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’Horns, Huskers represent Big 12 in baseball
Two teams from Conference advance to Super Regionals en route to College World Series
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Last year, the University of Baylor, Oklahoma State Uni
versity, the University of Texas, Texas Tech University and
Texas A&M University stood tall against the giants of col
lege baseball in NCAA Regionals.
This year, the Big 12 Conference once again sent five
teams to Regionals.
Behind only the Atlantic Coast Conference, which sent
six teams this year, the Big 12 increased its total number of
teams sent to the Regional to 20 in the last four years.
Baylor, Texas, the University of Nebraska, Oklahoma
State and Texas Tech competed against teams from across
the nation. After the dust settled, only Nebraska and Texas
advanced to Super Regionals.
Nebraska defeated Wichita State Monday to advance
to the Super Regional. Led by Matt Hopper and Dan John
son, who each hit their 21st home run of the season, the
Huskers were two outs away from a school-record fifth
shutout and won 8-1.
Nebraska will face Stanford this Friday and Saturday in
a best-of-three series.
Texas defeated Arizona State 9-7 to advance to the Su
per Regional. Texas was also chosen as one of eight schools
to host Super Regional games. Texas (44-19) will face Penn
State (45-17) in a bet-of-three series that begins friday.
• University of Nebraska Huskers: Armed with two All-
Americans, the Huskers cruised through the Big 12 Tourna
ment with a record of 50-15. Shane Komine and Justin Cow
an were both selected as All-Americans by Collegiate Baseball.
Komine had a record of 9-3, with a 1.66 ERA. He also
led the country with 131 strike outs. Komine threw sev
en double-figure strike-out games and is the only first-
team All-American in the Big 12. To add to his impres
sive year, Komine was named as the Big 12 Player of the
Year.
Justin Cowan was a semifinalist for the Johnny Bench
award, which is given to the best catcher in the nation.
Cowan batted .383 for the year, had nine home runs,
scored 70 runs and threw out 11 of 31 base runners for a
35-percent mark.
• Texas University Longhorns: This year's Big 12 Coach
of the Year, Augie Garrido of Texas, is No. 2 on the list of all-
time winning coaches with 1,278 victories and a .674 win
ning average over his career. The Longhorns have an ad
vantage not only by playing at home, but also by featuring
a triple-threat pitching staff.
Starting pitcher Beau Hale was 10-3 on the year with a
3.17 ERA and one no-hitter. Another starting pitcher, D.J.
Jones, also enjoyed a 10-win season going 10-5 with a 2.92
ERA and 77 strikeouts. Relief pitcher Charlie Thames had
15 saves and a 1.94 ERA. Thames was voted as the Big 12
Newcomer of the Year.
Six other Super Regionals will take place this weekend.
The winners of each best-of-three series will go on to com
pete in the College World Series.
The University of South Carolina will host the Universi
ty of Louisiana-Lafayette. Mississippi State University will
travel to take on the University of Clemson.
One of Florida's best rivalries will continue as the Uni
versity of Miami takes on Florida State University in Talla
hassee. The University of Southern California will travel to
take on Georgia State University.
San Jose State University will head to Texas to face the
University of Houston, while Louisiana State University
will host the University of California-Los Angeles.
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Sports in Brief
Chmura begins
assault trial
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) —
Mark Chmura was ordered to
stand trial on sexual assault
charges after his 17-year-old
baby sitter testified the Green
Bay Packers receiver had sex
with her without her consent.
The teen-ager, a baby sitter
for Chmura’s children, testified
at the star player’s preliminary
hearing Tuesday that she was
shocked at what happened and
didn’t protest because “he’s a
big guy. The door was locked.”
The 31-year-old Chmura is
charged with third-degree sexu
al assault with the girl at an April
9 prom party, held at the home
of his friend and neighbor,
Robert Gessert.
Gessert, 43, also is charged
with third- and fourth-degree sex
ual assault and is accused of
fondling an 18-year-old woman in
a hot tub at the same party.
Gessert also was ordered to trial.
Chmura denied the charges,
telling reporters: “I am here today
to tell you I am not guilty. I look
forward to the day when the pub
lic hears the rest of the story.”
The 17-year-old girl was
mostly composed on the wit
ness stand and kept her eyes
locked on Waukesha County
District Attorney Paul Bucher
throughout most of her testimo
ny. She only looked in Chmura’s
direction when she was cross-
examined by his attorneys.
The girl testified under
questioning from prosecutors
that she played a drinking
game for about an hour with
Chmura and Gessert. She said
she was intoxicated.
The girl said she, Chmura and
others spent some time in a hot
tub outside Gessert’s home.
Chmura and Gessert could
each face 10 years in prison
and $10,000 fines if convicted.
Gessert also could get up to
nine months in jail and a
$10,000 fine if he is convicted
of fourth-degree sexual assault.
An arraignment for both men
was set for June 23.
Detroit defeats
Texas rangers
DETROIT (AP) — Dean Palmer
homered and drove in five runs,
and Brian Moehler won for the
first time since April 11 as the
Detroit Tigers beat the Texas
Rangers 7-4 on Tuesday night.
The Tigers won for just the
second time in their last six
games. Detroit once again
played without former Rangers
star Juan Gonzalez, who missed
his second straight game with a
strained left foot.
Texas is 3-5 on a nine-game
road trip that ends Thursday and
has lost five of seven since a
seven-game winning streak.
Rain delays French Open
PARIS (AP) — On a day when rain
washed out every match at the French
Open for perhaps the first time in his
tory, tlie hottest player in the world
spent a bummer of a birthday trying
to contain his impatience.
He wants to get out on the court
and start bashing balls, keep his mo
mentum going and his adrenaline
up as he pushes toward what he
hopes will be his first Grand Slam
tournament title.
How frustrating was it?
“You can't imagine," he said as
the rain beat down steadily in the
late afternoon Tuesday and wiped
away all 64 of the first-round singles
matches scheduled. "I've been here
since 9:30 this morning.... We just sit
around in the locker rooms, chatting
with each other, playing some cards,
listening to music."
It was not the way Mangus Nor
man wanted to celebrate his 24th
birthday. This is his time, his mo
ment, he believes, to become the lat
est Swedish champion, to take his
place behind Bjorn Borg, Mats Wi-
lander and Stefan Edberg.
Norman, seeded No. 3, knoVvs
people are suspicious of his creden
tials. After all, in 14 Grand Slam
tournaments before this year he got
past the third round only twice,
reaching the quarters at the French
in 1997 and the fourth round at the
U.S. Open last year.
Norman did win five tourna
ments in 1999, and he made the
semifinals at the Australian Open in
January. When he won the ninth ti
tle of his career two weeks ago at
Rome, he moved past Agassi in the
yearlong race toward No. 1.
"When somebody becomes the
champion for the first time, they al
ways think he comes out of
nowhere," Norman said. "The fact
that 1 actually won five titles last
year shows that I've been playing
good tennis for two years in a row
now. I'm not surprised, my coach is
not surprised.
"Three years ago on my 21 st birth
day 1 beat Pete Sampras. That was big
for me. Now 1 think I'm able to win
against the top players almost every
day. That's why I'm looking forward
to this tournament. 1 think I'm capa
ble of doing it this week."
Norman certainly wasn't sur
prised to see Sampras lose in the first
round Monday against Mark Philip-
poussis. In fact, Norman doesn't
think the 28-year-old Sampras will
ever win the French Open, even
though he considers Sampras better
than Agassi when they're both play
ing at their best.
"I think his best years are behind
him, really," Norman said of Sam
pras. "He's getting older. Hels got
probably the best career someone
ever had. But I think it's going to be
difficult for him to win here because
it takes a lot out of your body to win
seven matches here on clay, best-of-
five sets. I don't think he's going to
be capable of winning here."
Norman is an anomaly among
Swedish players. He has a fiery spir
it, even something of a temper on
court. He lacks the natural speed and
talent of Borg and Edberg, but makes
up for it with the kind of grueling
physical training that is closer to the
fight-camp style of Jim Courier.
"I've looked a lot at Jim Courier,
what he has done in his career, how
he worked," said Norman, a baselin-
er with an inside-out forehand like
Courier's. "I'm not a talent, and he
was not maybe a talent, either. What
we have, what he had, was that we
could work six, seven hours a day. I
think we both love the game so much
and we really wanted to be a top ath
lete. You win a lot of matches if you
have that in your mind.
"My favorite growing up in Swe
den was Edberg. I'm nowhere near
playing like his serve-and-volley. I al
ways tried to copy him outside the
court, the way he was approaching
the game mentally."
Track
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personal best and provisional-qualify
ing 400-meter hurdle time of 50.18 en
route to a third place finish at the con
ference championships. He is also a
member of the mile relay team.
Two field competitors that have
had strong seasons are juniors Jon
Nance and Tolga Koseoglu. Koseoglu
set the conference discus record of 209-
9 in April ranking fourth among qual
ifiers. Nance has vaulted the automat
ic-qualifying height of 18-2.50 twice
this season.
Senior Scott Lengefeld and junior
Aaron Smith rely on endurance to
best the competition. Smith's efforts
in the decathlon in April qualified
him for a spot at the NCAA meet,
while Lengefeld had the momentum
of a first-place finish in the 10,000 me
ters at the Big 12 Championships.
Each of the five Aggie women qual
ifiers have outstanding qualifying
marks and the potential to earn All-
American honors.
Juniors Meshel Trotter, hammer
tlirow, and Meghan Koonce, discus,
set A&M records with their qualify
ing marks.
Sophomore Robyn Burkhardt's
qualifying mark of 6-0 3/4 in the high
jump is fourth best among qualifiers.
Two Aggie women hoping to retain
the momentum of the Big 12 champi
onships are junior Christina Ohaeri
and All-American sophomore Katy
Doyle. Ohaeri ranks twelfth among
qualifiers in the 100-meter hurdles
with a time of 13.06. Doyle seeks to bet
ter her fifth place finish from last year's
NCAA Championships in the javelin.
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