Sports
Wednesday, March 4,1992 The Battalion Page 5
Si ANTHONY
f* Sponswriter
Basketball team
needs to make
best of season
I t would seem like the season can't
end soon enough for the Texas
A&M basketball team. Most col
lege teams measure a successful sea
son with the number 20, as in 20
wins. The Aggies have a 20 in their
record, except it's 20 losses the team
has experienced this season.
A&M has struggled, to say the
least. But their struggles haven't been
limited to on-the-court problems.
The Aggies were hit with NCAA
probation before the season started,
overcome by carbon monoxide fumes
when they went to Waco to play the
Baylor Bears, and have had to deal
with the death of coach Tony
Barone's mother.
For these reasons, it would seem
like the fair thing to do would be to
go ahead and call off the final two
games of the regular season and the
Southwest Conference tournament,
right?
Barone believes that the solutions
to the problems go beyond any re
maining wins and losses.
"I think what you do in this kind
of season is fight and do the best you
can and what happens is the wins
and losses really become secondary,"
Barone said. "What becomes more
important is effort. What becomes
more important is attitude. What be
comes more important is setting the
stage for the future.
The nature of this job and what it
demands you to do requires vou to
do that." ^
See Andro/Page 7
Hickey, Smith out of A&M lineup for 4-6 weeks
The Battalion News Services
The Texas A&M baseball team will be
without second baseman Mike Hickey
and rightfielder Scott Smith for the next
four to six weeks.
Hickey, who was hitting .292 with two
homeruns and 12 RBIs, broke a bone in
his left hand sliding into third base during
the Aggies' 9-8 loss to Minnesota Sunday
in the final game of the Oscar-Mayer Clas
sic.
Hickey is scheduled to have surgery
on Thursday. He will have a pin inserted
into his hand to help the healing process.
Smith, a redshirt freshman and the
Aggies' second-leading hitter with a .368
average, broke a bone in his right foot
Monday during a kinesiology class.
A&M hosts Baylor this weekend in a
three-game Southwest Conference series.
Head coach Mark Johnson said it will be
tough to replace Hickey and Smith in the
Aggies' lineup.
"We've had a rough 24-hour period,"
Johnson said. "Mike Hickey was the third
batter in our lineup and his bat was start
ing to come around.
"More importantly, he was the pivot
man in the double play combination and
he continued to make strides at that posi
tion.
"Scott Smith has been one of our more
Mike Hickey and Scott Smith will
miss A&M's series against Baylor and
will be out for more than a month.
consistent hitters," he said.
Johnson said the loss of the two play
ers will give opportunities for other plav-
ers to step forward.
"I said at the beginning of this season
one of our strengths is the depth of this
team."
The Aggies are 12-5 this season, 4-2 in
conference play.
Hickey and Smith will miss the major
ity of A&M's SWC games, including the
series with the University of Texas in
Austin on March 20 and 21.
The two injured players may return in
time for the Texas series at Olsen Field on
April 10 and 11.
A&M moved up to No. 21 in the Base
ball America poll, and improved to No. 25
in the Collegiate Baseball poll.
Softball team steps forward
Lady Aggies begin 1992
with road trip, injuries
but jump to 12-4 start
By Doug Foster
The Battalion
Despite losing an All-American pitch
er to an injury early in the season, Texas
A&M head softball coach Bob Brock said
he sees many positive aspects of this
year's team that could make them a seri
ous contender.
Brock and his squad, who will be
without pitching ace Missi Young for 2-4
weeks, will open their home schedule to
day against the University of Texas at Ar
lington in a 5 p.m. doubleheader at Lady
Aggie Field.
A&M opened the season with a 12-
game road trip and came home with an 8-
4 record. The Aggies are currently the
tenth-ranked team in the nation.
Brock said losing Young to an injury
would be tough, but he feels his team has
enough depth for others to step up and
fill the hole created.
"When a team has a situation where
its All-American pitcher goes out with an
injury, they have a tendency to overrate
that and cave in a little bit," he said.
"We've got plenty of help on the team
with our run scoring, and Jennifer
Bob Brock says his team has adjusted
to the loss of pitcher Missy Young.
Mortensen (pitcher) has come in and
picked up the slack.
"I also had not planned on pitching
See Softball/Page 7
In Need of a Facelift
Organization looks to improve A&M golf course
By Steve O'Brien
The Battalion
Texas A&M has built a reputation as
a leader in golf course research and
management, yet it has a substandard
course.
Mike Poe, a Sugarland
contractor and marketing
director for Fore Card In
ternational, said the
A&M golf course is in
need of many improve
ments, but the funds for
such improvements are not
available due to the sluggish
Texas economy.
"Texas A&M is recognized world
wide as the leading university in golf
course research and development in the
area of turf grass and in the area of stu
dents that major in golf course manage
ment," Poe said. "It's the core of golf
course information in the state of Texas
and across the country.
"All this combined and you've got a
substandard golf course. The reason it's
substandard is because state money is
real tight right now. It should be the
showplace of any university golf course
in the country."
Fore Card is an organization formed
by Poe designed to stimulate funds
through memberships that will be allo
cated toward renovation of the A&M
golf course.
Poe said he wants to recruit A&M
students, faculty and alumni, as well as
private companies, to support
the cause.
Twenty percent of the
annual membership fee
of $75 will be given to I
help in the development j
and modernization of I
the golf course. Annual
membership fees for stu
dents will be $60.
Privileges for members include free
rounds annually at courses participating
in the program and other various dis
counted prices throughout the year.
Member courses include Fox Creek Golf
Course, Bluebonnet Country Club and
over 20 courses in South and East Texas.
"We're trying to build an organiza
tion of concerned former students, and
any Aggies that want to see this golf fa
cility be the best university facility in the
country," Poe said.
Fore Card was given permission by
See Golf/Page 6
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