AUSTIN (April 2, 1976) - Lubbock Christian College gained a little prestige for the small colleges Friday and Richard Wortham moved closer to an NCAA record as the Chaparrals split a twin bill with Texas. 

The Lubbockites, 34-7 and ranked number-two in the NAIA, won the opener 6-5 as Wayne Aiken scatter seven hits and weathered eight walks to post his ninth victory in 10 decisions. 

The nightcap was all Texas, save for the third and eighth frames. Wortham, an Odessa native, won the contest 9-5to post his seventh triumph of the year and his 43rd career win, four shy of the NCAA record. 

And Wortham came within an eyelash of halting John Harris' 39-game hitting streak. The Chap star was 0-4, but LCC rallied for four runs in the eighth, giving Harris a shot with two down in the ninth, and he delivered with a single up the middle on a 1-1 pitch. 

Wortham was troubled by LCC's four left-handed hitters, as Buddy Davis got four hits, Kim Nikkel two and Harris and David Carter one each. Gary Olivo chipped in with a two-run triple for the Chaps. 

"Aiken is the kind of pitcher you have to stay with," Chap coach Larry Hays said after the opener. "He's so strong that he can overcome his own wildness. I don't think he was in all that much trouble. We just didn't make the plays behind him."

In the nightcap, Wortham effectively stopped the Chaps, Fanning 14 and having only those two bad innings. In the third, Davis led off with a triple and LCC scored in its 75th straight game as Aiken's excuse-me-swing hopper over Wortham's head got the run home.

In the eighth, Carter singled, Davis singled and Aiken walked to load the bases. Nikkel singled to right for two runs, and Olivo tripled home two more. 

Texas, fourth in the nation and now 23-9, started fast, as a walk, an error, Karl Pagel's triple and Mickey Reichenbach's sacrifice fly gave the 'Horns a 3-0 lead in teh first inning It became 6-0 in the second on Garry Pyka's sacrifice fly and Pagel's two-run double. 

The victor's added an insurance run in the sixth on an error and Charles Proske's double, and another in the eighth on an error by LCC's Randy Evans. 

Texas jumped off to a 2-0 lead in the first game when Aiken issued the first of his eight walks to leadoff man Johnny Olvera. Charles Proske tripled to right center and came home on Reichenbach's pop which shortstop Glenn Wilken snagged in short left. 

The Chaps scored in teh second when freshman Tim Wright walked Kim Nikkel, gave up a single to Aiken and then walked Wilken and Don Worth. 

In the third, Dave Carter left off with an infield hit and Harris extended his hitting streak to 38 with a single up the middle. UT shortstop Steve Day was trying to keep Carter close at second when Buddy Davis rapped a perfect double-play grounder to him. Day stepped on the bag at second but then threw into the LCC dugout, allowing Carter to score. 

The Chaparrals exploded for four runs in the fourth off Wright, who lost for the first time this year as a starter. Aiken started things with his second single of the game and Wilken put down a sacrifice which Reichenbach bobbled and both runners were safe. Worth sacrificed the runners along, before Randy Evans rapped a two-run single up the middle to make it 4-2. 

Carter followed with a single to left, and both runners advanced on Harris' towering fly to left. Davis ripped a blast to the right of dead center, which Proske was unable to catch. Third-base coach Larry Hays waved Davis around for an inside-the-park homer, but Davis got a leg cramp and had to hold up at third. 

For a while, that run looked very important. 

A walk, Joe Ayers' single up the middle and a wild pitch got the Longhorns a run in the fourth. Texas scored in the fifth when Karl Pagel walked, Reichenbach walked and Rob Stramp blooped a two-out single to right. 

In the sixth, Rocky Thompson led off with a pinch-hit, ground-rule double to right, Olvera walked, and Proske's one-out single up the middle narrowed the margin to a run. But Aiken got out of that by getting Pagel to pop to second and Reichenbach to bound out to second. 

In the seventh, Aiken, who threw 141 pitches in his sixth complete game, escaped with only a single.