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Friday, February 14, 1986/The Battalion/Page 11 ,&M hosts Pan Am in season opener Aggies start '86 season with 3-game series By TOM TAGLIABUE Spurts Writer ■ Opening Day for the 1986 Texas ■&M baseball team is less than 24 Dniv Jaurs away. ■ The Aggies, who finished 39-16 in e\ ( |l ( )85, will open with a double- ;n | header against the Pan American ■rones Saturday at 1 p.m. at Olsen in. field. |Texas A&M Head Baseball Coach Mark Johnson will be starting his ■cond season with the Aggies. I A&M has already named the three starting pitchers for this week end’s series, jimmy Flowers, a right- inder from Houston Bellaire, will throw Saturday against Pan Am, hich already sports a 1 -1 record. Flowers was 1-1 with a 6.24 ERA entt I in seven games for the Aggies last )und Bason, before injuring his hand, on, ■ggie pitching coach John Lawler ■id Flowers has a good fast ball and ■mid be a “power” pitcher, nihil Russ Swan, a 6-foot-4 inch left- etai ■nder from Kennewick, Wash., will :aso[lart the second game for the Ag- innrBes. Swan was 3-0 with a 5.60 ERA ) tht ■ five games last season and then he I ■so was injured. ■ Sunday’s starter against Pan Am HBll be junior Gary Geiger, a junior ^■llege transfer from Seminole Ju- teazBor College. Geiger is a right- 3r511 Imder with an excellent change-up, Kwler said. atlSThe starting catcher for the Ag- mi| es ^is weekend is still not known till I'd Lawler said the decision as to wcl ■o wil! be behind home plate prob- ^■ivwill not be made until Saturday. ■ Four players are competing for JBejob—Maury Martin, Blake Hut- S liinson, Scott Winterburn and frank Tanner. ■ Johnson expects to start Robi ■landler at second base, Ever Ma- |l®I anes at shortstop, Scott Liv- fensivtBgstone at third base, Jeff Schow in fclllt field and Mike Scanlin in center oweli Itid. A&M right fielder Bill Doug Potter dives back to first base in a game last season. The Aggies will Photo by ANTHONY S. CASPER begin the ’86 season Saturday against Pan Ameri can in a double-header beginning at 1 p.m. First base is unsettled right now because of the injury last week to All-SWC first baseman Fred Gegan, who broke his thumb in a freak acci dent. Geiger is Gegan’s backup, but Johnson wants Geiger to concentrate on pitching. Senior Pat James, who is also bat tling for a starting job in right field, is the possible starter at first. James is challenging senior Bill Doug Potter for the right fielder’s job. Potter injured his shoulder last season, but is recovered now. He hit .322 with seven doubles for the Ags in 1985. AGGIE BASEBALL NOTES — Saturday’s festivities will include a parachute jump sponsored by Mu tual of Omaha. Three jumpers will drop into Olsen Field, each landing on a different base. The final jumper, carrying the game ball, is supposed to land on home plate. Sunday is Aggie visor day, the first of several giveaways designed to help bring fans out to the ball park. The first 1,000 fans entering the gate Sunday will receive a free visor, compliments of Fidelity Union Life Insurance. 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