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MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1979 **
mhurmond makes history
Bears take two from Ags
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By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Sports Staff
'here wasn’t much joking around
he Texas Aggie locker room this
April Fools’ Day. Sunday, the Ag
gies dropped both ends of a
double-header to the Baylor Bears,
7-3 and 5-3.
|| History was made in the first
game as left-hander Mark Thur
mond took the loss for Texas A&M,
the first regular-season setback of
his career. Thurmond had compiled
a four-year 16-0 Southwest Confer
ence record, winning his last 28
straight regular-season games and
compiling a 29-5 overall record.
Pri or to Sunday, his only losses had
been in post-season play.
^^■Tve got to take it; it’s reality,”
Jattendjl Thurmond said of his first loss. “I’m
sure not going to roll over and die. I
didn't feel overly good before the
game. I’ve felt worse and won. They
just beat me today.
■‘I hung four or five curve balls
that hurt me. I wasn’t snapping
them off and they were connecting
espeareil on them. I was relying on my fast
at 8 p,m l ball at the end, hoping I could get
by. v
■pile game was tied going into the
seventh when the Bears tagged
Thurmond and reliever Johnny
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Pockrus for four runs, the big blow
being a three-run home run off Poc
krus by Baylor catcher Eugene
Delos Santos.
Jonathan Perlman earned the
victory for the Bears, going the dis
tance and picking up his eighth win
of the year against one loss. Perlman
gave up 10 hits, walking one and
striking out five in the seven inning
game.
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By KURT ABRAHAM
Battalion Reporter
espite being blessed with a spell
;ood weather, the Texas A&M
t4inis team was unable to prevent
T|xas from reigning on the court, as
the Aggies dropped their first con-
, , ; fercnce dual match to the Long-
he horns 7-2 Saturday.
0I1I [ p|After dodging rain showers dur
ing several recent matches, the Ag
gies found themselves playing
under partly cloudy skies for a
change, but it made no difference to
Texas, which swept all six singles
events.
Bexas A&M got off to a good start
early in the action, as they led three
of the singles events after one set
each, But time was on the Long
horns’ side, as they went on to cap
ture four singles matches in three
lull sets.
MVhat had already proven to be a
bleak afternoon for A&M Coach
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David Kent soon became a long one
as well. With only four courts avail
able due to resurfacing, a delay in!
playing the doubles matches soon
developed. That delay eventually
stretched action between the two
teams to a marathon-like five and a
half hours before the last doubles
match finished up at 6:45 p.m.
“Yes, it’s frustrating to have to sit
there so long and watch us not be
able to win,” said Kent. “About all I
can say is that Texas came in, played
good tennis and just gave us a good,
old-fashioned country licking.”
But it wasn’t all clouds for Kent,
as a bright spot when the Aggies
took two of three doubles matches.
In the No. 2 seeded spot, Texas
A&M’s Mike Moss and Trey Schutz
broke the ice with a 7-6, 6-3 deci
sion. That was followed by 3-6, 7-5,
6-3 victory as Aggies Hendrick Rol
ler and Jim Grubert outlasted Guil
lermo Stevens and Glen Barton.
■ootball team scrimmages
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i||Emerson Brown ran 20 times for
87 yards and scored three
touchdowns Saturday in Texas
AjtM’s first spring football scrim-
;e.
rown scored on runs of 6, 4 and
■yards and fullback David
thers, who gained 50 yards dur-
the practice, scored on a 19-yard
Flanker Gerald Carter and defen
sive tackle Gerald Galloway missed
the session becauses of classes and
tailback Curtis Dickey was in a track
meet in Dallas.
Quarterback Mike Mosley com
pleted 10 of 13 passes for 113 yards.
The first team defense did not
give up a touchdown during the
scrimmage.
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From the outset, the second
game of the rain-shortened series
belonged to the visiting Bears as
well. Baylor scored a run in the first,
two ill the third and two more in the
fourth against right-handed starter
Mark Ross. Going the distance,
Ross took the loss for the Aggies,
dropping his season record to 4-3.
“They were getting men on sec
ond base and I’d give up a hit,” Ross
said. “I’m suppose to get tough with
men on base, but today I just mes
sed up.”
The Aggies closed the Baylor lead
in the fourth, collecting two runs on
a triple by Mark McMath, driving in
Mark Warriner, and a sacrifice fly
by Rodney Hodde. The Aggies
scored another in the fifth on a walk
to Randy Woodruff, a single by
Bryan Little, a wild pitch. Woodruff
scored on a ground out by Mark
Warriner.
But after McMath led of the
Aggie sixth with a single of Baylor
reliever Mike Roberts, the plate
umpire called the game because of
darkness. Andy Beene earned the
victory for the Bears in the five-
inning game, raising his season rec
ord to 5-1.
“It was tough to see out there,”
McMath said after the second game.
“Not only for the batters, but for the
fielders as well.”
McMath, in the two games Sun
day, collected three hits against
Baylor pitching. Prior to the series,
McMath led all Aggie batters with a
.366 batting average.
“All they threw were fastballs all
day,” McMath said of the Baylor
pitchers. “They were just rearing
and throwing.”
Aggie Coach Tom Chandler ad
mitted that his players didn’t play
up to expectation in the shortened
series.
“We just didn’t hit the ball today
like we have been,” Chandler said.
“Because of all our rain-outs, we just
haven’t had the hitting practice and
we aren’t scoring the runs that we
need.
With the two losses, the Aggies
drop to 17-9 on the year and 5-3 in
SWC play. The Bears raised their
record to 22-9 and 8-5 in conference
play.
Because of the rainouts Friday
and Saturday, the Aggies will lose
one game off of their SWC
schedule. Baylor left Waco Friday
and because of SWC rules, a team
has three days after it leaves its
home town to play the three
scheduled away games.
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