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The Battalion
Page 3
Baseball was
designed to
break hearts
Peter Gam
mons once said
baseball was
designed to
break our
hearts.
Tuesday, it
broke mine.
I felt it rip
ping as Daniel
Choi found a
way to stymie
A&M's bats at
every turn and
I saw the Aggie
infield look on
helplessly as
their incredible
defense shattered into tiny pieces.
While listening to Robert Harris
and Lee Fedora after the game, you
could tell there was a crack some
where deep within. Probably the
most fiery player on the team, Harris
was stunned.
"I don't think that anybody on the
team is happy about the way we
played or about just being here," he
said. "We wanted to win this thing."
In a gritty performance, Fedora
had returned from taking a ground
ball in the mouth Friday to play in
A&M's two losses Sunday and Tues
day.
After the game, Fedora gave an
other standard cliche about horse
riding and how he had to just get
back on.
But Lee didn't just use the cliche,
he acted it out as he hit six for seven
in the last two games with only an
empty feeling to show for it.
Later that night, I saw it break
Brooks Kieschnick like a matchstick
as Steve Heinrich took a called strike
three to end Kieschnick's final ap
pearance in the College World Se
ries.
Kieschnick, the most competitive
man in the Southwest Conference
and created from the same mold that
gave A&M Bucky Richardson, was
obviously crushed by his second big
See Lindstrom/Page 6
KEVIN
LINDSTROM
Sportswriter
and Omaha
correspondent
A&M's All-American
Lady Aggie shortstop McFalls wins national
award after record-breaking softball season
By MARK SMITH
The Battalion
T exas A&M can add another name to
the long list of athletes who have been
honored with a nomination to the
NCAA All-America first team, Jennifer Mc
Falls.
The Lady Aggie shortstop was named to
the NCAA Division I All-America first team
by the National Softball Coaches Associa
tion for the first time in her three-year ca
reer at A&M.
"I am very honored and proud to accept
this award, especially on behalf of Texas
A&M and the softball team," McFalls said
in a press release.
"It is a shame that it has taken three
years for people to recognize her," Lady
Aggie head coach Bob Brock said.
McFalls' selection was due to her out
standing performance both at the plate and
in the field.
"I'm real excited for her," Brock said. "If
you were to review my comments about
Jennifer the last three years, you would find
that I have said all along that Jennifer is the
best shortstop in NCAA Division I softball."
McFalls' .427 batting average was good
enough not only to lead the team, but also
to break the school's single-season record of
.383, previously held by two-time All-
American Josie Carter for the 1983 season.
Carter was not the only record holder to fall
victim to McFalls' potent bat. With 51 runs
scored this season, McFalls topped Iva Jack
son's record of 47 runs scored in 1982.
Roommate and fellow teammate K.K.
Kalhoefer knows how McFalls' hitting gets
its added punch. "It's my cooking," she
said.
The junior from Grand Prairie also led
the team in a number of other offensive cat
egories. They include: hits (64), total bases
(108), slugging percentage (.720), RBIs (40),
game-winning hits (10), home runs (5),
stolen bases (ll-of-12), on base percentage
(.571), and walks (25).
McFalls also proved to be sure-handed
in the field) garnering a career-high .952
fielding percentage in 270 attempts.
Despite her career-high season in the
field, McFalls wants to improve.
"I'd like to become more solid defensive
ly," she said. "I want to make the big plays
that help the team win."
McFalls' ability around the diamond is
nothing new to Lady Aggie fans. She made
an immediate impact on the team in her
first year. As a freshman, McFalls led the
team with a batting average of .368. She
also posted 67 hits, 44 runs and 87 triples
with a slugging percentage of .478.
During her sophomore year she contin
ued to be a terror to opponent's pitching
leading the team in eight categories, most
notably the game-winning hits column
where she chalked up 11.
A versatile athlete, McFalls was a three-
sport standout at South Grand Prairie High
School. A three-time all-district performer
in volleyball, she was selected in 1989 by
the Dallas Morning News as Volleyball
Player of the Year. McFalls received all-dis
trict honors in basketball and was chosen as
midfielder of the year in soccer. She was
also honored with selections to the academ
ic all-state teams in volleyball and basket
ball.
McFalls said she chose to stay with soft-
ball because it allowed her to stay in the
state. "My other main sport was soccer, but
all of the schools that recruited me for that
were out of state," she said.
With one more year of eligibility left,
McFalls said she is looking forward to play
ing some tough opponents, and getting the
Lady Aggies back into postseason play.
"Hopefully by beating some ranked
teams we'll get the recognition that we de
serve," she said.
The Lady Aggies were declined an invi
tation to the NCAA Division I Tournament
despite being ranked number 20 in the na
tional poll at the time the invitations were
extended. The NCAA invites 20 teams to
the tournament.
"It's frustrating not to be invited after
the year we had," she said.
McFalls said the NCAA thought that
A&M did not play enough ranked teams.
"If that's what it takes (playing ranked
teams), then I say, 'take 'em on/" she said.
McFalls said that after college she plans
to coach softball in the Dallas area. "I'd re
ally like to coach on the collegiate level
somewhere around Texas," she said.
McFalls said that during the summer she
would be taking classes here at A&M, help
ing Brock with his softball camp and work
ing with a softball team back in her home
town.
Jennifer McFalls, shortstop for the Texas
A&M Lady Aggies softball team, displays
her All American trophy.
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