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SportsSeptember 24, 1998

Beth Becker School: Jackson Sport: Softball Position: Pitcher Coach: Becky Riney This season: Becker is 9-2 with a 0.76 earned run average in 74 innings pitched. She has faced 310 patters and has allowed 43 hits, 37 walks and 18 runs (eight earned). Becker is not a power pitcher: her strike out total is a modest 47. Her only losses are to St. Louis-Notre Dame and Kansas City-Blue Springs...

Beth Becker

School: Jackson

Sport: Softball

Position: Pitcher

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Coach: Becky Riney

This season: Becker is 9-2 with a 0.76 earned run average in 74 innings pitched. She has faced 310 patters and has allowed 43 hits, 37 walks and 18 runs (eight earned). Becker is not a power pitcher: her strike out total is a modest 47. Her only losses are to St. Louis-Notre Dame and Kansas City-Blue Springs.

Week report: Last Thursday, Becker tossed her first high school no-hitter, in a 9-0 win over Cape Girardeau-Notre Dame. In her other three games last week, Becker allowed a total of one run. On Sept. 14, she allowed only two hits in a 6-0 win over previously unbeaten Twin Rivers. And on Saturday, she shutout Vienna (Ill.) on four hits and earned a 2-1 victory over Hillsboro.

Coach's comments: "She's developed into a smarter pitcher. Her location is her strength. She works on it year `round. She's given lessons herself, so she has a pretty good understanding of how to pitch."

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