The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1973 Page: 6 of 10
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Owl baseball comes on strong; Lamar, TLC levelled
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by BRUCE BAKER
The Rice University baseball
team opened play last week on
a positive note. In Beaumont
Tuesday, February 27, Rice took
a pair of seven-inning games
from Lamar University 8-0 and
5-2. In the first game Mike
Pettit allowed Lamar only four
hits. Freshman phenom Mike
Macha (pronounced "maha")
hit a three-run homer in the
second. In the second game
Bruce Henly was the winner,
with help from Steve Holder in
the sixth. With Rice holding a
S-l lead going into the bottom
of the sixth, Lamar scored once
and threatened more. But Hold-
er came on to retire the side
for the last two innings. His
job was made easier by Bryan
Boyne's two-run homer in the
seventh.
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Texas and again easily swept a
pair. Sequin, for those of you
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This time it was Larry Re-
neau and Steve Holder doing
the pitching honors. Both went
the distance. Reneau pitched a
two-hit shutout, walking only
two, both in the first inning, as
Rice rolled to a 4-0 victory. Af-
ter that first inning Reneau
was never in trouble. No one
advanced beyond first base.
On the other hand, Steve
Knight was hit for four runs
on six hits in his four innings
of pitching. Rice got a run in
the first on hits by Joe Zylka,
Mike Macha, and Bryan Boyne.
Then in the third Boyne hit a
three-run shot with the same
ylka and Macha aboard. It was
the second round-tripper of the
new season for Boyne. After
that the Rice offense shut down
for the game.
We wuz robbed
The issue was never in doubt
in the second game as Rice hit-
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three runs in the first inning,
runs that were never answered.
It could have been more except
for a questionable call by the
home plate umpire on a tag ap-
peal. The three runs were on
the board and men were leading
off from first and third. The
centerfielder Bill Bippert made
a spectacular diving catch on
catcher Ednie Janik's low liner.
Bryan Boyne, hanging close at
third, was able to quickly touch
and go home. Bippert made a
dosperate throw towards third
base and the third baseman
tagged. The umpire called
Boyne out, retiring the side.
Possibly the umpire was too
intent on watching the center-
fielder's heroics and could not
believe that Boyne had gone
back to tag third.
In the second game, left-
fielder John Jacobson hit a
home run that cleared the left
field fence by inches. The Owl's
scoring was capped in the fifth
by a single by Ted Nowak, and
infield hit by Zylka, and a stol-
en base by Nowak, who was
allowed to score on the catcher's
low throw.
Steve Holder had his strike-
out pitch going, striking out ten
(out of 21) but had' streaks of
wildness. The senior fastballer
walked four and let loose two
wild pitches. However, when he
got the ball over, the TLC bat-
ter's were unable to hit it.
A better team
The Rice baseball team looks
improved over last year. The
hitting is definitely better. With
the addition of freshman Mike
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Macha and the added experience
of Joe Zylka and Bryan Boyne
the meat end of the batting or-
der is potent. Zylka, with the
aid of the official s'corer, is now
seven for twelve for the first
four games. Boyne went 4 for
6 for the doubleheader, includ-
ing two doubles and a home
run. Macha was 2 for 5, includ-
ing a double.
The fielding that was such an
important aspect of the team's
sucess last year is still good.
However, the absence of Shel-
don Kaufman has created prob-
lems on the infield. There the
team is not set yet. Doug Os-
born is still experimenting with
different defenses. Much of the
problem is where to put Macha.
Originally a third baseman, he
played in right field in the
second game with TLC. He is
also being tried at second.
Boyne, the regular third base-
man last year, started at second
and shortstop in the double-
header, switching with Ted
Nowak.
The pitching on this year's
team is of high quality but
lacks depth. There are only six
pitchers listed on the roster and
of those six, two are freshman
who have not played yet. How-
ever, conference championship
teams usually need only three
good pitchers and Rice is
blessed with four in Petit,
Henley, Reneau, and Holder.
The team has a confident but
not cocky attitude towards this
season. Southwest Conference
play, which starts March 16-17
against UH, will not be as
easy as these games. Barring
any injuries, especially to a
pitcher, this team should make
a serious run on the conference
title. They are almost a cinch
to pass the eleven-win mark in
conference, a new Rice record
set last year.
New swim records set
by DOUG APPLING
Last Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday at the 42nd Annual
Southwest Conference Swim-
ming and diving Champion-
ships held on the TCU campus,
the Rice swimming team com-
peted with the seven other
SWC teams and finished
eighth. SMU finished first,
sweeping their seventeenth
straight SWC Championship,
with UT second, Texas A & M
third, Arkansas fourth, Texas
Tech fifth, UH sixth, TCU
seventh, and Rice eighth.
Because the SWC is one of
the most competitive confer-
ences in the NCAA in swim-
ming and because Rice is the
only school - in the SWC that
does not offer scholarships in
swimming, the six swimmers
from Rice who competed in the
SWC Championships against
the legions of swimmers from
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faulted for not winning. Al-
though they finished a distant
eighth, the Rice swimmers can
take pride in their outstanding
personal performances.
Robert Visser smashed his
school record in the 200 yard
butterfly, while George Tay-
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best in the 200 yard .back-
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man Kittrell, and Steve Whit-
ney each set personal records
in the 100 yard and 200 yard
freestyle and John Allen es-
tablished new school records in
the 100 yard ami 200 yard
breaststroke.
In the prelims of the 100
yard breaststroke last Friday
afternoon, John Allen, senior
captain of the Rice swimming
team, set a new school record
of 1:01.04 and became the first
Rice swimmer ever to qualify
for the NCAA Swimming and
Diving Championships. John's
time was just one tenth of a
second faster than the NCAA,
qualifying standard of 1:01. o
set by the twentieth place fin-
isher in last year's NCAA
Championships. That night in
the finals, John took fifth
place in the 100-yard breast-
stroke in a field which included
three All-Americans, -one of
whom was an Olympic gold
medalist. The next night John
finished tenth in the 200 yard
breaststroke, again setting a
new school record. In two
weeks, John will travel with
his coach, Fred Breckwohlt, to
Knoxville, Tennessee, for the
NCAA Swimming and Diving
Championships, where he will
bo one of the only nonscholar-
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Jackson, Steve. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 1973, newspaper, March 8, 1973; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245157/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.