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Friday, February 23,1990
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By ALAN LEHMANN
Of The Battalion Staff
The No. 8 Texas A&M baseball
team will open a six-game road trip
Friday when the it faces Louisiana
Tech. The Aggies will play three
games agaipst Tech and three
against Northeast Louisiana.
Thanks to the contributions of
Steve Hughes, Sean Lawrence and
Kerry Freudenberg, the A
pitching staff has compiled a
team ERA.
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The Aggies (9-0) and Bulldogs (0-
4) will square off in Ruston, La., at 2
p.m. and conclude the series Satur
day with a 1 p.m. doubleheader.
Freudenberg was the pitching star
in A&M’s sweep of Lamar, Tuesday.
After entering the game in the sixth
inning, Freudenberg struck out nine
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— Mark Johnson,
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“This will be tough,” Johnson
said. “It will be a real challenge for
us. I think we need it, because we
need to confront ourselves with that
type of a situation.”
batters and allowed only one hit to
pick up his first win of die season.
Freudenberg said the trip will be
good for the team.
Johnson said that all of the A&M
pitchers will get a chance to pitch on
the trip.
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UTA pickoff try. A&M travels to Louisiana this weekend for a six-game roadtrip.
Sophomore Ronriie Allen (1-0,
1.17 ERA) will pitch for the Aggies
Friday. For Saturday’s twinbill, the
Aggies will send Pat Sweet (2-0, 1.35
ERA.) and Rich Robertson (2-0, 0.64
ERA) to the mound.
“It’s going to be an interesting ex
perience,” Freudenberg said. "This
team has the opportunity to grow a
lot if we do well in Lousiana.
“We did well there two years ago,
but not as well as 1 feel this team can
do. We’re looking forward to it. We
want to bring home some wins."
A&M netters sweep
SWT, ready for Trinity
By CLAY RASMUSSEN
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M men’s tennis
team downed Southwest Texas
State, 7-2, sweeping the Bobcats in
all three doubles matches, Thursday
at Omar Smith Tennis Center.
The win moved A&M’s duel
match record to 4-1. SWT dropped
down to 3-2 on the season.
Senior Shaun O’Donovan, a na
tive of South Africa, continued
wreaking havoc on the court, blow
ing by SWT’s Paul Domanski in
straight sets (6-2, 6-2) in the No. 1
singles. The win pushes O’Dono-
van’s record to 5-0 this spring, 12-6
overall.
A&M tennis coach David Kent
said although the Aggies played well
today, they would nave to be pre
pared for some difficult matches
tommorrow.
The Aggies host No. 25 Trinity.
Match play begins at 1:30.
“Shaun O’Donovan is playing
good at number one,” Kent said.
“He’s playing real good, but he’s
going to nave a tough match tom
morrow against Trinity’s Greg
Tournant.”
Lady Ags travel to Rice
vying for No.3 seed spot
By RICHARD TIJERINA
Of The Battalion Staff
also need a confidence booster. Rice
is a team that cannot be overlooked.
The Texas A&M women’s basket
ball team heads for the road for the
last time this season as it travels to
Rice on Saturday. Tipoff is sched
uled for 5 p.m. at Autry Court.
A&M is 15-9 overall, 7-6 in con
ference. The Owls are 6-18,3-11.
“We have a history of dose con
tests against them.”
“Rice is an extremely important
game for us,” A&M coach Lynn
Hickey said. “We’re in a have-to-win
situation in order to finish where we
want to in the conference race. We
The Lady Aggies have already as
sured themselves of securing a berth
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Houston and TCU, continue to vie
for third place in the league stand
ings behind conference leaders
Texas and Arkansas, who have al
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