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The Battalion Tuesday • April 28, 1998 ■■■(il iflPtlhi ■ ■ I sxas A&M iats ‘Horns he Texas A&M Men’s Tennis i (17-4, 7-2) will travel to kville, Miss, on Saturday to ie on the No. 4-ranked Missis sippi State Bulldogs. j "Vd f 11» *• v Sweet It Is —Jter losing, 4-3, to the Uni- |ersity of Texas in Austin earlier ftisseason, A&M was looking |rrevenge against the No. 5 longhorns in the final round of JBig 12 Championships in I coin, Neb., on Sunday. to say the Aggies merely got even with the Longhorns gouldbe like saying Muham mad Ali was a pretty good box- A&M trounced Texas, 4-0, to ich its first ever conference Ipmainent title. jiant Leap For Aggiekind )n the Rolex Collegiate Rank es due out on May 5, the Ag- |s can expect to move up iiite a few spots from their Trent No. 24 position. |ln the two-week span that I be reflected in the rankings, [M played its best tennis of ! year. The Aggies started ^fantastic fortnight hy trav- ig to Waco and defeating No. [Baylor, 6-1. They returned |me the next night and anked No. 39 Kansas, 7-0. Iln their three rounds of play (the Big 12 Championships, Pe Aggies did not lose a match, ming 4-0 against Oklahoma, isas and Texas. ay Madness | The Aggies will travel to stin on May 15 to compete in 2 NCAA Regionals. Piease see Lazarus on Page 7. Aggies try to snap Sam Houston streak Bearkats take 2-0 record against A&M this season to College Station for possible sweep Tuesday night — From staff and wire reports — Maybe the third time’s the charm. The Texas A&M BaseballTeam willbe seek ing its first win in three tries against Sam Hous ton State Ilresday night at 7 p.m. at Olsen Field. Sam Houston State won the first game for the season or the Bearkats or of the year, 10- Ap|# Baseball Update Record: 37-15, 19-8 Big 12 Next Game: vs. Sam Houston Time: 7 p.m. Scheduled Starters: Chance Caple (7-0,3.55 ERA) vs. Bearkats' TBA and no earned runs. Courtney Weller took the loss in relief of Chance Caple, who had worked four innings, and Kyle Holle, who worked 1.2 innings. In the second game of the series, played April 7 at Olsen Field, A&M spotted the Bear kats a 5-0 lead after four innings and could not make up the difference, despite a Craig Kuzmic homer that scored two runs in the ninth inning. Sam Houston State is coming off a weekend in which they lost three one-run games to North western State, dropping their record in confer ence to 12-10 and their overall record to 26-25. A&M will be looking to continue the suc cess of a weekend sweep over Kansas that put the Aggies into the lead of the Big 12 confer ence with a 19-8 conference record and a 37- 15 record that has the team ranked 10th na tionally by Baseball America. Despite the two losses earlier this year, A&M still leads the all-time series, 60-33-1, i§#H rvtjti :frif 7 11# . mm 7, in Huntsville on Feb. 24. The Aggies led 7-3 going into the bottom of the sixth in a game that saw A&M walk nine batters and commit three errors as the Bearkats’ pitching shut down the Aggies, allowing nine hits, one walk with the first game coming in 1950. The Bear- [ kats took two of three from the Aggies in 1994. Robert mckay/the battalion First baseman John Scheschuk will try not to repeat the earlier outcomes against Sam Houston. The only other team to have taken two of three from A&M this season is Oklahoma State. The game will be A&M’s last non-confer ence game at Olsen Field in the regular sea son. The Aggies will play their last conference game Friday night against the Baylor Bears in the first of a three game series that will decide the Big 12 regular season champion. Jamison declares for NBA draft Sports Briefs CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) —Antawn Jamison is con vinced he is ready for pro basketball, and he will be heading to the NBA with degree in hand. The national player of the year said Monday he will forgo his senior year at North Carolina, passing up a chance to become the Atlantic Coast Conference’s ca reer scoring leader to enter the NBA draft on June 24. “When it was time to leave it was difficult to swallow because these three years have probably been the best three years of my life,” Jamison said. “It is a lot more dif ficult than I thought it would be.” The 6-foot-9 forward was joined at a news conference by coach Bill Guthridge, former coach Dean Smith, par ents Albert and Kathy Jamison and several teammates. “A big reason you are in coaching is you want what’s best for your players,” Guthridge said. “There aren’t many that get this opportunity. So you are thrilled for him.” Jamison is the 13th player to declare early for the NBA draft, joining such players as Mike Bibby of Ari zona, Paul Pierce of Kansas and Robert Traylor of Michi gan. Among the 13 are two high school players. Smith will advise underclassmen to turn pro if they’re projected in the draft’s top five. The former coach did most of the legwork for Jamison, calling at least 16 NBA teams to gauge interest. He likes what he heard. Jamison, the school’s first national player of the year since Michael Jordan in 1984, said he would get his col lege degree in African studies after two sessions of sum mer school, meaning he will graduate two semesters ahead of his class. “The most important thing for me is no matter what happens I have the opportunity to graduate this sum mer,” he said. "That was the most important thing about coming to school, to get a degree and maybe having a chance to play in the NBA. I am so close to getting them both at the same time it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.” Jamison, the ACC player of the year, averaged 22.2 points and 10.5 rebounds this season, becoming the first North Carolina player since Billy Cunningham in 1964-65 to average a double-double. He finished seventh on North Carolina’s scoring list and fourth in rebounding. This year he set season marks for field goals and rebounds and was second in points in leading the Tar Heels to a 34-4 record and their second straight Final Four. North Carolina lost to Utah in the semifinals. Jamison said there was no chance he would with draw his name before the draft, even if the NBA own ers lock out the players. from staff and wire reports Golf team picked to play in NCAAs After capturing the Big 12 Golf Championship, the No. 11 Texas A&M Women’s Golf Team was se lected by the NCAA to compete in the West regional at Stanford University May 7-9. The Aggies will be the fourth seed in the West District behind Tulsa, TCU and New Mexico State. Other teams competing in the West are Oklahoma State University, the University of Texas, Texas Tech University, the University of New Mex ico and the University of Missouri. The regional competition will en compass five districts and will have a total of 204 participants with the top 99 players advancing to the championships May 20-23 at the Uni versity of Wisconsin. Astros use ninth to beat New York NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Eusebio’s RBI double capped a three-run ninth inning as the Houston Astros rallied to beat the New York Mets 4-3 Mon day in a makeup of a rained out game. John Franco (0-1), who allowed all three runs in the ninth for his first blown save in six chances, be gan the inning by walking Derek Bell. Jeff Bagwell followed with a single and Bill Spiers walked to load the bases. Moises Alou made it 3- 2 with a sacrifice fly to score Bell. After pinch-hitter Richard Hidalgo reached on an infield single to load the bases, Ricky Gutierrez tied the game with a sacrifice fly. 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