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SBaseball Little sets record; Ags to face Hogs n '1 in frontii' s beside Saturdayj heavy, id and 01 rst thingi : no style iy in front ise, and tli wo grunts light, < lenly on s pushed li izingly, I lunches, iously of him a THE BATTALION TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1980 Page 13 By RICHARD OLIVER Sports Editor The regular season is over for the Texas A&M University baseball earn, but the battle is just begin- nng. The Southwest Conference Base- lall Tournament will be held May 16-18 at Olsen Field, and the Uni- lersity of Texas, Texas A&M, Arkan- as, and Texas Tech will be scrapping or the rights to attend the NCAA iouth Central Regional Playoff at the md of May. The Aggies, however, have had a ghly successful 1980 season, and fe expected to be the team most to upset Texas in the tourna- nent. Texas A&M finished the year 17-6 in the SWC, and is currently 2V2 games behind Texas, who plays a three-game series against TCU later in the week. A&M has clinched at least second in the conference, but a TCU sweep of Texas would give the Aggies the regular season SWC title. The Aggies completed a sweep of Rice Sunday with a 9-5 victory in which one record was set and one tied. Bryan “Twig” Little, the steady shortstop for the Aggies, finished SWC season play with 86 assists, set ting a new SWC record. Trey Brooks of TCU set the old record last year. Also, the Aggies finished the SWC season with a 974 fielding average, tying their own school record. Coach Tom Chandler points to the superb pitching of his young staff as the catalyst of the Aggies' season. “The pitching has just been out standing,” he said. “They’ve con vinced me they’ve got a lot of poise and confidence.” Chandler said he is especially hap py about the performances of his two freshmen, Robert Slavens (11-0) and Rick Luecken (9-3). “These two kids have done an absolutely fantastic job this year, ” he said. “Slavens is just a fine player. I kind of projected on him a building attitude this year, but he turned around and did a fine job this year. ” Chandler said he didn’t expect the team to finish as high as it did this year. “I didn’t anticipate this at all. We lost Thurmond (Mark) and Ross (Mark) last year, two fine college cherries?’ meant, 4 ies, am eight-coin Marathon attracts many despite wind and cold dti ® es P‘ te co ^ temperatures and ... winds, Texas A&M Universi- Marathon attracted appro- i“lately 500 runners Saturday. Three competitions were held: the , , . ; 6-mile or full-marathon run, the 13- 1 e y in “ hie or half-marathon run, and the h-mile or quarter-marathon run. Gary Cude won the full marathon ian unofficial time of 2:41:48. Cude as running in the 15-20 age divi- 1. Craig Gargotta, running in the 27 age class, was second at 21. Gary Brendel, the 21-year-old io-engineer graduate student who recently gained national atten- the com the woiiii him offl lew. Ik led, andlj was led weald [atitsbes achary, it hary, m fellow st hajor league standings National League ■St Youjdl ifolwrgh licago Louis lonlreal hila ew York tet Epsiloni •ed 011 said Dei and said rouldbd ment, M ;ep Patti id been 11 of the pt 1 ■ecord at 3 will 1* iach, ^ did 1 nd 1 tal* /e to CO® : wasg< genera ie coacl 3ny of« work ft 15 his neededl lild and notes it the» oked fa 1 ! again [self, son a ished 1 of th e ‘ vhippf* room the tion for his plans to “run marathon in his wheelchair, ran the 26-mile course and came in fifth place overall with a time of 2:58:21, which was also second best in the 21-27 age class. In the women’s division, only the 21-27 age bracket was represented, with Holly Seltzer coming in first with a time of 3:50:45. She was fol lowed by Betsy Jeter at 3:57:05. The half marathon was won by Andy Wismar, who ran the 13 miles in 1:09:33. Wismar, running in the 21-27 age bracket, was trailed by R. Mueunich at 1:11:52. J. Currey won the women’s divi- W L PCT. 9 5 .643 7 5 .583 7 8 .467 6 8 .429 6 8 .429 5 10 .333 llanta in Fran 13 11 11 6 6 6 4 .765 5 .688 7 .611 10 .375 11 .353 12 .333 GB 1 2‘A 3 3 4 1 /4 M 2V4 6V2 7 7W East Toronto New York Boston Milwaukee Baltimore Detroit Cleveland West Chicago Oakland K.C. Texas Minnesota Seattle California American League W L PCT. 8 6 .571 8 8 .500 7 8 .467 6 8 .429 6 10 .375 6 10 .375 5 9 .357 5 .688 7 .588 7 .563 7 .563 8 .529 9 .500 GB 1V4 IV2 2 2 2^2 3 Dionne Warwick says: “Get your blood into circulation.” Call Red Cross now for a blood donor appointment. 'h A Puttc Service of This Newspaper 4 The Advertising Council ATTENTION!!!!!! IF YOU HAVEN’T PICKED UP YOUR 1979 AGGIE- LAND, BE SURE TO DO SO BEFORE YOU LEAVE HERE, ROOM 216 REED MCDONALD BLDG., MON DAY - FRIDAY, 8 A.M.-5 P.M. THE ALAMO has it on tap! ^4 $175 50t FROZEN PITCHERS (with student ID) FROZEN MUGS (with Student ID) ALL DAY MONDAY - ALL DAY TUESDAY 303 University At Northgate "Enjoy The Best In Rock 'n Roll Under The Stars In Our Beer Garden!" pitchers, and we had questionable catching. But they’ve all come through this year real fine. It’s been a team effort,” he said. Chandler is optimistic about the Aggies’ SWC tournament chances. “We’re very solid,” he said. “Lit tle is doing a great job for us and our hutting's coming around. We were in a slump before the Rice series, but we kind of broke out of our slump.” T he Aggies scored 28 runs against frfoo over tbe weekend on 26 hits, with Bobby Beach, Mike Hurdle and J oe Paul Bramhall hitting home runs. On May 16, Texas plays Texas Tech at 5 p.m., and Arkansas takes on Texas A&M at 8 p.m. to start the double-elimination tournament. sion with a time of 1:37:21, follovved by J. Allen at 1:42:22. The six-mile quarter marathon was won by Jim Bolleter at 33:55. He was followed by Tom Benson with a time of 37:32. Katherine O’Keefe won the women’s division, running the course in 42:50. Following her \vas Gail Zieschang at 44:15. All times are unofficial at this point. Tinker Murray, who ran the Bos ton Marathon two weeks ago, orga nized the race. “Actually, the weather for the r un is perfect, ” he said, referring to the cold temperatures. “It’s a bit windy across the tracks, though, and that causes a few problems for the run ners.” Murray said last year’s race was hampered by rain and many racers grumbled about getting lost because signs had been destroyed by the water. “Rain got to us last year,” he said. “We were fortunate this year to have some people make some good signs,” Murray said he was pleased at the number of runners involved in the 1980 marathon. 8 .467 ,3VV “We je trying very hard to keep it a local race,” he said. “We want to have just a few runners, mainly a more competitive thing.” FREE T-SHIRT OR BOOK*BINDltfG" with every 400 pages of thesis or dis sertation copies during April and May KHKKO’S “Your Thesis and Dissertation Pros” 201 College Main $46-9508 anjm 1 ifrf • mctj jfmcAic CLAJJ When you want Quality in a haircut 209 E. 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