Texas A&M
The Battalion Sports
Thursday, May 5, 1983/The Battalion/Page 11
umped up
Horns, Ags say they’re ready for weekend series
by Scott Griffin
Battalion Staff
j The Texas A&M baseball
team will be wrapping up its sea-
this weekend by facing its
toughest competitor yet — the
Texas Longhorns.
P*1m On paper it looks like a mis
match. The Longhorns — cur-
irently ranked No. 1 in the nation
E- have already captured the
■mthwest Conference cham-
monship with a 15-3 record.
__The Aggies, 4-14, are entren-
ioto by Hi .ched in last place.
|| But Texas is in a slump, hav-
■g lost four of its last five
1 Cdl'p mes. The Horns lost two of
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then dropped two games against
Oral Roberts University earlier
this week.
And that, Texas coach Cliff
Gustafson says, may help even
things out a little.
“We’re not playing well at all
right now,” Gustafson said
Wednesday, “and I’m not even
sure we’ll make it to the (NCAA)
playoffs at this point.”
Gustafson said he was wor
ried about his team’s recent per
formances, but was pleased with
the Longhorns’ overall play.
“I’m really surprised that we
built such a big lead early in con
ference play. I thought we
would have a much more diffi
cult time of it, but I’m glad it
turned out this way — we had to
win only one of our last six
games to win the champion
ship,” he said.
Gustafson said strong pitch
ing— a typical Texas trademark
— has been the key to UT’s suc
cess this season.
Calvin Schiraldi and Roger
Clemens have been the Lon
ghorns’ muscle on the mound,
but they’ve had some help.
Texas has five of the top six
pitchers in the conference in
winning percentage, with only
Rice’s Tim Englund breaking
the monopoly.
Though they’ve struggled
over the past couple of weeks,
the Longhorns say they’re ready
for the trip to Olsen Field.
“The A&M-UT series is nev
er hard to get pumped up for,”
says UT shortstop Mike Brum-
ley. “UT and A&M is always a
big series — no matter what
their records are.”
Big, yes. But important?
“I thought at the beginning,”
Brumley says, “that the key
series this year would be against
A&M, but Baylor helped us
out.”
Brumley is referring to
Baylor’s three-game sweep of
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Brewers say A&M quarterback Murray
reneged on contract, file federal suit
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from staff and wire reports
HOUSTON — The Milwaukee
Brewers have accused Texas
A&M head football coach and
Ithletic Director Jackie Sherrill
B contributing to the delin-
miency of a minor leaguer, who
L/ f*pe Brewers say reneged on a
’ ^'Bseball bonus to play quarter-
n pack for the Aggies.
I The Brewers say Texas A&M
ftarterback Kevin Murray re-
Bgedon his June 1982,135,000
Kseball signing bonus, which
r those ife Brewers say was conditioned
jossible P his doing nothing dangerous.
ent,ho*™The suit was filed in federal
0 movf |urt April 13.
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ing football for the Aggies dur
ing the term of the contract,
which was for one year with six
annual Brewer renewal options.
U.S. District Judge Gabrielle
McDonald granted the Brewers
a temporary order April 14
which knocked Murray out of
nine spring practices and the
varsity-former students game.
Another hearing is scheduled
May 16.
Murray, an all-round athlete
from North Dallas High School,
signed a football letter of intent
with Texas A&M in February
1982. Then he signed with the
Brewers’ and played for their
Pikeville, Ky., rookie league
team last summer.
In Pikeville, Murray hit .178
and developed a sore arm.
His lawyer, Mike Swan of
Houston, said Murray decided
to quit baseball and enrolled at
Texas A&M in January. He was
No. 3 quarterback until Judge
McDonald knocked him out of
spring football drills.
Charley Thornton, associate
athletic director at Texas A&M,
said he thinks the Aggies are in
nocent.
“The kid made the decision
(to come to A&M),” Thornton
said Wednesday. “I don’t think
we went out and recruited him. I
remember we were surprised
when the kid contacted us about
coming back to school.”
Murray could have played
professional baseball and col
lege football at the same time, as
did Stanford quarterback John
Elway, who last year received
$145,000 for playing for a New
York Yankees farm club.
But the Brewers claim Mur
ray’s contract specifically for
bade him from playing college
football.
“You don’t get money to do
something and then don’t do it,”
said Brewers’ lawyer John Daw
son of Milwaukee. “The Brew
ers are very optimistic about his
baseball playing abilities. They
want to enforce his contract.”
Swan said he had instructed
Murray, who at this point does
not have a Texas A&M football
scholarship, not to talk about the
lawsuit during final exams.
Texas A&M’s Clint Heard, shown here
in a game last season, says “take
record books and throw them out the
photo by Peter Rocha
window” for series against Texas. The)
Aggies and the Longhorns meet this)
weekend in a three-game SWC series.)
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