Vlonday • March 9, 1998
The Battalion
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exas A&M takes 2 of 3 from Mizzou Tigers
|upe sets tone with 11-strikeout, 4-hit, complete-game win
By Travis Harsch
Staff writer
[Mother Nature did her best Sunday afternoon to
ike the Missouri Tigers feel at home.
[With game-time temperatures tumbling into
mid-40s and wind magnifying the effects of
e cold before 2,181 chilly loyalists at Olsen
dd, the Aggies overcame the weather and a sol-
effort by Tiger pitching to take the final game
N8,'the weekend series, 4-3, and rebound from a
r ei; 3 loss Saturday.
j 0 <; The victory, coupled with A&M’s 9-2 win on Fri-
jft y, handed the Aggies their second series victory in
3 12 play.
Junior Matt Ward pitched a complete game, striking
1 1 seven with no walks.
(jj; “I just came out and threw strikes,” Ward said.
he team played solid defense, that wind was
Ififugh on those fly balls, you could see the balls
it there diving."
V The Southern California native was affected by the
)s: :athor, but stayed warm when he wasn’t throwing.
i “It was really cold out there, my fingertips were
: imb,” Ward said. “But Casey Possum said that once
u w'cre on the mound, you’d feel pretty warm, and
its: ery inning I came in the locker room, stretched out a
od le bit and stayed warm and kept moving so I would-
tighten up.”
Sean Heaney hit a two-run homer to right in the bot
tom of the second to give A&M a 3-0 lead after Jason
Tyner scored on a single in the first.
“I was just trying to go the other way with the ball,
and luckily, the wind was blowing out that way, so that
helped it out,” Heaney said.
The Aggies added another run in the fourth to
make the score 4-1, where it remained until the sev
enth, when Mizzou got two doubles and a triple to cut
the lead to 4-3. With the tying run at third, Ward
forced a pop out to end the inning, then sent the
Tigers back to the bench in order in the next two in
nings for the win. Coach Mark Johnson said Ward is
doing everything well.
“He’s throwing strikes, he’s getting ahead in the
count, he’s working in and out and changing speeds,”
Johnson said.
Ward’s complete game matched the one Ryan Rupe
threw in the first game of the series for A&M on Friday.
Rupe threw well, allowing only four hits and striking out
11 to improve his record to 4-1 on the year. Craig
Kuzmic went deep for three of the Aggies’ nine runs as
they triumphed 9-2.
A&M didn’t fare as well Saturday, losing 6-3, as Mis
souri pitching allowed only one hit into the eighth in
ning. Casey Possum pitched well in the loss, however,
giving up three runs and striking out 11 in eight innings
of work. Johnson said Possum gave a solid effort, but it
wasn’t enough.
ROBERT MCKAY/The Battalion
Junior designated hitter Erik Sobek dives back into first base during the Aggies’ 4-3 win over Missouri yesterday.
“I hate it that Casey’s fallen into a hard-luck pitcher,
because he gives up two runs and can’t get a win out of
it,” Johnson said.
Ward said the series victory will help the self-esteem
of a young team.
“Our confidence is up right now,” Ward said. “We’re
playing solid defense, we’re hitting the ball pretty good,
we’re throwing strikes, we’re not walking too many guys,
so we’re going to succeed if we keep doing that.”
The Aggies next take on Southwest Texas State in a
doubleheader Tuesday at Olsen. The first game be
gins at 4 p.m.
tfg 12 Men's and Women’s Basketball Tournaments offer few surprises
-Jen’s top seed Kansas, women’s top seed Texas Tech roll to respective conference tourney championships
led Raiders slam
ayhawks in final
The Texas Tech Women’s Bas-
tball Team defeated the Kansas
/hawks 71-53 Saturday night to
i the Women's Big 12 Tourna-
mt Championship.
With the win, Texas Tech
rned the Big 12 Conference’s
tomatic bid to the NCAA
jmen’s Basketball Tournament,
me Hanebutt led three Tech
ayers scoring in double figures
th 121 points on 5-6 shooting
am outside the three-point arc.
Alicia Thompson and Angie Braziel
had 14 and 13 points, respec
tively, for Texas
Tech. Thompson
was named the
tournament’s
most valuable
player, and
joined Braziel
on the All-Tour
nament team.
Tech defeat
ed Colorado and
Oklahoma State
to earn the right
to play Kansas in the finals.
Kansas’ road to the final game
Thompson
from staff and
included victories over Kansas
State and Iowa State.
Iowa State ended Texas A&M’s
dreams of a Cinderella run through
the tournament with a 88-68 vic
tory in the second round. The Ag
gies advanced to the second
round with a 98-74 victory over the
Texas Longhorns in the first round.
The loss marked the earliest exit
from postseason play for a Long
horn basketball team in the histo
ry of the program.
Kansas post Lynn Pride, Iowa
State guard Stacy Frese and Okla
homa State guard Cheri Edwards
rounded out the All-Tournament team.
wire reports
Kansas proves too
tough for Sooners
The No. 1 seeded Kansas Jay-
hawks won their second straight Big
12 Tournament Championship with a
72-58 victory over the Oklahoma
Sooners. With the win, Kansas gets
an unnecessary automatic NCAA
Tournament bid.
Kansas’ 34 wins ties the previous
year’s team for second most victories
in school history. The 1985-86 Final
Four team garnered 35 wins.
Trailing 40-38 at the 12:03 mark,
the Jayhawks went on a 25-8 run over
the next eight minutes to ice the win.
Jayhawk junior fonvard Paul Pierce
was the tournament MVP after scor
ing 26 points. He
HBB
is the first Jay- **
hawk to be
named tourna
ment MVP in con
secutive years
since Danny Man
ning in 1986 and
1987.
Other mem
bers of the All-
Tournament team
were Nebraska guard Tyronn Lue, Ok
lahoma center Evan Wiley, Oklahoma
Pierce
guard Corey Brewer and Kansas for
ward Raef LaFrentz.
To get to the finals, Kansas
beat Kansas State 68-61 and Ne
braska 91-59.
Oklahoma defeated Missouri 58-
53 and Texas 68-55.
Baylor ended Texas A&M’s
chances of a Cinderella tourna
ment run with their 66-63 victory
over the Aggies.
Texas surprised some by upset
ting both Texas Tech in the first round
and No. 2 seed Oklahoma State in
the second. Kris Clack managed to
play despite a shoulder injury that fig
ured to keep him out of the lineup.
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