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College Station, Texas
Tuesday, April 14, 1970
THE BATTALION
Aggies Thump Hooters Twice To Increase SWC Lead
By Richard Campbell
Battalion Sports Editor
Doug Rau gave the Texas Ag
gies all the incentive they needed
Monday afternoon by turning in
a sterling pitching performance
to help them sweep a doublehead
er from the Rice Owls and there
by put a tighter hold on the first
place slot in the Southwest Con
ference baseball race.
The slender junior from Colum
bus, Tex., blended a good fast
ball with a wicked curve to put
the Owls down, 4-0, in the first
contest, a seven inning affair.
He raised his season mark to 6-0
and kept his perfect conference
record with his fourth straight
victory and second) shutout in
SWC play.
Eau struck out 11 Hooters and
surrendered 1 no walks as he out
lasted Rice starter David Pettit,
who picked up his first defeat in
three decisions. Both teams were
coasting along not able to get
to the opposing hurler until the
fourth when A&M’s R. J. Eng-
lert singled up the middle, stole
second, and went to third on a
wild throw by the Rice catcher
Len Shelby. Aggie catcher Billy
Hodge singled him horn next with
what would prove to be the win
ning margin but A&M was not
finished. After Dave Elmendorf
fanned, Boyd Hadaway singled to
move Hodge to second and Chris
Sans tripled both of them home
to give the Aggies an 3-0 ad
vantage. Raley struck out and
then Danny Ragland singled to
left to bring Sans home with the
final run.
Rice never really threatened
Rau from there and he was tag
ged hard only once, a long double
by the Owls’ Dick Fuqua. Rag
land with two for three and
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Englert, the conference’s leading
hitter, with a .500 mark led
A&M’s seven-hit attack.
The second game was not as
secure as the first, but the out
come was the same as Dave Ben
esh, playing despite a broken
nose which was fractured Sun
day, set the Owls down, 3-2. Ben
esh was not partcularly sharp
but he pitched well when the need
arose and it did several times.
In the first, he reached back
to whiff the last two batters aft
er he allowed runners to reach
second and third with only one
out. In the bottom of the first,
Butch Ghutzman and Englert
drew walks off Rice hurler Scott
Wise, who also had his problems,
especially in the control depart
ment. Elmendorf hit a ground
ball to the shortstop, who tossed
to second on the first leg of an
attempted double play but the
second sacker uncorked a bad
throw to first and Ghutzman
scored on the error to put A&M
ahead, 1-0.
The third inning was the same
old story for the senior A&M
chunker as Shelton Kaufman sin
gled, was sacrificed to second and
moved to third on a bloop single
to left by Fuqua. David Hilton
drew a walk to load the bases
with only one out. But again
Benesh was up to the test as he
got Eddie Otwell to fly out to cen- scored on a sacrifice fly by Kil
ter and Alexander to fly out to
right to end the threat. Rice fi
nally scored in the fifth as Randy
Burchfield, who had doubled,
ton. The Aggies came back in the
sixth to score two more runs as
Hodge walked, moved to third on
Hadaway’s sacrifice and a wild
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ir r\ tj AGGIE HURLER—Charlie Kelley throws his way out of
CxOf/ersUumpllOgS a jam in the eighth inning to save the second game for
starter Dave Benesh. The Aggies swept two from the Owls
and will face them in a single game this afternoon at 3.
(Photo by Mike Wright)
The Texas A&M golf team de
feated Arkansas 5-1 here Satur
day afternoon but the A&M ten
nis team was not as fortunate as
they lost two of three matches at
the Oklahoma City Invitational
Tournament this past weekend.
The win increased the Aggie
golfers mark to 12 ^-5% and
kept in the thick of the fight for
the Southwest Conference crown
which they are defending.
The Aggie netters bowed to the
host team Oklahoma City and
West Texas State before winning
over Wichita State.
A&M travels to Fort Worth
for a tennis match with TCU
Wednesday while the golfers are
at Lubbock to play Texas Tech
Saturday.
Ags Looking Good
In Football Drills
The Texas Aggies, who “showed
a lot more good than bad” in
their first controlled scrimmage,
resume spring football workouts
this afternoon.
Coach Gene Stallings, after
studying movies of last Saturday
afternoon’s controlled scrimmage,
said: “We have a lot of good,
young potential and I think we’re
going to have a good football
team.”
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Competition is hot and close
at virtually every position this
spring and Saturday’s scrimmage
indicated that there isn’t as much
difference between so-called first
and second units as there has
been in the past.
Sophomores-to-be Lex James
and Brad Dusek are the front
running candidates for the vital
quarterback slot and neither has
moved in front of the other thus
far.
The Aggies missed one workout
last week, due to wet grounds,
but Stallings said he would not
try to make it up this week. The
Aggies will stay with their four-
drills-per-week schedule this
week.
Among the players who graded
well in Saturday’s battle were
defensive guard Van Odom, line
backer Mike Lord, defensive back
Ed Ebrom, offensive tackle Bus
ter Callaway and offensive right
halfback Clifford Thomas.
James, Dusek, Joe Mac King,
Kyle Gary and Ricky Spencer
worked at the quarterback slot.
Spencer, a diminutive 5-6, 155-
pounder, led the Whites to one
touchdown against the top Ma
roon defense. He hit split end
Mike Dorough with a 66-yard
pass play that carried to the
Maroon’s 14 and then Spencer
scored from the three on a quar
terback keeper.
Maroon fullbacks Garry Davis
and Doug Neill each scored a
touchdown on short plunges and
Lord scored on a 25-yard run
after intercepting a pass. De
fensive back Mike Bellar scored
on a 50-yard run for the Whites
after intercepting a wild pitch-
out by James.
There are 29 returning Ifetter-
men out for spring drills and 25
of them are juniors. The four
seniors are baseballer and All-
America candidate Dave Elmen
dorf, defensive lineman Dale
Watts, offensive guard Winston
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throw, and scored on Sans’ single
to center.
Sans scored later when Ghutz
man beat out an infield hit to
the shortstop to put A&M ahead
3-1. In the eighth, Shelby drove
in George Davis with a double
to make the count 3-2 and Coach
Tom Chandler brought in reliever
Charles Kelley to cool the Owls
down. He did and Benesh picked
up his fourth win against hit
defeats and his third confereno
win.
The double win brought tin
Aggies' season mark to 17-4 ati
8-0 in conference play. They hoS
the' Owls today on Kyle Field«
3 p.m. for the final game of tin
series. Bruce Katt is the probatle
starter for the Aggies.
Odom Anchors
Defensive Line
A year ago in spring training,
Van Odom was an aspiring fresh
man candidate for a position in
Texas A&M’s defensive line.
Today, he is the ranking vet
eran among the defensive line
prospects in the Aggies spring
training camp.
Van won a starting berth last
fall as a sophomore and teamed
with senior Lynn Odom to form
one of the rare brother combina
tions in SWC football.
Today, Van and end Wayne
Wheat are about the only regu
lars returning in the defensive
front alignment.
Lynn played out his eligibility,
as did tackle Billy Bob Barnett
and end Jim Piper. And, Mike
DeNiro died in an auto mishap
last January.
Approaching his junior sea
son, Van Odom figures to be one
of the top defensive linemen, not
only in the Southwest Confer
ence but in the nation.
At 6-0 and 220, Van is not tre
mendously large, but he is solid
ly built, hard as steel and hits
with authority.
Back at Corsicana High School,
Van played fullback and defen
sive tackle and he performed at
both places so well that he made
all-zone at both spots. He played
in the defensive line, mostly at
tackle, for the A&M Fish and
then shifted to guard last spring
Competition is fierce thii
spring and Van has some
strong prospects to battle k-
fore claiming a starting spotii|
front.
Among the defensive line can
didates are: James Dubcak, W
and 232; Wayne Wheat, 6-5 ani
229; Boice Best, 6-0 and 22S;
Butch Kamps, 6-2 and 237; Ralpi
Sacra, 6-5 and 217; Barb Hit
nant, 6-1 and 204; Max Bird, M
and 210; Tommy Deaton, 511
and 198; Greg Hall, 6-0 and 20!;
Dale Watts, 6-5 and 216; Oscai
Castillo, 5-10 and 202; Eddii
Hooper, 6-0 and 210 and Garlani
Childers, 5-11 and 208.
It’ll take a heckuva player It
dislodge Van Odom fromtki
starting unit, though.
—■
Ags Take Third,
Host Meet Here
Texas A&M’s record-shatter
ing track team makes its final
home appearance of the season
Saturday night when it hosts
Arkansas, Rice and TCU in a
quadrangular meet at Kyle Field.
Field events will get under
way at 6 p.m. and running events
will start at 7 p.m.
Admission will be $1 for adults
and 50 cents for high school stu
dents and younger. A&M fac
ulty and staff will be admitted
on their book covers and A&M
students on their activity tickets.
The Aggies boast a world
champion in Curtis Mills, the ace
quartermiler who has the world’s
fastest time of 44.7 in his spe
cialty.
Also, the 440-yard relay unit
of Scotty Hendricks, Curtis Mills,
Marvin Mills and Rockie Woods,
have the fastest time in the na
tion this season, a 39.7 in the
Texas Relays two weeks ago.
Last weekend, at Houston, Rice
and A&M finished second and
third, respectively, behind Texas
in a triangular meet. Coach
Thomas said he didn’t expect to
win the meet because Marvin
Mills was out of action and he
didn’t enter Curtis in anything
except the 440 relay and the 220
dash.
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