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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1979
Aggies take third place in home tournament
By TONY GALLUCCI
Sports Editor
Coach Cherri Rapp’s basketball
team blasted the Baylor Bears 81-52
in the final game of the Aggie Lady
Classic to take third place in the tour-
Chandler is
optimistic on
Ag prospects
When Texas A&M baseball coach
Tom Chandler gathers his troops in
January to begin pre-season work
outs, he will be on somewhat of a
fact-finding mission. A lot of answers
will need to be found before the
Aggies take the field for the season
opener Feb. 19 against St. Mary’s
University of San Antonio.
“We re returning six starters from
last year and have a pretty good nuc
leus to work with,’’ says Chandler.
“But our pitching staff will be inex
perienced. We have a very young
staff with some good arms and they
will need to improve as the season
goes along. Adding to the problem of
a young pitching staff is that we also
lack experience at catcher. Our
strengths this year will be good
speed in the outfield and a good dou
ble play combination. ’’
Those six starters are senior out
fielders Mike Hurdle and Simon
Glenn, senior second baseman Ran
dy Woodruff, junior shortstop Bryan
“Twig” Little, junior first baseman
Rodney Hodde, and junior third
baseman Harry Francis.
Hurdle is a fourth-year starter for
the Aggies who has a chance to break
a number of' A&M career records
with a good senior season at the
plate. Glenn is the swiftest Aggie,
having stolen 10 bases in 12 attempts
last year. Woodruff, who received
his undergraduate degree in
Accounting this past December, has
always been an excellent defensive
player but last year also established
himself as an offensive threat, lead
ing the Aggies in hitting during S WC
play with a .338 average.
Little was a second-team NCAA
district 6 All-Region selection last
year and this fall played for the Un
ited States in the Intercontinental
Cup Tournament in Cuba. The
speedy shortstop batted .337 in
SWC play last year and led the team
in hits.
Hodde, who has played first base,
outfield and pitched for A&M during
his career, led the Ags in hitting last
year with a .304 average for the sea
son. He also had a 2-1 pitching re
cord and 1.90 ERA in his seven
mount appearances. Francis was a
part-time starter at third for A&M
last year.
There are, however, a number of
gaps to fill. Gone are All-SWC pitch
ers Mark Thurmond and Mark Ross,
who between them broke or tied 14
A&M school records. Kyle Hawth
orne, the Aggies’ all-time homerun
and RBI leader, also played out his
eligibility last spring, as did All-SWC
outfielder Shelton McMath and
catcher Buster Turner.
But Chandler has the material to
work with in reshaping these areas,
especially pitching. Freshmen Rick
Luecken from Houston Spring
Woods, David Flores of Corpus
Christi Carroll and Charlie Guinn
and Robert Slavens from Houston
Westbury all have good arms but
need seasoning. Add to the list of
newcomers to the Aggie pitching
staff junior Perry Kilgo, a transfer
from McLennan County College,
and freshman lefthander Jack Miska
from Wharton.
Returning hurlers are sophomore
lefty Steve Davis, who was 3-1 as a
part-time starter last year, and soph
omore righthander Bobby Taylor
who finished strong last season after
missing most of the season with in
juries.
At the end of fall practice, A&M ’s
depth chart looked like this: fresh
man Joey Szekely at catcher backed
up by junior Chris Rupp, Hodde at
first base; Woodruff at second; Fran
cis at third; Little at shortstop; junior
Joe Paul Bramhall or freshman Bob
by Beach in leftfield, Glenn in
center; Hurdle in right; Flores, Mis
ka, or JC-transfer Tim Boyes at de
signated hitter and freshmen David
Fry, Clint Heard and Mike Borman
backing up the infield positions.
Chandler will be seeking career
victory No. 500 this season as his
21-year record stands at 490-238.
The Aggies will not be straying from
the plus confines of Olsen Field too
often in 1980 as 22 home games have
been scheduled, including twinight
doubleheaders with USC and Miami
('Fla.).
ney and lift their season record to
8-7.
“I was pleased,” Rapp said. “That
was the best we’ve played in a whole
game since before Christmas. We re
finally getting some confidence
back. ”
the Baylor defense wide open allow
ing Foreman, Tammy Grafton and
Susan Kimbro to work underneath.
Peggy Pope pulled down nine re
bounds in helping the Aggies to win.
Foreman led all Aggie scorers and
rebounders in the five-game round
Sophomore Lori Foreman con
tinued here domination at the post
collecting 20 points and 11 rebounds
in the game.' Outside shots by Lola
Baker netted her 16 points and kept
robin tournament for major colleges.
She averaged 14.6 points and 8.2 x’e-
bounds. Peggy Pope was a close
second in both categories contribut
ing 13.8 pointed per game and grab
bing 7.0 caroms.
Memphis State and McNeese
State, favorites from the start, bat
tled it out for the tourney title in
Saturday’s first game. Memphis
State left, the victor, after a tough
56-49 win. Both teams placed two
players on the All-tournament team.
Speedy Betty Booker, a 5-5 guard,
and 5-7 guard Marcia Monk were the
honorees from Memphis State,
while 5-6 forward Aline Guidry and
6-0 freshman center Pat Jean were
selected from McNeese. The fifth
team member was 6-0 forward Molly
McGuire of fourth place University
of Oklahoma.
Memphis State finished the tour
ney undefeated at 5-0, McNeese had
a single loss, 4-1, and A&M finished
3-2, losing only to the first and
second place teams. Oklahoma'
finished with two wins and three los
ses, Baylor picked up a single win
and Southwest Missouri State went
home winless, 0-5, although they
came within a mere second of victory
over Oklahoma in those two teams’
final game.
In the junior college single
elimination tournament portion of
the Aggie Lady Classic, Amarillo
College defeated Western Texas 78-
73 to take the title. Tyler Junior Col
lege eased by Eastern Oklahoma to
take third place, 66-64.
Eastern Oklahoma was undefe
ated (14-0) and ranked number one
nationally coming into the tourna
ment. Murray State, ranked eighth
and having a 13-1 record coming in,
finished in fifth place by beating
McLennan County College 66-53.
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