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Page 5 Users fore al rly. Call 764- ave mes- usch Kegs 1000 Inde- 4AT. Must -7567. m $35/mo. Match your IT. Hwy. 21, )0pm Call sm. Willing ay 13th at 30pm. Will n. Call 822- 30pm. Call 10pm. Call 0 pm. Call Call collect, usl Wears arried. Our a privileged call Sarah covery en from j 10pm blue collar, !) 285-2423 it GIFT MS ay! ler, Ave. Is n lbs. ) des ES. c. \&M baseball team picks most William Harrison/77ie Battalion Robert Harris, above, led the Aggies during the 1994 season in 7 cate gories and was selected as the team's Most Valuable Player. From staff and wire reports Robert Harris, a junior co captain for the Texas A&M base ball team, was named the Mari on Pugh Valuable Player and the Marion Pugh Spirit Award win ner for the 1994 season in a vote by his teammates. Harris, from Houston West- bury High School, started 52 of the Aggies 5 3 games at short stop and led the team in hitting (.337), runs scored (38), hits (58), RBI (41), homeruns (7), walks (41) and game-winning RBI (7). In addition to being a team leader in those categories, Harris is noted for his intense okay and team leadership. Junior righthander Chris Clemons was named the C.E. “Pat” Olsen Outstanding Pitcher. Clemons, from McGregor High School, ended the year with a 5- 5 record and a 3.59 ERA. valuable He recorded one save and had four complete games, in cluding the season ending victo ry over TCU in which he struck out 10. The Wally Moon is presented to the player who has improved the most from the beginning of the season. Sean Alvarez, a true freshman from Clemens High School in Schertz, Texas, was named the winner. Alvarez made his first appear ance in a game on Pet). 1 8 against Arizona and responded with a three-run homer in his first at-bat. Alvarez started 24 games and ended the season with a .308 batting average with three home runs and 19 RBI. The Aggies ended the season with a 31-22 record, the 11th straight 30-win season for Texas A&M in baseball. A&M trap and skeet places second at meet By Kristine Ramirez The Battalion The Texas A&M Skeet & Trap Club competed against 52 schools to place second in the 1994 ACU-I Collegiate Clay Target Championships in El Reno, Okla. April 20-23. Texas A&M’s ‘A” team fin ished second with a score of 1935 out of 2100 targets and the “B” team finished third. George Mason finished first winning by one target. The team competed in four events: International Trap, In ternational Skeet, American Trap and American Skeet. They finished first in Inter national Trap and American Trap. Andy Stahl finished sec ond in the American Trap competition with 197 out of 200 targets. The team also placed third in the International Skeet and second in the American Skeet competitions. M. J. Schult was the Class AA champion and Phillip Saldivar was the runner-up in the American Skeet competition. Texas A&M also won first in Sporting Clays and Tom Marrs was the Class AA cham pion. Stahl said the team usually only competes informally with area schools during the year. “We don’t go around and compete against each other,” he said. “Most schools don’t like to play us because we beat them so badly.” Texas A&M tennis team to play for NCAA berth J From staff and wire reports The No. 18 Texas A&M men’s 11 tennis team will take a shot at the |! Southwest region’s automatic | NCAA berth beginning May 14 at j the Jess Hess Tennis Stadium at j I Rice University. The Aggies (21-3) are seeded second in the for-team tourna ment behind top-seeded Arkansas ; (14-10). The Razorbacks beat A&M , 4- ] 2, in College Station during the j regular season. Texas Tech and the fourth- seeded Rice Owls complete the field. A&M head coach David Kent said he believes his team will | compete well. , . “1,’ye called them the wonder team all year, and we’re not done yet,” Kent said. “Our destiny is in our hands, instead of a tourna ment committee’s. “We will settle it on the court and I think it is a good system.” The Aggies will take on Texas Tech in the first round, while Arkansas plays Rice in the other matchup. A&M is attempting to bring off their third consecutive win over Tech since April 12, a feat which makes A&M’s task even more dif ficult, Kent said. “It’s always tough to beat a team three times in a short period of time,” Kent said. “We’ve al ready beaten them twice, but both matches were extremely hard-fought.” Tigers, Whitaker scorch Rangers, 14-7; Cubs win The Associated Press DETROIT — Lou Whitaker, back in the lineup after missing two games with a sore left foot, hit a grand slam and a three-run homer Wednesday, powering the Detroit Tigers to a 14-7 victory over the Texas Rangers. Whitaker’s three-run homer highlighted Detroit’s six-run third inning, and he added his third career grand slam in the eighth to set a career-high with seven RBIs. Cecil Fielder also hit a long homer in the third, and Alan Trammell had three hits and three RBIs for the Tigers, who benefited from 1 3 walks from seven Texas pitchers. Jose Canseco homered for the second straight game and drove in four runs, and Manuel Lee had three hits for the Rangers. Joe Boever (1-0) pitched 1 2-3 innings of relief for the win. Chad Kreuter and Tony Phillips drew leadoff walks in the third off Texas starter Rick Reed before Whitaker hit his fifth homer to make it 3-2. Two batters later, Fielder hit a 47 5-foot shot that landed on the roof in left field. It was his ninth home run of the season and the 200th of his career. Eric Davis contributed an RBI double in the third and scored on Trammell’s single. Reed (0-1) lasted just 2 1-3 innings, giving up four runs and walking four. Trailing 8-2, the Rangers rallied for five runs in the fifth off Detroit starter Bill Gul- lickson. Gullickson, a right-hander, was hit in the right arm by a Bill Ripken grounder to start the fifth. He stayed in the game, but the next six Rangers reached base. Canseco lined a two-run single to bring Texas to 8-4 and Will Clark followed with an RBI single. Canseco was caught stealing for the sec ond out, and Juan Gonzalez hit a two-run homer, his sixth, to make it 8-7. Trammell’s two-run single in the eighth off Jay Howell, the Rangers’ seventh pitch er, made it 10-7, and after the Tigers loaded the bases, Whitaker hit a 1-0 pitch into the upper deck in right for his sixth homer. Gullickson lasted 4 2-3 innings, allow ing seven runs and 10 hits before giving way to Boever. Canseco hit a two-run homer, his sev enth, in the third to give the Rangers a 2-0 lead. 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