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jtition. AfteTeny Black put on their own personal Senior Night
? months hows as the Bears handed A&M an 85-59 loss.
Richard Bo. The loss clinched the 11th seed for the Aggies (10-19,
to use the■ 3 in Big 12) in this weekend’s Big 12 Tournament,
mere A&M will face the sixth-seeded Missouri Tigers
[fjursday at 8:20 p.m.
If Bears (17-10,6-10), who clinched the eighth seed,
vill face the ninth-seeded Colorado Buffaloes, also on
lursday.
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u’d /ra//h D (7 tat ' on ear *‘ er ^is season in record fashion. It was the
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A&M junior first baseman Kelly Ferguson reaches for the ball as
Syracuse's Julie Dunn runs to first base Sunday.
Slataper held Syracuse hitless for
10 innings, striking out 14 batters.
The Aggies scored three runs in the
top of the tenth and held off Syracuse
in the bottom half of the inning to
seal the deal.
“I was really pleased with Jessi
ca’s performance,” said A&M softball
coach Jo Evans. “She mixed up her
pitches and did a good job getting
ahead of batters.”
The Aggies’ woes in the field are a
cause of concern for Evans.
“We are not as fundamentally
sound as we should be,” Evans said.
“We’re making mistakes in the field
that we can’t afford to make later on.”
The Aggies had five errors in their
two games on Sunday. Despite the er
rors, the Aggies still managed to pull
out the win against Syracuse.
The Aggies’record improves to 14-
5 and the team is ranked No. 20 in the
nation. The squad will return to action
on Tuesday with a 5 p.m. double-head
er against Stephen F. Austin.
It was also the largest margin of victory for the Bears
over the Aggies since 1967 when they defeated A&M 93-
65 in Waco.
“There’s no question that every guy on this team came
to play tonight,” Black said. “When we played them in
College Station, we weren’t focused on the task at hand.
If we would have played harder, we could have won.
Tonight, we were running our offensd and diving on the
floor for every loose ball.”
Minor and Black dominated the Aggies the whole
game. Minor was the man for Baylor in the first, scoring
12 of his 18 points in the first frame.
Black, who finished the game with 24 points, scored 16
points in the second half. He had four thunderous dunks in
the second, including three straight at one point in the half.
“Give Baylor credit because they were very aggres
sive and got after it on senior night,” said Texas A&M
coach Melvin Watkins. “But we ran out of gas. We did
n’t have much left in the tank. We played with no emo
tion or passion.”
A&M sophomore guard Bernard King led the Aggies
with 14 points. Junior guard Andy Leatherman scored 11,
and freshman forward Nick Anderson had 10.
Baseball wins 2 at Classic
Pitchers lead A&M over Penn State, Indiana State
By Doug Fuentes
The Battalion
After rain wiped out the first two
days of the 2001 Continental Express
Aggie Baseball Classic, the Texas
A&M baseball team was ready to
play on Sunday.
Its readiness allowed it to reach
the .500 mark on the season as A&M
picked up two strong pitching per
formances to come away with two
victories.
A&M sophomore pitcher Todd
Deininger shut down the Penn State
Nittany Lions, 7-2, in the early game,
and freshman pitcher Matt Farnum
continued to impress, shutting out the
Indiana State Sycamores, 4-0, in the
nightcap at Olsen Field.
“It was a good day for the Ag
gies,” said A&M baseball coach
Mark Johnson. “We needed that. I
thought we played really good. I
liked our intensity and 1 thought we
were ready to play. To get two com
plete games from your pitchers in a
tournament is a good way to start.”
In the second game, Farnum con
tinued his campaign to get a spot in
the weekend rotation by striking out
10 Sycamore batters and allowing
only four hits.
The game was a pitchers duel for
the first three innings as Farnum and
Indiana State’s Mitch Stetter, who
was an All-American last season as a
freshman, had control of the game.
The Aggies (7-7) broke through in
the top of the fourth when freshm
catcher Rusty Meyer drove in soph
more right fielder David Evans to
make it a 1-0 game.
Sophomore third baseman Tim
Petru provided the big blow the next
inning with a bases-clearing double
to make it a 4-0 game.
The lead was tested in the bottom
of the sixth as the Sycamores (1-2)
made a two-out rally. After getting
the first two outs, Farnum allowed
CHAD ADAMS/The Battalion -
A&M sophomore pitcher Todd Deininger pitched a complete game,
two-hitter in the Aggies' 7-2 victory over Penn State on Sunday.
two base hits and a walk to load the
bases. He did not buckle however,
striking out Sycamore Brad Pierce to
get out of the jam.
Farnum, who was making his
first start at home, got the Olsen
Field crowd on its feet in the last in
ning, striking out Kyle Wort to end
the game.
“The crowd is great,” Farnum
said. “To have them on their feet
there at the end was exciting. There’s
no better feeling.”
In the early game, Deininger was
impressive, allowing only two runs
on three hits.
Through the first 15 batters of the
game, he was perfect — literally.
Deininger (1-2) did not allow a base
runner for the first five innings. The
Nittany Lions (3-6) finally got to
Deininger in the sixth, starting the in
ning with three straight hits and scor
ing two runs.
But, the Aggies had given
Deininger a big cushion by scoring
one run in the first, four in the second
and two more in the fourth.
“It feels great to get that first win,”
Deininger said. “I didn’t want to go
0-3 for sure.”
After losing six straight games,
the Aggies are now on a four-game
winning streak after Sunday’s games.
“We’re definitely on a roll,” Petru
said. “We’ve got so much momen
tum going right now. Right now, be
fore the game, you can just tell that
everyone in the locker room knows
we’re going to come out and com
pete and give the team we’re playing
a run for their money.”
The Aggies continue play at the
Classic today at 5 p.m. when they play
the ONLY Rebels. A&M will then
play Penn State once again at 8 p.m.
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