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Monday, February 24, 1992
The Battalion
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weep success: Aggies take 3 from Houston
By Chris Whitley
The Battalion
Reliever Nix picks up two victories in doubleheader
The Aggie baseball team found them-
elves needing late-inning comebacks in
[both games of Saturday's doubleheader
against the University of Houston. And
they delivered.
Two late rallies combined with two
victories in relief by James Nix led Texas
A&M to two crucial Southwest Confer
ence victories over the Cougars at Olsen
Field, 3-2 and 5-4.
A&M defeated Houston 5-2 Friday
night in the first game of the series.
The Aggies' sweep put them back in
the SWC picture with a 4-2 league record
and 9-4 overall. Houston fell to 1-5 in the
conference and 6-6 overall.
A&M head coach Mark Johnson said
the sweep was a huge confidence builder
after the Aggies' started the conference
season losing two of three.
"We needed it real bad," Johnson said.
"To win a couple of close ball games is a
reminder to us that we can get it done. I
think the guys feel a little better about
themselves. It was a big series, and we
came through in the clutch."
In the first game, which was delayed
because of a wet surface after Friday
night's rain, catcher Rob Trimble knocked
the game-winning RBI to rightfield, bring
ing in Scott Smith from second base in the
bottom of the seventh.
Earlier, Billy Harlan was substituted
at the last second for Trey Moore, who
was already at the plate. Harlan's infield
single advanced Smith to second.
In the top half of the inning, Houston
tied the game at two when a triple by
Greyson Liles was followed by an RBI sin
gle by Ricky Freeman. Those two hits
sent Aggie starter Brian Harrison to the
showers after six innings of work.
Nix came in and stranded Cougars on
first and third to get out of the inning and
make him the winning pitcher.
"I felt real good," Nix said. "I just had
to come out and throw strikes because we
had the team backing me up all the way. I
just had to go out and throw my game."
Yet Nix was not through. In the night
cap, he entered in the sixth inning after
the Cougars picked up two runs off three
hits to take a 4-2 lead. He struck out the
side leaving men on second and third.
Nix gave up a hit in the seventh and
eighth inning, but no batter made it past
first base for the rest of the night. As the
Aggies rallied, Nix had three and one-
third innings of relief to pick up his sec
ond win of the evening.
"He had a great day," Johnson said.
"You can't get two wins too easy in a dou
bleheader, and he did. He really came
through and did a good job."
In the bottom of the seventh, A&M
picked up three hits to load the bases be
fore Cougar reliever Neil Atkinson
walked Travis Williams to score Conrad
Colby for the game-winning run.
The Cougars had A&M worried when
they scored two in the top of the sixth to
put them on top. After an infield single,
A&M starter Trey Moore was replaced in
the sixth inning after giving up three runs
off three hits. Chris Clemons came in and
gave up a run off two hits and a walk be
fore Nix came in to end the inning.
Johnson was pleased with the day of
comebacks, and he said that the experi
ence for his team will come in handy.
"Anytime you get a sweep, it's good,"
he said. "Early in the season when you
come from behind, you can put those in
your memory bank and hang on to them."
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end team's win streak
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Aggies fall to Missouri-Kansas City, 63-46
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A&M's chances for a three-game
winning streak
were abruptly
ended Satur
day night.
Missouri-
Kansas City's
Tony Dumas
had a game-
high 28 points
to lead the
Kangaroos to a
63-46 victory
over the upstart
Aggies .
A&M had
Corey
Henderson
— r hoped to win its third straight
^game, a feat the Aggies have not
■ been able to accomplish in the last
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Tony McGinnis and Corey
p Henderson each scored 11 points
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i pulled down 12 rebounds in the
loss.
Senior Anthony Ware came off
the A&M bench to add nine
points.
Dumas, a sophomore forward,
hit 10 of 14 field goals and has
now scored 1,003 career points.
The Kangaroos, who led
throughout the game, held a 31-23
halftime lead.
Ware's basket at 17:16 in the
second half brought the Aggies
within six points at 35-29. But Mis
souri-Kansas City (17-8) went on a
9-2 run, with Dumas scoring seven
points, to open up a 44-31 lead
with about 14 minutes to play.
Missouri-Kansas City held the
Aggies to just 35.3 percent from
the field during the game. David
Robinson added 13 points for Mis
souri-Kansas City.
A&M returns to Southwest
Conference play Wednesday. The
Aggies, 1-8 in the conference, trav
el to Houston to play the Rice
Owls. A&M is two games behind
Baylor in the SWC standings.
DARREN HILL/The Battalion
A&M’s Conrad Colby slides into homeplate Friday
night in the Aggies' 5-2 victory over the Houston
Cougars. Colby was called out on the play. A&M went
on to win the doubleheader Saturday and sweep the
Southwest Conference series. The Aggie jumped to
second in the conference with the three wins.
Softball team
wins tourney
in Louisiana
The Battalion News Services
MONROE, LA. ~ The Texas
Aggie Lady softball team won the
Mardi Gras Invitational here Sun
day.
Freshmen pitcher Jennifer
Mortensen shut down Northwest
ern State in the championship
game, leading the Aggies to a 2-0
win.
Earlier in the day, Mortensen
pitched a three-hitter to help the
Aggies defeat Northeast Louisiana
3-0. Tammie Demchuck led all hit
ters with a 4-for-4 outing at the
plate.
In the opening round of the
tournament, the Aggies defeated
Southern Mississippi 11-1 behind
the arm of senior pitcher Dana
Mitchell. Second baseman
Stephanie Schulte paced the Ag
gies at the plate, hitting 4-for-4 at
the plate.
Mortensen was named the
tournament's Most Outstanding
Pitcher. Third baseman Rhonda
Halbert was named the Most Out
standing Defensive Player.
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McDonalds® Salutes
Teaching Excellence
McDonald’s Restaurants of Bryan/College Station announces their Teaching Assistant’s recognition program. Each
month a selected number of assistants will be chosen from their departments for providing outstanding services in
teaching and research.
McDonald’s will honor each assistant by awarding them with a $400 scholarship, along with recognition in the
Battalion.
McDonald’s salutes these individuals for their teaching excellence. Congratulations!
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has selected Ms.
Christine Com from the Department of Animal Sciences as one of our
1991-92 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants.
Christine is from Richmond, Texas and working toward her Ph.D. in
Equine Exercise Physiology in the Department of Animal Sciences.
She has served as a teaching assistant in four different courses from the
introductory freshman classes to upper division instruction in horse
training and management; however, it is primarily in her enthusiastic
teaching to our first year students that has had its biggest impact. She
has been recognized for her ability to encourage and challenge at the
same time. In addition, she has been the Assistant Coach for our
Undergraduate Horse Judging Team. She is a tremendous credit to our
College and the University Community.
Christine Corn
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