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BATTALION
Tuesday, April 25, 1972
College Station, Texas
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Aggies split twinbill with Rice Owls
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By JOHN CURYLO
Battalion Sports Editor
I The Texas Aggies rode the
wave of triumph in the first game
of a doubleheader with Rice Mon-
B ay, as Charlie Kelley threw a
ierling two-hitter at the Owls,
ut A&M couldn’t maintain the
momentum, dropping the night-
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I The two teams complete their
j outhwest Conference series to-
I ay at 3:00 at Kyle Field. Both
are 8-6 in league play. Texas and
Texas Christian are tied for the
ad at 10-5.
Kelley was superb in baffling
e Owls. The senior right hander
lowed only two men to get on
,se, both of them in the fifth
ning. With two outs and a per-
t game on the line, a slow
Her and a freak blooper gave
ice its only threat of the contest.
The Aggie hurler threw 70
tches in the seven-inning game.
Te faced 23 batters and threw
lily 22 balls. He struck out clean
up man Tommy Lassiter three
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Kelley set down the Owls with
lour fly balls to the outfield,
light ground balls and six pop
Ips to the infield and the trio of
[strikeouts.
His opponent, David Pettit,
andoraluton a pretty good show, too,
; jillowing seven hits and walking
one. The Aggies’ hits were
spread out, as Pettit faced 25
batters. In six inings, he threw
69 pitches, with 21 of them being
balls.
A&M gots its runs in the sixth
inning when R. J. Englert got a
base hit and was sacrified to
second. He moved to third on an
infield out and scored on a wild
pitch. Karl Bystrom added to
that lead four pitches after
Englert scored by blasting a 2-2
pitch over the fence in right field.
It was his first round tripper of
the season.
In the twinbill, Englert kept
his hitting streaks alive, going
two for two in the first game and
one for four in the nightcap. The
senior center fielder has hit safely
in 26 consecutive appearances go
ing into today’s contest. This
includes a ,SWC string of 14.
Should he get a hit today, he
will tie a record of 15 consecutive
league games, set by Mickey Sul
livan of Baylor in 1954.
Englert and freshman catcher
Tommy Hawthorne led A&M in
hitting, each going three for six
in the doubleheader. Englert cur
rently is battling Texas third
baseman David Chalk for the
conference crown in hitting.
The second game was a typical
SWC series for the Aggies this
year. Week after week, A&M
has looked good in winning a
game or two out of the three con
tests, but the Aggies have been
unable to sweep a series.
Rice got off to an early lead,
scoring twice in the first inning.
Three consecutive base hits, a
wild pitch and a pair of passed
balls brought two Owls in.
A&M retaliated by going down
in order the first two innings.
It wasn’t until one man was out
in the third that Hawthorne got
the first hit off Mike Pettit,
David’s brother.
Rice scored again in the fifth
inning on a base hit, a stolen
base, an infield out and a long
sacrifice fly. The Aggies finally
got on the board in the sixth
when Hawthorne singled, moved
to second on a walk, advanced to
third on a double play and scored
on a base hit by Carroll Lilly.
but his first act was to walk
leadoff man Joe Zylka on four
pitches to load the bases again.
Ted Nowak drove in the final
run with a hit to left.
Today’s game is the last home
appearance for the Aggies. A&M
closes out the season this week
end by going to Austin Friday
and Saturday for a series with
defending champion Texas.
First game
Rice 000 000 0—0
A&M 000 002 x—2
Winning pitcher—Charlie Kel
ley (5-3) ; Losing pitcher—David
Pettit.
Hits—A&M 7, Rice 2. Errors—
Rice 1. LOB—A&M 5, Rice 2.
Home run—A&M 7 (Karl By
strom) . Double play — Sheldon
Kaufman—Bobby Potter.
Rice
A&M
Second game
200 010 030—6
000 001 000—1
Winning pitcher—Mike Pettit;
Losing pitcher—Bruce Katt (5-3).
Hits—A&M 8, Rice 9. Errors—
A&M 2. LOB—A&M 7, Rice 9.
Extra base hits—none. Double
plays—(Rice) Bryan Boyne-Ted
Nowak-Potter, Nowak-Kaufman-
Potter.
McCarty joins TCU staff
as full-time assistant coach
The Owls exploded in the
eighth, sending nine men to the
plate. Charlie Jenkins, pitching
in relief of starter Bruce Katt,
walked Lassiter, then allowed a
base hit after one man was out.
He got another to go down swing
ing, but a walk to first baseman
Bobby Potter loaded the bases.
Former Texas Christian athlete
Mickey McCarty has joined the
Horned Frog coaching staff as
an assistant in basketball, athletic
director Abe Martin has an
nounced.
The addition of McCarty brings
the TCU cage staff to three.
Johnny Swaim is the head coach
and Danny Whitt assistant.
Pettit got a base hit to left
center, pushing two runs across.
Bobby Wittkamp was brought in
to take over the pitching chores,
McCarty, who served the past
season as a student assistant, is
regarded as the best all-round
athlete ever to attend TCU. He
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Tennis team defeats Tech
in final conference match
The Texas Aggie tennis team
finished up Southwest Conference
roundrobin play Friday afternoon
by defeating Texas Tech 6-1 and
took fourth place conference hon
ors with a 27-15 record.
Coach Omar Smith will now
accompany a five-man squad to
Fayetteville, Ark., to compete in
the SWC singles and doubles
championships. Selected to repre
sent the Aggies at the meet will
be Dickie Fikes, Billy Hoover,
Dan Courson in the singles and
Fikes and Bill Wright in one
doubles team while Courson and
Hoover will form the other.
The team will leave Wednesday
for the tournament which is
scheduled for Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
“We split up our doubles teams
because we haven’t been able to
win any big matches the way they
were paired before,” assistant
coach Richard Barker said. “We
had to make some changes to be
competitive in the conference
meet.”
Against Tech in singles, Fikes
was the only Aggie to lose as he
was defeated by Tech ace Walter
Hammerick, 3-6, 7-6, 6-2.
Tommy Connell kept his unde
feated streak going as he beat
Tech’s Terry Bennett in straight
sets 7-6, 6-4.
Courson and Hoover brought
their conference records to 5-1 as
Courson defeated Tech’s Stan
Morris in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4,
and Hoover defeated Tech’s Mike
Nye in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3.
In the other singles match,
Wright defeated Tech’s Jerry
Smith in split sets, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3.
In doubles, Fikes and Wright
defeated Hammerick and Bennett
in straight sets 6-3, 6-2 while
Hoover and Courson defeated
Nye and Smith in straight sets,
7-6, 6-1.
Tech’s Hammerick was the key
to Rice’s winning its third
straight SWC championship when
he defeated SMU’s top-seeded
player, John Gardner. The Mus
tangs beat the Owls 4-3 but fell
behind them by a single game in
conference standings after Gard
ner’s defeat.
Texas finished third, one game
ahead of the Aggies due to a 4-3
win over A&M in the second to
last conference match.
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