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AUOl THE BATTALION Wednesday, May 2, 1973 College Station, Texas Page 7 lainij Chandler^ Seeks Rost A fter Ups A nd Downs * state ^sday (l gainst || ffice fo r “gainst jj °nien. A&M baseball coach Tom Chandler plans on an intensive ^gas Woijj fishing campaign this summer. He needs it after the unusual, frus trating, and emotionally draining Antonio i hfnployujj hssion, d) season just completed by his agency f ( Robert S "g from ^ I10 t com He adde s een copij Baseball Ends Season Of Inconsistency young team. The 1973 season was like those good news-bad news jokes. Good news, the Aggies became the only team to win a series from the Kansas City Royals Baseball Academy in Sarasota, Fla., taking five of seven games. Bad news, neither the games, nor the sta tistics, count in the records. Good news, the Aggies won 19 and lost only nine games in the regular season. Bad news, eight of those nine losses were in Southwest Conference play. There were highlights aplenty the six-day trip to Florida, a no-hitter by Bobby Wittkamp against TCU, the first ever by an Aggie pitcher in SWC play, a one-hitter by Bobby Falcon against league champion and No. 4 ranked Texas, and four-game sweeps against Iowa State and Minnesota. There were thrills aplenty — exactly half of the games were decided by one run, and A&M won 10 of those 14. Five others were decided by two runs. Of eight SWC defeats, four were by one run and three by two runs. The best news of all, for A&M, is that the entire starting lineup and the top three pitchers return next season. Most improved honors go to second baseman Mike Schraeder and catcher Mike Frazier, both sophomores. Schraeder had never played secondbase in his life un til moving over from shortstop 10 games into the season. He made only one error in 18 games, and boosted his batting average from .176 last year to .306. Frazier took over as the No. 1 catcher and hit .333 after a .145 freshman year. Frazier led the team in hitting in SWC play with a .350 average and came up with several game-winning hits. Falcon and Wittkamp came forth as bulwarks of the pitching Rugby Team Takes Seventh In Golden Gate Tournament By KEVIN COFFEY Sports Editor A&M’s Rugby Club traveled to San Francisco last weekend to find the country’s finest rugby and came home bruised and bat tered but with a very respectable 2-2 record. The A&M Ruggers competed in the Golden Gate Invitational Tournament, an annual affair that invites only the top teams in the country. The Aggies beat Irvine Coast HERE, I DON’T WANT IT seems to be the thoughts of a Kingsville Rugby Team mem ber as he is about to be clobbered by light-shirted Aggies. The TAMU Rugby Club split four games last weekend at the Golden Gate Invitational Tournament in San Francisco. (Photo by Gary Baldasari) of California 28-0 in their first match and advanced into the win ners’ bracket of the 24-team com petition. Next they tried a group made up of USC and UCLA players and fell 13-3. “They were the big gest team we ever played,” said Donnie Robertson. “We knew as much about rugby as any team there but we were tiny in com parison.” Robertson said many of the teams had scrums averaging 245 pounds. The Ags weigh in at 200 pounds. “There were a lot of teams that had football players in off-season training on their squads,” Robertson noted. In the third game the Aggies faced California’s North County Rugby Club and were shut out for the first time this season, 19-0. In their tournament finale, A&M played Fresno, Cal., in the seventh place game. The contest resulted in a 6-6 tie but the Ags were awarded the seventh place trophy and another victory by winning a kicking contest. “We traveled further to play than anyone there,” said Robert son. The Aggies received $1,500 from the Association of Former Students and $1,500 from the Ex change Store fund to pay for transportation. Room and board came from their own pockets. The Aggies have been invited to play in some of the top tour naments in the country during the 1973-74 season as a result of the trip. staff. A left from San Jacinto Junior College, Falcon finished with a 5-2 record and a phenom enal strikeout mark of 87 in 53% innings. In SWC play, he whiffed 66 in 40% innings. Wittkamp was 5-1 with a 2.90 ERA. Other top players returning include firstbaseman Paul Miller (.300), shortstop David Buxkamp- er (.339), third baseman-center- fielder Jim Hacker (.270), left fielder Bill Raymer (.371), and right fielder Jim Bratsen (.292). Bratsen led the team in runs bat ted in with 18 and tied Schraeder for the homerun leadership with three. The Aggies also return pitchers Jackie Sinks (3-0), Clint Thomas, Jim Juhl, and David Lockett. Chandler hopes to recruit an other infielder and a right-handed hitting outfielder to help the team next year. Batting Record Player Frazier Hodges Atterbury Buxkamper Raymer Schraeder Miller Hacker Bate Bratsen Thurmond Reinarz Woods Hawthorne Pitcher Lockett Wallace Falcon Jenkins Wittkamp Janda Binks Juhl Thomas 40 3 6 43 28 61 59 57 36 46 13 37 13 27 Avg. .350 .333 .333 .326 .321 .311 .305 .281 .278 .239 .231 .189 .154 .148 Pitching Record FRA IP 0.00 0 0.00 1 2.23 40 1/3 2.84 12 2/3 2.95 3.85 3.91 4.84 5.45 39 2/3 4 2/3 25 1/3 9 1/3 3 1/3 STUDENT Y ASSOCIATION HAS MOVED . . . STUDENT PROGRAMS OFFICE 2nd Floor of MSC Tel.: 845-1626 If you eat out SPP Can Save You Money! (Just dine at the following discount offering restaurants) • BURGER CHEF 2301 Texas 822-6334 • CASA CHAPULTEPEC 1315 S. 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