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12 7,1S k SPORTS he Battalion Tuesday, March 27,1990 Sports Editor Richard Tijerina 845-2688 Me Lut, Since t > nusidj Meal k Skeeter Brown Scab Sports Writer 9^ No. 16 Ags host Hardin Simmons Strike Day One: Skeeter’s views on Ag quarterbacks male B; iOO inf igtilers isihes® unis ckfi ce ias polio : with at a m ansadec i warm ted. has bee ation ol siabbir;; le founi iring tlit ncial le ctures oi 'e strew Rober, the bitt en polict ce. tis was Hinton i Hawi-I its were | ~1 EDITOR’S NOTE: Assistant Sports Edi tor Clay Rasmussen is in his first day of a self-imposed strike to protest profes sional athletes’ burgeoning salaries. Re fusing to write his Tuesday column, The Battalion was forced to hire Skeeter Brown, a scab sports writer, in his place. Happy reading. .A.hem. Thank you. I have been a Texas A&M football fan for every one of my 28 years, except for that one season after they fired former coach Emory Bellard. That really tanned my hide. In those 27 years, I have seen great quarterbacks come' and go. I’ve lived through them all: the Walkers, the Moseleys, the Kubiaks, the Stumps and the Murrays. Not to mention the two fine young fellers sharing time in the Aggie backfield of this spring — Lance Pavlas and Bucky Richardson. Pavlas had a helluva season in 1989, leading a young Aggie team to the John Hancock Bowl. With a little luck, A&M could have finished the year with a record much better than 8-4. But now Richardson is back after redshirting last season. And he supposedly is just about as good as new. Seeing him in spring practice has been hard for me, however. He’s definitely showing the rust from a season out of the gridiron. You see, Richardson is my favorite quarterback. I guess it’s the name. Bucky. I had an uncle named Bucky. Also a pet squirrel. Seeing Bucky (Richardson, that is, not my squirrel) scramble away from would-be tacklers made something See Skeeter/Page 9 Bullard, Gilbert draw starting spots for A&M against Cowboys Tuesday By ALAN LEHMANN Of The Battalion Staff Photo by Scott D. Weaver A&M pitcher Jason Bullard winds up for a pitch during his win over Southwest Texas State March 6. Bullard and fellow starter Brent Gilbert will start for the Aggies Tuesday night in a doubleheader against Hardin Simmons at Olsen Field. A&M is 28-7 on the season and 3-0 in Southwest Conference play. The No. 16 Texas A&M baseball team will put its ten-game winning streak on the line Tuesday when it hosts Hardin Sim mons University. The Aggies, now 28-7 on the season, will host the 12-23 Cowboys in a 5:30 p.m. doubleheader at Olsen Field. The twinbill will mark the end of a 16- game homestand, A&M’s longest of the season. Over the weekend, the Aggies swept three games from Texas Tech to open Southwest Confener- ence play. A&M, now 3-0 in SWC games, com pletely dominated Tech, outscoring the Red Raiders 23-1. The Aggies won 11-0, 9-0 and 3-1. Tech scored their only run on a two-out homer in the ninth inning of Saturday’s finale. The Aggies now have thrown seven shutouts, six of them in the last 14 games. A&M aces Ronnie Allen and Rich Rob ertson each hurled two-hit shutouts at the Raiders. Senior Pat Sweet shook a two-game los ing streak Saturday as he went the distance in the finale. The Aggie pitchers weren’t the only ones who were not this weekend. A&M bashed 27 hits, 10 in each of the first two games, and were led by Blake Pyle 4-for-8, Brian Thomas 5-for-12 and Travis Williams 4- for-10. For the Aggies, who have struggled at the plate all season, the hitting couldn’t Brent Gilbert come at a better time. Conference play is a whole new season, and the Aggies hit a cool .300 over the weekend. A&M also played flawless defense. The Aggies didn’t make a single error this week end, and took advantage of nine Raider miscues. Probable Aggie starters for Tuesday’s doubleheader are Brent Gilbert (3-3, 6.16 ERA) and fason Bullard (2-0, 2.80 ERA). Gilbert picked up a win last Tuesday when A&M beat Southwestern. The victory broke his per sonal three-game los ing streak dating back to a Feb. 25 loss to Northeast Louisiana. Bullard has had control problems, walking 28 batters in 26 innings. However, he’s struck out 33 and allowed only 15 hits. Fuesday will be family night at Olsen Field. The entire family can attend the game for only $4 and each person will re ceive one free soft drink. The Aggies travel to Waco next weekend to face the Baylor Bears in their next South west Conference action. A&M shares the conference lead with a 3-0 record after its three-game sweep over Texas Tech. Over last weekend, Texas swept a three-game series against Baylor in Austin. Arkansas, last year’s co-SWC cham pions along with the Aggies, dropped one game to Houston. That loss may prove costly later in the season. A&M must travel for what is consid ered its two toughest series of 1990 —Texas in Austin and Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark. ; for 1749 t- This is precisely the sort of thing no one ever believes. -Baron Munchausen March 29-April 1, 1990 Walter Koenig “Chekov“ of Star Trek author of Chekov's Enterprise and Buck Alice and the Actor Robot 1 "t-V • tsL&fru mm Spider and Jeanne Robinson authors of Stardance Robocop Gaming 5 / JfT’y-'fui■- > \| ...•. Mfl tkz LazerTag Masquerade Ball % Richard Pini editor and co-author of Elfquest At the door Student $13.00 Non-Student $16.00 Children $6.00 Ticket Information One Day Passes $7.00 $9.00 $3.00 Under4yrs. free! 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