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Tough Oklahoma split helps A&M stay in Big 12 hunt
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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.
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Texas Tops Attendence
Saturday night’s game against
Texas brought 7,056 paying fans to
Olsen Field, the top crowd of the
year, exceeding the previous high
of 4,649, set Feb. 28 in a game
A&M lost to Texas Tech, 6-5 in 10
innings.
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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