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longhorns in the final round of
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[M played its best tennis of
! year. The Aggies started
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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.
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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,
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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- [
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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.
Eusebio then doubled to right
scoring Spiers and giving the Astros
their fourth straight win.
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