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Joe Goddard. Photo by Jerry Carter.When it comes to baseball, any serious fan of the sport will tell you that the greatest thing about the game is its rich history. One of the best sports movies of all time is baseba
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Five VMI pitchers combined to scatter seven hits and Thomas Stallings homered to provide insurance runs in the eighth as the VMI Keydets downed the William Mary Tribe, 5-1, in non-conference action Tuesday night at Gray-Minor Stadium.The Keydets 17-13 took a 2-1 lead in the fourth on a Cameron Walter sacrifice fly and held a William Mary 20-11 offense that entered the game ranked second in Division I in batt
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termo stanley ss for the Tribe.Stallings led the Keydet offense by going 2 for 2 off the bench, while Brandon Angus also chipped in two hits and Nick Thompson was 3 for 5 for the visitors.Bennett pitched out of a third-inning jam as he got Division I home run leader Michael Katz to ground out with two on, but the Tribe got on the board in the fourth. Charley Gould led off that frame with a towering home run off the left-field scoreboard, his third of the year that gave the visitors a 1-0 lead.VMI answered in the b
