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r.:iwn”r , !.",h.n>' '• >■' nev sports g / e Ags finish second in Ann Arbor THE BATTALION Page 7 WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1978 itemational hoslovaltia- jonid Brezk: dt to Czechia 3 today he walked oked tired, Czechs i and clu ho arrived a four-dai months ry of a Soddi islovakia. By DERRICK GRUBBS The Michigan Wolverines con tinued their dominance over Texas A&M on the athletic field as the Ag gies dropped two games to the Big Ten champs to finish second at the NCAA Mideast Regional Tourna- Iment in Ann Arbor, Mich, last eekend. Following a disappointing 8-1 loss Michigan in their first-round ;ame, A&M came back to defeat issouri 5-1 and Eastern Michigan beral ComtsiB-l before ending their 1978 season ith a 3-0 loss to the Wolverines in ler, weariipj the finals. the lapelofij'H Michigan now advances to led broadlysj/fcmaha, Neb. for the College World •port and fe/jlieries. Their first opponent will be he capita!, j South Central Regional champion ler Gustav I® ay lor. One of the key factors that pre said Brei:| .vented the Ags from earning the re greeted Ha® WS berth was a defensive break- and saidkisiBown as they commited nine errors spectedamhjpirough their four regional contests. nother element that aided in the &M demise was the superb de fense played by their opponents, in ri /yifft , jlparticular that of Michigan. The Ag- X'llvO /jgieshit seven balls in that final game at could have fallen for base hits Tf had it not been for some alert play If by the Wolverine defense. #V 1 In Friday’s first — round contest etween A&M and Michigan, the ggies drew first blood with a run in the first inning. But the Wolverines pumped on Aggie starter Mark Ross s International for eight hits and six runs to hold a A CITY-I 6-1 lead after four innings. peasants altB D av id Pieczynski came on in re- pfand after giving up a pair of runs the fifth, shut down UM through ie remaining three frames. He re td the last ten batters in order. But A&M could not make up the licit and even though they hit the 11 sharply, finished the game with st four hits. owned mala Mondj ick by lam le that left 3i id and 35 said Tuesday ationed dose le, nearthd 124 miles y, tried to sti urces said fit ?d in the clai! res were if icsday, as Ross was the losing pitcher, snap- ling his consecutive win streak at |n. The Aggies were then faced with difficult task of working their jop reinforrJ way through the loser’s bracket of al. SoldieriJ the double—elimination tourney, sa for woundtBiey quickly responded to the chal- ;an when am lenge. ss peasantsBehind the 5-hit pitching of Mark led with maipiurmond, A&M took a 5-1 deci- 1s and shotgis s km from Missouri, eliminating the rivate farms a Tigers from the tournament, olochic River, Missouri was the runner-up in the ;-8 tournament Friday but had iist their first-round game to East- |n Michigan and were sent packing the Aggies Saturday. beat them ensued, said the unen i laid out hall. js were transpr lospitals in n may [ink Thurmond was denied his sixth shutout of the year as the Tigers scored a single unearned in the sixth. The win ran his season record to 13-1 and was the junior lefthand er’s first post-season victory after four straight losses during his Aggie c£u-(?er. Play continued Sunday with A&M meeting Eastern Michigan to determine who would battle for the Mideast Regional crown. The Wol verines had edged out a 6-4 win over EMU Saturday to earn their spot in the finals. Mark Ross, having thrown only 50 pitches in Friday’s loss to UM, was fresh enough to start Sunday’s con test against Eastern Michigan and looked like the Ross that helped pace A&M to the SWC cham pionship. The junior breezed through eight scoreless EMU inn ings before the Hurons broke up the shutout with a run in the ninth to make the final tally 6-1. Throwing almost effortlessly, Ross yielded just four hits in bring ing his season record to 11-4. Dur ing one stretch, he retired 18 bat ters in a row. The Aggies continued their torrid offensive pace by rapping out 10 hits and securing a 6-0 lead after just four innings. Four A&M players had two hits apiece, led by senior shortstop Robert Bonner, who rip ped a pair of doubles and had three RBI’s. The magic wore off, however, in the final game that same afternoon as Michigan refused to give an inch to the Aggies and came out with a 3-0 win and the Mideast Regional championship. It was only the second time this year that the Ags have been shut out. David Pieczynski started for A&M and pitched six and one-third solid innings, giving up only five hits. The Wolverines bunched three of those safeties in the fourth inning to push across two runs, and then took advantage of an A&M error to score their third marker in the seventh. The Ags out-hit UM by collecting nine hits, and might have had more had it not been for the excellent de fensive display staged by the Wol verines. Rightfielder Mike Parker, who was selected as MVP of the tournament, twice robbed A&M batters with sensational catches that earned him standing ovations from the 3,000-plus crowd. 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Just an inch here and there and we might have had a double or a triple. We had several players hit some bullets that were caught. But it’s been a great year and our players have proven that they are true competi tors in every sense of the word.” The Aggies finish the season 39-16. Those 55 games were the most ever played by an A&M team in one season and they were just one victory short of tying the school rec ord for wins in a season. Besides finishing first and second in the regional, Michigan and A&M dominated the all-tournament team, both schools landing five players on the honor squad. 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Opponents of the sport probably wince at the thought of a four legged creature being called an ss Internationa! | Germany- goslavia tna)' o some ofE'- tl assassinal rder of Alder athlete. These are the type of nhaupt, an® d leader if gang, was ithorities aH Wagner, in, 32, ■ s some quests | /ia would WI it Germany L ielgrade .3 them for \s involved i r ‘ plomats and Germany i 1 itry spokes m day Yugosj^ .mr before many ha ’ on, but •ee to any f taiipt was d# ’ of the foif finals, who s- 1 : and Miss members if gang, urity poIice ; <ed with thet- Italian Prime , who was kP Red Brigades been numet 1 ^ration ainofli s and author seized a lettf' e” from an H to swallow it n Milan last ihaupt and cted in the h nan indtis| Schleyer, after anthon- 11 imprisoned ader-Meinhof; , the same f ost-wanted list ;t German Pros' ried Buback A <er Juergen Poi* tople who doubt that Nadia Com- ci’s floor exercise or Al Unser’s y victory should be termed ath- |ic events. Admittedly, it did seem strange at St to hear the young jockey refer to his horse as an athlete, because one normally thinks of an athlete in terms of bench press, 40-yard dash and any number of statistics that go along with the various sporting events. But Webster defines an athlete as “one who is trained or skilled in exercises, sports or games requiring physical strength, agility or stamina. ” Every 3-year-old colt on the track at the Preakness had trained throughout most of its young life. So a horse is just as much an athlete as is a halfback. Perhaps there are even super athletes in the horse racing commu nity. What O.J. Simpson is to foot ball and what Pete Rose is to baseball, horses like Affirmed and Alydar are to horse racing. The Triple Crown is the Super Bowl or the World Series of horse racing, and look at the frequency of Triple Crown winners of late. In 1973, when Secretariat crossed the finish line first at Belmont Park, the nation saw its first Triple Crown winner in 25 years. Ridden by Ron Turcotte, clad in the familiar blue- and-white-checked silks, Secretariat accomplished what no horse had since Citation in 1948: victories in the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont. Last year, Jean Cruguet rode Seattle Slew to victory in the three jewels of the Triple Crown. Slew became the first unbeaten winner of the Triple Crown in the history of horse racing. Now, with a first place finish in the Belmont, Affirmed has the chance to become the third Triple Crown winner in six years. If Cauthen can ride the colt to a win, Seattle Slew and Affirmed would become the first back-to-back Triple Crown winners in history. So, perhaps the era of the super horse is upon us. It will be interest ing to see what effect this will have upon horse racing. 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