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By VINCE SNYDER
Of The Battalion Staff
The Lady Aggies softball team
will begin play today in Fullerton,
Calif., hoping to continue their suc
cess in the 1990 season, as they com
pete in the 11th annual 16-team
Pony Invitational, hosted by Cal
State Fullerton.
Competition begins today with
pool play and will continue Thurs
day and Friday. Bracket play begins
Friday evening with the
championship game set for Sunday
at 2 p.m.
A&M enters this weeks play with a
25-7 overall record, and has won 18
of its last 20 games.
“Right now, the team is ahead of
where I thought they would be at
this point in the season,” A&M coach
Bob Brock said. “If we do well in
California, I think we can begin
looking realistically at reaching our
goal of receiving an NCAA bid.”
The Lady Aggies won back-to-
back tournaments within the last two
weeks, including their own Aggie In
vitational II. A&M won the Houston
Classic last week and their own tour
nament the week before.
The Houston Classic tournament
started out roughly for the Lady Ag
gies, as the team had to forfeit their
opening game to Temple after
Brock was ejected from the game.
1 lowever, A&M came back tow.
straight, including a 5-1 victory
South Carolina in the champion!
game.
The Lady Aggies had six pb
hit above .300 while the teara
.309 for the tournamnet. Senior
nee Blaha and Freshman At
H ughes averaged .500 at the
while Freshman Missy Young
the Lady Aggies’ ace on the
notching four wins, picking up:I
saves and striking out 30 batters ®
The Lady Aggies will finish
the month by hosting a di
header against Kent State at
Aggie Softball Field, and will
travel to Huntsville.
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Aggies
(Continued from page 9)
knew we were going to throw five
pitchers. They got the work in and
got ready for conference.”
The Aggies open conference play
Friday night when they host the
Texas Tech Red Raiders in a 7 p.m.
game at Olsen Field. The teams will
wrap up the weekend series with a 2
p.m. doubleheader Saturday.
In the first game of Tuesday’s
doubleheader, A&M used good per
formances by both pitchers to hold
off Southwestern until the Aggies
could put the game away in the sixth
inning.
Gilbert allowed only two hits and
two walks in four innings. He gave
up the only run in the third, when
the Aggies already led 2-0.
With two outs, Pirate second base-
man Michael Peck rocketed a triple
off the wall in center field. Pitcher
Don Childs followed with a line shot
off the right field wall that scored
Peck. Childs was thrown out on the
play as he trotted to second base, ap
parently thinking the ball had
cleared the fence.
Hughes came on in the fifth and
shut the Pirates out the rest of the
way. He scattered three hits and
chalked two strike outs in three in
nings of relief. Hughes picked up his
first save of the season, while Gilbert
evened his record to 3-3.
The Aggies gave Hughes some
breathing room in the sixth inning,
their last at-bat in the seven-inning
opener. They scored three runs on
four hits.
Thomas started the inning with a
single that bounced off the first base
bag and into the air. Williams
I
knocked him home with a triple
the right-center field gap.
Rouen followed with a RBI sinj
and advanced to second on|
groundout. First baseman
Pyle singled him home to cap j
scoring.
The game was an example!
1990 Aggie-ball at its finest: siel
pitching and clutch hitting. The f
gies bunched seven of their ej
hits into the two innings in km
they scored.
Johnson said that he was taj
with his team’s hitting.
g e
with men on base,” Johnson said
was pleased that we put double:
tires in the hit column in theseci
game, too.’
Holt said that the Aggieshavej
proved at the plate.
Snyder
(Continued from page 9)
order to advance to the Final 16.
It dosen’t really matter how great
you play during the regular season.
All it takes is a little hope and
determination to win a NCAA
Championship.
If you don’t believe me, just ask
North Carolina.
They defeated No. 1 Oklahoma
with a last second, gut-wrenching
shot to advance toward the
championship game. OU was
expected to be one of the final two
teams, and out of nowhere their
championship dream became a
nightmare. You think those boys
from Carolina weren’t destined to
prove everyone wrong when people
said, “Carolina over Oklahoma ... no
way, dude!”
And how about the little school
from the West coast whose motto is
not “Let’s win one for the Gipper”,
but a different version entitled “Let’s
win one for Hank”.
Loyola Marymount suffered a
great loss when one of their star
players, Hank Gathers, collapsed
during a conference tournament
game and later died due to a heart
condition. Many people thought the
team couldn’t make it without him,
and they wouldn’t have a chance in
the NCAA Tournament.
Wrong.
It only seemed to bring the team
closer together and prove that they
were true contenders for the title of
champions.
This team gets my vote for "Till
Determined To Win No Matterhf
We Play” Award. If you ask me,I
think they’ll make it to the Final
Four ... and hopefully further.
Afterall, they did prove
themselves by beating No. 3 seed
Michigan, last year’s NCAA
champions, by a margin of 34|
Sorry about that, Coach Fisher |
You already had your dream
season by winning last year. It’s [in
to step aside and let some other
“wing and a prayer” team takeaslj
at No. I.
So once again, this March
Madness has proven to beadmefi
college teams to show whatthey'itl
made of. Even if they are ranked!
the bottom of the pile.
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