TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1977
Aggies defeat No. 1 ranked Longhorns.
twici
By STEVE MARTAINDALE
“It feels great. Good isn’t the word
for it.”
The man who said that just hap
pened to be Robert Verde, left fiel
der for the Texas A&M baseball
team. But, he wasn’t the only Aggie
that felt great Saturday as A&M
closed out Kyle Field’s baseball his-
tory with two consecutive wins over
the University of Texas.
The losses for the Longhorns
were only the second and third they
have suffered this season and places
their No. 1 national ranking in
jeopardy. But what the Aggies are
most interested in is the condition
of the Southwest Conference battle
for supremacy.
Friday, Texas beat A&M 12-5 but
the Ags returned Saturday to win
1-0 and 8-5.
Verde also had a special reason
for feeling so great after the first win
for he singled in the game’s only run
in the final inning.
With one out and runners on first
and third, Verde was facing Texas
pitcher Tony Brizzolara, who had
two strikes on the Beaumont junior.
On the following pitch, Verde
lined a one-hopper to the cen-
terfielder, scoring Harry Francis
from third and ending the game.
"He threw me a slider,” Verde
said. He d been getting me on it all
day and he just got this one a little
too far over the plate.”
Francis was running for Bob
Dulak, who reached first base on an
error. Dulak hit a sharp ground over
the pitcher’s mound. Brizzolara got
just the tip of his glove on the ball,
probably keeping it from being a
clean base hit. Second baseman
Andre Robertson chased the ball
down and hurried a throw to first
but it hit the dirt, allowing Dulak to
arrive safely at first base.
Third baseman Winston Whid-
don sacrificed Francis to second
base with a bunt down the third
base line. Shelton McMath, right
fielder, hit a single to move Francis,
a Bryan product, to third.
Mark Thurmond was the main
man responsible for keeping the
Longhorns from scoring for the first
time this season. The sophomore
pitcher from Spring Branch held
Texas to only three hits while walk
ing four batters and striking out 11.
Only three balls, two of them
hits, even got to the outfield from
the ‘Horn batters. The shutout low
ered Thurmond’s league-leading
earn-run average to 0.51.
In the second game Saturday,
A&M took the 8-5 win off the boost
of two three-run homers from first
baseman Kyle Hawthorne.
The Aggies had a 1-0 lead in the
third inning after pitcher David
Piecynski had put out the first nine
batters from Texas, five by strike
outs. Robert Bonner reach first on a
single and Buddy Grobe followed
with another single. Mike Hurdle
Aggie loses to Jimmy Connors
By JEANNE GRAHAM
He lost to Jimmy Connors, but
Texas A&M ranks him number one.
Charles Emley, senior from San
Antonio, leads the Texas A&M Uni
versity tennis team this spring.
Only 5 7” and 145 lbs., Emley is a
three-year letterman at A&M. He
was Southwest Conference (SWC)
doubles finalist in 1975, and finalist
in the No. l singles tourney in the
SWC last year.
“I was brought up playing ten
nis, ” the 22-year-old Emley said. At
age six, his father was teaching him
the game. ‘‘Dad really pushed
hard,” Emley continued, “but if he
hadn’t, I never would have done so
well.
Emley won his first tournament
at the age of eight and was ranked
first in the state two years later. He
held the No. 1 title until he was 16.
Furthermore, he was ranked
fourth in the nation in the 12-and-
under division, and 2nd in national
doubles competition in the 14-and-
under division.
At San Antonio Lee High school,
Emley was all-city and all-district
for four years, and all-regional and
all-state for two years. He won the
McFarland Award his senior year
for scholastic, sportmanship, and
leadership qualities.
“Gottfried is the best I’ve ever
played, outside of Jimmy Connors, ”
Emley said. “I lost to both.” Being
the best in his division, he met and
competed against top players.
When he wasn’t playing competi
tion during the summers before col
lege, Emley was teaching at
T-Bar-M Tennis Center outside of
San Antonio.
Marathon scheduled
The Texas A&M Marathon, the
first of what is expected to be an
annual running here of the classic
event of26 miles and385 yards, is set
for Saturday, April 30.
Half-marathon and quarter-
marathon events will be offered in
conjunction with the full marathon.
It all begins at 8 a.m. at G. Rollie
White Coliseum under the joint
sponsorship of the Texas A&M
Chapter of Phi Epsilon Kappa,
honor society for physical education
and health studies; the Texas A&M
Aerobics Club, and the Brazos Val
ley Joggers Club.
Participation is open to anyone,
regardless of affiliation with Texas
A&M University, but organizers of
the event emphasize that only well-
conditioned runners should attempt
the long events.
Offering of the marathon here this
year was prompted by the formation
of the first marathon class in Texas
A&M’s Health and Physical Educa
tion Department. The marathon will
serve as the “final examination” for
students enrolled in the class or
ganized by Dr. George Jessup, as
sociate professor.
The marathon will include the fol
lowing age divisions for men: 20 and
under; 21-30; 31-40; 41-50 and 51
and over. Women will compete in a
separate division. Slightly varying
age divisions have been established
for the half and quarter marathons.
All registered participants will re
ceive commemorative T-shirts, and
special recognition will be afforded
persons finishing in the top three
places in each category.
The entry fee of $4 ($5 after April
26, including the morning of the
event) includes a barbeque lunch
and a commemorative T-shirt.
Additional information may be ob
tained from Bill Gregory, instructor
in the Health and Physical Educa
tion Department, at 845-6841 (of
fice) or 779-2035 (home).
Emley knew A&M Coach
Richard Barker in high school and
decided to come to A&M for that
reason. “I hated the thought of
A&M, but I wanted to play under
Barker,” Emley said. “Of course,
now I love it.
“We practice 2-M> to 3-Vi hours a
day, and we haven't had a weekend
off yet this semester,” said Emley,
speaking of the A&M team.
A Physical Education major,
Emley said he takes 13 hours a
semester to keep up with tennis and
grades both. “We probably miss
about one third of the semester play
ing tournaments,” he explained.
"With the new courts being built,
the team should really improve next
year,” Emley said. "Better facilities
will bring better players.”
“We appreciate the people who
do come out,” Emley said of the
somewhat sparce attendance by
A&M students at the tournaments.
“It’s hard because there’s no place to
sit out there, and it gets muddy
when it rains.
“We take a lot of abuse from
Longhorns when we play TU in
Austin, though, and it would be
nice if the Aggies were out support
ing us when we played them here. ”
Emley, with his brown, curly hair
is unmistakable on the court. But he
says he’ll never play competitive
tennis for a living.
“For one thing, I’m not good
enough,” Emley said, “and for
another, competitive tennis be
comes a job, and it ceases to be fun
to me.”
After he graduates in December
1977, Emley plans to teach for sev
eral years at Oak Hills Country
<^lub in San Antonio, then perhaps
own and run a tennis center of his
grounded out to the shortstop, leav
ing runners on second and third
with two outs, bringing Hawthorne
to bat.
Hawthorne, at 6’2” and 205 lbs.
and the higgest Aggie on the field,
posted the first pitch from Kem
Wright over the right-center fence.
Texas followed in the fourth in
ning to score a run and stacked on
four more in the top of the seventh
inning.
Behind, 5-4, the Aggies opened
their side of the seventh inning with
a double from Grobe and a walk
from Hurdle. With the two on and
no outs, Hawthorne got hold of the
second pitch, this time with Briz
zolara on the mound, and hit it to
the same spot in the same hard, line
drive fashion, putting the Aggies in
the lead for good.
“He’s got a short, compact
swing, ” Aggie coach Tom Chandler
said after the game. “Seldom does
one that chokes up that much hit
that strong. ”
It’ s not that uncommon for
Hawthorne, however, for the two
homers moved him into the lead in
the team race with eight this season.
The school record for an ini
is nine, set in 1961 M
Barber. Mike Hurdle and
Turner are also in the mt
seven homers.
Turner let a record slip
his hand in the first game
Had he gotten a hit off Bri;
would have made 19 com
games with a base hit, t)i
school record held by Rol
ner.
Turner, however, stn
twice and popped out onctj
game. He also got no hitsin
ond game, never gettings
tact with the ball.
The catcher made up for
field, though, allowing no pi]
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in the series and throwingiHygjjjy
only attempted steal by theilL the
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