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m BT The Battalion* Tuesday • May 31 Brjejts O ma h a dream ends for A&M baseball team National paper designates Curl All-American The postseason honors began last week for Texas A&M senior John Curl when he was named a first-team All- American by the staff of Collegiate Baseball newspaper. The first baseman was named the first-team designated hitter after hitting .434 during the sea son with 18 home runs, good for first in the Southwest Conference, and 55 runs batted in. Curl's home run total and batting average were both good for third place on A&M's all-time lists in the two categories. The 6-foot 3-inch lefthander from Logansport, Ind. improved his offen sive dramatically from his junior year when he hit .297 with two home runs and 32 RBI. In his previous three sea sons, Curl totaled only nine home runs. Joining Curl on the first team from the SWC were Texas Tech's Jason Totman and Clint Bryant. Edfors finishes 33rd in NCAA Championships Texas A&M junior golfer Kristina Edfors finished a fine campaign for 1995 by shooting an even par 72 in the final round of the 1995 NCAA Women's Golf Championship. Edfors final round allowed her to jump 18 notches and finish in a tie for 33rd place in the final individual standings with a four-day total of 302 at the tournament held in Wilmington, North Carolina. "Kristina played really well in the last two rounds of the tournament, " A&M head coach Jeanne Sutherland said. "Her putting wasn't as good as it could have been, and that hurt her finish." Edfors was competing in her sec ond consecutive NCAA Champi onship as an individual. At last year's tournament, held in Portland, Ore., Edfors shot a 325 to finish tied for 81 st place. □ The University of Mia mi ended the Aggies' title chances, 5-2. Texas A&M pitcher Justin Atchley started the Aggies' final game Monday against the University of Miami. The Aggies lost the game 5-2 and were eliminated from the Atlantic Regional. CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Rudy Gomez and Danny Buxbaum delivered back-to-back home runs, helping- carry Miami to a 5-2 victory over Texas A&M in the championship game Mon day of the Atlantic II Regional. The Hurricanes earned their 14th trip to the College World Series, which begins Friday in Omaha, Neb. Miami (46-15) has advanced to the CWS 11 of the 13 times in which it hosted a regional. The deciding game was made necessary when the second- seeded Aggies beat the top- seeded Hurricanes 4-0 earlier Monday. That snapped Miami’s 10-game home winning streak in regional play. In the championship game, left-hander J.D. Arteaga scat tered six hits over eight innings for his 10th win. Texas A&M (44-22-1) had won four straight games after losing in the first round. Justin Atchley, who gave up the consecutive home runs to Gomez and Buxbaum in the first inning, took the loss — his sec ond of the tournament. The home runs with two out in the first put Miami ahead 2-0. Until then, Texas A&M had gone 20 innings without allow ing a run. The streak spanned shutouts against Miami on Mon day and North Carolina on Sun day night. Leading 2-0, Miami tacked on three more runs in the third, aided by a pair of Texas A&M blunders. A home run by Harris put Texas A&M on the board at 5-1 in the fifth. Texas A&M closed to within 5-2 in the eighth on a run-scor ing double by Allen. The Aggies had runners on second and third, but Arteaga got out of the inning on a grounder. Texas A&M forced a second game after beating the Hurri canes 4-0 earlier in the day be hind the pitching of junior Tim Clarkson, who tossed a six-hit, complete-game shutout. It was the first time Miami had been shut out this season. The Hurricanes were riding a 10-game winning streak in re gional games at home before the first game. The win was A&M’s fourth straight after losing to Florida International in the open ing round of the tournament. Clarkson, making just his second start of the year domi nated Miami hitters, allowing only one runner past second base in the game. The Aggies scored all four of their runs in the first inning, three of them unearned. Singles by Chad Alexander, Jeff Bailey and Chad Allen loaded the bases to open the game. Alexander scored on John Curl’s sacrifice fly. Miami had Bailey trapped be tween second and third on a pickoff, but shortstop Alex Cora dropped the ball. Bailey later scored from third on a single by Robert Harris. Allen scored to make it 3-0 on a grounder by Sean Alvarez and Rich Petru’s single up the mid dle knocked in Jason Stephens to open a 4-0 lead for the Aggies. The Aggies were attempting to go to Omaha for the second time in three years. Lacrosse team grows up in a hurry with 9-2 campaign □ In two years, the A&M lacrosse team has grown to 30 players. H Hi pn is* —k-P' ^ P ’Sft , •#T 1 ■ I I A . - . By Nick Georgandis The Battalion 9-2. ^ y. ' - v^ NVO* Heather Stein, No. en's lacrosse game Photo courtesy of Heather McNurlen 20, passes the ball to Kristen Thor, No. 6, during a Texas A&M wom- in the Western Women's Lacrosse tournament in Santa Cruz, Calif. For a good college football team, it is the kind of record that takes several years of strong recruiting and great coaching to achieve. But, for an athletic team that has been in existence for only two years, and whose players often learn the game by ear, it is the kind of record that turns heads. What began as one woman’s dream in the fall of 1993 has grown into an organi zation of 28 A&M students, all committed to the sport of lacrosse. The Texas A&M women’s lacrosse team was started by Holly McNurlen, a senior health education major. McNurlen has been a jack-of-all-trades for the team, serving as the team coach, the team presi dent and as a player. “I played (lacrosse) in high school in Pennsylvania, then moved to San Antonio where they didn’t have a team, “McNurlen said. “When I came here, I played on a men’s team in MSG Sports because I wanted to play so much. I started putting up fliers around campus and people began to come in.” The highlight of this season for the team came in April when they made a trip to Santa Cruz, Calif., for the Western Women’s Lacrosse tournament. Thirty-six collegiate teams and five high schools competed in the tournament, and the A&M team finished with a 2-2 record in the tournament. The first two games for A&M were heartbreakers as they lost each contest by just one goal to the University of Southern California and to Claremont College. The team rebounded the next day for convinc ing victories over Oregon (9-1) and the University of California-Davis (10-5). “We became really close as a team when we got to California,” Rosalie Olson, 1995- 96 team vice-president, said. “We put a lot of work into getting to the tournament, and we played as hard as we could.” Because the team is not sponsored by the Texas A&M athletic department, the members had to raise the money them selves to fund the trip to California. They Tales of a sportswnte sweet tootli David Winder SPORTSWRITER lliL P rofessional athletes selling everything: shoes to cars to American public thesec It used to be that a guj to be a superstar in orti hawk a product on nati television, but'not anym Second-rate players New Jersey Net Chris Ml can now be seen advert:: goods and services. The only sure way! sports stars were wortH anything was if theyhiH candy bar named after! Reggie Jackson, Ken Gr Jr. and Wade Boggs, all: ers with outstandingc ties, all had candy: named after them. But now even tbafl starting to change as it just announced thata: pany in Ohio would star produce candy bars nr after Cleveland Indian; fielder Albert Belle. Belle is great player he has been so only for: last three years. Bei:: great player for that;:, period of time does not: Belle worthy of his ow dy bar. But if you are to start naming foot players like Belle, you as well do it every other fessional athlete. Technical Edibles Named after San Ant forward Dennis Rodi; these M&M-like cant come in over 20 eye-catct colors. Each piece of cani; filled with a differents stance (peanuts, sugar, poison) because, JikeRfc man, you never knovvwhf you are going to get fronugj moment to the next. Witt proofs-of-purchase, you receive a free tattoo at; ticipating parlors. Money Hungry — A rid lously high-priced candy that is produced by the We League Baseball Players sociation. 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