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The 1993 Texas Aggie Baseball
Team announced the winners of the
team's annual player awards on
Tuesday.
Marion Pugh
Most Valuable Player
Bryan Thomas - The senior cen-
terfielder and co-captain led the
team with a .379 ave., 79 hits, 69
runs, 55 RBI, 16 doubles, nine
triples, 50 walks, eight hit by pitches
and seven game-winning RBI.
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Jeff Granger - The junior left
hander set an A&M record by strik
ing out 150 batters in 127 innings
en route to a 15-3 record with a
2.62 ERA. He holds the A&M three-
season career strikeout record of
401 as well as the single game
strikeout record of 21.
Wally Moon Award
David Minor - The redshirt fresh
man won the most improved player
award by coming up with several
clutch plays as a pinch hitter. He hit
.304 for the year and had 19 RBI
on only 14 hits.
Marion Pugh Spirit Award
Robert Harris - The zealous 5-8,
163-pound sophomore shortstop
known for his spirited level of play
was the unanimous choice.
-From Staff and tVire Reports
Kent nets two recruits for A&M tennis
Californian, South African will provide squad
with much-needed depth, mens' coach says
By MATTHEW J. RUSH
The Battalion
After a disappointing spring, the
men's tennis team is looking to regroup.
Consistency has epitomized Texas
A&M tennis over the
last several years, but
the team has been un
able to put together a
solid season that
would put them
among the collegiate
tennis elite. All of that
is quickly about to
change.
Last week. Coach
David Kent and the
men's tennis program
signed two players
that will significantly bolster the Aggies'
attack for 1994. Robbie Krause of South
Africa and Californian Trenton Rhodes
look to make an immediate impact on
next year's tennis squad.
"We have indeed been there every
year, we just need to raise it another lev
el," Kent said. "I'm cautiously optimistic
about this year's team."
Kent believes that these two new play
ers will significantly boost the Aggies al
ready solid attack.
"I'm real excited about these two re
cruits," Kent said. "Last year we needed
more depth. Last season was a little dis
appointing, but we needed more strength
in the lower part of our order. We needed
four or five Mark Weaver's to seriously
compete."
Weaver, who will be a senior, led the
Aggies with 24 victories last season and
finished 32nd in the National Rankings,
the highest by any Southwest Conference
player.
Kent will look to Bernie Martinez and
Weaver to share the leadership roles and
to help break in these two new recruits.
"We've got the quantity, we just need
the quality now," Kent said. "Mark can
help us improve with his leadership by
example and Bernie will lead by personal
ity."
Krause, the 17-year-old from Rhoode-
port. South Africa, eagerly awaits his ar
rival on the collegiate tennis scene.
"It'll definitely be tough to be far away
from home, but at the same time it will be
a learning experience." Krause said. "I'd
like to make an immediate impact."
Krause has been characterized by Kent
as a consistent baseline player who wears
down opponents. His style of play has
earned him the number one ranking
among South African players.
Krause believes that the addition of
him and Rhodes will make A&M domi
nant in the near future.
"It'll be tough to adjust to the college
tennis scene, but in a couple of years we
can be a top-level collegiate team."
Rhodes, on the other hand, stand in
sharp contrast to the South African. He
adds to the explosiveness of the lineup
that already features Weaver and Mar
tinez as well as Blake Arrant, Ricardo Ro-
darte and Eric Horan.
"He's a slam-bam type player," Kent
said.
The 18 year-old from Corona del Mar,
California is no stranger to Texas as he
grew up in the Lone Star State.
"I chose A&M because of its reputa
tion," Rhodes said. "I like the coach as
well as the guys on the team."
Rhodes wants to make an immediate
impact as well, but says he would like to
improve his game as his first season's
goal. He also knows that the team has
tremendous capabilities.
"Being at a big school and being far
away will be a big change," Rhodes said.
"We've got a great chance at being a top-
25 team."
Kent said that all of the talent will be
locked in place after their arrival, but he
also said that the adjustment period may
take longer than expected. Kent also
speculated on the future of this year's
team that is very young and equally tal
ented.
"We need a good fall season and the
young recruits need some collegiate expe
rience," Kent said. "With those two, and
Chad Raymond from Seattle, we've got
the capability of having a great year.
We're setting our sights high."
Minor league infraction
Tobacco ban hits nerve in Nashville ballpark
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ZEBULON, N.C. - The first day of the
ban on tobacco products in the minor
leagues went down swinging at a ball
park built several years ago on a razed to
bacco field.
"If I stop chewing, OK now I'm going
to eat a ton of sunflower seeds and gain
50 pounds and die of a heart attack.
Thank you very much," said Carolina
Mudcats manager John Wockenfuss, 44, a
former big leaguer for more than a
decade and a chewer for half his life.
Wockenfuss was chomping on a wad
of bubble gum before the Mudcats' Dou
ble A A game with Nashville on Tuesday
instead of his customary tobacco, and
wasn't enjoying it one bit.
"This stuff just isn't cutting it," he
said, blowing a big bubble at Five County
Stadium, about 20 miles east of Raleigh.
The Mudcats are one of nine minor
league teams scattered across North Caroli
na, the nation's top tobacco producing state.
In fact, beyond the Mudcats' outfield
fence is a field of leaf two months from
being harvested.
"You can't play the game without a
chew, that's beyond me," said Carolina
outfielder Tom Green. "It will be interest
ing to see if tempers start flaring in the
dugout when people can't chew. It's like
people who quit smoking, they are on
edge a little bit."
Two weeks ago major league baseball
said all uniformed personnel in the minor
leagues would be banned from chewing
or smoking tobacco during games for
health reasons. The order is extended to
players, managers, coaches and umpires.
Baseball was first love. Bush admits
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — Former President
Bush says his first love was baseball,
not politics, and
says that hasn't
changed over the
years.
In a guest col
umn in the upcom
ing issue of "The
Sporting News,"
Bush said the pas
sion began with the
Boston Red Sox
when he was a
child.
"The Boston Red
Sox were my favorite team and Lou
Geijirig was my favorite player," Bush
said.
Bush
"They say that you never forget
your first love," said Bush in the
"Sports Voice" column. "Well, as a lit
tle kid, I hated broccoli, but I loved
baseball. What I love most about base
ball is the 'feeling' ... almost a fever of
sorts ...
"But whatever it is, baseball re
mains a bonding force between men
and women of all ages, races and reli
gion."
A first baseman and captain of the
Yale University teams in 1947 and
1948, Bush said he no longer plays ball
but enjoys watching his family partici
pate in the sport.
"That is part of the beauty of base
ball," he said, "It gets handed down
from generation to generation. It has
spanned many decades, several wars
and, yes, many presidents."
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