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Sports
Aggies land Bryan native
BY JEFF SCHMIDT
The Battalion
Bryan High School senior Ty Warren sealed
the deal on another strong Texas A&M recruit
ing class when the highly rated defensive line
man committed to play football for the Aggies.
Warren announced his intentions at a press
conference Tliesday in Bryan High Athletics Di
rector Marty Criswell’s office.
“I think it’s a good place for me,” Warren
said. “I fit in, I like the coaches and all the play
ers. This is my town. This is where I fit in.”
Warren, a 6-foot-5-inch, 280-pound defensive
end, had 119 tackles and nine sacks last season
for the Vikings and was recognized as one of the
most highly sought-after prospects in the coun
try.
Warren brought three hats to the press con
ference, symbolizing the three schools he was
considering: A&M, the University of Tennessee
and the University of Southern California. War
ren then put on the A&M hat and said, “I’m go
ing to be here at A&M.”
Warren said playing close to home was a
major factor in his decision.
“I’d rather come out of the tunnel with all
my friends yelling for me than with other fam
ilies yelling for their kids,” Warren said. “I’d
feel like an outsider.”
Warren said he told A&M coaches this past
weekend during his official visit that he was
coming to A&M and said the coaches expect him
to play right away at the rush-end position.
Warren said the pressure he felt to attend
his home-town school initially made him want
to leave Bryan-College Station.
“My intent was to go out of town,” he said.
“I just felt like I needed to get away.”
Warren said eventually the pressure of go
ing to A&M started to make sense.
“I sat back and thought about it and prayed
about it,” he said. “God put me where I’m sup
posed to be.”
Despite reportedly committing to USC ear
lier in the recruiting season, Warren said Ten
nessee was his second choice because he liked
Knoxville’s big, college-town atmosphere.
“They were pretty equal,” Warren said.
“But I felt more comfortable with A&M be
cause I have my support right here in Bryan-
College Station.”
Warren said he developed a close relation
ship with USC coach Shawn Slocum, son of
A&M coach R. C. Slocum, but he felt moving
to California would have been too big a step.
“I just felt it was a little too fast for me go- Defensive end Ty Warren committed Tuesday to
ing from Bryan to Los Angeles,” he said. a&M. Warren chose A&M over USC and Tennessee.
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First female pole-vau
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BY BEN WESTBROOK
The Battalion
L ast week at the Red Raider In
vitational in Lubbock, fresh
man Erica Boren set the Texas
A&M women’s pole-vaulting
record while taking home the gold
in her first-ever collegiate track
meet. Actually, Boren set the only
school record for women’s pole-
vaulting as the
When Boren was a
high school, her track
she would never beat
vault because she is
eye. But Boren, wholoi
an accident when six
months old, said In
doubts did not discow;
"I was encouraged
pole-vaulting coach
enced first-hand that
first female
pole-vaulter in
A&M history.
Although
she may never
be compared
to such
women as Su
san B. Antho
ny or Joan of
Arc, Boren is
in her own
small way
bringing men
and women
“I'm very thank
ful for my coaches
... 1 wouldn't be
able to do any of
this without
them."
- ERICA BOREN
A&M POLE-VAULTER
closer to equality at A&M.
Boren said the role of trailblazer
is nothing new to her.
“It takes me back to my high
school years at Oregon,” she said.
“Me and one of my teammates
were pioneers there, too.”
Boren, from Philomath, Ore.,
said she began pole-vaulting be
cause of her physique.
“Everyone called me ‘muscles’
because of my upper-body
strength, which is important in
pole-vaulting,” she said.
Boren was named Athlete of the
Year at Philomath High School,
which she said was a surprise to
her because school officials "usu
ally give it to people who letter in
two sports.” She also qualified for
the state championship meet all
four years of her high-school ca
reer, taking home first place in
1997, her junior year.
Despite spraining her ankle her
senior season, Boren still managed
to place third in the state meet.
A&M Assistant Coach Ed
Marcinkiewicz, who scouted Boren
at her senior state meet, said he was
impressed by the pole-vaulter’s re
solve in the face of injury.
“You see someone compete like
that and feel they have a chance at
success,” Marcinkiewicz said.
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conference, is frustrating, but adds
that she feels her team is close to a
breakthrough.
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body’s saying, ‘well, you’re play
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goes in the L-column, and we’re
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McGwire meets
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mark McG
wire got his summit meeting with
the pope after all.
McGwire, who was raised in
the Catholic
church, met
briefly with Pope
John Paul II Tues
day night before a
youth rally at the
Kiel Center. The
two shook hands
just before the
rally began.
“When he
MCGWIRE
learned the pope would be here
he was hoping it was going to
work,’’ St. Louis Cardinals team
spokesperson Brian Bartow said.
“It was on-again, off-again, then
it came together rather quickly.”
During his address, the pope re
ferred to McGwire, who set a ma
jor-league record with 70 home
runs last season.
“I’m told there wasr: j
citement in St. Louis dui
cent baseball season,”
said. “Well, two great
Mark McGwire and Saniff jp./j
were competing to breaktd| care ,
run record. y j
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asm as you train for differed Xj,-,
the goal of following Cb® 5,
goal of bringing his messaf V j,j e
world.” p «.
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for a St. Louis Cardinals
function and a dinner
him as the city’s Baseball
the Year Sunday and
had planned on departing
home in Southern Califo"
fore the pope arrived Ilk
ternoon.
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private jet of one of the?
Cardinals’ owners soona
meeting.
Rangers sign pitcher Mon
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) —
Pitcher Mike Morgan has agreed to
terms with the Texas Rangers on a
1999 minor-league contract with
Oklahoma, the Texas team said
Tuesday as the right-hander be
came the 100th of 133 free agents
signed.
Terms were not disclosed.
The Rangers also invited Mor
gan to the team’s major-league
spring training camp as a nonroster
player.
Morgan, 39, was traded to the
Chicago Cubs from Minnesota on
Aug. 25 and went 0-1, with a 7.15
ERA in five starts the rest of the year.
The Cubs won four of those .
Morgan was 4-2 withal ne Nic
in 18 games and 17 starts' C(,un c>l
Minnesota Twins in 19 acconl l
worked at least six innings ^ er P la
those starts and left thegaf and co
ing or tied 13 times. fhe reir
One of four players in: Go?
league history to play witijlablis:
ferent teams in his career,comm
made his league debut vlthe adc
Oakland Athletics in 1978. 60-60:
Morgan’s stint with O pansioi
was marred in 1997 when off-car
manager Ray Knight orders Kyle F
out of the clubhouse forsa' 01 sen I
could no longer play forKr- Nicl