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:h 8,1991 -Cullar Sports 5 Friday, March 8,1991 The Battalion Sports Editor Alan Lehmann 845-2688 mgs stave off firing rumors A&M whips Tech dinale By Richard Tijerina The Battalion DALLAS-Freddy Ricks is not re- I ady to start his spring break vacation just yet. Texas A&M’s 57-46 win over I Texas Tech Thrusday night in the first round of the 1 Southwest Conference Post-Season Classic merely extended its dismal season one more day. A&M plays fifth- | ranked Arkansas tonight. “1 don’t want to go on Spring I break yet,” Ricks said. “I don’t want to travel. I want to stay here and play in this basketball tournament for a I while.” The Aggies hotel stay in Dallas [ will last at least one more day. The first halftime trivia ouestion I at Reunion Arena told it all: What was the first number 8 seed to win theSWC post season classic? The an swer: Texas A&M in 1987. That was four years and two head I coaches ago. The Aggies on Thursday seemed determined not to let that last statis tic reach three. Burdened with press clippings forecasting their doom of A&M head coach. Kermit Davis’ Jr. future at the school, the Aggies found themselves in a position strange to them during the 1990 - 91 season: leading a con ference opponent late in the game. But A&M players were not aware of media reports Thursday saying Davis was out as Aggie coach. Davis told the team moments after the game about the reports that he would be fired by next Tuesday at the latest, but he stressed that he was stll their coach, and they would have at least one more game to play. A&M earned its weekend date with Arkansas by holding onto a comfortable lead down the stretch. Timely free throws and pressure de fense allowed thee Aggies to withs tand Tech’s late rally. For once this season, the Aggies did not buckle. Big baseball weekend Aggies host tourney MIKE C. MULVEY/The Battalion A&M’s Rashone Lewis grabs a loose ball during a loss to SMU ear lier in the season. The Aggies beat Texas Tech 57-46 Thursday night in the SWC tourney, and advance to play Arkansas tonight. From Staff and Wire Reports While most students head out of town this weekend, the Aggies will head out to Olsen Field. The Texas A&M baseball team will try to get on track this weekend in the Aggie Continental Classic. The Aggies will try to improve their 14-7 record in a four-day dou ble-elimination tournament begin ning Saturday at 1 p.m. The tournament field will also in clude the University of Washington, Kansas State University, and the University of Illinois. The Aggies’ first game will be against Kansas State at 7 p.m. Satur day. A&M will play a doubleheader on Sunday — against Washington at 5 p.m. and Illinois at 8 p.m. The Aggies will piay Washington again on Monday at 7 p.m. and fin ish the tournament with two games on Tuesday — against Illinois at 5 p.m. and Kansas State at 8 p.m. A&M won the tourney in 1989 and 1990, both years it has been- played. The Aggies are coming off a crushing defeat Wednesday. Lead ing Sam Houston State 4-0 in the ninth inning, A&M fell apart and lost 7-4. The game was the first one of a 17-game homestand. A&M is ranked 16th in the nation by Baseball America and will at tempt to hold that prominence this weekend. Kansas State finished last season second in the Big Eight Conference and return 15 lettermen to this year’s squad. Illinois was picked to win the Big Ten Conference championship this season but is off to a slow start so far. Washington is a member of the Pac-TO Conference and is off to a hot start this season. The Aggies will play the Univer sity of Arizona in a three-game series beginning March 15 at Olsen Field. The teams will face off at 7 p.m. Fri day and Saturday before concluding the series Sunday at 2 p.m. whulte homing in on Lady Ags y first base job rom page 1 vide domi- ed is threat- ce of other i higher ed- es and high nerica and ew, he said, ire interna- nerous. aid, has led — dividing This is not lesirable in n a variety mefit other Gates said, manities is ties of hu- e said. "It our entire to account iquence of American, iddle East- e our stu- e 21st cen- :ulture." By Michelle Bergeron The Battalion Brenham may be famous for Blue lell, but it’s also the hometown of I Texas A&M first baseman Stephanie I Schulte. And the ju- I nior, Commu nity Health major is defi nitely making n name for lierself on the Lady Aggie I softball team. Schulte’s Italent has 0 , (landed her in ^Chulte the top five on two lists in the A&M all-time record books. Her seven triples ranks third for most in a sea son, and she is ranked fourth in ca reer putouts with 615. Not bad for someone who claims she hasn’t always been this good. She said she was practically a walk-on when she came to A&M. “I’ve been playing softball since I was eight years old,” Schulte said. “It was always my dream to play college ball and I wanted it to be for A&M.” Although Schulte’s high school (Brenham Highjdid not have a softball team, she played for the Centex Avengers, an ASA hit divi sion out of Houston. She said her Avenger coach and A&M Head Coach Bob Brock were friends and he encouraged Brock to give her a shot. “Coach Brock is a wonderful coach and he has pretty much made me the player that I am,” she said. “When he picked me up, he told me he didn’t know if I was going to be able to play, but at least he gave me a chance.” The Lady Ags’ senior first base- man, Carrie Heightley, went down with an injury. Schulte, a freshman who had always played either short stop or outfield, was called on to fill in. “My sophomore year, after (Heigntley)graduated, we didn’t have a first baseman, so Coach Brock kept me there,” Schulte said. She said she initially was let down by first base. “I just thought that first base was going to be boring,” she said. “I didn t realize that it saw so much ac tion. I thought that you just put someone there who could catch the ball and who wasn’t that quick. “But, I found out really fast that I was all wrong. You do need someone really quick there, someone who can read the ball off the bat well.” On the flip side, batting is an area that Schulte said she could use im provement. “I think that my stats have been pretty good except for my batting See Schulte/Page 6 T.C.G.R.F. 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