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Page 9 sports THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1978 s r~ ■ ■' Chandler s crew hops past Froggies By DERRICK GRUBBS Blhe Texas Aggies moved a step looser towards clinching a spot in the ISWC Post-Season Baseball Tourna- lient by sweeping a three-game se- |ri(>sfrom theTCU Horned Frogs this ist weekend at Olsen Field. The long ball and some clutch -inning pitching allowed A&M to Hne away with a 4-3 win in Friday s game. It took another masterful pitching performance by junior lefty Mark Thurmond followed by an of fensive outburst to account for a 3-1, 14-3 doubleheader sweep Saturday. Friday the Aggies found the going somewhat difficult as TCU hurler Dale Arnold kept the home team in check throughout most of the after noon. He allowed only six hits.but of those six, four were for extra bases and led to A&M runs. In the third inning, shortstop Robert Bonner belted a solo home run, his fourth of the season. After Gary Bryant doubled to the alley in right-center, Kyle Hawthorne low ered a two-run homer over the scoreboard in leftfield to bring the score to 3-0. It was Hawthorne’s thir teenth home run of the season. TCU put together three singles in ext** ! tXtRH / REA* ALL ABOVE IE AOOISS SUMER PROOS / Y VERY FUMAY / VERY fllMMY / ('hai ient ton arms ri the bo re two i sh clone i li bars | listriM re then i little! gymna , anchj always! id thef new ... that Friday, April 14, is Blue Jeans Day? Sponsored by the National Gay Task Force, Blue Jeans Day is a national effort to promote gay awareness. Gay persons, as well as supporters of gay rights are ask ing everyone to join them in wearing blue jeans on that day. So c'mon — Get your jeans 'out of the closet' and join us Friday. tit!! if: Hi ^ presents Vince, Vance, & The Valiants April 17th A DIAMOND RING... THE REFLECTION OF THE BEAUTY OF THE LOVE YOU SHARE FOREVER! ime ton sf (With A&M I.D. — 20% off on Items up to $100.00 and 25% off on Items Above $100.00) LINDSEY'S JEWELERS the fourth to push across their first run of the game and leave Aggie starter Mark Ross with just a two-run cushion. Ross was given some insurance in the eighth when third baseman Robert Verde led off with a triple and came home moments later on Hawthorne’s ground out. The Horned Frogs weren’t going to let Ross and the Aggies off easily, however, as they used a pair of sing les and a walk to load the bases with two out. TCfJ catcher Danny Rosellini then crossed up the A&M defense with a squeeze bunt single that worked to perfection. One run scored and the bases remained loaded. At that point Aggie coach Tom Chandler brought in lefty Jim McWilliams to pitch to left-handed hitting Biff LeFevre. McWilliams walked the TCU first baseman to force in another run and bring the score to 4-3. With the bases still loaded. Chan dler made another strategic move and brought in righthander John Poc- krus to face right-handed hitting John Shelley. The move was successful as Shel ley popped up to catcher Buster Turner to end the game and preserve the win. The win for Ross was his fifth straight and brings his season record to 5-3. Pockrus was awarded a save for his efforts, his fourth of the sea son. In the opener of Saturday’s twin- bill, Thurmond turned in one of his patented mound performances in recording his eighth win of the year without a loss. He allowed TCU only two hits in the game and struck out seven in pacing the Ags to the 3-1 victory. In what he judged his best game of the year, Thurmond came within two outs of registering his seventh career shutout but a lead-off double by LeFevre, a wild pitch and a ground out allowed the Frogs to score their only run of the contest in the seventh inning. A&M took the early lead in the second when they pushed across three unearned runs. The big blow in the inning was a two-run double by second baseman Randy Woodruff that staked the Ags to a 3-0 lead at that point. TCU starter Rueben Tomlin, al though allowing A&M just three hits, was pegged with the loss and drops to 3-6 on the year. The Aggie bats woke up in the nightcap as they pounded 19 hits enroute to a 14-3 win. A six-run out burst in the third ignited the onslaught as A&M sent eleven men to the plate and rapped out seven hits before the inning was over. They added four unearned runs in the fourth, a single marker in the sixth and three more in the seventh to complete the massacre. Hawthorne led the way for A&M as he went 4-for-5, including a pair of doubles and four RBI’s. The four hits were just one short of the SWC rec ord of five, held by a number of players, including Robert Bonner, who was 5-for-6 in the third game of last year’s A&M-TCU series. There was one home run in the game, that by eenterfielder Mike Hurdle, whose three-run blast in the fourth was his fifth four-bagger of the season. Hurdle and Bonner each had three hits in the game, which marked the second time tins season A&M has collected as many as 19 hits in one game. They pounded Texas Lutheran for that many in a game during spring break. Aggie starter David Pieczynski picked up the win to bring his record to 4-3. He got relief help from McWilliams and Perry Swanson. Pieczynski went seven innings, gave up seven hits and struck out six. The losing pitcher for TCU was Cameron Young, who drops to 2-4. The Aggies have swept their last three SWC series to run their cur rent winning streak to nine games, their longest of the season. With three home runs in the TCU series, they brought their season total to 45, breaking the old record of 42 set last year. A&M is now 25-10 on the season and 12-3 in SWC. TCU dropped to 10-21 on the year and 4-11 in league play. 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