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I get three to five f I :as alone,” GingriT people who paid! ; l peak. ner? o take home? :ycle! ture, small All donations ice provide nesses and their purs. We will TUESDAY April 30, 1996 Sports sports GLANCE Stayin' Alive With a gutsy 11-10 win Sunday, the Aggie Baseball Team kept its hopes for postseason play Dave House, The Battalion Texas A&M junior shortstop Rich Petru takes the throw from catcher William Shiflett and tags out the University of Texas runner at second base Former coach Haith returns to Texas A&M Frank Haith has been named as sociate head basketball coach at Texas A&M, head coach Tony Barone said Monday. Haith, an assistant for Barone at A&M from 1992-95, served as an assistant coach at Penn State last season, helping the Nittany Lions to a 21-7 record, a second-place finish in the Big Ten Conference and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. The Nittany Lions were ranked as high as No. 9 nationally. "I can't think of a better way to move into the Big 1 2 Conference than to name Frank as our associate head coach," Barone said. "He has a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and a wealth of knowledge about our program and the game of bas ketball. His work ethic is unparal leled and he has a very energetic approach to coaching." Umass' Camby de clares NBA eligibility AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Mass achusetts junior Marcus Camby, the college basketball player of the year, announced today that he will make himself eligible for the NBA draft. Camby, a 6-foot-1 1 center at UMass, is expected to be one of the top three picks — perhaps even No. 1 overall, depending on which of the other NCAA under classmen join him in the draft pool. He is expected to play for ward in the pros. SCORES ROUNDUP NL San Diego 2, Houston 0 Atlanta 4, St. Louis 1 New York 3, Montreal 2 Chicago 10, Los Angeles 4 NBA Atlanta 90, Pacers 83 Portland 94, Utah 91, OT AL Seattle at Milwaukee, ppd. rain Chicago 4, California 3 Twins 11, Royals 6 Orioles 8, Rangers 7 UPCOMING EVENTS Aggie Baseball A&M concludes its 1996 regular season this weekend with a three- game set against the Baylor Bears beginning Friday in Waco. By Philip Leone and Nick Georgandis The Battalion The Texas Aggie Baseball Team can thank a resurgent of fense and a little bit of luck for the fact that they are still in contention for postseason play. A&M needed both Sunday af ternoon as they defeated the University of Texas, 11-10, at Olsen Field to salvage one game out of the three-game set. Unlikely hero Jamie Smith pitched the final 5 2/3 innings for the Aggies, giving up five runs, but keeping the Aggies in the game. Included in Smith’s effort was a game-end ing double play on a grounder that would have scored the ty ing run otherwise. Although television replays showed Longhorn Trey Salinas to be safe on the play at first base, Texas A&M first base- man John Scheschuk had oth er ideas. “The umpire called him out, and I’m an Aggie, and he’s out” Scheschuk said. “That’s the way I’m going to look at it.” The Aggies finally were able to outslug the Longhorns in the third game of the series, thanks largely to home runs by Brian Benefield and J.J. Matzke. A&M scored five runs in the fifth, three in the sixth and added the 11th run in the seventh inning to take an 11-9 lead to the top of the eighth. UT scored a single run in the top of the eighth, but could not tie the game. After taking a 17-4 shell shocking from the Longhorns in the series opener on Friday in Austin, the Aggies returned to Olsen Field on Saturday evening to play in front of the largest crowd of the year: 6,624 fans. The total was the second largest in Olsen Field history, trailing only last year’s A&M-UT game. Unfortunately the fans could not help A&M as Texas pounded out eight runs in the first two innings off A&M’s starting pitcher Shane King to cruise to an 11-7 win that moved the Longhorns to with in one victory of their 64th Southwest Conference baseball title. It was A&M’s fifth con secutive loss in league play. A&M Head Coach Mark Johnson said the damage done by Texas in the first two in nings was simply too much for his club to overcome. “Shane had a rough outing, and they got us out of the ball- game in the first two innings,” Johnson said. “It was one of those things from a coaching standpoint where you want to say,’Time out. Let’s start over.’” Texas, which scored 10 runs in the last two innings of Fri day’s contest, continued its slaughter of Aggie pitching in the early going on Saturday. The Longhorns brought nine batters to the plate in the first two innings against King and scored four runs in each frame off a total of nine hits. Longhorn slugger MacGre gor Byers put UT ahead with a two-run homer in the top of the first inning. Trey Salinas and Clint Kiemsteadt followed with two-out RBI singles to push the Texas lead to 4-0. However, the Longhorn ex plosion did not send A&M reel ing. The Aggies responded in their half of the first inning, scoring two runs on Ryan Huffman’s bases-loaded two- out double down the third base line. But the Longhorns came back for another four-run help ing to finish off King in the second. Danny Peoples deliv ered an RBI double and Sali nas slapped a two-run single with two outs. Kiemsteadt fol lowed with an RBI single of his own off Paul Barber, who replaced King. Barber turned in an out standing performance on the mound and kept Texas from running away with the contest The senior righthander held the Longhorns scoreless until he was touched for two home runs in the eighth and ninth innings. Barber’s gritty seven innings of work matched his longest outing of the season, and Johnson saw this as one of the few bright spots of the game for A&M. “I was really pleased with Paul Barber — he was a real plus for us,” Johnson said. “He came in and pitched well and held us together. We fought back, but we just came up short.” The score remained 8-4 un til Texas’ Blake Davis led off the top of the eighth with a solo home run. In the top of the ninth, Peoples led off with another solo shot and Kiem steadt added an RBI double to move the score to 11-4. Brian Benefield and Allen brought Aggie fans to their feet with singles to open up the bottom of the ninth. 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