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Sophomore Chris Cole is emerging as a big play wide receiver for the Aggies
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BRANDON BOLLOM/The Battalion
Sophomore receiver Chris Cole makes a catch against Baylor. Cole has come up
big for the Aggies in the past two games.
By Jeff Webb
Staff writer
T exas A&M is said to lack expe
rience in the receiving corps
this year. The Aggies run a five
man rotation at wide out that in
cludes one junior, three sopho
mores, and one freshman. However,
sophomore receiver Chris Cole
would have everyone believe he is
the elder of the bunch in experience.
“How experienced do you have
to be?” the true sophomore said.
“One game is enough to be ready
to play college football. We’re a
bunch of sophomores with lots of
experience. Next year we will be
loaded and we’re going to end this
year with a bang.”
Despite having an attitude that
comes across as being almost
cocky, Cole’s teammates have
learned to rely on him and his big
play capability. That confidence in
the receivers has quickly devel
oped after the last three games.
“We knew Chris was going to be
a great receiver for us,” quarter
back Branndon Stewart said. “He’s
a fast guy and it’s good to get him
some experience.”
Cole has come up big in the last
two games. In the Oklahoma State
game, Cole came up with the game
being touchdown catch that pro
pelled the Aggies to an overtime win.
“I drowned in it,” said Cole. “I
replayed it in my mind a hundred
times that night. I really enjoyed
getting some recognition.”
“It was a big play for us,” wide
receivers coach Steve Kragthorpe
said. “We felt it would be there all
game long. Chris did a great job of
running the corner route and
Leroy did a great job of clearing it
out and making it man to man.”
On a fourth down play against
Baylor, Cole took a short slant up the
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middle for a touchdown that broke
the spirit of the hapless Bears.
“They called a slant and they
were blitzing,” Cole said. I shook
him [the defender] and took it in. It
was nothing special. To be honest
with you, I didn’t even know it was
fourth down, I just tried to catch it.”
“Chris Cole is a guy with big play
capability and the ability to get
deep,” coach Slocum said. “The
fourth down play last week was the
biggest play in the ball game.”
While Cole seems to benefit the
most from big plays in the passing
offense, he claims it is mere chance
that he gets the call.
"We’re all dependable re
ceivers,” Cole claims. “If the right
people are in at the right time, it
makes it better for everyone. Who
ever happens to be in the rotation
gets the luck of the draw.”
Cole has benefited from plays
called for number 80, but he earns
the looks in practice week to week.
“They play each week based on
their performance in practice,”
Coach Kragthorpe said. “We like to
say ‘Those who display will play’.”
Cole could have gone to higher
profile programs, but chose Texas
A&M for a specific reason. He want
ed to publicize the passing game.
“I felt that I would bring a pass
ing game here,” Cole said. “I want
ed to make A&M known for their
receivers. That’s what every recruit
must believe.”
With the passing game clicking
like it has in recent weeks, you
may one day hear the name Chris
Cole mentioned as the reason
that Texas A&M started running a
Fun ‘N Gun offense like the Flori
da Gators. But most likely Cole
will provide balance to an Aggie
offense that has lacked it in the
nineties. Opponents take note;
that’s no small accomplishment.
Expos’Martinez ends
Atlanta’s win streak
NEW YORK (AP) — Pedro Mar
tinez ended the Atlanta Braves’
streak of NL Cy Young Awards at
four, easily beating Greg Maddux
and Denny Neagle.
Martinez, put on the trade mar
ket by Montreal immediately after
the season, received 25 of 28 first-
place votes and 134 points in bal
loting released Tuesday by the Base
ball Writers' Association of America.
Maddux, who won the award
four consecutive times from 1992-
95, was second with the remaining
first-place votes and 75 points.
Neagle, his teammate on the
Braves, was third with 24 points,
followed by Philadelphia’s Curt
Schilling with 12 and Houston’s
Darryl Kile with seven.
Atlanta and Maddux have com
bined to monopolize the award in re-
centyears. After Tom Glavine won it in
1991, Maddux won it with the Chica
go Cubs in 1992, then repeated in his
first three seasons with the Braves.
John Smoltz then won it last year.
Martinez, a 26-year-old right
hander, joined with Schilling to
become the first pair of pitchers in
25 years to reach 300 strikeouts in
the same season.
Martinez went 17-8 and led the
majors with a 1.90 ERA, becoming
the first ERA leader with 300 strike
outs since Steve Carlton in 1972. Op
ponents hit just .184 against him, the
lowest average against any major
league pitcher last season. His 305
strikeouts were second in the majors,
14 behind Schilling’s total, and his 13
complete games led both leagues.
With a 65-39 career record, Mar
tinez is more sought after than any
of the free-agent pitchers on the
market. The Expos, not wanting to
pay a large salary in arbitration and
afraid of losing him to free agency
after 1998, have said they intend to
trade him this offseason.
Martinez, Montreal’s first Cy
Young winner, gets a $100,000
bonus for leading the voting. Mad
dux gets a $150,000 bonus for fin
ishing second and Neagle gets
$75,000 for finishing third.
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