Wednesday, May 29,
1991
Sports
||| The Battalion
5
A season of
greatness
Jayme Blaschke
Sports Editor
Every day, goals are set. Some
times these goals are set low, so the
barest effort means victory. Other
times, the goals are set so high frus
tration is the only result.
The most noble goals often seem
just beyond our reach, where only
the greatest effort results in success.
When we near these goals, many
times, despite our better judgement,
we believe we have already won.
If we fall short, the pain is unbea
rable. We feel robbed and cheated,
but mostly we blame ourselves for
failure.
Nowhere is there more hurt today
than Texas A&M.
One of our greatest goals we have
set over the years is to win a berth in
the College World Series for the first
time since 1964. Each year we want
it a little more, and each time we
don't go, it hurts all the more.
In 1987 we had an opportunity to
make it. In 1988 we should have
made it. In 1989 the best team in the
nation was robbed blind, and their
successors in 1990 were rudely
snubbed.
A&M is not going to Omaha this
year either.
It's easy to be bitter, but I won't
be. There's too much to be thankful
for.
This past year saw the Aggies go
from last place in conference play to
first in only two weeks, one of the
most incredible turnarounds in
school history.
It saw Mark Johnson pass up an
opportunity to take over the legend
ary Mississippi State baseball pro
gram to remain an Aggie.
It saw A&M host the last South
west Conference baseball Tourna
ment, and gain a #2 seeding in the
NCAA South Regional Tournament.
For the sixth straight year the Ag
gies recorded more than 40 wins in a
season, and were nationally ranked
for 14 weeks.
And finally - one goal seemingly
too high even to dream of - the
sweep of t.u., where I managed to
break my heel during the frenzied
celebration afterwards.
Farewell to the seniors, and my
thanks to the rest of the team. Con
gratulations for one hell of a season.
The 1990-91 Texas A&M baseball team finished their season with an impressive 44-23 record. They were defeated Monday by the LSU
Tigers and were eliminated from the rain-soaked NCAA South Regional tournament Tuesday afternoon by the USL Ragin’ Cajuns.
Louisiana curse strikes
By Jaym
The B
e Blaschke
The Battalion
Louisiana schools continued their
trend of being the bane of A&M as
Southwest Louisiana defeated A&M
13-10 Tuesday afternoon, eliminating
the Aggies from the NCAA South Re
gional Baseball Tournament.
The Aggies, who thrashed the Ra
gin' Cajuns 16-4 in their first meeting
Friday while pounding out 21 hits,
could not take advantage of scoring op
portunities, stranding eight runners on
base.
USL jumped on A&M's pitchers
early, scoring six runs in the first in
ning, from which the Aggies never
fully recovered. Jason Hutchins,
A&M's starting pitcher, walked the
first three batters before giving up
grand slam to designated hitter Andy
Fox. Hutchins wa$ relieved by Trey
Witte, who walked three and gave up
four more runs on two hits before be
ing relieved himself by Brian Harrison,
who lasted until the middle of the fifth,
when he was replaced by Jason Bullard
after giving up four runs on seven hits.
The Aggie's best chance to take the
lead came in the botton of the third,
where the bats came alive, knocking in
five runs to make the score 7-8, A&M
trailing by only one, but that was as
close as they would get.
After USL scored four more runs in
the fifth, Conrad Colby looked to get
the Aggies back into the game by send
ing a solo shot over the left field fence.
A&M was only able to score one more
run though, after putting three men in
scoring position.
The Aggies threatened again in the
eighth, with Sittichoke Huckuntod
scoring off a Mike Hickey double to
right field, but with the bases loaded
with only one out, could not produce
as Dan Robinson struck out and Chad
Broussard grounded out to shortstop.
Rain fell on the soggy field of LSU's
Alex Box Stadium nearly every day,
cooling off the A&M bats that had been
red hot at the start of the tournament.
The Aggie's powerful offensive at
tack ended Monday against LSU,
where the A&M hitters were shut
down by Tiger pitcher Mike Sirotka,
managing just one run on eight hits in
the 1-7 loss.
Kelly Wunsch started for the Aggies,
allowing only two runs through the
fifth inning. In the sixth, however,
LSU broke the game open with four
runs, and A&M never threatened after
that.
"Our offense wasn't as good as it has
been for the last two games, and Si
rotka had a lot to do with that," A&M
coach Mark Johnson said. "I was
pleased with Kelly Wunsch. I thought
he kept us in the game and gave us a
chance."
The Aggie's poor hitting in their final
two games was in stark contrast to
their first two.
After beating USL 16-4 Friday night,
the Aggie bats erupted for 19 hits in a
12-0 shutout of the University of South
Alabama Sunday, after rain forced the
contest to be moved from Saturday.
During each of the Friday and Sun
day games, every starter got a hit, as
did most of the substitutes that were
sent in late in the game.
The Aggies looked very different
from the team that went 1-2 in the final
Southwest Conference Baseball Tour
nament, losing to Texas 4-5 and being
eliminated by TCU 2-4. Through the
two games, A&M managed only 12
hits.
The lone bright spot for the Aggies
came in their 9-2 thumping of Baylor,
who had swept A&M during the regu
lar season. Both TCU and Texas had
been swept by A&M in conference
play, but Johnson said revenge wasn't
a factor in the games.
"Revenge doesn't enter into it -
sometimes you win, sometimes you lo
se," he said. "This doesn't change
what happened then. When you play
this game long enough you start to un
derstand that."
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ARLINGTON (AP) — Nolan Ryan is
scheduled to start Wednesday night
against the Minnesota Twins after
spending 15 days on the disabled list
because of problems with his right
shoulder.
Ryan took himself out in the fifth in
ning of the Texas Rangers' May 13
game against Detroit, despite a 2-0 lead
and giving up only one hit. He then
traveled California to visit longtime
friend and California Angels orthope
dic specialist Dr. Lewis Yocum.
He was given a magnetic resonance
imaging test, which revealed an irrita
tion in the trapezius muscle and tendi
nitis in the right shoulder. The prob
lem was not considered serious, but
rest was recommended before Ryan
threw again.
Ryan, 3-3 with a 2.94 ERA in seven
starts, will start against the Twins' Jack
Morris. Before going on the disabled
list, Ryan led the American League
with 63 strikeouts.
The major league's all-time strikeout
leader with 5,371, Ryan threw his sev
enth no-hitter May 1 against the To
ronto Blue Jays in Arlington Stadium.
The Rangers beat the Twins 11-4
Monday night to extend their winning
streak to a team-record 14 games.
Texas is five more victories away from
tying the American League record of
19, last accomplished by the 1947 New
York Yankees.
While Ryan is back in the rotation,
starter Scott Chiamparino was placed
on the disabled list with tendinitis in
his elbow and Bobby Witt is expected
to go on the DL on Wednesday.
Witt has been suffering tendinitis in
his right shoulder and is pessimistic
about his injury.
"I've pitched with pain before, but
not like this," Witt said. "I know some T
thing's not right. The shoulder, the
front side and the back side, was the
worst it has ever felt a day after pitch
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