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By Homer Jacobs
Sports Editor
Appropriately, a stuffed bear
I dangled in a noose from the top
pier of Olsen Field Saturday as the
Texas A&M baseball continued
lits firm grasp of the Baylor Bears
[with a three-game sweep of the
llth-ranked team from Waco.
But the effigy easily could have
I been the Aggies, whose hopes of
Ja 1987 Southwest Conference ti
tle were hanging by a thread in
the first game of the series.
A&M faced a five-run deficit in
the bottom of the eighth inning
Friday night but rallied to defeat
Baylor 12-11. Saturday’s double-
header was a different story as
the Aggies pounded the Bears in
both games, 13-5 and 7-2.
The Aggies have taken the last
12 games from the Bears and
have improved their record to 33-
12-1; but more importantly,
jA&M boasts a 6-3 SWC mark and
finds itself in third place behind
Arkansas (8-1) and Texas (8-1).
Why is it that Baylor conti-
nously finds itself on the losing
end when the Bears (29-9, 3-6)
play the Aggies?
“They just got our number,”
Baylor Coach Mickey Sullivan
said.
A&M had just about all the
numbers for the weekend as Ag
gie hitters amassed 41 hits and 32
runs against a pitching staf f with
a combined earned run average
of2.93.
“We just play well against Bay
lor,” A&M Coach Mark Johnson
said. “Baseball’s a crazy game.”
Johnson said the successful se
ries has shed a whole new light on
the conference race.
“This gives us a chance to go
for No.l,” he said. "We’re legiti
mate contenders now.”
A&M looked legitimate on the
mound and at the plate in Satur
day’s twin bill, especially with the
pitching of Gary Geiger, 7-2, and
the hitting of designated hitter
Scott Livingstone.
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Texas A&M first baseman Jim Neumann waits
for a pitch in Saturday’s first game of a double-
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
header with the Baylor Bears. The Aggies swept
the Bears to up its conference record to 6-3.
Geiger went all nine innings in
Saturday’s second game, scatter
ing nine hits. Livingstone, who
went 5-for-6 in Friday’s game,
blasted a two-run triple in the
first affair Saturday and added
two more hits in the second game.
The junior, who is not playing
his usual third base position beca-
sue of a shoulder injury, also
went through the cycle Friday
night with a single, double, triple
and home run.
"He’s a better hitter than I’ve
seen in a long time,” Sullivan said.
“He put on a clinic this weekend
as far as we’re concerned.”
In the first game of the double-
header, A&M was never really
threatened as the Aggies jumped
out to a 4-0 lead in the second in
ning behind Livingstone’s triple.
And in the fifth inning, A&M
blasted Baylor for nine runs with
first baseman Jim Neumann lead
ing the charge with a two-run
double.
A&M pitcher Sean Snedeker
picked up his fifth win of the year
as he went into the top of the sev
enth inning before giving up the
mound to reliever Ed Perez.
Whereas the first game was a
hitting clinic by Aggie batters, the
second game was more of a
Geiger counter. The senior
showed control and consistency
throughout most of the game, ex
cept during a brief Baylor rally in
the seventh.
“Gary Geiger really stood out
to me today,” Johnson said, “be
cause he had the same stuff in the
ninth inning as he had in the
first.”
The Aggies will host Sam
Houston State Tuesday at Olsen
Field beginning at 7 p.m., and
then will take on Rice in Houston
this weekend.
Brock gets 300th win
as A&M splits twin bill
By Loyd Brumfield
Assistant Sports Editor
The Texas A&M softball team
played near-perfect softball in one
game, then let the other one slip
away in splitting a double-header
with Utah State Saturday at the Pen-
berthy Intramural Complex.
The Lady Aggies, now 33-6 over
all, took the first game 2-0, giving
A&M Coach Bob Brock his 300th
win as A&M coach, while Utah State
nudged A&M 2-1 in extra innings to
take the second game.
A&M only managed five hits in
the first game, but it didn’t even
need that many, as pinch runner
Zina Ochoa scored on a sacrifice fly
by pitcher Shawn Andaya in the sec
ond inning to provide the winning
margin.
The Lady Aggies got an insurance
run in the third when right fielder
Tory Parks scored on a balk by Utah
State pitcher Kristie Skoglund.
Andaya pitched a one-hitter in
improving her record to 21-3 for the
year. She finished the game with six
strikeouts and one walk.
In the second game, A&M looked
like it would continue shutting down
Utah State until the seventh inning;
Utah State then battled back to tie
the game and send it into extra in
nings.
After two Utah State hits in the
top of the first inning, A&M
bounced back with four consecutive
singles and one run in the bottom
half of the inning .
Third baseman Judy Trussell got
things started for the Lady Aggies by
slicing a single into center field, and
shortstop Liz Mizera followed with
an infield single to Skoglund, who
played shortstop in tne second
game.
Catcher Erika Eriksson lined the
third single into left field, and An
daya hit another infield single to
Skoglund to knock home Trussell
and provide A&M with its only run
of the game.
The Lady Aggies got another hit
in the fourth, when Parks lined a sin
gle to left field, but lead-off hitter
Julie Smith popped up to left field to
end the inning.
Erikkson lined a single off the
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base bag in the fifth, and left fielder
Ochoa provided A&M with its final
hit of the game, yet another infield
single off Skoglund in the sixth.
Errors by the Lady Aggie defense
and two Andaya walks allowed Utah
State to load the bases in the top of
the seventh, and left fielder Shan
non Blackburn hit a single into right
field to bring home center Fielder
Rainey Miller for the tying run.
After a scoreless eighth inning,
Miller scored the winning run for
Utah State after Skoglund knocked
her in by reaching base on another
Lady Aggie error.
Brock, whose record is 300-69 at
A&M, said he blamed the loss in the
second game on the coaching.
“The coaches did not have them
prepared to play today,” Brock said.
“You can’t blame the girls for that.
We aren’t prepared to play at home.
I’d say that shows a pretty sorry job
of coaching.”
Andaya again pitched well for
A&M, giving up eight hits while
striking out nine and walking three,
and Erikkson had a good day hitting
for the Lady Aggies, going 4-of-6 in
both games combined.
“Erika was really into the games
today,” Brock said. “She hit well, and
she did a good job of catching.
“We did some good things (in the
second game), so its not like we
rolled over and died, but we’ll never
be No. 1 in our region again.”
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