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ference baseball season had
even started A&M head coach
Mark Johnson was concerned. But he
wasn't the only one.
There was concern around the
league that the new 1992 schedule
would wear teams out. The sched
ule, which doubled the amount of
conference games each team would
have to play, required each team to
host a three-game series with each
club in the conference.
That meant teams would end up
playing each other six times before
everything was said and done.
The best teams, most people
thought, would eventually find their
way to the top of the standings.
Johnson was one of the ones who
thought the schedule would weed
out the weaker teams.
But there still seemed to be some
concern that the season would last
too long.
Tonight, 31 games into the 1992
schedule, the Aggies are, for all prac
tical purposes, out of the SWC cham
pionship race. The Texas Longhorns
won two-of-three from A&M last
weekend, extending their conference
lead to 6 1/2 games with only 10
games left.
But the two losses to Texas over
the weekend did more than dampen
the Aggies' chances at a conference
crown.
A&M will havb to play near per
fect baseball the rest of the season to
qualify for the NCAA regional play
offs.
On Sunday, after the Aggies' only
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A&M looks to gain momentum tonight vs. SFA
By Steve O'Brien
The Battalion
There will be a renewed sense of ur
gency when the Texas A&M baseball
team plays Stephen F. Austin today in a
doubleheader at Olsen Field.
First pitch is at 5 p.m.
Last weekend, the Aggies lost two-of-
three games to the Texas Longhorns,
dropping their overall record this season
to 26-15. To qualify for the NCAA tour
nament, the Aggies will probably need
around 40 wins.
With only 15 games left, time is run
ning out on the Aggies.
"(Winning) is the main thing right
now," A&M pitching coach Jim Lawler
said. "We've got to regroup. The NCAA
regional is a very prevalent thing in front
of us. If you look at it from that stand
point, it doesn't matter who we play.
"We've got 15 games left and Stephen
F. Austin is two of them tomorrow night.
They're critical."
The Aggies have qualified for the
NCAA tournament in five of the last six
seasons and have won at least 40 games in
seven of the last eight years. The last time
the Aggies failed to win 40 games was in
1985 when they went 39-16.
A&M's only victory against Texas was
Sunday when sophomore left-hander Kel
ly Wunsch held the Longhorns to three
runs on three hits in six innings of work,
helping the Aggies to an 11-5 win.
"Kelly had sort of been hot and cold in
that third starting spot," Lawler said. "I
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After losing two of three games to Texas last weekend, the Aggies need to gain momentum against SFA tonight at Olsen Field.
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The Aggies were originally scheduled
to open their season against the Lumber
jacks on Feb. 3 but rain washed out the
game and its postponements. A&M and
SFA will make up that game tonight after
changing a single game into a twinbill.
Righthander Trey Moore is scheduled
to start game one for the Aggies and left
hander Paul Barber will start the second
game.
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The Battalion News Services
The Texas A&M softball team hosts
Southwest Texas State University in a
doubleheader today at the Lady Aggie
Softball Field.
Game One starts at 4 p.m. and game
two is scheduled to start at 6 p.m.
The Lady Aggies enter the twinbill
with a 31-17 record.
Last weekend, the team competed in
the Mizzou Invitational, finishing in sec
ond place.
A&M lost the championship game to
the tournament's host team, the Universi
ty of Missouri, 8-0, on Sunday.
For the tournament, second baseman
Stephanie Schulte was named the tourna
ment's outstanding hitter. She hit .667 in
two-day competition. The tournament
helped Schulte break out of an 0- for-17
slump.
Jennifer Mortensen and Dana Mitchell
will pitch in tonight's doubleheader.
Mortensen is 19-10 on the season. In
the NCAA national statistics, she ranks
second in the nation in victories with 19
and second in saves with three. She is
also ranked 27th in the nation in ERA,
with a 0.68 ERA.
Mitchell is 11-4 on the season after 12-
4 on the season after picking up three
wins over the weekend.
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