THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1980
Page 9
sports
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The young Texas A&M baseball
>ee pncf am w jjj £ ace j ts bjggggt ^his
rease an ! ie ] ten( j w h en they play host to
o/.S’ and f ianii-Fla., the No. 1 team in the
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good new The Hurricane will take a 36-7 re-
I retail prd into the series, which begins
II duringfenight at 7:30. The Ags, 27-5 on the
^ Bn, moved up a notch in this
;ek’s national poll, securing the
R) slot in the nation.
Aggie coach Tom Chadler plans to
stay with his winning combination of
three freshmen starting on the
mound, beginning with David
Flores tonight and following up with
Rick Luecken and Robert Slavens on
Saturday.
Flores will be making his third
start since wresting the position from
sophomore Bobby Taylor a month
ago. He has a 2-0 record this season.
junting an?
, be leavin?'
gs running in California
ning frott Six Texas Aggies will face world-
nia, said: .sfcopposition Saturday when they
ides abouUnp ete in the Bruce Jenner Olym-
r n hewf sTnvitational track meet in San
BushinttA Calif.
v He surprint ace Curtis Dickey will be
primary, t busiest of the six Aggies. He’ll
are on the® 6 100-meter dash, anchor the
c futurewff tieter relay and lead off the 800-
ter relay. In the 100 meters he’ll
icing such speedsters as Houston
dependei .’j’g.j,. Hart, Don Quarrie,
im bysoinrjgs s an f orc [ anc j pranee’s ace, Pat-
ble. It ■ s F'<"Barre.
sntuate anl
The Aggies’ 400-meter relay team
of Steve Willis, Leslie Kerr, Vernon
Pittman and Dickey ran a 39.21 last
week in the Texas Relays. USC has
the nation’s best time of 38.6 this
year. Other teams in that race will be
France’s Olympic team, the Los
Angeles Striders, Arizona State, Phi
ladelphia Pioneer Club, UCLA and
the Bay Area Stirders.
France, featuring Barre as its top
runner, reportedly will be going for a
world record in the 800-meter relay.
Texas A&M will run Dickey, Willis,
Kerr and Pittman, the same group
that makes up the 400-meter relay
team.
The other two Aggies entered are
Tim Scott in the shot put and discus
and Randy Hall in the pole vault.
The remainder of Texas A&M’s
track team will engage in a dual meet
with Baylor at Waco on Friday.
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Cyclers to
old race
lis weekend
^By ANGELIQUE COPELAND
Campus Staff
fniis weekend you’ll have a chance
bicycle racing at its best when
Jexas A&M Cycling Team hosts
Second annual Aggieland Stage
bre will be two days of racing
|a time trial and road race on
Jay, followed by a criterium on
nday. Racers must be licensed
litied States Cycling Federation
ers and will compete for overall
ndings in the three events.
Tfe 60-mile road race will begin at
*]30 p.m. Saturday in front of the
el World bicycle shop and Pas-
Pizza with a police escort out of
®e feature event of the weekend.
Senior Men’s Open Criterium,
^1 start at noon Sunday. This 40-
Rrace will be held around the
field in front of Puryear and Law
ith the start-finish line by the
fe entrance.
fere will be a short tourist race
irjthis event open to all specta-
tarting time will be around 2
and prizes will be awarded to
top finishers.
:e promoter Gene Kraft said he
xpecting 60-70 racers from
ind the state to come and bid for
more than $600 dollar prize list,
his is the fourth year the cycling
fejhas sponsored a USCF race on
Texas A&M campus and five
ers of the Aggie team will be
ipeting in the weekend races.
We hope a lot of people will come
and support our riders as well as
some exciting racing,” said Kraft.
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Richard’s blowing smoke;
Astros beat Dodgers, 3-2
Luecken is 7-1, has the best earned
run average on the team (1.58), and
leads the team in strikeouts with 38.
Slavens is 9-0 and has an ERA of
3.00.
At the plate, the Ags are led by
junior first baseman Rodney Hodde,
who is hitting .367 and has nine hom
ers and 30 runs batted in, all of which
are tops on the team.
The double-header Saturday will
begin at 1 p.m.
United Press International
HOUSTON — The scouting re
port rookie Rudy Law had hastily put
together on strikeout Icing J.R.
Richard before the Los Angeles
Dodgers’ season opener proved to be
good advice.
But Law, the fleet center fielder
with a quick bat, still was not totally
prepared.
“I was nervous, real nervous,” he
said after his first encounter of the
worst kind. “Let me tell you, stand
ing in front of a pitcher who throws
100 mph is no fun.”
Richard blew his 98 mph fastball
and 94 mph slider “better than I ever
have to start a season,” striking out
13 Dodgers Thursday night and
allowing two hits — none until Law’s
one-out single in the seventh inning.
Houston won 3-2 with some unex
pected offensive firepower in home
runs by Terry Puhl and Jose Cruz,
and Art Howe’s triple.
“It was a good feeling just to break
up the no-hitter, ” Law said. “I hated
to think of starting the season with no
hits.”
Law was the only Dodgers starter
who was not fanned. Ron Cey went
down swinging three times. Steve
Garvey was so desperate by the fifth
inning that he tried to bunt for a hit.
Law had never faced Richard be
fore.
“I never faced nobody who threw
the ball like that. It was unbeliev
able,” he said.
Law had asked his teammates be
fore the game for advice and he was
told to have patience at the plate and
wait for Richard to throw strikes.
However, Richard did not walk a
batter and he let the count go to 3-2
only twice in the eight innings he
pitched.
He was replaced by lefthander Joe
Sambito to start the ninth inning af
ter Richard strained his back on a
play at second base in the eighth. He
said the injury was not serious.
Sambito retired the side in the
ninth, a feat not uncommon to Astros
fans in 1979. What was unusual were
the home runs hit by a team which
hit 49 all last season, only 15 of them
in the spacious Astrodome.
Third baseman Enos Cabell
asked, “Are we leading the league in
home runs? That’s what I want to
know. ”
Dodgers starter Burt Hooton, who
was bothered by a sore right shoul
der this spring, was lifted for a pinch
hitter after giving up the home runs
and two other hits in the first two
innings. Afterward he said he was
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“The shoulder was not bothering
me at all,” he said. “Red (Adams,
pitching coach) knew it wasn’t hurt
ing. He knew I’d be the last one to lie
to him about it.”
The victory for Richard was his
12th straight against the Dodgers,
who have not beaten him since May
1976.
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