Pag-e 6
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, April 18, 1972
THE BATTAU
Aggies set record in winning two from Red Raide
By JOHN CURYLO
Battalion Sports Editor
The West Texas wind stirred
up the dust and played havoc
with the Southwest Conference
series between A&M and Texas
Tech in Lubbock Friday and
Saturday, - with the results being
as unusual and unpredictable as
the gusts that blew through the
town.
The Aggies failed again in
A&M Rugby Club wins;
nearing another championship
The Maroon team of the Texas
A&M Rugby Club trounced San
Antonio Rugby Club 32-6 Sunday
to narrow the Northern Division
Texas Rugby Union Champion
ship down to a race between A&M
and Austin Gold Rugby Clubs.
Playing on the Drill Field at
A&M, neither San Antonio nor
A&M looked impressive in the
first half, but the Aggies were
able to put it together better in
the second period when they liter
ally ran over their opponents.
From the kick-off the Aggies
began with several fumbling mis
takes on which the visitors were
unable to capitalize. The first
score came when A&M’s Giles
Fort broke through two defend
ers who collided while he touched
down for four points. The Aggies
led 4-0.
San Antonio retaliated forcing
the lethargic A&M squad onto the
defense with well-placed kicks.
Fifteen yards out from the Aggie
goal line the San Antonio scrum
won one of its few strikes, and
Gary Tibbets sped over untouched
to score. They converted the try
and went into the lead 6-4.
From a scrum 20 yards out Bob
Elmore broke wide to power into
the San Antonio in-goal for the
second A&M try. This was con
verted by Butch Preston, putting
the Aggies ahead 10-6.
For a while the A&M team
seemed unable to make headway
for their many mistakes, but just
before the half they clicked to
gether with a fine passing move
ment from a penalty 40 yards
out, and Randy Harju put Fort
over the San Antonio line with
a perfectly timed pass for four
points. A&M went ahead 14-6 at
the half.
The second period began dis
appointingly slowly, but picked
up pace as the A&M pack began
to click. Powerful running by the
forwards, particularly Larry Gal-
lego, and fine line out work by
Mark Anthony and Elmore, was
backed by very impressive hook
ing by George Alden who won
more than 95 per cent of the set
scrums. With this far superior
possession the A&M team fairly
walloped San Antonio.
Art Saldana went over from
the wing position after a fine for
ward rush. Like an untouchable
ghost Larry Gallego from the
half-way line weaved his way to
within 10 yards of the San An
tonio goal, then passed to the
hard running Aaron Gaboon who
scored. Ricky Myers touched the
ball down after Alda broke into
the end zone on a great rush.
Later the ball sped to the Aggie
captain, Butch “Mighty Mouse”
Preston, who refused to be knock
ed down by tacklers. Under great
harassment he moved the ball out
to Mark Fischer who made his
usual 40-yard streak to confuse
and bewilder the San Antonio de
fense until he scored in the cor
ner. A fantastic conversion kick
by Elmore pushed the score to
32-6 in A&M’s favor.
This victory leaves A&M half
a game behind Austin Gold for
the Northern Division Champion
ship, both teams having lost one
game, but Austin Gold having
completed Union play.
Next weekend the Maroon team
hosts Austin Black Rugby Club
for the final Union game of this
season. Should the Aggies win
this game they will be the North
ern Division champions.
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their attempt to sweep a league
series, losing the first game 10-6
but taking the next two, 21-3 and
9-6. One SWC record was set
and another tied in the second
game.
A&M had 26 hits, breaking the
old mark of 23 in one contest, and
Butch Ghutzman equalled an in
dividual record by getting five
hits that game.
The series, which left the
Aggies 23-9 for the season and
7-5 for SWC play, saw a total of
55 runs, 73 hits, 19 errors, 10
doubles, five triples, two home
runs, 27 bases on balls and 54
strikeouts in the 25 innings.
Ghutzman, who played in his
hundredth winning game at A&M
Saturday, joined center fielder
R. J. Englert in leading the hit
ting barrage. The pair had eight
base hits each. Jim Hacker had
six, Jim Langford and Carroll
Lilly five each and Tommy Haw
thorne four.
In two relief appearances,
Bobby Wittkamp was credited
with the loss in the first game
and the win in the last. Bruce
Katt threw his fourth complete
game in winning Friday’s night
cap.
The Aggies took a quick 5-0
lead in the top of the second
inning of the first game, but the
Red Raiders came back with runs
in the last six frames to win the
opener. Three hits and a pair of
errors in the fourth inning helped
Tech push the go-ahead run
across.
A&M had a chance to knock
Raider ace Ruben Garcia out of
the box in the top of the fourth,
after they sent seven men to the
plate. With the bases loaded and
only one run in, Gene Reinarz
took a third strike after hitting
a drive just foul down the line.
After that, the Aggies got only
one man on base. Garcia came
through with six strikeouts in
the last three innings.
A&M reversed the situation in
the second game, when the con
ference record was broken. After
Lilly hit into a double play in
the top of the first, Englert hit
a 340-foot drive over the right
field wall. From there, it was
just a matter of keeping up with
how many runs were being scored.
The sixth inning was the big
one, with 14 batters going to the
plate. There were nine runs, nine
hits and two errors. At one
stretch there were six consecu
tive base hits.
That inning cooled Katt off,
though, and the lefty was tagged
for two runs and four hits in
the bottom of the sixth. He got
out of trouble with two strike
outs, and Tech left the bases
loaded. Katt threw 38 pitches to
eight batters that time out.
Tech scored the other run in
the fifth on a triple by pitcher
Randy Prince after a walk to
Cecil Norris. With the exception
of those two innings, Katt held
the Raiders hitless, with only six
men getting on base.
Katt walked eight and struck
out ten in posting his fifth win
of the season. The walks brought
his total to 20 for the year. Com
ing into the game, Katt had
walked 12 men in 44 innings.
With the strong winds, he was
forced to throw a total of 149
pitches in the nine-inning contest.
The Saturday game started out
quietly in comparison to the pre
vious day’s activity, but the Ag
gies finally scored three times in
the third on a double by Haw
thorne, a single by Lilly and
consecutive doubles by Englert
and Hacker.
Englert’s blast to right in
creased his hitting streak to 24
consecutive games. He has hit
safely in 29 of A&M’s 32 contests
this year. He has a string of 12
SWC games this season, with the
record being 15.
Tech retaliated with a pair of
tallies in the bottom of the third
when Doug Ault poled a homer
over the fence in right center.
The wind carried the high fly
over the wall after Barry Hoff-
pauir was on with a base hit.
The Raiders got two more in
each of the sixth and seventh
innings on walks, base hits and
infield outs to go ahead 6-3.
In the eighth, Hacker walked
and scored on Karl Bystrom’s
triple. Jim Langford drove By-
strom home with a base hit to
close the gap to one, 6-5.
After Wittkamp got the Raid
ers out in order in the bottom
of the eighth, the Aggies sent
eight batters up in the ninth to
break it open. Ghutzman led off
with a strikeout, and pinch hitter
Mike Schraeder got a hit to left.
Englert was called out on strikes
for the sixth time all year. It
was Ghutzman’s third time to
strike out this season.
Hacker walked to put men on
first and second with two out be
fore another pinch hitter, Gene
Reinarz hit a single to right,
scoring Schraeder and moving
Hacker to third. Jim Atterbury
drove Hacker in with another hit,
and Reinarz came in on an error
in the outfield. An infield error
tallied Atterbury to end the rally.
Wittkamp got the side out in
order to end the game. Hoffpauir
went down swinging fti|
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which was blown back inttK
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to make a fine catch bv t«
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