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ByCHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Sports Editor
When you think of professional
aseball, you think of the New York
Y.iukees. Professional football — the
lallas Cowboys. College basketball
the UCLA Bruins. Professional
sketball — the Boston Celtics.
When you think about college
ifcftball, the Texas A&M Aggies
ocmetomind immediately.
■ Just like the aforementioned, the
Iggies have achieved acclaim
■rough winning — consistently.
I The Aggies have won two national
lhampionships and finished second
I the past three years. The 1985
ason should be even better.
"Our outlook is very good,” said
‘ Uil '|&M Coach Bob Brock. “I am ex-
'*Bted about this team. I think we’re
1 '"wing 10 he as good or better than
' , ni Be teams we’ve had in the past. We
nve depth, speed and offensive
■inch. I don’t see any weaknesses
with these players.
thodkl "Our pitching will also be a lot bet-
RinLBr. We’ve added a lefty since last
dnifk Bason."
ieplavB Karen Athanacio, a freshman
Bom San Mateo, Calif., is the left
mder added to this year’s squad.
Bthanacio was unbeaten this fall (5-
'B and may also contribute at first
■ In addition to Athanacio, Liz Mi-
Ira, a shortstop from Garden
Irove, Calif, and Zina Ochoa, an
Bitfielder, are freshmen who will
lelpout immediately.
■ Mizera hit three home runs in the
■ game fall schedule. Ochoa will be
.Be Aggies’ leadoff hitter.
■ “Plus we have some freshmen w ho
is iusB'^ 0 a g 00 ^ i 0 ^ ' n backup roles,".
•Ij ,Brock said. “It seemed like w e never
Bad enough players hist year.”
1 iB The other additions to last year’s
Bam are outfielder Jane Mesek, in-
sa |Belder Roshele Friudenberg,
t^^Jitcher Rita Shea and third baseman
, BaraSzymzack.
, , r B These newcomers will be added to
[tht 11 returning lettermen. includ-
ifig three All-Americans.
atti Holthaus, Rose Kuf fino and
inda Lancaster are the only players
lot returning from last year's squad.
|CatcherGay McNutt, outfielder lose
Barter and pitcher Shawn Andaya
areihereturning All-Americans.
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Ag All-American Jose Carter
“(Outfielder Iva) Jackson, Carter
and McNutt have been with me since
I’ve been here,” Brock said. “You
can’t put a price on that kind of ex
perience. With the experienced
players added to the contributing
f reshmen and sophomores, we seem
to perpetuate ourselves.
“We’re really realaxed and hard
working. We have quit worrying
about who’s on the other team, and
we have started worrying about what
the Aggies are doing.”
Brock said the new players quickly
get in the winning traaition.
“The old players tell them ‘we
want you to be on a national
championship team,’” Brock said.
“We’re a together team. You’ll hear
me talk about all those ‘together’
words like ‘us’ and ‘we.’ We nave a
team filled with the best athletes
from the area they came from. Each
player has something to do and she
understands her role on the team.”
Pitching is the Aggies biggest
strength and the main reason is sim
ple— Andaya.
“I don’t want to call Shawn our
ace, but she’s probably the pitcher
who pitched most of our games,”
Brock said. “She will pitch most of
our tough opponents. She was All-
American last year and she appears
stronger this year.”
Andaya was 40-10 in her fresh
man year, 7-1 in the fall, and 33-9 in
the spring.
Yvette Lopez, a senior pitcher,
was 22-9 in her first season with the
Aggies, including a 5-0 fall mark.
Brock said the Aggies need to
keep working on hitting, but the big
gest battle would not be against their
opponents but against themselves.
“There are things we need to
work on to stay on top,” Brock said.
“We have to continually work on our
hitting skills. We will ao a lot of live
hitting.
“The one thing that bothers me is
that we’re strong enough that we’re
our own enemy. We can’t get com
placent and beat ourselves.”
At times last year the Aggies did
have to battle complacency, Brock
said.
“It had to do with injuries and
depth, things like that,” Brock said.
Brock said the Aggies should be
back in the College World Series if
they play as well as they can.
“There’s no team in the nation we
can’t beat,” he said. “If we play like
we’re capable of playing, we should
be back in the World Series. If we
don’t make it, we want to know we
did our best to try and get there.”
The schedule could take its toll on
A&M, if the players aren’t mentally
prepared.
See A&M Softball, page 14
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