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DOUG
FOSTER
Sports writer
Early success,
SWC schedule
give A&M clout
F or Texas A&M baseball coach
Mark Johnson and is club, the
rest of the regular season has be
come vital.
Amazing thought. A club that
started the season among the top 25
teams in the nation is down to must-
win situations throughout the rest of
the Southwest Conference race to
qualify for the NCAA regional tour
nament.
For the tournament selection
committee, I have just two things to
say - The Oscar Mayer Baseball Clas
sic and the strength of the SWC as a
whole.
Let's start with the Classic. Date
line, Minneapolis. March 1. Texas
A&M wins the four-team tourna
ment held in the Hubert H.
Humphrey Metrodome by defeating
Mississippi State and Florida State,
both of which were ranked in the top
10 of both baseball polls before the
tourney started.
In the first game of the tourna
ment, the Aggies battled into extra
innings with the Bulldogs, as A&M
ace Jeff Granger held Mississippi
State scoreless through ten innings.
The Aggies exploded for five runs in
the 11th, and James Nix came in from
the bullpen to secure a 5-0 victory
over the No. 6 team in the nation.
Next victim, the Seminoles. Flori
da State, who was the fourth-ranked
team in the nation entering the Clas
sic, couldn't seem to muster much of
fense against Aggie pitching. The
See Foster/Page 4
Aggies shut out SHSU
Moore delivers six strikeouts in 3-0 win
By Anthony Andro
The Battalion
It's a shame the Texas A&M baseball
team doesn't play Sam Houston State ev
ery game.
Wednesday at Olsen Field, the Aggies
defeated the Bearkats for the third time
this season. Freshman pitcher Trey
Moore pitched five shutout innings and
led the Aggies to a 3-0 win.
With the win, the Aggies improved
their record to 31-16 and closed out their
non-conference season.
Aggie coach Mark Johnson knew this
was an important game for his team.
"It wasn't a regular Tuesday,Wednes-
day-type ball game," Johnson said. "Now
we're down to the stretch run and we
have to make some things happen.
"We need to get some more in the win
column."
The Aggie offense made just enough
happen.
Weaver named All-SWC,
A&M moves up to No. 14
The Battalion News Services
Texas A&M men's tennis player Mark
Weaver was named to the 1992 All-South
west Conference tennis team Wednesday,
the same day the Aggies received news
they had moved up two spots in the Vol
vo collegiate tennis poll.
Weaver, a sophomore, was A&M's
No. 1 player all season and finished the
1992 campaign with a 13-8 record.
"It is really great for Mark to be
named to the All-SWC team," Kent said.
"The honor also reflects the type of season
that we have had as a team."
The Aggies, ranked No. 14 in the latest
poll, were eliminated in the second round
of the SWC Championships last Saturday
by Texas. The week before, A&M
downed No. 19 Rice and lost to second-
ranked TCU.
A&M is waiting the announcement of
the 1992 NCAA Tennis Championship
field, which will be made next week.
Tim Holt walked with one out in the
third inning and Eric Gonzalez moved
him to third with a single to centerfield.
Robert Harris grounded to second and
Holt scored to give the Aggies a 1-0 lead.
The Aggies added to their lead in the
bottom of the sixth inning when Scott
Smith blasted his third homer of the sea
son over the left field fence to give the Ag
gies a 2-0 lead.
Smith said he was just waiting for his
pitch from Bearkat pitcher Raymundo
Garza.
"I figured they would challenge me
because there was two outs," Smith said.
"He came back with another fastball and I
just turned on it."
A&M scored their last run of the night
in the seventh. John Curl singled and
Holt followed with a double down the
rightfield line that advanced Curl to third.
Gonzalez scored Curl with an RBI
grounder to first base.
See Moore/Page 5
DARRIN HILUThe Battalion
A&M outfielder Scott Smith completes a steal of second base Wednesday in the
fourth inning of the Aggies' 3-0 victory over Sam Houston State at Olsen Field.
By Chris Whitley
The Battalion
Battalion file photo
Randy Simmons hopes the NFL
draft will extend his football career.
Wait and See
Simmons, other unsung Aggies make best
of last chances at professional football
Now, he sits and watches again ...
and it may be his last chance.
Simmons, along with many other
unsung Aggies, have rested their
hopes of extending their football ca
reers in the NFL draft starting this
Sunday.
Overshadowed by the multi-mil-
lion dollar contracts awaiting Quentin
Coryatt and Kevin Smith, players like
Kary Vincent, Keith McAfee, Ramsey
Bradberry, and Keith Alex all have the
potential to be picked up by some
team in the draft.
A&M head coach R.C. Slocum said
these hopefuls have the talent to make
For the last five years, Randy Sim
mons has spent much of his time sit
ting and watching.
He sat and watched his freshman
year as Darren Lewis made his run
into the Southwest Conference record
books. He sat and watched his senior
year as Greg Hill upstaged him and
became the SWC's all-time leading
rusher for a freshman.
Injuries kept Simmons on the side
lines sitting and watching other top
running backs steal the limelight dur
ing his career at A&M.
See Longshots/Page 4
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