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THE BATTALION Page 7
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1978
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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.
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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.
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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.
The Aggies threatened in every
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inning and got hits in each frame but
the ninth.
T’m really proud of our guys,
they just kept coming back,” said
A&M coach Tom Chandler after the
final game. “Michigan just made
some unbelievable plays. I don’t
think I have ever, in all my years of
coaching, seen so many of the type
of plays that they made in the field.
There’s a cliche that baseball is a
game of inches and that certainly
was true in this tournament. 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.
Thurmond, Bonner, Robert
Verde, Tim Feickert and Mike
Hurdle were selected to the all-
tournament team.
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