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Baseball's future bright Pitching depth, newfound maturity promises victories Aggies did not make these mis- will then move to the hitters, takes in the tournament and I lifting in clutch situations, they were the better of Texas, ultimate sign of maturity nt Texas Tech and Oklahoma. If continue. Players like Wong MARK PASSWATERS After two years of not reaching the NCAA tourna ment, critics of Texas A&M baseball coach Mark Johnson have taken to the airwaves and the Internet calling for his firing. Since every year does not end in Omaha, diese critics rea son, Johnson must be at fault. Johnson, like all good coaches, is a teacher, but there is one thing that cannot he taught: maturity. The Aggie baseball team came of age during the Big 12 baseball tournament, and odds are that die critics will largely be silent next season. One look at this baseball team’s depth chart shows that it is very young and inexperienced. Through most of the season, diis. lack of experience cost them games in the form of mistakes veteran teams do not make. T he | such growth continues, the Ag gies will he tough customers in the 2002 season. The pitching staff alone should be enough to have Texas A&M fans excited about next season. With the return of in jured ace Khalid Ballouli, John son will have assembled a fonni- dable — and still very young — staff Ballouli and Todd Deininger will lie juniors; tour nament startersjustin Moore, Kyle Parcus, and Chris French will he sophomores, as will Matt Famum, perhaps the team’s most consistent starter. With the ad dition of Steven Ponder and Chris Finch, Johnson has depth that would he envied by almost any coach in die conference. If the pitching staff continues to improve on the promise it showed late in the season and in the tournament, die pressure David Evans, Ben I limes and Neal Stephenson must hit sistendy for average and some power as well. jR The only glaring hole the mes have is at third base. Gd Porter and T im Petru have ye to fulfill their potential, and freshman Matt Alexander mi move ahead of both of them < the depth chart by nextsprin lews ii - Cam >rum tod |An tuition open f Come next year, tansth bu y 0 day at ularly go to Olsen Fieldwi! * c to a || ow , likely recogni/.e the players,™ s t a ff an cl th n< (or tw will have p he now. If the team contini jrrow as did from the start o season to the end of the Bis Tournament, the futuremt! very bright. :uvs the pro| ,t their level of play. T he; ing experknafcjit hour ii ave past, and the hiturefliversity aut ■ the Fall 1 Mark Pusswatersist elect! ical engineering Jose in attei fle to quest! j|iversity Pre I Bowen abc ■ increase. n St Tournament Continued from Page 3 home runs, Nebraska became the first team to wf n the Big 12 regular season and tournament titles in the same season. An RBI single by Stephenson drove home Evans and gave Par cus a 1 -0 lead when he w ent to the mound in die bottom of the first. Nebraska responded widi a run of their own with Jeff Blevins’ tw o- out RBI double. The inning was able to stay alive for Nebraska when Himes slipped and had des ignated hitter Matt Hopper’s fly ball deflect off his glove, letting Stem go to diird. The Aggies regained the lead in die diird when Freeman doubled off die right-center field wall widi two outs, scoring Schindewolf. That lead vanished in the bot tom half of the inning when Hop per singled to right field, with Himes having the ball bounce out of his glove after a diving effort. Johnson followed with his first homer, a mammoth shot which cleared the right field bullpen. The Aggies scored again in die fifth on a Freeman RBI single and Evans’ diird tournament homer, hut it would not he enough as Johnson would crush any Aggie hopes at completing a miracle run with another two-run shot in the fifth. The Huskers would tack on two more runs in the bottom of the sevendi, leaving die Aggies to ponder what might have lieen. “We didn’t give diem the game, diey won the game,” Gamer said. “We had our hearts in the game, Mice kill le allegec 12001 Phillips 66 Big | Conference Basek All-Tournament I OUSTON ilfc d a 31 -yec Apnday afte tabbed his ojdeath anc laughter an^ nother, polic WThe incidei Kelly Shoppach, Bayiot |Dan Johnson Nebraska IlNebassett Brown, i| Oklahoma Si iJason Bartlett. 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