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Ag countdown to Omaha resumes with Baylor By CHAREAN WILLIAMS Assistant Sports Editor The countdown to Omaha, Neb. 1 has begun. Only 49 days, nine games, two 1 tournaments and regionals remain I before the Texas A&M softball team I can head to the NCAA tournament l to try and regain the championship 1 it lost in the l()th innning to UCLA 1 last year. But, before the No. 3 Aggies re- i gain their lost prize, they must face I some mighty tough foes. Wednesday I at 4 p.m. in Waco, A&M resumes the I countdown with a double-header | against Baylor. The Ags will take a six-game win I streak into the twinbill, including a I 9-0 whipping of the Bears Sunday in 1 the Aggie Invitational Tournament. Coach Bob Brock’s Ags captured first-place in the tourney, held at Soutnwood Athletic Complex, with an 8-1 record over the three-day weekend. “I’m pretty happy with an 8-1 re cord especially after we lost the third game,” Brock said. “We won six in a row after that one.” A&M was upset by unranked Southwest Missouri State on Friday, 5-3 — a game in which Aggie pitcher Yvette Lopez couldn’t Find her rhythm. Lopez (9-3 overall) redeemed her self in the tournament. She won two games after the loss and allowed only three earned runs for the entire tournament. Pitching has, been the Aggies’ strength for years. This season has seen little change. Pitcher Shawn Andaya, who will likely start the first game against Baylor, won four games in the tour ney without a loss. She struck out 48, count'em, 48 batters in 32 innings and allowed only eight hits and no runs. Andaya’s overall record is 13- 3. The Aggie bats Finally came to life in the tourney (funny what a little rest and your own backyard will do). A&M had 89 hits in the nine- game tourney for a .354 team bat ting average. Against No. 17 Baylor, the Ags belted 16 hits. Aggie third baseman Cindy Coo- t ier finally found her form. Cooper ratted .666 with two homeruns, in cluding a homerun in the championship game against Utah State for a 1 -0 A&M win. “Cindy’s been in a slump,” Brock said. “And lo and behold, I look up and she’s hit a homerun to win the championship. She’s out of (her slump) now. “We hit the ball. We didn’t get a lot of runs, but we hit the ball. There isn’t a team that has as many hom eruns as we have. I’ve never had a team that hit so many. Li^ (Mizera) has 12 homeruns on the year. What more can you say about Liz? Every one hit well. 1 think our bats are back.” The bats are back. The pitching has never gone anywhere. And the wins? A record of 28-7 is all that needs to be said — at least until Omaha. By BRANDON BERRY Sports Writer In last night’s doubleheader sweep of North Texas State, the Texas Aggies used something old, something new, something bor rowed and beat the pitchers black and blue. In the first game, right hander Philip Taylor, the Ags most effective pitcher this season with a 5-1 record, and Tom Arrington, the Ags most absent pitcher this season due to in juries, combined on a five-hitter and a 1-0 victory. In the second game, A&M start ing pitcher Kelly Keahey, who has had a rough start to the ’85 season with a 5.56 ERA, survived his own wildness and and some rather spotty relief pitching from left-hander Russ Swan to give the Ags a 14-12 sweep. Swan, who gave up six runs and six hits in a little more than one inning, is also just returning from an injury. Those were the somethings old and new. But while the Aggie pitchers were toiling (and sometimes Hailing) away against the Mean Green, senior cen ter fielder Mike Scanlin borrowed a scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Romancing the Stone” and Silver Creek Chewing Tobacco com mercials as he came through in the nick of time. Scanlin singled home the winning run in the bottom of the seventh and final innning of the first game to give the Ags their only score, but Taylor and Arrington made sure it was all the offense that was needed. And therein lay one of the black and blue beatings of the pitching staff. In the first game, the bruises were purely, emotional, as an A&M pitch ing staff that had taken on that “Fla- waii in December in the 40’s” look was forced to hold the Mean Green bombless. In the second game, the bruises came from balls flying all over the infield, through the outfield, off the wall, over the wall and even across the railroad tracks. The Ags and Eagles (the Mean Green’s other name) combined for 26 runs, 33 hits, 15 extra base hits, four errors and one ugly game. The Ags held what looked to he a safe 12-5 lead going into the seventh inning. So sale in fact that A&M Coach Mark Johnson brought in Swan for the first time in three weeks. He retired the first three men he faced and looked like he was re ady to pick up where he left off be fore his injury (3-0, 3.00 ERA). Ten batters, a bloated ERA and only one out later, Barry Smith en tered with a one-run lead and a save opportunity. “We were really pleased to get some guys some innings out there,” Johnson said. “Arrington and Swan really needed some work out there and I thought that Tom obviously had a better outing for us this time.” Scanlin led an A&M “Hit Parade” offensivelywith two home runs and a double. Right fielder Jeff Schow added four RBI’s and Buddy Ha ney, Rob Swain and Fred Gegan all had three hit nights. “I’m really pleased with the way we hit the ball,” Johnson said, “espe cially Rob (Swain) and Mike (Scan lin). We could really use those guys to come out of some slumps and con tribute the way they are capable of contributing. “This is the time where we need to start winning some series against some people and we need to start building some momentum.” The Aggies host NTSU again Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Olsen Field in the concluding game of the series. “I hope (NTSU) don’t get too much better,” Johnson said, “be cause they never gave up out there, they kept coming back and we threw everything at them but the kitchen sink.” The outfield should be checked for porcelain. tub 813 WELLBORN 693-4045 C.S. TEXAS r. BAR DRINKS / Every Thurs., Fri., & Sat. Night til Close Cover Charge: $2 Girls $3 Guys Free Beer from 8-9 p.m. Tiie Microcomputer Requisition Program has a HOME and a Name. 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