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Big hits plentiful as A&M
sweeps two from Gophers
by John P. Lopez
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M baseball
team started slow, but eventually
made up for lost time as it de
voured the Minnesota pitching
staff in a 13-10, 11-4 double-
header sweep of the Golden
Gophers.
The Aggies steam-rolled to
26 hits on the night behind
clutch hitting and the consistent
swing of left-fielder Bobby
Beach. After a four-for-seven
night Tuesday, Beach has now
stepped up to the plate 66 times
and hit 33 times for a remark
able .500 batting average.
Beach and the rest of the
Texas A&M bats were overpow
ering, but the, Aggie pitching
staff was anything but overpow
ering as the Texas A&M hurlers
gave up 23 hits themselves.
The only consolation was that
the Aggie pitchers spread the
Minnesota basehits through sev
eral innings and came up with
several key strikouts.
In the first game, the Golden
Gophers seemed to be cruising
to an easy win after capitalizing
on several Aggie mistakes to
take a 5-2 lead going into the
bottom of the 5th inning.
Minnesota scored one run in
the second inning and one in the
top of the fifth but the big dam
age was done in the fourth in
ning when the Gophers tapped
Aggie starter Barry Smith for
three runs.
Alex Bauer lined up the mid
dle to start the rally and Tom
Ward added to the damage with
a line-shot home run over the
left-field wall to score two runs.
The Aggies managed to get one
out both before the homer and
after, but Minnesota scored
another run in the inning after
two costly Texas A&M mistakes.
Minnesota left fielder Pat
Phol reached first base on a suc
cessful bunt and wound up
standing on third after Aggie
catcher Ron Devereaux threw
the ball into right field trying to
throw Phol out.
Phol practically walked home
for the Gophers’ third run of the
inning after Devereaux mis
handled a pitch and the ball rol
led to the backstop.
The Aggies got out of that
inning, but found that it was evi
dent they would have to put
some big numbers on the score-
board themselves if Texas A&M
was to win.
Say no more.
The Aggie bats caught fire in
the bottom of the fifth inning as
the first 11 Texas A&M players
that stepped up to the plate
reached base and all 11 even
tually scored.
Shortstop Rusty Roberts
opened the onslaught with a
single to right field and the rest
of the Texas A&M team either
followed Roberts’ example or
was aided to base by horrendous
pitching from the Minnesota
staff.
Pinch-hitter Don Robison
walked, second-baseman Tim
Cartwright doubled to right,
center-fielder Billy Cannon
walked, Beach walked, right-
fielder Kevin Smith looped one
to right, first-baseman Buddy
Haney walked, designated-
hitter Kevin Scanlon walked and
third-baseman Tony Metoyer
slammed a grand-slam home
run over the left field fence.
To make matters even worse
for the Minnesota pitching staff,
Roberts batted for the second
time in the same inning and
once again reached base on an
error by shortstop Bill Piwnicos.
Robison then doubled to left to
bring in Roberts and scored
himself later in the inning off a;
Cannon single.
The total damage was 11 runs;
on seven hits, five walks and one'
error.
The 13-5 lead seemed insure
mountable but the Gophers.'
staged a rally that made every'
one of the 13 runs invaluable for
Texas A&M. Minnesota scored
three runs in the sixth inning
and threatened with two more in
the top of the seventh, but the
Gophers finally folded.
Smith upped his record to 3-1
on the year with the win for
Texas A&M as Bob Meyer fell to
0-1 for Minnesota.
In the second game, fresh
man Scott Deskins gave up seven
hits as he went the distance to get
his first win of the year against
no losses. Fran Lour was the los
er for Minnesota. .
No. 17-ranked Texas A&M
hopes to add two more wins to its
20-5 record today as the Aggies
take on the Golden Gophers in
another double-header begin
ning at 1 p.m. in Olsen Field.
The Aggies will be in Hous
ton this weekend for a three-
game series with the red-hot
Houston Cougars. The Coogs
currently are ranked No. 4 in
the country with a 23-2 record.
UK, Louisville hope for feud
United Press International
If Kentucky and Louisville
climb their respective moun
tains Thursday, they can raise a
feud in the hills back home.
No. 10 Kentucky faces No. 5
Indiana and No. 2 Louisville
plays No. 9 Arkansas in the
NCAA Mideast Regional at
Knoxville, Tenn., and if the two
Bluegrass representatives sur
vive, they will meet in a regional
final that is guaranteed to grab
attention.
Tickets for the possible Ken-
tucky-Louisville game were re
ported selling Tuesday for $ 150
each, with some ticket holders
predicting the price would surge
to $1,000.
The schools met in the 1959
Midwest Regional with Ken
tucky winning 76-61. Last year a
meeting looked virtually certain
until Middle Tennessee upset
Kentucky 50-44.
Michael Blair, a Louisville
graduate hoping to make it to
Knoxville, received several
quick offers in response to his
classified appeal for tickets but
balked at the asking price of
$150 each.
“I’m still holding out for
something better,” laughed
Blair, who said a long-awaited
Kentucky-Louisville game
“would be great.”
The University of Kentucky
has historically refused to sche
dule Louisville even though the
two state-run schools are just 70
miles apart in basketball-crazy
Kentucky.
Kentucky coach Joe B. Hall,
who once ordered a network
television crew to stop filming in
his office when the issue came
up, doesn’t like to discuss his re
luctance to schedule Louisville
but apparently believes UK has
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little to gain by playing the Car
dinals.
Kentucky has won a record
five NCAA championships
while Louisville won its first in
1980.
Several legislative attempts to
mandate an on-court meeting of
the schools have failed in Frank
fort.
In the West Regional at
Ogden, Utah, Utah (18-13)
plays North Carolina State (22-
10) and Virginia (28-4) meets
Boston College (25-6).