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Page 3 Wednesday, June 20, 1951 THE BATTALION ' Exclusive Battalion Photos NCAA Baseball Playoffs Bill Munnerlyn, Aggie first baseman, spotted Ohio State’s Vic Kauffman at least 20 pounds but dumped the Buckeye of this play at first base. Munnerlyn took a wide throw from Cadet hurler Bob Tankersley, tagged Kauffman in the ribs and his rival fell, trying to reach first base. 1 he Aggies won the contest .'1-2 to move into the third round of the “Rose Bowl of College Base ball.’’ . Guy Wallace, Aggie captain and short stop, ducks back into first base in the Ohio State game. He had teased a throw from the Buckeye pitcher in the first inning of (he contest. Wallace was later * forced at second as the Aggies scored the first run of the contest and went on to notch a 3-2 victory and the right to face Utah in the third round of the NCAA tournament. Hero of the second game of the NCAA playoffs with an eighth inning game-winning, 370-foot home run, Yale Lary was the most consistent Aggie in the hitting department at the Omaha classic. He garnered four singles and a double to go with the home run for a .462 average. Jack Gannon, Ohio State catcher, churns into third base in the fourth inning on an infield out. Henry Candelari stands ready to take a throw from Bill Munnerlyn on first base but is more inter ested in the putout that eased the pressure on the Aggies. Gannon was left stranded. The Aggies won the tilt, 3-2. Aggies Win I, Drop 2 At Omaha Tournament The Aggies went North last week to play in the NCAA baseball tournament and came back with one win and two losses. The win was from the Ohio State Buckeyes behind the six-hit hurling of Bob Tankersley with a 3-2 score. Yale Lary provided the winning margin by blasting a 370-foot home run over the left field wall in the eighth inning. The first loss for the Cadets was the initial game of the series—with Springfield of District 1. The Maroons drop ped the Maroon and White by a 5-1 score. Pat Hubert was the victim of the game although hurling fine ball. He al lowed only five hits, walked three and struck out seven. The other loss was to Utah in a slugging match, high lighted by Utah’s Dave Cunningham’s two home runs that accounted for five Ute runs. For the Aggies, Hollis Baker vjith four for four, Guy Wallace with three for six and Lary with two for five were the big guns. Joe Ecrette slides safely back into first base Pitcher Stuckenschneider. Jim Duffy of the as Don Price, Utah initial-sacker, goes back of American League is the “man in blue.” the base to retrieve a bad throw' from Ute Pat Hubert, upper left, fails, by a split second, to throw the ball soon enough to. First Baseman Bill Munnerlyn as Bob D’Agostino, Springfield shortstop slides! back into the base safely, D’Agostino scored the first run off Hubert in the Wednesday night game at Omaha. EXCLUSIVE! BATTALION Photos of NCAA Baseball Play Offs * — Taken By — MAURICE SUABLE of tlie Omaha World-Herald The only winning pitcher for the Joe Ecrette does a toedance off first base against Springfield in ersley scattered six hits effect- e lrot J ’ ame 0 lne At AA playoff series. He teased a throw to ively while allowing Ohio State First Baseman Ed Redmond in the first inning of the College only two runs as the Aggies : n- , , won, 3-2. Tankersley sported a ' 01 d Series game >> ednesday night, won by the Maroons of 5-1 record for the regular sea- District 1, 5-1. son, whipping Texas in the final game on Kyle Field, last month. Don Price, Utah first sacker, slides into home in the sixth inning of the A&M-Utah fracas at Omaha Friday evening. Waiting vainly for a throw r in from the outfield is -Aggie Catcher, Al Ogletree. To the right of Ogletree is Henry Can- delari, Aggie third baseman. Unidentified are two Aggies to the left, a Utah man in the third base coaches box and one of the umpires for the tourney.