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Wednesday, May 28, 1 QSG/The Battalion/Page 5 Sports Aggies denied national championship Aggies in World Series TTH V a/m 1 mmm First Round . , [T irTr A&M 1, Creighton 0(10) Second Round A&M 6, Indiana 0 Third Round Cal-Fullerton 3, A&M 0 ’ Fourth round A&M 1, Cal-Berkeley 0 (10) Championship game Cal-Fullerton 3., A&M 0 A&M Coach Bob Brock SQjAScM to jejstart play Idin NCAAs I’1 he Texas A&M men’s golf mon(/lf|;atn begins play in the NCAA honeca Jolt tournament today at the Ber- nerican iHda Run Country Club in iges wit|Vi|iston-Sa- aipton, lem. n.c. Men’s Golf id. ItafM 1 his is the hoax (10th straight year the Aggies H , e been invited to the four-day lie Chr chimpionship tourney, oflebfl IV&M will be led by All-South- Shiite west Conference golfers Jeff »lv War Maggert and Jorge Coghlan. vs, four Maggert also was invited to the i and tl tourney individually, while Cogh- in Mori lan was the Aggies’ top finisher at thJsWC tourney. patrolr B^ounding out the Aggies’ nits, bt lineup will be Neil Hickerson, Flint Nelson and freshman Roy rphontt Mackenzie. so flm won the Pan American Holy yjrjtercollegiate team jreswoii chimpionship this year with of (he M|( kenizie earning medalist hon ors. Coghlan won the Louisiana i e jg n > Classic and Maggert won the imond Morris Williams in Austin, n mem cr Hr By Ken Sury Sports Editor The Texas A&M softball team rode into the NCAA College World Series on the arm of junior Shawn Andaya, but it was the arm of Cal State-Ful- ... - - lerton’s Connie Softball Clark that forced the Aggies to settle for sec ond best in the nation. Clark only allowed A&M one hit in two meetings during the tourna ment, holding them hitless in their first game, a 3-0 Titan win. In the championship game, Clark fanned eight Aggies while freshman Tory Parks had the Ags’ only hit in an other 3-0 loss. A&M Coach Bob Brock said there were two reasons for the Aggies’ de feat. “It was a combination of (our lack of) hitting and Clark,” Brock said. “When we hit, we hit. And when we don’t, we don’t. We just couldn’t get the bat on the ball against Clark.” The only tournament game that saw the Aggies’ bats come alive was a second-round matchup with In diana. A&M exploded for six runs in the seventh for a 6-0 win behind An- daya’s 12-strikeout, two-hit perfor mance. But it took 10 innings for the Ag gies to win its First-round contest against Creighton, 1-0. Andaya cele brated her birthday by holding Creighton to a singly hit, while strik ing out seven. The Aggies, after placing Mary Schwind on second in the 10th as per the NCAA tie-breaker rule, loaded the bases on singles by Zina Ochoa and Judy Trussell. Pinch hit ter Julie Carpenter drove home Schwind for the win. After Cal-Fullerton roughed up Carpenter for seven hits in the third round for the Aggies’ First tourney loss, it took 10 innings again for A&M to edge Cal-Berkeley TO in an elimination game. Andaya gave up five hits, walked one and struck out five in upping her record to 24-7. Andaya also sin gled home senior Cindy Cooper in the 10th for the victory. Cooper was named to the All-America team for the third straight year. But the Aggies could not put the hitting together against Clark and the Titans in the championship game. A&M needed to beat Cal-Ful lerton twice to claim its third na tional title, but Clark shut down the Aggies. “I think Fullerton pretty well made up their mind they were gonna win it all this year,” Brock said. ~ “I’m disappointed about the loss, but I’m not disappointed about the season or the team.” Brock said he couldn’t be more pleased with the pitching duo of An daya and the freshman Carpenter. “Shawn was just Shawn,” Brock said. “But I thought Julie pitched well against Fullerton in the First game. They had three or four dinky hits that just went out over the in field.” A&M, which ended its season at 41-13, nearly had its entire inField named to the all-tournament team. Andaya, along with second baseman Judy Trussell, shortstop Liz Mizera and third baseman Cooper earned the all-tourney honors. Although the Aggies lose four se niors —- Cooper, left fielder Cindy Foster, first baseman Mary Schwind and right Fielder Debbie Rollman — for next year’s squad, Brock already is teeming with optimism about the future. “We’ll have to see,” Brock said. “But it seems to be a phenomena that probably next year those holes will be filled by freshmen. “Having freshmen come in and contribute helps perpetuate our pro gram.” lostage? J3| .Ags’ road to ite on ['P' ' the capc-H at, Khocjl B y Tom Taghabue lotal loir Sports Writer 'ijtelea'" The road to the College World Series normally runs khome trough Austin for the Texas A&M baseball team, five A; however, this season that long winding road to i hostfMaha, Neb., turned i nto a dead-end road in Talla- - iiassee, Fla. ion i' 1 he Southwest Conference co-champion Aggies min f jafne to Florida with hopes of (nitking off two Top 10 teams, BaSGboll -out the Aggies never got past No. south Florida and No. I Florida State. _ B i A&M came into the tournament ranked 12th in the x | lunation and seeded third in the four-team regional with * 11 vl* 44-21 record. After an opening round 10-2 trouncing of the Base- oulls of South Florida, the Aggies had a major chal- ierige staring them in the face — a meeting with the :opcollege baseball team in the nation. (e s em i no i es an( i A&M battled tooth and nail |nAa second-round fight to the finish, but it was the Niles who finally cut the Aggies off short, winning 12- ^PpBrhe loss sent A&M to face South Florida, which eliminated North Carolina State 12-4, again, but the Aggies did a 180-degree turnaround from their first ud l.isi meeting and were ousted from the tourney 10-7. ce, n A&M’s Dale Barry baffled hitters as he spread out consider World Series ‘dead ends’ in Florida two runs and seven hits to help the Aggies upset the seventh-ranked Bulls of South Florida. Pat James had a 5-for-5 day at the plate and team mates Mike Scanlin and Don Wren popped home runs to lead the Aggies to victory. After allowing a first-inning run, Barry went to work retiring 18 of the 22 men he faced between the second and seventh, including a string of eight in a row and another of nine straight batters. He gave up a triple and an RBI sacrifice fly in the eighth, which gave the Bulls their second run of the game. But A&M found things much tougher with the No. 1 Seminoles. A&M starter Darryl Fry couldn’t maintain the mas tery he held over Baylor in the SWC tournament as he walked home the first run of the game and followed that mistake by serving up a grand slam home run to FSU catcher Ed Fulton. In the Aggie half of the first, however, the maroon and white rebounded for three runs on a James’ bases- loaded single and Fred Gegen’s follow-up single, which chased Florida State starter Chris Pollack. Through the next five innings the lead see-sawed back and forth as both teams displayed their offensive Firepower and the Aggies took a 9-8 lead in the sixth. But Seminoles’ stopper Richie Lewis stepped in and shut the door on the Aggies’ hitting. Lewis threw the final 3!A innings without allowing a hit, and struck out eight of the 10 batters he faced. FSU knocked out A&M alid Fry in the seventh as Barry Blackwell slapped a two-run double. The Semi noles added insurance runs in the eighth and ninth to defeat the upset-minded Aggies. A&M was sent home as the Bulls redeemed their first-round loss as both teams drew often from the bullpen. Aggie starter Gary Geiger was gone after just 1% in nings in which he gave up four runs on six hits. Barry Smith followed but couldn’t find the plate. He was re lieved by Pat Wernig, who held back the Bulls enough through 5'A innings to bring the Aggies back in the game. A&M took a 7-5 lead in the fifth, but fine defensive plays and offensive power by SFU shut down A&M’s hopes of a rematch with top-ranked Florida State. The long season is finally over for the comeback champions of the SWC. The 1986 season had a record number of wins — 45. The Ags finished with a 45-23 record, a SWC co-championship, a SWC tournament championship and three good ballgames against two of the highest-ranked teams in the nation. In addition, four Aggies earned all-tournament honors: first baseman Gegen, who hit .571; designated hitter James, who drove in five runs and hit .538; third baseman Scott Livingstone, who hit .357; and Barry. Now that the season is over, senior Jeff Schow said, it will take some time to get over this last weekend. “A few breaks here and a few breaks there, we’d had a chance to win,” Schow said. “I think knowing, and seeing if Florida State does win the national championship, that we did play them well is going to help us out.” Catcher Maury Martin, who will return next year said this season was an outstanding one because it si lenced many critics who believed the Ags could not go very far. “Overall, we’ve had an outstanding season,” Martin said. “I think we weren’t expected to do anything in the conference — I think we were expected to finish fourth. I think it just shows the kind of character of this team. “These guys can play with anybody. We aren’t afraid of anybody. We’re scrappy, we keep ourselves in the game and our pitchers battle well.” Johnson said the team has been great during this roller coaster season in which the Ags lost six of their first eight games and later lost seven, of eight right be fore conference, only to rise to the top at the end. “We’d have to be pretty near-sighted to say it hasn’t been a good season,” Johnson said. “You get to re gional play, win a conference tournament and win a conference championship. We’ve had a really good season for this ballclub. I consider it a great season.” oortuniK is requiif ’’ he said ite secioi Aggies to hone skills for NCAAs with Texas Invitational By Ken Sury Sports Editor nii The NGAA Outdoor Track and ield Championships are only a eek away and the Texas A&M rack team is 1 flaking the )niSyrafilnost of that iad beenifnie. >f religwl Several Aggies are headed to Aus- uate put ; Track and Field titi Friday to keep sharp for the June 4-7 NGAA Championships in India napolis. Last Saturday a partial squad went to Houston for the Meet of Cham pions and came back with pleasing results, including a school record. A&M’s 1,600-meter relay team of Kendrick Wesley, Maurice Holt, Matt Washington and Gary Pervis finished second with a time of 3 min utes, 4.51 seconds to snap the old mark of 3:04.65 they set in April at the Mt. San Antonio College Relays. The Aggies also grabbed two firsts as Floyd Heard won the 200-meter dash in 20.52 seconds and graduate assistant coach Juan dela Garza won the javelin with a throw of 241 feet, 10 inches. Those who currently have qual ified for the NCAAs are: Randy Bar- rried his j acuse '(I 1 te in Idfi ' the view with i a franij their el Zein, t in tht 1 lotted in n at Roll Engineering or Statistics Majors... ...your future awaits you at American Pharmaseal Company. /. T If you’re a graduating Senior in Engineering (with an emphasis in Statistics) or Statistics, we encourage you to take a look at our current opportunities. 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