Thursday, February 20, 1986/The Battalion/Page 11
A&M subdues St
Ag pitching
tames Rattler
bats 3-2,9-4
Mary’s for first wins
THEATRE GUiDE
By TOM TAGLIABUE
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M baseball team
hasn’t exactly lived up to its slogan of
“Swinging the Sticks in ’86,” but the
Aggies did get their first wins of sea
son by sweeping St. Mary’s of San
Antonio 3-2 and 9-4 in a double-
t eader Wednesday.
In the first game, the Aggies (2-3)
held off a late seventh-inning rally
bvthe Rattlers (1-4) to chalk up their
Irst win of the year.
b Behind the strong pitching of
arryl Fry and relievers Barry Smith
“ind Dale Berry, A&M limited St.
Mary’s to two runs on five hits, gave
up three walks and struck out four
Batters.
I Fry, who evened his record to 1-1,
said he simply threw whatever the
Rattlers weren’t able to hit.
“I threw a lot of fastballs to see if
they’re going to hit it,” Fry said. “If
Ehey started hitting it. I’d change it
up. But the last couple of innings, I
Ifinally got the breaking stuff work
ing and threw strikes with it. It
helped me a lot.”
1 Fry was relieved after the fifth in-
Bing and replaced by Smith, who
went l'/s innings before exiting for
Berry. Berry entered in the seventh
[and gave up a single before putting
down the next two hitters to earn his
first save of the year.
I; A&M first baseman Gary Geiger,
who is hitting .378, belted his first
[ home run of the year in the second
[ inning to put the Aggies in front 1-0.
1 Both teams added a run in the
p third, but the Aggies grabbed the
plead for good in the fifth when Ever
t Magallanes singled home Jeff
Bchow, who had singled and moved
to third on consecutive Rattler er-
The Aggies opened up the of-
sfense more in the second game, col-
ecting nine runs on eight hits.
A&M took a 1-0 lead in the second
inning when catcher Maury Martin
vas issued a walk with the bases
loaded.
St. Mary’s then moved ahead 3-1
in the top of the third on Keith
Troutman’s three-run home run off
s A&M’s Russ Greene.
But the Aggies cut the lead to one
run with two outs in the third, when
Rattler third baseman Gary Gar-
f detto dropped a sure-out pop fly by
Geiger and then threw the ball away,
which allowed A&M’s Mike Scanlin
to score all the way from second
base.
Greene was pulled in the fourth
; for reliever Pat Wernig after serving
up another home run and a single,
which put St. Mary’s ahead 4-3.
| The Aggies retaliated in the bot-
A&M’s Robi Chandler (right) turns a double
play, despite the efforts of St. Mary’s Gary Gar-
detto during the first game of Wednesday’s dou
ble-header. A&M defeated St. Mary’s 3-1 and 9-4.
tom half of the fourth as Scott Liv
ingstone swatted a three RBI double
to seal the win.
With two outs, Martin singled an
0-2 pitch to center field, and moved
to third on Don Wren’s follow-up
single. Schow then was issued a walk
to load the bases for Livingstone’s
game-winning hit.
Wernig went 5% innings in relief,
as he retired 16 of the 24 batters he
faced. He allowed only three hits
and struck out seven Rattlers to pick
up his first victory.
A&M Head Baseball Coach Mark
Johnson said it felt good to win, but
he was still unhappy with the Aggie
offense.
“We haven’t really cut loose our
offense — and it’s going to happen
— but it hasn’t happened yet,” John
son said. “I’m still disappointed in
our offense. It’s going to have to fall
into place for us to win ball games.”
Johnson said while A&M’s offense
is lacking, the pitching and defense
have kept the Aggies in games until
the hits come around.
“The strength of today’s games
was we finally got a couple of clutch
hits,” Johnson said. “Scott Liv
ingstone got the big hit out in left-
center field with the bases loaded to
put us back on top.”
Offensively for the Aggies, Geiger
went 3-for-6 on the day, including a
home run, two singles, two walks
and three runs scored. Potter was 3-
for-5 in the second game with a dou
ble, two singles and two runs.
The Aggies barely outhit the Rat
tlers, but did play a better defensive
game.
St. Mary’s committed five errors
compared to three for the Aggies.
However, the Rattlers were bur
dened with more mental mistakes
like wild pitches, passed balls, balks
and hit batsmen.
A&M’s long home stand continues
this week as it hosts McNeese State to
a three-game series Friday and Sat
urday. The Aggies and Cowboys will
play a single game Friday beginning
at 3 p.m. Saturday’s double-header
will begin at noon.
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Texas survives SMU’s last-second shot 58-57
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AUSTIN — Karl Willock sank a
free throw with 25 seconds left to
play Wednesday night to give Texas
a 58-57 victory over SMU and sole
possession of first place in the South
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Point guard Butch Moore con
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play and 16-8 overall.
SMU, led by clutch shooting from
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lead with 16:51 left in the game.
Patrick Fairs tossed in eight points
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within two, then Raynard Davis tied
it at 45 with 10:38 left. The Long
horns then took a 47-45 lead on
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Moore, hitting his third basket of
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57-57 with 1:08 left to play.
Fairs scored 18 points and pulled
down seven rebounds, both team
highs. John Brownlee added 14
points for Texas.
Moore, averaging just 8.9 points a
game, scored 16 points. Terry Lewis,
SMU’s leading scorer with a 19.9 av
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added 11 points and nine rebounds.
Texas took an early six-point lead
in the first half after Fairs and
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Weltlich commended his team for
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Mustangs in the second half and
held them to 20 second-half points
after giving up 37 in the first half.
“To hold that bunch to just 20
points is a real tribute to our guys,”
Weltlich said.
Arkansas 60, Rice 59
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Rice’s
Jeff Crawford swished a 25-foot
jumper with 9 seconds left, but mis
fired on a 30-footer at the buzzer
and Arkansas escaped with a 60-59
victory over the Rice Owls in a
Southwest Conference game
Wednesday night.
After Crawford nailed his long
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the in-bounds pass before any time
could expire. Rehl, who had hit his
first four free throws, missed the
front end of the 1-and-l, allowing
the Owls their last-ditch effort.
Arkansas, winning for only the
second time in seven Southwest Con
ference games at Barnhill Arena,
raised its record to 12-13, 4-10 in the
SWC. Rice dropped to 9-15, includ
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