
JoJo Howie reluctantly handed the baseball to VCU coach Shawn Stiffler, then started making the slow walk toward the Rams' dugout. Here's what Howie has done in four years of college, the first two at Everett Community College in Seattle before transferring to VCU: Go 29-13 with a 2.62 ERA, striking out 272 in 354 1-3 innings. ''A lot of people, when I was younger, probably wouldn't have expected me to be on this stage,'' Howie said.
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