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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.
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