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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
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NFL, Houston clash over expansion
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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.
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