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'86 A&M Baseball
Season Schedule
February
15 • Pan American (DH) — 1 p.m.
16 • Pan American — 1 p.m.
19 • St. Mary’s (DH) — 1 p.m.
21 • McNeese State — 3 p.m.
22 • McNeese State — 12 noon
25 •Lamar— 1 p.m.
27 • Lubbock Christian — 3 p.m.
28 • LCC (DH) — 1 p.m.
March
1 • SW Louisiana. — 2 p.m.
2 *SW Louisiana (DH)—1 p.m.
4*Sam Houston (DH)— 1 p.m.
7• at NE Louisiana (DH) — 1 p.m.
8*at La. Tech (DH) — 12 noon
9*at La. Tech — 1 p.m.
11 • Mississippi St. — 7 p.m.
12 • Mississippi St. — 3 p.m.
14 • at Hawaii — 11 p.m.
15 • at Hawaii — 11 p.m.
16 • at Hawaii — 9 p.m.
17 • at Hawaii-Hilo — 1 1 p.m.
18 • at Hawaii-Hilo — 1 1 p.m.
22 * Houston (DH) — 5:30 p.m.
23 * Houston — 1:30 p.m.
24 • Bethel College — 3 p.m.
25 • Minnesota (DH) —5:30 p.m.
28 * at Arkansas — 7 p.m.
29 * at Arkansas (DH) — 1 p.m.
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1 • N. Texas St. (DH) — 5:30 p.m.
2 • N. Texas St. — 3 p.m.
4 * Texas Tech — 7 p.m.
5 *Texas Tech (DH) — 1 p.m.
8 • Dallas Bapt. (DH) — 5:30 p.m.
11 * at Baylor — 2 p.m.
12 * at Baylor (DH) — 12 noon
15 • at Sam Houston — 3 p.m.
18 * Rice — 3 p.m.
19 * Rice (DH) — 7 p.m.
25 * at Texas — 7 p.m.
26 * at Texas (DH) — 2 p.m.
May
2*TCU —7 p.m. '
3 * TCU (DH)—5:30 p.m.
• Non-Conference Games
* Southwest Conference Games
By TOM TAGLIABUE
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M baseball team
will begin its second season under
head coach Mark Johnson when the
Aggies host Pan American in a dou
ble-header Saturday at 1 p.m. at Ol
sen Field.
At a news conference Monday,
Johnson said A&M should be right
in the hunt for the Southwest Con
ference Championship, which the
Aggies have not won since 1978.
“I think it’s going to be a tougher
conference race,” Johnson said, “but
I feel like we ought to be in the top
four. Where we sit in there I don’t
know. I feel like we ought to contend
for a conference championship.”
The lineup for opening day is al
most set, except for catcher and
right field, where several players are
in contention for the startingjob.
The infield will be anchored by
All-SWC first baseman Fred Gegan,
who came to A&M last season and
led the team in hitting (.360), RBI
(60), hits (67) and walks (37).
Gegan, however, will miss at least
the first month of the season because
of a broken thumb he suffered last
week during practice fielding a pop
fly. Johnson said Gegan is expected
back by early March.
Gary Geiger, a junior transfer
from Seminole Junior College, may
start in place of Gegan at first. John
son said he would rather have
Geiger concentrate on pitching in
the Aggies’ rotation, but Gegan’s in
jury may change things.
As for the rest of the A&M infield,
Johnson said second baseman Robi
Chandler, who took over that posi
tion late last season, will be the
team’s defensive catalyst.
“He’s the guy that is going to have
to pull the infield together,” John
son said.
Johnson said the Aggies’ new
shortstop this season, junior college
transfer Ever Magallanes, will be an
outstanding player. Magallanes, aju-
nior from Maywood, Calif., takes
over for Rob Swain, who was one of
the Aggies’ top hitters for two years.
Third base will be one of the
steadiest positions on the entire Ag
gie club, Johnson said. Sophomore
Scott Livingstone returns to his start
ing position where he won SWC
Newcomer of the Year in 1985. Liv-
Photo by GREG BAILEY
A&M baseball coach Mark Johnson talks to members of the local
sports media during a news conference Monday at Cain Hall.
ingstone also led the Ags in doubles
(21) and was second in home runs
(10).
The A&M outfield will be
anchored by senior centerfielder
Mike Scanlin, who led the Aggies
last season in at-bats (199), hits (67),
triples (5), home runs (11) and field
ing percentage (.984).
“He’s going to have to hold (the
outfield) together, defensively,”
Johnson said. “He’s become more
comfortable out there.”
Left field will be played by Jeff
Schow, who moved from second
base to the outfield late last season.
Seniors Bill Doug Potter and Pat
James are vying for the right field
position. Potter and James both have
experience, but Potter saw more
playing time in the Aggie outfield
last year before injuring his shoul
der.
A&M’s starting catcher’s job, a po
sition vacated by Steve Johnigan, is
still up in the air.
“If I were to grab each one of (the
catchers) and took their best talent
and put it in a pile, that pile would
be a neckuva catcher,” Johnson said.
The four players trying to land
the catcher’s job are sophomore
Maury Martin, senior Blake Hutchi
son (who moved from the outfield to
catcher this season), and juniors
Scott Winterburn and Frank Tan
ner.
Johnson said Tanner would prob
ably start for the team throughout
the season, but may not this week
end because of a sore shoulder.
In the other half of the battery,
Johnson said the Aggie pitching
staff has good depth, but is still un
proven.
Going into Saturday’s Pan Ameri
can game, Johnson named Jimmy
Flowers, Russ Swan and Geiger as
the three-man starting rotation.
Flowers, a right-hander from
Houston Bellaire, posted a 1-1 re
cord last season before injuring his
hand. A&M pitching coach Jim
Lawler said Flowers may have the
best fastball on the Aggie club and
could be its only “power pitcher.”
Swan, who was the Aggies’ only
left-handed pitcher last season, was
3-0 with 19 strikeouts. Swan also was
injured last season, but is now
healthy. Lawler said Swan has a
f ood slider and throws it for strikes
0 percent of the time.
Geiger will be a pitcher/first base
man/designated hitter for the Ag
gies. Lawler rated Geiger’s fast ball
“good” and his change-up “excel
lent.”
Lawler said the bullpen is going to
be the Aggies’ strength this season.
Senior Barry Smith (5-1, 2 saves)
and junior transfer Darryl Fry (17-1
at McLennan Junior College) will
come out of the bullpen in snort re
lief.
“If we can be ahead, or even,
going into the last two innings of the
ball game, it’ll make it tough on the
opponent to come back on us,”
Lawler said of the Aggies’ pitching
staff.
The Aggies have seven more
pitchers who will probably see action
this season: junior Pat Wernig, se
nior Dale Barry, junior Ed Perez,
sophomore Russ Greene, sopho
more Kyle Atkinson, freshman Da
vid Jones and junior David Bruning.
A&M BASEBALL NOTES:
The A&M baseball team has
planned several promotions to at
tract fans to Olsen Field during the
’86 season.
Two promotions are scheduled
for this weekend’s three-game series.
A parachute jump will precede the
start of Saturday’s double-header
and Aggie baseball visors will be
given away before Sunday’s single
game, which also begins at 1 p.m.
Former A&M head coach lands Cardinals’ job
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Gene Stallings, for
mer Texas A&M head coach and
protege of coaching legends Paul
“Bear” Bryant and Tom Landry, was
named Monday to succeed Jim Ha-
nifan as coach of the St. Louis Cardi
nals.
“I’m sorry Coach Bryant couldn’t
be here,” Stallings said at a news con
ference where he was introduced by
Cardinals owner William V. Bidwill.
“I know somewhere he’s smiling.”
The appointment of Stallings, an
assistant to Landry with the Dallas
Cowboys for the past 14 years,
ended Bidwill’s arduous search for a
coach. Hanifan and his assistants
were fired just 15 minutes after the
Cardinals lost the final game of the
1985 NFL season to the Washington
Redskins Dec. 21.
It also filled the last vacant NFL
coachingjob.
The 1985 Cardinals posted a dis
appointing 5-11 record after being
picked by some experts to win the
NFC East. Critics contended that, al
though Hanifan was well-liked by his
players, he did not impose the disci
pline needed to win and make the
playoffs.
Stallings agreed with descriptions
of himself as tough, but added that
he also can be compassionate.
“There’s nothing wrong in liking
your players,” Stallings said. “I’ve
got a job to do and that is to make
Mr. Bidwill glad that he hired me.”
Bidwill said he was glad the hunt
was over.
“It’s been a long search and I’ve
talked to a lot of fine football
coaches and fine men,” Bidwill said
in introducing Stallings. “But you
have to stop and make a judgment.
And I think I’ve picked the best man
for the job.”
Stallings has spent all but seven
years of his post-high school football
life under Bryant and Landry. He
was an All-Southwest Conference re
ceiver at A&M under Bryant and a
captain of Bryant’s undefeated 1956
team. He spent one season as an as
sistant to Bryant at A&M and then
accompanied him to Alabama in
1958.
Stallings returned to A&M as
head coach in 1965, and guided the
Aggies to the Cotton Bowl in 1967,
the only winning season he had at
A&M. Stallings was fired after the
1971 season, and he joined Landry’s
staff in 1972.
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Seventh Annual Aggie
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PART I TONIGHT
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Nan Hoover, Selected Works Renee Jensen, Mona
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