Wednesday, May 21,1986AThe Battalion/Page 5 Sports headed to Florida for NCAA regional tolid pitching provides A8dVI SWC tourney championship By Tom Tagliabue Sports Writer if lhai iv tie comp. “did no: tend to e two t: ther tfe *ir old orton I: ev did perst jig 10th Southwest Conference dentialt j» eason Baseball Tournament , ' lr owned a new champion in its a rf ightly aborted double-elimination 'em at Olsen Field this past week- blew up Ip on Jan . SWC regular season co-champion theaco:| x J s A&M used strong pitching tn theSf.-fc r f ( ,rrnances 1111 cket booy D a i e Barry, Baseball ufacturt arn | Fry and at Wernig and great all-around and Boi> | a y f r om tournament Most Vain ly 'h; )le Player Ever Magallanes to win n to L ie bostseason crown for the first the two mejin school history, newjol The 12th-ranked Aggies, 44-21, ipp fed past Arkansas 4-0 in the pening round and then swept Bay- :h’ r 8-0 and 7-6 in the championship .Hd to earn the title and gain a J Kh in the NCAA regionals of the ollege World Series. AecM will travel to the South II egional in Tallahassee, Fla. to take ^■eventh-ranked South Florida isurgenc hursday at 2 p.m. Central time, mies ar.§ )r jda State, No. 1-ranked and econcilio 0I 'tli Carolina State round out the lumeam regional. S.-Nira Jfflie winner advances to Omaha ecus on the College World Series, mitment B|rry, 10-1, pitched a marvelous conduct'j e 'hit shutout F riday to propel the object! to the win over the Hogs, will peri: The key to the win, Barry said, as the fact that Arkansas’ best hit- rs I— Dave Patterson, Jeff King ie letter id Ralph Kraus, went 1-for-l 1 dur- te Houst ‘g the game. icsday,aiif'I didn’t expect to shut them heantH 0 wri tonight,” Barry said. “I had Nicarat 3 od location and moved the ball in id ^ out. Maury (Martin, A&M’s port, ri ,tc h ( ' r ) caught a great game tonight ting oca ^ Called a good game. King swung j n thfthe first pitch a couple of times eact for: lc l a couple of bad pitches. “The first two innings, I really ruggled. I couldn’t get the ball 3wn. Later, I was doing a lot bet- r.” Jeff King’s error in the third gave &M their first scoring opportunity of the game. Martin reached on King’s error and scored one out later on Jeff Schow’s RBI triple to left field. Scott Livingstone, who began to pull out of a late-season slump last week, singled to score Schow. Magallanes added an RBI on a fifth-inning double and a single in the seventh which chased starter Steve Parker, who had no-hit the Aggies in Fayetteville. After A&M beat the Hogs and Baylor trounced No. 1-seeded Texas and mound ace Greg Swindell 13-5 Friday, gusty winds and torrential rain postponed the tournament until Su nclay. However, Texas and Arkansas de cided to skip town and let the Ags and Bears battle it out for the NCAA slot. Texas Coach Cliff Gustafson and Arkansas’ Norm DeBriyn be lieved the rain-soaked Olsen Field turf was not playable or safe for their teams. A&M Coach Mark Johnson and Stadium Supervisor Leo Goertz stressed that the field was in good playing condition. Also at stake was the possibility of hosting the NCAA regional. Texas, had it lost the tourney, probably would not have hosted the regional. A&M had a chance to win the host spot, but because the ’Horns pulled out, UT was awarded an at-large bid to the NCAAs and were named as host for the regional. With the loser’s bracket elimi nated, it was decided A&M and Bay lor would play a best 2-of-3 series to determine a winner. It did not take the Aggies long to prove who was the best team this weekend. A&M’s Fry was just about perfect, giving up only two hits, four walks and striking out three batters to im prove his season record to 1 1-4. Fry threw no-hit ball until the fifth when a Shawn McAfee line drive nicked the glove of a left fielder Schow, who slipped on the play. Keith Shepard added a legiti mate single in the eighth for Baylor’s only other hit. The Aggies banged out 15 hits off wmm «r , p ■ I It ||1 ' A f |gt 1 | ]:/ - 11 - AIM Li^i If ^"w BPr ' Photo by Anthony S. Caspei A&M shortstop Ever Magallanes readies to complete a double play lanes was named the Southwest Conference tournament’s Most as the Baylor runner kicks up the dust around second base. Magal- Valuable Player as the Aggies upended the Bears to win the title. five Baylor pitchers and tied SWC tournament records for most triples with three, while breaking the dou bles record for a game with six. Only in the eighth did a Bear baserunner reach farther than first base. The Aggie defense collected two double plays to help keep the Bears off the base paths. Johnson said Fry, who threw a six- hitter against Baylor in Waco, was even better Sunday. “(Fry) has had two outstanding ballgames against Baylor,” Johnson said. “He did a good job especially under the pressure (of a possible no hitter). We happened to play well to night (Sunday) and Darryl really cut them down and we played excellent defense and put the ball in play.” Monday proved to be a lot tougher for the Aggies as they had to rally from a 6-1 deficit to claim the championship. A&M starter Gary Geiger was bat tered early by the Bears, as they scored two runs in the first and two more in the second before Geiger headed for the showers. But Pat Wernig, A&M’s bullpen ace, came in and kept the Bears off- balance for 7‘/s innings, except for a slider that Baylor left fielder Mike Malinak drove out of Olsen Field for a two-run home run in the fifth. “I was just trying to keep us in the ball game and I did,” Wernig said. “I wasn’t trying to overpower them. We knew we could come back. We knew we could score.” Johnson said Wernig was tough against the Bears. “The guys kept coming,” Johnson said. “We kept putting the ball in play and when you put it in play, you always have a chance. Pat Wernig was hot and throwing well. If we could just get up there close, I thought we could win.” Baylor starter Blaine Beatty, who earned a complete game victory over Texas Friday, cruised through the first few innings, but began to lose his stuff in the fifth. With the scored 4-1 in the fifth, Martin beat out an infield single, Schow walked and Magallanes picked up another clutch RBI with a double to right to score Martin. However, the Aggies left both Schow and Magallanes stranded. Beatty dodged trouble in the sixth as the Aggies again left two runners stranded, but it all went down hill from there as the Aggies rambled back into the game thanks to three big hits and more obviously, two enormous Baylor fielding miscues that allowed the Aggies to tie the game. Schow led off the seventh with a home run to left. 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