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It’ll still be a great story no matter how many times it is told. It’s now become part of the HookC lore).
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-> The final out had just been recorded, the UConn baseball team was dogpiling on the field at Bob Smith Stadium after beating Maryland to clinch the College Park Regional, and head coach Jim Penders was making like a former U.S. Olympic hockey goalie.
“I was like Jim Craig at the end of the 1980 hockey game, looking up in the stands: ‘Where’s my father? Where’s my father?,’ ” Penders said.
That he was essentially asking this question to a bunch of Maryland fans who had no idea who his father was made it even more surreal. Then, Jim Penders Sr. popped out from around the dugout.
“And I got pretty choked up, telling him what he meant to me,” the younger Penders recalled. “It was pretty emotional, getting him down on the field.” <-
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-> The final out had just been recorded, the UConn baseball team was dogpiling on the field at Bob Smith Stadium after beating Maryland to clinch the College Park Regional, and head coach Jim Penders was making like a former U.S. Olympic hockey goalie.
“I was like Jim Craig at the end of the 1980 hockey game, looking up in the stands: ‘Where’s my father? Where’s my father?,’ ” Penders said.
That he was essentially asking this question to a bunch of Maryland fans who had no idea who his father was made it even more surreal. Then, Jim Penders Sr. popped out from around the dugout.
“And I got pretty choked up, telling him what he meant to me,” the younger Penders recalled. “It was pretty emotional, getting him down on the field.” <-
