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Texas A&M The Battalion Sports Wednesday, May 11, 1983/The Battalion/Page 13 oad to Omaha Softball team hosts KU in NCAA mini-series by Joe Tindel Jr. Battalion Staff jie NCAA recently did A&M softball coach Bob fck a big favor. lot that he needed it — now ■ his Aggies seem to be ^hed and ready for post- jn play — but his team gets lay the NCAA regional play- tini-series in College Sta- hat’s College Station, a able haven where the lies are 12-0 this spring, te potential victim in this | NCAA regional series will ansas University, presently ffi nation’s 7th-ranked team jith a record of 33-7. Kansas Ifor the Big Eight Confer- 1 championship with Mis- |ri, and they’ll match talent ■'HB tf 16 Agg* es Friday at 5:30 and Saturday at 1 p.m. at ..-'JPenberthy Intramural Com- lex ■he winner of the best-of- E mini-series will advance to CAA softball World Series ay 26 in Omaha, Neb. month ago the outlook for Kl ady Jayhawks would be less Til, even with the Aggies’ un- - t ftfeited home record. Back pitcher Shan McDonald pnursing a sore shoulder and te Aggie bats weren’t making as ■y solid sounds as Brock says aflpnv ipers.il ersbnal ey are now. hat, however, was a month Kansas will now visit a fexas A&M squad that’s ranked Knd nationally with a 34-10 ecprd and has perhaps the most slid pitching duo in the country eniors McDonald and all- lerica Lori Stoll. It’s an Aggie refreshed by a week of rest some solid workouts, think we needed to rest and ut and work on some of the fundamentals again,” Brock “This team has a lot of fun Jig repetition over and over id making plays to First and iuble plays and bunts. They w it makes them that much Carrie Austgen two practices that we’ve had she has really looked sharp. So this rest has done her a lot of good.” Brock said he’ll pitch McDo nald some this weekend, but eyes also certainly will be on Stoll, 25-6, who has an amazing 0.35 earned run average this spring. The Aggies’ main weakness this spring— hitting — seems to have improved since the earlier part of the season. In an earlier interview, Brock refused to call his team’s hitting problem a weakness. He preferred the term “deficiency.” Improvement may have proved that terminology more accurate. “What seems to have been the difference this year is when one’s not hitting, we’re all not hitting,” Brock said. “When Cindy Cooper we’re all hitting this year, it doesn’t make any difference who I bring off the bench. We’re going to get a base hit. “But I’ve noticed here lately that it’s been splitting up some, which is what we really need. We need six that are hitting and three that are not, instead of nine that are not.” While Brock admitted the “deficiency” was definitely a problem, he said the team has always had the ability to be a su perior hitting club. “I don’t think anybody in the national tournament is going to have the potential hitting team that we’ve got — (a team) that can beat you with one swing,” he said. Senior shortstop Carrie Au stgen has been one of this y wouH ,000 ani |rock let his players rest last r, to a before practice began id y t0 Kn this week, and he said they P erin » e ready to take the Field case o ti me came to start pre- v woi!liiKj n g f or wee ]cend’s re al mini-series. , , i saw a team that was real yleno.iftthusiastic,” he said, “and it P rfi l|ks like they got some things t of the way as far as school id rest is concerned. 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Offer good thru May 15th spring’s most productive hitters, batting .303 in 142 at-bats. Sophomore outfielder Josie Carter, a key hitter last year, hasn’t had quite the spring the Aggies expected, Brock said, but she’s also showing signs of com ing around. Carter had eight RBI in last spring’s AIAW National tourna ment. Freshman Cindy Cooper has built an early reputation for pro ductive hitting, batting .279. Sophomore Iva Jackson has been another clutch hitter for the Aggies. Brock also praised the per formance of his newcomers this spring. 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