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Baseball Friday, March 30, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11 Ags vs. Houston Fri. at 7:30p.m. Sot. 1 p.m., doubleheader Aggies sweep Nebraska penn| )uis al iticcfl ccuredin 1 Nebraska, Illinois, i Minnti! ic, Pennsl Georgi ggies battle Cougars By TRAVIS TINGLE Sports Writer ■ If the Texas Aggies can I jlttwp three games from the r^yBauston Cougars this weekend lit Olsen Field, they have a good ihance of taking sole posession A of first place in the Southwest ■inference when the dust deais. Klhe Aggies are tied with :nt said texas for First in the SWC with er than identical records of 3-0. But emond Jexas tangles with Arkansas been a this weekend and could easily lousing be upset. If so, the Aggies can Riedv jbove into first all alone with a :rs Asst ; hveq) of Houston. fc Friday night, the Aggies will shoulditjface the Cougars at 7:30 p.m. in ved,"ciiija single game. Saturday, the r interen fteams play a doubleheader be ginning at 1 p.m. jsite intfcHlhe Aggies are 26-6 overall lie indijigoine into the series. The Cou- ast monitpars bring in a 22-13 overall re- 1 peref Jcord, 1-5 in the SWC. t 18thcBLast year in Houston, the overall Cougars swept three games but thelfrom the Aggies. Coach Tom ive in: Chandler hopes his team can d one * return the favor. |‘‘They wiped us out last year,” Chandler said. “We’re hoping to change things this time." i Chandler said the Cougars have been troubled by inconsis- trade tency all season. d. Cornfl“At times they’ve had good de econlhitting and pitching, but they therenu'lgave up 33 base on balls against rtfall in Wexas,” he said. Texas A&M also takes a 12 game winning streak into the Houston series. The Aggies suf fered their last loss against Southwestern way back during spring break. Also, the Aggie defense has yet to commit an er ror in the last nine games. The Aggies have been win ning some real close games la tely. The team came from be hind Wednesday to defeat Oklahoma City 9-8. They also rallied twice to beat TCU in the late innings, 5-4 and 6-5, during last weekend’s doubleheader. Those comebacks were’nl exac tly easy, but Chandler said that was the beauty of it. “The makings of a good ball club, is being able to come from behind,” Chandler said. Hopefully, the Aggies won’t need to come from behind against the Cougars this week end. The Aggie pitching staff will see to that. Sherman Corbett, Tom Ar rington and Kelly Keahey are expected to be the starting pitchers for the Cougar series this weekend. Corbett is 4-2 on the year and started in last weekend’s 5-4 vic tory over TCU. Arrington has yet to be de feated in six starts for the Ag gies. As of March 10, Arring ton’s earned run average was the lowest in the nation at 0.50, according to Collegiate Baseball magazine. Keahey is undefeated in four starts, including a 10-1 win over TCU. Chandler said he’s been pleased with Keahey’s perfor mance. “He’s been the biggest sur prise of the pitching staff,” Chandler said. Chandler said Houston’s atti tude towards Texas A&M could make this weekend’s series in teresting. “They don’t like Aggies,” Chandler said. By DAVE SCOTT Sports Writer After each game, the wom en’s softball team huddles and yells “beat the hell outta — Filling in the blanks with their next opponent. Thursday, the Aggies took both games of a doubleheader from Nebraska, but because they face the same Cornhusker club in the first gariie of the Scrimmage rocks Kyle Field The bleachers at Kyle Field weren’t rocking and the Aggie Band’s rendition of “The Noble Men of Kyle” was not pounding the west side decks with a re lentless beat Thursday af ternoon. But down on the play ing field, in the midst of that empty concrete monster, it was business as usual for Jackie Sherrill and his Aggies. The team wrapped up an other week of practice with a full-contact scrimmage that lasted almost two hours — and somebody forgot to tell them that it wasn’t the real McCoy. When all was said and done, Sherrill felt fairly good about his team’s performance — espe cially his offense. “Offensively I think we’ve improved some, teamwise, ” he said. “Our quarterbacks and re ceivers looked real good, they’re showing some continu- ity.” But defensively the Aggies have a couple of big holes to fill. “We’re still trying to find some people at linebacker and nose guard on defense,” Sher rill said. Quarterback Kevin Murray hit 1 1 of,15 passes for 149 yards while Jeff Holley and Jeff Nel son both ran back kick-offs for 80 and 100 yards respectively. Baylor Invitational tournament in Waco Friday morning, the women had to do the yell si lently — they didn’t want to be rude to the Nebraska team standingjust 20 feet away. Although the Aggies weren’t rude to the Cornhuskers, the women weren’t exactly hospita ble either. Yvette Lopez pitched shut outs in both games and held Nebraska to a total of six hits as the Aggies won 5-0 and 1-0. Lopez was forced to pitch both games because the Aggies other pitcher, Shawn Andaya, is out with the flu. Lopez has had problems with consistency from one inning to the next, which in turn has caused her to lack self- confidence. But the two well pitched games helped “You’re darn right it helped,” Lopez said. “It just happened that it was do or die because Shawn wasn’t there to back me up.” Even though Andaya wasn’t there, the rest of the Aggie team provided plenty of sup port, both offensively and de fensively. In the first game, outfielder Deb Rollman knocked in the winning RBI with a double in the second inning. The second game saw the women score one run in the first inning and then settle back to play steady defense to win, the game. The Texas A&M football team is get ting caught up in spring practice with Photo by BOB CASTER full scrimmages every Thursday afternoon. ry was and ca® analysts. ?cutive ® Texas swept the series from Houston last weekend, winning one game 19-0. With a score like that, one might think the Cougars are kking an adequate pitching lost by . J iremp ling coffl heir pii/ ts, Anttr| more ini|l FebruanJstaff. 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