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The Battalion
SPORTS
Tuesday, April 3,1990
No. 16 A&M
hosts SHSU,
eyes Rice series
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
A&M catcher John Wood lays down a successful The Aggies return to Olsen Field tonight when
sacrifice bunt in Saturday’s 7-6 loss to Baylor. they host Sam Houston State University at 7.
By ALAN LEHMANN
Of The Battalion Staff
The No. 16 Texas A&M baseball
team will start a six-game home
stand Tuesday night when they face
Sam Houston State in a 7 p.m. game
at Olsen Field.
The Aggies will be trying to end a
couple of bad streaks. They lost two
of three games to Baylor over the
weekend — the first Southwest Con
ference series that A&M has lost
since 1988.
A&M, now 31-9 on the season and
4-2 in SWC play, had a 12-game win
ning streak snapped in Saturday’s
loss.
The Aggies will also be trying to
start another winning streak over
Sam Houston. The Bearkats beat the
Aggies 4-3 March 7 in Huntsville.
“Its going to be tough to beat Sam
Houston,” said Assistant Coach Bill
Hickey. “They beat us in Huntsville
and know that they can play with
us.”
Still, Hickey said that the Aggies
would play better at Olsen Field than
they have on the road. A&M is 4-7
on the road.
“We’ve got a young club,” Hickey
said, “and young clubs seem to have
more trouble hitting on the road.
We feel comfortable hitting here,
that’s why we’ve done so well.”
A&M beat Sam Houston 4-2 Feb.
13 in Huntsville on the strength of a
Chad Broussard home run. The
three-run shot down the left field
line was Broussard’s first homer of
the season.
The Aggies will send Jason Bul
lard to the mound Tuesday. The ju
nior righthander is 2-0 on the season
with a 2.83 earned run average.
Bullard’s last win was a 9-0 deci
sion over St. John’s March 13. The
victory gave the Aggies the
championship in the Aggie-Conti
nental tournament at Olsen Field.
The Aggies will be led at the plate
by designated hitter David Rollen.
The junior is hitting .314 and leads
the team with 12 doubles.
A&M returns to conference play
this weekend when it hosts the Rice
Owls. The three-game set will consist
of a single game Friday at 7 p.m. and
a doubleheader Saturday at 2 p.m.
Despite losing to Baylor, A&M did
have some bright spots this week
end.
Lefthander Rich Robertson shut
out the Bears 2-0 in Sunday’s First
game, to improve to 7-0 on the sea
son. The junior struck out nine bat
ters in the seven inning contest, and
raised his strikeout total to 76 in only
58 innings.
Catcher John Wood had the
game-winning RBI in that game, his
first game-winnner of the season.
Wood lined a double down the left
field line to score Chad Broussard
from first base.
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ultimate Rebel won its biggest prize.
UNLV ended the tournament of
thrills and close finishes with the
largest margin of victory in a
championship game, a 103-73 win
over Duke on Monday night.
Jerry Tarkanian, the coach who
fought the NCAA in the courts for
the past 15 years, guided UNLV to
its first national title and Duke con
tinued as the school with the most
frustrating of postseason records.
The Runnin’ Rebels became the
first team to score more than 100
points in the championship game.
They are also the first preseason No.
1 to win the title sjnee North Caro
lina in 1982 and the first Western
team since UCLA won in 1975.
They did it with the style they
have made famous — tenacious
man-to-man defense — as they rat
tled Duke, a team known for its
savvy and poise.
The Rebels literally stole the title
from Duke, which was making its
eighth Final Four appearance. The
Blue Devils went home again with
out a trophy, extending the longest
streak of national semifinal futility.
UNLV broke the tournament re
cord for steals in a game with 16,
eclipsing the mark set by Duke in the
1986 championship game and
matched by Oklahoma in the 1988
title game.
The Runnin’ Rebels also set a re
cord for most points scored in a
tournament with 571, just better
than their regular-season average of
92.3.
Until Monday night, the largest
margin of victory in a championship
game was 23 points, when UCLA
beat North Carolina 78-55 in 1968.
For Tarkanian, the man who sits
on the bench looking as though it
pains him to watch his team win, get
ting the trophy capped a long battle
with the NCAA, which ordered the
school to suspend him for violations.
He went to court for an injunction
and the case eventually reached the
Supreme Court, which ruled in fa
vor of the NCAA.
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nin’ Rebels on Monday night.
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just 7:26 into the game as the
forced Duke into turnover
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the ball.
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game, and never trailed.
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halftime and 10 of those were
steals by the Rebels.
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took the ball from Phil Hendei
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dunk. That made it 21-11.
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47-35 halftime lead.
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