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Pan Am dusts A&M 4-2, sweeps series
By TOM TAGLIABUE
Spurts Writer
Pan American stymied Texas
A&M hitters and completed a three-
game sweep of the Aggies with a 4-2
victory at Olsen Field Sunday.
The 83-degree weather was easily
the hottest thing at the ballpark Sun
day afternoon, as the Aggies were
outhit 12-6 by the Broncs, now 4-1
overall.
A crowd of only 750 witnessed the
final game of the series, which saw
the Aggies’ record fall to 0-3.
A&M pitcher Gary Geiger (0-1)
kept the Broncs at bay for the first
two innings before giving up two
runs in the top of the third on a solo
home run and three consecutive sin
gles.
Pan Am’s Jeff Benefield belted his
first homer of the year and added
the game-winning RBI single in a
two-run sixth for the Broncs.
The Aggies netted their two runs
in the sixth inning on a two-run
homer by Mike Scanlin, with Scott
Livingstone on base.
A&M had a chance to do even
more damage in the sixth. With
[Geiger on first, Robi Chandler
popped out to the first baseman and
Geiger, who was running on the
play, was picked off first for a rally
ending double play.
Geiger was relieved in the top of
[the seventh by Kyle Atkinson, who
flowed Pan Am only three hits in
hree innings of relief.
A&M Coach Mark Johnson said
he Aggies’ hitting was off, but the
pitching — particularly from the
mllpen — was not.
“I was very pleased with the peo-
le out of the bullpen,” Johnson
iaid. “You’ve gotta try to take the
ressure off and be as positive as you
an. You can’t panic.”
Johnson said the Aggies were hurt
the bad weather last week and,
cause of that, they didn’t get a lot
f practice in game-type situations.
“(Opening day) wasn’t one of
hose days where you had to try to
jack the guys up to play,” Johnson
aid. “They wanted to play and the
effort was there. It’s just a matter of
flings falling in place for us.”
An opening day crowd of 1,200
aw Pan Am whip A&M 5-2 in the
irstgame Saturday afternoon.
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A&M’s Scott Livingstone slides hard into second
base to break up a double play attempt by Pan
Photo by MIKE SANCHEZ
American shortstop Cecilio Rodriquez. The
Broncs swept the 3-game series this weekend.
A&M’s Jimmy Flowers pitched
near-perfect baseball for three in
nings before he was touched for five
runs in the next two innings.
Flowers went 5 Vs innings, giving
up seven hits and five runs — four
of them earned — and issuing two
walks and six strike outs.
The second game was a wild one
which saw the Aggies come from
four runs down to take a 6-4 lead in
the bottom of the eighth, only to lose
7-6.
Russ Swan started for A&M, but
was relieved by Russ Greene in the
sixth. Greene gave up only one run
in his three innings, but was then re
lieved by Darryl Fry, who gave up
the two winning runs.
Scanlin provided the punch for
the Aggies with his first home run of
the year in the sixth. A&M added
three more runs in the seventh on
three hits, two walks and a balk by
Pan Am’s Santana Garza.
But Pan Am stormed back for
three runs in the ninth on two con
secutive walks and three consecutive
singles to win the game.
Scanlin said the Aggies just need
time to jell.
“As far as the team goes, we’re all
right,” Scanlin said. “The team’s
going to come around.”
A&M will try to notch its first win
of the year Wednesday afternoon
against St. Mary’s of San Antonio.
The first game of the double-header
will begin at 1:00 p.m.
'Horn swimmers drop
Aggies in dual meet
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A&M’s Chris Kanning swims toward a 4th place in the 400-yard in
dividual medley against UT at the P.L. Downs Natatorium Saturday.
By KEN SURY
Assistant Sports Editor
The Texas men’s and women’s
swimming teams dominated Texas
A&M in the Aggies’ last home meet
of the season at P.L. Downs Natato
rium Saturday.
The Longhorn women downed
the Aggie women 49-29, while the
UT men handed A&M a 55-40 loss.
But A&M Assistant Swimming
Coach Tracy Johnston said the Ag
gies have a lot to be pleased with.
“(A&M) swam a lot of fast times in
this meet,” Johnston said. “We’re
heading in the direction we want to
be as conference nears, so that’s very
encouraging.”
The Southwest Conference swim
ming championships for women are
Feb. 27-March 1, while the men’s is
March 13 to 15. Both will be held at
the University of Texas Swimming
Center.
Because the conference meet is
just around the corner, the Aggies
decided it was best to keep Head
Swimming Coach Mel Nash at home
for this meet.
The reason?
Nash is sick with a virus and de
cided it was best to keep the swim
mers from being exposed to the ill
ness. Nearly every A&M swimmer
has been ill at one point during the
season, and several of the men were
sick the past week. Nash kept in
touch with Johnston by telephone
throughout Saturday’s meet.
In Saturday’s dual meet, A&M’s
Chris O’Neil did not swim his speci
ality, the backstroke, but did score
two first-place finishes in the 50- and
100-yard freestyle events.
The only other wins for the Aggie
men came in the 400-yard freestyle
relay and Scott McDonald’s 400-yard
individual medley win.
For the A&M women, Edlyn Bell
won the 200-yard backstroke and
Vicki Moir took the 200-yard
breaststroke.
Johnston said she also was pleased
with the fast times for Suzanne Fiori,
Jody Tanner and Chris Kanning,
who had a personal best in the 200-
yard men’s butterfly.
A&M men take second place at SWC indoor track meet
By TOM TAGLIABUE
Sports Writer
Texas A&M surprised everyone at
the Southwest Conference indoor
track and field championships with a
second-place finish by its men’s
team.
A&M’s used three first-place fin
ishes — all by freshmen — to come
within 33 points of first-place Ar
kansas. UA scored 94 points fol
lowed by A&M with 61 and Texas
with 59.
Stanley Kerr, an Aggie freshmen
sprinter from Snook, won the 60-
yard dash and qualified for the
NCAA meet with a time of 6.22 sec
onds.
Possibly the biggest surprises of
the entire SWC meet were the first-
)lace finishes of A&M’s Lawrence
Felton in the 60-yard high hurdles
and Gary Pervis in the 600-yard run.
Felton, who had the fourth-best
time in the conference going in,
pulled off a major upset by clearing
the hurdles with a time of 7.29. Per
vis claimed his victory in the 600-
yard run with a time of 1:10.23.
“(Pervis) was really unbelievable
because, going into the meet, every
one said the 600(-yard run) was
going to be the hardest and toughest
race,” said A&M Head Track and
Field Coach Charlie Thomas. “Our
guys really had an all-out team ef
fort. Everybody was pulling to
gether. We had some super perfor
mances.”
In addition to the three first
places, the Aggies collected a second
place from Randy Barnes in the shot
put (63 feet, one-quarter inches) and
third places from Ian James in the
long jump and Kendrick Wesley in
the 600-yard run.
Two Aggies finished fourth in
their events, Floyd Heard in the 60-
A&M’s Stanley Kerr
yard dash and Francisco Olivares in
the triple-jump.
A&M’s two-mile relay team of
Matt Dunn, Calvin Gaziano, Derek
Green and Craig Calk placed fifth
with a time of 7:51.81. The Aggies
got a sixth-place finish from their
mile-relay team of Maurice Holt,
Pervis, Dunn and Wesley, which ran
a time of 3:14.52.
The A&M women’s track and
field team got its first points in a
SWC meet in two years when high
jumper Brandy Stubblefield placed
third with a leap of 5-8.
A&M scored eight points to finish
in seventh place overall.
UT dominated the women’s divi
sion. Winning 10 of the 12 events,
the Longhorns rolled up 180 points
to post a 106-point victory margin
over second-place Houston.
The Aggie women also took two
sixth places — L’Tanya Brown in the
triple jump (37-7’/2) and the two-
mile relay team of Beth Drees, Glo
ria Vecera, Carmen Richardson and
Mary Phillips (9:49.52).
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