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Monday, June 7,1993
The Battalion
Page 3
Seles gets
stab in back
from WTA
Five errors cost Aggies, LSU wins 13-8
No. 1 A&M to face fourth seeded Long Beach State in losers' bracket
MATTHEW J.
RUSH
Sportswriter
This week
end's French
Open Women's
Championship
was indeed an
exciting display
of tennis, but
the events that
surrounded it
were quite dis
turbing.
With Monica
Seles absent
from the tour
nament, the
Open's draw
lacked an in
credible player.
Seles was or course missing from the
French due to the incident in Ham
burg, Germany with an over-zealous
fan and the unforgettable knife, but
the ramifications from her absence
were both uncalled for and simply
unfair.
As Steffi Graf and Mary Joe Fer
nandez played marvelous tennis on
Saturday, it was announced that
Graf would return to the number
one ranked spot in the world. Graf
defeated the up-and-coming Fernan
dez 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 en route to her third
French Open title and will return to
her number one ranking after Seles
ousted her from that spot some 22
months ago.
When the Women's Tennis Asso
ciation members, consisting of the
players and their directors, voted
against a "freeze" of the current
rankings, it sent a message out to the
public. If you want your favorite
player to be number one, just go and
stab the players ranked ahead of him
or her and two weeks later, he or she
will be the number one player in the
world.
That is of course what happened
as Gunter Parache, during a break in
See Rush/Page 6
By KEVIN LINDSTROM
The Battalion
OMAHA, Neb. - Louisiana State's
Todd Walker snapped out of his College
World Series slump in the bottom of the
eighth Sunday night with a two-out
grand slam.
Walker, who was 0 for 6 to that point
in the tournament, crushed any chances
A&M had to make up for five errors and
fourteen men left on base during their 13-
8 loss to LSU.
A&M head coach Mark Johnson said
Walker's home run with the bases loaded
put the game out of reach.
"I didn't think we were out of the
game at all with a one-run defecit, but
when Walker got the grand slam, it took
the wind right out of our sails," he said.
Johnson said the five A&M errors kept
LSU close enough to take the game.
"When you make five errors and don't
cover first on a bunt play, you're proba
bly not going to win the ball game," he
said. "Those weren't flukey errors or lack
of effort errors. The tendency for a young
player is to overplay it and it cost us
some runs."
LSU head coach Skip Bertman said he
was surprised by the number of errors.
"We had a lot of good fortune
tonight," he said.
The Aggie infield seemed out of sync,
having one of its worst outings of the
year.
Shortstop Robert Harris, who had 18
errors throughout the season, made two
more, both on plays to first in the fourth
and seventh innings.
Trey Moore, pitching for A&M
through six and two-thirds innings, threw
two wild pitches and missed John Curl at
first base on a pick off attempt.
Eric Gonzalez, who had only three er
rors at second base all season, made a
mental mistake on a bunt play when he
failed to cover first base when Chris
Clemons fielded the ball.
Clemons (6-2) took the loss for A&M
for pitching one and one-third innings
and giving up six runs off five hits.
The winning pitcher for LSU was Scott
Schultz (7-3) who pitched through the
seventh and eighth innings and to one
batter in the ninth. Schultz struck out
four and gave up two hits.
The loss puts A&M in the loser' brack
et, where they will play fourth seeded
Long Beach State Tuesday at 3:06 p.m.
If A&M beats Long Beach, they will
have to beat LSU twice, once on Wednes
day and once on Friday, to advance to the
final on Saturday.
A loss in either game will send A&M
home.
Johnson said he thinks A&M has a
good chance of being successful in the
losers' bracket.
"We have some pitchers that can
throw," he said. " A four team tourna
ment isn't unbelievable to come back in."
EOLLECE
WORLD
Texas A&M
LSU
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W—Schultz, 7-3. L—Clemons, 6-2. HR—LSU, Walker (20).
Clutch performances highlight College World Series
By KEVIN LINDSTROM
The Battalion
OMAHA, Neb. - After the last opening round game
Saturday night, the Rosenblatt ground crew painted
"1993 College World Series" on the skirt around home
plate.
The first game jitters are gone and the teams have set
tled into doing what they came here to do: play baseball.
Now, losing can mean a trip home and the end of the
season, and winning means one game closer to the win
ner-take-all championship game on June 12.
There have already been some clutch performances in
the four games leading up to Sunday afternoon.
•Texas A&M's Robert Harris took over for the injured
Lee Fedora at third base for the Aggies Friday after a
grounder took a bad hop and hit Fedora in the mouth
during batting practice.
After misplaying a grounder off of the bat of Kansas
right fielder Rory Tarquinio in the second inning, Lewis
made a tough double play with the bases loaded, stop
ping a run from scoring and ending the inning.
•Louisiana State's Jim Greely, who had only one
home run during the regular season, hit two balls out of
the park Friday night, lifting LSU over Long Beach State.
The first was a three-run shot in the seventh inning and
the second scored two in the ninth.
•Wichita State's Darrin Dreifort, the Los Angeles
Dodgers first round pick and second overall in the ama
teur draft, reacted well to giving up a two-run homer in
the bottom of the ninth against Arizona State Saturday
by hitting a solo home run in the top of the eleventh. He
then held off a late run by ASU in the bottom of the in
ning to lead WSU to a first-round 4-3 victory.
• But possibly the most impressive single performance
was Texas' pitcher-designated hitter Brooks Kieschnick's
172 pitch bulldog showing Saturday. He shook off a six
hit, four-run inning by Oklahoma State for eleven strike
outs, including a full-count, two-men-on-base strikeout
in the top of the ninth for the win.
•Long Beach State's Mike Fontana pitched a two-hit
ter complete game Sunday, lifting the 49ers over Kansas
6-1.
•Louisiana State's Todd Walker, who was 0 for 6 in
the tournament, hit a two-out grand slam to seal LSU's
victory over Texas A&M Sunday night.
Against Kansas . . .
OMAHA, Neb. - Jeff Granger came through in
clutch situations as the pitcher helped Texas A&M
beat the Kansas Jayhawks 5-1 in the first game of the
College World Series Friday.
Granger, one of four Smith Award finalists, scat
tered five hits and one run over eight innings for the
win, upping his record to 15-3.
"We felt comfortable that he could hold them, and
that we could eventually pound something out,"
Texas A&M head coach Mark Johnson said. "Jeff did
that. That was his value coming in."
With less than five pitches left in batting practice
before Friday's game, A&M shortstojp Robert Harris
hit a hard ground ball that took a bad bounce and hit
A&M third baseman Lee Fedora in the mouth, causing
him to loose a tooth and receive 13 stitches.
Robert Lewis took over at third base for the Aggies
and had a solid performance despite an early error.
-KEVIN LINDSTROM
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