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THE BATTALION
Thursday, April 16, 1970 College Station, Texas Page 5
Raiders Next Test For Charging A&M Baseballers
By Clifford Broyles
Battalion Sports Writer
The Texas Aggie baseball team,
riding the crest of a 10 game
winning streak and perfect 9-0
Southwest Conference record,
travel to Lubbock Thursday for
an important three game series
with the Red Raiders Friday and
Saturday.
A&M, leading the SWC race
by two games over favored Texas,
will face a Red Raider team that
is coming around to form late
after a rash of injuries hurt in
the early going.
Tech has won only one confer
ence game this season while los
ing seven but in their last three
starts have got some good pitch
ing from their aces, Gary Wash
ington and Jack Pierce. Both
pitchers however lost to TCU by
scores of 1-0.
Last year the Raiders finished
third behind Texas and TCU and
again as they returned 15 of 17
lettermen, but injuries have kept
them from getting back into win
ning form.
Third baseman Johnny Owens
and outfielder Don McKee have
missed most of the season with
injuries but both will be avail
able for the series.
Owens, who batted .306, suf
fered a broken collar bone in
pre-season practice and McKee,
who batted .325, suffered a crack-
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The only two lettermen to
graduate were second baseman
Jerry Haggard and shortstop
Jim Montgomery but Coach Kal
Segrist went out and recruited
two talented junior college stars,
John McGuire and Doug Thorley
from Glendale JC in Phoenix,
Arizona.
McGuire holds down second
base and Thorley the shortstop
spot for the Red Raiders after
guiding the Arizona junior col
lege to the NJCAA finals two
years in a row. Those two trips
resulted in one title and last year
second place behind Panola Jun
ior College of Carthage, Texas.
A&M relief ace Hardy Frazier
was a pitcher on that Panola
championship team.
Catcher Max Martin and cen-
terfielder Randy Walker form a
veteran nucleus for the Raiders
with Martin hitting .344 last year.
Martin was one of three Tech
players selected to play on “The
Texas Cowboys,” a team of base
ball players that will tour Italy
this summer to help promote base
ball interest in that country.
McKee and Montgomery, who
is serving as an assistant coach
now that his playing days are
over, are the other two players.
Tech’s pitching is anchored by
senior righthander Gary Wash
ington who compiled a 5-3 record
last season, and Jack Pierce, a
sophomore righty who had a 3-1
record.
Washington put the stops to
the Aggies last year when he
beat them 1-0 in the only meet
ing of the two teams. The other
two scheduled games were rained
out.
That shutout gave the right
hander three straight shutouts
en route to 30 consecutive score
less innings.
He is expected to start one of
the games, probably Saturday’s
single game.
Two southpaw newcomers, Gil
bert Vasquez and Ruben Garcia,
are expected to get the other two
starting assignments for Tech.
Vasquez is a junior college
transfer from Odessa and Garcia
is a freshman who won Tech’s
first game this season.
Coach Tom Chandler of the
Aggies will go with his same
group that seems to do nothing
but win, having won 10 in row
and 18 of 22 for the season.
this season has been better than
good.
The nine man pitching staff
has a 1.32 earned run average
with Rau leading the starters
with a 0.38 average. Benesh is
second with a 1.24 and Katt 1.64.
Charles Kelley, Paul Czerwin-
ski, Hardy Frazier, Pat Jamison,
Rocky Self and Charlie Jenkins
anchor the bullpen that has re
corded 9 saves in 14 games.
Kelley and Czerwinski have
not allowed an earned run this
season and Kelley came up with
the biggest relief job of the sea
son Monday when he hurled 1%
scoreless innings against Rice
after coming in with the tieing
run at third and none out.
R. J. Englert, the Aggies’ left
fielder who hits the ball where
the opposition usually isn’t, leads
the Ag hitters with a .434 aver
age for the season. The Big
Spring sophomore has a knack
of hitting the ball just hard
enough or just soft enough, de
pending on the occasion.
the place where he enjoyed one
of his more prosperous series as
a freshman where he hit four
home runs in three games with
three of them coming back-to-
back in one game.
The A^gie infield adds their
share of the offensive punch with
first baseman Chris Sans cur
rently owning a 10 game hitting
streak and a .333 average.
Shortstop Jim Raley has been
playing some major league short
stop at his position this season,
and Danny Ragland holds down
third with a shotgun in his right
arm. Butch Ghutzman, the Ag
gies’ handyman, is batting .270
in the leadoff spot for A&M.
Catcher Billy Hodge has been
one of the keys this season for
the Aggies, batting a hot .379
and leads the team with 18 runs
batted in.
The big three, Doug Rau, Dave
Benesh and Bruce Katt, will start
for the Aggies, whose pitching
A&M Golf Champ
Boyd Hadaway and Dave El-
mendorf are the Aggies’ other
two outfielders, with Hadaway
packing a .324 average and five
home runs with 17 runs batted
in, and Elmendorf, who broke
out of a king size slump with a
couple of solid hits Tuesday, is
batting .253.
Opens New Shop
HADAWAY INTO THIRD—Boyd Hadaway, affectionally known as Bevo by his team
mates because of his size, slides into third base during the Rice series to break up a
force play. This weekend the Aggies travel to Lubbock to battle the Red Raiders of
Texas Tech. (Photo by Mike Wright)
Bill Wade, former champion
ship golfer for Texas A&M, has
returned to College Station as
owner of a new service business
for the campus and community.
The new business, known as
Bill Wade Laundry and Dry
Cleaners, fits well with the 1968
graduate’s background. He work
ed part-time for a local dry
cleaning company as an under
graduate business student. Since
earning his degree, he has been
manager of a large clothes care
plant in New Orleans.
A native of Freeport, 23-year-
old Wade was state Junior Golf
Champion in 1961. He played on
the 1967 and 1969 SWC Cham
pionship teams at A&M and was
team captain in 1968 and 1969.
Wade described the new ven
ture as a great challenge.
“As an athlete, I lived for the
challenge of competition,” Wade
explained. “In business, I’ve found
there are the same rewards for
careful preparation, mastery of
the fundamentals and extra ef
fort. I look forward to finding
new ways to be of service to the
campus and community.”
Wade, his wife, Shirley, and
their daughters, Tracci and Rob
bie, moved to College Station
earlier this month.
Elmendorf will be returning to
The A&M-Tech series is the
most important facing the Aggies
this season since the Rice Owls
have been taken care of. It is
also the last road trip the Ags
have before their confrontation
with the University of Texas at
Austin May 7 and 8.
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MONDAY — RESIDENCE HALL DAY
Noon - 6 p.m.—Auto Show - Quad between Sbisa & Davis-Gary
6 p.m.—Egg Throw Contest - Quad between Sbisa & Davis-
Gary
6 p.m.—Molasses Drop Contest - Quad between Sbisa & Davis-
Gary
6 p.m.—Open House, Program Halls
7:30 p.m.—AGGIE CINEMA - “The Great Race” - Grove or-if
rain-Room 113, Biological Science. Admission—35c
FRIDAY — DATE ARRIVAL DAY
5 p.m.—Mud Football - West Gate
8 p.m.
Dance - KC Hall with Z-Z TOP. Tickets are $2.50
advance at the Student Co-op and $3.00 at the door
8 p.m.-
-MSC basement Coffee House
INDIVIDUAL HALL ACTIVITIES
SATURDAY — RACE DAY
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THE RACE
TUESDAY — ACADEMIC DAY — AGGIE MUSTER
Noon—Outstanding Faculty Awards Luncheon - MSC
5 p.m.—MUSTER - System Building lawn
7 p.m.—Black Awareness Rap Session - Lounge A-2 - Between
Moses and Hughes Hall
9 a.m.—Mud Football, Tug of War, Push Ball - Intramural
Field at West Gate
10 a.m. - 3 p.m.—Model Airplanes National competition for
your enjoyment - Drill Field and East of Kyle Field
WEDNESDAY — EARTH DAY
AH Day—Environmental Teach-In
5 p.m.—Voter Rally - Drill Field
5 p.m.—Mud Football, Horseshoes @ Intramural Field at
12 noon—Barbeque - Grove
One ticket to spring dorm activity card holders. All
others are $1.50 (Pick up tickets from hall coun
selor on or before April 20)
2 p.m.—“Grand Prix” go-cart race - Law Hall parking lot
3 p.m.—Rugby Game - Drill Field - Texas A&M vs. Texas
West Gate
6 p.m.—Pool - Aggie Den
8 p.m.—Spades, Chess tournaments - location to be announced
7 p.m.—“Town Hall” presents “Smith” and “Tony Joe White”.
Free with University activity cards.
Date tickets $2.00.
THURSDAY — GET OUT THE VOTE DAY
7:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. Elections - Sbisa Newsstand, Library,
MSC, Guard Room - Dorm 2
9 p.m.—Presentation Dance - “Club Sbisa” annex. One ticket
to fall dorm activity cards holders or
$3.00 per couple.
9 p.m.—MSC basement Coffee House
5 p.m.—Mud Football, Horseshoes @ Intramural Field at
West Gate
SUNDAY — CHURCH SERVICES
6 p.m.—Pool - Aggie Den
8 p.m.—Spades, Chess tournaments - location to be announced
11 a.m.—Services in All Faiths Chapel with Ed Donnell,
Civilian Chaplain