sportsbybrooks.com - 6/12/2008
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With their season on the line in a winner-take-all match-up against Fresno State, it was a tense time among the Arizona State baseball team. In fact, the tension reached a point where a couple of Sun Devils players chose to duke it out even before the first pitch.
But as it turns out, the pre-game fracas was a phony. Say what?
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ASU Super Regional Pregame Fight Was Staged
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ASU is victorious The folks at SportsbyBrooks via the East Valley Tribune report that the pregame “fracas” between ASU’s Brett Wallace and Ike Davis wasn’t real. “We wanted to do it to loosen up the team a little bit and maybe get the other team to think about other things,” Davis said after the game. “It didn’t work, but it was fun.” Unfortunately for Arizona State that was about as much fun as they had that night as they fell 12-9 to Fresno State in the rubber game between the two teams. View the scuffle Tags: 2008 NCAA Tourney , 2008 ...
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