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washing c | ( AUSTIN (AP) — Tom Penders,
weeks. Get so wbmingest basketball coach in
together and twsity of Texas history but the
ing out at it3 et l ()f a player revolt, resigned
mat. Andr ay '.., • , ,
to wor > It is with mixed emotions that
' " ssign,” Penders told a news
laundr y mat inference.
: | |UM . 1 * 1 " ‘Idedicated the last 10 years of
!' u s 111,0 'I life io bringing the university a
u 1 s<>lne D a "'ik e tball program that everyone
lid be proud of,” he said.
■ 111 QjPenders, 52, who had four years
UdPiog on his contract at $550,000
Npok at the tenure
Penders
In 10 seasons, Penders averaged
arly 21 wins per year.
The Longhorns, 16-13 in 1987-
,went 25-9 in Penders’ first sea-
n and advanced to the second
jnd of the NCAA tournament. It
Btheir first tournament ap-
arance since 1979.
t
Average attendance rose from
)28 in 1987-88 to 10,011 in Pen-
rs’ first season. Entering this sea-
n, Texas had averaged 12,409
is per game under Penders.
Texas went 24-9 and advanced
the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tour-
iment in 1990.
• Penders was the first Texas
ach to lead the Longhorns to a
Wthwest Conference Tournament
le (1994 and 1995).
•The Longhorns have been invited
the NCAA tournament in eight of
epast 10 seasons.
rryear. will be paid $643,000 from
diversity as a settlement.
The settlement also includes an
Bment that neither Penders nor
■chool will take legal action
lainst the other.
Penders’ assistant coaches will
finite to be paid through the
ids of their contracts in August.
The outgoing coach, who had a
ifibrillator and pacemaker im-
anted in his chest to monitor an
tlarged heart at the beginning of
eseason, said he hasn’t yet decid-
Iwhat to do next.
fTt is the time in my life to pur-
ie other options,” Penders said,
Iding that he is considering radio
id television jobs and possibly
ladling again.
The news conference announc-
g Penders’ resignation had an al
most surreal feel to it.
Penders and Texas athletic di
rector DeLoss Dodds hadn’t spo
ken for nearly three weeks in the
wake of four players going to
Dodds’ home on March 8 to say
that they had lost faith in Penders
and his program.
Yet on Thursday, Penders and
Dodds were sitting side by side,
praising each other and patting
each other on the back.
Junior co-captain Kris Clack, a
Penders supporter who repeated
ly has said Penders’ departure
would send a signal that players
could run off a coach, shook his
head in disbelief.
“I just heard everything, and I
don’t have any answers right now,”
Clack said. “Everybody has ques
tions and doubts about all this.”
Penders’ resignation came 3
1/2 weeks after freshmen Luke
Axtell, Chris
Mihm and
Bernard Smith
as well as
sophomore
Gabe Muoneke
— all starters
and corner
stones of the
team — met
with Dodds
and com
plained about
the program.
Axtell and Muoneke have said
they will transfer.
Axtell’s mother, Mollie, said
Thursday night that her son wasn’t
ready yet to comment about whether
he has had a change of heart.
Muoneke attended Penders’
news conference but declined to be
interviewed afterward.
Mihm and Smith said Thursday
that they plan to stay.
“We have not been working to
gether to conspire to take coach
Penders out,” said Mihm, a star 7-
footer. “A lot of us are strong, opin
ionated people.
“Luke (Axtell) took the brunt
of it, and that’s unfortunate. I
hope we can work everything out
and that Luke will remain a part
of the team.”
Dodds said it would be wrong
to assume that a player revolt
drove the coach out.
“I think that’s absolutely false,”
he said. “This is not a players issue.
This is Tom making a decision
about his career.”
Penders echoed that sentiment,
saying, “I don’t want turmoil. This is
about me wanting to make a
change. I don’t have any animosity
toward anyone.”
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Big 12 Conference play heats up for Aggies
Softball team returns from lengthy road trip to face Kansas, Missouri on Saturday
BRANDON BOLLOM/The Battalion
Sophomore shortstop Jamie Smith and the Aggies need to build confidence after losing three games
to Big 12 Conference competition Nebraska and Iowa State. Errors have been a reason for the losses.
By Philip W. Peter
Staff writer
After a six-game, two-thousand mile road trip,
the Texas A&M Women’s Softball Team returns
home this weekend to take on Kansas and Missouri.
A&M lost two games to Nebraska and split
a double-header with Iowa State last weekend,
then swept Stephen F. Austin in a double-
header Wednesday.
With 16 games left in the season, 14 of which
are in conference, Coach Jo Evans said she is
looking forward to playing this weekend’s home
games, which are pivotal points in conference
standings due to the strength of the competition.
“We need to play ranked teams,” Evans said. “It’s
the only way we are going to earn our way into the
post season, so every chance we get to play them
is good for us. We just need to have some success
against those teams and we know we can.”
That confidence is echoed by senior catcher
Marianne McGuire who said she is looking for
ward to seeing more Big 12 opponents.
“I think we’ve played so many good teams
this year that I would be really surprised to see
any better competition than we’ve faced,”
McGuire said. “We’re going into it anticipating
seeing some good competition, but as far as
talent versus talent, we can match any team in
the country, if we just play ball.”
Just playing ball lately has been more difficult
than it may sound though. In A&M’s three losses
to Nebraska and Iowa State, they committed
eight errors while Iowa State committed one and
Nebraska was error-free. But on Wednesday,
A&M only committed three errors to SFA’s 10. Al
though Nebraska is ranked No. 12, Missouri is
ranked No. 8, and Evans said A&M will need
every advantage they can get.
“We’ve got our work cut out for us,” Evans
said. “We’ve got to be more consistent defen
sively and offensively too. We’ve got some goals
that we’ve set for ourselves in conference. We’ve
just got to come out and take care of the basic,
little things you do everyday, making the routine
play, putting the ball in play and making things
happen. I think well be fired up.”
The Aggies will face Kansas on Saturday
and Missouri on Sunday. Both match-ups are
double-headers at noon.
Texas A&M takes hot streak on
road to slumping ISU Cyclones
By Travis Harsch
Staff writer
The Aggie Baseball Team hits the road this week
end for what will be the first series of an extended
conference road swing
after winning six
straight games and nine
out of ten.
A&M will travel to
Ames, Iowa, to take on
the Iowa State Cyclones
in a three-game series,
with a game Friday af
ternoon and a double-
header Saturday.
Iowa State has
played just seven con
ference games due to
weather cancellations,
compiling a 2-5 record in those games.
Coach Mark Johnson said he was concerned
about the weather this weekend, and said that A&M
will have an edge because of the number of games the
Aggies have played.
“I hope we’re going to get to play,” Johnson said.
“They haven’t gotten off to a really good start. They
haven’t played a lot of ballgames, so I think we’re at an
advantage because we’ve played more games.”
This weekend’s forecast calls for a 40 percent chance
of showers Friday in Ames, but the sky should be clear
for the Saturday twinbill.
A&M will put its usual trio of weekend starters on
the mound. Ryan Rupe, Casey Fossum and Matt Ward
have been outstanding, with a combined 17-5 record,
combined ERA of 3.18 and only 37 walks to go along
with 172 strikeouts.
The Aggies will be trying to continue the roll they
have been on as of late. After outslugging Kansas State
a combined 29-11 in the three-game series, A&M
mauled UT-San Antonio 18-
4 in a game that was called
on the mercy rule after sev
en innings.
John Scheschuk home-
red in each of those games
and counting his shot in
the second game of the
Houston doubleheader,
has now gone deep in five
straight games, a new
A&M record.
A&M leads the all-time
series against Iowa State
12-1, with the Cyclones’
lone win coming in 1973.
Last season, A&M took the three games at Olsen
Field, winning 19-4,8-7 and 5-4.
Steve Scarborough said the road trip this year would
be important in the team’s chase for the Big 12 title.
“We did what we wanted at home, and now we’ve
got to go prove ourselves on the road; champions win
on the road,” Scarborough said.
Scarborough also said the team is coming out pre
pared for this weekend’s series.
“We have to be ready to play every game, to win
every game we play and we want to do that this week
end,” Scarborough said.
The Friday game will start at 3 p.m., with the first
game Saturday getting underway at 1 p.m.
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Spurs snap Heat
undefeated streak
SAN ANTONIO (AP) —Tim Dun
can had 22 points and 14 re
bounds as the Sam Antonio Spurs
won their fourth straight game
and stopped Miami’s seven-game
winning streak by beating the
Heat 103-89 Thursday night.
David Robinson added 21 points
and 14 rebounds for the Spurs, and
Jaren Jackson added 15 points.
Miami was led by Tim Hardaway
with 21 points. Mark Strickland
added 16.
Leading 63-60, San Antonio end
ed the third quarter with a 9-4 run to
lead 72-64 entering the final period.
Consecutive baskets by Duncan
to start the fourth quarter gave San
Antonio a 76-64 lead with 10:59 to
play. After Miami closed to 92-81
on a Hardaway basket, San Antonio
put the game away with a 6-2 run,
capped by Vinny Del Negro’s jump
shot which gave the Spurs a 97-82
lead with 3:35 to play.
Jackson had 10 of his points in
the fourth quarter for San Antonio.
The Spurs ended the first half
with 10 straight points to lead 51-
45 at the break.
Robinson led the Spurs with 15
first-half points, while Hardaway had
16 for Miami.
Playing without injured center ;
Alonzo Mourning, sidelined with a *
fractured cheek, Miami tried 24 3- !
point field goals, but made just six. ;
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