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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL. 9, 1974
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By TONY GALLUCCI
Staff Sports Writer
It happened again!
The A&M baseball team jumped
to a great start in the conference
race, got past a couple of tough
teams with tough pitchers with
out a loss and went off to the
University of Houston to demolish
the Cougars’ lowly pitching corps
with their powerful bats.
The opposite happened.
The A&M pitching staff showed
what coach Tom Chandler had
warned about at the beginning of
the season; lack of depth.
The Houston batters shelled
Aggie pitchers this past weekend
as UH took two out of three from
the Ags.
A&M’s two losses, combined
with Texas’ three game sweep of
Baylor, cuts the Aggies’ SWC lead
to 34 percentage points.
The Aggies suffered their first
conference loss of the season to
the Coogs on Friday, 13-6, in
what could hardly be described
as a pitching duel. Ag ace Jackie
Binks picked up the loss, his first
of the season, after only an inning
and a third of duty. The Cougars
slammed four hits off of Binks
and were awarded two bases on a
walk plus a hit batter.
David Lockett took over for
Binks and went two and a third
giving up six runs to give Hous
ton a 10-3 lead. Don BraveneC
finished off the mound chores for
the Ags in the first game.
The normally hot Aggie bats
were also quiet Friday as they
recorded only five softies.
Jim Bratsen was credited with
two of those hits.
The Aggie bats returned to
peak efficiency in the first game
of Saturday’s doubleheader as
they defeated Houston 18-13 in
one extra inning.
The Ags started off right in
the first inning on a double by
Paul Miller, a single by John
Woods and a double by Jim
Hacker at which point Houston
coach Lovett Hill made his first
pitcher change of the game. Jim
Bratsen was walked and desig
nated hitter A1 Thurmond fol
lowed with a double. Fred Russ
sacrificed to put A&M up 5-0.
But Houston retaliated in the
first inning with two singles, a
double and a walk to close the
gap to 5-4.
In the Ag third, Tommy Haw
thorne doubled and was driven in
on Bill Raymer’s single. Thanks
to two Houston errors and Brat-
sen’s single in the fourth, Woods
scored to put the Aggies in front
7-4.
But again came the Cougars
in the bottom of the fourth to
hound Ag pitchers. The Coogs
rallied to knot the game as seven
all.
In the fifth the Aggies’ Raymer
beat a dropped ball to first and
advanced when Sandy Bate sin
gled. Paul Miller then blasted a
400 foot homer over the left field
fence to pick up three rbi’s and
send the Ags into the lead again.
The Ags then brought Jimmy
Juhl to the mound, and he
promptly walked three batters.
One of those, Tom Dushinski
scored on an error, then Mark
Stevens scored on pinch-hitter Irl
Kincaid’s sacrifice fly to center.
Dave Vinson then placed a shot
just 15 feet in front of Miller’s
blast to drive in two more runs
and send the Cougars ahead 12-10.
The Cougars scored once in the
sixth to make the score 13-10
going into the last inning.
But Bate saved the day for the
Ags by sending a ball 390 feet
over the left field barier. Miller
then singled, advanced to third on
Hacker’s fourth double of the
game and gained home plate
courtesy of a balk on Houston
pitcher Danny Lee.
Hacker scored on a single by
Bratsen to end the inning.
Jim Wallase, the Ags third
pitcher of the game, retired Hous
ton batters in order in the bot
tom of the seventh to force the
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JOE HUGHES '75
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game into an extra inning.
The Aggies came back and
scored five runs in the eighth on
doubles by Raymer and Craig
Hodges, and singles by Bate,
Miller and David Buxkamper.
Houston failed to score on Wal
lace’s clutch pitching to give A&M
the win.
The Aggies then used four
pitchers in dropping the third
game of the series.
Ags managed only six hits and
six runs as Houston took the
game and the series, 9-6.
The only bright spots were
Tacker’s fifth double of the day
and a two base drive by Raymer.
The Cougars took the lead, 1-0
in the third on two singles and a
double. But the Ags retaliated
in the top of the fourth with three
runs, to take the lead back.
But then the Aggie pitching
A&M track squad
injured list grows
The A&M track squad returned
sore-legged from Baton Rouge Sunday
after suffering a 87-40 dual meet loss
at the hands of the LSU Tigers
Saturday night.
Four Aggies pulled up in the cold,
windy weather bringing A&M’s injured
list to epidemic proportions.
Three new names were added to the
injured list and sprinter Sammy
Dierschke reinjured a groin muscle in
his first appearance since his injury at
the College Station Relays March 23.
In the meet’s first field event, the
long jump, A&M’s Tom Owen pulled a
hamstring on his first jump of the night
and failed to place. The injury is
expected to keep him out of this
weekend’s Texas Relays but he could
come back to compete in the Kansas or
Drake Relays the following weeks.
Bill Newton took first in the javelin
for the Aggies with a toss of 199-3, in
his comeback attempt from an injury
suffered two weeks ago. Newton
managed to win even though he took
only four of his alloted six throws as
pain in his knee forced his early retire
ment.
The Aggie 440-yard relay team won
with a time of 41.4 as LSU (who ran a
41.2) was disqualified for passing out
of the zone.
Scottie Jones injured his leg on the
last hurdle of the 120-yard highs but
managed to stumble across the finish
line to grab third with a 14.8. Jones
has run a 13.7 this year and a 13.5 last
season.
After Dierschke’s injury in the
century, freshman Ron McGonigle ran
his finest race of his young college
career to take a photo-finish decision
over LSU’s Robert Pascal with a
1:53.7.
Sophomore Richard McGilvray was
a surprise winner in the 440-yard inter
mediate hurdles with a 54.3 while
Craig Carter came out on top in the
shot put with a toss of 51-1IVL
Don Riggs took first in the high
jump, being the only contestant to
clear 6-6. A&M’s Phil McGuire, who
has a leap of 6-10 to his credit, could
not get past 6-4 as Tiger hecklers
interfered with his concentration.
Frank Zummo became the last
entry on A&M’s injured list as he
pulled up in the 220-yard dash.
Zummo was not hurt bad as he
managed to avoid serious injury by
letting up and trotting across the finish
as he felt his leg tightening.
With last weekend’s injuries added
to the Aggies’ already sizable list of
sore muscles, the traveling squad for
the Texas Relays will remain somewhat
in doubt until Wednesday.
Sams shines in
grid scrimmage
Fullback Bucky Sams ran for 147
yards and two touchdowns in leading
the first team to a 24-0 victory over
the second unit in a controlled spring
football scrimmage here Saturday.
Sams averaged 9.2-yards per carry
on 16 runs and scored on runs of 20
and 41 yards. Halfback Skip Walker,
who got the other two touchdowns on
runs of one and 27 yards, netted 76
yards while halfback Bubba Bean ran
for 73 yards, quarterback David Walker
gained 41 yards and fullback Ronnie
Hubby gained 12 yards.
The first offense, running against
the second defense, scored one four of
eight possessions and made 17 first
downs.
The first defense, meanwhile,
limited the second offense to seven
first downs and 94 yards in eight
possessions.
It was a bruising battle that saw
Mike Jay, second team quarterback,
get a broken nose, first-team linebacker
Lester Hayes a broken thumb and
first-team linebacker Ken Stratton a
sprained ankle.
Prior to that action, there was
another scrimmage between the third
teams and the defense had all the
better of it. The offense scored only
once, one a 35-yard pass from Carl
Monger to Gary Haack.
Coach Emory Bellard was pleased
with the afternoon’s work. “I thought
the first defense played real well and I
thought the first offense took some
giant strides in the right direction. The
offense is getting more physical and its
execution was better.”
The Aggies haven’t been working
much on their passing game this spring.
In Saturday’s action, David Walker
completed one of three, a 27-yarder to
tight end Richard Osborne. Mike Jay
also completed one of three, a
25-yarder to split end Robert Verde.
The Aggies resume spring training
today at 4 p.m.
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of the fourth to ice the vict«J-
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Hurry singled, then
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Maddox and Kaiser followedi
singles, Dushinski walked
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the 33 hits in three games.
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