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March 2, 1998
exas A&M takes 2 of 3 from Red Raiders
By Chris Ferrell
Staff writer
Lei the games begin.
After battling their way to a No. 11 national
iking against the likes of Arkansas State and
al Roberts, the Texas A&M Baseball Team (13-
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lior Craig Kuzmic rounds the bases after his
me run in the second game of the Tech series.
3, 2-1) opened Big 12 play this weekend by tak
ing two of three from defending conference
champions Texas Tech (11-7,1-2) at Olsen Field.
The Aggies got off to a strong start on Friday
with a career-high 12-strikeout performance by
senior pitcher Ryan Rupe as A&M defeated the
Red Raiders 5-4.
Saturday, however was a different story as Tech
evened up the series with a 6-5 victory in 10 innings.
But Sunday, there was never a question.
A&M jumped on Tech starting pitcher Jesse
Cornejo with five runs in the third inning and
continued to tattoo the rest of the Red Raider staff
on their way to an 11-2 win in the rubber match.
“This was a good weekend for us,” Coach Mark
Johnson said. “I told the guys we’re going to look
back at yesterday (Saturday) and say, T wish, I wish,
I wish,’ but that happens in baseball. This was a
good game for us. It was a great finish to our week
end for us to come back after a heartbreaker yes
terday. Those things can take something out of you,
so to come back and finish strong today was good.”
Johnson said he was glad the young Aggies
were able to open up Big 12 play at home.
“I think there’s always more pressure on the
road,” he said. “I’m more comfortable. Our play
ers are more comfortable. Our fans come out.
When you’re at home you have to make it happen.
When we get into April and we’re out on the road
every weekend it will get tough, so when you’re at
home you feel like you can’t give a series away.”
Junior third baseman Craig Kuzmic led the
Aggies’ offensive attack, going four-for-four
with three RBI.
A&M also got three RBI from sophomore left
fielder Steven Truitt, including two on a two-run
home run in the sixth inning. Junior center field
er Jason Tyner and sophomore shortstop Steve
Scarborough each drove in two runs.
But as has been the case all season, it was the
Aggies’ starting pitchers who continued to turn
in impressive performances.
Along with Rupe’s 12 strikeouts, sophomore
Casey Possum went eight innings on Saturday. Pos
sum struck out eight batters and allowed two
earned mns as he took a no decision in the team’s
extra-inning loss. Sunday, junior pitcher Matt Ward
joined Rupe and Possum by picking up his third
win of the season with a complete game victory.
“I thought all three of our pitchers gave us a
chance to win and that's all we can ask them to do,”
Johnson said. “In the age of aluminum bats it’s hard
to keep the scores down. You want to have a
chance. You can’t have a pitcher give up big in
nings. [He has to] keep it close and give us a chance
to hit. Today, we had some good production.”
Tyner shared his coach’s sentiments.
“We have a really good pitching staff," Tyner
said. “It doesn’t matter, one-two-three, we’re go
ing to be tough to beat on every day of the week
end. I’d take our staff over anyone in the country.”
Most importantly, the series victory sets the
pace for a tough Big 12 schedule.
Along with the fifteenth-ranked Red Raiders,
Baylor, Oklahoma State and Texas will all be in
the running for the tide. Johnson said the com
petitive nature of the league is going to be evi
dent at the end of the season once the postsea
son tournaments start.
“It’s going to come down to the regional com
mittee saying, ‘the Big 12 is pretty good,”’ Johnson
said. “Because we’re going to beat each other up.”
ennis teams in action this weekend
By Al Lazarus
Staff writer
■he No. 38 Texas A&M Women’s
mnis Team was swept by No. 14
rigliam Young, 9-0, on Friday, but
runced back on Saturday to de-
at Kansas State, 5-4.
Although the final score may
3t show it, the Aggies (8-2, 1-1)
id a solid showing against BYU, a
-srennially strong team coming off
i upset of No. 10 Pepperdine.
) “If people just look at the final
ore, they might think we never had
:hance,” freshman Eva Marcial said,
iut we were close in every match,
id we are proud of ourselves.”
Coach Bobby Kleinecke said al-
- ough the team was aware of this,
ey were not concerned with it.
“There’s no doubt that we have
i win out (in conference), but it’s
' important for us to take it one
match at a time,” Kleinecke said.
After winning four of six singles
matches against KSU, the Aggies
needed to win only one of three
doubles matches to secure victory.
Marcial and sophomore
Kathryn Scott took care of this,
winning their doubles match, 9-7.
“We knew our match was going
to be tough,” Scott said. “But we
just went on the court thinking that
we were not going to lose.”
The No. 33 Texas A&M Men’s
Tennis Team lost to No. 7 University
of Texas, 4-2, Sunday in Austin.
The Aggies won the doubles point,
but could not get the three singles vic
tories they needed to win the match.
Winning in doubles for A&M were
junior Brent Horan and freshman Du-
mitru Caradima, 8-5, and freshmen
Rafael de Mesa and Cody Hubbell,
9-7. De Mesa secured the Aggies’
lone singles victory, 7-6, (7-4), 6-1.
Men finish 3rd in Big 12
By Jeff Webb
Staffwriter
Texas A&M made a big splash this
past weekend as it took a third-place
finish in the Big 12 Men’s Swimming
and Diving Championships. The Ag
gies finished behind Texas (886) and
Nebraska (638.5) with 579 points.
Diver Mark Naftanel put on a stel
lar performance by winning the plat
form diving and 3-meter diving com
petitions and finishing second in the
1m diving event. He earned the Out
standing Diver honor and Texas A&M
Diving Coach Kevin Wright took home
Diving Coach of the Year honors.
“I wasn’t really sharp in the pre
liminaries, so I worked to simplify my
dives,” Naftanel said. “It helped me
get more consistent. It was nice to
come back tonight and have some
solid dives. I think I made a lot of
progress in my competition mode
and it looks like I’ll be in good shape
going into future meets.”
Texas A&M also took the 200-yard
freestyle relay in a NCAA automatic
qualifying time of 1:18.17. On the
third day of competition, the Aggies
proved it was not a fluke, garnering
second place in the 400 freestyle re
lay in NCAA automatic qualifying
time of 2:55.06. Men’s Swimming
Coach Mel Nash said that was where
the focus was placed after the quali
fication of the 200 relay team.
‘After we got the 200-free in, we just
wanted to come back and get the 400,”
Nash said. “Qualifying in the 400 got
us one more swimmer in the NCAAs.
“I think well have as even better
team at next year’s competition. This
year, we were only 59 points behind
Nebraska, but you have to see where
progress is made.”
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Aggie Sports Briefs
from staff and
Men finish No. 2
at Big 12 Indoors
At the Big 12 Indoor Track Cham
pionships this weekend, seniors Bil
ly Fobbs and Larry Wade turned
many heads in the Aggies’ direction.
The Texas A&M Men's Track and
Field Team surprised many when it
took Nebraska down to the wire for first
place in the competition. Wade de
stroyed the rest of the field in the 55-
meter hurdles to win in 7.09. His time
is a Big 12 meet record and a NCAA
automatic qualifying time.
Fobbs enjoyed some success of his
own by winning the 55m dash in just
6.22 seconds. In the 200m dash, Fobbs
led from start to finish and garnered a
NCAA automatic qualifying time with a
Big 12 meet record time of 20.92.
Junior Mike Lowrance won the Big
12 shot-put title with a heave of 58-
111/4, which is a NCAA provisional
qualifying mark.
The women did not fare as well de
spite some outstanding individual per
formances. The Aggie women fin
ished ninth in the 12-team field with
a score of 44. Senior Adrien Sawyer
won the Big 12 Championship in the
long jump on Friday and came back to
finish second in the 55m hurdles in a
NCAA automatic qualifying time of
7.67. Sophomore Chimika Carter was
fourth in the 55m hurdles with a time
of 7.82, a NCAA provisional time.
Women lose at
Baylor, 91-76
The Texas A&M Women's Bas
ketball Team lost to the Baylor Lady
Bears 91-76 Saturday night in Waco.
A&M led the game early, 8-6, as it
connected on its first four shots. Lat
er in the half, Bliss hit a three-point
shot to ignite a 10-0 run and put Bay
lor up 34-26. A three-point play by
sophomore forward Kera Alexander
tied the game at 43, before Webb hit
a three-point shot to give the Lady
Bears a 46-43 lead at intermission.
Baylor picked up its defensive in
tensify in the second half, forcing 13
Aggie turnovers and put the game
away with a 14-4 run.
The Bears were led in scoring by
Webb who had a game-high 32 points,
while Moffitt scored 21 and Bliss added
20. Alexander led four Aggie players in
double figures with 23 points, followed
by Prissy Sharpe with 21, Kim Tarking-
wire reports
ton with 13 and Amy Yates with 12.
The Aggies finished the regular sea
son 8-18,4-12, and earned the No. 10
seed in the Big 12 Tournament.
Women’s All-Big 12
Team announced
Texas A&M women’s basketball
players Prissy Sharpe and Amy Yates
were named to the Big 12 Conference
Coaches All-Big 12 Teams Sunday.
However, forward Kera Alexander was
one of the more noticeable omissions.
Sharpe, a sophomore who leads the
Aggies in scoring (15.3) and rebound
ing (10.0), was named third-team All-Big
12 and Yates, a sophomore guard,
earned honorable mention status.
Missing out on the honors is sopho
more Kera Alexander who is leading
the Aggies in scoring in conference
games with 16.4 points per game.
Rough weekend
for softball team
The Texas A&M Softball Team (12-
8) finished with a 1-5 record in the NFCA
Classic Tournament this weekend.
The Aggies lost to No. 3 Michigan,
7-4, and No. 7 Arizona State, 8-0, on
Friday, then fell to Nicholls State, 2-0,
and Canisius, 4-3, on Saturday.
During bracket play on Sunday,
the Aggies lost to Auburn, 1-0, and
then defeated Boston University, 7-
1, with freshman pitcher Amy Vining
throwing a complete game with five
strikeouts and only one walk to pick
up her fourth win of the season.
A bright spot for the Aggies during the
tournament was the strong play of fresh
man third baseman Amanda Whalen,
who went a combined six for 18 with five
RBI, one run and two stolen bases.
Karnes qualifies
for NCAA meet
Stacie Karnes can breathe a sigh
of relief. The wondering is over.
Karnes qualified for the 1998 NCAA
Championships in the 200-yard
freestyle Saturday at the Aggie Invita
tional. She swam the event with a time
of 1:47.39, a whole second faster than
the NCAA cut. Last year she placed
12th in the event, and this will be her
fourth consecutive appearance overall.
The NCAA Championships will be
held March 19-21 in Minneapolis host
ed by the University of Minnesota.
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