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By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Sports Staff
At least the Aggies got four
baseball games under their belts be
fore conference play begins this
weekend. After Texas A&M’s first
two home series were lost to rain.
Northeast Louisiana University
drew the lucky card as the Aggies’
first opponents.
And before going home to
Monroe the Indians managed one
victory out of the four-game set.
After dropping the first three, 11-2
and 3-0 Monday and 14-4 in the first
game Tuesday, NLU won the finale
10-5.
Nightcap is an appropriate word
to use in describing the final game
Tuesday, the first loss of the season
of the Aggies. The game was called
on account of darkness in the bot
tom of the seventh inning, the Ag
gies trailing by five with the bases
loaded and two outs.
“I don’t blame the umpires for
stopping it,” Coach Tom Chandler
said. “After all, the concern of the
players comes first. It was getting
too dark to see the ball.”
It was as if it was too dark for the
Aggie pitchers to see the plate as
well. In the seven innings, four
Texas A&M hurlers combined to
walk 12 Indian batters. The Indians
took advantage of the Aggie wild
ness to score runs in five of the
seven innings played.
“Giving up 12 walks in a game
will kill you,” Chandler said. “When
batters are going up to the plate and
not swinging the bat the other eight
players on the field don’t have a
chance to contribute.
“But I wanted to experiment in
that last game, give my young
pitchers a chance to see what they
could do and hope one of them
would come to the front and be my
third starter.
After Randy McDonald started
for the Aggies, pitching three in
nings and giving up five runs, four
hits and walking four, Chandler
started the freshmen waltz to the
mound.
Steve Thelen came on to pitch the
fourth inning, walking three but
getting out of the staza without giv
ing up a run. Steve Davis pitched
the fifth, giving up a single and a
double for one run. Brad Wiggins
finished up for the Aggies.
In the two innings Wiggins
pitched, the Indians tagged the
freshman for four runs on two hits.
Wiggins walked the bases full in the
sixth before catcher Phil Roark
cleared the bases with a two out
double. The Indians added a run in
the top of the seventh on a single,
base on balls and an error by
shortstop Bryan Little.
“I was really disappointed in our
pitching depth,” Chandler admitted
after the loss. “I really thought our
youngsters would perform better.
But we really haven’t concentrated
on getting them in shape. We've
really worked on getting our front
line pitchers ready for the season.”
While the pitchers may be lag
ging behind, Aggie batters are
grooved and ready for the Univer
sity of Houston in the conference
opener Friday. In the opening end
of Tuesday ’s twin-bill, trailing 4-1 in
the bottom of the third, Texas A&M
erupted for six runs on four hits.
Buster Turner ripped a three-run
home run to supply the big blow for
the Aggies, the second home run of
the season for the Aggie catcher.
“I’m surprised that I’m hitting the
ball so well this early,” Turner said.
“That’s pretty unusual for me. I’m a
free-swinger and it usually takes me
two or three series to get my timing
down.
“I’m laying back and waiting on
the ball. My confidence is high, and
for being so early that’s good. I’m in
a groove. I just hope to stay in it
through conference.”
The SWC competition comes
quickly, with the Aggies traveling to
Houston this weekend to face the
Cougars in a three-game series, a
single contest Friday and a double-
header Saturday. Chandler an
nounced that Mark Ross would
pitch the opening game, with Mark
Thurmond pitching the first game
Saturday. The pitcher for the night
cap has not been decided yet.
With the bulk of the Aggies’
Correction
In the Tuesday, Feb. 26 Bat
talion, an article about the Texas
A&M-Northeast Louisiana
baseball game incorrectly re
ported that NLU’s nickname is
the Tigers. The Northeast
Louisiana baseball team is
nicknamed the Indians.
The Battalion regrets this er-
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workouts being held on the parking
lot and not on the infield, the team
isn’t in top shape as yet. But Chan
dler thinks the squad is ready to
challenge the Cougars.
“Mentally, we re ready to play
ball,” the coach said. “Defensively,
we played some pretty good. All we
need is a good pitching staff to carry
us.”
Kyle Hawthorne feels that his fel
low teammates are ready for the
season to commence. Tuesday,
Hawthorne clubbed a double,
reached base twice on base-on-balls,
and collected one RBI.
“It’s not a question if we re
ready,” said Hawthorne, who broke
Texas A&M’s home run record last
season with 14, “we have to be
ready this weekend. I was skeptical
going into this series. But we looked
alright.
“Were as ready as the Cougars
are, maybe even more. They beat us
four out of five last season and we
haven’t forgotten that. You don’t
forget when somebody gives you a
hard time.
“If we can play our kind of ball
well come away with three
(victories).”
Friday’s game is scheduled to
begin at 3 p.m., with the double-
header Saturday scheduled for 1
p.m. The games will be played on
the Cougars field, near Hofheinz
Pavilion on the University of Hous
ton campus. The Aggies return
home March 20 to face the Univer
sity of Arizona in a short two-game
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DALLAS — Tennis is still No. 1
in the life of Martina Navratilova.
She wants to win at Wimbledon
again and then win the United
States Open for the first time, so she
can be ranked No. 1 in the world
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But, Martina insists, that doesn’t
mean she can’t spend her day off be
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she pleases.
“Who in the world is to say I can’t
do anything I want to on my day
off?” she demanded, in her precise
English.
The question came up because of
her schedule earlier this month.
Martina had played in a tour event
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nent in Detroit. "It (the travel)
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