iday • February 20, 1998
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■■Aggies try to stay perfect against Ole’ Miss
By Chris Ferrfxl
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Baseball Team
try to stay perfect on the season
they play host to the Ole’ Miss
els this weekend at Olsen Field.
eesrjWliile this season’s team did not
ner as much attention as some
&M’s past squads, Coach Mark
nson said the team has done
at it needs to win games.
don’t think we’re great yet,”
nson said. “The teams we’ve
yed, I think we’re better than. I
nk that we have lost games (in
past) against teams that we
ve been better than. We weren’t
le to win those games with teams
it I thought were better. None the
is, if you can pick up wins when
eetfo U can I pretty happy about that,
s ,,„ d tliis year’s done that.”
'ijj The Aggies owe much of their
|j ccess to the pitching staff which
scome out of the gate strong.
MjnJSenior righthander Ryan Rupe
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was named the college player of the
week after posting a 2-0 record in
his two starts this season. He start
ed the season by throwing a com
bined no-hitter and followed it up
with a complete game shutout
against Arkansas State last week
end. Opponents are batting .089
against him this season.
Rupe is scheduled to start in Fri
day night’s opener. In the second
game of the series sophomore
pitcher Casey Possum is scheduled
to get the start. Possum has also
started the season with a 2-0 record.
Possum has also appeared in
two relief appearances for the Ag
gies this season.
Junior transfer Matt Ward will
get the nod in game three. He is also
2-0 on the season.
Offensively, the Aggies have
benefited from some big innings.
Sophomore second baseman
Sean Heaney has carried the
biggest stick in the Aggie lineup so
far with a team high 12 RBI. He has
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Junior Eric Sobek dives back into first base against Dallas Baptist Tuesday.
also hit two home runs on his way
to posting a .394 batting average. In
the Aggies 10-9 comeback win over
rack team heads to Houston Invitational
from staff and wire reports
2J ^ter two straight weeks of division between the
inters and distance runners, the Texas A&M Track
Jl Field Team will be reunited and in full force when
y travel to Houston on Saturday to compete in the
uston Invitational.
ompeting against the Aggies will be schools such as
lene Christian, North Texas, Jackson State, Texas
ithern, Texas Tech and the University of Houston. The
meet will be held at the indoor facil
ity on the University of Houston
campus, where three short weeks
ago, the Aggies successfully qualified
three athletes for the NCAA Cham-
pionships and set two meet records
and one school record.
After a week filled with practice-al
tering weatlier, the Aggies will be
heading to Houston to compete in
what will be the final tune-up for the
Vi Nelson Big 12 Championships in Ames, Iowa,
^ just one short week away. However,
thing has appeared to slow the progress of the Aggies
gthe indoor season, and with only two more weeks
ipportunities to qualify for nationals, the past week of
ittice should be nothing more than a distant memory
'fflit comes time for the meet to start.
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Schedule of Events
Friday. February 20
4:00 Workshop: “Music in Film”
7:00 Night of Shorts II
- Lunch with Louie
- The List
- Dust and Other
Particles of Attraction
- The Little Things
- Pu Ro Mi Su {The Promise)
- Secrets
10:00 Feature: Made Men
With additional short films:
- The Puzzle
- Fast Food
Saturday. February 21
Ticket Information
Individual Tickets
$3.00
Festival Pass
$20.00
provides access to all screenings, special
receptions, workshops & hospitality room
Student Festival Pass
$17.50
Same access as festival pass.
Available to anyone with valid student I.D.
Tickets can be purchased at theMSC Box
Office (409)845-1234
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&
1:00 Workshop: “Ethnicity in Film”
2:00 Children’s Screening Room
- Happy Hew Year
- Partners in Crime
- Big Bucks for Buddha
3:00 Workshop: “The Work of Tarantino’
5:00 Director’s Reception at
Fox and Hound
7:00 Feature: Just Friends
With additional short films:
-Ah L Amour
- Lily and Jim
10:00 Feature: Nude with Oranges
With additional short film:
El Artist a
Sunday. February 22
2:00 Feature: The New Gods
With additional short film:
Six Months of Darkness,
Six Months of Light
Persons with disabilities please call 845-
1515 to inform us of your special needs. We
request notification three(3) working days prior to
the event to enable us to assist you to the best of
our ability.
Made Possible in Part by the Texas
Commission on the Arts and the
Brazos Valley Arts Council.
Movie Poster Sale!!!!
MSC Hallway
MondayTriday, February 16-20, 1998
9 a.m.-Sp.m.
Benefitting the MSC Film Society
and the 1998 Texas Film Festival
Dallas Baptist on Tuesday, it was
Heaney’s three-run blast which
help put A&M back into the game.
Texas A&M will be coming off of two straight weeks
of excellent results against rather stiff competition,
and will be riding the wave of success into Houston.
The Aggies will be looking to improve on their results
from the last Houston Invitational three weeks ago,
which include overall team performances of second-
place for the men and third for the women. Though
they will be doing this with the overall intention of re
maining healthy for the final meet.
Senior Larry Wade will look to continue his un
beaten streak in the hurdles in the very place it start
ed three weeks ago. On the women’s side, senior
Adrien Sawyer and her four qualifications to nation
als (three automatic) will look to lead the Aggies to yet
another impressive showing.
As for the rest of the Texas A&M Track and Field Team,
it will look to increase the number of participants com
peting in the NCAA Championships in addition to prepar
ing for the Big 12 Championships, where the Aggies turned
in a sub-par performance a year ago. However, this has
proven to be a team with outstanding athletes and
tremendous focus, and the results over the next two weeks
should do nothing but reflect that.
Texas A&M will conclude the indoor season at the
Big 12 Championships next weekend, with the ex
ception of the NCAA Championships, and will then
begin preparing for the grueling outdoor season,
which begins in early March.
Softball team hosts
Aggie Invitational
By Robert Hollier
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Softball Team
(7-1,0-0) will look to increase its
win totals when they host the Ag
gie Invitational Tournament this
weekend. In this tournament, the
teams will play each other twice.
On Friday, the Aggies will play
UTSA (6-2) at 4:30 p.m. and New
Mexico State (5-8) at 6:45 p.m. On
Saturday, A&M will play Penn
State (0-0) at noon and again on
Sunday at 11:15 a.m. The Aggies
will play New Mexico again on Sat
urday at 6:45 p.m. and UTSA again
on Sunday at 3:45 p.m.
During this tournament, Aggie
Coach Jo Evans said she will be
looking for more consistent play
from the team.
“In the last tournament, we
Please see Softball on Page 8.
Women’s basketball
at home to face Tech
No. 6 Red Raiders 11-1 in Big 12 play
By Philip W. Peter
Staff writer
For the second consecutive Sat
urday the Texas A&M Women’s Bas
ketball Team (7-16, 3-10) will face
the No. 6 team in the nation when
they travel to Lubbock to take on
the Texas Tech Lady Raiders (18-4,
11-1) at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the
Lubbock Municipal Coliseum.
Last Saturday, the Lady Raiders
visited College Station and hand
ed A&M its largest home loss of the
season, 90-65, while forward Alicia
Thompson showed why she is an
All-America candidate. The 6-foot-
1 -inch senior was the game’s lead-
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Junior guard Kim Tarkington and the
Aggies fell last week to Tech, 90-65.
ing scorer with 26 points on 10 for
13 field-goal shooting while only
playing 19 minutes due to foul
trouble. Thompson, who also had
nine rebounds last week, averages
22 points on 55 percent field-goal
shooting and 9 rebounds per
game. But Thompson does not
play alone.
The Lady Raiders thrive on
their depth. Of the 15 players on
the roster, 10 are juniors and se
niors. They start three juniors, a
senior and a sophomore com
pared to A&M, who starts four
sophomores and a junior. But
Texas A&M Coach Candi Harvey
said they will try to use their age,
or lack there of, to their advantage.
“There is one senior on this
team,” Harvey said, “and juniors
that contribute but don’t play as
many minutes as sophomores and
freshmen. We’ll just have to use that
youthful enthusiasm. If we play as
well as we did (against Texas
Wednesday, an 86-68 A&M victory),
I think we can compete up there.”
Against Texas, A&M sophomore
Prissy Sharpe scored a career high
29 points in 34 minutes. However,
due to foul trouble last week
against the Lady Raiders, Sharpe
was limited to 26 minutes.
Sharpe fouled out with four
minutes to play and junior point
guard Kim Tarkington fouled out
with one minute to play. Sec
ond-half foul trouble sent the
Lady Raiders to the free-throw
line 18 times and coincidentally,
they out-scored A&M by eigh
teen in the half.
Also working in the Lady
Raiders’ favor is the home-court
advantage. In College Station,
1,637 fans came to watch the
game. Texas Tech, however, av
erages 7,870 fans when playing
in Lubbock. Harvey said she is
not worried about the crowd,
she enjoys it.
“It’s not a friendly environ
ment,” Harvey said. “It shouldn’t
be. That’s what college basketball
is all about. I just wish we had the
same type of environment here.”
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