Monday, February 23, 1987/The Battalion/Page 7
A&M takes series from McNeese St.
By Homer Jacobs
Sports Editor
Texas A&M baseball Coach
Mark Johnson called it “conta-
geous.” Third baseman Scott Liv-
instone doesn’t know why the Ag
gies have it.
But it’s not a dreadful disease
the two are speaking about. John
son and Livingstone are referring
to A&M’s phenomenal hitting
success that has engulfed this
1987 squad.
And A&M continued its hitting
barrage this weekend in a three-
game sweep of McNeese State at
Olsen Field.
The Aggies, 8-1, took Satur
day’s double-header over the
Cowboys by the scores of 13-1
and 12-1. A&M then cooled off at
the plate slightly with a 6-5 vic
tory in a rescheduled game Sun
day afternoon.
In the three games, Aggie bat
ters racked up 42 hits and pro
duced 31 runs.
“There’s no complaints about
the hitting,” Johnson said.
In the pitching department,
former Bryan High School player
Sean Snedeker grabbed his sec
ond win of the year giving up
four hits and three walks; In the
second half of the double-header,
Gaiy Geiger picked up the victory,
giving up six hits and six walks in
seven innings before Russ
Greene entered the game in re
lief.
Pat Wernig won his first game
of the year in Sunday’s game
striking out 11 Cowboy batters.
Although the Aggies were in
total control of the first two
games of the series, A&M had a
tougher time with McNeese State
in the final game.
The Aggies led off the first in
ning with back-to back doubles by
Livingstone and left fielder Tim
McWilliam to take a 1-0 lead.
Texas A&M right fielder Don Wren slides back
to first base to avoid a pickoff by McNeese State
Photo by Bill Hughes
pitcher Scott Richard. The Aggies swept the
three-game series to improve their record to 8-1.
But the Cowboys returned the
favor as first baseman Chip Strat
ton and catcher Rod Lung also hit
back-to-back doubles to even the
score at 1-1; and after the Cow
boys loaded the bases on A&M
pitcher Tim Herrmann, Lung
scored on an error by Livingstone
to up the Cowboys’ lead to 2-1 in
the top of the second.
A&M went scoreless in its half
of the second, and then McNeese
State used two wild pitches by
Herrmann to score third base-
man Chris Fackler, who had sin
gled earlier in the inning.
With the Cowboys out in front
3-1, Johnson went to the bullpen
and brought in Wernig. The re
sult was five straight scoreless in
nings for McNeese State, while
the Aggie batters began to click
into gear.
In the bottom of the fourth,
designated hitter John Byington
got things rolling with a one-run
homer over the left-field wall to
close the gap at 3-2.
And in the bottom of the sixth
and seventh innings, A&M scored
two runs in each to grab a 6-3
lead.
The Cowboys kept things in
teresting by scoring two runs in
the top of the ninth with two outs;
and with the tying run on base,
Wernig got the win as he struck
out Fackler for the third out.
Johnson said he is very pleased
with A&M’s quick start, especially
because the Aggies are so young.
A&M travels to Huntsville to
day to tangle with Sam Houston
State University.
A&M men’s tennis team snatches two wins
in weekend action to improve record to 6-1
By Hal L. Hammons
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M men’s tennis
team continued its winning ways this
weekend, winning matches against
Arkansas-Little Rock and Trinity.
The 6-1 Aggies won a tight 6-2
match Saturday afternoon with
UALR at the Omar Smith Tennis
[Center. They followed the win by
going to San Antonio Sunday and
earning a 7-2 victory over Trinity,
their second in eight days.
; A&M Coach David Kent said he
was really pleased with the win Sat
urday over a “really good team” in
UALR.
Kent said the key to the UALR
win was the gutty comeback of Dean
Goldfine in his 7-5, 1-6, 6-4 No. 2
singles win over Lars Malmgren.
The win put the Aggies up 4-1,
which proved to be a hole too large
for the Indians to climb out of.
“Goldfine played great,” Kent
said. “He really came through when
we really needed him to.”
“He’s been gutting it out for a
number of years now,” Kent said
about the senior.
No. 5 player Shawn O’Donovan
continued to look impressive. The
freshman improved his season re
cord to 7-0 with two victories, includ
ing a tough 1-6, 7-6, 6-3 win Satur
day over Phillipe Vanlos.
The No. 2 doubles match between
Anders Mansson and John Smith of
UALR and A&M’s Dean Johnson
and Brent Haygarth was officially
called for darkness with UALR
ahead 6-4, 4-2.
Sunday was the first time in the
long rivalry that A&M had won on
Trinity’s home court.
“Trinity has the best fans this side
of Georgia,” Kent said. “You should
have seen them. It was like a football
game for them.”
Highlights of the Trinity win in
cluded No. 1 and No. 2 singles victo
ries by Johnson and Marcel Vos.
Johnson fought hard for a 6-2, 2-
6, 6-3 win over Mauricio Silva of
Trinity. Silva is ranked No. 11 in the
nation.
“(Dean) Johnson has arrived,”
Kent said about the win.
Kent thought before the match
that the return of Fanie Renech,
who missed the first A&M-Trinity
match, would make the second time
much more difficult for the Aggies.
Vos showed that was not necessarily
the case as he disposed of Renech 6-
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