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f®. Ministry; ell °wsliipi, Cill JlSOH t a 847-325; 1 ^ostaigi) ld ^milef! ou g at 82S. ,un 'y Char, 8 2 5-6600 dent Asvl Sports Friday, April 15, 1994 The Battalion Page 7 ln ! on hird floors' itown Bryaa, ™ call E1 e . I Student st general ns at 7 p,m. more infor. t 6 9 6-1361 y nt Associ' arents by to t and snack e St. Maryi more infor- !46-5717. ind Bise\- G - Parents ns and gays a from 2-6 dson, For II the GAI- ing Club npson Dril ound crew nformatic: :nt Fouri- e match- mth Carol:- the Oma: For mot; in at 846- Winner takes Charge The Lady Aggies’ Kim Gonzalez leads her team and the nation in winning ways ■ By Kristine Ramirez IThe Battalion A coach’s persistence and a little luck helped lead Texas A&M softball pitcher Kim Gonzalez to Texas A&M Uni versity. The senior from Roseville, Calif, transferred to Texas A&M from Sacramento City College last year. She earned a 33-11 record and lead the nation in victo ries in 1993. Gonzalez said she took at trip to Florida and visited Florida Southern University while a sophomore at Sacra mento City. She said she liked it a lot and verbally committed to transfer there. During the summer, Gon zalez said Tim Kiernan, her coach at Sacramento City, told her that Texas A&M head coach Bob Brock was in town and he wanted to talk to her. She said she did not want to talk to him because she al ready committed to Florida Southern. Gonzalez said Kiernan loved A&M and always want ed one of his players to be an Aggie. She said Brock called her but she did not want to at tend A&M. Kiernan again asked her to meet with Brock and she told him, “No.” Gonzalez eventu ally met with Brock the next day and, before she the meet ing was over, had signed to attend A&M. Gonzalez said she was hap py about her decision as was her parents. She is closer to home and A&M is a Division I school opposed to Florida Southern a Division II school. “My dad was excited,” she said. “My parents wanted me to come to A&M. I made the right decision coming here.” See Gonzalez/ Page 8 kttalion jn-profit y events s should [ ter t ce of the Applies notices | will i. If you j , please at S" A&M track to host final home meet By Stewart Doreen The Battalion The Texas A&M track and field teams will take their last step before next week’s South west Conference Championships when they compete in the Texas A&M Invitational, their final home meet, Saturday at the Anderson Track Complex. i The men, who are undefeated in scored meets at 21-0, are looking to to improve their -snnoira o' -zni id .JkiM Al-H -norrab perfect record. The Aggies will be bolstered by the return of NCAA qualifier Danny McCray, who will re turn after missing some meets due to spring football. “We’d like to go into the SWC meet unde feated,” said head track coach Ted Nelson. “Confidence wise it would help.” The field events will start at noon and the running events kick off at 5:30 p.m. A&M baseball travels to Tech, hopes to extend winning streak By Nick Georgandis The Battalion The Texas A&M baseball team goes into today’s open ing game of a three-game series with Texas Tech on a hot streak in which the Aggies have won five consecutive games and eight of their last nine. Keeping that streak alive will be much more difficult for the Aggies as they take on the Southwest Conference co-leaders. "If we don't do that (win the series against Texas Tech), then some mira cle is going to have to happen ... for us to have a chance (to make the tour nament)." r- Mark Johnson Aggie head baseball coach The Red Raiders are an extremely hot team, having scored in double figures in their last five games, while compiling a .325 team batting average for the season. Texas Tech has not let up on their opponents when the Red Raiders take the field, either. The Tech pitching has a minuscule earned run average of 2.82 this season, and their fielding percentage is an outstanding .961. A&M head baseball coach Mark Johnson said to make the SWC tournament, the Aggies’ course for this week end is extremely clear. “1 think for us to be in it, we need to win the series,” Johnson said, “If we don’t do that, then some miracle is going to have to happen, some unbelievable numbers are going to have to fall for us to have a chance.” The Aggies are coming off an exciting, bottom-of- the-ninth win over the University of Texas-San Antonio. Although the Aggies managea only two runs on Tbes- day night against UTSA, they have averaged close to seven Mary Macmanus/ The Battalion Ryan Rupe (36) pitches during the University of Texas- San Antonio series at the beginning of the season. A&M is 26-16 overall, and 2-7 in conference play. runs a game during their winning streak. Johnson said that while the team is not running on all cylinders, he feels confident in the team’s chances this weekend. “I don’t think we are really as totally hooked in as well as fd like, but we’re getting close to it,” Johnson said. “We’ve got our hands full, but we’ve also got some mo mentum.” A&M is 2-7 and in sixth place in the conference. The Aggies are scheduled to host this year’s SWC tour nament, but if the Aggies fail to qualify for the tourna ment, that honor would go ironically to Texas Tech. .Insmtrwoqs ,J * V om Would like to thank the following for their generous contributions: >ice theiij irps coni-j shmeni is tiis tint who wfftj mes. | currentlfj| way of operHI ho is iD | ; Honoff ilt is i bstantifi houM l> e ; zed there loop' wh^ ay. Jraih sionef change i ordtf’ ip onsi« reguh- n inte r ' : elects Subway Firestone Ladies & Lords Monograms & More Ernies C.C. 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