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Te(as A&M softball action will
anl- up Tuesday at the Allan Saxe
eld in Arlington as the Aggies open
eir season against the University of
■xas-Arlington Mavericks in a dou-
e-header.
" , H T ia Sophomore Amy Vining, the Ags'
p returning starter, is expected to be
v ''' e Mggies’opening day pitcher. Vin-
f ’ la<,van g posted a 1.97 earned run average
A/EIGHTLC st year on the way to an 11-6 record.
A&M’s top offensive threat, Tiffany
iters, will start in center field. Esters
.•t, nto 1 caio?;-- coining off a freshman season that
.w her crank a team-high .293 batting
'erage and five home runs. Junior
mie Smith will continue her streak
stlrting at short stop in every game
her college career.
M ;— Seven newcomers will step onto the
ddlas Aggies for the first time Tues-
ly,including 1998 Gatorade Circle of
laifhpions Texas Softball Player of the
■arLisa Klam. Klam, a three time all-
n,;, '77777 ate first team selection, will handle
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The UTA Mavericks are 0-2 on the
season after dropping a doubleheader
Sunday to No. 7 University of Texas.
UTA returns six starters from last
year’s 16-29 team.
A&M returns
eleven letter winners
and seven starters
from a 35-25-2 squad
that finished No. 7 in
the Big 12 last year.
Evans said the
team is ready to face
competition following
a strong preseason.
“Our players worked very hard dur
ing the preseason and accomplished
more than any other team I have had,”
she said. “We are definitely ready to
play someone else.”
Evans points to team speed, depth
and chemistry as the team’s three
strong points, but said those strengths
have yet to be tested against oppo
nents.
The Aggies are hoping their recent
hot streak in season openers contin
ues. The women are undefeated over
the past four years in opening games
and boast a 15-3 opening-day record
since 1981.
The Aggies also have displayed a
dominance over UTA. A&M has
walked away with nine straight wins
against the UTA Mavericks and hold
a 63-14 all-time advantage versus
UTA.
H earing Dan Patrick call
highlights on ESPN’s
“SportsCenter” is one
of my few guilty pleasures in
life. His warm personality
and sub
tle hu
mor
make 10
p.m.
Central
Standard
Time on
Channel
32 a holy
period in
the hearts
of all sports fans.
Imagine the pleasant sur
prise of Aggie hoops fans
when highlights from the
Texas A&M University-Uni
versity of Texas men’s basket
ball game appeared last
Wednesday night.
What followed in the
shortened highlights was to
basketball purists the equiva
lent of the Hindenburg.
UT point guard Ivan Wag
ner posted a Big 12 Confer
ence record 10 steals, eclips
ing Aggie Michael Schmidt’s
record of eight in a game set
last season.
The primary culprit? A&M
point guard Clifton Cook,
who experienced more
turnovers than Menudo.
Turnovers are to point
guards as parking tickets are
to college students. They are
going to happen and will cost
the team, so teams try to
keep them to a minimum.
Cook, who received Big 12
Conference Rookie of the
Week honors Monday, has
been the barometer of suc
cess for a team floundering at
the bottom of its conference.
And it’s not only his
turnovers that have affected
the team negatively — his
poor shooting performance
and shot selection have been
as much at fault.
Against Texas, Cook was re
sponsible for 11 of the team’s
30 turnovers, posting only
three assists and shooting a
doughnut out of six tries from
beyond the arc (in an overall
6-16 performance). Sometimes
the numbers can lie about per
formance, but Cook must play
better for the team to win.
In perhaps his best perfor
mance of the season in confer
ence play, the Aggies recently
stormed a shorthanded Texas
Tech University team 68-47.
Cook only scored five points
on 2-11 shooting, but he limit
ed his turnovers to two and
accounted for eight assists and
six steals.
Cook is a Melvin Watkins
player, a junior transfer who
was brought in before the
season to lead the new sys
tem.
Watkins brought an end to
the Barone era of Aggie bas
ketball when the new coach
and coach Tony Barone’s son
Brian did not come to an
agreement about playing bas
ketball at A&M, leading to the
younger Barone’s transfer to
Marquette.
The only remnants of
coach Barone’s tenure here at
A&M is his assignment to oth
er Big 12 games, where he
provides color commentary
for Phillips 66 Big 12 basket
ball television broadcasts.
It appeared Watkins
wanted to live or die with
Cook as his point guard, but
with the recent injury to
guard T.J. Brown, he will
have to regardless of his
plans.
If Cook gets motivated and
gets the basketball under con
trol, playing with the ability he
has shown he has in Division I
college basketball, the Aggies,
10-10 overall and 3-7 in Big 12
play, could make a run and
possibly receive an NIT bid at
season’s end. That’s a far cry
from the lone conference win
of a year ago.
Yeah. That’s my “Sports-
Center” highlight.
Jeff Webb is a senior
journalism major.
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