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'ess st tie Battalion Sports Page 7 • Friday, April 30, 1999 Baseball team to battle ’Homs Second-ranked Aggies face rival Texas in three-game series Amerii ay asked fcis aim heart lure ci r lhai a hea lion to dose made to sup: n'edinitiea newspape;- i County Coe Warner, wh. ie youths •; ■ reported adersdix n Hay Fexa to vtolenc tid the new not be dis] aool safety- nd matter; irestinceiB ndthenatk MIKE FUENTES/The Battaijon eshman catcher Lisa Klam holds back an Oklahoma State baserunner jring the Texas A&M Softball Team’s game against the Cowgirls April 3 at the Aggie Softball Complex. \gs prepare for final road trip BY BEN WESTBROOK The Battalion n Tes The Texas A&M Softball Team ill try to close out the regular sea- n in style by upping their posi- m In the Big 12 with a pair of iubleheaders against Baylor Uni- and Texas Tech University. The softball team is coming off HowardPe. weekend which saw them againstfoiifPfhree of four contests against u Joseph e University of Missouri and Uni- and lnuisi'9 vho hasak’HI 1 ledtosieefc :a tor probail ad focus odej versity of Kansas. The Aggies dropped to eighth in the Big 12 with a 5-9 record, 37-16 overall. Saturday the women will take on the Baylor Bears in a doubleheader scheduled for noon in Waco. The Bears matched their 1998 Big 12 win total of two with a sweep of Tech in the conference opener and have since fought to a 4-8 record, leaving them ninth in the conference. see Softball on Page 10. BY DOUG SHILLING The Battalion Whenever Texas A&M Universi ty and the University of Texas get together in any athletic competi tion, the game automatically reach es a higher degree of intensity. This weekend is no exception as the second-ranked Texas A&M Baseball Team begins their stretch drive to defending their Big 12 reg ular-season title against the 19th- ranked Texas Longhorns. With six games remaining in the regular season, the Aggies need only four more victories to clinch their second straight Big 12 title. A&M head coach Mark Johnson said that while the series against Texas is a big one for his team, the ultimate goal on everyone’s mind is the Big 12 Championship. “It may be emotionally big for us,” Johnson said. “I think it’s more for our fans and our alumni than it is for the players. We’re so hooked in on winning the Big 12 that I don’t think we’ll be a whole lot different than we were against Baylor. ” The Aggies (40-10, 19-4 Big 12) come into the game with a 15-2 record in the month of April, the last win coming Tuesday against the Sam Houston State University Bearkats. A&M tied the record for the most home runs by an Aggie team in a season in the 14-10 win. Junior second baseman Sean Heaney capped off a wonderful night at the plate when he tied the record with a solo shot in the eighth inning of the game. Heaney went 3-for-5 on the night with two home runs, one of which was a grand slam, five RBIs and three runs scored. The win also marked the 40th of the year for A&M, a mark that is usually a benchmark of being se- UKE THE OUTDOORS? WANT TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE? Consider a Career in Natural Resources. HEI ;es 7-1 )l! shows fciK ’ainsttteT I r councilor® etitor. 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Contact individual departments at the numbers above for more information. m id I * V/ MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion Junior shortstop Steve Scarborough tries to complete the double play from second base during the Aggies’ game against Sam Houston State University April 27 at Olsen Field. The Texas A&M Baseball Team will host the University of Texas Friday night before traveling to Austin for Saturday’s and Sunday’s games. lected to a regional. Johnson said the 40th victory was a goal for the Aggies and a sign of what the team has accom plished. “In our season, you have a lot of goals,” Johnson said. “That was one of the goals for us, along with winning the Big 12. There’s not a team that wins 40 games out of 56 that hasn’t had a good season. It’s a reflection on what you’re team has done on the year.” The offensive leader for the Ag gies this season has been right- fielder Daylan Holt. The sopho more from Mesquite, Texas, has le o Craig Kuzmic’s single-season home run mark with 25. Holt is batting .351 on the year , with 75 RBIs and an .842 slugging percent age. Fourty-six of his 71 hits have gone for extra bases; 18 doubles, three triples and the 25 home runs. Leading the Aggie pitching staff this year is Friday night’s starter, junior Casey Possum. The reigning Big 12 Pitcher of the Week for his complete-game, 13-strikeout per formance against the University of Kansas, Possum is 8-4 on the year with a 2.76 ERA. In 88 innings of work. Possum has struck out 119 batters while only giving up 70 hits. Saturday night’s starter will be junior Chance Caple. Caple is 7-3 on the season with a 3.96 ERA with 90 strikeouts in 84 innings. Sunday Matt Ward takes the mound for the Aggies. The senior left-hander is 4-0 on the year with a 3.95 ERA in 43 1/3 innings pitched. The Longhorns (33-17, 16-8 Big 12) come into the series riding a five-game winning streak. Last weekend, they traveled to Ames, Iowa, and swept Iowa State Uni versity. Tuesday they downed the University of Texas-San Antonio, 11-3. see Baseball on Page 9.