The Battalion • Page 3 Monday • May 29, 1993 Baseball: a suitlu ” Cc> Aggies a c two-step 5 from College World Series ncludt d reiju 'ay % partit. 'ast point if no return l disir.; •s/’Ccvl V 1 JlCK t c jEORGANDIS m *orts Editor der indor 1 om l ^aseball, did you ever edl ‘|- guishing in fifth place with a pathetic 10-16 record. The strike crippled base ball far worse than either the ; players or the owners suspect ed it would. The fan base, which had continually dwin- ia died during the years of huge ip free-agent salaries, is gone, driven away by the greed of n ® ’ the men on the field and the men behind the scenes. = e - It’s even tough to be an As- dea w tros’ fan these days, especially n with distractions like the P Rockets battling the San An- : ionio Spurs in the Western ie;l! ' Conference Finals every other light and the A&M baseball earn trying to stay alive for a = “ r ,hot at Omaha and the Col- icck.' World Series. 1 ^ Not only are the Astros ik ' bulling their typical hot-and- dupP 0 id bit of win one, lose one, ) the c yij-, two, lose eight- but even anies. vr orse _ j e ff Bagwell .190 oanif-yith one-sixth of the season )n of already gone. DC n That’s right, last year’s ries. National League Most Valu- Shari^ig player and the holder of t0 Tearly every Houston single- ;eason record is on the a P er vrong side of the infamous hats Mendoza Line.” N 0 one knows what’s i g° ve vrong with Bags. If it wasn’t he cor or hot-hitting Derek yweo^gii, the Astros could chal- enge mighty Pittsburgh for r an ° he NL Central cellar. mon f The Astrodome is looking ' n ^ nore like the Grand Canyon l er ir han a baseball stadium. The )lace is so big that what few ans do show up are so ipread out that they can’t ee GeORGANDIS, Page 4 □ The A&M baseball team wins twice to move within two wins of Omaha. CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Fresh man John Sneed tossed a six-hit shutout and sophomore outfielderChad Allen banged a three-run homer to help Texas A&M defeat North Carolina 7-0 Sunday and advance to the championship game in the Atlantic II Regional. The Aggies play undefeated Miami at 1 p.m. today in the double elimination tour nament. If Texas A&M wins, a second game would follow to see who will go to the College World Series. Miami (45-14) is making an attempt to go to the series for the 14th time. North Carolina (39-23)lost two games Sunday, losing earlier to Miami, 8-4. Second-seeded Texas A&M (43-21- 1) won two games on Sunday, starting with a 4-2 victory against Florida International. Sneed picked up the win for the Aggies, his first nine-inning complete game of the season. He had nine strike outs, a season high for him. Allen’s home run, his 10th of the season, came during a five-run outburst in the sixth that put Texas A&M ahead 7-0. The Aggies were aided by an improved defense. After making 11 errors the first two games, they didn’t make any in two games Sunday. North Carolina went through six pitch ers. Starter Scott McCallister didn’t make it out of the first inning. McCallister gave up a leadoff homer to Allen and left with the bases loaded, trailing 1-0. He was replaced by Jim Wal lace, who started Sunday’s first game against Miami. Wallace lasted only two innings. He was lifted after giving up a «run-scoring single to senior Robert Harris that opened a 2-0 Aggies lead. North Carolina’s third pitcher, Corey Richardson, worked the next 1 2-3 in nings, keeping the Aggies hitless but also issuing four walks. North Carolina threatened in the fifth, trailing 2-0. The Tar Heels loaded the bases against Sneed, but Hanes Torbett grounded into an inning-ending double play. North Carolina lost leadoff hitter and first baseman Mike Stoner in the third in ning to a pulled leg muscle. Stoner, who hit a home run against Miami earlier in the day, was injured running out a ground ball in the first. In A&M’s earlier game, junior first baseman Jeff Bailey stroked a two- run homer, boosting the Aggies to a 4-2 victory over Florida Internation al. FIU finished the year with a 50- 11 record. Junior Dean Mitchell(8-1) got the win for the Aggies. He worked seven innings, giving up 10 hits and striking out seven. Senior Brian Parker was credited with his fourth save of the season. The loser. Rich Palacios(9-1), had won 15 straight games, starting in the 1994 season. Florida International took a 1-0 lead in the first on a double by Manny Vazquez, scoring Dorian Speed from first. Bailey’s two-run homer, his ninth of the season, scored junior outfielder Chad Alexander and put Texas A&M ahead 2-1 in the third. Alexander hot on with a fielding error by FIU third baseman Malcolm Warfield. The Aggies took a 3-1 lead in the fourth when sophomore infield er Rich Petru doubled and scored on junior catcher William Shiflett’s single. Florida International closed to within 3-2 in the seventh when Warfield drove in Vazquez from second with a single. Warfield then tried to score from second on a high- bouncing infield single by Juan, but was cut down at the plate by shortstop Robert Harris. Texas A&M made it 4-2 lead in the eighth. All-American senior John Curl led off with a single, knocking Palacios from the game. Curl took second on a sacrifice, then scored on a single by sophomore out fielder Sean Alvarez. The Aggies will attempt to return to the College World Series for the second time in three years. In 1993, the Aggies compiled a 53-11 record while winning the conference crown for the first time since 1989. In 1993, A&M hosted and won the Cen tral I Regional, winning four straight games to advance to the championship in Senior first baseman John Curl led the conference named first All-American DH. File photo in homeruns with 18 and was Omaha. After beating Kansas 5-1 in their first game, the Aggies lost back- to-back games to Louisianna State and Long Beach State and were eliminated. Picked in several top 25 polls enter ing the 1994 season, A&M had an extremely disappointing campaign, dropping to 6-12 in the SWC and 31- 22 overall. The Aggies lost key pitch ers Kelly Wunsch and Jeff Granger from their 1993 team to, the major league draft. This season, A&M bounced back to a 12-6 conference mark and finished as the runner-up to SWC champ ion Texas Tech in the SWC Conference Tournament two weeks ago. Tech received a No. 1 seed in the region al held in Wichita, Kan. Both Rice and the University of Texas, the other two teams in the SWC Tournament, received at-large bids to regionuls. A&M track and field trio looks to bring home the gold Stew Milne, The Battalion Junior Anjanette Kirkland flies over a hurdle during practice at Ander son Track Complex. □ The NCAA Champi onships begin Wednes day in Knoxville. By David Winder The Battalion When the Texas A&M track and field team went to the Uni versity of Tennessee for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in 1969, Aggie sprinter Curtis Mills set a world record in the 440-yard dash. When the Aggies return to Knoxville this Wednesday for the 1995 NCAA Outdoor Champi onships, A&M head track coach Ted Nelson will be satisfied with just first-place finishes. “It was a real turning point for Texas A&M track,” said Nel son, an assistant with the 1969 team. “I hope that it would hap pen again. It was very exciting.” This year, Larry Wade (110- meter hurdles) and Neri Kennedy (javelin) from the men’s team, and Anjanette Kirk land (100-meter hurdles) from the women’s team are among the favorites to take home NCAA crowns. Wade currently holds the third-fastest time in the 110 this season, .07 seconds behind the front runner. “I don’t think there are any fa vorites going into the race,” Wade said. “The winner is going to be the one who is willing to run. “I’ve had a lot of problems at the end of the outdoor season.Winning nationals would be the icing on the cake.” Kirkland has only been beat en by another collegiate once this season in the 100-meter hurdles. Both Kirkland and Ju lian Russell of Florida State had the exact same times, but Rus sell was declared the winner when the judges looked at the photo finish. “Anjanette has been running well,” Nelson said. “She has a great chance at being an All- American and a national cham pion. Tying Russell gave her a real boost to her confidence. 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