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UMASS FOOTBALL, BASEBALL ELECT CAPTAINS
July 01, 1992 | Baseball, Football
AMHERST - Bill Durkin, an offensive guard from Stratford, CT, and John Creamer, a defensive tackle from Worcester, MA, have been elected co-captains of Coach Mike Hodges' 1992 University of Massachusetts football team.
Durkin, 6'5; 285, is one of the best athletes on the team. He played tight end, center and offensive tackle before settling in at guard early last year. An internal infection sidelined him for the final nine games of 1991, but he has recovered and has regained all of his strength.
Creamer, 6'2, 250, had 40 tackles in 1991 with five quarterback sacks and six other tackles for losses. He started all 11 games last year and nine games for the 1990 Yankee Conference Championship/NCAA team. UMass opens the 1992 season at Delaware on Sept. 12.
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Lefthanded pitcher Ron Villone has been named the Most Valuable Player of the 1992 University of Massachusetts baseball team.
Villone, a 6'3, 235 pound junior from Bergenfield, NJ, was 7-3, 3.34 for Coach Mike Stone's 25-16 Minutemen. His 89 strikeouts in 59 and a third innings was among the nation's leaders in terms of strikeouts per nine innings. He was named first team All-Atlantic 10 for the second straight year.
Pitchers Jeff Toothaker (Lunenburg, MA) and Scott Meaney (Salem, MA) and outfielders Justin Howard (Nahant, MA) and Steve Corradi (Sandwich, MA) have been elected captains of the 1993 baseball team.
Toothaker was 7-0, 3.35 while Meaney was 3-2, 3.91. Howard led the team in hitting at .322 and doubles with 11: Corradi hit .317 and led the team with 18 stolen bases and on-base percentage at .481.
Captain John Carelli, a senior secondbaseman from Worcester, received the Dennis DellaPiana Award for Courage, Determination and Sportsmanship.
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This is a digitized version of a press release from the University of Massachusetts archives, before the start of online publication. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, UMass does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other items. Please send reports of such problems to the appropriate sport contact in the UMass Athletic Communications office.
Durkin, 6'5; 285, is one of the best athletes on the team. He played tight end, center and offensive tackle before settling in at guard early last year. An internal infection sidelined him for the final nine games of 1991, but he has recovered and has regained all of his strength.
Creamer, 6'2, 250, had 40 tackles in 1991 with five quarterback sacks and six other tackles for losses. He started all 11 games last year and nine games for the 1990 Yankee Conference Championship/NCAA team. UMass opens the 1992 season at Delaware on Sept. 12.
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Lefthanded pitcher Ron Villone has been named the Most Valuable Player of the 1992 University of Massachusetts baseball team.
Villone, a 6'3, 235 pound junior from Bergenfield, NJ, was 7-3, 3.34 for Coach Mike Stone's 25-16 Minutemen. His 89 strikeouts in 59 and a third innings was among the nation's leaders in terms of strikeouts per nine innings. He was named first team All-Atlantic 10 for the second straight year.
Pitchers Jeff Toothaker (Lunenburg, MA) and Scott Meaney (Salem, MA) and outfielders Justin Howard (Nahant, MA) and Steve Corradi (Sandwich, MA) have been elected captains of the 1993 baseball team.
Toothaker was 7-0, 3.35 while Meaney was 3-2, 3.91. Howard led the team in hitting at .322 and doubles with 11: Corradi hit .317 and led the team with 18 stolen bases and on-base percentage at .481.
Captain John Carelli, a senior secondbaseman from Worcester, received the Dennis DellaPiana Award for Courage, Determination and Sportsmanship.
About the Archives
This is a digitized version of a press release from the University of Massachusetts archives, before the start of online publication. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, UMass does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other items. Please send reports of such problems to the appropriate sport contact in the UMass Athletic Communications office.
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