From the Daily Pilot:
In his fourth season with the UC Irvine baseball team, fifth-year senior Nick Hoover has been, reminiscent of the vacuum product that made his name famous, kept in the baseball equivalent to the closet, relegated almost exclusively to clean-up duty. But the right-handed pitcher may have changed all that with his second start in 47 career mound appearances for the Anteaters in a 6-0 nonconference victory over Washington State at Anteater Ballpark on Wednesday.

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