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Thursday • June
Bad break
for A&M
at NCAAs
Staff and Wire Reports
The NCAA Track and Field
Championships got off to an
ominous start Wednesday for
Texas A&M when junior de~
cathlete Richard Harrison
broke his foot while compet
ing in the high jump.
Harrison, who came into the
meet with a strained Achilles
tendon, had competed in four
of the 10 decathlon events
when he suffered the injury.
“This is really unfortunate
for Richard, it seems like he
just can’t get a break at an
NCAA meet,” A&M head track
and field coach Ted Nelson
said. “He’s really worked hard
the last couple of years and it’s
really too bad that something
like this happened.”
In other events, junior Curt
Young recorded a season-best
time of 50.84 seconds in the
400-meter hurdles. His time
was not fast enough to qualify
for the semifinals, however.
Today, four more A&M
competitors will begin com
peting in the preliminaries.
Junior Anjanette Kirkland
will go into the 100-meter
hurdles with the best time in
the nation this year at 12.89
seconds, fourth best in the
world. Kirkland finished third
in the event last season, and
both runners who finished
ahead of her last season are
competing this year.
Also competing tomorrow
will be Young and sophomore
harry Wade in the 110-meter
hurdles and senior Dante
Bolden in the 100-meter dash.
Bolden barely qualified for
the field of 24 with a time of
10.38 seconds.
Wade goes into the hurdles
with the fastest legal collegiate
time this year, 13.65 seconds.
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Powerful bats key to Aggies 5 ’95 success
□ The Texas A&M base
ball team hit .321 dur
ing the regular season.
By Lee Wright
The Battalion
The 1995 baseball season for
Texas A&M began and ended
with question marks.
It began with thoughts of
“What happened?” after the Ag
gies’ dismal 1994 campaign, in
cluding a 6-12 Southwest Con
ference Record.
It ended however, with
thoughts of “What could have
happened?” after the Aggies came
within one game of their second
College World Series berth in
three years.
The A&M baseball season
concluded on Sunday with a
heartbreaking loss to the Uni
versity of Miami, 5-2, in the
championship game of the At
lantic II Regional tournament.
"The tough competition in
the Southwest Conference
this season prepared us for
postseason play."
—Jim Lawler
Texas A dr AT pitching coach
The loss ended a four-game
winning streak in the regional
for the Aggies.
The Aggie hitters had no trou
ble producing in the series, de
spite the high level of competition
they faced. Texas A&M head
pitching coach Jim Lawler attrib
uted the Aggies’ offensive success
to the quality SWC pitching they
faced all season.
“The tough competition in the
Southwest Conference this sea
son prepared us for postseason
play,” Lawler said. “We were
used to playing good teams with
outstanding pitching staffs.”
For the most part, the regular
season mirrored the regional for
the Aggie hitters. A&M finished
with a .321 team batting average,
third highest in school history.
The hitting attack led the Aggies
to a 15-9 SWC record, good for
second place behind Texas Tech,
and a 40-20-1 record overall.
Spearheading the attack for
A&M were the team’s co-Most
Valuable Players, John Curl
and Chad Alexander. Curl had
the most prolific offensive year
of his career, hitting .418 with
18 home runs and a .788 slug
ging percentage. Alexander set
a new team record for hits in
a season with 106, shattering
the existing record of 96. Both
players were named first-team,
all-SWC.
Never was the Aggies’ offen
sive prowess exemplified more
than in the SWC Tournament
held at Olsen Field in May.
During the tournament, the
Aggie batters slugged 12 home
runs in five games, shattering
the old record of eight set
by the University of Houston
wm ^ am in 1982.
The A&M pitching staff
rebounded from an injury-
plagued 1994 season to
keep the Aggies in strik
ing distance throughout
the season.
Justin Atchley, a se
nior lefthander, received
the C.E. “Pat” Olsen Out
standing Pitcher Award,
led the Aggies with 16
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games started, seven complete
games, 113 and 1/3 innings of
work and only 18 walks. Atch
ley ended the season with a 9-6
record and a 5.00 earned run
average.
The Wally Moon Award, giv
en to the most improved player
on the A&M roster, was present
ed to Tim Clarkson, a junior
transfer who did not pitch until
the 23rd game of the season.
He ended the regular season
with a 4-1 record and a 3.86
ERA. He was also named
to the regional all- tourna
ment team after a complete-
game shutout against Miami
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Senior first baseman lohn Curl and his Aggie teammates came within
one win of reaching the College World Series in 1995.
that forced Monday’s champi
onship game.
“A lot of guys stepped up and
had big games during the re-
gionals against very good
teams.” Lawler said.
Not only the players set
records in 1995. Aggie fans set a
new attendance record at Olsen
Field on April 28 when 7,147
fans packed the stadium to see
the Aggies’ game against the
University of Texas.
The Aggies finished the sea
son ranked No. 12 in the coun
try and will lose seven players,
including starters Curl and
shortstop Robert Harris
to graduation. In addition,
pitching staff will lose
Atchley, Spencer McIntyre and
Brian Parker.
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