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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1978
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Raiders come to College Station
By DERRICK GRUBBS
As it stands now, the deciding
blow for the S WC championship will
probably be dealt in less than two
weeks when A&M travels to Fayet
teville for the final league series of
the season.
But before that scene, can mate
rialize, the Aggies must knock off
Texas Tech in a pivotal series this
weekend at Olsen Field.
The Ags currently trail the Razor-
backs by a game in the SWC
standings and a sweep of the Red
Raiders would mathematically as
sure them of a place in the SWC post
season tournament in Austin May
12-15.
Should A&M take all three games
this weekend and Arkansas lose just
one game to the Cougars in that se
ries down in Houston, then the Ags
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league lead going into that final se
ries in the Ozarks.
Might there be a tendency this
week for the Aggies to be looking a
week ahead?
“We can’t afford to look past Texas
Tech,” says A&M coach Tom Chan
dler. “We have to have all three
games. They are important for us re
gardless of what happens against Ar
kansas. Texas Tech has a fresh,
young ballclub with a lot of hustle
and desire. We have to play every
game this weekend as if it were for
the conference championship.”
The Red Raiders will come into
College Station with a 22-20 season
record and a 7-11 SWC mark. They
returned just three starters from a
team that finished fifth in the confer
ence last year with a 12-12 league
slate.
The trio of returners includes
junior rightfielder John Keller, who
is hitting . 270 this year and is tied for
the team lead in home runs with
three; sophomore shortstop Brooks
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Wallace, hitting .317; and junior
second baseman Johnny Vestal, hit
ting .295 and leading the team in
stolen bases with 13. Vestal gave the
Aggies fits in last year’s series in
Lubbock as he went 7-for-12 in the
three games.
A couple of other Raiders to watch
are sophomore leftfielder Larry
Selby and junior centerfielder Randy
Newton. Selby currently leads the
Raiders in hitting at .354 while New
ton is the club leader in RBI’s with
32, and doubles with 12. Those
dozen two-baggers are a new Tech
season record.
The probable pitching rotation the
Aggies will face has freshman Gary
Moyer starting Friday’s contest with
another freshman, Rick Hall, and
junior David Bolton working the
Saturday doubleheader.
Moyer is 4-3 on the season with a
3.33 ERA, Hall is 6-4 and 3.67, and
Bolton is 4-3 and 4.38. Hall currently
leads the Raider staff in strikeouts
with 36. All three are righthanders.
Chandler, hoping that last
weekend’s poor offensive showing
against SMU will not recur, plans to
use the same lineup he has started
with the past four series.
A&M scratched out just five hits in
each of the three games against the
Mustangs, whose pitching staff had
allowed well over a hit per inning
going into their series with the Ag
gies.
Shortstop Robert Bonner holds a
slight edge over first baseman Kyle
Hawthorne and centerfielder Mike
Hurdle for team batting lead. Bon
ner is at .326 while Hawthorne and
Hurdle are tied at .325.
Hurdle will probably be back in
the A&M lineup after sitting out last
Saturday’s twinbill with SMU due to
a sprained ankle. Catcher Buster
Turner, who suffered heat prostra
tion in the second game against the
Ponies, will be back behind the plate
Friday.
The Ags’ pitching rotation will be
the same also. Mark Ross, who has
recorded six straight wins after get
ting off to an 0-3 start this season, will
be on the mound Friday with Mark
Thurmond and David Pieczynski
pitching Saturday’s doubleheader.
Ross has a 3.26 ERA to go with his
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6-3 record while Thurmond, with a
1.96 ERA, is still undefeated at 9-0.
The ace lefthander will also be going
after his seventh SWC win in the first
game Saturday, which would tie an
A&M record held by James “Hoot”
Gibson. Pieczynski comes in with a
4-4 season mark and a 3.43 ERA.
The Tech series is the last
regularly-scheduled home series of
the year for A&M. Friday’s contest
will begin an hour early at 2 p.m.
because of Aggie Muster. The doub
leheader Saturday will start at 1 p. m.
Last year’s A&M-Tech seriesm
nightmare for the Aggies as!
edged out a 5-3 win in thefirstji
but lost both ends of the du
leheader by one run, 7-6 and! P ro P e ,
The Ags left 31 men on base do
that three-game series played
Lubbock.
Since the 1971 series, there)
been six one-run games played
tween A&M and Texas Tech,
team winning three. The overall
ord during that time is 10-8 id
of the Aggies.
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