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
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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.
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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
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FebruanJstaff. Chandler said right-
re onl) ilhander Greg Brinkman, 6-3 in
1983, is best the Cougars have
:ause ofJto offer.
the trade® Houston catcher Riley Epps,
nore than j who batted .395 i as t year, is con-
0 percenlsidered one of the best in the
of the dl SWC.
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