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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1981
Sports
Ags capture tourney and top spot nationally
By RITCHIE PRIDDY
Sports Editor
The Texas A&M University
softball team continued its win
ning ways over the weekend, cap
turing the Southwest AIAW Re
gional Tournament in Shawnee,
Okla. by sweeping three games
and taking the championship by
forfeit.
The Aggies received some good
news before traveling north for
the tournament when they
learned that they had been voted
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the number one team in the nation
by the National Coaches poll.
The women, playing as the
number one team in the country,
opened the rain-delayed tourna
ment with a shutout over
McNeese State Saturday night.
They were scheduled to begin
play Friday afternoon but torren
tial rains forced the game and
tournament to be moved to Nor
man where Shan McDonald pitch
ed a three-hit 7-0 win over
McNeese Saturday.
The women came back Sunday,
after the tournament was moved
back to Shawnee, with a 7-1 vic
tory over Texas Women’s Univer
sity behind the pitching of Lori
Stoll.
Sunday night the Ags blanked
the University of Texas at Arling
ton 4-0 with McDonald on the
mound to advance to the cham
pionship game.
UTA outlasted LSU in a game
that ended at 5:30 Monday morn
ing to face the Aggies in the cham
pionship game, scheduled to be
gin around 7 a.m.
UTA, with several players ill
and one with a broken finger,
however, decided to forfeit rather
than play the Ags for the cham
pionship.
The Aggies collected 10 hits in
each of the tournament games
which pleased head coach Bill
Galloway, who had been worried
about the team’s offensive power.
“I felt all along that we would
get our bats back. We hit the ball
real well. We were very aggres
sive at the plate and took advan
tage of every opportunity we
had,” Galloway said.
Galloway singled out several
players who he said had contri
buted in the wins.
Karen Guerrero, the leadoff
batter, collected hits to start every
game and scored several times to
pace the Ags to an early lead. Patti
Holthaus, Nancy Sullivan and
Mary Lou Youngblood each had
several hits and key RBI.
Galloway was quick to point
out, though, that it took a team
effort to win the region.
“We executed real well, every
body did a real good job. Only one
person got more than a couple of
RBI’s, the rest was spread out over
the team.
“It’s those little roles — the
ones that don’t seem important —
that count. We had all our people
doing their jobs, whether they
were on the bench or in the field,”
he said.
Everything, he said, the other
teams did against the Aggies they
had to earn. They scored one run
in three games.
By virtue of the regional win,
the Aggies now advance to the one
tournament they have been wait
ing three years to win — the
World Series.
Galloway has watched his team
finish fifth and third in the Series
the past two years and now takes
his most experienced team into his
third Series.
The third year coach is confi
dent of his team and its abilities
and expects to win the title this
year.
“We’re a team now that controls
its own destiny and we expect to
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beat anybody. We think that we
are the team to beat,” Galloway
said.
Their first-round opponent in
the 16-team tournament will be
Indiana. The Aggies faced Indiana
and
earlier this se
beaten them.
The women will leave
Series, to be held in Normal
Okla. May ' 21-24
Wednesday.
Ags to compete
SWC outdoor
in
By RICK STOLLE
Battalion Staff
Defending their Southwest Conference outdoor track champio:
ship will not be easy but Texas A&M University track coaches Chari
Thomas and Ted N elson feel the Ags have as good a chance as
The SWC outdoor championship will be held in Dallas at li
Morrison-Bell track on the campus of SMU Friday and Saturday.
Aggies will be defending their titles and the Ags will be returaii:
individuals who scored 88 of the teams winning 138 score.
But, the competition will be tough at the meet with many tec
having a shot at the title.
“Without a doubt, this is the most competitive SWC meet wen
ever had,” said head coach Thomas. “The conference will probate
qualify the largest number of athletes ever to the NCAA National
Nelson said, “No less than six teams can win the title. Texashastol
the favorite but any of the top six teams can win it all.
“It’s going to be a dogfight out there.”
The Ags will have a strong showing with people like Leslie Ken:
the 400-meter dash, Billy Busch in the 110-meter hurdles, Jane
Howard in the high jump and Randy Hall in the pole vault whowia R e gj on;
Denton
defending their conference titles.
Both Kerr and Hall will be going for their fourth straight SWCtitk
Kerr set a meet record with a 45.56 last year. He has alreadybrah a l so be
that with a 45.41 this season. Hall cleared 17 feet last yearwhichas tourney
also a meet record but he has been slowed with some fluid on hisknft
“Randy’s OK, he has had some nagging injuries but he’s
good,” he said.
Busch won the hurdles last year with a time of 13.88. TeamiE
Mike Glaspie was a close second at 13.93.
Howard, Kerr and Hall have produced the best marks of the yean -automat
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last year. He has been matching that in practice preparing for tl Athletic
meet.
Nelson said the meet will hinge on how the athletes feel on Fridj
They have to be ready to go, he said, because if they don’t havegi
prelims Friday, they won’t be there to compete Saturday.
Thomas said the injuries that have plagued the team throughout! j eas t on(
year seem to have finally healed. “The only one we re really concern
about is Rod Richardson,” he said. “He’s been telling us thathefea lyo.
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fine but we ll just wait and see how he does in the meet.’’
Thomas said Richardson has been entered only in the 100-meli
dash but may compete in the 1600-meter relay as well should hel
able to run without pain.
He said the problem with meets such as this one is that it
probably go down to the last event to decide the meet champion,
sure is tough to keep track of the scoring because the lead can cba
hands with each event. ”
The team will leave Thursday for Dallas and hope it can get
breaks it needs to once again come back to Texas A&M with the titli]
“The outcome of this meet will depend upon the breaks,” Thoi
said, “the team with the most breaks going their way will win. ■ The T<
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