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ports Wednesday, May 30, 1984/The Battalion/Page9 -taliation ff| (of the 19jjj w l>en it to u ; 2, fra„[ " 1 want to] hav ing tf, eir countr) 7 and ded hird time sn’t charm or women (,s e visit nil ■jhy with, <!m y COniirJ From staff and wire reports arranged, For the past two years the “ re ceptioiiBen’s softball team had done his re t and done it the hard way. But ■year they just couldn’t re- '■me Aggies lost back-to-back lies to top-seeded UCLA in e finals of the women’s Col ^1 geSoftball World Series Tues- iy. Both losses were by the anl-to-swallow score of 1-0. |X^ Ai'eM was undefeated going TQ to the finals of the double | ^ Jmination tournament, which ist 'of qu was undefeated thatpumminginto the finals of n S staTl double elimination ding liWurnament, which ^:;::|eam that they had to tl Jim MarM/i just one game minst UCLA, whom |ey had already ten 2-0 earlier reasurer m tournament. ?publican(fc n t that they had to win just nts helpedBgame against UCLA, whom to Pres™ had already beaten 2-0 ear- ents has l r j n the tournament, difficult toB e campaigjhat was a change from the aticcandid* t w0 y ears when the Ags 1 gone into the finals from iji losers bracket and needed |in both games, which they done. ■he deciding game went 13 ipgs before UCLAs Tricia g homerun to left ended ime. Freshman Shawn An- was the losing pitcher in f for the Aggies, she fin- didate Dati er. ign, Hoyt, liaison mentandlol Energy aril rporation, ished the season with a record of 33-7 and was a second team All-America. The winning pitcher for UCLA was Debbie Doom. She gave up just five hits to the Ag gies and struck out 15 in the 13 innings. Doom was the winning pitcher in four of the five UCLA victories. She finished the year 27-3. As a team, the Aggies had a record of 51 -18 for the season. In the first game of the finals, A&M lost the game in the sixth inning when Tricia Mang sin gled home the winning run from second base. Three Ag gies were named to the All- tournament team, Andaya, catcher Gaye McNutt, and out fielder Josie Carter. Coach Bob Brock should have known his team was in for a tough time from the very be ginning. In the first round A&M and No. 2 ranked Califor nia Poly Pomona played for 25 innings, spanning two days, be fore die Ags won 1-0. In the next game of the se ries, A&M capitalized on five errors by Nebraska to win 5-2. A&M then defeated UCLA, 2-0 in eight innings. Shortstop Judy Trussell had the winning RBIs. The team then beat Northwest ern in 13 innings, 1-0, before facing UCLA in the finals. At a banquet held during the week, Carter was selected as a first team All-America and An daya and third basman Cindy Cooper were second team selec tions. Carter had a .328 average on the season for the Aggies and led the team with three hom- eruns. Cooper batted .356 and led the team with 29 RBIs. The championship games with UCLA will aired on ESPN at 2 p.m. today. Ags shut out of Series By BILL ROBINSON Senior Sports Writer They say the best defense is a good offense. That is partic ularly true in college baseball and Texas A&M lived by that saying all year long. But the team that lived by the hit during the regular season died by the hit in the Midwest Regional NCAA baseball tour nament last weekend. The No. 14 Aggies dropped two-of-three in the tournament eliminating any hopes of giving Coach Tom Chandler a trip to the College World Series as a going away gift. Chandler, who is retiring af ter 26 years at the Aggies’ helm, finished with a 660-329-10 re cord. The 1984 team set a school record for the most wins in a season by finishing at 41- 21. The disappointing finish didn’t put a damper on the team’s view of its performance this season. “We were just real happy to get there,” Texas A&M catcher Steve Johnigan said. “Nobody would have thought we would get there at the beginning of the season, so it’s a dream come true. “You want to win it when you go, but once you’re out of it you have to look at where you’ve been.” And the Aggies came a long way before being eliminated this season. Coach Mark John son, who has been named to re place Chandler, blamed the Ag gies’ loss on a lack of offense. “We just didn’t hit the ball real well,” Johnson said. “You have to score more than one run to win college ballgames.” Texas A&M began the tour nament on a losing note — dropping a one-run ballgame to a determined Oklahoma City University team, 2-1. A 30-mile-per-hour wind was the biggest factor in the game, which was decided by an eighth inning OCU bunt down the right baseline. Tony Metoyer hit his 10th home run of the season in the second inning. The Aggies rebounded in game two, dumping Grambling 11-5. It was Texas A&M’s first victory ever in NCAA post-sea son play. Metoyer and Mike Scanliri each picked up their 11th home runs of the season and Kevin Smith picked up his first home run in the Aggies’ 13 hit outing. Oklahoma State came back from a 5-2 OCU upset to elimi nate the Aggies, 5-0. OSU, ranked No. 3 in the na tion, put two big innings to gether and the Aggie bats went cold to decide the contest in the Cowboys’s Stillwater, Okla., home. The Cowboys went on to sweep OCU and win the re gional title. Photo by PETER ROCHA Freshman pitcher Shawn Andaya lets loose with a pitch in action earlier this season. An daya had a 33-7 record for the Aggies and made second team All-America. Acrrotf, wM mwr ADS Advertise an item in the Battalion. Call 845-2611 Sevilla Bdrms. from $295 Two Bdrms.from $425 • 24 Hour Emergency Maintenance • FREE Cable & HBO •Pool 1 On Shuttle Bus Route • Laundry Rooms • Large Walk-in Closets 1501 Holleman College Station 693-6505 m MCTRO MtOetMTItS MANAClMtNT INC experience p i thin Coni ve most )ught aboit aving expo jhone inlet i know in et answers, ng withom t. 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