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Sports Writer
lelley Keahey pitched a one-
r Wednesday to lead the
las A&M baseball team to a
victory over North Texas
in the first game of a dou-
leader. Barry Smith picked
Ihe win in the second game
Ihe Aggies, 5-2.
een PJeahey, a sophomore from
loroftbtBggg Station, lost his chance
Ja no-hitter in the sixth in-
:er leS “® on a North Texas double
arrests pftfi e |d with two outs,
enveat p was closest Keahey had
ei L" ret come to pitching the elu-
ated 10 ■no-hitter since joining the
:d that iB t y b u1 he said he just tried
aim Ik feto think about it.
“It's always on your mind
tiros rfi(*e your out there,” Keahey
laying Ik* “But you just try to keep
aiding ii«iing like you have been and
him wWet it get to you.”
formaiKsBesignated hitter Mike Jane-
1, the bin I didn’t let anything get to
>verheanm or his hitting either. Jane-
Silviaaak n a two-run homer in the
Jeirosaiiind inning to pul the Aggies
ts of tin lont to stay at 2-0.
It the second game of the
jble-header, the Aggies
d out to another 2-0 lead
four innings with fresh-
jimmy Flowers on the
nd. But Flowers gave up
,-to-back doubles in the
inning, allowing North
s to score twice and lie the
Going out on a limb
Tim Cartwright dives safely into first
base during the Aggies’ double-
header with North Texas State Uni-
Photo by PETER ROCHA
versity Wednesday. Texas A&M
swept the series, winning the first
game 4-1 and the second 5-2.
Wanna hear a gutsy prediction on who will win
the Southwest Conference tournament?
The Houston Cougars.
Wow wee Mr. Sports Columnist, way to stick
you neck out. Don’t you go too far out on that
limb.
Okay, how’s this for a limb: SMU over Arkan
sas for second place in the tournament.
Wow wee Mr. Sports Columnist, how did you
ever slip out of that straight jacket long enough
to write that. You’re crazy. How could SMU pos
sibly beat the team that, in a single season mind
you, has beaten both North Carolina and Hous
ton? Besides the fact that Arkansas has already
beaten SMU twice this year.
How could I think that — it’s easy.
It may not be the most logical reasoning, but
the Mustangs simply have to beat the Razorbacks,
all the hopes and dreams of the Southwest Con
ference are riding on the backs of Jon Koncak
and Co.
The only way the ugly step sister of major col
lege basketball will send three representatives to
the NCAA tournament is if SMU beats Arkansas
in the SWC tournament.
The Cougars and the Razorbacks are assured a
trip to Seattle, but unless SMU does something
drastic, such as knocking off Arkansas, they will
be at home in Dallas when the tournament rolls
around. Heck it’s not inconceivable that the Ra
zorbacks won’t be enough, SMU may need to
beat Houston too.
The big question, however, is if SMU even de
serves consideration for one of the 24 at-large
bids. Are the 24-6 Mustangs that good or is their
competition that bad. Well, maybe it’s a little of
both. In Baylor and Texas, the SWC definitely
has two of the weaker teams to step out on a col
lege basketball floor this year, but every confer
ence has a few of those.
While TCU can’t be perceived as much of
threat, they have had good teams in the past and
dave
scott
played some scrappy basketball this year. The
three middle teams, Rice Texas A&M and Texas
Tech are easily capable of upsets. Rice beat Ar
kansas and everyone here knows how close the
Aggies have come, i.e the one-point loss to Ar
kansas and the overtime loss to the Mustangs.
Tech is a team that is just a cut below the top
three. The Red Raiders will challenge for a NIT
championship.
As Aggie coach Shelby Metcalf says:
“The only people that knock the SWC are
those haven’t played the SWC.”
Now back to the Mustangs
Besides Houston and Arkansas, SMU has only
two other losses. They were beaten by Nevada-
Las Vegas and Louisville, and you can bet your
bottom basketball that both of them will be in the
NCAA tournament. But more importantly, the
Mustangs have beaten Duke, which hails from
the immaculately concepted ACC. SMU has also
beaten University of Alabama-Birmingham, a
team with over 20 wins.
There are a total of 53 teams competing in the
NCAA tournament and ideally that should mean
those teams are the 53 best in the country. Will
the field be able to live up to that expectation?
NCAA officials will claim it does, but should
SMU lose to Arkansas and they are left out of the
tournament, the NCAA’s claim will be meaning
less.
ic Aggies then regained
lead for good with a single
in the bottom of the fifth
two more in the sixth. Ag-
elief pitchers Barry Smith
Rock. King were called
•IdingS';®i to seal the victory,
ntic 1W exas A&M increased its re-
ecte®to 11-1, while North Texas
remains winless after 15
A&M pistol team waiting for the invitation
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many scholarships, so it
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eam we’ve played and we
a double-header with
By PAM BARNES
Reporter
The Texas A&M pistol team
placed second in standard, free
and air pistol divisions at the In
tercollegiate Sectional Pistol
Match in Austin recently, and
now the team awaits an invita
tion to the National Intercolle-
NCE
giale Championships in all
three events.
Coach Curtis Burns says the
scores from the last match
should get them the invitation
to the national competition in
Colorado Springs this April.
The results will be announced
next Monday.
Burns, a retired Air Force
fighter pilot, says he is opti
mistic about the nationals.
“I’m confident we’ll get the
invitation in all three events and
even some individuals too,”
Burns says. “I’ve even made air
line arrangements.”
Invitations to this year’s na
tional competition will be
granted to the top ten teams in
the nation. The top 30 individu
als in the nation will also be in
cluded.
The A&M pistol team has
been one of the top ten teams in
the nation for the past five
years, Burns says. Last year the
team missed going to the na
tionals by one position, he says.
“Last year we were ranked
eighth,” Burns says, “but only
the top seven teams were in
vited. I was very disappointed.”
This year’s team consists of
around fifteen individuals but
only five are shooting compet
itive scores and will be included
in the competitive team. These
five are Ed Palacios, Mike Bar
nett, Dan Williams, Matt Hoppe
and Roger Davis.
Davis and Hoppe qualified
for the United States Shooting
Team tryouts to be held in Los
Angeles this June. Members of
this team will compete in the
Olympics.
GET THE HINT,
ALL YOU
xsa
bat 10-2 loss to California is
inly blemish on the Aggies’
rd thus far and they’ll try to
it that way over spring
LADIES
and
GENTS!
VOLUNTEER FOR
exas A&M will host South
ern Louisiana in a three
e series this weekend at Ol-
Field. The team will then
its first road trip of the
to play Northeast Loui-
ain Monroe and Louisiana
hinRuston.
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