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Baseball's future bright
Pitching depth, newfound maturity promises victories
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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
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The pitching staff alone
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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
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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
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showed late in the season and in
the tournament, die pressure
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An RBI single by Stephenson
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Evans’ diird tournament homer,
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