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...second, and whatever they worked on seemed to settle Hordon down. The righty retired eight of the next eleven batters to keep the Crimson in the game until the fifth, complementing his fastball and slider with an unorthodox slow curveball that kept the normally-explosive Rice batters guessing...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gambles Don't Pay Off For Baseball | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...knew what he was doing,” Rice Coach Wayne Graham said of Hordon’s offspeed stuff, which at one point was clocked at 56 mph. “He was throwing some heatless curveballs that not many people can even get over the plate...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gambles Don't Pay Off For Baseball | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

Unlike Harvard, Rice had played as recently...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gambles Don't Pay Off For Baseball | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

Herce (12-2) struck out eight before he began to unravel in the seventh. By that point, Rice had pushed six runs across the plate. Hordon gave up consecutive singles to start the fifth, setting the stage for an RBI groundout by WAC Player of the Year Vincent Sinisi that gave Rice a three run lead...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gambles Don't Pay Off For Baseball | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

Hordon struggle to get another out, and two batters later pinch hitter Mike Lorsbach drove a curveball to deep right to give Rice a 4-0 lead, and a sac fly made that 5-0 moments later...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gambles Don't Pay Off For Baseball | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

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