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SPORTS
Monday, April 17,1989
Byington gives Ags twinbill sweep over Longhorns
Dramatic ninth-inning home runs fuel victories
By Jerry Bolz
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
The Texas Aggies screamed a
shout of deliverence after John
Byington hit a last-inning homer in
the final two games to give the Ag
gies a 2-1 victory in their Southwest
Conference series with Texas.
Top-ranked A&M moved to 42-2
overall (11-1 in the SWC) by winning
Aggie Update
• Score: A&M wins two of three
from Texas by scores of 2-6, 18-14
and 8-5.
• Record: 42-2.
• Ranking: First.
• Next game: Tuesday double-
header against Stephen F. Austin at
5;50 p.m. at Olsen Field.
a series from Texas for the first time
since 1981. Tenth-ranked Texas is
now 37-12 (8-4 in the SWC).
Byington knocked a grand slam
with the score tied 14-14 in the ninth
inning in game one and muscled a
three-run shot in the ninth of the se
ries finale with the score knotted 5-5.
Both homers were on the first pitch.
Texas’ Kirk Dressendorfer led the
’Horns to a 6-2 victory in the first
game of the series.
Byington said he was expecting
the pitch he got on both home runs.
The first was an inside fastball by re
liever Dressendorfer and the final
game’s pitch was a curve by Chris
Gaskill.
“It was a curve ball,” Byington
said of Gaskill’s pitch. “I was looking
for it all the way. I’d touched them a
couple of times on the fastball, so 1
was looking for the breaking pitch.”
Byington and the Aggies ended a
long dry spell against the Long
horns. Before the series, Texas had
defeated A&M 13 of the last 14
meetings.
After the 18-14 win, a game
where the Aggies lost a seven-run
lead, Byington said the Aggies defi
nitely weren’t affected by the aura of
Texas,
"To lose a seven-run lead — if we
were having a problem with Texas
mystique, we would have laid down
and died,”
A&M center fielder Kirk Thomp
son said there was no doubt the Ag
gies would win the series.
“We knew we could win,” he said.
“We just had to prove to everyone
else we could. I think they know
we’re the better team — we deserve
the ranking.”
The first game, played Saturday
night due to a rain out Friday, began
as a pitching duel. Texas threw
Dressendorfer against A&M’s Pat
Sweet.
After five innings, neither team
had a run and the Aggies didn’t have
a hit. In the sixth, Texas’ Scott Bry
ant doubled and scored on a double
by Arthur Butcher to make it 1-0.
Texas got five more in the eighth
as David Lowery scored on a Bryant
double and Craig Newkirk took
A&M reliever Scott Centala’s pitch
over the left field fence for a grand
slam to make it 6-0 Texas.
A&M got one run in the eighth
and one in the ninth off Dressen
dorfer, who upped his record to 11-
1 and 5-0 in the SWC. Sweet
dropped to 7-2 and 3-1 in SWC with
the loss.
Although the Aggies lost, the last
two innings seemed to make them
believe they could beat the Long
horns. The confidence carried into
See Aggies/Page 8
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
A&M’s John Byington (sliding) beats the Bethea sets to throw to first during a 6-2
throw to second as Texas shortstop Steve Texas win over the Aggies Saturday night.
Byington’s heroics may have put an end to The Aggie Choke
It looked so familiar.
Bottom of the ninth. T exas 14, Texas
A&M 9
A&M, the nation’s top-ranked baseball
team, had apparently fallen victim to its
annual case of “the chokes”.
After all the hype, A&M seemed
shellshocked as the Longhorns erased a
seven-run deficit by the third inning.
I angrily thought: “How could they do
this to me?”
“If ever there is a year A&M should beat
Texas, this is it. We’re 40-2!”
You see, Saturday night’s 6-2 loss wasn’t
a letdown. Kirk Dressendorf er is a great
pitcher. Losing a game to him isn’t going to
make a team drop in the polls.
But blowing a seven-run lead at home
and looking primed to lose the series to the
Horns, once again, is a little hard to take.
Especially when I have to go home this
weekend and.see my friends, most of whom
are big Texas fans. I was starting to
Doug
Walker
Sports Editor
reconsider making the trip.
All week long the memories of last year’s
series with Texas lurked in my mind. I
figured game one was just a continuance of
the mysterious domnation Texas baseball
has held over the Aggies.
“Accept it,” I thought. “Texas always
beats A&M. It’s a fact of life. We’ll never
beat Texas — especially when it’s so
important!”
And rarely, if ever, has a Texas-Texas
A&M series been so important on a national
scale. The two teams always rule the
Southwest Conf erence, but Texas usually
comes out on top.
“I might as well accept it and save myself
more misery,” I thought. “Texas just has
A&M’s number.”
Then it happened. John Byington’s
grand slam home run caps nine-run ninth
inning to give A&M an 18-14 victory.
Later, another game-ending Byington
blast, a three-run shot, wins the nightcap to
give A&M the series and probably keeps the
Aggies atop the national polls.
How many times has that happened for
A&M? It’s never happened against Texas.
It’s not supposed to happen against Texas.
I mean, this is Texas'. The team which
has won 61 SWC titles in 74 seasons! Texas
doesn’t do things like that!
The Aggies, as most Texas fans will
readily tell you, have a dubious tradition
called The Aggie Choke.
The Aggie Choke is legendary in my
family. My oldest brother, who attended
A&M in the late ’60s and early ’70s, used to
talk about it when I was growing up. Each
year, when the A&M football team would
seem to be making a run for the conference
title, he would begin considering ordering
Cotton Bowl tickets.
One year, (1974, I think.) he decided to
put it off until the Aggies played Texas in
Austin. A&M only had to win to get the
Cotton Bowl bid and a trip to Dallas. The
Aggies responded by fumbling away the
ball on their first three plays from
scrimmage and losing, 32-3.
Pretty soon he became a true believer in
The Aggie Choke. As an impressionable
youngster, I became a convert. Any
optimism I felt would be overcome by
doubt about the Aggies’ chances'in any
game against Texas in any sport.
T he success of the football team in recent
years helped me ovex come much of my
belief in The Choke. However, the antics of
the Aggies in last year’s series in Austin —
and in the subsequent SWC Tournament —
convinced me that A&M was psyched out
by the Longhorns.
In the opener last year, the first five
Texas batters walked to start a five-run
inning as the Aggies never had a chance in
a 10-2 Texas win. UT swept the Aggies.
The events of Sunday’s first game were
bearing out my belief in the Aggie Choke.
It bothered me. I find it less irritating when
something unexpected happens which isn’t
to my liking.
When I feel like something is going to
happen and I have to sit by helplessly and
watch it take place, it drives me up the wall!
This time I was wrong and I’m glad.
I guess that puts an end to the Aggie
Choke.
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