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The Battalion Page 5 • Wednesday, March 5, 2003
Baseball team overcomes UTSA surge for win
JOHN C. LIVAS • THE BATTALION
A&M pitcher Matt Farnum hurls a fastball against UTSA on Tuesday.
Farnum allowed only three hits during seven scoreless innings pitched.
By Dallas Shipp
THE BATTALION
After four innings of shutout
baseball which looked like a
pitcher’s duel in the making, the
Aggie baseball team lit up the
scoreboard in the bottom of the
fifth with five runs on three hits.
That was more than enough
run support for junior right-han
der Matt Farnum, who shut down
the University of Texas — San
Antonio (4-8) for seven innings
and led the Aggies (11-4) to an 8-
5 win in front of 3,790 fans at
Olsen Field Tuesday night.
Farnum said he was aware of
the strong performance that
UTSA’s senior left-hander Trey
Rice began the game with but
stayed focused on his game.
“I don’t pitch based on what
the other guy is doing,” Farnum
said. “I just try to go out there and
shut them down.”
UTSA Head Coach
Sherman Corbett, who played
for the Aggies in 1982-84, said
that Farnum was the key for
the Aggies.
“(A&M) did a good job of
mixing it up on us at the plate,”
Corbett said. “(Farnum) did a
great job of getting his breaking
pitches over the plate and that
kept us off balance. He pitched a
great ballgame.”
Farnum did not walk a batter
and struck out four in his seven
inning shutout. With the win
Farnum improves to 3-0 and his
ERA is now 0.92 for the season
after the shutout.
Farnum said he did not worry
about getting run support from
his teammates.
“I knew we would score some
runs. When they come is not up to
me,” Farnum said.
After four silent innings, the
Aggie offense finally came alive.
Junior center fielder Justin
Ruggiano started the five-run
offensive explosion with a one-
out single up the middle to center
field. An RBI single by junior
infielder Scott Beerer was fol
lowed by two walks and a hit bat
ter with the bases loaded.
Junior catcher Justin Pouk
scored from third on a wild pitch
by Rice and freshman third base-
man Cliff Pennington finished
off the inning with a two-run sin
gle. The Aggies scored four runs
in the inning with two outs
before Pennington was picked
off at first base.
Pennington would redeem
himself in his next at bat in the
bottom of the seventh with a shot
over the right-center field wall for
a two-run home run, his first
home run as an Aggie, giving the
freshman four RBI in the game.
“I hit it well but the wind car
ried it out of here,” Pennington
said. “It felt really good (to hit it
at Olsen). It was a great feeling
and it was hard to keep a smile off
my face.”
The Aggies would add anoth
er run in the sixth inning after
back to back triples from junior
Cory Patton and Ruggiano.
The Roadrunners didn’t go
down without a fight. UTSA ral
lied against A&M’s junior right
hander Brian Finch who came in
for Farnum in the eighth inning.
Finch gave up five runs on
four hits in the inning as UTSA
batted around.
UTSA senior leftfielder
Cory Horton led the way for
the Roadrunners in the eighth
with two RBI.
A&M Head Coach Mark
Johnson said he thought Finch
was throwing the ball well and
that UTSA was just getting good
hits off of him.
The Aggies improved to 7-1 at
Olsen Field this season.
A&M will travel to Round
Rock today to face Southwest
Texas State at Dell Diamond.
First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.
Aggies host BU in home finale Tennis team fights off TCU
By Dallas Shipp
THE BATTALION
Tonight’s men’s basketball game
against the Baylor Bears will be the
last game at Reed Arena for this
year’s senior class, barring a dramatic
finish that results in the Aggies host
ing a game for the National
Invitational Tournament. This year’s
seniors, including guards Bernard
King and Bradley Jackson, and for
wards Keith Bean and Brian
Brookhart, have led the 2002-03
Aggies to their best finish since
they’ve been at A&M and need one
more win to assure them their first
winning season in nine years.
A&M Head Coach Melvin
Watkins said A&M has plenty of
motivation for Wednesday night's
game.
“We still feel like we’re playing
for something and we are,” he said.
“We are playing for seeds in the
(Big 12) conference tournament and
it’s the last home game for the sen
iors that have been in our program
for a while.”
A&M and Baylor are entering
the match up tonight coming off
tough losses at home and riding
losing streaks.
In the first meeting between
these two teams this year, the Bears
overcame a 32-27 A&M lead at the
half and walked away with a 77-69
win in Waco.
Sophomore guard John Lucas led
the Bears with 24 points and six
assists while sophomore forward
Lawrence Roberts added another 23
points and 10 rebounds.
King led the Aggies with 17
points and eight rebounds in the
losing effort.
“They did a much better job in the
second half of spreading the floor and
Roberts really hurt us down low,”
Watkins said. “There are some adjust
ments we need to make and we feel
we can make them.”
Lucky for the Aggies, this game is
at home, where they are 9-4 this year.
See Baylor on page 7
By Blake Kimzey
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M women’s tennis team
wrapped up its six-match home stand
Tuesday with a 4-3 victory against Texas
Christian University. With the confidence of
a lengthy win streak at home under its belt,
A&M Head Coach Bobby Kleinecke said
his team is ready to hit the rest of the season
with full force.
“Now we need to make a push,”
Kleinecke said. “This match gives us an
opportunity to do that, to move up and make
a statement nationwide that we are a team to
watch out for.”
It took all they had, though, to close out
the Lady Horn Frogs before embarking on a
three game road trip. The Aggies went into
singles play by securing the doubles point
with victories at No. 2 and No. 3 doubles,
which put the pressure on TCU.
After being named co-player of the week,
A&M freshman Nicki Mechem came out
swinging. Mechem was the first Aggie netter
to put A&M on the board at No. 5 singles by
making quick work of TCU’s Ivonne
Andrade 6-1, 6-3.
After going down 2-0 in the match, TCU
battled back with two consecutive victories
to level the playing field by deadlocking the
See Tennis on page 7
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