Sports une 16,195! Wednesday, June 16,1993 The Battalion Page 3 site terrair. ing onanir- this is tki helped !k ons build: 1993 Agqie Baseball Awards red to spen: ng in a yea.' leads large 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. CE "Pat" Olsen Outstanding Pitcher Award ars ;d press — A Com ;itive for! of that tin ed guiltyi irijuanaco: urred t« aenz, 45, e: y before U; uto, whos 7. Saenz wi :y by deput San Ante g 11 defe: idictmentis onio feder them of ir arijuana in: etween Mi' lilty tocof irijuana wit e. As part: ienz said! jm five-ye 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." 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