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Last year’s stars
Former Aggies
return to Olsen
and get in shape
By RICHARD TIJERINA
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M’s baseball practices
have seen some familiar faces in re
cent weeks.
Even as the 1990 season begins
Friday, 11 former Aggie players
have returned to Olsen Field to start
g etting in shape for professional
aseball’s spring training, which
starts in a few weeks.
Eight of the 11 players were from
last year’s 58-7 A&M team, including
outfielder Kirk Thompson, second
baseman Terry Taylor, shortstop
Chuck Knoblauch, third baseman
John Byington, first baseman Mike
Easley, and pitchers Anthony DeLa-
Cruz, Tim Hermann and Keith Lan-
spnng
gston.
Also coming back were third base-
man Scott Livingstone and pitchers
Rob Swain and Sherman Corbett.
All have been drafted by profes
sional teams, and still are trying to
break into the major leagues.
However, Knoblauch has been in
vited to the Minnesota Twins’ major
league spring training, and Liv
ingston has been invited to the De
troit Tigers’ spring training. Both
will have the chance to break into the
majors this season.
The only thing preventing Knob
lauch and Livingstone the chance of
breaking into the majors, Cannon
said, is the ongoing possibility that
owners will hold a lookout of sprii
training next week.
Owners have said they will not
start spring training as scheduled
next Tnursday unless players agree
to an outline for revenue sharing.
Both sides met earlier this week, but
failed to come up with a compromise
for the 28th time.
Talks between the two sides have
been scheduled to resume next
week.
Albright, Hermann and Langston
all were taken by the Tigers. Bying
ton was selected by the Milwaukee
Brewers, DeLaCruz and Easley by
the Cleveland Indians, Duke by the
Cincinnati Reds, Centala and
Thompson by the Kansas City Roy
als and Taylor by the California An-
gels.
“We were joking around the other
day that we might as well have an
All-Star alumni game,” A&M sports
information director Alan Cannon
said. “They’ve beep working off and
on at Olsen, trying to get back into
Photo by Jay Janner
Former AII-SWC Aggie shortstop Chuck Knoblauch, now
with the Minnesota Twins, works out Tuesday at Olsen
Field. Several former players have returned to get in shape.
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players that have returned live in
Texas, and chose to come back to Ol
sen Field because of its superior fa
cilities.
“They help each other out,” Can
non said. “And Coach Johnson
really is pulling for all ot them
Their being here goes both wan
too. T hey get to use the great facili
ties and practice with a great pro
gram, but they also rub off on tht
younger guys still on the team.
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Thornton: ‘We have to be more consistent’
Ags, Mustangs meet in Dallas in SWC matchup
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By CLAY RASMUSSEN
Of The Battalion Staff
situation. In the SMU-Rice game,
Lewis hit a 20-foot jump shot with 17
ttu
Look at Southern Methodist bas
ketball and you might see a hint of
the trouble Texas A&M is experi
encing.
The Aggies and Mustangs clash
Saturday night at Moody Coliseum
in Dallas. Tipoff is scheduled for
7:30 p.m.
re game into
Both teams are suffering from of
fensive inconsistency. After Wednes
day’s 72-67 loss to fourth place
Texas Christian, A&M head coach
John Thornton said that although
his defense has been nothing short
of spectacular, the Aggies offense
has done nothing more than sputter.
He said SMU is suffering the
same types of offensive problems.
“Like us, SMU has a little bit of a
problem with their consistent guard
play,” Thornton said. “They have at
times gotten great plays from a
freshman named Gerald Lewis, who
shot well down here, but wasn’t able
to do anything against TCU.”
After a promising performance in
the league’s first half of play, Lewis
has been in a shooting slump.
He scored only three points
against Baylor, and recorded only
two against TCU.
Still, he is dependable in a clutch
seconds left to send
overtime.
However, Thornton said the Ag
gies will have to be more concerned
with the Mustangs’ center, John Col-
borne.
“They count on Colborne big
time,” Thornton said. “He’s more
like a power forward playing around
the basket, but he can always shoot
the three pointer. He’s a very solid
inside player.”
Colborne leads SMU in scoring
average with 17.4 points a game.
But even Colborne had to battle
back from the worst slump of his
season. Defenses consistently shut
Colbornedown from the inside, lim
iting him to only 27 total points in
the last three games.
Colborne finally was able to break
inside against Baylor, scoring a sea
son high 24 points.
Thornton’s Aggies also are suffer
ing from a lack of production on the
offensive side of the court.
Although pleased with his de
fense, Thornton said A&M can’t win
with just it alone.
“We as a group have to be consis
tent on both ends of the floor,”
Thornton said. “The other night
(against TCU) we had a great de
fensive effort, but then we’d come
down and turn the ball over on (he
transition.”
Senior guard Tony Milton, who
scored 24 points against TCU, con
tinues to lead A&M and provides
most of their output.
In order to beat SMU, Thornton
said A&M needs to acheive the fol
lowing goals:
• Control the ball — against
TCU, the Aggies 16 turnovers.
• Force SMU’s offense to rush its
shots — if allowed to set up their of
fense, the Mustangs rarely turn the
ball over.
• Get the forwards inside and re
bound — A&M hasn’t been able to
pull down the offensive rebouds,
and are missing out on second and
third shooting opportunities.
Thornton said he hopes to
achieve these goals by placing some
new faces in the Aggies starting
lineup.
“We might shake up the lineupa
little,” Thornton said. “I want to
look at some other peopl
see if I can get any play out of them
A&M is 11-13 overall and 4-6in
Southwest Conference action. SMI
is in eighth place in the conference
with a 7-13 record, 2-7 in SWC play
The Mustangs are coming off a 63-
49 loss at the hands of Notre Dame
Thursday.
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Lady Ags tie for third
By VINCE SNYDER
Of The Battalion Staff
After defeating Texas Chris
tian University on Tuesday, the
Texas A&M women’s basketball
team moved into a three-way tie
with two other teams for third
place in the Southwest Confer
ence.
Now they take that third-place
ranking on the road.
The Lady Aggie* travel north
to play Southern Methodist Sat
urday at Moody Coliseum.
Tipoff is set for 3:30.
With a 84-70 win over the Lady
Horned Frogs at G. Rollie White,
A&M has inched its way closer to
the top of the SWC standings.
“It was a very important win
for us, and we were able to pro
tect our home court advantage,”
A&M Head Coach Lynn Hickey
said. “TCU has a fine, fine team,
and I wouldn’t look forward to
having to play them again.”
A 12-2 run in the first half of
Tuesday’s game helped the Lady
Aggies pull away from TCU and
go on to post a 35-27 lead at half
time.
TCU cut A&M’s lead to two
points, 45-43, midway through
the second period. But the Lady
Aggies responded with another
run, this time outscoring the
Lady Frogs by a 16-6 count on
their way to a final 14-point mar
gin of victory.
The Lady Aggies are tied with
nd Te
both TCU and Texas Tech, with
all three teams sporting a 6-4
league record.
However, SMU has not been so
lucky.The Mustangs lost to TCU
,71-53, last Saturday in Fort
Worth. With that loss the Mus
tangs fell to 2-15 overall and 1-9
in the SWC.
“We’ve gone there lots of years
See Lady Ags/Page 9
Jordan aiming
for 3-point
title Saturday
MIAMI (AP) — Michael Jordan
winner of two All-Star slam-dunkti'
ties, will shoot for three Saturday
night.
Not three titles, but three points.
The acrobatic Jordan decided t»
skip the slam-dunk contest and entet
the 3-point shootout for the firs|
time. The two events will be part
All-Star Weekend at Miami Arena
“I made the decision for the go
of the team and myself,” the Chicago
Bulls’ star said. “It’s very exhaustin!
being out there and dunking and
competing. It takes its toll, and Iff
going to try to save something fo 1
the second half of the season.”
Jordan’s concern with the slain
dunk competition wasn’t so mud
the height of the rim as the height of
fan expectations. He has discovered
that Michael Jordan is a tough actff
follow.