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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1980 Page 9 sports H calls" chance It; f opponent] His closest vest Conft Baseball team aces Cougars By MIKE BURRICTER Sports Editor ;Texas A&M baseball team will y for its second consecutive home do 1) P* S ame w * n tonight when the this d,” |es take on the Houston Cougars _jlsen Field. ' " n The Aggies celebrated their first _ jtearance under the home field 1 ''' htswitha2-0winovertheUniver- ty of Southern California before a " 1 score! crowd of 4400 Wednesday aco in V ght ! ! The Ags used three freshmen and ks navi ;, e sophomore on the mound I like toati [ist the Trojans, and they com- ^ effort. d ey 1 spec l Hketol-ned to give the Ags their fourth en I wasiiBjut 0 f the season, aca) we mg T ro j anS) w ho are on a spring eak road trip, may think twice be- Hcoming to Texas on their vaca- m ^again. Before getting to Texas, fy had a season record of 12-9, ctable for the tough Pac-10 con- rehce. This week the Trojans ined a split with the Texas Tech immy' ; d|Raiders to give them their only lother' in of the spring break. The Univer- nasemaniy Uf Texas swept the Trojans in Major Iw straight before they came to I paid college Station. the remiBgje head coach Tom Chandler mosthavfjd the victory over Southern Cali- rnia was especially important be- use of the Trojans’ reputation as ack hoiKji n g a perennial college baseball I can hit lwer l 10U se. i at home Robert Slavens, a 6-foot-7-inch, staying 5-pound freshman from Houston, iped his season record to 8-0, tops the Southwest Conference. SXZX&ve ns, obviously not used to the jjj plight in big-time college sports, 33jjbgs off his success. Tve just gone out and tried to do I job, that’s all,” he said. “I’ve en really lucky so far. I should veilost a few games, like the one ist Arkansas last week(which the ivon, 8-5). Anytime you give up runs, you’re not supposed to Tve had plenty of help from my un.” Slavens said the team is excited out playing the rest of their Friday me games at night. 1 love playing under the lights,” d Slavens, who usually pitches in |of the Saturday afternoon games. Wsh I could pitch under the lights p often, but I usually pitch on irdays.” Slavens and Rick Luecken, ler freshman having a good sea- will pitch this Saturday. The ;ame against UH Saturday will i at 1 p.m. Pitching for the Ags ht will be another freshman, dd Flores. The game will begin i pm. lecken has a record of 6-1, ond-best on the team. Flores is Ion the season. Six freshmen chers on the Aggie staff have a nbined record of 19-1. Slavens said the major difference r between pitching in high school and pitching in college is the number of batters in the lineup he has to pitch around. “In high school, only one or two batters in the lineup could hurt you, ” he said. “In college, there are usually four or five batters that can really hurt you.” Obviously, Slavens has done a good job of pitching around people. Going into Wednesday night’s game, he had an ERA of 2.16, second on the team behind Luecken, whose ERA is 1.92. Luecken also leads the team in strikeouts, with 31 in 47 innings. The freshman pitchers have been getting plenty of support from the Aggie offense, which carried a team batting average of .305 into the game against USC. Junior first baseman Rodney Hodde leads the team with a season batting average of .377. He is three points ahead of senior center fielder Simon Glenn, who is hitting .374. Junior left fielder Joe Paul Bramhall is hitting .361, junior shortstop Twig Little is at .341, senior right fielder Mike Hurdle has a .321 clip and freshman designated hitter Bobby Beach rounds out the over-. 300 club with his .317 average. The Houston Cougars are having their troubles this season. The Cougars, whose season record is 14- 15-1, are hitting the ball well, with a team batting average of .302, but ha ven’t had adequate pitching. The team ERA is 5.38, over two runs higher than the Aggies’ team total of 3.31. The Aggies, 24-5 overall and 10-4 in conference, are trying to catch the league-leading Texas Longhorns, who have a conference record of 11- 1. The Cougars are 4-7-1 in confer ence play. Ags invited to represent state After beating the University of Texas last week, the Texas A&M women’s soccer team was invited to represent the state in the Colorado Tourney on April 18-19. The Ags, state champions in col legiate play last fall, beat the Lon ghorns, 5-2, in Austin Saturday. The Ags jumped out in front, scor ing two goals in the first ten minutes, one by right wing Stephanie Barrett and the other by inside wing Carol Sullivan. The Longhorns, who lost to the Ags in the state finals last season by a score of 2-1, scored two quick goals to tie the score. But Becky Carpen ter booted in a goal from 16 meters out to give the Ags a 3-2 lead by the half. Sullivan and Louise Davis score goals in the second half to wrap up the scoring. The team, coached by Alan Heath, has now beaten the Longhorns three straight times. Their next game will be in San Antonio April 12 against Trinity. Aggie netters face Mustangs in Dallas Women running in Austin By JON HEIDTKE Sports Reporter The Texas A&M women’s track team will be competing in the big gest outdoor track meet of the sea son so far when they travel to Austin today to compete in the Texas Re lays. Coach Bill Nix said that the Texas Relays, a two-day meet, is one of the three biggest in the nation behind the Drake and Penn Relays. Nix will take 11 women to compete in the relays and two others will run in the quarter marathon (6.6 miles). The Aggies’ strength will again lie in the 1,500-meter and 5,000-meter runs. Sandra Brown, in the 1,500- meter, and Lorie Scott, in the 5,000- meter, are both capable of finishing in the top six places. Another strength for the Aggies this year has been in the field events. Iris Tipton in the shot put and Vick- ilee Cobern in the discus will also have a good shot at placing in the top six in their events. Other Aggies making the trip to Austin this weekend include Sande Lambert in the 100-meter hurdles, Jan Chesbro in the high jump and Karen Morgan in the javelin. The team of Cindy Barlett, Ellen and Evelyn Smith, and Julie White will be competing in the 400-meter relay, the sprint medley and the l,6(X)-meter relay. Barbara Collinsworth and Ade laide Bratten will run the quarter marathon. Nix will be making his first visit to the Texas Relays, in which no points are awarded and only individual champions are named. The Texas A&M tennis team, after a close call Tuesday against Rice Uni versity, will play two matches on the road this weekend. The first will be against North Texas State University at Denton to day. The team’s big match, however, will be played Sunday against con ference rival SMU, whom the Ag gies upset earlier this season. The Mustangs were ranked fourth in the nation when they faced the Ags a month ago in the Corpus Christi tourney. The Ags, though unranked, edged the Mustangs, 5-4, for the biggest upset in Texas A&M tennis history. “We’d really like to beat them again,” Aggie tennis player Trey Schutz said. “I know they want to beat us really bad. I like beating SMU because their players are such jerks.” The Mustangs are led by Jai Dilaouie, ranked sixth in the nation at the collegiate level, and Jeff Tur pin, who is in the top 50. The Ags have a season record of 14-6, while the Mustangs are 13-4. Battalion Classified 845-2611 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦ t ♦ ♦ Korean Student Association Congratulates INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION FOR ONE OF THE BEST INTERNATIONAL WEEK FESTIVAL EVER. WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK FOLLOWING PEO PLE FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION. MR. & MRS. EOM, DAL YONG MR. & MRS. KIM, SE JIN DR. & MRS. GIUNG, SUNG KEE MR. & MRS. JOO, HAN SEM MR. LEE, YUNG NAM MR. PARK, SEUNG UN MR. & MRS. LEE, SUK JIN MR. & MRS. LEE, HWA Kl DR. & MRS. KIM, BYUNG TACK MR. & MRS. KIM, JAE KWON MR. KIM, MIN HI MR. 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