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Icome Tax Preparation. $5 Off With This Ad. lock, 694-2819. mints e Battalion Classified Advertising • Easy • Affordable • Effective For information, call 845-0569 Tuesday ‘April 21, 1998 The Battalion ^ lO #1 Et IP C: Tough Oklahoma split helps A&M stay in Big 12 hunt Uve SoM>aU 511. % The Texas A&M Softball Team (32-22- 1, 6-8) will conclude conference play when they play No. 19 Texas Tech and Baylor in doubleheaders next weekend at the Aggie Softball Field. Ags Do OK In Oklahoma The Aggies played their toughest road trip of the season when they traveled to Oklahoma to play doubleheaders against No. 8 Oklahoma State and No. 5 Oklahoma. A&M entered the weekend series at 4-6 in the Big 12 and needed some big wins to stay in the conference hunt. By splitting both series, the Aggies accomplished just that. On Saturday, A&M defeated the Cowgirls 3-1 before falling 2-1 in the sec ond game. In their win, the Aggies were led by the strong pitching of freshman Ashley Lewis and the timely hitting of sophomore Jamie Smith who was 3-3 with one run and one RBI. Against Oklahoma on Sunday, A&M lost a 1-0 heartbreaker in nine innings but came back to take a 3-1 victory in game two. Freshman Amy Vining threw a com plete game three-hitter to pick up her 11th win of the season. Stephanie Trumbull had one hit and drove in two runs in A&M’s three-run-sev- enth in the win. Tough Company After the Aggies dropped two games to No. 7 Nebraska, they have played .500 ball in their last 10 conference games against some of the best teams in the country. The Aggies split a doubleheader with Kansas and followed that with a two-game sweep over No. 11 Missouri. Then they dropped two to No. 6 Texas and concluded with their series split with No. 8 OSU and No. 5 Oklahoma over the weekend. Smith Top Guns Freshman pitchers Ashley Lewis and Amy Vining threw some of their best games of the season against Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. Lewis pitched game one of both dou bleheaders and threw a combined 15 and two-thirds innings, giving up 10 hits and two runs while striking out five. She won her first game 3-1 and lost the second game 1-0 in extra innings. Vining pitched the second game of both series, losing her first game 2-1, but came back against Oklahoma throwing a complete game, scattering three hits over seven innings and striking out two in A&M’s 3-1 win. The two combined for throw 29 innings, giving up 18 hits, four runs (three earned) and struck out nine in the four games. — Robert Hollier is a junior journalism major. ^Defensive Driving. Lots-of-fun, Laugh-a-lotl! nissal/insurance discount. M-T(6pm-9pm), j-9pm), Fri(6pm-8pm) &Sat(10am-2:30pm), j:30pm). Inside Natlons-Bank. Walk-ins wel- j5/cash. Lowest price allowed by law. 111- |Ste,217. 846-6117. 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There were also an estimated 2,000 fans in the leftfield area that has been christened as “Aggie Alley.” The crowd broke the Olsen Field attendance mark of 7,909, with 5,409 in the stands and 2,500 on the railroad tracks, for the Friday game against Texas in 1989. Steamed Rice Surprise When A&M came back from a 9- 0 deficit to defeat the Rice Owls 10- 9 on April 14, sports informa tion got to work and discovered the comeback was the biggest in Aggie history. A&M was down by nine going into the bottom of the sixth, but got three in that inning and seven runs in the seventh to win. A&M has come back from seven run deficits twice before, once versus Louisiana Tech in 1989 and again against Houston in 1993. A&M trailed Texas, 14-9 going into the bottom of the ninth in 1989. With a national television crowd watching via ESPN, A&M came back to tie the score. John Byington then hit a grand slam to win the game, 18-14. — Travis Harsch is a freshman journalism major. Now on The Battalion’s web page A 24-hour, multimedia news service for the Internet from The Associated Press • A comprehensive, up-to-the-minute news report combin ing the latest AP stories with photos, graphics, sound and video. • Headlines and bulletins delivered as soon as news breaks. http://bat-web. tamu. edu irlovt 166. ' What makes a great classified ad? 1 ^ e» f 7?' lerw Action is what you want when you run a classified ad and action is what you'll get from us! Our classifieds really work and they bring RESULTS! If you've got something to sell or lease, have a service to offer, or are looking for a job, don't settle for anything less than POSITIVE RESULTS! When results count, call 845-0569. The Battalion Ryan says changes in Aggie Sports Briefs baseball are needed from staff and wire reports PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — He sees scores better suited for football and games lasting 4 1/2 hours. He says the pitching is dilut ed and the umpiring inconsistent. Nolan Ryan, the major league strikeout king, is concerned about the state of baseball. “I don’t think it’s good for the game,” he said Monday. ‘‘What I would like to see is more consis tent type scores — 4-3 games.... I don’t think people want to go out there and sit through 4-, 4 1/2- hour ball games.” Ryan, 51, who retired in 1993 from the Texas Rangers after becoming the only man to record 5,000 strikeouts, admits he’s somewhat perplexed by the pitching in today’s game. ‘‘Your athletes are bigger and stronger. But the one area you’re not finding is many hard-throw ing pitchers,” he told The Associated Press during a break from his role as spokesman for Advil, which sponsored the PGA Seniors’ Championship in Palm Beach Gardens. ‘‘When I grew up, you played whatever season it was,” he said. ‘‘Nowadays kids play the same sport year-round. If that’s the case, it would look like you’d be producing pitchers who decided they wanted to pitch. There’d be more strength.” But clearly, in Ryan’s view, there’s not. And there’s no quick fix. For starters, though, Ryan would put the mound back to where it was when he began pitching in the big leagues in 1968. And, as an admit ted purist, he’d eliminate the desig nated hitter. He'd also put umpires under one umbrella group to increase consistency. “I think if you’d just call the strike zone from what it is in the rule book that you would see pitching improve,” he said. As he talks about the state of the game, he does so with the wisdom and perspective earned with 27 years in the majors. Yet there’s no perceptible trace of a hankering to return. He’s been busy in his five years of so-called retirement. He owns a bank outside Houston, sits on the state’s Parks and Wildlife Commission and has kept several celebrity endorsements. He’s taken up golf, downhill skiing and owns a cattle ranch. But, yes, the arm still works. “I can still go out and throw, but it’s the other things,” he said, estimating his pitches would be in the 90s. “You know, you have an Achilles problem or something else happens, you sprain your elbow. You spend so much time rehabbing, it just wasn’t produc tive time anymore.” Six-way provides three top finishes The Texas A&M Men’s and Women’s Track Teams competed at the 1998 University of Texas Six-Way meet at Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium on Saturday, April 18. A&M scored three gold medals and seven second-place finishes. Senior Rosa Jolivet impressed many in the 400-meter hurdles, placing first with a time of 57.73. Senior Larry Wade finished the 110-meter hurdles in an NCAA automatic qualifying time of 13.53 seconds, over a second faster than the closest competitor. The other first-place finisher for Texas A&M was junior Kelli Schrader in the discus. Schrader and freshman Meghan Koonce finished 1-2 in the event with throws of 152-5 and 151-1, respectively. Sophomore Jason Jacob broke his own school record in the ham mer-throw by recording a 178-9 in the event. Sophomore Johan Lannefors fin ished second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 47.12. Junior Mike Lowrance finished second in the shot put with a heave of 55-6.25. The Aggie runners will compete in the prestigious Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Penn., on April 23-25. The field event crew will compete at the Oklahoma Outdoor in Norman. Apply for The Battalion Today Application due: Wednesday, April 22, by 5 p.m 013 Reed McDonald Building • Telephone (409) 845-3313 • FAX (409) 845-2647 •Staff Application □ Summer 1998 □ Fall 1998 Please check box to indicate semester(s) for which you are applying. Name: Phone Number(s): Expected graduation (semester): Major: If you have another job, what is it? Classification: How many hours per week? E-mail Will you plan to keep it if hired? 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(give special attention to the section you’re applying for) Please attach a resume and samples of your work (stories you have written for publications or classes, pages you have designed, photos, drawings, or other creative samples) All hiring decisions will be made based only on qualifications Volleyball teams shine at Tourney The Texas A&M Men’s and Women’s Volleyball Club Teams competed in the NIRSA National Championship Tournament at the University of Texas this past weekend. The men’s team took home ninth place out of 48 participants, which ranks as their highest finish in history. The women’s team finished in third place out of 30 teams in the tournament. The men’s team advanced to the round of 16 by beating Cal Poly-Slo in their fourth match of the tournament. Their other victories were over Wisconsin-Whitewater, Rhode Island, and Michigan State. The women defeated Marquette, Nebraska, Ohio State, Maryland and Oregon. Melissa Mizelle was named first- team All-America for the women. Second-team All-American honors went to Jesilyn Hatch, Tracy Bell and Andrea Holland. First-team All-Conference honors for the men’s team went to Scott Simonds and Jon Rye. Second-team honors went to Steven Raesz and Wesley Butler. The Texas A&M Volleyball Club Team is a member of the Southern intercollegiate Volleyball Association. Interested in the environment? (Climate change, ozone hole, deforestation) Why not consider Geosciences 410 (Global Change)? Fall, 1998 MWF 9:10-10:00 For further information try our website or contact Prof. Harriss (harriss@tamu.edu) or Prof. Crowley (tom@ocean.tamu.edu) http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/GE0410/ /: treehouse apartments You Can Afford to Have It All! 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