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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1980
Texas claims SWC title;
Aggies eliminated early
by RICHARD OLIVER
Sports Editor
Paced by the brilliant pitching of
Keith Creel and the bat of Randy
Richards, the University of Texas
Longhorns won the Southwest Con
ference post-season baseball tourna
ment championship Tuesday by de
feating Arkansas, 9-4.
The Texas A&M University base
ball team, however, stumbled to two
consecutive losses and was the first
team eliminated in the double
elimination tournament.
Richards’ fourth inning, two-run
home run highlighted a 12-hit Texas
attack against three Arkansas
pitchers.
In the meantime, Longhorn stal
wart Creel was stifling the potential
ly potent bats of the Hogs, giving up
only five hits and one run in the five
innings he worked.
Because of Tuesday’s victory,
Texas will host the NCAA Central
Regionals in Austin Friday through
Saturday. The Horns will play
Louisiana Tech, 42-22, Friday night.
Arkansas, however, will play in Tul
sa, Okla., as the at-large team in the
NCAA Midwest Regionals, to be
held at Oral Roberts University
Thursday through Saturday. Arkan-
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Despite losing the final game to
regular season champion Texas,
Arkansas was the surprise of the
tournament. After demolishing
Texas A&M Saturday in the first
round, 19-10, they were beaten Sun
day by Texas, 6-4, in a thunder
storm-plagued game.
In the loser’s bracket, Arkansas
defeated Texas Tech Monday in the
closest match-up of the tournament,
6-5, and came back that evening to
beat Texas, 8-7, in the championship
game. The win shouldered both the
Longhorns and the Razorbacks with
one loss apiece, forcing an extra
championship game. It was the first
time in SWC tournament history
that the tournament had to go an
extra game.
In five games, the Razorbacks had
64 hits and 41 runs. They were led by
tournament MVP Kevin
McReynolds, who won the triple
crown in the SWC (leading the
league in runs batted in, home runs,
and batting average). McReynolds
was the most valuable player in the
tournament, going 10-for-20 with
eight runs scored, 10 RBIs, one tri
ple, and four home runs.
The Aggie pitching, considered
the backbone of this year’s successful
season, fell apart in their two games,
allowing 27 runs and 34 hits. Robert
Slavens, who was 11-0 during the
regular season, allowed three runs
on three hits and three walks in the
bottom of the eighth inning against
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and lost his first decision, 8-5. That
loss eliminated the Aggies.
The Aggies underwent the first
embarrassment Saturday night,
when Arkansas erupted for 22 hits
and 19 runs to bury the Ags, 19-10.
The Aggies, who came within one
percentage point of setting an SWC
fielding percentage record during
the season, committed six errors in
the game.
Arkansas starter Steve Krueger,
who is considered by many to be the
best all-around pitcher in the SWC,
was peppered for 10 runs (seven
earned) on 11 hits by the Aggies, but
he pitched the entire game.
Arkansas and Texas A&M set or
tied 14 SWC tournament records in
the game, including most combined
score (29), longest game (3:27), most
hits in an inning (seven, Arkansas in
the eighth inning), and most errors
(6, Texas A&M).
Texas A&M has now lost eight out
of 11 games in SWC tournament ac
tion.
Competition in the SWC post
season classic was scheduled to begin
last Friday, but heavy rains Thurs
day and Friday forced postponement
of the tournament for one day (until
Saturday).
The rain continued to give tourna
ment officials headaches, as Sunday’s
Arkansas-Texas game was delayed
for 45 minutes in the eighth inning
due to a spectacular lightning display
and a heavy thunderstorm.
Arkansas led the four teams in all
tournament selections with five, and
Texas had four. Aggie center-fielder
Simon Glenn, who stole four bases
against Texas Tech and set a school
record with his 36 season thefts, was
the lone Texas A&M selection.
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Texas Tech pinch runner Harry Roper slides safely into third
base while Aggie third baseman Harry Francis awaits the
throw from center field. The Red Raiders defeated Texas
A&M, 8-5, to eliminate them from the SWC post-season base
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The Southwest Conference baseball
tournament is finally over, and not
one second too soon.
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exciting; the long-ball hitting of
Arkansas’ Kevin McReynolds and
the swift base running of the Aggies
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best, giving up an astounding 27 runs
and 34 hits in two games. The Aggie
defense, which came within one per
centage point of setting an SWC re
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the regular season, set an SWC tour
nament record with six errors against
Arkansas in losing, 19-10.
AARGH!!!
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announced the Texas A&M Is
team had won the SWC out
championships in Waco. The
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who proceeded to jump
Razorback’s Steve Kreuger foil
runs in the bottom of the nintt
then, though, it was too late
The most disgusting facet of
tournament was the staunch
ghom-supporting “wild bunch,
fans who sit behind the U.T. di
and insult opposing players. Rif
player for making an error is all)
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to this. Calling a player an “»
after he has been smacked in thel
by a bad hop ground ball is will
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j classier support. They rode
bionic arm of Keith Creel to a toil
ment championship, and their
py play made them deserving^
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