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Sports
Aggies denied national championship
Aggies in World Series
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First Round
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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
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aipton, lem. n.c. Men’s Golf
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hoax (10th straight year the Aggies
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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
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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.”
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.Ags’ road to
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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
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Aggies to hone skills for NCAAs with Texas Invitational
By Ken Sury
Sports Editor
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The NGAA Outdoor Track and
ield Championships are only a
eek away and the Texas A&M
rack team is 1
flaking the
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iad beenifnie.
>f religwl Several Aggies are headed to Aus-
uate put ;
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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-
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