The Battalion
SPORTS
Wednesday, May 23,1990
Sports Editor
Clay Rasmussen
Two great teams,
two great sports,
two bad endings
It’s the end of May and
the Texas A&M baseball team
and the Los Angeles Lakers find
they have something in common.
The Lakers are at home in L. A.
after being knocked out of the
NBA playoffs by Phoenix and the
Aggies find themselves idle in
College Station.
The Aggies, who dropped five
of their final six games, went
from being a contender for the
Southwest Conference baseball
title to failing to receive a spot in
the SWC’s tournament.
You have to go back to head
coach Mark Johnson’s first year
at A&M’s to find a season that
the Aggies failed to make a trip to
the National Collegiaite Athletic
Association’s regional baseball
tournament.
In 1985,Johnson led the
Aggies to a 39-16 record (12-9 in
SWC play) as the A&M failed to
return not only to the regionals,
but didn’t receive a spot in the
SWC tournament.
Johnson’s Aggies built on their
first-year disappointment —
establishing what many believed
would be a dynasty to equal Cliff
Gustaffson’s Texas Longhorns.
During the course of the next four
seasons, A&M gained four berths
in the SWC tournament and
received four bids to the NCAA’s
regional tourney.
Johnson’s success story at
A&M culminated last year when
the Aggies went 58-7, were
ranked No. 1 for 11 weeks in
Baseball America’s Poll. A&M
was one win away from a trip to
Omaha and a shot at the
Collegiate World Series.
1990 may have been a
disappointment for Johnson, but
you can bet he won’t dwell on the
Aggies failure, but look for a way
to recapture the magic that A&M
baseball held in 1989.
Robertson named
baseball team’s MVP
From Staff and Wire Reports
The Texas A&M baseball team
finished its regular season play and
named left-handed pitcher Rich
Robertson as the Marion Pugh Most
Valuable Player as well as the C.E.
“Pat” Olsen Outstanding Pitcher for
the 1990 season.
The 6-4, 168-pound junior from
Waller finished the season with a 10-
1 record and a 1.77 earned run aver
age — the lowest ERA in the South
west Conference.
Robertson threw 106 strikeouts in
99.1 innings for the third-most in a
single season in A&M history.
“Without question. Rich Rob
ertson was the MVP of this team,”
said A&M head coach Mark John
son. “He had a truly outstanding
season for us. He gave us a chance to
win every time he crossed the line.”
Robertson started in 13 of the 15
games in which he played and was
second on the team with seven com
plete games with three complete-
game shutouts. Robertson also had
one save on the year.
He was earlier named as the sole
A&M representative on The Asso
ciated Press All-Southwest Confer
ence and United Press International
baseball teams.
Rightfielder Brian Thomas re
ceived the Wally Moon Award for
the team’s most improved player.
Thomas, a freshman from Ore
gon who was expected to be
redshirted this year, was inserted
into the lineup to add some offense
to the team. He quickly built a .290
batting average and saw defensive
action when rightfielder Dan Robin
son was injured in mid-March and
Thomas was put in as a replacement.
The Marion Pugh Spirit Award
was awarded to junior David Rollen
who led the Aggies with a .297 bat
ting average, tied for the lead with
eight homeruns and was second with
37 RBI.
The Spirit Award is given to the
member of the team who is a tough
competitor, working hard every day
of the season.
A&M finished the season with a
43-17 record, the fifth-best record in
the school’s history.
Opportunity knocks for Odie
Aggie netter awarded spot
in NCAA championships
From Staff and Wire Reports
Texas A&M tennis team member
Shaun O’Donovan received a berth
for the 1990 National Collegiate
Athletic Association Men’s Tennis
Championship held this week in In
dian Wells, California.
O’Donovan faces Bryan Jones, a
sophomore at North Carolina, in the
first round of singles competition
May 23.
While O’Donovan is ranked 68th
in the Volvo/Intercollegiate Tennis
Coaches Association poll, his oppo
nent Jones is ranked 52nd.
“Jones is a solid baseline hitter
and tough first-round opponent,”
said assistant coach Tim Drain.
As the first Aggie selected to the
men’s competition since Kimmo Al-
kio in 1985, O’Donovan is one of
seven players selected, from the
Southwest Conference in a tourna
ment field of 64.
A&M head coach David Kent said
he is optimistic about O’Donovan’s
abilities.
“This is a real opportunity for
Shaun. I think he can do well out
there.
“He has the ability to raise his
level of play.”
O’Donovan, a 5-8, 150-pound se
nior from Pietermaritzburg, South
Africa gathered a 17-7 spring record
and received All-SWC honors as the
Aggies’ No. 1 player. He helped the
A&M men’s team finish the season
with a 18-7 dual match record.
During the regular season, O’Do
novan hit two hot streaks, winning
seven in a row for a 7-0 dual match
record and winning another six to
change a shaky 17-9 record into a
solid 23-9.
O’Donovan has defeated many
ranked opponents including No. 16
David Kass of Michigan and No. 21
Luis Ruette of Texas Christian.
On May 9, the Volvo/ITCA
named O’Donovan as the recipiant
of the Region VI Head Arthur Ashe
Sportsmanship Award, making him
eligible for national honors.
Homestead Savings Moves
to Shiloh Center May 29
Homestead Savings Association of
College Station moves to new, ex
panded facilities at 2553 South Texas
Avenue, effective Tuesday, May 29,
President William F. Phillips Jr. an
nounced.
The Shiloh Shopping Center which
Homestead will anchor, will he re
named “Homestead Place,” Phillips
added. “This move will triple the floor
space for our headquarters, expand
our inside tellers from 3 to 6, increase
our drive-in lanes from 2 to 3 and
provide more seating for customers
and more parking for cars.”
The local banker noted that Home
stead has known for some time that the
building it has occupied since forma
tion in 1977 was too small.
“Our customer base continues to in
crease and our services have expanded.
But we are committed to move very
slowly to incur debt. That policy al
lows us to make profits while some in
stitutions with more elaborate facili
ties posted losses. We have waited for
an opportune time to make a move and
the Shiloh deal fell into our lap. Our
customers have been more than pa
tient while we addressed the need for
larger quarters. We think our move
will make a positive statement about
the thrift industry in the community.
Our new offices are highly visable,
right in the heart of College Station
and convenient for our customers. We
are very excited about the benefits this
move will mean to our customers.”
Homestead is College Station’s only
locally-owned savings and loan asso
ciation. Phillips helped form the insti
tution and is the only president to
direct the 12-year-old banking busi
ness.
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Photo by Jay Janmi
University of Houston’s Leroy Burrell celebrates
as he finishes the 200 meter dash in 19.61 sec
onds, the world’s fastest time under a)) condi
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ACC, Pac-10 dominate field of
NCAA regional baseball hopefuls
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Atlantic Coast Conference and the
Pac-10 South dominate a field of 48
teams vying for the NCAA Division I
baseball tournament championship.
The only ACC
team chosen as a
top seed was
North Carolina,
while the Pac-10
had Stanford and
Arizona State se
lected as No. 1
teams in the eight-
regional, double
elimination tour
nament.
“Those conferences had such out
standing selections and well-de
served selections,” said Gene McAr-
tor, chairman of the NCAA Baseball
Committee.
The pairings were announced
Monday.
Conference winners got 26 auto
matic bids to the regional tourna
ments, which will be played May 24-
28. Each regional will send its cham
pion to the College World Series to
be played at RosebJatt Stadium in
Omaha, Neb., June 1-9.
The eight top seeds with region
are: North Carolina, Northeast; Mi
ami, Fla., Atlantic; Louisiana State,
South I; Florida State, South II; Ar
kansas, Midwest; Texas, Central;
Stanford, West I; and Arizona State,
West II.
Top-ranked Stanford (52-10) will
face Campbell (15-31), champions of
the Big South Conference, in a first-
round game at Stanford.
Defending champion and 13th-
ranked Wichita State (44-17) will
meet Georgia Southern (46-16) in
the Midwest Regional in Wichita.
The ACC teams selected were
12th-ranked and top-seeded North
Carolina (49-12), which goes against
No. 6 Rutgers (33-17) at Waterbury,
Conn.; No. 2 Clemson (42-20),
which plays No. 5 Creighton (46-20)
in the Central regional at Austin,
Texas; No. 4 Georgia Tech (46-23),
which goes against No. 3 Hoys
(41-21) in the South I regional at BrEf 1 1
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No. 5 Citadel (40-12) in the Atlantin
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10 South teams chosen were seconcl
ranked and top-seeded Arizoul
State (49-14), which goes against
6 Pennsylvania (22-15) in the Westli
regionals at Tempe, Ariz.; No ;
Southern Cal (37-20), which plat
No. 5 Southern Mississippi (41-2!
in the South I; and No. 4 UCLA(31
24), which plays No. 3 South Ala
bama (41-18) in the Midwest region-
als.
“We looked at the regular-seast
performance as well as the conftt
ence in making the decision,” McAt
tor said. “The committee looksattk
total picture and tries to accommo
date geographies.”
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