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Few questions asked after Aggies drub Indians
By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer
Tom Arrington, the Aggies’ most
proven starting pitcher this season,
left the game with back spasms in the
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Going into yesterday’s double-
header at Olsen Field with Dallas
Baptist, the 9-0 Texas A&M baseball
team already knew a few things
about itself.
The Aggies knew they were a
good hitting team', as proven by their
.340 team batting average and the 87
runs they have scored this season.
They knew their pitching had poten
tial, as proven by a 3.58 ERA and 55
strikeouts. And they knew they had
not really been tested, as proven by
their opponents’ dismal won-loss re
cords and the lopsided scores in
A&M’s favoG
What they didn’t know was
whether they could hit, and hit with
power, against quality pitching. And
they didn’t know if they could keep
up their winning streak against
teams of comparable talent.
Second baseman Jell Schow hit
two home runs, first baseman F red
Gegan hit a four-run shot, center
fielder Mike Scanlin sent two men
across the plate with his trip “down
town” and shortstop Rob Swain
pounded the outfield fence as A&M
swept DBU 11-1 and 5-0, and im
proved to 11-0 on the season.
“They saved their best two pitch
ers to use against us,” said A&M
Baseball Coach Mark Johnson.
‘Both of those guys were drafted by
pro teams. We just did an excellent
job of battling them.”
And battering them.
DBU’s pitcher in the first game,
Lester Lancaster, was belted early
and often. Schow, who did every
thing in the double-header but mow
the outfield grass, walked to lead off
the game and Scanlin brought him
home with his first home run of the
* game with back spasms i
third inning. Johnson said the injury
probably wasn’t severe, but would
sideline the right-hander for a few
games.
“We need Tom to be ready for
Houston (March 22),” Johnson said.
“That might mean him being un
available for our upcoming road-
trip. We just want to be sure that (the
injury) doesn’t develop into some
thing more serious.”
The Aggies travel to San Antonio
this weekend for a single game with
St. Mary’s on Saturday and then
move south to the Citrus Tourna
ment in Edinburg. Fifth-ranked Ok
lahoma, Kansas, Kansas State and
host Pan American are also entered
in the tournament.
“Dallas Baptist was our first real
test,” Johnson said of the now 8-3
Indians. “And (left-handed fresh
man Collin) Charland, their pitcher
in the second game, is an outstand
ing prospect for them.
The good thing is that it’s not one
guy doing it all out there for us. We
broke loose today and that has a way
of loosening-up a ballclub.”
According to that philosophy,
Swain must be the proverbial goose.
He went five for eight with a double
and a triple in addition to his homer.
“Their pitchers got behind of our.
hitters and whenever that happens,
you can count on the pitcher to
throw the hard-stuff,” Swain said.
“It really helps when you know
what’s coming.
year.
"I'll usually take the first pitch of
the game just to see what type of
stuffthe pitcher is throwing,” Schow
said. “I'd rather get a walk out there
than almost anything else. I told my
self to be a little more aggressive at
the plate.”
His aggressiveness resulted in two
home runs of his own — rather
strange statistics fora lead-off hitter.
But it was Gegan’s four-run
homer in the fifth that proved to be
the crushing blow, as the fu st game
was called in the seventh due to the
10-run rule.
The Aggies lost their starting
pitcher even before that, howevei.
Johnson, however, would rather
not think about what’s coming.
“You can’t think about what’s
coming up because you take one
game at a time,” he said. “When
you're winning, you have to make
sure that you’re still getting better
and I think we’re getting better.
“I’m pleased because the last four
games we’ve played, we’ve gone out
and beaten the other team. Before
that, we had some games where we
felt that the other team lost it more
than we won it and there could have
been doubt as to who was the better
team.
there has
best team
" The last four games
been no doubt that the
won.”
And very few questions remain t<
be answered for the Aggies.
Texas A&M’s Bill Doug Potter (29) slide past the tag of Dal
las Baptist catcher Ray Hydes during the Aggies double-
Photo by PETER ROCHA
header victory over the Indians Wednesday at Olsen Field.
A&M, now 11-0 on the season, defeated DBU 11-0 and 5-0.
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Aggie handball team wins nationals
LA Clippers hope to change
By CINDY GAY
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Handball coach Lance Lowy loves
walking into his office this week.
Embracing the front corner of his
desk is the national championship
trophy which his Texas A&M Hand
ball Team triumphantly carried
home this past weekend.
Forty-live players traveled to the
University of Texas campus in Aus
tin to compete against 14 other
teams in the National Collegiate
Handball Tournament.
For the first time ever, the Texas
A&M men’s and women’s teams
came out on top.
“It was a big surprise because
Colie!
won that tournanrent ior nine years
in a row,” Lowy said.
Accumulating a total of 26 points,
the Aggie handball team finished
with a comfortable four point edge
over of Memphis State University.
“We clenched (the national
championship) on Saturday night,”
Lowy said. “It was unbelievable, be
cause that never happens.”
Lake Forest College of Chicago lias
A&M’s Julie Werner now reigns
as the individual national champion
in women’s handball, with her first-
place finish in Class A. Renee de
Lassus cornered third place for the
Aggies in that category.
“In the women’s (divisions), we
just wiped them out,” Lowy said.
“The support they gave to each
other pulled out some wins for us."
The only Aggie to compete in
men’s Class B, Bobby Witans
reached the quarter finals. David Al
len, Randy Pullen and Tim Sutton
boosted A&M’s point total by win
ning second, third and fourth places
respectively in men's Class C.
A&M’s Dave Utsey, Mark Smith
and Larry Wisdom were Class C
quarter-finalists.
“We just pounded through with
depth,” Lowy said.
After capturing second place in
the tournament last year, Werner
said the pressure intensified for her
to win the national championship
this time around.
losing ways with new coach
Associated Press
Drawing from the 150 members
of the Texas A&M Handball Club, a
flexible number of players compete
in tournaments throughout the
school year,. including two Aggie-
land Classics.
Unlike the teams who roped in
the “hot-shot junior players” from
high school, Lowy said all the A&M
players were introduced to handball
at college. A&M’s Witans said he be
gan playing his freshman year.
Witans said he expected the team
work exhibited in the past weeks to
pay off at Nationals.
“I figured we’d win this year as a
team,’’he said.
Lowy added, “Camaraderie was
what the whole thing was all about.”
LOS ANGELES — Don Chaney, who played on two National Basketball As
sociation championship teams during a 12-year career, was named coach of
the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday, succeeding the fired Jim Lynam.
Chaney, who turns 39 later this month, has been an assistant coach un
der Lynam since the beginning of the 1983-84 season.
“Right now, I’m trying to recover from the shock,” Chaney said at a
news conference. “I’ve always wanted a chance to coach in the NBA, and
I’m going to make the best of it.
“We were scheduled to have a (coaches’) meeting this morning. That’s
when I found out,” he said.
The Clippers, who entertain the Cleveland Cavaliers Wednesday night,
were 22-39 under Lynam this season and lost 17 of their last 20 games un
der Lynam.
Lynam, 43, was hired to coach the team prior to the 1983-84 season, the
club’s final year in San Diego. The Clippers were 30-52 in that season.
Only last week, Clippers’ General Manager Carl Scheer said publicly
that a coaching change wouldn’t be made until the end of the curre
son, if a change was to be made at all.
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