THE BATTALION
TWURSOAV. MARCH 6. 1980
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AUSTIN — John Danks and Ron
Baxter overcame first half problems
to lead Texas to a 70-61 victors' over
St. Joseph’s (Pa.) University
Wednesday in a first round game of
the National Invitation Tournament.
Danks, the game’s leading scorer
with 19 points, had but two points in
a listless first half. Baxter scored 10 of
his 16 points in the second half. He
was plagued with foul problems in
the first half, getting his third with
four minutes left in the first half.
Texas led 31-25 at the half and ex
panded its lead to 56-39 with 9:55 left
in the game behind the shooting of
Baxter and Danks.’
The Hawks closed it to 60-52 with
3:33 left before Danks scored five
points in a 90-second span to give the
Longhorns an insurmountable 69-54
lead with 1:34 remaining.
Fred Carson and LaSalle Thomp
son scored 11 and 10 points respec
tively for Texas, which now hosts the
winner of the Alabama-Birmingham
vs. Southwest Louisiana match Mon
day night in Austin.
Mike Morrow led St. Joseph with
14, including 12 in the first half.
Bryan Warrick added 13 and John
Smith scored 11 for the Hawks,
which closed its season at 21-9.
Texas, which finished third in the
Southwest Conference, improved its
record to 19-10.
Texas coach Abe Lemons credited
Carson, a freshman point guard, for
charging the offense when the rest of
his players were just standing
around.
Tt’s been a terrible week and it
started that way tonight,” Lemons
said. “We were just listless, standing
around out there. St. Joe is a pretty
good club. I don’t know if (the Texas
players) realized they were getting
into post-play or what.
"But Carson pulled us through
tonight. He did a heck of a job. ”
• High Quality
mi? softball team
ronger than ever
held itByjOHN BRASHER
17-28. f Sports porter
impleting their fall sche-
a 7-7 record the Texas
M ien s softball team, ranked
^ he nation, will now begin
E ough road to the College
Raiders
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a the Aggies swept No. 1
xas Women’s University,
0, in a double-header at
. , I Park in each team ’s spring
^ :ner.
urn ^ ’ r , e jes posted a 58-20 record
finished fifth at the Col-
Series, best ever for an
This year, however,
to Texas A&M softball
, , Galloway, getting to the
World Series may be
RedRaimj cause 0 f , j’ exas a&M’s de-
diedule.
said, “We have one of
s toughest college sche-
this year. It will either
eak us. ”
their schedule this
me week period when the
the nation’s top three
U, UCLA, and California
ic. But the schedule
w up there, as the Aggies
i le with two fine midwest
oranked Indiana Univer-
I )■ 9 Western Illinois.
I ie Aggies will face teams
he top 15 over 20 times
e can combat our oppo-
our excellent pitching
mr defense,” Galloway
have the best one-two
iff in the country and our
nse could stack up against
■ in the nation,
alloway mentions pitch-
ferring to freshman Lori
ophomorc Shan McDo-
w o combined for a 20-6
fell.
wlist for the Texas player
‘"ard, set a school record
ned run average of 0.37
-pitching staff with 78
diile walking only eight
> innings.
^id, She has
for her and could he in
n $ for possible All-
onors.
on the other hand.
had nine wins in the fall and pitched
a perfect game. She gave up only two
walks in 84 innings, had an ERA of
0.59, allowed just 14 runs the whole
season, and at one point, went 13
innings without allowing a hit.
Another plus for the Aggies will be
their speed.
Karen Guerrow, a sophomore
from Bellaire, is the fastest player on
the squad. She led the team in stolen
bases her freshman year and stole
second, third, and home in one game
last year.
Galloway said, “The team has the
capabilities of being one of the na
tion’s top teams. Strength-wise and
position-for-position, it’s probably
the best team ever at A^qM
At second base is Carrie Austgen,
a freshman from La Grange. Austgen
led the squad in seven offensive cate
gories in the fall.
One of the squad’s top hitters is
Rhonda Reese, a junior physical edu
cation major from Spring Branch.
Reese batted .390 last fall and her
skill and experience as a catcher has
made her one of the Southwest’s top
all-around players.
Texas A&M’s top offensive player
is junior Melody Prichard. Prichard,
a left-hand hitter from Long Beach,
Calif., has good power according to
Galloway and is an excellent bun ter.
She had a batting average of .306 in
the fall and led the team with 11
walks.
The shortstop position is solid with
Nancy Sullivan from Houston at the
helm.
Other key players for the Aggies
will be centerfielder Mary Lou War-
go who played all 34 games without
committing an error. There is also
Glorian Motal, who set a school mark
on defense with over 40 assists, and
Maria Resendez who plays third base
with a .920 defensive mark.
Some people may feel that the
team may be inexperienced since it
consists of four freshmen, five sopho
mores, four juniors and one senior.
This spring, the Aggies will play all
of their home games at the Bee
Creek Softball Complex at the end of
Anderson Street in College Station.
This will be the team s home until
the new softball complex, to be built
at Texas A&M, is completed in the
fall.
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