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Aggies set to host AIAW track nationals
by Frank L. Christlieb
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latives o(«uT. But Texas A&M coach Bill Nix says his
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While the Longhorns have 15 qualifiers
competing in the 52-team national event,
which starts Thursday at the Frank G. Ander
son track in Kyle Field, the Aggies have 11
entries. Nix said that since several AIAW
schools opted to compete in the NCAA meet,
which takes place in Provo, Utah, June 3-5,
some of the nation’s outstanding squads will
not compete here this week.
“The NCAA meet has really sort of diluted
our meet a bit and has taken away a lot of the
top national powers,” Nix said.
Nix cited several Texas A&M athletes who
should perform well in the meet.
“I’m looking for Novaita Samuels to have a
good chance to win the 100- and 200-meter
dashes,” he said. “Marilee Matheny has an ex
tremely good chance to end up in the top three
in the 10,000 meters, as does Chandai Phillips
in the 100-meter hurdles.
“Our only field entry, Vickilee Cobern,
should finish in the top five in the discus. All
four of our relay squads should place in the
top four, and a couple of them may even finish
in the top two or three.”
Nix said Iowa, Purdue and California
should provide the strongest challenge for the
Longhorns.
“It’s going to be a very good quality meet,”
he said. “It’s not strong in quantity but there
are a lot of good quality people in every event.”
Other entries for Texas A&M include the
400-meter relay (Sandra Cooper, Evelyn
Smith, Ellen Smith and Samuels); 1600-meter
Softball
relay (Cooper, Evelyn Smith, Ellen Smith and
Jana Graves); 3200-meter relay (Suzanne
Sheffield, Graves, Sheryl Clark and Barbara
Collinsworth); Sheffield and Graves in the
800-meter run; Matheny in the 5,000-meter
run; Ellen Smith in the 400-meter hurdles,
and Collinsworth in the 5,000-meter run.
Only all-America long jumper Donna Tho
mas of North Texas State returns after a 1981
championship in the AIAW national meet.
While a 20-7 3 /4 effort is her best of the year,
Kathy Rankin of Georgia has a 20-11’/a jump
to her credit this season.
Here are the teams participating in the
AIAW national meet:
Angelo State, Arkansas, Ball State, Bar
nard, Brigham Young, California, Cleveland
State, Colorado State, Cornell, Dartmouth,
East Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Harvard,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana State, Iowa, Iowa
State, Lamar, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana
State, Moorhead State, Northeastern, Nortli
Texas State and Northern Illinois.
Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Pennsylvania,
Princeton, Purdue, Redlands, Rhode Island,
Rutgers, St. John’s, Southern Illinois-
Carbondale, Temple, Texas A&M. Texas
Tech, Texas, Towson State, Utah State,
Washington State, West Texas State, West Vir
ginia, Western Illinois, Wisconsin, Wichita
State and Yale.
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morning at 11 with the field events and ends at
9:25 Saturday night with the 1600-meter relay
finals.
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tional University, the Aggies won seven
straight to earn their first-ever national
championship. After posting the team’s
highest batting average (.355) in the
fall, Jackson hit .276 in the spring.
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And you know how many dou
ble-headers we won this year.
“I’m really happy with it,” he
said. “I’m especially happy with
those five seniors that have been
here so many times before.”
Youngblood, whose double
and alert move to third base on a
throwing error to lead off the
seventh inning resulted in the
tying run, said her satisfaction
was beyond words.
“It’s great,” she said. “I really
hadn’t been hitting all that well
all day, but I was able to get that
hit in the final game.
“We’re so happy right now.
This is our (the seniors’) last
time. I’ve been so hyper since we
got here last week. The other
seniors and I have been trying to
get everyone fired up.”
Murray’s two-run double in
the eighth scored shortstop Car
rie Austgen and second base-
man Patti Holthaus with the
winning runs. Murray said that
although she hadn’t hit well in
the tournament, she was confi
dent about her chances of bring
ing her teammates home in the
eighth — even after falling be
hind 0-2 on the count off OSU
pitcher Tina Schell.
“I only had three hits before
the last two games,” Murray
said. “I just kept on saying that I
could do it.
“It took all of us together to
win the national championship.
We’re elated for Coach Brock
too, because he had come in
from Baylor and really didn’t
have a real good team up there.”
All-America pitcher Lori Stoll
pitched the Aggies to the 4-1 vic
tory in the first game against
OSU, then relieved Shan McDo
nald in the third inning of the
championship game. As a result,
Stoll earned both victories to
conclude the spring with a re
cord of 24-4.
“It was kind of close in that
second game,” Stoll said. “But
even when we were behind in
the seventh inning, we still knew
we could do it.
“I’m glad we finally won it.
The last two years we lost at na
tionals because we couldn’t hit.
But this year, we had the hitters
to do it.”
Resendez collected three hits
and three RBI in the 5-3 victory,
including a double, two singles
and a bases-loaded walk in the
third inning.
“Even after Harper hit that
home run, we didn’t worry,” Re
sendez said. “I just knew we’d
come back. Everybody kind of
thought that after we lost the
first game that we’d choke. But
the seniors came through. It was
our last year and we wanted that
championship.
“When Mary Lou (Young
blood) got that hit, we knew that
was the break we needed. They
(the Cowboys) gave us the game.
“Right now we’re just in obli
vion,” she said. “It’s too much to
describe. The rain had stopped
and we knew we’d win.”
OSU, which has a 58-16 re
cord, committed crucial mis
takes which aided the Aggies in
their 5-3 victory.
For starters, right Fielder
Paula Smith overthrew second
base in her attempt to throw out
Youngblood in the seventh,
allowing the Aggie outfielder to
reach third base. One out lateiy
Resendez’ single scored the
tying run.
Austgen began the eighth in
ning by walking and was sacri
ficed to second. After Schell
walked Holthaus intentionally
to get to Murray, the Aggie first
baseman made the gamble back
fire in the Cowgirls’ faces.
Murray hit the ball toward the
alley between center and right
field, and by the time OSU out
fielder Smith ran it down, two
runs had scored and Murray was
on third base.
Assistant Coach Sue Lilley,
also in her first year with the
Aggies, might have summarized
the team’s effort best.
“The Aggies never died,” she
said. “We knew we could get a
run to tie it. Murray hadn’t been
hitting real well, and we knew
she was due.”
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