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‘.-jw :■ ,■ **h.rr,T»r- Page 6 College Station, Texas Wednesday, April 15, 1970 THE BATTALION Aggies Up Win Streak To 11 With Plucking Of Owls By Clifford Broyles Battalion Sports Writer 1970 TOYOTA $1830.00 BRAZOS VALLEY TOYOTA INC. We Service All Foreign Make Cars Cavitt at Coulter Phone 822-2828 The Texas A&M baseball team stretched its current winning streak to 11 and upped its South west Conference lead to two full games with a 4-2 win over Rice here Tuesday afternoon to com plete a three-game sweep of the series with the Owls. Lefthander Bruce Katt fired a masterful three-hitter and the Aggies backed him up with six clutch hits and creamy smooth fielding to win their ninth straight conference game without a loss and increase their season record to 18-4. Katt, who struck out 19 SMU Mustangs in his last game to set a Southwest Conference record, recorded eight strikeouts in bring ing his record to 2-0 for the sea son. A&M opened the firing early with a pair of runs in the first but Rice starter Donnie Brogna settled down in the second and held the Aggies without a hit until the sixth. Butch Ghutzman grounded a chopper to third but the third baseman Dennis Alexander bob- bled when he tried for a back- handed stab and Ghutzman ar rived at first safely. One out later, Dave Elmendorf singled past Alexander and after the second out of the inning, Boyd Hadaway rifled a shot between the first and second baseman scoring Ghutzman. Chris Sans then cannoned a blast to left center that richo- cheted off the centerfielder’s glove for a single, scoring Elmendorf. Dick Fuqua, who caused the Aggies a lot of problems Monday by getting 4 hits, provided the power for the Owls’ first run with a second inning home run over the rightfield fence. That hit and a third inning single by Brogna were the only hits Katt allowed the Owls until David Hilton poled a home run over the leftfield fence with two out in the ninth. The Aggies upped their lead to 3-1 with a run in the sixth as Billy Hodge doubled off the right field fence and continued to third when the center fielder juggled the ball. Chris Sans’ sharp grounder be tween short and third went for a hit and Hodge scored the third Aggie marker. Elmendorf tripled to key the Aggies final rally in the eighth and trotted home with the run when Hodge hit a sacrifice fly to deep left field. The Aggies' defensive play was simply splendid although they did commit two errors. Billy Hodge threw out two Rice runners trying to steal and an Aggie doubleplay in the second was started by Ghutzman who leaped hight o curtail a sure hit and then threw to first to double up Broga who had singled. Shortstop Jim Raley who had made only one error in 67 chances before the game was credited with 4 assists and two putouts includ ing an eye opening play in the seventh when he made a diving stop of a grounder by the Owls Sheldon Kaufman then came up off the seat of his pants to throw the runner out at first. The Aggies journey to Lubbock Friday for a three-game set with Texas Tech with a doubleheader scheduled for Friday and a single game Saturday. MON) be: A&M Shakes Up Standings The Texas Longhorns, favored to win the Southwest Conference championship after a banner year in 1969 which saw them advance to the National Collegiate Play offs before bowing out, are re ceiving a tough challenge from rival Texas A&M as the confer ence nears the halfway point of the 1970 campaign and it could all boil down to a three-game se ries in Austin May 7 and 8 when the Aggies and Horns collide in the season finale. A&M has swept three-game se ries from Baylor, SMU and Rice while Texas swept the Mustangs and won a pair from Texas Tech. ALL Juniors &. Sophomores Must Turn In Their Proofs by April 20 to University Studio North Gate Texas plays Baylor at Austin this weekend while the Ags jour ney to Lubbock for a three-game set with Texas Tech. Texas had one of their games with Tech frozen out early this year and due to a Southwest Conference rule the game cannot be replayed and the way the Aggies are going that could be an important factor in the end. Should the two teams finish with the same number of losses A&M would win the crown by virtue of having won one more game. Texas still must play a toughie when they play Rice, a team the Aggies swept but all the games were close and the Owls aren’t to be overlooked. They came into the A&M series with 5-1 mark in the race but now are fourth and virtually out of the running. The SMU Mustangs who had an unimpressive 1-20 record pull ed an upset Tuesday with a 4-3 win over Baylor giving them a 2-10 mark good for last place. The Mustangs play Rice in Houston this weekend and TCU which holds down third with a 7-5 standard will play Pan Amer ican in non-conference action this weekend. BREAKING FOR HOME—Butch Ghutzman streaks for home with the opening run foi the Aggies yesterday against Rice. The Aggies tallied three more times to take a 4-1 de cision from the Owls. (Photo by Mike Wright) Cards With Jose May Not Miss Flood ST. LOUIS d? 5 )—The way Jose Cardenal is starting out the St. Louis Cardinals aren’t going to miss their long-time star center- fielder, Curt Flood. Take a look at the Mighty Mite’s five-game record going into Tuesday night’s game against Montreal—seven hits in 22 at bats for a .318 average, which ties him with another, more celebrated newcomer, Richie Allen, for the batting lead among Cardinal regulars; four runs batted in; three stolen bases; errorless play afield. “He’s doing a real fine job for us,” summed up Manager Red Schoendienst. “He’s stolen bases for us. He’s made good plays in the field. He’s gotten some good hits. “He’s got a real good arm and is fast, can cover ground well.” The Cardinals traded outfielder Vada Pinson to Cleveland for Cardenal during the winter. Schoendienst and general man ager Bing Devine wanted a speedy replacement for Flood, one of the Cardinals traded to Philadelphia in the Allen deal. Flood has re fused to report to the Phils pend ing outcome of his legal attack on baseball’s controversial reserve clause. STARTS TODAY Walt Disney’s “SEARCH OF THE CASTERWAYS . QUEEN ADULT ART SERIES 7:15 p. m. - 9:15 p. m. “ALL THE WAY DOWN” CIRCLi Aggie Golfers In AAH Southwest Conference Standings: Team Texas A&M Texas TCU Rice Baylor Texas Tech SMU W L Pet. GB 9 0 1.000 — 1.000 .583 .555 .333 .125 .167 2 10 2 3>/ 2 4 Zi 6 7'/z S'/z BBi Charles F. Johnson and Associates AGGIELAND AGENCY UollearillcwW FOR COLLEGE MEN The Texas A&M golf team takes a break from Southwest Confer ence action this weekend by de fending its championship in the 16th Annual All-America Inter collegiate Invitation Tournament at Houston’s Atascocita Country Club. A&M is the defending four-ball division winner in the meet and will compete with 24 other schools for the titles. Teams will play for team medal, team match, team four-ball, low two-ball and overall champion ships in what University of Hous ton golf coach Dave Williams calls the best field ever in the history of the meet. Individual favorites for the meet include Bob Clark, the de- • : fending NCAA champ from Cali fornia St. at Los Angeles; John Jackson, the national Public Links champion from Arizona State; Howard Twitty, Western Ama teur runnerup from Arizona State; Dean Overturf, Western Amateur semifinalist from Uni versity of Texas at Austin; John Mahaffey, first team All-Ameri can from Houston; and Bruce Ashworth, Texas Amateur cham pion from Houston. A celebrity tournament and banquet for all teams and spon sors will officially open the tour ney festivities Tuesday. Pro football stars Roman Ga briel of the Los Angeles Rams and Daryle Lamonica of the Oak land Raiders were in the celebrity field. TONITE AT 7:00 P. M. Steve McQueen in “THE REIVERS’ & John Wayne in “HARM S WAY” CHICK WIT1 Rolls CAN FOR GRz IN A ALL FRIE mw WEST SCREEN AT 7:15 P.S 2 Horror Thrillers “BLOODY PIT OF HORROR” Grar Rolls - anj At 9:00 p. m. “TERROR CREATURl. 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