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THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1978 Page 9 ^sports Controversy mars SMU series isconcd e part t( lie (aci ically fa onjjj j By DERRICK GRUBBS are ail ^ a y s °f pushover in the tem JWC appear to be over. ndiviJ The Texas Aggies found that out Ity mer P ast weekend in Dallas as they leis Jfared tough going against the last- here ® 806 Mustangs in a SWC se ries marred by controversy. itectaiL The Ags edged out a 2-1 win in lis jot.p'e Friday night game at Reverchon etin^iPark but it took a clutch RBI single e said, : by cent erfielder Mike Hurdle in the nproveib’ 11 ^ * nn i n g to make it happen, ifessorjl The Ponies battled back to earn a jtolJspht in Saturday’s doubleheader, A&M winning the first game 3-1 but IvantaJSMU taking the nightcap, 3-2. fion-iJ In Friday’s contest, the Aggies sevjjkncountered some trouble with cannothurler Paul Glogowski. The io giia- junior righthander recorded eight 5 reall« ri ' <e()Uts anc l allowed A&M just venyeil ve bits through nine innings, liversitr took the early lead in the wrth on a solo home run by third iseman Rovert Verde, his second the year. The Mustangs tied it up in the ijghth when catcher Fla Strawn lubled to leftfield after two were t. A&M leftfielder Tim Feickert ade a diving attempt to catch the dl and appeared to have made the lay, bringing about the first of (any controversial calls by the um- res during the series. The ball had popped out of Feic- an asps rt s 8l° v e, however, and the fromvif ,n ‘ es ^ ^e tying run in scoring ny s y Sition. ir nrofe following a walk to second base- theyhai an ^onny Williams, SMU leftfiel- o estabt r ^anny Seed looped a single to ure ft ’ scorin Strawn to tie the game xas A4 ! '■'T pi tc h er Mark Ross got ; final out of the inning without >een era f her dama g e - aMpom In tbe to P of the ninth, Aggie equates btfielder Gary Bryant led off with . fr single and was sacrificed to second ence ■ b rs t baseman Kyle Hawthorne, it of Hi ad< Warriner’s ground out ad- or era lced Bryant to third and Hurdle’s ^ igle scored him to give the Aggies Texas) ; ' r ^ mar g* n °f victory. Misfortune struck A&M in that ning when a freak injury forced urdle to leave the game, togpwski made a routine toss to st base to hold the sophomore nterfielder close. On the return to the bag, Hurdle twisted his ankle and strained some liga- |ents. He missed the rest of the se- is but should be ready for action !d against Texas Tech. Ags halted another SMU at- pt to tie the game, in the ninth n pinch runner Mike Kennemer thrown out trying to steal sec- d for the final out of the game. A bench-clearing fight had broken Bt earlier in the inning when a con- Ontation occurred between A&M cond baseman Randy Woodruff nd SMU centerfielder Larry Long a force play at second. It began as shoving match but soon erupted to an all-out brawl in which sev- alpunches were thrown from each de. Peace was restored after about re minutes and no one was ejected om the game. The Ponies out-hit A&M 8-5 in le game but good defense by the ter Ags kept them from adding to their run total by turning three double plays, breaking the school season record with 44 twin-killings on the year. Ross recorded his sixth straight win and brings his season record to 6-3. He went the distance walking one and striking out four. Glogowski, despite an outstand ing performance, was pegged with the loss, bringing his record to 3-3. Hurdle and Verde were the game’s leading hitters both going 2-for-4 with an RBI. The first game of the doub leheader Saturday was another pitcher’s duel as A&M ace Mark Thurmond went up against sopho more Kyle Hollister for the Ponies. Thurmond struck out the first five SMU batters he faced and did not give up a hit until the fourth. Equally as effective was Hollister, who spun a no-hitter through five innings. SMU took the lead in the fifth when SMU rightfielder Mike Hughes dropped a solo homer over the short leftfield fence. The dis tance to the leftfield foul pole at Re verchon is 296 feet and Hughes’ ball fell a few feet to the right of it for a 310-foot homer. The Aggies jumped into the lead with a three-run explosion in the sixth, highlighted by a two-run single by Hawthorne. Thrumond kept SMU in check through the final two frames and picked up his ninth win of the year wihtout a loss. He allowed only two hits in the game and struck out eight in registering his 20th straight regular-season victory. The loss dropped Hollister to 1-5 on the year. He allowed just three hits during his five and one-third innings on the mound. Reliever Larry Hughes gave up two safeties. In the second game of the twin- bill, the Aggies again found base hits hard to come by as SMU starter John Janosko shut them down for six innings until Verde lined a lead-off double in the seventh to break up the no-hitter. SMU took an early 2-0 lead in the first when A&M starter David Piec- zynski gave up a pair of walks and two singles. The hard-throwing senior settled down after that and shut down the Ponies for the next six frames. The most serious SMU threat during that time came in the sixth when first baseman Gorden Ricossa reached first on an error. Hughes then laced a double to left-center field. Bryant made the pick-up, and threw in to Bonner who turnedl and fired a strike to catcher Kyle Hawthorne to nail Hughes at the plate. The Aggies, held hitless for six frames, finally made their move in the seventh, beginning with Verde’s lead-off double. He eventually scored A&M’s first run of the game when Thurmond drove him in with a screaming pinch-hit single that hit the rightfield fence on the fly- At that point came the first of two highly controversial plays at first AOOIMS rmY/t/o ib UP CATCH SLEtPIMO Hobs / OU 6-UY5 WANT TO .7-0 IS ROUNDS INSTEAD OF T IVIES P Thurmond on first, Rodney Hodde grounded a double play ball to the SMU second baseman. Thurmond was forced at second but Hodde ap peared to have beaten the return throw to first by sliding into the bag head-first. Hawthorne scored on the play and the game would have been tied but Hodde was called put at first, igniting an eruption from the Aggie dugout on the first base side. The decision of the first-base um pire stood and the Ags were still down by a run. They did tie the game in the eighth, however. Steve Robinson and Randy Woodruff both singled. Bonner then lined a hit to leftfield which the Mustang leftfielder bob- bled, allowing pinch runner Joe Paul Bramhall to score the tying run. Larry Hughes came on in relief once again and got the Ponies out of the inning. In the bottom half of the inning, Long put his team back in front when his fly ball dropped over that short leftfield fence for a solo homer. In the top of the ninth, Hawth orne was robbed of extra bases on a spectacular diving catch by Long in right-centerfield. Thurmond then bounced a grounder up the middle that was fielded nicely by second baseman Donny Williams. Thurmond ap peared to have Williams’ off-balance throw to first beaten by two steps but once again, the first base umpire called the Aggie runner out. The call emptied the Aggie dug- out. Both A&M coaches, Tom Chandler and his assistant, Jim Sampson, were ejected from the game in the ensuing arguement, as were two A&M players — first base coach Rommy Larsen and pitcher David Pieczynski. After about a ten-minute discus sion, play resumed with Hodde popping out to end the game. The 3-2 loss to the Ponies ended the Aggies’ longest winning streak of the season at eleven games. Pieczynski was the losing pitcher and drops to 4-4. Hughes got the Win and goes to 5-2. For the third time in the series, A&M was only able to collect five hits as their offensive production was well below par. It was the second road loss for the Aggies this season. The two wins over SMU moves the Ags to within a full game of first place Arkansrs who was idle in league play this past weekend. A&M is now 14-4 in SWC play while the Razorbacks are 15-3. SMU, despite the win over the Aggies, is in a three-way tie for the league cellar at 5-13. They are now 18-24 on the season. A&M will take a 27-11 season record into a SWC series with Texas Tech at Olsen Field this coming weekend. Friday’s game will begin at 2 p.m. instead of 3 p.m. due to Aggie Muster. n ii i Remember your grad! 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