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OVERSEAS DAY Discover International Opportunities March 5 10am - 2pm 1 st Floor MSC Study Abroad Office 101 Academic 845-0544 MSC Travel Committee 216 MSC f 845-1515 ^ AVE] COPY CENTER Hours: M-Th. 8-8 Fri. 8-5 Sat. 10-4 707 Texas Ave. S. 693-COPY Page 10/The Battalion/Friday, February 28, 1986 National By CHAREAN WILLIAMS Assistant Spoi ls Editor For the first time in seven rears, the Texas A&M softball team enters a new season trying to prove itself . Despite f inishing ’85 with a 45-12 record and No. 2 national ranking, A&M lost to Louisiana Tech in the NCAA regionals and failed to earn its seventh straight trip to the Col lege World Sc- Softball "We have a lot to prove to ourselves (this sea son)." A&M second baseman Jndy I russell said. “Maybe we set our goals too high last vear.” A&M, which has won two national championships in the last five years, will begin its ’86 campaign today w hen it hosts Mississippi State in the first game of the Bayou Classic in Houma, La. “We’re back at zero,” A&M Coach Bob Brock. “I don’t feel like we ac complished anything last season. No one cares that we were 45-12. We didn’t go to the World Series when we had the team to win it. “It left us with a sour taste in our mouths and humbled us a little. We’ll take them one game at a time this year.” 1 he Aggies, who are ranked fourth in the preseason poll, return title in reach of No. seven starters including three All- Americans. Last year, Trussell led the nation in fielding percentage at .991 and hit .313 to earn All-America honors. “Judy looks real good as usual,” Brock said. “She has one of the best fielding touches in the nation.” Third baseman Cindy Cooper hit .318 last season and was named to the All-America team for the second straight time. Pitcher Shawn An- daya, also a two-time All-America se lection, had a .258 ERA with 267 strikeouts. “Shawn’s more of our power pitcher,” Brock said. “She can just overpower people.” The Aggies lost two All-Ameri cans—catcher Clay McNutt and out fielder Josie Carter — a> well as pitcher Yvette Lopez and outfielder Iva Jackson. That’s where the Aggies’ “new look” comes in. Freshmen Julie Carpenter, Carrie Heightly and Erin Newkirk, and sophomores Zina Ochoa and Karen Athanacio will play a big part for the Ags in ’86. “We have a younger team than in the past," Brock said. “ 1 hey*vc looked real good. 1 hey just need some experience, which will come over time.” Carpenter, irom Huntington Beach, Calif., will Ik* the other half of the Aggies' pitching rotation. 4 A&M “(Carpenter) lias one of [he hangeups around,” Brod We took away her curve Wj reestablished an old pitch-httij Heightly, from Bethany, Oil will replace McNutt behind; plate. “(I leightly) lias some bigste fill,” Brock said. "With someetfu ern e, she should lie oneoftheis t aii hers in the nation." Fhe Aggies will get somem needed speed from Newkirk,t) w ill backup senior findv f$ ( .270), senior Deb Rollman i. and ()i boa (.237) in the outfield I he power hitting will besupi mainh hv sophomore shonsto; Mi/er.t (.371), who led thenaiK home ■ tins w ith 18. "W hat more can you sayi Li/?’’ Brock said. "1 doni: thete s any wav sliecanimprm i ause she’s so good right now.' C iooper and first baseman Si hwind (.350. 24 RBls) will knot k their share of longbalh Athanacio (.410), a leftha •moved trom ate on first ba •i' thing is pretty so Andaya said. “And oi the tight place. Wet®! In national champiomiJ .U \ sec Twelfth Man team hopefuls engaged in tryout stages By HOMER JACOBS Reporter Jerry Cribble, a sophomore from Richardson, never played football in high school, and realizes he lacks speed and size. Cribble also knows that, come next football - 1 " 1 ■" ■" " —— season, he’ll Football probably be watching from a seat at Kyle Field rather than playing on Kyle Field as a member of Texas A&M’s Twelfth Man kickoff team. But he, along with 195 other Ag gies, is still determined to try out for the Twelfth Man team anyway. “Even if you don’t make it, you’re part of the process,” Cribble said. The “process” of forming the 1986 Twelfth Man team began last Thursday and has continued throughout this week. Twelfth Man Coach Roy Kokemoor said the team’s first cut will be today. The field will be narrowed to 40, based on the individual’s size and speed. This week’s tryouts have in cluded a series of 40-yard dashes and various agility drills. Full contact drills and actual kick off coverage practice only occurs when spring training begins in April. Sam Williams, a freshman from Georgetown, said he wishes there were tackling drills in the prelimi nary tryouts. “I love contact,” Williams said. “I want to show (the coaches) I can hit.” Cribble said a dinner with former students gave him the inspiration to tryout for the team. His dinner hosts were members of the 1922 Aggies, who inaugurated the tradition of the Twelfth Man by calling upon E. King Gill to leave the stands and suit up as a reserve for the injury- plagued team. Kokemoor said the Cotton Bowl victory and the national exposure the Twelfth Man team received last season also had a lot to do with the large turnout of students. Unfortunately, the large number of Twelfth Man hopefuls will be vy ing for a limited number of spaces. Eighteen members of the ’85 team return, including 7 starters. Photo b\DEA\m^ A&M Coach Roy Kokemoor (right) times candidates for the Twelfc Man kickoff team in the 40-yard dash during this week’s tryouts. IMIS Benetton Post Oak Mall 65-75% off Entire Store 'to it. men Sc Roi EPO A Sesquicentennial Presentation Monday, 3 March 1986 7 30 p.m. Rudder Theatre Free Admission MORE Stats, Power! IMPROVED File Handling, Reporting! The Enhanced and Expanded Statistical Package for IBM PC/XT/AT’s SPSS/PC+ ADVANCED STATISTICS SPSS/PC+. combined with SPSS/PC * Advanced Statistics' and SPSS/PC+ Tables. - form THE most comprehensive statistical software available for a microcomputer. 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