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Aggie baseball team hosts St.Maryl
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By DERRICK GRUBBS
The Texas A&M baseball team
gets back into action after a week
lay-off when they host St. Mary s of
San Antonio Tuesday in a 1 p.m.
doubleheader at Travis Park in
Bryan.
The games were originally
scheduled to be played at A&M’s
new Olsen Field, but construction
delays forced the game site to be
changed.
“We hope to be in the stadium by
this weekend when we play Hous
ton,” said A&M coach Tom Chan
dler. “The field itself will be ready,
but the fans will have to bear with us
on some of the other areas. The
parking lot will still be hard-
Texas leads golf
match, Ags seventh
Donna Avery shot the day s low
round — a 76 — to help propel the
University of Texas into a three-
stroke lead over SMU after the sec
ond round of the 54-hole Texas
A&M’s Women’s Intercollegiate golf
tournament Monday.
Texas has a 36-hole total of 635 to
SMU’s 638. Cathy Bertram shot a 78
while Cindy Lincoln and Lori
Huxhold both had 81s for Texas.
Oklahoma State is third at 656, fol
lowed by Lamar 658, Florida 667,
Houston Baptist 676, Texas A&M
677, TCU 693, Oklahoma 718, Tem
ple JC 737, S.F. Austin 784. Midland
College 806 and Sam Houston 813.
Despite her team’s dropping out
of the lead, Mary Beth Murphy of
SMU posted her second straight 77
over the par-70 university course to
take a two-shot lead in the individual
race at 154. Cathy Bertram of Texas
is 157 while Lynn Cooke of Lamar,
Alicia Ogrin of Oklahoma State and
Cindy Lincoln of Texas share third
place at 158.
First-day leader Brenda Lunsford
of Oklahoma State, who fired a 75
Sunday, skied to an 85 and is six
strokes off the pace at 160.
The final 18-hole round will get
under way at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
surfaced and the scoreboard and
public address will likely not be in
operation yet.”
Although the UH series would be
the first games to be played in the
new stadium, the dedication cere
monies aren t until March 21 when
A&M hosts USC in a doubleheader.
A&M and St. Mary’s have had a
regular rivalry going the past few
years as they have played each other
four times in each of the past four
seasons. The two teams have
squared off 24 times since 1971 with
A&M leading the series 20-4.
The Rattlers finished 24-15 in
1977, splitting their series with the
Aggies at two wins apiece.
“St. Mary’s returns a good nuc
leus and are still one of the* outstand
ing college baseball teams, says
Chandler. “They are a well-rounded
club with a veteran coach in Elmer
Kosub. They defeated Texas on
opening day and are on their way to
having another good season.
The Rattlers come to Aggieland
with a 2-6 season record, having
split their opening series with the
Longhorns, lost a pair to Baylor and
split with Texas Tech last Friday.
A&M brings a 5-1 record in
against St. Mary’s, having won three
from LSU and two from McNeese
State.
“We’ve been plagued by the flu
bug the past week, said Chandler.
“So far so good, though our pitching
has been solid and our hitting is
coming along. We’ve also played
good defense through our first six
games. We went the entire LSU se
ries without committing an error.
We’ve left too many men on base,
but once we get our batting order
set, I think that’ll be remedied.
'I’he lineup Chandler will field
against St. Mary’s with their 1978
batting averages will have Robert
Bonner (.348) at shortstop, Mark
Warriner (.333) at third base, Mike
Hurdle (.300) in centerfield, Kyle
Hawthorne (.421) at first base,
Robert Verde (.158) in leftfield,
either Tim Feickert (.400) or Rod
ney Hodde (.200) at second base.
The starting pitchers for the 1
doubleheader will likely be Mark
Ross (0-0) and Mark Thurmond
(1-0), with David Pieczynski and Jim
McWilliams also slated to see ac
tion.
Following the Houston series this
weekend, the Aggies were
scheduled to host Oklahoma City
March 6-7, but the series has been
postponed by mutual aggreement
with a make-up date to be set later
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The home field advantage won’t
be a benefit for the Aggies until late
in the 1978 baseball season when
their new home, C. E. “Pat Olsen
Field, will be ready for occupation.
The new stadium was scheduled
to he completed in time for the
Aggies first game of the season, but
numerous complications have de
layed its completion.
“Most of the problems we’ve
encountered have been caused by
the weather this winter,” said Wally
Groff, assistant athletic director for
business affairs. “It’s been unusually
wet and the work has suffered from
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“But we re still a long way from
getting finished. All the work we
can get done depends on the
weather. And 1 hate to say that if it
keeps raining it could be months
until were finished.”
Delays in the delivery of the
aluminum for the seats and railings
also caused problems in the
stadium s completion.
“Now that we’ve got all the
supplies we’ve begun the finishing
process, said Groff. We ought to
have the roof finished Tuesday and
the seats will he through soon if we
don’t get rained out.
The ones who are suffering the
most from the inconvenience of a
half-finished field is the baseball
team. They’ve been forced to play
their home games at a high school
field, Travis Park, in Bryan.
So coach Chandler is hoping to
play Houston in the new field this
weekend, but Groff seems to think
otherwise.
“The infield might be ready to
play on this weekend, but the stands
and facilities will nt'ver be ready,
said Groff. “And the field will only
be ready if a lot of work is put into it
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between now and then. 'Hie
haven’t been cut yet ami the
ers mound is so soft that if you
on one side the other side rise
“And tlie facilites that have:
completed include the restra
the concession stands, the la
rooms, the sidewalks, the
lot and of course the seats. Itspi
hie that the stadium could hen
for the team, hut not for the
tutors."
With the formal dedin
scheduled for March 21,Crd
that date as the probalile ii
the first game to he playedi
new facility.
“If we’re lucky, the Souths
game will he the first gm4
the new field, said Gtil
Olsen and some other diji
will be down for the officialk
tion ceremony. So were ski
for completion by then.’’
"But the field won’t he
pletely finished until soiuttk
summer. We just have totai-
week at a time and
progress.
“We feel sure we'll get ir
games this season, but jusht
still hard to say.
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