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** WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1981
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Seattle uses tough defense
to defeat Mavericks by 18
United Press International
DALLAS — Fred Brown led a
Seattle second-half back-court
barrage Tuesday night in bringing
the Supersonics a 102-84 decision
over Dallas, handing the Maver
icks their seventh straight home
loss.
The Mavericks, losers for the
56th time this year and 1-18 on
Tuesday evenings, opened a 20-8
first-quarter lead behind the early
scoring spree of Jim Spanarkel.
But Seattle outscored the Maver
icks, 12-2, at one point in the
second period and took a 55-53
lead at intermission.
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Seattle, behind John Johnson
and Jack Sikma, outscored Dallas
23-11 in the third quarter as the
Sonics widened the gap to 78-64.
By GLENN KRAMPOTA
Battalion Staff
The Aggie baseball team finds
itself in a deja vu situation turned
backwards this spring. Last year
they began the season with an ex
perienced, heavy-hitting lineup,
but shaky and unproven pitching.
1981 finds them needing to re
place most of their infield and two
of the three outfield slots.
But the trio of starting pitchers
who came out of nowhere to com
bine for a conference mark of 15
wins and 3 losses is back with a
year of experience under their
belts.
Rick Luecken, Robert Slavens
and David Flores, whose pitching
as freshmen enabled the Aggies to
finish just a half game out of first
place last year should be powerful
forces in the conference again.
The two top starters from last
year, Leucken and Slavens, have
different appraisals of their 1980
seasons, but similar views about
the team and the upcoming year.
Rick Luecken, out of Houston
Spring Woods High School, said
he is not satisfied with his indi
vidual performance last year de
spite a 6-2 conference record and a
team-leading 2.21 earned run av
erage.
“I want to get rid of the walks I
gave up last year,” he said. “I’d
also like to control the game
more. ” This would include staying
ahead on the count and placing the
ball so that opposing batters would
take the ball where he would like
them to take it.
Luecken said he has worked
over the off-season on those
things, and thinks he has made
real progress toward improving
his control.
He said he is not gearing him
self to get up for any particular
team more than another, but he
did say this about the league race:
“Texas and Arkansas are the teams
to beat, but we’re definitely as
good as they are.”
Luecken said, “Last year we
had all the seniors. Everybody
knew what they could do and
looked for the long ball.
“This year we have a lot of new
young people and we’re going to
surprise people.”
Robert Slavens was the the
Southwest Conference Newcom
er of the Year in 1980 with a 7-0
record in conference play. He said
he was satisfied with his own per
formance, “but was surprised
more than anything else.”
The Houston Westbury sopho
more said he will keenly miss last
year’s defense.
“But we have more depth this
year and more comeptition for in
dividual spots,” Slavens said.
He also tabbed Arkansas and
Texas as the Aggie’s toughest con
ference foes. The conference will
hinge on who gets the breaks in
the big games he said.
“We’re up in their league, it
just depends on who gets the
breaks in those big games.”
Coach Tom Chandler, entering
his 23rd year as head man, also
looks to Texas and Arkansas.
“It should be an exciting sea
son,” he said. “The league is well-
balanced this year, but Arkansas
and Texas have outstanding
teams.”
About his own team Chandler
said, “We have strength in our
team pitching and we have some
team speed this year, but we lack
power.”
Chandler returns three star
ters, excluding the pitchers. At
first base Rodney Hodde comes
back after a conference season in
which he hit. 295 and had six home
runs. He tied a Texas A&M record
with three homers in one game
against TCU last season, so the
Aggies will definitely will look to
him for the long ball.
He is a senior and a three-year
letterman. So is outfielder Joe
Paul B ram hall who hit .260 in con
ference games. Sophomore catch
er Joey Szekely is the third return
ing regular and he was . 222 against
SWC opponents last year.
Terry Lawrence
Battling for the second basest
right now are sophomores Cli
Heard and David Kennard.
Heralded football recruit,
freshman Billy Cannon, has tin
edge for the shortstop position
Last year’s shortstop, Twig lit.
tie, gave up his last yearofeligilil
ity to turn pro. Third basemu
Harry Francis did the same ml
now junior transfer Grant Prieis
and senior squadman Tim Boys
are vying for that position,
The Aggies begin the seasoi
Friday at 1 p.m. with a double-
header against Northeast
Louisiana at Pat Olsen Field
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nati Reds are surveying fans to de
cide whether to institute a “dress
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Some fans have complained to
Reds’ officials about people who
take off their shirts in Riverfront
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