Tuesday, March 2,1993
Sports
The Battalion
Page 5
Young pitching
staff the force
behind 14-0
T hose
sweet
smells
drifting across
the railroad
tracks are ones
of success.
Texas A&M's
baseball team
has blossomed
like a rose over
at Olsen Field,
sporting a 14-0
record and a
No. 3 ranking.
The pollen
for the bloom
has been pro
vided by the
pitching staff. Heralded as the
strength of the team by head coach
Mark Johnson before the season
started, the pitchers have done noth
ing to defray those expectations.
"Before we got rolling, I thought
our pitchers would be the base of
this team," Johnson said. "As the
season has gone on, the pitching has
improved and there is a key reason
for that.
"No injuries."
That suffering bug has not bitten
the pitchers like it snapped at the in
field earlier this year. For a relative
ly inexperienced group that was
searching for an identity, staying
away from pain was paramount.
So far, so good, as evidenced by a
few numbers.
A&M's staff leads the Southwest
Conference with a 2.01 earned run
average. Junior left-hander Kelly
Wunsch posted a career high ten
strikeouts Saturday against Pan
See Plumer/Page 6
MICHAEL
PLUMER
Assistant Sports
Editor
Steve Kenney's road to recovery
Injury in Anaheim, rehabilitation have tested defensive back
CRAIG FOX/The Battalion
Rehabilitation Specialist Danny Kniffin observes defensive back Steve Kenney as he
works out his repaired left knee. Kenney tore his anterior cruciate ligament in August.
By MICHAEL PLUMER
The Battalion
Kyle Field is quiet these days. No fans
are screaming, no shrill officials' whistles
are heard, and the cannon is not unleash
ing titanic booms, signifying Texas A&M
touchdowns.
Underneath Kyle Field, there is a dif
ferent story to be told. A&M defensive
back Steve Kenney is making plenty of
noise. He is striving to regain the oppor
tunity to play again, sweating through re
habilitation.
Grunting and groaning to repair his
left knee's torn anterior cruciate, he is at
tempting to capture a chance to make
some lifelong memories.
When Kyle Field is full of fanatics,
cheering his every move. When the can
non could be unleashed because of a
touchdown he scores.
"I can't wait to get back out on the
field and compete again," Kenney said.
"I never got a chance to play for the
home folks, which is something I want to
do. My injury was very disappointing
because last year I was a sophomore and
I had a chance to start for three years for
a top-ranked defense.
"Then, all I had worked for was taken
away with one blow."
With about five minutes left in the
second quarter at the Pigskin Classic on
August 26, 1992, against Stanford, a 10-7
A&M win, Kenney's world came to an
abrupt stop.
"Everything happened in slow mo
tion," the soft-spoken Kenney said. "I
was running towards the play and I was
coming close to the running back. (Free
safety) Patrick Bates and (linebacker) Lar
ry Jackson made the tackle and started
rolling.
"They rolled me over and my leg was
weak. I thought I had broken it as I
See Kenney/Page 6
Aggies ready for
Southwest Texas
By WILLIAM HARRISON
The Battalion
As Ash says in "Army of Darkness,"
"Hail to the King, baby."
So go the Aggies...
The 14-0 Aggie baseball team takes a
second shot at Southwest Texas State to
day in a double-header at Olsen Field af
ter beating them soundly a few weeks
ago in their own park, 9-2.
Ranked 4th in the nation by the USA
Today/Baseball Weekly poll, A&M is off
to its best start since 1989, when A&M
coach Mark Johnson's team went 26-0.
Johnson acknowledged his team's
start, but said he wanted to keep it in a
daily perspective.
"Southwest Texas State has a good
club, (and) we'll have to continue to play
well in the field and get good pitching
and timely hitting," Johnson said.
The Aggies have provided both lately,
sweeping their three-game weekend se
ries with UT-Pan American.
After Friday's 4-2 win, A&M took both
ends of Saturday's twin bill, manufactur
ing three runs out of three hits and some
UT-Pan Am miscues to win 3-1 in the
first game, and broke through in the sec
ond game as freshman Chad Alexander
broke out of an .087 batting slump with a
towering, three-run shot to left for the
bulk of A&M's 4-2 victory.
A&M's pitchers gave up four runs for
the weekend, only two earned.
A&M is 4-0 on the current home stand,
their longest stretch of the season at
Olsen with eight games yet to be played
through the upcoming weekend against
Southwest Texas, Maine and Illinois
State.
A&M's hitting corps is led by senior
center fielder and co-captain Brian
Thomas, sounding most of A&M's bat
ting thunder with four home runs and a
.419 batting average.
Thomas also leads the team with .614
See Baseball/Page 6
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