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Page 10 • Tuesday, February 16, 1999 s PORTS Aggies finish second at UTA softball tournament Battalion BEN WESTBROOK The Battalion The Texas A&M Softball Team made it to the championship game at the UTA/Pepsi-Cola In tercollegiate Classic in Grand Prairie Sunday be fore falling to No. 24 Illinois-Chicago, 3-1. The women are off to their best start since the 1991 season, in part because of the strong pitching of Amy Vining and Jordana Barrack. The two hurlers combined to finish the tourna ment with a 0.29 earned run average. The women opened tournament action Fri day against the Tlilsa Golden Hurricane. A three- run first inning would be all the women would need as they went on to beat TUlsa, 6-1. Vining dominated by pitching the complete game and surrendering just four hits. The one run scored by TUlsa was not earned. The Aggies’ second game of pool play was against the University of Texas-Arlington Mav ericks, whom the Aggies defeated twice in a doubleheader last Tuesday. The women showed they still had UTA’s number by pounding out an 8-0 victory, rocking Maverick pitcher Amanda Kirk for thirteen hits. For the Aggies, Barrack shut UTA out for the second time in four days. The Aggies improved their record to 5-0 Sat urday with a 2-0 win against the Arkansas Ra- zorbacks. In the first-ever meeting between the two teams, the Aggies escaped with two un earned runs in the second inning. Vining improved her record to 3-0 and struck out eight while keeping her ERA at 0.00 for the season. The win gave the Aggies the top seed in their bracket and a first-round bye in the tour nament. In the softballers’ first game of the champi onship bracket, the women continued the trend of a quick offensive start by jumping out to a 2-0 lead after the first inning. Another run in the third gave the women all the offense they would need as they went on to beat the Stephen F. Austin Uni versity Lumberjacks by a score of 4-2. Getting the win for the Aggies was once again Barrack, who struck out five and surrendered just two hits. Sunday, the women faced the Southwest Texas State University Bobcats. Vining pitched her fourth complete game and second shutout as the women scraped by with a 1-0 win. Lisa Klam got the game-winning RBI with a first-in ning single to right field to score center fielder Hollee Hayden from second base. Next up for the Aggies was a rematch with Thl- sa. The women’s offense returned for the game, rocking Thlsa for 11 hits and scoring six runs as the Aggies went on to defeat Tlilsa, 6-3, and clinch a berth in the championship game. Barrack con tinued to pitch well with six strike outs but sur rendered the first earned run of the season to the Hurricanes. The Aggies rode an eight-game winning streak into Sunday’s championship game against No. 24 ranked Illinios-Chicago Univer sity, mostly due to their strong early-inning of fensive production. “A big key to our wins is that we have been scoring early in the game,” A&M coach Jo Evans vul C w ma Geo ge VV. : 1 rur 1 low 'bout Liddy L both run or 2 ticket-’ rhew are tl i itions that g iblicans eve reat poiuh [H off ^Htlon's jees ape fi al from offu 'iblicans on I merciless c 2000 A&M Softball coach Jo Evanstaikt s the sayinr Angie Long before an at-Dat. fith i said. “Getting that early lead he; tualjlock for mentum, and the other teamseesHpial non down a little.” ^^Horite an ICU would be the ones whobless o plating two unearned mn> inthefj^Be- The Aggies commited ! ow € and Vining surrendered her fir ■, ^Uy the season. A lack of hitting coninhffepublican women's defeat as deer The loss dropped Vining'srecottiMS L it wit] she surrendered nine hits to ICU. ^ Gore pi any candic NFL, Houston clash over expansion N Up IS gOll % , , course, tc KU s Bi$r n excep,i HOUSTON (AP) — Houston of- ficials might withdraw their lucra tive stadium-package offer to the NFL if the league’s owners do not locate the 32nd franchise here. Officials at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, one of the largest annual events in the nation’s fourth- largest city, will consider using new- stadium money to renovate the As trodome if supposed NFL expansion front-runner Los Angeles gets an ex pansion team. During a rodeo meeting last month, Steve Patterson, who is helping businessman Bob McNair try to win the expansion team, said talk of Houston’s demise was pre mature. Conversations with NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue sug gested that Houston was in a vir tual dead heat with Los Angeles, Patterson said. Rodeo officials seem satisfied, for now. “But we can’t afford to be that way forever,” rodeo President Jim Bloodworth told the Houston Chronicle. “We’re facing life alone in the Astrodome after the Astros leave (in 2000 for a new baseball park). If we don’t get into a new stadium, then we’re going to have to begin looking fairly soon at spending money on the Dome.” Harris County Judge Robert Eckels said if the city spends a lot of money upgrading the As trodome, “That won’t leave enough for a new stadium, even if we want to build one.” NFL officials were scheduled to meet Tliesday to discuss whether McNair or a Los Angeles group should get an expansion team. Some owners are not convinced the league needs another team. League owners hope to make a decision by May. The consensus among those watching the league is that Los An geles will get the expansion team because of pressure from television networks wanting to capitalize on that city’s huge market. Even if Tagliabue follows through with suggestions that Houston would be the top destination choice the next time an existing franchise wants to move, Bloodworth and Eckels said that decision would have to be made fairly fast. “If I can’t get an expansion team, I will try for a while to buy another team and move it here,” McNair said. “But at some point, 1 have to put my efforts elsewhere.” Bloodworth said that if Houston has no indication by November that it will get another team, and thus will need a new stadium, the rodeo will begin pushing to update the Astrodome. looks at C on as Dan ( member E FORT WORTH, Te: Kansas State Michael Bish op, winner of the Davey O’Brien Na tional Quarter back Award, said Monday he would con sider playing professionally in Canada if it r ell, the circus fly e to an The big meant continuing his-ias been his chosen position, i down. 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