The Battalion
Tuesday • February 24, 1998
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Aggies ride to Huntsville to tame Bearkats
Texas A&M hopes to tally their 12th win against Sam Houston State this afternoon
Astros’ spring training
disrupted by tornado
By Travis Harsch
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Baseball Team proved this
weekend that it can rebound better than the
men’s basketball team. After getting shelled 17-
3 Friday by Ole Miss, the Aggies bounced back
with a 6-3 victory and a 3-2 extra-inning win to
take the series and improve their record on the
season to an impressive 11-1.
It is a record they hope to keep building on
this afternoon as they travel to Huntsville to tan
gle with the Sam Houston State Bearkats.
Sam Houston State will be looking to get back
on track against A&M. After dropping two games
to Centenary on Saturday, the Bearkats' record
stands at 5-7.
The game will be the first, of three versus Sam
Houston for the Aggies. The other games will be
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WeVe got to attack more,
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agressive hitting ballclub.
BRANDON BOLLOM/The Battalion
Sophomore Chad Hudson and the Aggies will need timely hitting to get by Sam Houston State.
Mark Johnson
A&M Baseball Coach
played on Apr. 7 and 28 at Olsen Field. Last sea
son, the teams played three games, with A&M
sweeping the series.
Junior Jason lyner, who pulled a hamstring in
Friday’s loss and did not play for the rest of the
weekend, will likely be back in the lineup this af
ternoon, Coach Mark Johnson said. The Aggies
will need him as they face a formidable Bearkat
pitcher, junior Gregg Kubes, who played for
Team USA this summer with Tyner and sopho
more Casey Possum.
The Aggies will start sophomore Chance
Caple, who is 2-0 with a 3.00 ERA. Caple’s last
start came against Dallas Baptist, a game in
which he went seven innings, giving up seven
hits, one earned run and striking out a career-
high nine with no walks.
Even if Caple matches his last performance,
Johnson said the Aggies still need to be more as
sertive at the plate.
“We’ve got to attack more, we’ve got to be a
more aggressive hitting ballclub,” Johnson
said. “I don’t mean wild swings, but we need
to work the counts and when we get our
counts, we've got to look to drive the ball and
not be so picky.”
Despite the two wins over Ole Miss, sopho
more Steve Scarborough said the Aggies need to
improve on some things as they get ready to take
on the Bearkats.
“We always need to work on moving run
ners and when guys are in scoring position,
driving them in,” Scarborough said. “We’ve
still got a long way to go and we’ve got a lot of
work to do.”
But perhaps the Aggies do not have as far to
go as Scarborough thinks. In the latest Colle
giate Baseball poll, the Aggies have jumped to
fifteenth in the nation, and in the most recent
Baseball America poll, the team stands twenti
eth in the nation.
The game is scheduled to get underway at 2
p.m. on Tuesday.
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(AP) — Normally, spring training is fun and games. That all changed!
the Houston Astros on Monday.
Houston called off practice after a tornado swept by their facility
Osceola County Stadium in Kissimmee, Fla.
A tornado shredded the Ponderosa Park campground behind the sta-
dium early Monday, killing eight people. From there, it dipped down be
side the Astros clubhouse, smashing a batting cage and ripping up two sec
tions of artificial turf
Shane Reynolds, likely the Astros’ opening day pitcher, was one of six
Astros players staying in homes nearby in Lakeside Estates along with stan
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“If the tornado had gone a little to the left of its path I don’t think a lot of
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Bogar’s rental car was smashed into his pickup truck.
‘T had never been in one before and I don’t ever want to be in an
other one again,” Spiers said. “It was awful. I get chills just talking abom
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those things can do.”
In Clearwater, Fla., J.D. Drew’s holdout—he rejected a multimillion of
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