THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1974
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sBaseballers sweep TCU, widen lead
Texas loss ups Aggie lead at SWC midway point
Cenii,
\y KEVIN COFFEY
Iports Editor
iftThe Texas Aggies used two
tape-measure home runs off the
bat of Mike Schraeder to put the
shoe on the other foot, so to
speak. And by Saturday afternoon
the TCU Horned Frogs didn’t like
the fit.
L A&M victom of 11 losses at the
^hands of the Frogs in the last 15
Jmes, swept three vital baseball
games and opened a three-game
bulge over the Texas Longhorns.
.■TCU knocked A&M out of the
^Indconference title race at least three
times during those five years.
Mow, with an 8-7 conference mark,
TCU is through.
itrhe Aggies are now 12-0 half
way through their SWC schedule.
Tixas is 12-3.
had less than an easy time
in posting its 25th win in 30 out
ings. Schraeder brought the Ags
jj§|ck from defeat in the second
game of the series, spurring an
easy win in the finale.
The hustling second baseman
tied the second game at 4-4 in the
sixth when he stroked a Steve
Hill offering over the 40-foot
fence in the deepest part of spac
ious Kyle Field. When the ball
finally landed, it was over 430
feet from home plate.
Schraeder’s blast set up the
Aggie come from behind win in
the seventh inning. Bruce Miller
lashed out a triple off TCU ace
Frank Johnstone and John Woods
singled him home for the win.
Juhl picked up his third win of
the year against no defeats, with
one and a third inning of shut
out relief.
Jim Bratsen and Fred Russ
counted for the other Aggie runs.
Bratsen singled home Miller in
the first and Russ’ double plated
Bratsen and Schraeder in the
fourth.
Johnstone, an all-conference
performer for the Frogs the last
two years, was also tagged for
the loss in Friday’s opener.
Jackie Binks turned in A&M’s
best pitching performance of the
.•ries with a five-hit stint in the
4-1 A&M win.
The Ags tagged Johnstone for
10 hits. Jim Hacker, Mike Frazier,
Woods and Bratsen each had two
safeties. Bratsen collected two
RBIs.
TCU SERIES BOX
A&M players ab
Miller
Woods
Hacker
Bratsen
Thurmond
Schraeder
Russ
Frazier
Hawthorne
Raymer
Hodges
Buxkamper
Totals
12
8
11
11
10
10
11
8
2
9
2
1
rbi
3
1
3
4
0
6
3
2
0
0
0
0
Binks had his troubles in the
first three innings with the Frogs
scorinng in the third. After that,
the Aggie senior was untouch
able.
“I really didn’t have my stuff
early so I just tried to throw
strikes,” said Binks. “I was never
afraid to grove one because I have
a lot of confidence in our de
fense.”
In the Saturday finale, the
2,500 fans finally saw the potent
Aggie bats explode. Hitting .342
before the game, A&M pounded
out 17 safeties including another
shot by Schraeder.
This one also carried the fence
in deep center and added three
tallies to A&M’s 16-8 win.
Schraeder knocked in five runs
in the contest. Jim Hacker batted
in three.
Perry Arthur notched the win
but was tagged for five runs in
five innings. David Lockett picked
up the save with four innings of
relief work. Miller, A&M’s senior
left fielder, broke from a mild
slump with four hits in as many
bats. Bratsen finished his best
series of the year with a four for
five game.
Hacker, battling a slump since
the beginning of spring break,
tagged the Frogs for seven hits
during the series.
“We beat a great pitcher in
Johnstone,” said Hacker. “He is
definitely all-conferennce and can
hit the corners at will.”
A&M’s next action is Friday
and Saturday when they face the
University of Houston in Hous
ton.
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WANDERING TCU HORNED FROG is caught straying
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The recent success of A&M’s
tennis team did not phase the
University of Houston as gusty
winds and feisty All-Americans
sent the Ags to their first con
ference defeat and first shutout
of the season.
UH’s fourth-ranked team de
feated the normally tough Aggies,
7-0, on the A&M courts Saturday
surrendering ony two sets, both
in singles.
All-American Lee Merry had
little trouble with Ag Dan Cour-
son in the first set of the top
match winning 6-3, and withstood
a furious comeback in the second
set to win 7-5.
Bill Hoover gave Houston’s
Ross Walker a temporary scare
in taking the first set 6-4 but
Walker regained his momentum
and quelled Hoover 6-2, 6-4 in the
final sets.
All-American Dale Ogden dis
patched Aggie Bill Wright with
little trouble, 6-1, 6-3.
A&M freshman Charles Emley
came closest of any Aggie to
winning as he split the first two
matches with Bob Ogle 6-2, 2-6.
The two played the third set to
a 6-6 tie, with Emley quickly
gaining a 2-0 edge in the time-
breaker.
Emley failed to clear a crucial
smash and a chip though and Ogle
took the set and the match.
In the fifth singles match, Cou
gar netter Matt Rainey beat John
Kirwan, 6-3, 6-1.
Courson and Hoover, the top
A&M doubles team, beat UH’s
Walker-Ogden combination in the
semifinals of last week’s Rice
Tournament but could not find the
right combination against Merry-
Ogden and lost the No. 1 doubles
match, 6-1, 6-2.
Wright and Emley were de
feated by Rainey and Walker in
the second doubles bout.
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The loss evened A&M’s point
standings in conference to 7-7
and sent UH to the top position
with an undefeated 14-0 record.
Coach Omar Smith’s Aggies are
in Houston today to play tough
Rice University.
The Owls’ top player is senior
Emilio Montano. The three-year
letterman has been a member of
the Mexican Davis Cup team the
past two years and has also play
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