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II bene: r 1 oysters H safe tc * j blister iy ry will* )lic awe# of an fe s telL’if | at) th : : || tuples | a week-fi ntrol pandO said. ilil urelotr currer:! e studs i repon:' rNRCi the s tepE theJs’i aic»® lone ates 3 Act dispel les cors| rcetnet! ookat»| by tallyil 3 agenoi- k Criii avenr enfotcl licy.†arc WANT A tfealtliO r Setviu athOf tyalfi' 1^' )83 ranee d-udiffl irsOSi' ; etc- ditor itor ion ^ Edito' s Edit 5 ;' ditor Produtr ,nyDisaki in;JefW ■im MoWH ,Amy Puckett cations, ay! 845#' laeonal 1 ! 19 ; neU^' FiistcoPt 1 * 77843# 1999 NCAA Super Regional College Station (June 4-6) Friday Texas A&M 20 Clemson 3 W-Casey Fossum (11-6) L-Ryan Mottl (4-8) Saturday Clemson 10 Texas A&M 3 W-Chris Heck (6-0) L-Chance Caple (8-5) Sunday Texas A&M 5 Clemson 4 W-Casey Fossum (12-6) L-Chris Heck (6-1) ABOVE: Junior short stop Steve Scarbor ough hits a solo home run in the top of the ninth inning Sunday afternoon at Olsen Field to tie the game at four against the Clemson Tigers. RIGHT: Junior center fielder Steven Truitt sends the Aggies to Omaha as his solo shot broke the 4-4 tie and gave the Aggies the lead. Both Truitt’s and Scarborough’s home runs came off of Clemson reliever Chris Heck, who had not allowed a home run all season. JP BEATO/The Battalion SALLIE TURNER/The Battalion «;' : v A Central Texas Managed Health Care Program Makes More Sense Than Traditional Health Insurance That’s why Bryan-College Station has FIRSTCARE. No annual deductible No claim forms to complete Low co-payments Brazos Valley Physicians Organization Quality health care and controlled costs Bryan-College Station employers have an affordable solution to their group health care needs: FIRSTCARE, a health care program created to help control your rising medical costs. tl* <0 FIRSTCARE is a service of Hillcrest. FIRSTCARE Southwest Health Alliances Your Partner in Health. 254-202-5300 1-888-817-2273 More than 100,000 Texans depend on FIRSTCARE, available in Bryan-College Station. Ask your employer about it. For affordable, quality, convenient and comprehensive health care, choose FIRSTCARE. FIRSTCARE is a service mark of SHA, L.L.C. Aggies Continued from Page 1 “I gave everything I had out there,†Heck said. “I was throw ing my best stuff. I tried my best, unfortunately, I ran out of gas at the end. They just did a good job of hitting the ball. †Clemson head coach Jack Leggett said he had no reserva tions pitching Heck the day after his longest outing of the year. “He (Heck) said before the game that he felt good throwing two innings for us,†Leggett said. “The first inning he was in, he did a good job for us. They just hap pened to get a couple of big hits.†The Aggies were in position to win the game in the ninth because of good pitching and great defense. Senior pitcher Matt Ward started off the game and pitched well. He did not allow a run for the first five innings and was helped out by a school record four double plays, none bigger than the one he received in the bottom of the sixth inning. The Tigers finally broke through as Nathan Boyd double scored Bradley LeCroy in the sixth to make it a 2-1 game. With one out and runners on second and third, second baseman Kurt Bultmann lifted a fly ball to right field. With the runner from third tag ging up, sophomore right fielder Daylan Holt fired a shot to home plate that arrived before the run ner at home, ending the inning for Ward and killing the Tiger threat. “The first thing that came to my mind was get it and throw the heck out of it,†Holt said. “Ljust wanted to make sure I didn’t one hop Schu (Aggie catcher Shawn Schumacher). I gave it all I had.†Senior first baseman John Scheschuk said when the ball left the bat, he knew that Holt was go ing to make the play at home. “I expect that from Daylan,†Scheschuk said. “When that ball went up and I saw where it was going to land, I said to myself, ‘He better throw him out.’ I knew he would because he’s got a great arm and he comes up clutch just like everyone else on this team.†Clemson chased Ward in the 1999 COLLEGE WORLD SERIES MATCHUPS (JUNE 11-19) TEXAS A&M vs. Rorida State Miami, (Ra.) vs. Rice Alabama vs. Oklahoma St. Cal-State Fullerton vs. Stanford bottom of the seventh when the Tigers once again had runners on first and second with one out. The Aggies called on junior ace Casey Fossum to get them out of the jam. After striking out the first batter he faced, Clemson hit two straight singles to take the lead 4- 3. Fossum struck out designated hitter Henri Stanley to end the in ning. Although he relinquished the lead for the Aggies, Fossum said he was not worried about the teams’ ability to come from be hind. “We’ve come back in a lot of big ball games this year,†Fossum said. “I knew if I held them, the way this team does and what we’ve shown the whole season, 1 knew that we could come back.†Fossum (12-6) came back out and had a relatively easy eighth in ning, intentionally walking a bat ter and striking out the side. Fossum said after the eighth in ning he was fatigued, but the events of the top of the ninth gave him the strength to close out the game. “I wasn’t sure if I could go out there and pitch another inning,†Fossum said. “But after those two home runs it was like an adrena line shot and at that point I knew 1 could go out there and finish the game out.†Fossum then went out in the ninth and shut the Tigers down. He struck out Boyd swinging to end the game, prompting a wild celebration at the pitcher’s mound. For the Aggies, it will be the fourth trip to the College World Se ries in school history and the first since 1993. Scheschuk, who played his fi nal home game at A&M, said the road to Omaha was a tough one but one that was well worth it. “It’s so hard to get there,†Scheschuk said. “It’s the toughest thing I’ve ever had to do smc£ I’ve been playing sports. I wanted it bad. It’s not an opportunity you get that often. I knew I had to make the most of it. It’s just amaz ing that I get to go out this way.†/4<?yce AN AGGIE TRADITION FOR FIFTEEN YEARS SUMMER SESSION I DANCE LESSONS CLASS TIME C&WI JITTERBUG I 5:30 7:30 CLASS DATES AND LOCATIONS: JUNE 13 - BRAZOS CENTER, JUNE 20 - MSC 226, JUNE 27 - MSC 226, JULY 11 - MSC 225 SIGN-UPS WILL BE IN THE MSC HALLWAY 8 A.M.-3 P.M. JUNE 7,8,9 COST: $30. 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