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Monday, April 7, 1986/The Battalion/Page 7 Sports »-Po. ■stioned ners at - twa ed four “banese nly sus- security ns area, >gations inquiry search- e or in actions, or isbe- spected named ted the rid Air- i flight iro to t on to d as the Athens >00 feet erselfas le Asso- in Tri- ihe flew airo to ting the lid that in Arab Youssef in the national k'oussef ch 30 in Athens Beirut, estioned who ar- om Nic- the man issenger as Mo. 1A on tome to imb ex- ssef was to the oint in ias said ler seat ir sat in er flight n inter- .ittingin A&M owes thanks to Baylor, Tech for SWC lead I By Tom Tagliabue Sports Writer The Texas A&M baseball team : owes the Baylor Bears a debt of | thanks. Even though the No. 25 Aggies routed the 23rd-ranked Texas Tech Red Raiders this weekend, it was the Bears who gave — the Aggies sole BaSGball possession of ; first place in the Southwest Confer ence. A&M’s romping, coupled with Baylor’s one win against Texas, pushed the Ags into first with a 7-2 record, a full game ahead of the Longhorns. “We pretty much set our minds on the conference, so everybody is get ting up for these conference games and it feels good,” A&M pitcher Gary Geiger said. The largest crowds of the season — 2,550 Friday night and 3,000 Sat urday — saw the Ags blast out 39 runs on 41 hits, 16 of them extra base hits, against the Raiders, who fell to 29-11 and 5-3 in the SWC. The Aggies won 17-7 Friday and completed the sweep with 10-4 and 12-2 victories on Saturday. “We were hot and I think we caught Tech when they weren’t as hot,” A&M Coach Mark Johnson said. “It was a combination there where we played extremely well. I i was really pleased with our play. We were real aggressive for three straight games and that really made the difference.” A&M senior Mike Scanlin broke I two more school records Friday — ■ most career RBI (150) and most ca reer total bases (373) —when he went 4-for-6, including two home runs in the nine-run third inning. He collected six RBI on the night. Geiger had three hits and three RBI, while five other Aggies had two hits each during the 18-hit onslaught, in which A&M ripped through five Tech pitchers. Dale Barry picked up his third complete game of the year, giving up seven runs on nine hits and strik ing out five Raiders, while running his record to 6-0 overall and 3-0 in the SWC. The Ags, 27-17, jumped on Tech early in Saturday’s first game pick ing up three runs in the first on Scott Livingstone’s RBI single and Fred Gegen’s two-run home run off Craig Chapin, 5-2 and 1-1. Darryl Fry, in his first conference start since the Houston series two weeks ago, pitched 6Vs innings of 10-hit ball, to improve his record to 7-4 and 1-1. Scanlin, who was 3-for-4 with two doubles, combined with Jeff Schow and Fred Gegen, who hit his seventh homer of the year, to lead the Aggies to the 10-4 victory. The A&M hit parade continued in the Saturday finale as the Aggies banged out 12 runs on 12 hits. Livingstone’s second inning grand slam off Bill Schutt, who had en tered the game one batter earlier, gave the Ags a 6-0 start before Tech could even try to say, “Southwest Conference.” “It sure felt good to finally see a fastball down the middle of the pla te,” Livingstone said of his round- tripper off Schutt. “They had been Ags' O'Neil finishes second at NCAA Championships INDIANAPOLIS — Texas A&M’s Chris O’Neil became the second fastest 100-yard butterf- lyer of all time as he followed Stanford’s Pablo Morales’ Ameri- can record-set- ting perfor- Swimming mance at the NCAA Men’s Swimming Cham pionships this weekend. Morales won with a time of 46.37 seconds, while O’Neil docked in at 47.10. It was the third consecutive NCAA Championships 100-yard butterfly win for Morales. O’Neil also finished second last year. A&M’s Mike Kozlina, who also qualified for the 100-yard but terfly, finished 19th with a time of 48.89 seconds. Kozlina qualified for the 100- yard backstroke, but his time of 50.98 in the Friday morning pre liminaries, which directly fol lowed the 100-yard butterfly, did not place. Those performances, along with the 400-yard medley relay team’s 12th-place finish earned the Aggies a 21st-place team fin ish in the three-day meet, up two spots over last year’s finish. kind of pitching around me, but I don’t know why because when they came at me I would pop up or ground out. I guess after seeing Fred and Mike . . ..” “I just like to get on base because you never know when one of them is going to hit it out.” Maury Martin led off the fifth with his second homer of the season to put the Aggies up 9-0. A&M would add two more runs in the fifth before Tech’s Nathan Swindle slowed down the Ag hitting ma chine. Geiger threw seven innings of four-hit ball before he was relived by Russ Greene, who pitched the eighth and gave up a lead off homer to Jim Darnell to make it 11-2. Pat Wernig took over in the ninth and allowed only one hit preserving the win for Geiger, who evened his overall record to 4-4 and improved his conference record to 2-1. “Our pitching wasn’t real good, but A&M’s hitting was,” Tech Coach Gary Ashby said. “Everybody (A&M) stuck up there hit the ball on the but ton. I think we could have told them what we were throwing and they wouldn’t have hit it any better than they did. “To get beat as bad as we did in three games, you gotta have a team playing good and a team playing bad. It was some good old-fashioned whuppin’.” Next action for the Aggies will play Dallas Baptist in a twi-night doubleheader at Olsen Field Tues day beginning at 5:30 p.m. Photo by John Makely A&M’s Ever Magallanes slides safely underneath Lowery during Saturday’s first game. The Ags the glove of Texas Tech second baseman Kevin swept the Raiders to move into first in the SWC. Aggies struggle, finish 7th in Houston tourney By Doug Hall Sports Writer After battling a weekend of rough weather and tough competition, the Texas A&M men’s golf team fin ished a respectable seventh Saturday at the 32nd annual All-American In tercollegiate Invitational in Hous ton. The Aggies, who .finished,. the three-day tour- ney with a team MOfl’S Golf total of 889, ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ were 32 strokes behind the team champion, Oklahoma. The Univer sity of Houston, who hosted the 24- team tournament, finished third at 871, six strokes behind second-place Oklahoma State. Other Southwest Conference schools to place in the tourney were TCU who finished fourth at 874, Arkansas in fifth at 879 and Baylor in 10th at 899. Individually, the Ags were led by Jeff Maggert who shot a three-day total of 220 to finish in 19th place. Oklahoma’s Todd Hamilton won the individual title after firing a final round 68 to finish at 207, six strokes better than OSU’s Scott Verplank. A&M Coach Bob Ellis termed the All-American tourney, the sixth of the Aggies’ spring season, as a “mid dle of the road” performance. “The first day was very slow (the Ags were in 10th) and the conditions were difficult,” Ellis said. “We weren’t real bad, but we could have been better.” Ellis attributed much the Ags’ problems to having been on the road for the past five weeks, a result of a new NCAA 30-day rule. In effect, the rule limits the class days a stu dent can miss for sports events to 30, requiring schools to schedule the 30 days prior to the conference tourna ment. Therefore, Ellis said that in an ef fort to maximize this limit before the SWC tourney on April 25-27, the Ags have kept a grinding schedule. “The compressed schedule has definitely hurt us,” Ellis said. “But there are other schools in the same condition we are.” However, Ellis said the Ags will use a different approach in this weekend’s Morris Williams’ Invita tional in Austin in an effort to im prove results. “I don’t know what we’re going to do just yet,” Ellis said. “We might take a different team, or we might leave some players behind that have been traveling, but we’ll definitely take a different approach.” Looking ahead to the SWC tour ney which will be held in Little Rock, Ark., Ellis said TCU probably has the inside track in the highly com petitive SWC. “It could be any of five teams,” El lis said. “TCU has played really well recently. Knowing that course up there, the length could hurt them. But it’s so close it could be any of five. ” This weekend’s Morris Williams’ tourney, hosted by the University of Texas, will feature the SWC schools as well as Oklahoma, Lamar and Houston Baptist. varied in- eberman, ;hts direc- that “de- efforts.. j a signifi jwa-based ■iefiresa* /ve made and have ie mains- s j’ Le vitas I Residence Hall Association proudly presents A night of Las Vegas gaming Ticket sales: Tickets $3.50 in advance $4 at the door ment aho 6 IN THE CESSI* 6, LOS* Casino ’86 Caribbean Dreams Friday, April 11 7-11