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A&M baseball team tops St. Mary’s 11-0,
9-3 as Luecken, Flores pick up victories
staff photo by David Fisher
Brad Hisle, second baseman for the Texas fifth inning of Tuesday’s double-header.
A&M baseball team, slides safely into third Hisle scored later in the inning as the
base as a wild throw sails over the glove of Aggies defeated the Rattlers 9-3, complet-
St. Mary’s infielder Oscar Cardenas in the ing a two-game sweep.
by Denise Sechelski
and John Wagner
Battalion Staff
Texas A&M baseball coach
Tom Chandler let the horses
loose against St. Mary’s Univer
sity on Tuesday, and all the Rat
tlers could do was stand by and
watch.
Led by solid hitting, tough
pitching, and several strong de
fensive plays, Chandler’s Aggies
swept a double-header from the
Rattlers 11-0 and 9-3.
Pitcher Rick Luecken started
the first game for the Aggies,
and after a shaky start, he settled
down to throw a two-hit shutout
over six innings.
With two men on in the top of
the first, the Rattlers’ Billy Mon-
temayor lined a drive into right
field. Terry Lawrence fielded
the ball on one hop and threw
John Kosub out at the plate.
Catcher Joe Szekely blocked the
plate, took the throw and held
Aggies
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also, led by guard Joe Stephen and forward
Doug Arnold with 14 each. Browder
finished with 13 points, Jeff Baker had 11
and Brian Christensen had 10.
Texas A&M had a total of 31 assists, led
by freshman guard Gary Lewis with 10 and
Roberts with eight. Naulls and Woodley
each had five assists.
Metcalf attributed the Aggies’ comeback
to their second-half intensity on defense.
“I thought we pressed well and shot well,”
Metcalf said. “We came out more aggressive
defensively in the second half.
“It was a great basketball game. Both
teams were well-prepared and played just as
hard as they possibly could.”
The Aggies didn’t score a field goal until
the 15:53 mark of the first half, when
Woods slammed in a dunk on a pass from
Woodley. TCU took a 9-4 lead with 15 mi
nutes left in the half, as Stephen hit two
on to tag out Kosub.
Szekely said the play was
easier than it looked.
“I saw the throw coming, but I
didn’t know if the ball would
make it in time,” Szekely said.
“Then I looked out of the corner
of my eye and saw the runner
coming home. I just tried to con
centrate on the throw and make
the tag. He hit me on the leg, but
I held on.”
In the bottom of the first,
Szekely and third baseman
Grant Priess hit back-to-back
home runs to give the Aggies a
3-0 lead.
Luecken then retired the next
seven batters he faced before
giving up his second and last hit
of the game in the fourth inning.
The Aggies scored two more
runs in the third to take a 5-0
lead.
The Aggies’ Kevin Smith hit a
three-run home run in the
fourth, a shot that hit the left-
field foul pole. Smith’s home
run gave the Aggies an B-0
advantage.
The Aggies scored three
more times in the fifth to move
the score to 11-0. Robert Slavens
came on in relief of Luecken in
the seventh inning and finished
up the game. Luecken was the
winning pitcher, and Allan Sapp
took the loss for the Rattlers.
The Aggies continued their
offensive assault in the second
game.
Buddy Haney and Kevin
Smith paced an Aggie attack
that collected 11 hits in the series
final. The Aggies scored in ev
ery inning, and freshman
Haney hit a solo home run in his
second collegiate at-bat.
In the sixth inning Smith hit
his second home run of the day
with no one on base to give the
Aggies a 9-2 lead.
David Flores was the starting
pitcher for the Aggies, and he
held the Rattlers scoreless
through three innings. St.
Mary’s scored two runs in the
fourth as a result of three Aggie
errors. The Rattlers’ third run
came in the top of the seventh
off senior Steve Davis, who re
placed Flores in the sixth.
Flores won for the Aggies,
and Mark Bond took the loss.
Chandler said the Aggies’
offensive output was the result
of several factors.
“St. Mary’s has a young pitch
ing staff, but it was definitely a
hitters’ day,” Chandler said, re
ferring to the windy conditions
in Olsen Field.
Chandler said the Aggies
have a good chance to win the
conference title.
“We’re going to have to work
hard, but as long as we hustle,
we’ve got a shot. The main thing
is, these kids believe in them
selves.”
20-foot jumpers and Arnold scored on a
24-footer and three-point play.
The Horned Frogs increased the margin
to 24-18 with 8:13 to play in the half, as
Browder made two free throws. The lead
grew to seven, at 38-31, as NickCucinella hit
a jumper from the left side of the basket
with 1:37 left in the half.
However, the Aggies narrowed the TCU
lead to 40-37 at halftime as Riley sank two
free throws, and Woodley, Woods and
Roberts scored on jumpers within eight feet
of the basket.
For the first half, the Aggies shot 53 per
cent from the field, and the Horned Frogs
shot 58 percent. Riley led Texas A&M with
12 points, and Baker paced TCU with 11.
Woods started the second half with a
layup off a Woodley assist, and two minutes
later, the Aggies took their first lead of the
f ame at 43-42. That lead grew to 49-44 with
5:05 left, but the Horned Frogs tied the
game at 50 with 13:43 to go.
The game was tied at 57 and 59 before a
10-2 surge by the Agjjies gave them a 69-61
lead with 6:25 remaining. Scoring during
that stretch were Woods on a free throw,
Naulls on a 22-footer, Woodley on three
free throws, Riley on a dunk and Robertson
a short jumper.
The lead grew to as much as 14 points,
83-69, with only 23 seconds remaining.
Riley said the Aggies never lost their
poise, even when TCU took the early lead.
“We weren’t worried at all,” Riley said.
“We knew we just had to correct the mis
takes we made in the first half. We had no
doubts that we’d win, because we had the
enthusiasm.”
Lewis, who had five points to go with his
10 assists, said the Aggies played more
aggressively in the second half.
“In the first half, TCU came out
ping,” Lewis said. “But in the second
we stopped them.”
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