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Monday, April 2,1990 The Battalion Page 11 Ags drop SWC series to Baylor By ALAN LEHMANN Of The Battalion Staff first pir lw ° feet bin , V as six pUj 1 under par nine holes L Morgan, § jppedt in his first fe, °f contenti:, I and 12. under at H No. 17 an 'die putt >le that woui 111 the playol with a oples finisb K . both for 2 the leaders second at tin pen this year, e title. [avs ord lowisli 1 75. e Bucks mii inded Dallas :er to lead b coach Kid)/ Wenningtr- e for starten 1 Herb W ponded tse ;ht points hots by Tat- thead m .Jones, Tat- id his tip-iii in the guar- a 42-33 ad- ly one field irad Loham tesofthepe- i the quarter runds in the ff'ensive ad WACO — The Texas A&M base ball team ventured into new terri tory when it faced Baylor in Waco. The Aggies hadn’t lost a South west Conference series since 1988, and neither team had split a SWC se ries this season — A&M had swept Texas Tech, and Baylor had been swept by Rice and Texas. That all changed Sunday. The Bears, who had beaten the Aggies 7-6 Saturday, beat them again in Sunday’s nightcap 7-0. A&M won Sunday’s opener 2-0. The Bears hadn’t beaten the Aggies in a season series since 1984 and had lost 19 in a row to the Aggies in the same span. With the losses, A&M dropped to 4-2 in SWC play and 31-9 overall. Baylor improved to 2-7 and 24-13. Baylor starter Lee Price — whose jersey was stolen before the game — robbed the Aggies of any offense in the nightcap. The junior right hander held the Aggies to three hits, and faced only two men over the minimum. The Bears’ defense was ferocious, turning three double plays and mak ing several great plays. A&M coach Mark Johnson said Baylor did a good job, and that the Aggies just didn’t hit. "Some of their hits were bleeders, but that’s no excuse,” Johnson said. “We’re not going to beat anybody when we get only three hits and give up three errors. “I think that conference is going to be a dogfight this year.” Trey Witte supplied most of the Aggies’ ofense. The sophomore doubled twice and Travis Williams picked up the other single. A&M starter Pat Sweet took the loss — giving up eight hits in 5.6 in nings — to drop to 4-3. Baylor scored two runs in the third on three hits. The Bears added five more in the sixth on five hits and two errors. It was the Aggies who shined in Sunday’s opener. Rich Robertson fired a four-hit shutout in the seven-inning game, and the Aggies won 2-0. The Aggies managed only six hits, but that was plenty. Baylor starter Glenn Nevill didn’t allow a hit until the fifth inning. Chad Broussard lined a solid sin gle into left field. One out later, John Wood jumped on a curve ball and drove it down the left field line for a double to score Broussard. It was Wood’s ninth RBI of the season, and his first game-winner. “I played summer ball with Glenn Nevill, and was waifiTTg on a curve ball,” Wood said. “I just jumped on it and was lucky it fell in.” A&M scored another run in the sixth. Consecutive singles by Wil liams, David Rollen and Blake Pyle set the stage for a sacrifice fly by Trey Witte. Despite Robertson’s dominance, the Bears made it interesting in the bottom of the seventh. After retiring the first two on fly outs, Robertson struck out Mike Robison. But Wood couldn’t hold the ball, and Robison reached first base on the passed ball. Steve Kliafas fol- Baylor’s Ray Hammond slides into A&M short stop Jason Marshall to break up a double play in Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack Saturday’s 7-6 loss. A&M lost the three-game se ries after splitting a Sunday doubleheader. lowed with a single to left, but Rob ertson ended the game as he got a fly out. In Saturday’s game, the Aggies dropped a ninth-inning chance to win, and lost 7-6. Pinch runner Cornelius Patterson was cut down at the plate by Baylor center fielder Mike Robison to end the game. Tire Bears outhit the Aggies and scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to take the 7-6 lead. Shortstop Steve Kliafas was 3-for- 3 with two runs batted in and right fielder Tommy Echols went 3-for-4, including a two-run home run. The Aggies got 2-for-5 perfor mances from Rollen and Pyle. Short stop Jason Marshall had a two-run single in the sixth inning when A&M scored Five runs. Until that point, Baylor led 4-1. Bears’ starting pitcher Scott Ruf- fcorn had allowed only two hits through the first five innings. However, he didn’t retire any body in the fifth. Travis Wiliams drew a leadoff walk, and moved kinko's the copy center Ultra Hot Graphics Aggie Solar Guard window tinting 846-5091 301 Texas Ave., C.S. 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Dine-ln Only Expires 04/30/90 around on consecutive singles by Rollen, Pyle and Witte. Broussard was hit by a pitch to bring Rollen home, and Marshall’s single knocked in two more. Ruffcorn was removed in favor of lefty Frank Foltyon, who stopped the Aggies, allowing only Marshall to score on a error. Ronnie Allen pitched the first six innings for A&M, giving up eight hits and five runs. Bo Siberz ab sorbed the loss, going the final two innings and giving up two runs on two hits. D MSC Political Forum SOUTH AFRICA SERIES: Part I THE FUTURE OF REFORM The Government’s Perspective ( Islanders ‘still believe’ in team, make entry into NHL playoffs UN ION DALE, N.Y. (AP) —In each of the New York Islanders’ locker room stalls hangs a sign that says, “I Believe.” This year’s Patrick Division race certainly tested that faith. “A week ago, we felt we proba bly wouldn’t be here,” captain Brent Sutter said, talking about the NHL playoffs. But “here” they are, as the re sult of some longshot circum- stances in a wild, improbable sce nario the last week of the season. This was the story: The Island ers had to win their last two games and the Pittsburgh Pen guins had to lose their last two for the Islanders to make the play offs. “We were down,” Islander for ward Randy Wood said. “Things didn’t look good, but we felt as long as we were alive, we still had a chance.” The Islanders started their way back with a 6-3 victory at Toronto that featured a big third period. “That period helped us,” Wood said. “It gave us confi dence.” They asserted that confidence in Saturday night’s 6-2 victory over Philadelphia. Then, they had to wait for the results of the Pittsburgh-Buffalo game to see how things would come out. “1 wasn’t even sure what the score (of the Pittsburgh game) was,” Wood said. “There were conflicting reports. Someone said they were winning 3-1, and then someone said the score was 2-2.” The reason for all this confu sion was that Islanders coach A1 Arbour would not allow Nassau Coliseum officials to flash the score of that game while the play ers were on the ice. He wanted his team totally focused, he said. But the Islander fans knew. They £ot to sneak a look at the score in between periods while the Islanders and Flyers were in the dressing rooms. After the Islanders had won, most of the fans stayed in their seats to watch the Pittsburgh-Buf falo game which was shown on the overhanging scoreboard at mid-ice. Meanwhile, the Islanders were watching in their dressing room. When Buffalo pulled it out 3-2 in overtime, both the Islanders and the Islander fans erupted. “I’ll bet there was a little beer spilled out there,” said Sutter, who had two goals and two assists in the Islanders' biggest game of the year. “The fans deserved to celebrate. We haven’t done any thing easy all year.” Indeed. The Islanders, actu ally, had three seasons — a bad beginning, a great middle and an horrendous end before pulling up their bootstraps in the last two games. The Islanders were one of the NHL’s worst teams the first two months of the season. At 5-18-3, they were in the Patrick Division cellar. After a so-so December, they suddenly became the league’s hottest team in January, winning nine straight and fashioning a re cord of 26-6-3 to move into first place. That didn't last long, however. During the final third of the sea son, they won just three of their last 22 games (3-14-5). Fortuna tely for them, the Penguins were losing or tieing their last eight games. The finish sends the Islanders into a first-round playoff meeung with the New York Rangers, be ginning Thursday. Only the Battalion has sports writer Vince Snyder, and only you can read his stirring thoughts on the sports world. Whether it’s horseshoes or high jumps, Snyder’s your man. Read his column in Wednesday’s Battalion. Umps return, prepare for first day of season WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — For the first time since the World Se ries, major league umpires and play ers were on the field together Sun day. Big league umpires ended their six-day boycott and returned to work in exhibition games in Florida and Arizona, leaving them just one week to prepare for the season openers on April 9. The umpires took over from Class AAA umps who replaced them dur ing the boycott, which covered al most half the two-week exhibition schedule. “The Triple-A guys did a decent job and now the big league umps have a week to get ready for the real action,” Boston Red Sox manager Joe Morgan said. “We’re ready to go back to work,” said Rich Garcia, an American League crew chief. “I’ve been run ning and playing golf. Now I have six games down here and that will be enough.” “It’s time to go back, in fact, it’s past time,” AL umpire Larry Young said before a Toronto’s game against Boston. “A long layoff can throw you off a little,” Young added. “But I have three games behind the plate this week and that’s enough to get you going, to get your timing back.” Young also saluted the Class AAA umpires, who worked with the ap proval of the major leaguers while the latter negotiated new conces sions. “From what I’ve heard, and from a couple of games I saw on tele vision, they did a good job,” Young said. “I’ve always felt, though, that any Triple-A umpire can call balls and strikes.” “It’s great to be back to work,” AL umpire Jim Evans said before Mil waukee played California at Chan dler, Anz. “We’re happy we’re just here.” by: GERHARDUS PRETORIUS South Africa's Consul General in Houston V Tuesday, April 3, 1990 7:00 p.m. 102 Zachary Free Admission Refreshments 4!t- nr * This program is for educational purposes only and does not necessarilyrepresent the views of MSC Political Forum. 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