Texas A&M
The Battalion Sports
Tuesday, May 31, 1983/The Battalion/Page 9
\ggies outlast Bruins, Titans
win national championship
i Sulitm
IHI by John Wagner
Sports Editor
It’s becoming a tradition.
A frustrating one, to be sure,
4 they probably wouldn’t have
|an\ Other way. After all, it
jrlc- out in the end.
he Texas A&M women’s
ftbkll team started off the
NCAA College World
ties the same way they began
}82’s AIAW championship
prney. They lost.
But for the second year in a
w, the Aggies swept through
etest of the field to claim the
tional championship, this
ar defeating Cal State-
illerton 2-0 in 12 innings,
^■arlier Sunday the Aggies
sfeated UCLA 1-0 in 14 in-
ngs to reach the championship
ne.
Four-time All-America pitch
er Lori Stoll pitched all 26 in
nings Sunday — a softball
marathon. Coach Bob Brock
was forced to rely on Stoll’s arm
because of Shan McDonald’s
nagging shoulder injury. And
Stoll responded, shutting out
two of the top teams in the coun
try for 26 innings and allowing a
combined 10 hits. She struck out
25.
The Aggies’ most glaring
weakness — hitting — almost
caught up with them in the
CWS. Texas A&M finished the
season with a team batting aver
age of .230, and Brock had
worked all year trying to im
prove that aspect of his club.
Poor hitting — along with inex
perience at several key positions
— was his big worry.
But Stoll, with her two shut
outs, made sure her teammates
didn’t have to score big to win.
And Brock’s worries about his
defense proved to be unneces
sary — Texas A&M placed five
players, including Stoll, on the
all-tournament team.
Gay McNutt, Pattie Holthaus,
Iva Jackson and freshman Cin
dy Cooper joined Stoll in the all
tourney selections.
But it took senior shortstop
Carrie Austgen — who was pas
sed over in the all-tourney selec
tions in favor of UCLA’s Dot
Richardson — to save the title
game for the Aggies. Her diving
stop of an almost-certain base hit
in the bottom of the 12th inning
stopped a Fullerton rally and
protected the Aggies’ lead.
Texas A&M collected only
three hits off Titan pitcher
Susan LeFebre, two of them in
the 12th. Cooper led off the in
ning with a single to right field,
and moved to third when right
fielder Vera Bahr misplayed the
ball. Holthaus then reached first
when she hit a shot that bounced
off LeFebre’s leg. Cooper stayed
at third.
Jackson then walked to load
the bases, and designated hitter
Josie Carter hit to second base.
Pam Newton couldn’t hold onto
the ball, and allowed Cooper to
score. Newton then committed a
throwing error attempting to
catch Cooper at the plate, and
Holthaus scored.
In the bottom of the 12th,
however, the Titans put press
ure on Stoll. Jan Pierini opened
for Fullerton with a single,
bringing up LeFebre. She hit a
shot past Stoll that appeared to
be a base hit, but Austgen came
up with her big play to trap the
ball behind second. Austgen tag
ged second base to force Pierini.
The Aggies opened the CWS
Wednesday with a 2-0 loss to
South Carolina. After the loss,
Texas A&M was forced to win
five straight games to stay alive
in the double elimination tour
nament.
The Aggies now own the dis
tinction of having won the last
AIAW championship and the
first NCAA title in which all
teams are involved.
Texas A&M finished the sea
son with a record of 40-11. Stoll
finished with a record of 30-7.
—Blitz uses rookie QB Koegel to roll past Wranglers, 36-11
Ktlnited Press International
CHI (A (.( ) Rookie (|u.u -
'/ynfbatk Tim Koegel got along
w i(h a linl e help from
s friends, to win his first pro-
thei jsional football starting assign-
ore u: ent.
the bRoegel, a Notre Dame gradu-
nal rii.| stepped into a starting role
litCc Monday night’s 36-1 1 Chica-
d, Ya.,|r
May
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go Blitz U.S. Football League
victory over the Arizona Wrang
lers. The man he replaced,
veteran Greg Landry, sat with
his broken ankle in the press
box, where he analyzed what
there was of the Arizona defense
and helped Koegel call plays.
“Tim did a great job of study
ing the game plan and execut-
Day students get their news from the Batt.
ing,” said Landry, who was
knocked out for the season in
the fourth quarter of last week’s
gamt against New Jersey. “He
was exceptionally cool.”
“I had absolutely no pressure
on me,” Koegel said. “I didn’t
come even close to getting
sacked.”
He gave much of the credit to
Landry and the coaching crew.
“It was easier for them to see
what I was doing wrong,”
Koegel said. “I called about 25
percent of my own plays.”
Wranglers’ Coach Doug
Shively said disgustedly, “We
were totally inept tonight.”
Arizona didn’t make a first
down after the first quarter and
a reserve quarterback was
forced late in the final period to
shovel the ball out of the end
zone for a safety to prevent a bad
snap from center from turning
into a touchdown.
The Wranglers had only 108
net yards of offense to Chicago’s
466 yards. They were successful
on one of 12 third down
attempts. Their quarterbacks
were sacked five times.
In Arizona’s 30-29 victory
over the Blitz March 12, Shively
said, “We took away their
momentum in the fourth quar
ter. Tonight we gave them 14
points in the span of three mi
nutes, which demolished us.”
The Wranglers actually gave
the Blitz 18 points in 3:04 of the
second quarter, going from an
8-3 lead to the short end of a
21-8 deficit. The outburst fea
tured a 36-yard TD pass from
Koegel to Trumaine Johnson, a
40-yard punt return for a touch
down by Lenny Willis, and a 36-
yard field goal by Frank Corral,
who hit on four field goals dur
ing the game.
The victory, coupled with
Michigan’s 43-7 victory over
Tampa Bay, boosted the Blitz,
9-4, into a tie with Tampa for the
lead in the Central Division.
Tampa visits Chicago on June
12.
The Wranglers, holding
down the cellar in the Pacific Di
vision, dropped to 4-9, but
Shively said the team still is in
contention for the division
crown.
“We’ll have to win all of our
remaining games,” he said.
staff photo by Peter Rocha
Aggie outfielder Cindy Foster carries the NCAA
national championship trophy Monday after arriv
ing at Easterwood Airport. A&M defeated Cal State
2-0 to win the title Sunday.
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