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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1975
Ags win 4 of 5 games
By DAVID WALKER
Staff Sports Writer
The last five games for the Texas
Aggie baseball team were a case of
some good news and some bad
news.
First for the good. The Ags won
four of the five games played. Now
for the bad. The one loss was a costly
one to Texas Tech that virtually
eliminated the Ags from the South
west Conference race.
The Aggies won the Friday game
from the Red Raiders 4-0 with Clint
Thomas getting the win. Every
thing stayed just fine Saturday in
the first game of the doubleheader
when the Aggies scored in the last
inning to win 1-0 but conference
hopes all but died when the Ags lost
7-4.
Yesterday the Aggies swept
Northeast Louisiana by scores of 2-1
and 3-2.
Hoot Gibson was the winner of
the first game giving him a 9-1 re-
A&M netters beat Lamar,
get clobbered by SMU
By NICK VOINIS
Staff Sports Writer
The Texas Aggie tennis team set a
torrid pace Friday by defeating
Lamar University but couldn’t keep
it up Saturday as it dropped one to
SMU.
The Aggies swept past Lamar,
9-0, in a nonconference match as
Bill Wright beat Carlos Lopez, 6-4,
7-5, in the No. 1 singles match.
In the No. 1 doubles match, Billy
Hoover and Wright defeated Lopez
and Doug Rodwell, 7-6, 6-2.
Saturday it was a different story as
the Aggies ran into some tougher
competition — the nation’s No. 4
ranked team, SMU. The netters lost
(Photo by David McCarroII)
Billy Hoover makes a return in the SMU match.
8-1 in that dual SWC match, by only
winning the No. 1 doubles match.
Coach Richard Barker said he
wasn’t disappointed in his team’s
play but was downhearted that they
had lost some close matches.
“We played pretty well but it’s
kind of the same story — we lost
some close ones,’’ said Barker. “I
knew it would take a supreme effort
to beat SMU.” The Aggies’ SWC
record now stands at 15-29, while
the Mustangs sport a 22-5 mark.
The SWC’s 1974 No. 1 singles
player, George Hardie, beat the
Ag s Bill Wright, 7-5, 6-1, in the No.
1 singles match. In the doubles
competition, Hoover and Emley de
feated the Mustang’s Hardie and
John Muller, 6-4, 6-3.
“SMU has a lot of ability and a
tremendous amount of talent,”
Barker said of SMU, who sport no
players from the state of Texas.
Their top six consists of four players
from Califomia, and one each from
Australia and South Africa.
Barker spoke highly of Hardie by
saying anyone who plays him has to
play extremely well to beat him.
“George Hardie is a tremendous
asset to that team. A winner, all the
way,” said the Aggie mentor.
The Aggies simply outclassed
SMU in the first doubles match ac
cording to Barker. Hardie and Mul
ler were previously unbeaten in
SWC doubles competition. “It was
the best doubles match that I’ve
seen here in ten years,” Barker
commented.
He believes the only problem
faced by the team of Hoover and
Emley is consistency. The two have
proved they can beat the best
around — now if they can do it on a
consistent basis.
(See MUSTANGS, p. 9)
cord for the year. The 9-1 record ties
him with Tommy Chiles and Doug
Rau for most victories in a single
season. Chiles won nine in 1968
with Rau duplicating the feat in
1971.
First baseman Jim Bratsen had a
home run in each game to pace the
Ags who won their 27th and 28th
games of the year.
Bratsen’s first homerun came in
the seventh inning of the first game
with the bases empty to give the Ags
the 2-1 victory. Larry Reece was the
loser for Northeast but he gave the
Aggies only two hits.
His coach was so impressed by his
pitching that he decided to start him
in the second game. He pitched four
innings of the second game but
didn’t figure in the decision.
The Aggies also waited late to win
the second game.
The maroon men scored in the
bottom of the sixth in the second
game to win 3-2. With one out M ike
Schraeder singled and stole second.
He moved to third on a ground out
and scored the winning run on a
Robert Bonner single to right. Clint
Thomas was the winner in relief of
Jeff Scheumack. Thomas ran his
season record to 6-2.
In the weekend series with Tech
the Aggies needed a sweep to stay
within striking distance of the Texas
Longhorns who are undefeated with
six games to go.
The Longhorns are 18-0 with
games left with TCU and A&M. The
Aggies travel to Rice Friday and
Saturday before hosting the Lon
ghorns the next week.
An Associated Press story today
said that the Aggies had “virtually
assured themselves of a spot in the
NCAA baseball playoffs if they con
tinue to stay in second place.
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Rightfielder Bill Raymer crosses the plate.
t Photo bv David McCarrcl!
Four swimmers represent A&M
at AAU championship contest
By PAUL McGRATH
Staff Sports Writer
Only a four-man squad rep
resented Texas A&M at the
Amateur Athletic Union Champ
ionship swim meet in Cincinnati
this weekend. But, according to
Head Swim Coach Dennis Fosdick,
each “swam well and did a good
job.
The quartet consisted of two
freshmen, one sophomore and one
senior. The two frosh were Bob Le-
land and Greg Meek. Bill Cunning
ham was the sophomore and Larry
Schueckler is in his last season for
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Knicks, Ranger fans
return playoff tickets
The Aggies’ excellent record is
good enough for the playoffs as the
Aggies would play in either the
Western Athletic Conference
playoffs or the Big Eight playoffs.
The Aggies are now 28-6 for the
season. The record for victories in a
single season for A&M is 31 set in
1971 and again last year.
NE Louisiana
Texas A&M
000 100 0-1 3 1
001 000 1-2 2 0
Larry Reece and Jim Owrey; Kirk Campbell, James
Gibson 5 and John Biersner. W-Gibson, 9-1.
L-Reece, 2-3. HR-A&M, Jim Bratsen, 7th, bases
empty.
Second Game
NE Louisiana 001 100 0-2 8 0
Texas A&M Oil 001 x-3 6 1
Larry Reece, Randy Reynolds 5 and Jim Owrey; Jett
Scheumack, Clint Thomas 4 and Tommy Hawthorne.
W-Thomas, 6-2. L-Reynold.v, 4-3. HR-A&M, Jim
Bratsen, 2nd, bases empty.
NEW YORK (AP) — The lines
began forming early in the lobby at
Madison Square Garden Monday.
But the buzz of the crowd, the
pre-game excitement heard so often
at the nation’s most famous sports
arena, was missing. In its place was
the soft shuffling of customers
queueing up to the box office, re
turning tickets instead of buying
them.
The Garden began refunding
about $1.4 million worth of playoff
tickets to basketball and hockey fans
Monday. Those tickets won t be
used because the building’s two
teams, the New York Knicks and
New York Rangers, were elimi
nated in the first round of the Na
tional Basketball Association and
National Hockey League playoffs.
Like most sports ownerships in
these inflated times, the Garden
had depended heavily on income
from playoffs. Both the Knicks and
the Rangers have large payrolls and
the building, with an even larger
mortgage to meet, needed those
extra playing dates and the revenue
from tickets and concession sales.
Playoffs have been routine in the
Garden since 1966-67. Both the
Knicks and Rangers have qualified
every year — nine straight seasons
— since then.
Both teams fell on lean times this
season and barely made it.
the Aggies.
Leland set a school record in his
event, the 100-yard breaststroke.
His time of 59.74 was the first an
A&M swimmer had gone under a
minute in this category. The
400-yard and 800-yard freestyle
relay teams, which was comprised
of the foursome, bettered both their
times made in the Southwest Con
ference meet.
Leland swimming in the relays
was like a “shot putter running tl
sprint relay jested Fosdick. Acti
ally, Fosdick was quite pleased
the splits achieved by the first yi
man.
USC won the men’s portion of tl
meet while the Mission Y’ieji
Swimming Club captured tin
women’s crown.
The meet concludes the
for Fosdick s team. “Considerinl
the guys we had ineligible we
real well, ’ said the Aggie coach. 11
team's attention now turns topn
aration for summer meets as th
will compete with various clubs.
Meanwhile, Fosdick s attentionis
focused on recruiting. “Wedidali
of recruiting while we were then
We must have talked about eight
hours a day with recruits, Fosdicl
said.
Fosdick said he has several in;
terested prospects. He says the
search for new blood “seems to he
going well. Recruits can sign now
except those from California and
Florida schools whose seasons end
May 10.
MCDONALD’S
McDonald's
INTRAMURAL HIGHLIGHTS
McDonald's
This week in intramurals
All-University Golf Champions ^
Craig Lawson and Dan Goldberg became the All-University Golf champ
ions by defeating Lee Niles and Dan Litteer by a score of72-73. A sudden death
elimination occurred on the 19th hole as a result of the close score.
Fast Pitch Softball
A new feature pfTAMU intramurals, fastpitch softball, will take place later
this month on campus. Entries will be limited to the first 32 teams to enter, due
to lack of equipment and space. Entries close on Thursday, April 21, with a
team managers meeting that night at 5:00, rm. 232, G. Rollie White. A
representative from each team must attend. This will be single elimination
competition, using ASA rules. Play will be held on the diamonds in the Duncan
Hall area.
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More on Superstar Competition
If there are more than 20 entries to the first annual IM Aggie Superstar
competition, with entries closing on Tuesday, April 22, there will be elimina
tions in three categories to determine the 20 finalists. The events will include:
50 meter swim, basketball freethrow shooting, and the 100-yard dash. Entrants
should check with IM office before Thursday, April 24 and if eliminations are
needed, should be prepared to swim, run, and shoot freethrow on that day.
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Racketball, Tennis Results
In IM racketball doubles, Jill Hockey and Jan DeWitt clinched first place
honors in the womens division last weak. Tom Meinecke and Gina Lee cap
tured the same honors in the Co-Rec division. In All-University tennis doubles,
Frank Runnels and O. J. Shaffer, both third year Vet students defeated Wayne
Nutt and Joe Kendall of Sq. 2, 8-0 to become the campus champs.
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Above: Dan Goldberg is shown chipping on to the
18th green in the IM golf doubles championship match. He and his
partner, Craig Lawson (below) beat Lee Niles and Dan Litteer by
the score of72-73. The match had to go into a sudden death playoff
on the 19th hole because of the closeness of the scores.
Above: John Thornton ofD-2 flashes across the finish line to
win the 220 yard dash in the Military division of the IM Military
and Fish track meet.
Below: Lindsay Sneed (middle) takes the last hurdle just
before crossing the finish line to win the 120 yard low hurdles in
the Military division of the track meet.
These intramural highlights are
sponsored every Tuesday by
McDonalds on University Dr.
The page is prepared by Paul
Nettell, Ray Wottrich, and the
Intramural office, DeWare Field
| House, 845-2624. '
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-tennis doubles All-University championships last weak. He and
his partner, Frank Runnels won the first place honors, 8-0.
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