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Winner
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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.”
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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
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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
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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.
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