THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1980
Page 15
TAMU softball team wins regional title
by RICHARD OLIVER
Sports Editor
The Texas A&M University
women’s softball team defeated
Oklahoma State University in the
finals of the Southwest Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
regional championships, 3-0, Friday
to assure themselves the No. 1 posi
tion nationally and a spot in the na
tional championships May 22-25 in
Norman, Okla.
Shan McDonald, now 18-5, gave
up four hits to the Cowgirls, and
struck out three in posting the vic
tory. The Aggies are now 67-14 for
the year, and 40-7 for the spring
season.
A surprising facet in the tourna
ment, held at Bee Creek Park in Col
lege Station, was the collapse of the
nation’s top-seeded team, Texas
Women’s University. They were de
feated in the second round and in the
loser’s bracket of the double elimina
tion competition, and failed to make
the finals.
Texas A&M, on the other hand,
waded through the tournament un
defeated, beating Northeast
Louisiana, Oklahoma University and
OSU twice. The Aggies defeated
OSU earlier Friday, 3-0, forcing the
Cowgirls to the loser’s bracket,
where they proceeded to beat Okla
homa University, 5-4, and earn a
berth against the Aggies in the finals.
Baylor won the Division 2 cham-
pionship, knocking off Texas
Women’s College, 8-4.
Prior to the tournament, Aggie
coach Bill Galloway said he regarded
OSU as the “team to beat” in the
tournament, and said to keep an eye
on them. He was right.
In the hard-fought final victory,
Texas A&M racked up seven hits and
one stolen base, led by shortstop
Carrie Austgen, who was two-for-
four, and Irene Mauch, who was
one-for-one with two walks and a
single.
In Texas A&M’s semi-final victory
over OSU, Lori Stoll stuck out seven
and allowed four hits for a 1-0 vic
tory, raising her record to 20-2. OSU
finished its season as the Big Eight
Champions, with a 42-22 record.
In four games in the tournament,
the Aggies only allowed seven runs
and pulled off a triple play against
Northeast Louisiana in their second-
round game.
The Aggies entered the Division 1
regionals ranked second in the na
tion behind Texas Women’s Univer
sity. After the failure of TWU to > "yX '
make the finals, however, coupled ""
with Texas A&M’s championship Mm
victory, the Aggies are expected to
be ranked first in the final coach’s
poll due out this week.
Sophomore second baseman Shannon Murray,
shortstop Carrie Austgen, throws to first base
hacked up
for an out.
Freshman Carrie Austgen
has an eye-to-eye talk with
coach Bill Galloway, above.
Galloway gives some in
structions between innings
to co-captain Nancy Sulli
van, right.
Photos by
Lee Roy
Leschper Jr.
Pitcher Shan McDonald slides into home in an unsuccessful steal against Oklahoma State-
oftball team heads successful weekend for Aggies
I Here’s a review of the weekend’s
5gie sports highlights:
Baseball — The University of
ceUfixas swept the TCU Horned Frogs
er the weekend, assuring them-
eri gives first place in the final South-
103 | ts t Conference baseball standings,
e final standings have the Lon-
lorns in first place, IV2 games
ead of Texas A&M University, 2> l A
lead of Arkansas, and 5 ahead of
|exas Tech.
Softball — The nationally second-
iked Texas A&M women’s softball
am swept through the Division 1
JAW regional softball champion-
ips to win the tournament and
iure themselves the top-seeded
spot in the national competition May
22-23 in Norman, Okla.
The Aggies are now an incredible
67-14 on the year and 40-7 this
spring, for winning percentage of
.851.
Golf — The Aggies tied for eighth
place in the Southern Intercollegiate
Invitational over the weekend in
Athens, Ga. Oral Roberts University
won the event with an 865, followed
by Georgia Southern and Cen
tenary.
The Aggies finished with an 881
total. Steve Bowman led the Aggies
with a 217.
The Aggies now must sweat out
the next few days waiting to see if
they will be invited to the NCAA
tournament, which will be held May
28-31 in Columbus, Ohio. Invita
tions for the tournament go out
Monday.
Track — The Lite Invitational
track meet in Houston over the
weekend produced some stiff com
petition for the Aggies, but Leslie
Kerr streaked to two first places to
lead a respectable showing for Texas
A&M.
The meet had several national and
international track stars, but Kerr
won the 400-meter race in 45.4
seconds, and anchored the Aggie
1,600-meter relay team to a first
place win with a 45.5 anchor leg.
Pole vaulter Randy Hall took
fourth place at the meet with a 17-6
vault. Chuck Perry jumped 7-2 to
place third in the high jump and Tim
Scott was fifth in the discus at 192-1.
Texas A&M’s 400-meter relay
finished second behind Houston,
with the Cougars running a 39.04
and the Aggies a 39.33.
Meanwhile, the other half of the
Aggie track team was competing
across town in another meet at the
Houston Baptist track.
Richard Lamb won the javelin
with a 216-3 toss and Bart Daniel
won the 400-meter hurdles in 51.6 to
lead the Aggies.
Other Aggie highlights: Rick Tho
mas was second in the hurdles at 10.3
and was third in the 200 meters at
21.1, and Charles Rainey was second
in the 100-meters at 10.3 and third in
the 200 meters at 21.1
Philip Steen was fourth in the 100-
meters with a 10.5 and fourth in the
200-meters at 21.3, Reggie Jamerson
placed second in the long jump with
a 24-314 leap, Mark Isenmann was
second in the shot at 58-514, and Rick
Thomas was fourth in the 110-meter
hurdles at 14.2 seconds.
Jerry Strong was fourth in the pole
vault, clearing 16-0.
The women’s track team also com
peted in the Lite Invitational, and
set two school records in the process.
Sandra Brown set one with a
9:47.24 fifth-place finish in the
3,000-meter run. The 400-meter re
lay team set the other mark with a
47.91 third-place showing.
The Aggies also had a second-
place showing in the 1,600-meter re
lay, running a 3:50.18. The sprint
medley relay team finished fourth
with a 1:49.75 showing, and Lori
Scott was sixth in the 3,000 meters in
10:01.99.
The Aggie men’s squad, minus
Hall and Kerr, will compete in a
quadrangular meet in Austin Thurs
day. Also, the SWC outdoor cham
pionships will be in Waco May 16-
17.
r ennis team eliminated
arlyin state tournament
By MIKE BURRICHTER
Sports Staff
jFour members of the Texas A&M
linen’s tennis team tuned up for
upcoming Regional Team Tour-
ment by competing in the State
dividual Tournament at Odessa
t weekend.
3x>ach Hollis Hands took her top
rplayers, Kathleen Sissom, Judy
illard, Liliana Fernandez and Ter-
Neutze to the tournament, which
rtedThursday and ended Sunday,
iwever, the Ags didn’t fare that
ill and were finished by Thursday
Cht.
Willard won her first singles
itch while the others lost their
St-round matches. Willard, play-
in the No. 2-seed bracket, beat
felissaZoelle of UH, 6-3, 6-4, be-
6 bowing out in her next match.
Ihe doubles teams of Willard-
irnandezand Sissom-Neutze fared
little better, with both teams win-
eir first matches before exit-
| after the second round.
Although it was a short tourna-
ifnt for the Aggies, Hands was
pleased with the women’s perform
ances, attributing the team’s quick
exit to the draw.
“In a tournament like this, the
luck of the draw determines the win
ners,” she said. “If you get lucky and
end up in a good draw, you can win jf
five or six matches before losing, j
That just didn’t happen to us.”
Hands was particularly impressed I
with the play of Fernandez, the j
team’s No. 3 seed, who lost to Kim i
Wilson of Trinity 7-5, 6-2 in the first !
round. Hands said Fernandez, a {
freshman from Bogota, Colombia, j
played “fantastic.”
Hands said with more work, Fer- j
nandez, who did not practice very j
much in Colombia should win a lot |
more matches.
“She had a little bit of trouble ad- |
justing here,” Hands said. “She |
practiced twice a week back home !
and we work out 3V4 hours a day j
here. |
The women, by merit of their 1
sixth-place finish in the state tourna- j
ment two weeks ago, will compete in "
the Regional Team Tournament in
Baton Rouge, La., May 16-18.
Hands, whose team finished the
regular season with a 14-14 dual
match record, said her players
should be much improved by next
year.
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