University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Better Next Season One of UT ' s catchers. Kevin Shannon, tags out a Baylor haserunner attempting to cross homeplate Baseball 141

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Things Can Only Be Every athlete probably remembers at least one disap- pointing game he wanted to forget the minute it was over. The Longhorns baseball team had an entire season full of upsetting games to forget. After a 34-game win- ning streak in 1977, the only happy thought at the end of the ' Horns ' 1978 season was that things could only get better for the team next year. The men were unable to sweep even one Southwest Conference team. The ' Horns ' fifth-place finish in the SWC kept them from getting the chance to redeem themselves in the South- west Conference post-season baseball tournament. Inexperience, injuries and lack of power hitting plagued the ' Horns throughout their season. Andre Robertson and Kern Wright were the only starters who returned from last year ' s squad. Injuries slowed down pitchers Kern and Ricky Wright and shortstop Ronnie Gardenhire. The ' Horns had a .21 1 team batting average in conference play, seventh in the SWC. Head Coach Cliff Gustafson said that the one good thing about hit- ting .21 1 was that you can ' t go down much more. Continued Andre Robertson watches as a pilch apparently crosses the strike zone. I Burton Burrows moves backwards as a pitch seemingly comes close to hitting him during the first game of a doubleheader against Baylor. 140 Baseball

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Mark Chelctte congratulates Andre Robertson after Robertson hit a home run against Central Michigan. 1 42 Baseball