Page 6 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1975
Still in running for SWC title
Baseballers sweep Houston
Open 7 Days We
By DAVID WALKER
Staff Sports Writer
The Texas Aggies entered last
weekend’s series against the Uni
versity of Houston Cougars needing
a sweep of the series to stay in the
running for the Southwest Confer-
;nce title.
They got their sweep and they
stayed in the running, but more im
portant they just may have assured
themselves of an NCAA playoff
spot.
The Aggies bounced the Cougars
Friday 13-2 and swept the Saturday
doubleheader 3-1 and 6-5. The sec
ond game went 10 innings.
The Aggies used their power in all
three games against the Cougars
getting six home runs in the three
games. Bill Raymer got half of the
six homers for the Ags two of which
came in the opening game.
The three wins stretched the Ag
gies’ record to 24-4. Their confer
ence mark is 12-3. The Texas Lon
ghorns continue to lead the confer
ence with an 18-0 mark. The Horns
swept three from the Baylor Bears
in Waco this weekend. The Horns
take this week off from SWC play
while the Ags host Texas Tech.
In the first game of the Houston
series the Aggies jumped on Hous-
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ton pitchers for 10 runs in the first
four innings to make a laugher for
the home fans. The Aggies had four
home runs and five doubles in the
contest to batter three Houston
pitchers. Raymer had two round
trippers, one which landed in the
second level walkway of Kyle Field.
Mike Schraeder and Jim Bratsen
each added a solo shot to the 17 hit
attack.
Clint Thomas went the distance
for the Ags in picking up his fourth
win of the season against two losses.
The Saturday doubleheader was a
bit tougher for the Ags. The Aggie
pitching staff saw their seven com
plete game conference streak go by
the wayside as Kirk Campbell was
the hero for the Aggie moundsmen
in both games coming in relief to
save the first game and win the sec
ond game.
Campbell relieved starter Hoot
Gibson in the first game and held
the Cougars the last one and two
thirds innings to give Gibson his
seventh win of the year. He has only
one loss.
David Lockett was the starter for
the Ags in the second game and was
rolling along fine until the Houston
No. 1 units face off
in initial scrimmage
By MIKE BRUTON
Sports Editor
The action at Kyle Field Saturday
afternoon looked like the Texas
A&M Demolition Derby as the No.
1 offensive and defensive units
clashed in the first scrimmage of the
1975 spring football session.
Head Coach Emory Bellard lined
up the controlled scrimmage with
the first units going against each
other and their counterparts on the
second units doing the same. Bel
lard said he was pleased with the
effort and intensity of the players in
the workout.
The offense put their latest instal
lations to the test for the first time
and did well gaining 211 yards in 60
plays against A&M’s highly re
spected defensive unit. Offensive
Coordinator Tom Wilson said the
main objective of this scrimmage
was to see if the offense, “could
stand toe-to-toe with the defense.”
The offense stood up to the de
fense very well barring two turnov
ers on interceptions and some men
tal mistakes. “We’ve got to elimi
nate the bad play, said Wilson, re
ferring to miscues that occurred in
the scrimmage. Most of the mis
takes were penalties and can be cor
rected with more practice.
There was only one score the
whole afternoon and it came on a
32-yard sprint by All-SWC halfback
Bubba Bean. Bean’s run completed
an 80-yard drive engineered by
quarterback Mike Jay, who is battl
ing for the starting berth with David
Walker.
Bean was outstanding throughout
the scrimmage leading all rushers
with 124 yards on 23 carried. Full
back Bucky Sams had a combined
total of 63 yards on 16 carries run
ning for 22 with the first team and 41
with the backup unit. Skip Walker
picked up ten yards in eight at
tempts and Ronnie Hubby, who
made some fine runs in the work
out, made 31 steps in seven tries.
Both Walker and Jay ran and exe
cuted well at quarterback with the
starting unit, with Walker gaining
See GRID SCRIMMAGE, p 8.
HOUSTON (AP) —The Houston
Rockets make their first National
Basketball Association playoff ap
pearance Tuesday night by meeting
the New York Knicks, playoff vete
rans who have ignored Houston’s
home court advantage this season.
Houston had a 29-12 regular sea
son record at Hofheinz Pavilion this
season, but the Knicks won both of
the games they played there.
Houston finished its season at
41-41 last Wednesday but had to
wait until Sunday to nail down sec
ond place in the Central Division
when the Knicks took the wild card
spot by defeating Buffalo and Cleve
land lost to Kansas City-Omaha.
Zaid Abdul-Aziz, a reserve
center, is the only Rocket with
playoff experience. That was in 1970
at Milwaukee.
With Bill Bradley and Walt
Frazier in seven playoffs each, the
Knicks have an overall total of 38
years of post-season experience.
Rockets Coach John Egan is not
discouraged over the knicks’ sweep
of their two regular-season games at
Houston.
“I think the home court is the best
thing we have going for us,” Egan
said. “In a short series, it could
make the difference. I don’t think it
makes any difference in a seven-
game series.”
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Egan watched both New York
and Cleveland on television Sunday
but had to mow his lawn before he
could do any celebrating or plan-
SFA leads
ning;
T’ve been on his back a week to
mow tlie yard and I finally had to put
my foot down,” said wife Joan. “I
told him he was going to have to get
out there and mow Sunday because
he’s going to be so busy this week he
won’t have time.”
Egan said New York’s defense
against Buffalo was exceptional in
the third quarter.
“And the Knicks’ backcourt just
took over,” he said. “They did a lot
of one on one with their old pro,
Walt Frazier, just going downcourt
and shooting over the top. Then in
the fourth quarter Earl Monroe
picked it up and did the same
thing.”
The Rockets got into the playoffs
by winning three of their last four
games. New York deadlocked with
Cleveland at 40-42 by winning three
of the last five while Cleveland was
losing three out of four.
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STEPHENVILLE, Tex. (AP) —
Stephen F. Austin will be the team
to catch Tuesday as the Lone Star
Conference golf tour enters its third
round of the spring here with Tarle-
ton State as the host.
The Lumberjacks have a com
bined total of 1,784 strokes for 108
holes, ten strokes ahead of Howard
Payne.
The conference determines its
champion in a four-tournament
series. SFA won the first tourna
ment in Kingsville and Sam Hous
ton State won the second in Alpine.
Southwest Texas is in third place
followed by Sam Houston, Sul Ross,
Angelo State, Tarleton, East Texas
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seventh. The Aggies had a 5-0 lead
going into the seventh thanks to
another Raymer home run and an Al
Thurmond blast over the center-
field wall. That’s when the Cougs
got hot. They got a single run in the
seventh and got to Lockett in the
next inning for four runs to knot the
score. Enter stopper Campbell to
pitch two and two thirds scoreless
innings as the Ags pulled it out in
the bottom of the tenth.
In that tenth inning the Aggies
got the bases loaded and Jim Brat
sen accounted for the winning run
with a sacrifice fly scoring Mike
Frazier from third.
Besides the three game sweep
the Aggies had several outstanding
individual performances.
Centerfielder Frazier had nine
hits in 12 times at bat for the Ags.
He also had four stolen bases. The
four steals give him nine for the
year, six away from the school re
cord 15. Left fielder Al Thurmond
had five hits in eight trips to the
plate.
The Aggies take a day off from
SWC action today hosting Pan
American in a2 p.m. doubleheader,
Texas Tech comes to town for three
games Friday and Saturday.
SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE
STANDINGS
CONFERENCE ALL GAMES
Texas
TEXAS A&M
TCU
Rice
Baylor
Arkansas
Texas Tech
Houston
SMU
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12-3
8-7
8-10
7-11
5-8
5-10
4-11
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