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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-
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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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