Miami Student

On what was unofficially dubbed "Angie Gerber Day," the senior first baseman came through to lead the Miami softball team to an 8-0 win over the University of Toledo. The win on Saturday completed a three-game sweep for the RedHawks, their third this year in Mid-American Conference competition. The Red and White took game one of Saturday's doubleheader, 5-0, as well as game two, 5-1. …

A four-game sweep of the University at Buffalo not only runs the Miami baseball team's winning streak to seven, but it also gives the RedHawks nine Mid-American Conference wins. The four victories also give Miami 11 straight wins against Buffalo. "We go into these MAC weekends with a lot of confidence knowing we have seen a lot of great pitching," senior Michael Carlin said. "We are prepared for anything now." …

When the Miami baseball team takes McKie Field at Hayden Park on May 3 for its doubleheader against Marshall University, the team will be playing in front of the Dave Young Press Box for the first time ever. Dave Young, Miami's sports information director from 1967-1991, and a member of the Miami Athletic Hall of Fame, will be honored before the game for his years of dedication to the Redskins. "Everybody says, 'Where does this rank among your highs?' Well, I have been very fortunate to be inducted into the National Sports Information Director's Hall of Fame, the Miami Hall of Fame and the Butler County Hall of Fame, but I would have to say that this sets even a higher standard," Young said. "It's neat to have a picture hanging in the Hall of Fame down in Millett, but to think that I am going to have my name on a building that is going to be here forever and ever, in one of the nicest baseball facilities that I have ever seen and associated with a sport that was my favorite - it really is very meaningful." …