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Wednesday, March 12, 1986/The Battalion/Page 13 Sports re writlKs at I netd,’' ne stomj ian agai- crutnpM Mississippi State blows out Ags A&M pitchers fnan arn give up 17 ^ runs on 17 hits vhich ! oker ajiij •Iso playi ;nts ’hysical i Physi- it have ie next •ays, it’s ?hts in work- >ur$ it’s i work- ■ have red to ys they IL r of of- stake- uctive. dy, of ve will with it ;et you will be i n NASA fense hat in on tht •nd as as- has been said that By TOM TAGLIABUE Sports Writer Mississippi State used two home runs each by Tracy Echols and Mike McCraney to power the Bulldogs to a 17-9 thrashing of Texas A&M at Olsen Field Tuesday night. A season-high 2,755 fans were on hand to watch the Bulldogs attack four Aggie pitchers for 17 runs on 17 hits — a sea son high offen sively for MSU. Pat Wernig (3-1) took the loss for A&M, giving up the first seven MSU hits and first seven runs in 3 l /s in nings of work. Two of the seven hits Wernig al lowed were the homers to McCraney in the first and third innings. “We didn’t pitch the ball well to night and we got ourselves out of the ball game by the home run tonight,” A&M Coach Mark Johnson said. The Bulldogs (7-5) struck for three runs in the top of the first on McCraney’s fourth homer of the year and then added two more in the third on his fifth homer. McCraney was 3-for-4 and drove in five runs. A&M (16-8) finally got on the board in the bottom of the third when Jeff Schow singled to drive in Ever Magallanes, who was hit by a pitch and moved to second on an er ror by MSU’s Tom Butt. The Bulldogs continued to pick up the big hit in the fourth when they added two more to make it 7-1. Jimmy Flowers came in to pitch for A&M and served up a grand slam fiome run to Echols, who had six RBI on the night. One out later. Flowers issued a walk to Roark Me- ' - -... . ■ ^^ Photo by MIKE SANCHEZ A&M first baseman Todd Schmidt slides safely into third in the seventh inning of last night’s game against Mississippi State. Schmidt’s triple didn’t make a difference as the Ags lost 17-9. Donald and then an RBI triple to Brad Hildreth for an 11-1 lead. The Aggies rallied back for two runs in the fifth on a Scott Liv ingstone double and Gary Geiger single. And for the next three innings, things were looking up for the Ag- gies. After giving up a lead off single in the sixth, Flowers was relieved by Russ Greene, who held the Bulldogs scoreless until the ninth. The Ags kept chipping away at the MSU lead, scoring one run in the sixth and seventh and two more runs in the eighth. Maury Martin, the only A&M player with two hits on the night, picked up the first of his two RBI when he singled home Pat James, who had doubled to lead off the sixth. Todd Schmidt swatted a two out triple to bring home Mike Scanlin and make it 12-5 in the seventh. The Aggies made it 12-7 in the eighth on a Martin double which scored Chandler. Martin scored when Schow reached base on an er ror by first baseman John Mitchell. But with the score 12-7 in the top of the ninth, the Bulldogs put the game away with five more runs, in cluding a solo homer by Echols. David Bruning relieved Greene and shut off the Bulldog rally with a double play. The Aggies, who collected nine hits for the game, again started to chip away at the Bulldog lead, but as the cold front blew in, the Aggies blew out. The rains came about three hours too late for the Aggies, who will fin ish the MSU series with a single game Wednesday at 3 p m. , A&M women host Arkansas; men entertain North Carolina After tough weekend matches on the road the Texas A&M women’s tennis team looks to con tinue winning, while the men hope to get back on track. The A&M women return to Southwest Con- ■ ference play to- TOflfliS day when they wmm—mmmmmmam host Arkansas at the Omar Smith Tennis Center at 1:30 p.m. The Aggie men play North Carolina at Bryan’s Royal Oaks Racquet Club, also at 1:30 p.m. The No. 23 Aggie women are currently 2-0 in the SWC and hope to notch another win after a successful Florida road trip which saw them handily beat Rollins, No. 25 South Florida and Missis sippi. The No. 21 A&M men beat No. 24 Kentucky in the opening round of the H.E.B. College Ten nis Team Championships in Cor pus Christi Thursday, but then dropped matches against No. 9 South Carolina, Cal-Berkeley and No. 19 Northeast Lousiana. Blue Devils end ‘first’ season No. 1 Associated Press Now comes the “harder” part. Duke, having finished atop The Associated Press’ final college bas ketball poll, now embarks — along with 63 other teams — on the road to Dallas. Recent history suggests they’ll have a devil of a time holding on to their No. 1 position. The Blue Devils, 32-2, were vir tually the unanimous No. 1 selection by a nationwide panel of 64 sports writers and sports broadcasters, re ceiving 63 first-place votes and 1,279 points Tuesday. Kansas, 31-3, re ceived the only other first-place vote. Being picked No. 1 and proving it are two very different matters. A year ago, Patrick Ewing-led Georgetown was the unanimous first choice and were all but conceded a second consecutive national championship. The Hoyas were beaten in the final by Villanova, which entered the tournament un ranked. Two years ago, North Carolina finished atop the poll, but it was Georgetown which finished first in the last game, beating Houston. The year before that, Houston was No. 1 in the poll but No. 2 in the tourna ment final to national-champion North Carolina State. So it goes most of the time. Only Top 20 Basketball Poll Here are the Top 20 teams in the Associated Press college bas ketball poll with first-place votes in parentheses and season record through March 11: 1. Duke (63) —32-2 2. Kansas (1) — 31-3 3. Kentucky — 29-3 4. St. John’s — 30-4 5. Michigan — 27-4 6. Georgia Tech — 25-6 7. Louisville — 26-7 8. North Carolina — 26-5 9. Syracuse — 25-5 10. Notre Dame — 23-5 11. Nevada-Las Vegas — 31-4 12. Memphis St. — 27-5 13. Georgetown — 23-7 14. Bradley —31-2 15. Oklahoma — 26-8 16. Indiana — 21-7 17. Navy —27-4 18. Michigan St. — 21 -7 19. Illinois — 21-9 20. Texas-EI Paso — 27-5 two teams in the past 10 years — North Carolina in 1982 and Ken tucky in 1978 — started and finished the tournament No. 1. DePaul (twice), Indiana State, Michigan—all have fallen short of the ultimate goal, the national championship. “I don’t think anything in the sea son has been all that easy,” Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski said Tues day. “So we’ve been through one hard part. Now we’re going through another one, maybe a little harder.” Duke, the Atlantic Coast Confer ence champion, and Kansas, No. 1 in the Big Eight, are top seeds in their tournament regions. Likewise, third-ranked Kentucky, the Southeastern Conferente cham pion, and No. 4 St. John’s, the champs of the Big East, are seeded first in their NCAA regions. The top three berths in the poll were unchanged, but the Redmen moved up one notch in the final week. Last week’s fourth-place team, North Carolina, winner of its first 21 games but the loser of five of its last 10 tumbled to eighth. Michigan, 27-4, received 995 points for fifth place, up two notches from last week. Georgia Tech, which lost to Duke in the ACC title game, was sixth, followed by Louisville, North Carolina, Syracuse and Notre Dame. In the final Second 10 are Ne- vada-Las Vegas, Memphis State, Georgetown, Bradley, Oklahoma, Indiana, Navy, Michigan State, Illi nois and Texas-EI Paso. 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