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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.
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