Fred (Zollner) was the best sponsor a team ever had and the greatest guy in the world to work for.

Tricia Ming hit the championship winning home run in the 13th inning.

Fullerton P Lori Stoll, Texas AM C Gay McNutt, Texas AM 1B Sheila Cornell, UCLA 2B Patti Holthaus, Texas AM 3B Cindy Cooper, Texas AM SS Dot Richardson, UCLA OF Iva Jackson, Texas AM OF Elise King, Cal St.

After having played their way through the regular season and first round (and for Oklahoma State, a conference tournament, an AIAW regional title and double losses to Texas AM in the AIAW Womens College World Series final on May 25), the eight advancing teams played in the NCAA Womens College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.

Doom spread out 2 hits over the eight innings and struck out 12.

The Aggies had been invited to the NCAAs first national tournament, but chose not to go.

AM coach Bob Brock had high respect for the eleven-year-old AIAW, even as the NCAA began to overshadow it.

Out of a sense of loyalty to the AIAW, Brock said, his school chose the 1982 Norman championship over the NCAAs first in Omaha.

There is no better place than Omaha, which has treated softball so well in the past.

When the AIAW split the top two divisions, the Division I tournament was moved from Omaha.

It won world titles all three years, and no team ever won three in row before or since.

It was in the 1947 World Tournament that Zollner decided he would pull his team out of ASA competition.

In the final game of that tournament the opposition protested that the Pistons were using a pro, Curly Armstrong.

He was a member of the Zollner Pistons pro basketball squad, and thus was indeed considered a pro.

However, the other team also had a player who was a member of the former New York Rens, so both were thrown out of the tournament, and the final game had to be replayed.

From 1948 through 1954, the last year for the Piston team here, Zollners team won the league championship six of seven years, losing out in 1952 to Midland, Mich.

But we were making more money in Fort Wayne than the Cleveland organization wanted to pay us, so we said thanks, but no thanks.

Naturally, with the huge salaries major league teams are paying these days, Kampschmidt and Ramage have to wonder what they might have done had they been born about 40 years after they were.

They can recall boundless stories of their playing days with the Pistons, first riding in a bus all over the Midwest and later four to a car.

Fred always made sure there was one guy in each car who didnt drink, laughed Ramage.

The batter bunted his first pitch and Bill promptly threw the ball into left field and both runs scored.

He looked at me and said, I told you I would get it over with in a hurry.

Bill West, he replied with no hesitation, and added, Luken wouldnt be far behind, but if it was the seventh game Leo probably would have already pitched a couple of times and West was the kind of guy who could pitch every day.

Jim Cowdrey Softball