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Ramos matures into Long Beach's latest ace

RAMOS/D7It seems like the Long Beach State baseball team doesn't skip a beat from year to year.

Every season the 49ers seem to dig up another Friday night ace pitcher to lead them into contention in the Big West Conference.

After Abe Alvarez, a second-round pick of the Boston Red Sox in 2003, and Jered Weaver, the consensus national player of the year in 2004, the expectations for the Friday night starter seemed to grow even bigger.

So far this season, junior left-hander Cesar Ramos has done just fine meeting those expectations.

"(You) just come to the field knowing it's another night that you're pitching," Ramos said of his Friday night mentality. "Everyone knows those two guys were ...

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