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Superstitious Canes escape elimination game against archrival

By Curt McKeever
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, June 16, 2008

OMAHA, Neb. -- It's seems silly, really, for Dennis Raben to give in to superstition. The University of Miami junior right fielder, though not in the kind of offensive groove he'd like to be at the College World Series, has the kind of tools that made him a second-round pick of Seattle in the MLB draft. But as Raben's roommate and Hurricanes' center fielder Blake Tekotte wryly notes, "Hey, this is baseball, man. Everybody's superstitious." As superstitious measures go, Raben's spikeless mohaw ...

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