THE BATTALION Page 13
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1978
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Aggie notes and quotes
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|he Texas A&M baseball team
pads into its lightest week of the
J‘ason thus far, and coach Tom
Chandler is thankful for the time off.
I “We re really crippled up, Chan-
,1 lersaid. “We need these days off to
j tsome people well. It looked like
S e had good depth, but now we re
i ally hurting.”
I The injury list includes cen-
1 'Hielder Mike Hurdle (hamstring),
t lortstop Robert Bonner (bruised
sfioulder), catcher Buster Turner
|»e elbow), third baseman Wark
I'arriner (hyperextended knee),
lid right fielder Shelton McMath
|nee). McMath injured a knee in
legume warmups Friday and faces
ssible surgery. The other four
layers are expected to be ready for
le important three-game series
rainst Baylor in Waco Friday and
jturday.
■ The Aggies got some strong pitch-
■g and timely hitting to sweep a
league series from Rice last weekend
in Olsen Field. Complete game wins
|}y Mark Ross, Mark Thurmond
and David Pieczynski keyed the
ifflveep. Thurmond tossed a three-hit
\ shutout, his third straight in SWC
JHay this season. A&M’s junior lefty
^ is now 6-0 for the season and 3-0 in
^Bnference action. Ross and Piec
zynski are both 3-3.
The Aggies are now 19-10 for the
season and 6-3 in SWC play. A&M
faces surrent leader Baylor in a 3
p. m. single game Friday and a 1 p. m,
doubleheader Saturday. Chandler
will go with the same rotation he has
used all season—Ross in the first
game followed by Thurmond and
Pieczynski Saturday.
With the injury situation still un
resolved, Chandler is uncertain of
his starting lineup for the Baylor se
ries.
Defending Southwest Conference
champion Texas A&M will host the
Houston Astros in an exhibition
game April 5 in 5,000-seat Olsen
Field. The game will start at 1:30
p. m.
Tickets for the game are $3 for
adults and $1.50 for all students and
will go on sale at the athletic depart
ment ticket office April 3.
The Astros are stopping in College
Station on their way to Cincinnati for
the National League opener April 6.
Forty-four lettermen will lead the
charge this week in the first drills of
Texas A&M 1978 spring football
practice.
The Aggies’ first workout was
Tuesday and the squad will work
every day through Saturday. They’ll
have four weeks of five-drills-per-
week, winding up with the
Maroon-White game at 7 p m.,
Saturday, April 22.
One letterman—defensive tackle
Johnnie Donahue— will miss work
while recuperating from a knee op
eration.
The Aggies wall put in the “I” for
mation this spring to go along with
their powerful wishbone attack.
Coach Emory Bellard has an
nounced that there will be more
scrimmaging this spring than at any
time since he’s been here.
“We re going to find out who
wants to play with the most inten
sity,” Bellard said. “There will be no
first or second teams, as such, during
the first tw'o weeks. We ll take a good
look at everyone. After two weeks
we ll begin lining up teams.”
The Texas A&M women’s track
team competes in the TWU In
vitational in Denton Saturday. TWU
won the Texas A&M Relays last
Saturday with the Aggies finishing
fourth. Prairie View A&M was sec
ond and Wisconsin third in the 21-
team university division.
A&M took two first in the meet.
Jan Chesbro qualified for nationals
by winning the high jump in 5-8 1/8
while Donna Branch won the javelin
By Paul Arnett
Coaches say
the darndest things
nt to 1
asW
Coaches say the darndest things.
In the darndest situations.
At the darndest times.
One of these darndest quotes oc-
lirred at coach Emory Bollard’s
less conference last fall. Bellard’s
pnch was due in Fort Worth in four
days to play the TCU Horned Frogs,
■oath Bellard has never been a man
Bio wasted words. And this press
lexaritonference was no exception,
woskBThe press conference opened with
ir21C the usual jokes and small talk before
s John Hollis of the Houston Post
)fa2Ii|asked the critical question of the
withaHeek.
233antH“Coaeh. How do you defense a
te in that has won only two games in
.■last 30 ?”
; TJ Bellard P u ^ ec l <,n 1 11S pipe, waiting
>ta for the laughter to die down.
sta«“john, TCU has a darn fine foot-
H1 team. They have good people at
the skilled positions.”
‘ e , WA minute of shocked silence
[) j 1 , passed before a writer replied to Bel-
edo1 lard’s remark.
i th e y must be lousy at the
%Vt " ; Unskilled positions.”
and pRaucous laughter filled the room.
Bellard waited patiently for it to sub-
jvelhpide before stating his usual quote.
) Cbl“TCU is a young team, but our
focgiWfS know it’s gonna be a heckuva
Qp challenge and a tough old fight. We ll
h 2251* 1 ave P^y with intensity. They’ll
h be a tough old nut to crack. I’m sure
Bey’ll have their ears pinned back
nt will ready to give us a tough old ball
p No matter who the opponent, Bel
lard always described them in this
manner. After hearing the same
[Speech some 20 times, this writer has
>me to an inescapable conclusion.
A coach he is; an orator he is not.
Coach Shelby Metcalf is a good
lach and a good orator. Metcalf has
ached at A&M for 20 years and has
[mn many a funny line. One of his
st occurred this season.
A&M had just lost a closely con
gested game with the Houston
sugars. The officials blew a couple
whistles that Metcalf didn’t agree
th. In the dressing room after the
Aflame Metcalfs Comedy Hour was
rawing raves from the press.
“Well after tonight’s game 1 know
ne place the officials don’t work,
: ind that s the Holiday Inn. They
jurprised everyone with those two
[alls at the end of the game.”
Another of Metcalfs classic lines
/as spoken after the Ags halted a
Dur-game losing streak. One writer
sked Metcalf if there was a eham-
iagne celebration scheduled in the
ockeroom.
“Well there was, but while I was
iQttling toilet water the commode
seat fell on my head. And that ended
that."
Funny quotes have found a home
with basketball coaches. Another
great orator in the basketball ranks is
coach Abe Lemons of the University
of Texas.
Last year coach Lemons entered
G. Rollie White for the first time. He
was greeted with the hisses of some
3,000 Aggies.
T thought this was supposed to be
Hollar House on the Brazos. I’ve
heard louder crowds at a cock fight in
Mexico.”
But the best lines uttered by a
basketball coach were by retired
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in 138-8. Aggie ace Linda Cornelius,
who tripped over a hurdle and did
not qualify for the finals, was third in
the long jump with 19-014. Sande
Lambert was fifth with 18-4Vi.
Darcy Ehman was sixth in the discus
with 129-5 1 /2 with Iris Tipton second
in the shot with 44-3. Cornelius also
finished sixth in the high jump with
5-2.
In the running events, Martha
Sartain was third in the 3000 meters
in 10:10.0 and fourth in the 17:27.22.
Ileana Hocking was scond in the 800
meters in 2:13.37 and third in the
1500 in 4:40.98. Cindy Bartlett was
fifth in the 400 meter hurdles in
1:06.02. A&M was fourth in the
400-yard relay, fifth in the 880-yard
medly relay.
The Texas A&M men’s and wo
men’s tennis teams have a busy week
on tap. The men’s team hosted Trin
ity and the women’s team hosted
Missouri Monday.
The men’s team, 24-12 in South
west Conference playing after losing
to Arkansas 9-0 in 31 degree weather
in Fayetteville Saturday, meets
Houston Wednesday at 1:30 p. m. on
the A&M courts and plays at Texas
Saturday.
The women’s team meets North
ern Louisiana Wednesday in Austin
before competing in the University
of Texas Tournament Thursday
through Saturday.
The Texas A&M women’s golf
team is entered in the Lady Paladin
Invitational in Greenville, S.C.
Thursday through Saturday while
the men’s team takes the weekend
off after hosting Sam Houston State
in a dual match Tuesday.
The men finished fourth in the
Morris Williams Invitational in Aus
tin last weekend. Biff Alexander
shot an even-par 216 to tie for fifth.
Dave Orgin has 219, Tim Carlton
223, Richard Cromwell 233 and Jay
Kent 236.
Texas A&M’s Lady Gymnasts
closed their best season ever by
finishing second in the AIAW Region
IV championships in Baton Rouge,
La. Coach Jan Fambro’s team was
undefeated in Texas collegiate com
petition and won the state cham
pionship by 25.95 points over the
second place team.
“We made tremendous progress
this year and are planning on doing
even better next year, ” Fambro said.
“We’ve received letters from pro
spective Class I gymnasts from sev
eral states.
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leaping abilities of Hog forward
Marvin Delph in this manner.
“He jumped so high on that re
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And last, but certainly not least.
“Arkansas coach Eddie Sutton be
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on the butts of all the players’ prac
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It took Curt Gowdy a couple of
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television remark. Mr. Gowdy now
knows that coaches will say the
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