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'S Jthe sports •'cycle. - Satuiij, : nde «* K ■"'vard f ; S ' JUST KNOCK '£M OVEN ONE At A TIME ANO WIN A PRIZE f START WITH THE PICS / m imingusl ciniega t. C* I court oii f •ity o( f | By MARK PATTERSON he am® Battalion Sports Staff e altlio«| iThe] 1979 baseball season has squired! ound down to six regular-season tstatw imeslfor Texas A&M. And, as is led a p lually the case this time of the cattlem ar, all are crucial for the home depeoii am. shifted Going into today’s game against er opeii ^Arkansas Razorbacks, the Aggies ic viatt - e five-and-a-half games behind ague-leading Texas and four imes behind the visiting Hogs, be top four teams in the Southwest ONY, Conference receive bids to the iDS jost-sf ason tournament and the Ag- |||l|(J 7; esan only a game in front of the mrth-place Baylor Bears. The turth-place finisher draws the con- irence champion in the opening jund of the tournament. 1 The Bears wind up regular-season 1 lay against TCU this weekend hile; the Aggies look forward to osting a three-game series against it re Longhorns next weekend. tGoing into the Tech series last n [ eekend, we felt like we could still rin the championship,” assistant oach Jim Sampson said. “But the ings went (losing two-out-of- we washed that out. From a coaching stand point, ere shooting to finish second or [That way we wouldn’t have to he host team, assuming it’s in the opening round of the ment.” e joining the SWC’s round- schedule in 1974, Arkansas ver won a game in its six trips liege Station. In last year’s se- | at Arkansas’ George Cole the Aggies took two-out-of- to clinch the SWC cham- ip. This year, the Hogs are in challenging for the crown. “Every series has been important it looks like this one will be the [crucial of the year for us,” Ar- coach Norm DeBriyn said, ad hoped to be in a position to a run at the league title when t to the A&M series and we at still have a chance. Of course, eries could mean a lot in de aling an NCAA bid.” 6th an overall record of 27-14, pmly hope the Aggies have in re jig an NCAA bid is to win the T tournament in Austin May |3. The thrust of the Aggies’ rests in the arms of Mark Ross and Mark Thurmond. On the year. host Hogs Thurmond is 9-2 and Ross is 8-3. In today’s game, scheduled for 3 p.m., Ross will be opposed by right-hander Rich Erwin. Erwin set an Arkansas school record this sea son, compiling 11 wins against one loss. He leads the team in pitching and is second in the conference with a 1.29 ERA. After the second loss of his college career last weekend, Thurmond will try and rebound against Steve Krueger in the first half of Satur day’s double-header. Scott Tabor will pitch the third game for the Razorbacks. “Discipline at the plate will be very important to us if we are to beat Ross and Thurmond,” DeBriyn said. “We can’t afford to swing at bad pitches. “As always, Texas A&M has excel lent pitching. Ross has a good fastball and an excellent slider. He keeps his pitches down and is tough to hit.” If any team in the conference can hit against the Aggie pitching staff it is the Razorbacks. Coming into this weekend’s series Arkansas has a team batting average of .304, second in the conference behind the Aggies’ .317. Seven Razorbacks are hitting over .300 on the year. The Razorbacks have set six school records in the hitting de partment this season, including most runs (270), most doubles (76), most triples (31) and most home runs (30). “They’re having an outstanding year at the plate,” Sampson said of the Razorbacks. “We didn’t know that much about them at the begin ning of the year because of all the new kids they brought in. Their junior college transfers and the freshmen they signed are doing the job. Things are just falling into place for them. “But the past two years Arkansas has gone through the same thing we have. They start the year off well but have tailed off in the tourna ment. We ll see if the same holds true this year.” Mathematically, the Aggies have a shot at finishing anywhere from first to fifth in the conference chase. To win it, the Aggies would have to sweep their last two series and have Tech sweep Texas this weekend. 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If the Raiders sweep the Longhorns and the Aggies drop their last six games, it’s bleacher time for the Aggies. “If Tech somehow sweeps Texas and we take these last two series, we can win the thing,” Sampson said. “So if you’re going to talk about fifth, you have to talk about first as well. “The key for us is how the team reacts this weekend. The pressure that comes with repeating as cham pions is off. Now we re playing for pride and a spot in the tournament. “Tomorrow will answer a lot of ifs and buts on who’ll finish first and who will finish fifth. We ll just have to wait and see the whos and wheres when it’s over.” Spurs lose United Press International SAN ANTONIO — Julius Erving broke open the game with 16 points in the third quarter Thursday night to carry Philadelphia to a 120-97 thrashing of cold-shooting San An tonio and keep the 76ers alive in their NBA Eastern Conference sem ifinal series. San Antonio had hoped to clinch its first NBA playoff series victory, but the 76ers’ win left the Spurs with a 3-2 advantage and sent the best-of-seven game battle back to Philadelphia for Game 6 on Sunday. The Spurs, who hit 50 percent of their shots in the first four games, hit only 21 percent in the first quar ter Thursday and could not make a basket during the first 3:41 of the contest. Philadelphia scored the first 12 points and San Antonio could sel dom come closer than that as George Gervin, the NBA’s leading scorer for the past two seasons, missed all seven shots he took in the first half and finished with only 13 points. The Cow Hop RESTAURANT WITH ANOTHER GREAT BURGER! BACON BURGER WITH FRIES "AN AGGIE TRADITION" 846-1588 317 UNIVERSITY DR. (NORTHGATE)| YOU SET THE PRICE! WHAT?? THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 28th, FROM 10 A.M. TO 4 P.M. THE BSD FISH COUNCIL WILL BE WASHING CARS AT THE TEXACO STATION NEAR CULPEPPER PLAZA. WE WILL WASH YOUR CAR FOR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO PAY. 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