Wednesday, May 21,1986AThe Battalion/Page 5
Sports
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SWC tourney championship
By Tom Tagliabue
Sports Writer
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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-
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.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
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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. It was Schow’s 1 1th
homer of the year and his fifth
homer to lead off an inning.
“The whole game Beatty had been
leading off with fastballs,” Schow
said. “Every at-bat before that, I got
started off with a fastball. I got it all.
See SWC Tournament, page 6
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