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Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M’s baseball team fell
one hit short of taking a double-
header from Texas Saturday at
| Disch-Falk Field in Austin.
: Although the Aggies won the
I opener 5-3 on a late Jason Marshall
[single, they couldn’t produce in the
[key situations in the nightcap and
lost 2-1.
The Longhorns also won Friday’s
[series opener 5-1 as ace Kirk Dres-
sendorfer kept the Aggies at bay by
[striking out 13. Texas improved to
10-1 is Southwest Conference play
while A&M dropped to 9-4.
| A&M had three chances to win
the nightcap, but couldn’t score —
I even after getting key hits twice,
i Texas’ David Lowery gave the Ag-
[gies a demonstration of clutch hit
ting when he singled home David
Tollison in the bottom of the ninth.
Lowery’s liner spoiled Pat Sweet’s
bid for a complete game and caused
fans to wonder wny Coach Mark
Johnson left Sweet in the game with
the winning run at second base.
“I thought Pat could still do the
job,” Johnson said. “We were watch
ing him closely, and I thought he
was still effective. He didn’t give up
many well hit balls.”
Lowery’s was a sinking liner to
shallow center field. Center Fieler
Tim Holt picked it up cleanly, but
his throw to the plate was late and
the game — and A&M’s hopes of
taking two games from Texas — was
over.
Since the switch-hitting Lowery
hit better from the left side, he said
that he wasn’t suprised that Johnson
left Sweet in. Lowery said he was su
prised at the location of the pitch.
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the plate,” Lowery said. “For some
reason he left it there. I just drove
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second inning.
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start the inning, he got right fielder
Mark Smith to ground into a double
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liams couldn’t handle a sharp
grounder, and Mike Moreland
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The home plate umpire calls A&M’s Blake Pyle out after the junior tried to score in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader.
The Aggies answered with a gift
run of their own in the third.
With one out, Williams hit a
grounder that shortstop Kyle Moody
couldn’t handle. Williams stole sec
ond and scored on Chad Broussard’s
double into the left-center field gap.
Trey Witte followed with asingle
into left field, but Broussard was out
at the plate.
The Aggies failed to score in the
second inning. Blake Pyle drew a
leadoff walk and was bunted to sec
ond. John Woods’ infield chopper
got past Tollison, and Pyle tried to
score. Tollison recovered quickly
and his throw beat Pyle to the plate
by 10 feet.
“When you don’t hit the ball a lot,
you have to take chances,” Johnson
said. “Sending Pyle was my fault. I
thought the ball would bounce fur
ther away.”
In the eighth, Witte struck out
with runners at first and second to
end the inning and preserve the tie
into the ninth and set the stage for
the Texas win.
Although the twinbill ended on a
sad note for the Aggies, it started
with a dramatic win.
Breaking a string of 10 consec
utive losses at Disch-Falk Field, the
Aggies rallied for three runs in the
top of the seventh inning and hung
on to win 5-3.
Texas had recaptured the lead in
the bottom of the sixth when they
took advantage of a Witte throwing
error.
Witte's two-out throw sailed into
the A&M dugout, allowing the bat
ter, Lowery, to take second. Smith
followed with a single to score him.
A&M’s seventh inning rally was a
bit more impressive — and much
more final. The Aggies silenced the
sellout crowd as they rocked ace re
liever Chris Gaskill for four hits in
the inning.
Freshman Brian Thomas led off
with a looping single to left field and
moved to second when Williams
bounced a single past the shortstop.
One out later, Broussard used the
turf to his advantage, beating out a
mile-high chopper to load the bases.
Witte popped up to the pitcher and
it seemed the rally would fall short.
But Pyle took a 3-2 pitch and
walked in the tying run. Jason Mar
shall — who Gaskill struck out twice
last season — delivered a bouncer
through the middle that scored Wil
liams and Broussard.
“He put it over the plate and I hit
it,” Marshall said. “I’m just glad that
the hit that finally fell in counted for
so much.”
Aggie lefthander Rich Robertson
made it count. The junior transfer
from San Jacinto shut down the
Longhorns in the seventh inning to
earn the win.
Robertson, who went the distance,
improved his record to 9-0 on the
season and 4-0 in SWC action.
Gaskill took the loss for Texas.
His record fell to 5-3 and 1-1 in SWC
'I'he Saturday doubleheader fol
lowed Friday night’s opening game
that was a nightmare for the Aggies.
Kirk Dressendorfer looks clean-
cut, but he picked Friday the 13th to
do his best Jason impression.
Dressendorfer was a worse night
mare for the Aggies baseball team
than Freddie Krueger could ever
hope to be, striking out 13 Aggie
batters and limiting them to one un
earned run as the Longhorns won 5-
1 in front of 7,408 at Disch-Falk
Field.
“I believe in all that superstitious
stuff, but it was Good Friday, too,”
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