've struggled all year and we just needed something to get us going," said Byrnes. "We knew they were better than 0-5 in the league," said St. Xavier coach Bill Slinger.