THE BATTALION
MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1978
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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
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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.
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