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The Battalion
Page 7 • Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Aggies start 2003 campaign at Olsen Field
Baseball team opening against A&M Corpus Christi ^
By Troy Miller
THE BATTALION
Some could call Opening Day
at Olsen Field a holiday, because
many fans will play hooky from
work and class to see this year’s
Texas A&M baseball team (0-0)
begin its season against Texas
A&M-Corpus Christi (1-0)
Tuesday at 3 p.m.
Opening day is the time of
year when the smell of the fresh-
cut grass fills the stands as spring
air brings a sense of youth to the
crowd. The crack of the bat
sparks the Raggies in the first-
base side stands to rag at the
opposing dugout.
“When you mention opening
day, it’s not about football or
basketball or another sport but
said A&M Head
Mark Johnson. “It has its
ring to it. It has a flavor
all of its own. I still get thrilled
opening day.”
Johnson is entering his 19th
season at the helm of the Aggie
baseball program, and hopes to
use new faces to lead A&M back
to the post-season for the first
time since winning the Big 12
title and moving on to the
College World Series in 1999.
New faces will be something
Johnson has plenty of, as the
Aggies welcome 17 newcomers
to the team. Six of the new
players are junior college trans
fers. Included in the transfers is
the 2002 National Junior
College Player of the Year and
NJCAA Male Athlete of the
Year, Corey Patton.
Patton hit .465 with 32 home
runs and 119 RBI's as a sopho
more for Seward County
Community College in
Oklahoma. He will be looked at
as an immediate impact player in
the outfield for the Aggies.
“It’s hard to express how good
of a feeling it is to know you’re
about to start playing division
one baseball,” Patton said. “To
actually be able to do it here on
Tuesday, it’s a dream to play divi
sion one baseball.”
Patton also threw 70 innings
from the mound for Seward
County in 2002 as he finished the
season with an 8-1 record. Patton
is one of nine new members of
the Aggie pitching staff.
Among the new pitchers is
6’5” freshman B.J. Boening.
Boening went 15-0 and had a
0.94 earned run average as a sen
ior for Gregory-Portland High
School in Yoakum, Texas. He
was a 14th round draft selection
of the Houston Astros.
Boening will join pitching
mainstays Kyle Parcus and
Justin Moore, both juniors, to
give the Aggies a solid group on
the mound.
First up for the Aggies are the
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Islanders. The Islanders opened
their season with an impressive
5-0 win over the defending
national champion and current
No. 1 team, the University of
Texas Longhorns.
“Obviously, we’ll see the
pitcher that threw against Texas
that was responsible for at least
six innings of their shut out,”
Johnson said.
“Texas is a good ball club, so
it’s a real eye-opener to us,” he
said. “It’s good for our team
that we have a great opponent
coming in.”
Senior Jimmy Hammon start
ed on the mound for the Islanders
in their game against UT.
Hammon threw six innings and
gave up only two hits as he
earned the win.
The Aggies will most likely
see Hammon on the mound for
opening day at Olsen Field.
“Leo Goertz and the grounds
crew will have the grass cut,
edged, and lined,” Johnson said.
“You can smell the cut of the
grass and all those things that go
along with it.’
FILE PHOTO • THE BATTALION
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By Marcus White
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M men’s golf team is
the move again as it travels to
likoioa, Hawaii Wednesday to com-
fele against several of the nation’s pre
miere programs in the Taylor Made
likoioa Intercollegiate. This will be the
kps’ 12th consecutive visit to “The
Aa State.”
1 Ik 2002-2003 season has proved to
be busy for the Aggies. So far, A&M has
competed in five tournaments, including
trips to Rhode Island, Califoijiia, and the
birthplace of golf, St. Andrews, Scotland.
The tournament Wednesday will be
the Aggies’ first since October’s Barona
Collegiate Classic in San Diego, Calif.,
where they finished eighth among 17
teams. Adam Carr led the way for the
Aggies, taking fifth place individually
by finishing the tournament at a 7-
under-par 211 total points. Collectively,
the Aggies finished 18 strokes behind
tournament winner San Diego State
University on the way to their third
straight top 10 finish.
Senior captain Shaun Helme said he
believes the pieces are in place for the
Aggies to make a run at the National
Championship as the team hopes to build
on what has been a successful start to the
2002-2003 season.
“We are gearing up (for the Hawaii
trip),” Helme said. “We had a great fall
and for the spring we are just trying to
get off to a good start.”
A&M faces stiff competition this
week as the Waikoloa tournament
attracts many of the country’s best colle
giate golfers. No. 4 Texas Christian
University highlights a field that includes
five teams ranked in the top 25, and sev
eral teams ranked among the top 100
programs in the country.
No. 19 Georgia Tech also returns to
Waikoloa to defend its 2002 first-
place finish.
Led by Adam Rubinson, the TCU
Homed Frogs finished fourth among 16
teams from the 2002 NCAA National
Championships in Myrtle Beach, S.C. in
November. Rubinson also took first in
the Western Refining All-American
Classic in El Paso, Texas, out-shooting
24 All-Americans from 2001-2002 by
five strokes on his way to being named
Conference USA’s “Golfer of the
Month” for November.
The Taylor Made-Waikoloa
Intercollegiate is a three-day tournament
scheduled to kick off Wednesday, Feb.
10 at the Waikoloa Kings Golf Course.
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