Drop in power has not hurt Furnish

UNIVERSITY PARK--State association Spikes pitcher Brad Furnish doesn't cast in a winding direction as hard as he did when the season started against the Williamsport Crosscutter upon June 20.

thus how does he explain the 27 strikeouts in his last three starts?

"It's a apportionment of sidework and not necessarily with a ball," said Furnish, a left-hander the St Louis Cardinals pitch uponed in the second round of this year's draft.

The biggest change Furnish made involves the size of the towel he uses during his daily bullpen sessions. Furnish trimmed his white towel from single that resembles a hand towel to single that's slightly smaller than a washcloth.

During the sidework, Furnish replicates his delivery, using a towel, instead of a ball.

"I was using a towel that was too big and it was kind of decelerating my arm too much" he said.

With his acceleration back to