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Article: UWM under the gun to perform in MCC Tourney Stoss takes .435 batting average into post-season
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 7, 1998
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It's pretty obvious that they're in the stands, watching.
They're the men with the sun-tanned faces. They bring along radar
guns, stopwatches and charts.
"They're always in the stands," said senior Jeff Stoss. "You
can't miss them."
But the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee first baseman blocks
them out of his mind, pretends they aren't there.
"I don't want that pressure on me," Stoss said. "I just want to
go out and play hard and show the scouts, this is what I can do."
With a bat in his hands, Stoss can do a lot. He will take a .435
batting average and .775 slugging percentage into the Midwestern
Collegiate Conference tournament this weekend in Chicago. He has
set school records ...