Page 16 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1981
TANK AFNAMAKA
by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds
Softball team
competing
in Indiana
Baseball team completes
series sweep of USA, 10-4
By FRANK L. CHRISTLIEB
Battalion Staff
Putting on their second display of fine overall
ofiense and defense in two days, the Texas A&M
baseball team beat the University of South Alabama
10-4 Wednesday afternoon in front of a tiny Olsen
Field gathering of 150 people to sweep the two-game
series.
Instead of scoring all of their runs in the last three
innings like in their 9-3 Tuesday night win, the
Aggies scored them all in the first four innings
Wednesday and picked up seven of their nine hits in
those innings as well.
Once again the Aggies, who have won seven of
their last nine, played well defensively. A&M is now
making fine defensive plays in important situations,
and has made only two errors in the last seven games.
Aggie starting pitcher Gerry Salinas, 1-0, making
his first start of the year, gave US A one run and four
hits in seven innings before being relieved by Lane
Taylor in the eighth. In his first pitching appearance
of the year, Taylor gave up three runs in the ninth
when he couldn’t throw strikes, walking four men.
However, the Jaguars were too far behind to have
any hopes of catching the Aggies, as B.B. Schott
came in to insure the win for Salinas.
Billy Cannon, playing shortstop for the first time
in several games, started the Aggie scoring in the
first inning when he hit a two-run homer with J.P.
Bramhall on first base. Joey Szekely duplicated Can
non’s hit in the second, hitting a two-run homer
with Terry Lawrence on second base.
Leading 4-0, A&M scored three runs in the third
inning, two of which were unearned as a result of two
USA errors. The only hits in the inning were singles
by Rodney Hodde and Mark Magee, and the only
RBI came on Terry Lawrence’ sacrifice fly.
Aggies scored three more runs in the fourth on a
walk to Tim Boyes, a single by Hodde, a walk to
Lawrence and a two-run double by Kevin Smith.
The third run of the inning scored on a sacrifice fly by
Clint Heard, giving A&M a 10-0 lead after four in
nings.
The Jaguars didn’t score off Salinas until the
seventh, when they did so on a single, a stolen base
and another single. Then in the ninth, they scored
the three runs to make the final score 10-4.
The Aggies, 27-15-1 and 5-9-1 in the SWC, now
return to conference play in a three-game series with
the Baylor Bears Friday and Saturday in Olsen Field.
Friday’s single game starts at 7:30 p.m. and Satur
day’s double header starts at 1:00 p.m.
Valenzuela leads Dodgers
over Astros, again, 1-0
United Press International
HOUSTON — The Los
Angeles Dodgers might be the de
fending West Division champion
if at the end of last season Fernan
do Valenzuela had been asked to
pitch the Dodgers’ one-game divi
sion playoff against the Houston
Astros.
Nothing the barrel-chested,
20-year-old Mexico native has
done before or after that Oct. 6
playoff indicates he could not have
come back from two days rest then
and beaten the Astros.
As it was, Houston won 7-2 and
played for the National League
pennant.
In 21 innings pitched against
Houston since the Dodgers
brought Valenzuela to the major
leagues on Sept. 15, 1980 — in
cluding a 1-0 seven-hit victory
Wednesday night in the Astro
dome — Valenzuela has allowed
the Astros no runs.
Houston manager Bill Virdon
has seen enough to form an
opinion.
“He’s probably a little bit amaz
ing. I don’t know what word to
use, but it’s awful damned good,”
he said.
anybody I’ve seen. You’ve got to
get to him early, just like with Phil
Niekro,” Puhl said.
Strike outs by Jose Cruz and
Mike Ivie in the Astros first inning
stranded runners on third and
second bases. A strikeout by Ivie,
and Art Howe’s ground out in the
fifth inning left runners on third
and first. And Ivie’s ground out in
the eighth wasted a runner at
third.
For the game, Valenzuela
struck out 11 and lowered his
earned run average to 0.25.
And he can hit. Valenzuela got
two of the Dodger’s six hits off
Astros starter Don Sutton, 0-3, in
cluding a game-winning two-out
single in the fifth after Pedro
Guerrero had doubled.
Afterward, an interpreter re
laying reporters questions came
back from Valenzuela and said,
“He said he appreciates what Bill
Virdon said and he is a little sur
prised at what is going on.”
Rangers take Bosox, 16-8
Astros batters tried to move
even with the plate or in front of it
Wednesday to hit Valenzuela’s
screwball early in its break.
“That’s one approach,” Virdon
said, “But it didn’t help us.”
Astros lead off hitter Terry Puhl
explained why he thought Valen
zuela has been effective enough to
have pitched four complete games
in his four starts this season, three
of them shutouts.
“We had our chances to get him
early, but we didn’t. By the fifth
inning, he hits his groove, finding
the right speed on his screwball
and mixing his pitches as well as
United Press International
BOSTON — Nothing that hap
pens in Fenway Park, the home of
the strange, surprises Don Zim
mer. But the Texas Rangers’ skip
per couldn’t help but be a bit baf
fled by his team’s 16-8 win over his
old Boston Red Sox.
“I’ve seen lots of 16-8 games in
here but I can’t remember none
with the wind blowing in,” Zim
mer said after his team had
jumped to an 11-0 lead after two
innings en route to the Wednes
day win. “When you play in Fen
way Park, you don’t know what
you might see. Today was one of
those crazy games.”
The Rangers pounded out 18
hits with everyone but Mickey
Rivers collecting at least two hits.
Pat Putnam drove in four runs,
including three in a seven-run first
inning, while Buddy Bell and Bill
Sample each collected three RBI.
The win avoided a three-game
Red Sox sweep.
Indicative of the craziness was
the first play of the game. Bump
Wills grounded one down the first
base line which the Red Sox ball-
boy cleanly fielded, giving Wills a
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The Texas A&M softball team
left Aggieland for Yankeeland to
test their skills against nine teams
in the first annual Indiana Univer
sity Invitational Softball Tourna
ment.
Tournament competition in
cludes Ball State University, In
diana State University, Illinois
State University, St. Louis Uni
versity, Western Michigan Uni
versity, Northern Illinois Univer
sity, Kent State University,
Southern Illinois Universtiy and
host Indiana University.
The Aggies play Indiana Uni
versity in Winslow Field in a regu
lar game today.
The tournament begins Friday
with pool play eliminations.
The Aggies will be in the same
pool as Ball State, Indiana State,
Western Michigan University and
Southern Illinois.
The top teams from the two
pools will compete for the cham
pionship and the runners-up will
have a consolation game on
Saturday.
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American League
National League
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Montreal
8
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New York
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4
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Milwaukee
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Baltimore
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Chicago
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6
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Houston
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Seattle
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Kansas City
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Minnesota
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Wednesday’s Results
Thursday’s Carol
Wednesday's Results
Thursday’s
Games
St. Louis 3, Chicago 0
New York at Pittsbimli
Los Angeles 1, Houston 0
Atlanta at San Fran®-
Texas 16, Boston 8
Baltimore at Chicago
Atlanta 7, Cincinnati 3
San Diceo at Los
Milwaukee 8, Toronto I
Toronto at New York
San Diego 4, San Francisco 0
Cincinnati at Houstot
New York 7, Detroit 2
New York at Pittsburgh ppd.
Cleveland 4, Kansas City 0
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Chicago 2, Baltimore 1
Oakland 2, Minnesota 1
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“That was the key play of the
game,” deadpanned Red Sox man
ager Ralph Houk. “That cost us
the game. Maybe they would only
have gotten six runs instead of
seven.
“We just couldn’t keep them
from scoring and there’s nothing
you can do, you’re going to have
games like this. You just try to
hope you don’t have too many,”
Houk said.
Al Oliver drove in Wills with a
single and then ineffective Dennis
Eckersley, 1-1, who hasn’t beaten
Texas since July 28, 1979, loaded
the bases on a Bell single and a
walk. Putnam promptly cleared
them with a double to center.
The Rangers added three more
in the first, thanks in part to the
first of two Glenn Hoffman errors
(six in 10 games). They added four
in the second, including a pair on a
Sample double, two in the fourth
and three in the seventh when
Bell belted a three-run homer off
Mark Clear. Clear has given up
four homers in eight innings. He
surrendered two all last year in
106 innings.
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