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Wednesday, March 27,1985/The Battalion/Page 9
Ags worthy of night-hood against ’Kats
ByCHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Spurts Editor
It was a night for pitchers. And a
night for Liz Mizera.
The Texas A&M softball team,
ranked No. 3 in the nation, couldn’t
have won either game against Sam
Houston State Tuesday night with
out a freshman shortstop — Mizera.
She might look small, but she carries
a big stick.
As the wind began to blow harder
and harder at A&M Field, the hits
seemed to come less and less.
The wind helps me,” said Aggie
pitcher Yvette Lopez. “T he wind
catches the seams and makes (the
ball) move. It gets hard to hit."
For most of the hitters, the ball
was definitely hard to hit. The Ags
could come up with only six hits in
the first game, the Bearkats only
two. The second game wasn’t much
different— nine for A&M and two
forSHSU.
But Mizera somehow found a way
to hit the ball.
The first game was in extra in
nings, the eighth inning to be exact,
and the game looked as gloomy as
the weather for the Ags. Mizera
came to bat with a runner on second.
She slammed the pitch of SHSU’s
JoAnne Graham into lef t field. The
ball glanced off the glove of left
fielder Sherri McNamara and as the
ball rolled out of her reach, so had
the game for the ’Kats.
The Ags posted a 2-0 win behind
the strength of Mizera’s hitting.
The first runs allowed by Gra
ham, who was 10-0 before Mizera’s
destruction, snapped a 12-game
arkat win streak.
“It’s the bench that does it,’’ Mi
zera joked. “I just tried to hit the
11.1 wasjust trying to connect."
The second game was an exact
replica of the first. You could have
just replayed the videotape.
This time, Mizera saved her hero
ics until the third inning. Her hom-
erun shot carried into trie intramu
ral fields.
It was a shot even Hank Aaron
would have stood at the plate to
watch glide over the fence.
Thanks to Mizera, the Ags had a
1-0 win and a double-header sweep.
“Liz is doing a good job of hil-
Texas A&M third baseman Cindy Cooper (2) finishes her
swing as she watches the ball. The Ags shut out Sam Houston
Photo by PETER ROCHA
2-0 and 1-0 Tuesday behind Liz Mizera’s two homeruns.
A&M will compete in the Aggie Invitational this weekend.
ting,” said A&M Coach Bob Brock of
his .390 hitter. “She has nine home
runs and has won five or six games
for us with her hitting.”
Of course, if the Aggie pitchers
hadn’t come through as usual, Mi
zera would have been the on/y bright
spot.
Pitching ace Shawn Andaya im
proved her record to 8-3 and kept
her ERA at .390 with 12 First game
strikeouts. Lopez took care of the
second game, improving to 8-2.
The day must have been meant
for the Ags. Lopez struckout a Bear-
kat on three straight changeups.
“I don’t think Eve ever seen a
pitcher throw three straight change
ups,” Lopez laughed. “I just missed
the last sign.”
With the way the ball bounced,
the wins were meant for the Ags.
“We hit the ball well enough to
score 10 runs tonight,” Brock said.
“The ball did some crazy things out
there. Everytime we got some people
on, the wind would catch the ball or
they would make a diving catch —
just weird stuff.
Ags
id
come around before the Cal-State
Fullertons and the UCLAs do.
Ag golfers
get look at
SWC rivals
By PETE HERNDON
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M men’s golf team
will be in Houston Wednesday
through Saturday for the 31st An
nual All-America Intercollegiate In
vitational Tournament at Bear
Creek Golf World.
In last year’s tournament, A&M’s
Philip Parkin took the overall indi
vidual title with a four round total of
276. This year, however, the Aggies
will be without Parkin, who left
A&M to join the European pro cir
cuit.
With every Southwest Conference
team except Arkansas competing,
the All-America Intercollegiate
could be a good indication of what to
expect at the SWC Championships
in April.
Not surprisingly, this year’s tour
ney Field is expected to chase Hous
ton, the defending NCAA national
champs, for the team title. The Cou
gars haven’t lost a tournament thus
far this season.
A&M Coach Bob Ellis said this
week’s tourney is important for
A&M because some of his golfers
have not played up to their potential
as of late.
A&M’s Jorge Coghlin, an honora
ble mention All-American last sea
son, hasn’t had a good spring and is
listed as A&M’s No. 4 player going
into the All-America Intercollegiate.
Flint Nelson, the No. 3 man for the
Ags, Finished third in the Pan Amer
ican Tournament during the First
week of February, but Ellis said Nel
son hasn’t played well since.
“We play in a tough conference
(SWC teams Houston, Arkansas,
Texas and A&M were all ranked in
the nation’s Top 20 at the beginning
of the spring).” Ellis said. “But that’s
the way we want it. If everybody
plays well and stays together, we can
compete with just about anyone.”
Ellis said the bright spot for the
Aggies this spring has been Paul
Mayo. Mayo has played consistently
well in his last three tournament out
ings and has moved into the Aggies
No. 1 slot in the lineup.
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