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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MAY 4, 1981
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baserunner, Spike Owens, attempts to break
up the double play. The Aggies turned the
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
double play and swept Saturday’s double-
header from the Longhorns to end their
season.
Celtics take series
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ting that it came down to the final
second of the final minute of the
final game. Not until Bobby Jones’
inbounds pass deflected off the top
of the backboard and into the ea
gerly awaiting arms of Cedric
Maxwell could the Boston Celtics
celebrate their miraculous com
eback.
Larry Bird, who scored 23
points and hit the game-deciding
basket with 63 seconds remaining,
held his head in his hands in a state
of near exhaustion. It was, he said
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game-winning basket for the Cel
tics.
M. L. Carr blew kisses to the
crowd and general manager Red
Auerbach was manhandled on his
way to the locker room. Julius
Erving and the rest of the defeated
Philadelphia 76ers scrambled to
avoid the onrushing masses
caught up in the madness of the
moment.
The Celtics earned a berth
opposite the Houston Rockets in
the NBA finals with their 91-90
victory Sunday, completing their
comeback from a 3-1 deficit — the
fourth team to achieve such a feat
in league history. And that they
accomplished it against a team
that was their virtual equal was all
the more astonishing — and re
warding.
Each time in the final three
games of the series, the Celtics
overcame late deficits and won the
game with their defense. On Sun
day, they held the Sixers to just
one point over the final 5:24 in
erasing a seven-point bulge.
Time and again the helter-
skelter Celtics defense, doubling
up on Erving wherever possible,
forced the Sixers into uncharacter
istic turnovers — four steals in the
final 4:21.
The Celtics opened the fourth
quarter trailing 75-71, but scored
the first eight points, four by
Robert Parish and two by Carr and
Nate Archibald. But the 76ers
then held Boston without a field
goal for 6:04 and reeled off a 14-1
run, including 10 points by
Erving, to take an 89-82 lead with
5:24 left.
The Celtics, who again were
awful from the foul line (22-for-35)
got their final run going on one
free throw by Maxwell with 4:34
left and two more 17 seconds later
by Archibald. After a Bird steal,
Parish canned a turnaround jum
per with 3:44 left and then blocked
a Darryl Dawkins bid. Bird was
fouled by Erving at the other end
and tied the game with 2:51 left on
two foul shots.
Bird then stole the ball one
more time and raced down the left
side, dropping in a 12-foot banker.
Philadelphia had a chance to tie,
but Maurice Cheeks could con
vert just one of two foul shots with
29 seconds left.
And with the Hollywood-like
ending, the Celtics began to think
about the Rockets and Tuesday
night’s Game 1.
Aggies take two from Texas
but fail to gain tourney berth
By FRANK L. CHRISTLIEB
Battalion Staff
When Texas Aggie senior Rod
ney Hodde came to the plate for
what he knew would be his last
college at-bat, he must have
known what the 2,200 fans in
Olsen Field wanted to see.
Hodde promptly hit a two-run
homer, his second of the day and
his 13th of the season, over the
right field fence, helping the
Aggies complete Saturday’s 4-2,
13-5 double-header sweep of the
University of Texas.
However, a Friday night 4-1
loss to the Longhorns destroyed
any chances Hodde and his team
mates might have had of playing in
the SWC post-season tourna
ment. The final series of the year
left the fifth-place Aggies with a
10-10-1 SWC record, half a game
out of fourth, and a 35-16-1 season
record. UT finished the regular
season in first place at 16-5 and
48-8-1.
By winning both games Satur
day, the Aggies became the first
team to beat the Longhorns twice
in a row this year, and the first to
sweep them in a double-header
since TCU did it May 3, 1980.
Saturday’s wins made Friday’s
loss a little less painful, and the
fact that the Aggies won 14 of their
last 16 games gives them some
thing to look forward to next year.
The team won’t lose many players
either, since it has only four
seniors: first baseman Hodde, de
signated hitter-leftfielder J.P.
Bramhall, third baseman Tim
Boyes and pitcher B.B. Schott.
The Aggies are losing two team
leaders in Hodde and Bramhall,
but as Aggie second baseman
Clint Heard said: “Somebody al
ways steps up as the leader.’’
Aggie pitcher Steve Davis,
coming into Friday’s all-important
game with a 6-0 record, gave up all
four UT runs in the four-plus in
nings he pitched. UT’s Randy
Richards, 4-for-4 in the game, hit a
solo home run in the second in
ning and Mike Zatopek hit one in
the fifth. Richards also had a triple
and two singles for four of the Lon
ghorns’ 11 hits.
Zatopek’s homer brought Texas
A&M head coach Toip Chandler
out of the dugout, sent Davis into
the dugout and brought Perry
Swanson in from the bullpen.
Swanson pitched the final five in
nings, giving up only three hits
and striking out four.
Meanwhile, UTs Tony Arnold,
undefeated at 13-0, was pitching
into and out of trouble all night.
He finished with his 14th win and
his 11th complete game of the sea
son, giving up 10 hits and striking
out four.
Even though the Aggies had
hits in seven of the nine innings,
they could score only in the sixth,
when Tim Boyes walked and Joe
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Szekely doubled down the left
field line to bring him in. Terry
Lawrence then hit an infield sing
le, putting runners on second and
third with one out, but Arnold re
tired the next two Texas A&M bat
ters on a fly ball to leftfield and a
line drive to the second baseman.
The Aggies had two hits in third
and ninth innings, but couldn’t
score any runs, leaving eight
baserunners on in the game, with
four of those left in scoring posi
tion. The Aggies also made some
crucial mistakes while running the
bases, with Billy Cannon thrown
out in the third inning trying to
steal and Dave Kennard thrown
out in the eighth trying to stretch a
double into a triple.
Texas A&M started the ninth
inning as if it had delayed scoring
only to make the game interesting
for the 3,600 people in Olsen
Field. Szekely began with his
second double of the game, and
Lawrence followed with his
second single, putting runners on
second and third with no outs.
But Grant Priess struck out, Can
non flied out and Kevin Smith
grounded out, with Smith show
ing the Aggies’ disappointment
by throwing his batting helmet
down as he crossed the bag.
The Aggies started scoring in
the first inning of Saturday’s first
game, when Hodde pulled a 3-2
pitch over the right field fence for
a two-run homer, giving him 55
RBI for the season and breaking
the Texas A&M season record of
53 set by Kyle Hawthorne in 1978.
After UT scored a run in the
second to make the score 2-1, the
Aggies scored again on a walk to
Smith, a single by Cannon, a sacri
fice by Clint Heard and a sacrifice
fly by J. P. Bramhall. They made it
4-1 in the fourth on Lawrence’
double and Heard’s sacrifice fly.
Texas A&M’s David Flores, 8-
3, pitched a complete game, giv
ing up eight hits and striking out
five. Although the Longhorns out-
hit the Aggies eight to four, it was
Hodde’s first-inning homer that
proved to be the difference.
In the second game, UT scored
in the third inning to lead 2-0 on
solo homers by Kirk Killingsworth
and Buck Goldthom. But in the
bottom of the third, the Aggies did
something that’s hard to do in
baseball — they scored four runs
on one hit.
UT pitcher Dave Seiler, who
had retired the first six Aggies in
order, walked four batters to start
the inning. That made the score
2-1 as David Kennard received
credit for the RBI.
Longhorn reliever John Machin
gave up two runs following a single
to Boyes, and Hodde hit a sacrifice
fly to bring in the fourth run of the
inning.
Leading 5-2 in the sixth, the
Aggies scored five more runs to
make it 10-2. Kennard, who was 3
for 3 with five RBI and three runs
scored, had a three-run double in
the inning. Texas A&M scored its
last three runs in the eighth on
Hodde’s second homer and
Heard’s sacrifice fly, which
brought Cannon in from third
base.
Cannon, Boyes, Smith and
Heard had two hits apiece to con
tribute to the Aggies’ 12-hit
offense, while Robert Slavens
gave up five hits and two runs in
7^3 innings of pitching to earn the
win. Bobby Taylor finished the
game to insure Slavens of his third
win in five decisions.
With the Aggies missing the
tournament by only one win,
Texp, Arkansas, Houston and
Rice will now compete in Austin
May 15-17.
And as head coach Chandler
said: “We’re playing the best hall
of the season, and it’s really a
shame that they’ve got to leave
out the best.”
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