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by John P. Lopez
Battalion Staff
It’s almost here — springtime. A time for
dte-flying, sun-bathing, picnics and base-
aall.
And with baseball will come hot dogs,
rhewing tobacco, double-headers and Lon
ghorns. Lots of Longhorns — with lots of
alent.
Once again the battle for the Southwest
Conference baseball title will be between
Texas and the rest of the SWC.
There’s no doubt the Horns will be the
:lass of the conference, but don’t count
Texas A&M out yet. The Aggies are young,
alented players that are anxious to show the
onference that they are a team to be re-
ioned with.
Coach Tom Chandler’s Aggies will have
few familiar faces roaming the diamond this
ear, but even without experienced players
exas A&M should be a solid defensive
team. Offensively, the Aggies won’t have a
lot of power, but Chandler said T exas A&M
hpuld still be able give the official scorer
hater’s cramp.
“We have two good power hitters right
low in Billy Cannon and Buddy Haney,”
.handler said, “but we’re still going to miss
joey) Szekely.” Szekely was drafted into the
ligleagues last season after having a banner
ear at the plate for the Aggies. “We’ve had
;ome pretty good hitters for us lately
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Dean (Chandler) have had good outings for
us this spring in our scrimmages.”
The Aggies should be able to produce
runs, but their games will be won or lost on
the infield — a place where only one starter
returns. Haney will be the only returner at
first, but Chandler pointed out that the rest
of the infield should be able to hold their
own.
“We’re going to be much better on the
infield than last year,” he said. “We had a lot
of errors last year. When the game was on
the line, somehow we managed to kick the
ball. We’ve really been pleasantly surprised
with our defense so far. We have made some
outstanding plays.”
The middle of the Aggie infield will be
made up of Todd Edwards at shortstop and
Clint Heard at second — both of whom,
Chandler said, are coming into their own.
“Edwards has improved the most since
the fall,” Chandler said. “He’s got an accu
rate arm and good hands, but he doesn’t
have good range. But neither did Twig Lit
tle (Former Aggie shortstop now playing for
the Montreal Expos of the National
League). And Clint is getting to be a very
good ball player. He’s good on defense and
has a good bat on offense.”
Tony Metoyer will be at third, while the
catching chores are still up for grabs.
“Our catching is going to be a little
shaky,” Chandler said. “No one has come
out and just taken charge of that position.
Right now, I guess Ron Devereaux is our
catcher.
“We’ve been working very hard on our
game and it looks pretty good, but pitching
is still our main concern. We know our
pitching is going to be thin. We feel like we
can get to be a good defensive team though.
We really have to have good defense to
make up for our lack of pitching experi
ence.”
While Texas A&M is worried about pitch
ing, Texas isn’t worrying about anything.
The Longhorns, Chandler said, are sitting
pretty.
“Texas is loaded,” he said. “I don’t just
think they’re going to be Southwest Confer
ence champs, I think they’re going to be
national champs. They just have tremen
dous pitching and depth.
“But you never know, I think it can be a
good race if we can keep Texas from run
ning off and leaving everybody behind. We
need to age in a hurry. It just all boils down
to us being as good as our pitching. We’ve
got to get good pitching.”
The Aggies’ first test will be Saturday
afternoon at noon when the they take on
Southwestern University in a doubleheader
at Olson Field.
Texas A&M then travels to San Antonio
to face St. Mary’s before returning to Col
lege Station for a 10-game home stand.
A&M rally falls short
Hogs stop Aggies 62-55
he Arkansas Razorbacks con
tinued their domination in Bar
nhill Arena Saturday night, as
they defeated the Texas Aggies
12-55 in a game that was marred
three controversial technical
bills.
Darrell Walker and Alvin
Robertson combined to push
Arkansas into a 10-point lead
midw'ay through the second
half, but the ninth-ranked
Razorbacks had to fight off a
Texas A&M comeback to win.
All three technicals were cal
led on the head coaches — two
on Arkansas’ Eddie Sutton and a
critical one against Texas A&M’s
Shelby Metcalf with 1:10 to play
in the game.
The Aggies trailed by two at
the half, 24-22, and still faced
only a two-point deficit a third of
the way into the second half.
But Walker and Robertson
combined for eight straight
points to run the Hogs’ advan
tage to 42-32. Arkansas led by as
many as 1 1 with eight minutes
left, but Tyren Naulls helped
the Aggies run off a 12-5 streak
to g^t (hem to within four.
Ricky Norton made the two
free throws on the technical to
break the back of the A&M com
eback.
Aggie baseball coach Tom Chandler
takes time out to think during a game
last season in Olsen Field. Chandler
the Aggies should be a factor
year’s Southwest Conference race,
although the UT Longhorns are favored.
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