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take Classic title
i&M Baseball Team moves to 22-6
BY AARON COHAN
The Battalion
he battle for first at the Aggie
lohtinental Classic went down to
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speaker at'He-run homer from sophomore
tya i Ludwick.
Hrhe Aggies struggled to put
Vomen'sRugbiome type of offense together for
:e from 5-7p.'he next few innings, and it finally
?hmd the Zac'happened in the top of the sixth,
ices are oper :: lyith two outs and two runners
rienceneces ; )n, freshman Greg Porter came to
4220 torn he p] a te. Previously hitless on the
tvening, the lefthander launched a
. Hging slider over the center-field
dents Ass va ]| t0 gj ve lead for good.
*m|2KSH‘Coach just said to hit the ball,
; , p ind I took a hack at it,” Porter said.
,ee ; ‘I thought that it was a great win
or ihe team.”
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.vcasing locc. nei ^ crow P for J he A gg ies after
1 will be held' 0111 da y s of tou g h competition,
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details. Michigan, 6-4, in the first of
wo games that day. Preseason
dl-American Chance Caple threw
lyen-plus innings, giving up just
o runs while whiffing seven
Iters.
But the Wolverines kept it close
send die g ame into extra in-
Jl dvliJ«ings. A&M sophomore Chris Russ
ne into the game and struck out
five batters in a little over three in
nings of work, but the game was
decided in the 11th inning when
A&M junior shortstop Steve Scar
borough hit a line-drive home run
over the left-field wall to give the
Aggies the win. The long ball was
only the fifth of his college career
and highlighted a 3-for-6 night at
the plate for Scarborough.
The second game of the day was
dominated by Casey Fossum. The
junior All-American pitched a com
plete game and struck out twelve
batters versus Cal State-Northridge
in the seven-inning contest.
Sunday’s game featured anoth
er matchup with the Wolverines,
who had revenge on their minds.
But the Aggies had other thoughts
as they hurled senior Matt Ward
against the blue and yellow.
Ward, who has not started a
game in two months, pitched six-
plus innings and blew away seven
batters.
“It felt real good to get up there
and throw again,” Ward said. “My
stuff was working both on the in
side and the outside of the plate.
My ball was really finishing better
today. ”
The Aggies finished regular
tournament play Monday with re
matches against Cal State-North
ridge and UNLV.
The A&M bats scored 12 runs
off the Cal State pitching staff, led
by junior transfer Dell Lindsey,
who went 4-for-5, hitting his fifth
home run of the season and driving
in three runs.
“We played pretty good,” Lind
sey said. “I think we are really im
proving on all parts of our game at
this point in the season.”
The sixth-ranked Aggies, who
boast an overall record of 22-6, will
take a day off before hosting Lamar
University Wednesday at Olsen
Field.
Spurs back on track
as Admiral struggles
MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion
TOP: A&M junior Steven Truitt successfully steals second base during the
Texas A&M Baseball Team’s against UNLV Monday night at Olsen Field.
MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion
BELOW: Senior Shawn Schumacher slides into second base during the
Aggies’ game against the University of Michigan Saturday at Olsen Field.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — After a
rocky start, the San Antonio
Spurs are getting a taste of win
ning again.
At the midway point of this NBA
season, the Spurs have overcome a
6-8 record in February to win 10 of
11 games in March, including seven
on the road.
“We’re glad that we’re playing
pretty well and we’re moving up
the ladder a bit because we were
pretty far down the ladder for a
while,’’ coach Gregg Popovich
said Monday.
At 16-9, San Antonio is three
games behind Utah in the Midwest
Division. The Spurs and Houston
Rockets were tied for second going
into Monday night’s action.
“We’ve been able to gain some
ground on Utah,” guard Avery John
son said. “This is another week
where we can’t have any slipups be
cause you don’t when Utah is going
to lose again. And we don’t play
them until the end of April.”
The Spurs could be on a roll by
then. They play
seven of their next
eight games at
home, beginning
Tbesday against
Denver. San Anto
nio has played just
10 games in the
Alamodome, tying
Sacramento for
the fewest home
games in the conference.
“We must try to continue to es
tablish some homecourt advantage
at the dome this year going into the
playoffs,” Johnson said. “We’ve got
to get some confidence in our own
building.”
San Antonio is getting a boost
from an easier stretch in its sched
ule compared with February, when
the Spurs played Utah, the Los An
geles Lakers and Seattle twice and
Minnesota three times.
A sore spot for the Spurs has
been David Robinson’s produc
tion. The center is averaging 14.4
Sinking Admiral
Career statistics for San Antonio
Spurs center David Robinson:
Year Points Rebounds Blocks FG%
89- 90
90- 91
91- 92
92- 93
93- 94
94- 95
95- 96
96- 97*
97- 98
98- 99
24.3
25.6
23.2
23.4
29.8
27.6
25.0
17.7
21.6
14.4
120
13.0
122
11.7
10.7
10.8
122
8.5
10.6
9.3
3.89
3.90
4.49
3.22
3.31
3.23
3.30
1.00
2.63
2.64
.531
.552
.551
.501
.507
530
.516
.500
.511
.483
* - Robinson missed all but six
games during the ’96-’97 season
with a strained lower back.
POPOVICH
points per game, down from 21.6
points last year. He has scored only
21 points in the last three games
combined.
Popovich benched Robinson in
the final minutes of the fourth quar
ter in two road games last week, opt
ing instead to play Malik Rose.
A seemingly dejected Robinson
told reporters after a practice Mon
day he always prefers to be on the
court when the game is on the line.
“That’d be an understatement,”
he said. “Sitting on the side you
have no power to help at all. It’s like
being a fan over there. When I’m in
there at least I feel like I can make
things happen.”
Robinson has seen second-year
star Tim Duncan become the team’s
leading scorer with an average of
21.6 points per game.
Robinson said he is trying to im
prove his shot and that he was en
couraged by a key jumper he made
in overtime Saturday in the Spurs’
victory at Vancouver.
“Offensively, I’ve got to get going
and make some shots,” Robinson
said. “We’ve still got a lot of things
to do. I know I’m going to be a big
key to that. So if I can get my shot
rolling, get some things happening,
I think it’s really going to make us
more solid.”
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