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Texas A&M
The Battalion Sports
Monday, April 4, 1983/The Baftalion/Page 11
on Aggie mistakes
Breakdown an A&M ‘mystery’ ...
by John P. Lopez
Battalion Staff
It could have been an Agatha
Christie best-seller — “The Peri
lous Mystery of the Texas A&M
Baseball Team.”
Unfortunately for the Aggies,
however, this weekend’s per
formance was true-to-life, or
death, since that’s what hap
pened to their chances of a
Southwest Conference title in
1983.
In a word, the Aggies played
horrible, losing three games to
the Arkansas Razorbacks 10-8,
3-0 and 10-9.
The Hogs’ sweep bounces the
Aggies to a dismal 2-7 confer
ence record after Texas A&M
opened the season with high ex
pectations and an 18-4 non
conference record.
In Friday night’s game, the
Razorbacks set the tempo for the
Aggie series by jumping all over
the Texas A&M pitching staff
for 10 runs. The Aggies staged a
brief comeback attempt in the
late innings, but were held off by
key defensive plays.
The Hogs slipped offensively
in Saturday’s first game, but
Arkansas showed why they too
should be considered cham
pionship-contenders after a no
hit performance by sophomore
Tim Dietz.
Dietz faced only 23 of the
minimum 21 batters for a seven
inning game and he walked only
one Aggie. The tall left-hander
wasn’t exactly overpowering —
he didn’t record a single strikout
— but he was devastatingly accu
rate.
Only two harmless fly balls
were caught in the outfield by
the Hog defenders as Dietz frus
trated Aggie hitters by forcing
weak ground balls and pop-ups
to the infield.
Dietz’ performance on the
mound, to say the least, was con
sistent. And that consistency
helped Dietz consecutively re
tire the last 20 batters he faced
after a shaky first inning.
In the opening frame, Aggie
Billy Cannon walked and went
to second when Bobby Beach
reached first on an error by the
pitcher. But Dietz and the
Razorbacks managed to get out
of that jam and cruise through
the rest of the game untouched.
The Aggies definitely man
aged to touch the Arkansas
pitching staff in the third game
of the series. In fact, Texas
A&M molested the Hog pitchers
and jumped out to what seemed
to be a commanding 9-1 lead.
True to the mystery-novel
scenario, however, the Razor-
backs came back to baffle the
Aggies by scoring four runs in
the sixth inning, two in the
seventh, one in the eighth and
two in the top of the ninth to
wrap up the clean-sweep.
With the loss in the third
game, the Aggie mystery con-
See HOGS page 13
... But Chandler says tourney bid
still alive if pitching improves now
staff photo by David Fisher
Texas A&M pitcher Phillip Taylor delivers a pitch
in the third game of this weekend’s conference
series with Arkansas. The Aggies lost all three
games to the Hogs and are now 2-7 in SWC play.
by Frank L. Christlieb
Battalion Staff
After three Southwest Con
ference baseball series during
the 1981 season, Texas A&M
had a 3-6 record. After three
league series in 1982, the Aggies
had a 3-5-1 record. And after
nine SWC games in 1983, Coach
Tom Chandler’s Aggies have a
2-7 conference record.
Recognize a pattern? During
each of those three seasons,
Texas A&M has performed well
in non-conference games, only
to have the bottom fall out when
SWC competition rolls around.
This year, the Aggies played
their toughest non-conference
schedule in years, but still en
tered a league-opening series
with TCU boasting a 16-4 re
cord. Texas A&M won two from
TCU, but since then has done an
about-face and has lost six
straight games to Houston and
Arkansas.
No one expected the Aggies
to sweep the Cougars, since
they’re ranked No. 3 in the na
tion. And even though they’d
fallen to 2-4 in the league, the
Aggies could jump back into the
race for a SWC tournament
berth with a solid series against
the Razorbacks.
But the Razorbacks, who
came to Texas A&M with a lousy
3-6 conference record, treated
the Aggies like a pile of dust and
swept them under the rug with
three straight victories.
From looking at the scores, it
wouldn’t appear that the Hogs
dominated the Aggies. But they
did.
An Arkansas no-hitter in
Saturday’s first game, a nine-
run Hog comeback in Saturday’s
second game and seven Texas
A&M errors in that second game
all contributed to the Aggies’
downfall.
Chandler, who’s grown accus
tomed to this sort of streak dur
ing the past two years, says most
of the problem involves pitch
ing. Or more plainly, as Rick
Luecken struggles, so struggle
the Aggies.
Luecken, Texas A&M’s
senior right-hander from Hous
ton Spring Woods, should be the
most effective pitcher in the
league. But five of Luecken’s
nine decisions have been losses.
He’s 0-3 in the conference.
“The whole thing all year has
just been that our pitching has
been so spotty,” Chandler said
Sunday. “At our player posi-
See AGGIES page 14
UH battles for
No. 1 tonight
United Press International
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The NCAA basketball cham
pionship will be contested tonight between a team that preaches
power and one that practices patience.
And if that is not enough of a contrast, there is plenty more to
place the Houston Cougars and North Carolina State Wolfpack
at the opposite ends of the college basketball spectrum.
Tipoff at The Pit on the campus of the University of New
Mexico is set for 7:12 p.m. MST with the Cougars trying to
bring the Southwest Conference its first national basketball title
and the Wolfpack hoping to bring the Atlantic Coast Confer
ence its second straight.
And this year the teams battling for the big prize have about
as much in common as the rocky, forbidding landscape that
surrounds this city and the Sandia Mountains which tower over
it.
Houston has won 26 games in a row and owns a 31 -2 record.
North Carolina State is trying to become the “losingest” team
ever to win the NCAA crown, currently standing at 25-10.
The Cougars love to run, jump and slam. Their coach, in
fact, insists on their dunking the ball as often as possible. The
Wolfpack, meanwhile, relies to a great extent on the long-range
gunning of guard Dereck Whittenburg.
Houston has a 61-year-old coach who has had his share of
criticism in the past despite a long and impressive record. North
Carolina is coached by a boyish wisecracker, who, like his veter
an counterpart, is looking for his first national title.
“Yes,” said Houston coach Guy Lewis, “winning the national
championship would mean a lot to me personally. At my age I
figure I might not be getting too many more chances. I like to
feel that if you have got a chance to do something, you ought to
go ahead and do it.
“I’m sure (North Carolina State coach) Jim Valvano feels the
same way. The only difference is that he has about 30 more
years to get it done.”
Most of all, however, tonight’s game will present a contrast of
styles. With seven-foot Akeem Olajuwon, 6-9 Larry Micheaux,
6-7 Clyde Drexler and 6-6 Michael Young always looking to the
basket, the Cougars provide one of the most explosive offensive
threats in the history of the game.
They want to run full bore as much as possible.
Valvano and his Wolfpack troops, therefore, must try to ease
the pace of the game as much as possible.
“We will play, shall I say, a slower tempo game,” said Valva
no, whose team rode a crest of narrow wins to make it to the
Final Four and then knocked off Georgia in the semifinals
Saturday, 67-60.
But just how slow a tempo is that? Would Valvano consider
taking the air out of the ball, as Maryland attempted to do
against Houston early in the tournament?
“What Maryland did was stall,” said Valvano. “This is the
national finals. We aren’t going to do that. I’m talking about the
kind of pace we had against Georgia. We want to try to put
ourselves in position to win. If we can play a game in the 50’sor
60’s we have a chance. We aren’t going to put it (the ball) away. It
isn’t going to be a 12-8 game. But if the score is 100-to-
something, we won’t win.”
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