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The route has: engineering, latiii nmunities whsa ise UP isapriva es with UP have ic new route, said no definite are Texas Chris tian University, the University of Texas-Arlington, the University of Illinois, North western State University, Rice University, and the University of Texas, fresh off their domina- ■f the Texas Relays. The Aggie men should fare much tterthis weekend with the return ... , All-Americans Larry Wade, Billy ededonbutth* Toya Jones and Mjchea| uto was chos^Bas we || as ivij^ e Lowranceand ;loint ; Ms Grasha. * we nave a sta >okat alternative ■e women will look to continue their impressive performances nunity involvedp as t three weeks, with fresh- ay have ahem. 3n £ St h er Eisenlauer attempting know about, ar.Mj n her f 0ur th consecutive tave an openf !e |j n competition, said UPsfintcosm ce t hey add a 4xl00-meter eir customers, fj 4 X 400-meter relay team, they hi. i what, hesafl^ be ab | e t o compete with mtinueservingtiB^y j n the nation, i the area. »ter the A&M Invitational, the Ks will travel to Walnut, Calif., Bmpete on April 16-17 in the ; ftSAC Multi-Competition, then John Collins'9' jckto Austin for a five-way meet invites you to... i April 18. 4ITH FIREARMS SSflleyball signees high in nation 1 f |j oon ' D n Texas A&M Volleyball Coach Lau- a m ^ieCorbelli has signed the sixth-best stol Range Steel■jjting class in the nation ac- A/E BUY GUNS!!’sowing to Volley- magazine, be ranking he highest received in history of iggie volley- program. a Tiixir. t addition ',pn E Av RN |, class JR DAY, April . M .g a corbelli 4 HOLDEt 3rd of three [the four A&M recruits — [helle Cole (Manteca, Calif.), a Moscovic (Stockton, Calif.) | Brandi Mount (Saratoga, ialif.) — were named to the mag- jfie’s Fab 50, an annual list of top high school seniors in the Intry. And although the fourth recruit, D. Achilefu, was not listed in the 50, Corbelli said she believes Episcopal High School (Hous- product has the potential to ome the best of the four by the of their college careers. Tyner fe Caprii EDY CORNS IONS RECOMMEND! 22-2675 HOW ONLY • DCKEI5I op Floor Seating lasketball team igns top recruits A pair of top post players, Cele- fashington and Nicole Benson, inner Available from/’ gned national letters-of-intent ignecks • $2.ooimpoff|Bdnesday with Texas A&M, Coach VINE SPECIALS Candi Harvey announced. Washington is a 6-2 post and a senior at Karnack High School, the Texas 1-A High School State Championships this past season. An All-State Tournament selec tion, the well-rounded Washington averaged 14.6 points a game and 9.5 rebounds a game. She also av eraged three blocks and three steals per game. Benson averaged 18.5 points a game and managed to grab 9.5 re bounds a game during two seasons at Iowa Central Community College. Benson and Washington join LaToya Rose, who signed with the Aggies during the early signing pe riod this past November. Rose is the cousin of current point guard Kim Tarkington. Aggies ready for Nebraska series The Texas A&M Baseball Team travels to Lincoln, Neb., to take on the Nebraska Cornhuskers for a three-game series this week end. The first game will start Fri day at 7 p.m. Coach Mark Johnson will start senior pitcher Ryan Rupe against the Corn huskers on Friday. Rupe is 7-2 and leads the team with a 2.43 ERA. The Aggies are led by junior outfielder Jason Tyn er who leads the team with a .380 batting average. Junior first baseman John Scheschuk has been on fire re cently, raising his average to .353 and slugging nine home runs and 35 RBI. The Aggies played Sam Hous ton State on Tuesday night, los ing a one-run affair to the Bear- kats in a wild 5-4 game. Texas A&M has a 12-6 record in Big 12 Conference play this season. The other scheduled starters for the weekend series with the Corn huskers are Casey Fossum in game two and Matt Ward in game three. Texas A&M cards second at Classic The No. 12-ranked Texas A&M Women’s Golf Team battled through rain, wind and hail Tues day to finish second at the Utah- Dixie Classic at the Sunbrook Golf Course, just one stroke behind tournament winner Texas Tech. The Aggies carded rounds of 303-304=607 while No. 26-ranked Tech was at 299-307=606. No. 11-ranked Oklahoma State finished third at 611 and No. 15- ranked TCU was fourth at 614. The teams played 27 holes on Monday and were scheduled to play 27 holes on Tuesday, but because of the poor weather conditions it took five hours for the 20-team field to complete nine holes. The final 18 holes were can celed. The Aggies trailed the Red Raiders by four strokes after Mon day’s opening round. -H- ING YOUR ERIN THE Bf SUMMER IN 1998 May 26 oi^ May 28- k\y7-t (education) June 8 - ^ ..June i -M b LOYOLA er Session s Ave., Box 89 A 70118 LA 3 1528 Sloyno.edu SAVE ON LONG DISTANCE (Available in Austin, Beaumont, B ry a n / Co 11 ege Station, Conroe, Ft. Worth, Dallas, Houston, Lubbock, San Antonio, San Marcos, and Waco) Dorms, Residences, and Businesses 7 $ Per Minute Anytime, Anywhere US (No Monthly Minimum, Surcharges or Fees) Synergy Long-Distance Service Authorized Rep. Twister Communications Austin (512) 345-6497 (800) 460-1847 TRANSPORTATION InightTransportation, Inc., a leader in the transportation industry, dll be on campus April 23, 1998. Knight is a growing company dth many opportunities. We are seeking individuals for our )perations Department. (night has been on Forbes’ “200 Best Small Companies” for the past hree years. We anticipate growth of 25% - 30% per year over the text 3-5 years. : or more information on Knight and our interview schedule, please iee the Career Center. The Battalion iHjIl wmk HUB iPtfe SloP TIP fMO” r f ?3l Nebraska, Colorado await A&M on road trip By Al Lazarus Staff writer The No. 17 Texas A&M Men’s Tennis Team will take on the No. 41 Colorado Buffaloes on Friday in Boulder, Colo., and will travel to Lincoln, Neb., on Sunday to face the No. 68 Nebraska Cornhuskers. The Aggies (11-3, 4-1) are coming off a trip to North Carolina last weekend which saw them face the No. 40 Tarheels and the No. 13 Duke Blue Devils. A&M es caped Chapel Hill with a 4-3 victory over the Tar Heels, but suffered a 4-2 defeat in Durham at the hands of the Blue Devils. Freshman Shuon Madden, who on Tuesday was named Big 12 Tennis Player of the Week for the second consecutive week, said the Aggies were glad to get out of UNC with a victory. “Mentally, the win over North Carolina helped us a lot, because nobody for us was really play ing their best tennis, but we still got out of there with a win,” Madden said. The Aggies did battle with the Buffaloes last year in College Station and were defeated, 4-3. Although A&M will be in Boulder to face the Buffaloes this year, Coach Tim Cass said he does not think the high altitude will be much of a factor. “ (Altitude) shouldn’t be a factor physically for us. If anything, it might make the style of play more aggressive, because the ball moves a little bit faster in the thin air,” Cass said. The Aggies will leave the mountains of Col orado for the plains of Nebraska on Sunday to face the Cornhuskers. The Aggies defeated Nebraska 4-3 last season in a match held in College Station. Cass said although Nebraska is not ranked as high as Colorado, he still expects the Corn huskers to provide quite a test for the Aggies. “They (Nebraska) are on the bubble of getting in the NCAA tournament,” he said. “We are not going to take them lightly.” RYAN ROGERS/The Battalion Brent Horan hopes to lead Texas A&M to a “Rocky Mountain High" of their own on their next road trip. Cass Softball team faces archrival UT By Philip W. Peter Staff writer When the Texas A&M Softball Team takes the field Friday evening and again Saturday against the Univer sity of Texas, it will feel many things. It will feel ner vousness, confidence and excitement. What it will not feel is that it is just another game. “People say it’s just another game,” Texas A&M Coach Jo Evans said, “and it’s not. When you wake up and it’s game day and you’re playing Texas, it’s not just another game.” What it will be is a matchup between the No. 9 team in the nation, Texas, boasting one of the nations best pitchers, and an A&M team that has scratched and clawed its way into a tie for fifth place in the Big 12 Con ference. But Evans said she expects the team not to get over-excited about playing its rival. “The thing is to be getting excited to play,” Evans said, “but not being too emotional about it. Some times you can get too wrapped up in a rivalry and psych yourself out.” The main player A&M is concerned with is pitch er Christa Williams who leads Texas with a record of 19-2. In 147 innings she has posted a 0.48 ERA and stuck out 241 batters. “She throws the ball hard,” Evans said. “But she’s got a great change-up. We’re just going to have to be disci plined at the plate. We’re going to have to be selective and not get down in the count.” Because Texas A&M and Texas have agreed to play the series as home-and-home rather than a home-and- away doubleheader system, Evans said Williams may pitch both games. “If we were playing a doubleheader we might not get Christa two games in a row,” Evans said. “Now, we’re pret ty much guaranteed to get her twice. So there’s that trade off but that’s ok. We know we have to beat her anyway.” A&M freshman pitcher Amy Mining, who played in the same district as Williams in high school, said she diinks Williams is beatable. “She throws really hard,” Vining said. “But if you lay off the rising high stuff, you can hit her all day long.” Vining apparendy knows something no one else in the conference knows, because in 21 games Williams has only surrendered 13 runs on 48 hits. But A&M se nior catcher Marianne McGuire said no matter the out come of Friday’s game, they will regroup and be ready to play again on Saturday. “It’s not a matter of who’s going to last the longest or keep their intensity or their focus the longest,” McGuire said. “It’s just who is going to go out there and give it all for that two hours. And since we get them here, maybe we’ll get some people out here to watch.” The first game is at 6 p.m. Friday in Austin and the second is at 2 p.m. Saturday in College Station. Texas coaching searcb expands AUSTIN, Texas (AP) —The search for a basketball coach at the University of Texas may be expanded, a high-ranking university source said Wednesday. The search, which has included Utah’s Rick Majerus, Oklahoma’s Kelvin Sampson and then centered on Wash ington coach Bob Bender, could be expanded to include Wake Forest’s Dave Odom, said the source, who spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. On Tuesday, members of the Texas screening com mittee had focused their attention on Bender. Longhorns athletic director DeLoss Dodds had in dicated he wanted to hire someone by Wednesday, if possible, because it marked the first day of the national signing period for high school recruits. But a group of UT officials onWednesday pushed for an interview with Odom, who has been at Wake Forest for nine years and took the Demon Deacons to seven straight NCAA tournaments before narrowly failing to make the tournament this year, the source said. Odom is a proven coach of big men, having been credited with developing former star center Tim Dun can, now with the San Antonio Spurs. The Longhorns’ offense figures to form around 7-foot center Chris Mihm over the next few seasons. UT officials, however, were unclear if Odom would agree to meet with them. Odom has expressed that he’s happy at Wake Forest after signing a new contract two years ago. He is a native of North Car olina and also has two sons who coach in the area — at East Carolina and at Furman. Odom’s secretary said the coach was out of the of fice Wednesday at speaking engagements. Wake For est athletic director Ron Wellman also was out of the office Wednesday and didn’t immediately return a message left by the AR Meanwhile, in Seattle, Bender, 40, held a news con ference to say that he hadn’t been offered the job at Texas and didn’t know that he would take it if offered. “I would hope this is decided as quickly as possi ble,” Bender said. “But I don’t think this is something that’s going to happen in 24 hours. They’re going to need some time. “They have not offered me anything and I don’t know what my final decision would be,” he said. “Texas is a place where you can win a national championship and Washington is a place where you can win a na tional championship.” Bender’s overall record in five years at Washington is 68-72, but he has improved the team’s mark each year, culminating with a 20-10 season this year and a berth in the round of 16 of the NCAA tournament. “The most important thing is that they were very honest with me,” Bender said of his interview with Texas officials on Tuesday. “The first thing you do feel is that you’re appreciated. There was a lot of respect there. Washington athletic director Barbara Hedges said she would be willing to renegotiate Bender’s deal, which pays him $347,500 annually. Former Texas coach Tom Penders, who resigned last week, earned $550,000 annually. Aggies try to build on momentum at MacGregor Downs By Michael Taglienti Staff writer The Texas A&M Men’s Golf Team will travel to the MacGregor Downs Country Club in Cary, N.C., to play in the MacGregor Downs Intercol legiate Tournament this weekend. The Aggies are coming off an eighth-place finish in the U.S. Col legiate Championships. A&M was led in the tourna ment by senior Miguel del Angel who shot a four-over-par 220 to finish 15th overall. Texas A&M Men’s Golf Coach Greg Ellis said despite the fact this is the last tournament before the Big 12 Championship, the team’s goals entering the tournament re main the same. “We go to every tournament with hopes of winning the tournament. Winning a tournament is the best way to prepare for the next tourna ment,” Ellis said. Ellis said he thinks the team is in good shape heading into the MacGregor. “I feel good about the team going out there,” Ellis said. “Late ly we have struggled with our short game, but that is coming around. That has a lot to do with the fact that we played two less tournaments this year when we normally do. “I would have liked to get more players some tournament experi ence, but we have not played in enough tournaments.” Ellis said everyone on the team is starting to play well at the same time. “Lee (Reed) is starting to come on,” Ellis said. “He shot well in the first and last round (at the U.S. Col legiate). He played really good golf those two rounds. It was the middle round where he had some trouble. Ryan Tull has been having putting problems, but he putted a lot better this past weekend. Then you have Miguel and Ryan (Palmer) who have played well all year.” Palmer and del Angel have been the Aggies most consistent golfers this season. They have a stroke per round average of 72.60 and 74.21 respectively. Celebrate Easter With Gourmet Foods & Vineyard Views Join us for the only gourmet Easter Luncheon with a vineyard view. 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