THE BATTALION
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1981
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y FRANK L. CHRISTLIEB
Battalion Staff
|“Snakebit” and “shell-
ked.”
exas A&M baseball coach Tom
iandler accurately described
condition of his team after
|ach of its two weekend losses to
Arkansas Razorbacks.
first description came after
^™iday night’s game, in which bad
iaks for the Aggies helped the
lorbacks and pitcher Scott
ibor to a 4-0 victory over the
uggling Aggies, who have now
t seven of their last nine confer
ee games. Tabor, considered by
^any to be the best pitcher in the
uthwest Conference, is now 8-1
the season.
Chandler’s second interpreta-
n came after the second game of
today’s doubleheader, won by
hard-hitting Hogs 19-6. In that
me, third baseman Kenny Ro-
rs was 5-for-5 with five RBI and
ir runs scored.
The Aggies managed to win the
[st game Saturday 9-2 behind the
-hit pitching of Steve Davis,
\v4-0. Davis stayed ahead of the
kansas hitters the whole game,
d as a result, didn’t walk
yone.
Pitcher Rick Luecken started
I In - Friday’s game against Tabor, and
1 ' i for three innings, outpitched the
■kansas righthander, giving up
[) hits while Tabor gave up two.
after throwing his fourth-
|ning warm-ups, Luecken came
the field following a discussion
1th Chandler and some of the
her coaches.
I 1 announcement came that
I yiuecken had pulled a groin mus-
JL A ■ do and was being relieved by
avid Flores. The muscle pull
las only the first bad break for the
jggies on a night when, as Flores
'Everything went their
hen scoredftrkansas’)way.”
up Gerail Luecken said: “I was just start-
Reid’s mjagto get in a good rhythm, and
en when I was pitching to the
raid batter in the third inning, I
lied the muscle.”
Flores, 3-3, pitched well in
|uecken’s relief, but Tabor pitch-
better, giving the Aggies two
ts in the last eight innings for a
taloffour in the game.
A&M’s bad luck returned in the
jighth, when Aggie leftfielder Joe
!aul BramhaJJ moved over toward
II close in “(befoul line to catch Arkansas first
ly night. Baseman John Hennell’s sinking
im an offefflBner, Just as he was about to catch
; quartersffl the ball, Bramhall slipped, allow-
teanimate- ingHennell to reach second for an
practice a RBI double, making the score 1-0.
>nio guards’ * The Hogs’ Reggie Thomas led
caused Ifi
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Head Aggie baseball coach Tom Chandler shows his disgust
with an umpire’s call during the scond game of Saturday’s
double header. The Aggies won the first game, 9-2, but lost the
nightcap 19-6. The 21-14-1 (3-8-1 SWC) Aggies return to ac
tion Tuesday against Sam Houston at Olsen Field.
led off with a walk, and one out
later, was doubled off of first base
on a liner to second by Tim Boyes.
In their first-game win Satur
day, the Aggies picked up 15 hits
and looked like the team everyone
expected them to be this year.
Rodney Hodde and Kevin Smith
led the offense with three hits
apiece, while leftfielder Billy Can
non hit a double and a single to
break the slump which had seen
him go 0-for-25 in the Southwest
Conference.
The Aggies decided the game in
the first inning when they put
eight men on base and six of them
scored, with the big hits being
back-to-back homers by Hodde
and Joey Szekely, and triples by
David Kennard and Clint Heard.
Eight of the Aggies’ 15 hits went
for extra bases with Hodde
accounting for three of them with
a homer, double and triple.
In Saturday’s second-game
slaughter, almost every Razorback
who played contributed to the 18-
hit attack, with Rogers and catcher
Dave McClure combining for
eight. The Aggies couldn’t keep
Rogers off the bases, as he walked
once to go along with two home
runs, two singles and a double.
Rogers’ first homer traveled ab
out 420 feet as it cleared the 400-
foot center field wall for only the
second time since the Aggies have
been playing in Olsen Field. His
homers, however, were not the
only ones the Hogs collected, as
Marty Rogers hit a three-run hom
er and McClure connected on a
two-run homer.
The Aggies used five pitchers in
the game, none of whom could
stop the Hogs’ bats. They also hurt
themselves by making four errors.
with three coming in one inning
when Arkansas scored three runs.
The two-out-of-three game
series loss to Arkansas all but eli
minates A&M’s chances of
finishing in one of the top four
spots in the SWC to qualify for the
May conference tournament. To
do so, the Aggies must win almost
all of their remaining nine confer
ence games and teams like Texas,
TCU, Arkansas and Houston must
lose nearly all of theirs. Right now,
that’s not very likely.
After Saturday’s split. Chandler
said although the team is young,
the players have good morale and
attitudes about the job ahead of
them. And as pitcher Davis said:
“We’ve just got to do the best we
can.”
The team has a doubleheader
against Sam Houston State Uni
versity here Tuesday at 5:30 and
goes to Lubbock to play Texas
Tech Thursday and Friday.
Ags third in own tourney
By CAROLYN BARNES
Battalion Staff
Intense competition was the
name of the game during the
Aggie Invitational tournament
this weekend in which the second-
ranked Aggies battled to a third
place finish.
UCLA won the tournament by
taking Arizona State University
Sunday afternoon.
The competition began with a
marathon game Friday night with
the Aggies and UCLA going 29
innings with the Bruins winning
2-!.
“It was the kind you hate to
lose. We played good enough to
win, we just didn’t get the timely
hits,” Aggie Head Coach Bill Gal
loway said.
' Saturday the Aggies went 10
innings against Cal State-
Fullerton winning 1-0.
Galloway pointed out Mel
Pritchard for her defensive play
during the game.
Shan McDonald picked up the
win as Mary Lou Youngblood tri
pled during the Saturday after
noon game against Texas
Women’s University which the
Aggies won 3-2.
The Aggies followed the after
noon contest with a 1-0 victory
over Kansas Saturday night.
Sunday the Aggies were down
5-0 against Arizona State Univer
sity but started a comeback in the
fifth inning. After scoring twice,
the Aggies ended the inning leav
ing the bases loaded resulting in a
5-2 final score.
Five of the eight teams in
volved in the Aggie Invitational
were ranked in the Top 10 of the
latest Coaches Poll.
“I think the tournament was
good, the teams involved enjoyed
the competition. It was intense,”
Aggie Assistant Coach Sue Becher
said.
Four Aggies were elected to
the All-Tournament Team: Pitch
er Lori Stoll, Leftfielder Mel
Pritchard, Catcher Rhonda Reese
and Centerfielder Mary Lou
Youngblood.
The Aggies are now 29-5 for the
spring and will play Cal State-
Fullerton 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at
Bee Creek Park.
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off the ninth with a homer, for all
practical purposes ending A&M’s
chances for a win, since Tabor’s
mastery of the Aggie hitters was
not likely to end.
However, Arkansas was not
through scoring in that inning, as
it combined two more hits, a walk
and a two-run single by Billy Dees
for the final 4-0 score. In the bot
tom of the ninth, the Aggies’ frus
trations peaked when Bramhall
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