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Capturing a 9-2 victory over Redlands last Friday was exactly what the La Verne Baseball Team needed to start a three-game series which con­tinued onto Saturday when the Leos split a doubleheader with the Bulldogs.

Staying strong in conference play this year, The University of La Verne's Baseball Team beat up on the Sagehens from Pomona-Pitzer last week to move its SCIAC record to 6-0.

The University of La Verne Baseball Team picked up its first wins of the season last week. It faced the Caltech Beavers in the afternoon game of a split doubleheader on Friday. With strong pitching from Scott Root and Ray Larsen, and a good day from everyone at the plate, the Leos took the game 18-1.

"It ain't over, till it's over" is an old cliche made famous by Yankee Hall of Famer, Yogi Berra. What the quote by Berra best describes is the University of La Verne baseball team's present situation.

In the 72-year history of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC), only two teams have ever gone undefeated. The first was in 1954 when the Occidental College Tigers went 8-0. The second happened Tuesday when the Universi­ty of La Verne Leopards completed an 18-0 sweep of the conference.

The University of La Verne baseball team made a three-game sweep of the Occidental Tigers, taking a double-header, Saturday, Feb. 21, at Oxy, and win­ning again Tuesday, Feb. 24, at home, improving its record to 5-2, overall and 3-0 in SCIAC competition.