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1974 disaster recalled THE BATTALION THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1975 Page 7 lion 113,181. Houston raids Aggieland for weekend series By DAVID WALKER Staff Sports Writer A year ago the Texas Aggies en tered the University of Houston baseball series with a 12-0 record. All was bright in Aggieland. The the Texas Longhorns. This weekend the Cougars come Aggies were being talked about as The Aggies limped out of Hous- to town to play the Aggies in a three the “runaway team. ” But most im- ton and never quite recovered and game set but this time the Aggies portant to A&M was that they were finished behind the Horns in second are looking up at the Longhorns and number one and looking down on place. need a three game sweep to stay 4-5:30 IJ Bf ■ Pitcher Clint Thomas shoots his invisible fast ball. Gene Bartow replaces Wooden LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gene Bartow of Illinois was named Wed nesday as basketball coach at UCLA, replacing legendary John Wooden who retired after guiding the school to its 10th national col legiate title. UCLA athletic Direc tor J.D. Morgan announced Bartow’s appointment. Bartow, 44, known as a conserva tive coach, has been at Illinois just one year after four successful sea sons at Memphis State. His 1972-73 team at the Tennessee school went to the NCAA finals, losing to UCLA 87-66. Bartow, a native of Browning, Mo., was a strong choice to replace Wooden almost from the time the 64-year-old UCLA coach said last Saturday he was stepping down. UCLA had just beaten Louisville 75-74 in overtime in the NCAA tournament semifinal game at San Diego. The Bruins came back Monday night to whip Kentucky 92-85 in the finals for their 10th national champ ionship in 12 years. Bartow also coached at Valparaiso University in Indiana and holds a 14-year college coaching record of 229-140. At Illinois he was 8-18 this past season. Bartow had four years left on his Illinois contract but received per mission from Athletic Director Cecil Coleman there to talk with UCLA. The new coach inherits a strong group of lettermen from the current championship Pacific-8 Conference club. Returnees include Richard Washington, the Most Valuable Player in the just-concluded NCAA tournament; Marques Johnson, Ralph Drollinger and Andre McCarter, plus reserves Raymond Townsend, Jim Spillance, Gavin Smith, Wilbert Olinde, Casey Cor- less and Marvin Thomas. Washington, Johnson and McCarter all were starters and Drollinger the No. 1 substitute who played a major role in the two tour nament victories at San Diego. At Memphis State, he won two Missouri Valley Conference champ ionships, finished in the nation’s Top Ten twice and made two trips to the National Invitation Tourna ment. He was voted Coach of the Year when his 1972-73 team reached the national NCAA finals. within striking distance of the unde feated orange men from the capital city. Coming off one of the most im pressive sweeps in the schools re cent history (a three game job over TCU) the Aggies will host the Cougars in a Friday single game and a Saturday doubleheader. Aggie assistant coach Jim Samp son stressed the importance of the Houston series, “It’s real important that we win these games. We need to win all of our home games and if we can sweep Houston this weekend we ll be in good shape. ’’ Ag netters to face BU in tourney By NICK VOINIS Staff Sports Writer The Texas Aggie tennis team travels to Waco today to play the Baylor Bears in a Southwest Con ference match. The match will consist of six sing les and three doubles matches. Coach Richard Barker has selected Bill Wright, Billy Hoover, Charles Emley, Tom Courson, Mark Silberman and John Kirwan to play against Baylor. After the match, the netters move on to Austin to compete in the four- team Texas Relays Tournament at Austin, Friday and Saturday. Freshmen Mark Parker and Edwin Teran have been added to play in this tournament. Parker will play the No. 5 singles while Teran will play the No. 6 singles. The Texas Relays Tournament is actually nine tournaments in one. There will be a tournament among the four No. 1 players, No. 2 and so on, for all six singles and the same for the three doubles teams. The pairing for opening round play will be as follows: Singles No. 1 — A&M vs. Texas; Rice vs. Trinity (the two losers play Saturday for the consolation title and the two winners meet for the championship). No. 2 — A&M vs. Trinity; Texas vs. Rice. No. 3 — A&M vs. Rice; Texas vs. Trinity No. 4 — A&M vs. Texas; Rice vs. Trinity No. 5 — A&M vs. Trinity; Texas vs. Rice No. 6 — A&M vs. Rice; Texas vs. Trinity Doubles No. 1 — A&M vs. Texas; Rice vs. Trinity No. 2 — A&M vs. Trinity; Rice vs. Texas No. 3 — A&M vs. Rice; Texas vs. Trinity. A first-round victory will he worth 2 points; a win in the consolation finals will be worth 1 point and the championship winner will get 3 points. Texas is undefeated in conference play with a 15-0 record. The Aggies are in second place three games back of the Homs with a 9-3 record. The Longhorns are in Waco to play the Baylor Bears this weekend. The Aggies are hoping for a little help from the Bears who earlier this year got the Ags off to a slow start by taking two of three games in their conference opening series. Sampson was also pleased with the Aggie pitching that has turned in six straight complete games in SWC play. “It’s been a long time since an A&M pitching staff has had six straight complete games in the conference,” Sampson said. The Aggie pitching staff earned run average is an excellent 2.19 for the season and 2.23 in league play. Clint Thomas will start the Friday game for A&M. Thomas three-hit TCU in his last outing last Tuesday in Fort Worth. Hoot Gibson will pitch in Saturday’s seven inning contest with David Lockett going for the Ags in the nine inning night cap. The batting order for the Aggies will have Mike Frazier in center- field, Tommy Hawthorne at catcher, Bill Raymer in right field, Jim “Bear” Bratsen at first base, Mike Schraeder at second base, Kirk Campbell at third base, Al Thurmond in left field, Robert Bon ner in the designated hitter spot and Fred Russ at shortstop. Friday’s single game will start at 3:00 with the Saturday doub leheader beginning at 1:00. 1975 TEXAS A&M BASEBALL — FULL SEASON (21-4-1) Player G Ab R H Avg Bi 2b 3b HI l Sb Sac Hp Bb So Po A E Avg Campbell 25 82 20 35 .427 18 6 3 1 1 0 0 7 2 17 41 7 .892 Frazier 22 89 24 35 .393 9 2 0 1 5 1 0 4 6 33 0 2 .942 Thurmond 25 78 13 27 .346 7 2 1 0 3 1 2 8 9 40 2 1 .977 Schraeder 26 84 16 29 .345 23 7 1 3 3 6 0 14 16 60 40 6 .943 Hawthorne 25 87 17 30 .345 15 5 1 0 2 3 0 19 4 127 20 3 .980 Bratsen 26 91 19 31 .341 17 3 1 1 0 0 1 13 9 171 4 0 1.000 Raymer 26 89 15 30 .337 18 7 2 2 1 5 0 16 8 38 4 1 .977 Buxkamper 5 3 0 1 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 2 .800 Larsen 5 3 1 1 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 1.000 Bonner 10 37 7 10 .270 4 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 5 2 .818 James 9 12 1 3 .250 3 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 13 1 1 .933 Olmo 3 4 1 1 .250 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 Crabtree 21 63 10 15 .238 8 2 0 0 2 3 0 3 7 13 3 1 .941 Russ 26 89 9 17 .191 11 5 2 0 4 3 0 11 3 33 60 J3 .877 Biersner 6 10 1 1 .100 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 5 28 1 0 1.000 Hodges 5 7 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 1.000 Worth en 2 0 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Gibson 11 1 1 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 12 0 1.000 Lockett 13 2 1 1 .500 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 11 1 .947 Thomas 10 2 9 1 .917 Scheumack 3 0 3 0 1.000 Alley 1 0 0 •o .000 Wilson 1 0 0 0 .000 A&M 26 831 156 268 .323 135 44 13 8 23 23 4 101 76 603 222 41 .953 OPP 26 748 70 156 .209 59 30 5 5 9 10 14 105 148 578 251 56 .937 LOB: A&M 222, Opp 205 DP: A&M 17, Opp 19 PITCHING Player G W L ERA IP H R Er Bb So Wp Hb Bk Gs Cg ; Saves Alley 1 0 0 0.00 0<A 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Scheumack 3 2 0 0.77 11% 8 1 1 6 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 Lockett 13 6 0 1.54 64% 39 15 11 36 49 3 6 0 7 3 2 Campbell 8 4 1 1.80 30 28 10 6 15 16 0 2 1 4 1 0 Gibson 11 6 1 2.11 51% 42 19 12 26 39 6 3 0 8 5 0 Thomas 10 3 2 3.29 41 34 21 15 16 35 2 3 0 7 3 0 Hodges 2 0 0 11.59 2% 4 3 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Wilson 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A&M 26 21 4 2.19 201 156 70 49 105 148 12 14 1 26 12 3 OPP 26 4 21 5.44 1 193% 268 156 117 101 76 14 4 0 26 7 0 Scores: A&M 3-8, Sam Houston 1-0 A&M 7-7, St. Marys 1-2 Baylor 4, A&M 3 A&M 1-6, Baylor 0-9 A&M 10-5, St. Mary’s 5-1 A&M 6, SMU 3 A&M 6-16, SMU 2-8 A&M 2-3, Kansas 1-2 A&M 5, Kansas 2 Tulane 2, A&M 0 A&M 1, Tulane 1 (13 inn.) 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