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By Doug Hall
Sports Writer
Wednesday’s 4-1 victory over
I the Minnesota Gophers marked
[the second time in two days that
[the Texas A&M baseball team
jcombined good pitching with key
[hitting to improve its season re-
Icord to 24-12-1.
The two victories, after a losing
Istretch where the Aggies
I dropped 10 of 12 games over
(spring break, came at a much
■ needed time; the team now can
■ travel to Lubbock for this week-
lend’s three-game series against
■Texas Tech on a positive note.
‘‘Winning any games at this
( point of the season are very im
portant to us," Head Coach Mark
[Johnson said. ‘‘When you were in
la slump like we were, anything
1 helps.”
For the first seven innings of
[Wednesday’s game at Olsen Field
though, it looxed like the Aggies
[had sent their bats back to the
Ibeach.
After pounding Minnesota
Ipitchers for eight runs on Tues-
Iday night. Goober pitcher Dennis
INeagle held A&M hitters to only
Ifive nits through their first seven
lat-bats.
The 6-3 left-hander kept the
[Aggie hitters off balance with a
[good assortment of pitches and a
[quick nick-off move. Prior to the
[seventh, the Aggies were able to
[reach second base only two times,
[while they flied out 10 times.
Meanwhile, Minnesota had
[taken a 1-0 advantage in the
[fourth inning on several A&M
jiniscues. Center fielder Bruce
[Bates got a one-out walk off Gary
[Geiger, the second Aggie pitcher,
[and then advanced to third on
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Texas A&M first baseman Daron Dacus goes low
for the pickoff attempt as Minnesota second base-
Photo by Tracy Staton
safely. The Aggies
grabbed a 4-1 victory at Olsen Field Wednesday.
man Jay Anderson dives back safely. The A
two Geiger wild pitches.
And after working Geiger to a
full count, Gopher catcher Mike
Halloran singled to left field to
score the runner.
For A&M, sophomore pitcher
Scott Centala opened the game
but left after two innings. Geiger
then struggled through the next
two innings before giving way to
Russ Greene.
But if the first seven innihgs
belonged to Neagle and the Go
phers, the eighth inning was all
A&M’s.
Senior left-hander Ed Perez re
placed Greene in the top of the
inning and retired Minnesota in
order. Then in the Aggies’ half of
the inning, Scott Livingstone
drove a 3-1 pitch off of Neagle to
the right-field wall for a stand-up
double.
After Byington was walked by
Karl Johnson and Livingstone
was forced out at third on a
Chuck Knoblauch bunt, second
baseman Terry Taylor drove a
game-tying single to right field.
W'ith two outs, Johnson then
walked first baseman Daron Da
cus to load the bases and contin
ued to struggle with control as he
walked in catcher Maury Martin
for the go-ahead run. Right-
fielder Don Wren, who was 2-for-
5 for the afternoon, then took a
1-0 pitch to right field for two
more runs to make the score 4-1.
Perez, who threw just 18
pitches in two innings, came back
out and retired the Gophers in
order to seal the win.
School work causes
Indiana’s late arrival
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — French
Quarter bars and persistent report
ers have nothing to do with India
na’s late arrival for the Final Four,
said Coach Bobby Knight. It’s just
that school work comes first.
Nevada-Las Vegas, Providence
and Syracuse all flew in on Wednes
day to begin on-site preparations for
Saturday’s semifinals of the college
basketball championship tourna
ment. Indiana arrives on Friday.
“As long as I’ve been involved in
coaching, we have never — regard
less of the game, whether it’s a regu
lar season game or a conference
tournament or an NCAA tourna
ment game, first-round or
championship game — ever gone to
the site of a game more than one day
prior to the game," Knight said by
telephone Wednesday.
“That’s been our policy for 22-23
years. We still have classes today and
tomorrow. We’ll miss a little class on
Friday. We’ll get the chance to work
out on Friday, and that’s the way
we’ve always done it.”
£
the only coach on hand for the tele
phone news conference, said one of
nis reasons for coming in on
Wednesday was to give his players a
chance to see New Orleans.
“I’m going to let the kids enjoy
themselves tonight and after the
game,” he said. “Starting tomorrow
they will be under close restrictions.
“However, we won’t isolate them
from the press, because I think it is
very important to give them the op
portunity to talk to the press and
other people.”
All four teams will be housed in
hotels adjacent to the French Quar
ter, the nightclub center of the city.
Providence Coach Rick Pitino and
Syracuse Coach Jim Boeheim,
speaking by phone, leaned toward
Tarkanian’s more lenient philoso
phy.
“We don’t have that much time
for them to get out much,” Pitino
said. “It’s a lifetime experience for
them.”
“We want them to have a good
time, but we also expect them to con
centrate on the game,” Boeheim
said.
Big East rivals Providence, 28-5,
and Syracuse, 30-6, meet in the
opening game of the Final Four on
Saturday. The regular season ended
with UNLV ranked No.l, Indiana
No.3, Syracuse No. 10, and Provi
dence out of the standings, although
getting a few votes from pollsters.
Providence last beat Syracuse 13
seasons ago, the only victory for the
Friars in 17 meetings.
Tarkanian flew in ahead of his
team and went straight to a pre-tour
nament press conference. The other
three coaches participated from
their campus offices.
Las Vegas, 37-1, is picked to win
the title. Indiana, 28-4, is Tarkani
an’s pick for the favorite’s role.
“I’m really shocked that we’re the
favorite. I look around, and India
na’s a great basketball team,” Tarka
nian said. “I hope those people pick
ing us know something we don’t
know.”
Knight has never hidden the fact
that he believes defense is the way to
win games. Only this season has Tar
kanian’s defense been mentioned.
“We’ve been, always, a great de
fensive team,” Tarkanian said. “The
public looks at our scores and says,
‘No defense.’
“We score a lot, and that’s because
we shoot it quick.
“We’re not into being patient.”
“Jerry has never been understood
as a coach, as I understand him as a
coach,” Knight said. “I’ve always felt
that basketball starts with defense.
“I think his trademark has been
outstanding defensive play.”
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