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Baseball returns to Olsen Field Friday when the llth-ranked Texas
A&M Baseball Team starts the 1999 season against the University of
Texas-Pan American Broncos at 3 p.m.
Baseball
kicks off
for Aggies
BY MICHAEL TAGLIENTI
The Battalion
Today, grown men and women
will call in sick to work, students
will skip class and the parking area
known as “Aggie Alley” will see its
first inhabitants in seven months.
Today is Opening Day.
The No. 11 Texas A&M Baseball
Team will play the UT-Pan Ameri
can Broncos at 3 p.m. at Olsen
Field. The Aggies will complete the
three-game series with the Broncos
(2-1) with a doubleheader starting
at 1 p.m. Saturday. A&M won all
three of their games against UT-Pan
Am when the teams met last year
in their opening series of the sea
son.
Junior centerfielder Steve TVuitt
said the team has some holes to fill
if they want to repeat as Big 12
champions.
“Any time you lose key players
like you did last year, you have big
shoes to fill,” TVuitt said. “It is up
to some of the guys who have been
here, and some of the new guys to
step up and take their place.”
Coach Mark Johnson said al
though many people have ranked
the Aggies highly in the preseason,
there are still a lot of questions that
need to be answered.
“In all honesty, we have been
picked pretty good, but there is not
another (Jason) Tyner out there,”
Johnson said. “He broke the career
stolen-base record here. (Craig)
Kuzmic broke the home-run
record. We had a guy hit 25 home
runs, and he is leaving.
“For me, one of the best defen
sive catchers I ever had was Scott
Sandusky. No one notices him. I
thought he was outstanding. Eric
French really solidified our
bullpen. To make the assumption
that these guys can be replaced is
a little bit erroneous.”
Johnson said Casey Possum will
start the season opener tomorrow.
Chance Caple will start the first
game of the doubleheader Satur
day, and Matt Ward will start the
second game.
Other changes in the Aggie
lineup include Chris Russ moving
into the closer’s role. Shawn Shu-
macher will try to fill Sandusky's
shoes at catcher, and Dell Lindsey
will take over for Kuzmic at third
base.
Senior first baseman and team
captain John Scheschuk said he
thinks the new players will be able
to help the team.
“We have some new guys in
here who I think are going to help
out a lot,” Scheschuk said. “Time
will tell if they are going to put it to
gether, but we all think they are go
ing to help out a lot.”
Johnson said that despite all the
changes from last year’s club, he
likes the way this team is shaping
up.
“I like our ball club. I think we
carry over from last year the chem
istry we had,” Johnson said.
“There are enough leaders from
that team that know what it takes
to be successful.”
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Track teams head to Houston meet
BY TOM KENNEDY
The Battalion
Showdowns — They are the in
dividual match-ups that add inten
sity and excitement to what is al
ready considered a great event.
Even in track
and field, these ri
valries exist, and
there will be plenty
to go around this
weekend as the
Texas A&M Men’s
and Women’s TVack
and Field teams
travel to the Univer
sity of Houston for the Cougar Invi
tational Feb. 6.
The men’s meet will be head
lined by the University of Texas,
ranked eighth by Trackwire On
line, 19th-ranked Texas Christian
University and 25th-ranked Hous
ton.
A&M sophomore hurdler Kris
Allen will look to continue a suc
cessful season against the rival
Texas hurdlers
“There’s sort of a grudge match
between the [Texas] hurdlers and
Kris,” Track and Field coach Ted
Nelson said. “Because he beat
them one week and they beat him
one week, so [this race makes] a
two out of three thing.”
The meet should be a battle
ground for the traditional sprint
match-ups Texas schools have
historically emphasized. Nelson
said.
“Texas and TCU are very strong
in the sprints, and that has been our
strength in the past,” he said.
In men’s field events, Nelson
said senior Mike Lowrance is ready
to make a move in the shot put.
“We expect him to pick up the
pace, because we’ve brought him
along a little slower this year,” Nel
son said. “He was the Big 12 Indoor
Champion last year.”
The women’s meet will host the
same schools as the men’s except for
Texas. Nelson said the meet’s top
athletes will be challenged by Aggie
sophomore Christina Ohaeri in the
hurdles and junior Chimika Carter in
the long jump.
“Chimika Carter is getting ready to
step up and run against the best, and
Ohaeri is consistently improving,”
he said. “[Competing against
Adams] really helps us prepare, be
cause she’s better than our competi
tion in the Big 12.”
Sophomore Meshell TYotter is
expected to perform well after
breaking her own school record
last week in the weight throw.
The meet will begin in the Bill
Yeoman Fieldhouse with field
events at 9:30 a.m. Running events
will begin at noon with the
women’s 5,000-meter race.
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