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MattKenseth came away with the victory at the Samsung/Radio Shack
500 at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth.
Kenseth victorious
at Fort Worth race
FORT WORTH. Texas (AP)
Maybe practice is overrated.
Matt Kenseth won the
Samsung/Radio Shack 500 on
Monday despite running only
five laps in practice at Texas
Motor Speedway.
His few laps
came Friday,
before he blew an
engine. Saturday’s
practice was
rained out. and
more wet weather
Sunday postponed
the race, leaving
everyone guessing
about chassis set
's on the repaved
1/2-mile oval.
Kenseth found
tbe answer, hold-
the lead with
a late-race,
two-tire stop and driving to an
easy victory in his No. 17 Roush
Racing Ford.
"When you have a fast car,
sometimes you don’t want to
/wctice too much and start
miking changes that might slow
you down,” Kenseth said.
“Really, we had kind of decided
on our own what we were gong
to run on our car and it was pret
ty close to the set-up I ran on my
Busch car Saturday.”
Kenseth finished fifth in the
Busch race.
The key
moment in
Monday’s race
was the two-tire pit
stop near the end.
“We lost a
race like that in
California in my
rookie year by
taking four tires,”
Kenseth said.
“We didn’t want
to do that again,
and we knew if
some of those
other guys got out ahead of us,
we probably wouldn’t be able to
get past them.”
It was the second win of the
season and the third of his career
for the former NASCAR
Winston Cup rookie of the year,
who solidified his hold on sec
ond place in the season points.
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When you have a
fast car, sometimes
you don't want to
practice too much
and start making
changes that might
slow you down.'
— Matt Kenseth
Ags set to tangle with Coogs
JOHN LIVAS • THE BATTALION
A&M sophomore Erik Schindewolf applies the tag to an Oklahoma runner during the Aggies’
series with OU on March 24. The Aggies travel to Houston today to play the Houston Cougars.
Staff and Wire Reports
The Texas A&M baseball team will travel
to Houston to face the Houston Cougars on
Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Cougar Field.
After defeating Texas A&M-Corpus
Christi last Tuesday, and winning two of
three games from Texas-Pan American last
weekend, the Aggies (26-11) stayed at No.
16 for the third-consecutive week in the
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper top 25.
The Aggies defeated Pan American, 6-5,
in the first game of a doubleheader on
Saturday before dropping the nightcap, 3-2.
The win marked the 750th career victory
for 18th-year head coach Mark Johnson.
After the teams endured a three hour and
26 minute rain delay in the first game,
catcher Rusty Meyer hit his third home run
of the season.
In his 12 games back from injury, Meyer
is hitting a team-high .388.
Houston (23-10), ranked as high as No. 7
by Baseball America, enters the midweek
battle after dropping two of three games to
East Carolina last weekend.
Tuesday’s game will be a rematch of the
third game of the season where Houston
edged A&M, 2-1, at the Astros College
Classic at Astros Field.
The pitching matchup will be identical as
a pair of left handers in Kyle Parcus and
Keith Whatley will toe the rubber.
Parcus lasted five innings against the
Cougars, allowing one run on four hits, while
striking out five. For the season, Parcus is 2-
2 with a 3.15 ERA in 34 1/3 innings.
Whatley earned the win and allowed just
two hits while striking out four in six innings
in the previous contest against the Aggies.
So far this year, Whatley is 6-3 with an ERA
of 4.47 in 44.1 innings of work.
The Aggies lead the all-time series with
Houston, 96-45-1, with the Cougars winning
the last two games between the in-state rivals.
Texas A&M has won seven of the last 10.
Biggio, Berkman help Astros topple Rockies
DENVER (AP) — Craig Biggio hit for
the cycle and drove in four runs, leading the
Houston Astros over Colorado 8-4 Monday
in the Rockies’ home opener.
Lance Berkman hit his fourth home run
of the season, a two-run drive off Denny
Neagle (1-1) in the third, and Roy Oswalt
won his second straight start.
Biggio went 4-for-4 with a two-run
homer, triple, two-run double and single to
raise his average to .296.
His double down the left-field line in the
eighth completed the cycle and put the
Astros ahead 8-1. It was the first cycle of his
13-year career.
Oswalt (2-0) allowed three runs and 10
hits in seven innings. Todd Zeile homered in
the seventh, and Oswalt left in the eighth
after Jose Uribe singled and Larry Walker
homered.
Neagle allowed six runs and nine hits in
5 2-3 innings.
Oswalt gave up leadoff singles in the sec
ond, third and fifth but escaped damage.
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