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Thursday, March 29, 1984/The Battalion/Page 13
ggies blow by Chiefs
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By TRAVIS TINGLE
Sports Reporter
With winds gusting in excess
40 mph Wednesday after-
on, a few tumbleweeds would
■r ve g' ven Olsen Field the look
ay and Sai. 0 | a ^ est Texas ghost town
Over 50 heat: mtherthan a baseball diamond.
exhibitingr Texas A&M baseball
m to the putt. :am wasn ’i about to the cold
oma and otb j nc | s bother them though. The
fegiescame from behind to de
pt Oklahoma City University
|8 to close out the three game
Iries with the Chiefs.
The Aggies found themselves
)wn after the first inning 5-0.
Freshmen pitcher David Mac-
fcrandle, who was starting on
tly awarded t the mound for the first time this
for Baylorlr. fear, appeared to have trouble
r e Karen LKt ^th the high winds early on. He
erich.aDecei talked two batters and allowed
A. Drew,ab three hits in the first before
ona and arert eingreplaced by reliever Barry
ships have at Smith.
Oklahoma City picked up
bother run in the third to make
Be score 6-0. After the Aggies
|had spotted the Chiefs six runs,
it was time to circle the wagons.
r rnnfetf I The A sg' es began their scor-
[ CUIIIC5 ini; rally in the third w hen Steve
Rmnigan hit a wind-aided solo
nome run over the right field
r j is sponsorint wall. Il was the first homer of the
nd second pn
to the top dm
ma Alpha bui
Id at 71
The inclement weather didn't seem to hurt
the Aggie comeback, but it didn’t help either.
ilosophy map
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season for Johnigan. The score
was now 6-1, but the Aggies still
had a long way to go.
In the fourth, lead off hitter
Tony Metoyer singled to right
field. DesignatecT hitter Pat
James advanced Metoyer to
third with another base hit to
right. A sacrifice fly by Kevin
Smith scored Metoyer and the
Aggies pulled to within four
runs at 6-2.
James stole second and Tim
Cartwright walked, putting run
ners in scoring position. Johni
gan then stepped up once again
and looped a single into right
field that scored James.
Centerflelder Mike Scanlin
made the comeback complete
with a three-run homer to right
field. It was Scanlin’s sixth home
run of the year and tied the
game for the first time, 6-6.
From that point on, the
Aggies had no problem with the
Chiefs — at least not until the
seventh.
fifth scored Metoyer and
Smith’s grounder back to the
pitcher scored Buddy Haney.
Cartwright executed a perfect
squeeze play down the first base
line to score James from third.
The Aggies were now comfort
ably out in front 9-6 and
appeared to be pulling away
from the Chiefs.
But in the seventh, OCU
second baseman Don Bonomo
tripled to right field. Todd
Cash’s RBI scored Bonomo and
cut the Aggie lead to 9-7.
Two doubles in the eighth
scored another run for the
Chiefs and pulled them to with
in a run of tying.
In the bottom of the ninth,
the Aggie defense salvaged the
victory.
Bonomo singled to left and
Cash grounded out, advancing
Bonomo to second. Larry Doss
walked and gave the Chiefs a
chance to win the game with
runners at first and second.
to Aggie second baseman Todd
Edwards with two outs. Edwards
hobbled the ball for just a mo
ment, then fired it home as
Bonomo rounded third. Johni
gan caught the ball just in time to
make the tag on Bonomo as he
slid across the plate.
Aggie pitcher John Mazur
picked up his first win of the sea
son, while freshmen Jimmy
Flowers recorded his first save.
The Aggies improved their
record to 26-6 overall with the
victory. Oklahoma City fell to
17-15.
Coach Tom Chandler said the
game was a chance to give other
players, especially his pitching
staff, some playing experience.
“That’s the purpose of this
type of game,” Chandler said.
“Kids who haven’t had an
opportunity to play much, can.”
The inclement weather didn’t
seem to hurt the Aggie com
eback, but it didn’t help either.
“The adverse winds affected
the game tremendously,’’
Chandler said. “It was a wind-
James’double to center in the Kevin Graves hit a grounder blown, wild day.”
Michigan brings North wind
Women split doubleheader
jetors
By BOB CASTER
ng Water Saftt Sports Reporter
am. AppliniK rThe Michigan women’s soft-
: or in G. Roi ball team brought a bit of the
contact DeNi north wind with them to the Sun
y at 645-565l>( Bell this week. That may have
played a small role in their split
ting a doubleheader against
Texas A&M.
go
orde
!/ Fighting a stiff north wind
that carried most of the sand
from the Penberthy Intramural
Complex over to Olsen Field,
the Aggies pulled off a 5-4 win in
the opening game. But as the
sun set over the swine center and
temperatures dropped, Michi
gan presented the Aggies their
fifth defeat of the season.
Shawn Andaya, the
freshman pitcher from
Stockton, Ca., earned
her fourth no-hitter of
the season with 16
strikeouts and one walk.
In game one, Shawn Andaya,
the freshman pitcher from
Stockton, Ca., earned her fourth
no-hitter of the season with 16
strikeouts and one walk. Her re
cord so far this season is 13-1.
Leading in the hit depart
ment for the Aggies were Cindy
Cooper and Gay McNutt, who
were both 2-3 in the first game.
McNutt drove in the only two
runs of the game with a triple in
the second inning.
The second game saw consid
erably less success for the Aggie
pitching staff though. Yvette
Lopez was the loser, pitching a
6-hitter with five strikeouts and
four walks.
A&M, held to only one run
until the bottom of the seventh
inning, fell one run short after a
last-minute comeback effort, en
ding the game with four runs on
seven hits. Pattie Holthaus and
Ann Hadley both hit 2-3 for the
Aggies. Hadley also had two
RBIs and two stolen bases. As a
team, the Aggies committed
four errors in the second game.
A&M hosts Nebraska at 4:00
this afternoon.
Police
investigate
Pearson
accident
United Press International
DALLAS — The case of Gow- \
boys wide receiver Drew Pear
son, listed in satisfactory condi
tion with injuries suffered in a t
car accident that killed his
brother, was referred to the Dal
las County District Attorney’sof-
fice Wednesday, police said.
A Dallas County grand jury
will determine if involuntary
manslaughter charges should be
filed against Pearson, whose car
hit a parked truck on a Dallas
freeway last week, officials said.
Dallas police have said the car
Pearson was driving was travel
ing at an “unsafe speed” when if
slammed into the rear of a trac-;
tor-trailer truck parked on a*
freeway March 22.
Club officials said Pearson-
told them he fell asleep while!
driving.
Pearson’s brother, Carey
Mark Pearson, 27, was pro
nounced dead at the scene. '
The 33-year-old Cowboys star;
suffered injuries to his ribs, liv
er, left knee and right hip. He
was listed in satisfactory and im
proving condition.
Police routinely referred acci
dent reports to the grand jury,^
officials said.
WARPED GREATESTI
ITS
by DEAN SAITO
John Mazur pitches his first Aggie win as
Kyle Field looms in the background. Kyle
Field is home to Mazur in the fall when
he also serves as an Aggie quarterback.
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