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Page 4 College Station, Texas Tuesday, April 6, 1971 THE BATTALION Relievers, ninth-inning heros spur Ags to sweep By CLIFFORD BROYLES Battalion Sports Editor Getting superb relief pitching from Pat Jamison and Charlie Kelley, and clutch hitting when it counted, the Texas Aggies kept the pressure on the Texas- Austin Longhorns by sweeping the Baylor Bears in a three- game series at Waco Friday and Saturday. The Aggies took a pair of games Friday with two ninth-in ning rallies, 7-5 and 8-2, and then turned the bats loose for a 10-5 win Saturday. A&M is 9-0 in SWC play and leads the defend ing champion Longhorns by three games in the loss column. Jamison picked up his second win of the season with two in nings of relief in the second game Friday and blanked the Bears for another inning and a third Saturday, gaining his eighth save of the season. Kelley won his sixth game in relief of Bruce Katt in the first game Friday and then struck out the side in preserving Jamison’s vic tory in the second. The Aggies unleashed 39 hits in the series, with R. J. Englert spearheading the attack with seven hits. Butch Ghutzman had two home runs among his four hits and Jim Sampson had two hits in each game. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Ags run to 2nd Texas Relays title Talk With These PROVIDENT MUTUAL PROS at A&M 707 University Dr. Gordon Richardson Steve Phillippi Security is not an illusion It’s very real. Neither is financial anxiety an illusion. That’s so real it hurts. By investing in our life insurance program now, you help assure financial security. By investing while you’re still in school, it costs you less. And the returns will be more because you started early. Make financial security a reality. Call our campus office. Or stop by. PROVIDENT MUTUAL=I== LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA Ghutzman and Chris Sans pro vided the Aggies with a 4-0 lead with two-run homers in the sec ond but the Bears nibbled and pecked until they took the lead in the bottom of the fifth, 5-4. A&M tied it in the sixth on a single by Sampson following a walk to Hodge. Hodge stole third and scored when the throw was high. That sent the game to the final inning tied, but the Aggies won it when Larry Smith singled in Ghutzman, who had doubled, and Englert crossed the plate on a ground out after doubling. The Bears took a 2-1 lead into the ninth of the second game, having scored twice with the aid of wild throws by Paul Czerwin- ski on pickoff tries. A&M’s lone score was aided by a dropped fly ball by centerfielder Johnny Dodgen. In the ninth, the Aggies got the adrenalin flowing with a clutch single by Sans with one out, followed by a double by Carroll Lilly to keep the rally popping. But it was another dropped fly ball by Dodgen that allowed Sans to score from third and ruin an outstanding pitching perform ance by Baylor freshman Ricky Fox. Then Englert won it with a bases clearing triple. He scored on a double by Smith, and Hodge finished off the seven-run inning with a homer over the centerfield wall. By JOHN CURYLO Assistant Sports Editor A dropped baton during the mile relay marred the finish, but it didn’t seem to bother the people voting for the outstanding team, as the Texas Aggies won the honor for the second year in a row at the Texas Relays. Exciting victories in the 440 and 880 relays did the trick for A&M in the gigantic meet, which Curtis Mills included high school, girls, jun ior college, college, and university division teams competing in Aus tin’s Memorial Stadium. A year ago, the foursome of Donny Rogers, Rockie Woods, Marvin Mills, and Curtis Mills tied the world record in the 880 relay at the Texas Relays, then broke the mark a few weeks later. This wasn’t quite the same Fri- MLm The Aggies rapped out 16 hits Saturday scoring in six of their nine allotted turns at the plate to bang out the win. Lefty Jack ie Binks became a 4-game win ner hurling the first seven in nings and leaving with an 8-3 lead. Ghutzman gave the Aggies a 1-0 lead in the first inning with his second homer of the series. They built it to 3-0 in the second before the Bears tied it 3-3 in the fourth. Marvin Mills Sampson drove in the go-ahead run in the next inning and the Aggies built from there on a triple by Jimmy Hadker and sin- ' by Binks, who had three gles hits, Englert and Smith. day night, as the Aggies ran the race in 1:22.7, a full second over the world record. The team ran in the same order, and the winning margin came on Marvin’s out- Jerseyland! The real dippi n Richer, creamier, made from pure All-Jersey cream! AS GREAT AS THE STATE! Kg standing 220, giving Curtis a 20 yard lead for the anchor leg. The elder Mills won by 30 yards in a walk. The sprint relay finals were Saturday, and A&M was tagged as the team to beat. Injuries to Steve Barre and Woods left doubt in everyone’s minds, with the ex ception of the Ags present. Barre ran a good opening leg, giving Curtis the baton even with the rest of the field. The Lufkin sen ior barrelled down the straight away, passing to Rogers ahead. Donny held his own, and Woods was in business, stretching the lead. The time was 40.1, the best in the conference this season. Nobody left the stands before the mile relay, as it was to be the highlight of the day. The opening leg lived up to the bill ing, with everyone passing the baton at the same time. Disaster and Marvin never had a chance. He gained some ground, but it was Rice and LSU all the way. Then Curtis anxiously took over, turning in a 47.2 anchor leg, pass ing one team to give the Aggies The next action for Goad Charlie Thomas’ thinclads coims Saturday in Houston. Rice ishoii ing a quadrangular meet, will A&M, Arkansas, and TCU meet- sixth place. Even with the dropped baton Steve Barre struck the Aggies here, though, Donny Rogers as the handoff from Robert Brew to David Morris was dropped, and the latter had to take the time to run back and pick it up. By the time he finished his leg, A&M was well into last place, and the psychological disadvan tage of not being able to win, they ran a 3:17.5. Rice won with a 3:07.6, tops in the conference this year. The biggest crowd pleaser had to be the open division of the shot put. The awesome Randy Matson delighted the whole place with his tosses. He won the event easily with a series of 66-10, * 68-4 Vz, 68-3^, and 68-8. Marc Black placed fifth in the javelin with a throw of 229-5. However, this was farther than anybody else from the conference could manage, including Texas’ Walt Chamberlain. Marvin Taylor tied for fifth in the high jump, clearing 6-9. Ben Greathouse also jumped 6-9, but he had more misses. Both attempt ed 6-11, coming close, but not be ing able to clear the bar. ing them, prior to trips to Kansas Relays, the Drake Relays and then the Southwest Confu ence meet here April 29-May 1. Maroons win scrimmage 30-0; Herring suffers broken leg The injury bug continued to strike the Texas Aggies’ spring training camp Saturday when running back Pat Herring, a sophomore from Beaumont, suf fered a broken leg in intrasquad scrimmage on Kyle Field. Herring’s break was in both the big and small bones of his leg. Linebacker Dennis Carruth also suffered a leg fracture in Friday’s workout. Herring was playing along with senior Steve Burks on the maroon squad at the time of his injury. The first team defeated the second unit 30-0 in the scrim- Aggies’ second major scrimmage after the first two weeks of spring practice. “The backs ran well but they didn’t fake well and we didn’t do well on our downfield block ing, but overall there was more good than bad,” he said. Stallings noted that the big gest problem he needed to solve this spring was in the offensive line. mage. Junior running back Brad Du- sek of Temple led the assault gaining 147 yards on 24 carries and all five touchdowns. Burks had 74 yards on 12 tries and Doug Neill 40 on six carries. “I thought that we moved the ball pretty consistently,” Coach Gene Stallings said, after the He said that the big thing was getting them together. “If we get them together we’ll do alright, but we’ve been faced with injuries that keep us from being at full strength. “We’re getting something ac complished. We’re looking for consistency. 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