Monday, October 6, 1986/The Battalion/Page 7
Sports
A&M captures tournament
behind Andaya no-hitters
By Ken Sury
Sports Editor
Texas A&M softball pitcher
Shawn Andaya was doubly tough
Sunday as she tossed two no-hit-
ters and led the Aggies to a 6-0
finish at the Aggie Invitational.
The Aggies, now 12-0 in fall
.ay, beat Southwest Texas State
Jmversity and the University of
Texas at Arlington by 4-0 scores
behind Andaya’s pitching in the
tourney held at tne Southwood
Valley Athletic Complex.
“Shawn’s throwing real well,”
A&M Coach Bob Brock said.
"She’s getting a lot stronger, and
I think by tne next two weeks
she’s going to conquer that extra
three feet. The pitching mound
was moved back to 43 feet from
home plate this year.
Andaya helped her cause of
fensively when she drove home
catcher Carrie Heightly with a
single in A&M’s three-run sev
enth.
A&M’s final game of the
round-robin tourney was a classic
matchup: both A&M and UTA
were undefeated going into the
contest.
The game was scoreless until
the third inning when A&M left
fielder Zina Ochoa singled home
first baseman Kelly Biggs. Biggs
was on second after she and third
baseman Renee Blaha were
walked.
Ochoa, who also singled in the
Aggies' seventh, said she pre
ferred the 40-foot mound dis
tance.
“1 like quick pitching," Ochoa
said. "But I’ve learned to wait a
little more, although I’m real anx
ious. I’m just now getting used to
the adjustment."
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Texas A&M pitcher Shawn Andaya threw two no-hitters Sunday as
she led A&M to the championship at the Aggie Invitational.
Miscues merely slow
A&M’s win over Tech
Photo by Greg Bailey
A&M fullback Roger Vick works to get past Texas Tech’s Boyd Cowan during the
Aggies’ 45-8 victory Saturday. Vick rushed for 104 yards and scored three TDs.
By Homer Jacobs
Assistant Sports Editor
Texas Tech players
probably should have
gone into the crowd
of 62,876 at Kyle
Field Saturday,
grabbed some 12th
Man towels and
waved them in sur
render.
Texas A&M routed
the Red Raiders 45-8,
and it could have
been worse.
If it weren’t for the
yellow penalty flags
that plagued the Ag-
ies, the score could
ave neighbored in
the 52-0 zone.
For most of the
game, the A&M de
fense just toyed with
the hapless and hope
less Red Raiders.
“We looked like
our old defense
again,” linebacker
Johnny Holland said.
“I think we’ll stop the
run no matter who we
play.”
What’s probably
causing ulcers in opposing South
west Conference coaches’ stomachs
is the fact that the A&M offense isn’t
? uite the offense that steamrolled in
986.
And yet, the Aggies scored 45
points, and moved the ball up and
down the field almost at will.
What’s probably even more
frightening to analyze if you don’t
bear the Maroon and White, is that
quarterback Kevin Murray has yet to
turn in one of his stellar perfor
mances that Aggie fans remember so
well.
Murray completed 17 of 30 passes
for 225 yards, including two touch
downs. A tipped pass resulted in
Murray’s seventh interception of the
year, though.
But prooably the brightest spot of
the offense came with the return of
Analysis
Roger Vick, A&M’s high-stepping
fullback.
After sitting out last week's game
with a dislocated pinkie, Vick reap
peared sporting a shaved head and
chalked up 104 yards rushing with
three toucndowns.
“I was just glad to come in and
help the team out,” Vick said.
Vick’s help was felt immediately,
as he scored the first two touch
downs for A&M on 11- and 25-yard
runs in the first quarter.
The Aggies promptly held Tech
to a four-down drive, and it was tail
back Keith Woodside’s turn to razzle
and dazzle.
Woodside took a swing pass from
Murray and dodged and clipped his
way through the Red Raider second
ary for a 66-yard touchdown run.
“I was one-on-one with their line
backer, and I like that,” Woodside
said. “When he blitzed, it left me
wide open, and I just caught the ball
and took off.”
After Scott Slater kicked a 22-yard
field goal halfway through the sec
ond quarter, the Aggies took a 24-0
lead at halftime.
Tech had been limited to just 69
total yards by the Aggie defense in
the first half, and the onslaught was
not over.
In the second half, A&M moved
to a 45-0 lead, and talk of a shutout
was growing.
But with backup players in for the
See Ag football, page 8
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