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The Battalion
Page 5 • Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Aggies travel to UTSA for midweek action
By Kevin Espenlaub
THE BATTALION
After taking two of three games from No.
12 Nebraska this weekend at Olsen Field,
the No. 20 Texas A&M baseball team will
travel to San Antonio Tuesday to face off
with the University of Texas-San Antonio in
anon-conference matchup at Wolff Stadium
beginning at 7 p.m.
Despite their 9-10 season record, the
Roadrunners have won five of their last
eight contests and will try to even the season
series against the Aggies (19-5, 2-1 Big 12),
who defeated UTSA 8-5 at Olsen Field
March 4.
“1 told the team that Tuesday was our
next big challenge,” said A&M Head Coach
Mark Johnson. “We have to see if we got
our emotions so high this weekend that we
won’t be able to be on an even field in those
Tuesday ballgames and not drop (our level
of play) much right after the beginning of
the Big 12 games.”
The Aggies, who are on a streak of their
own after claiming victories in nine of their
last 10 games, used solid pitching from jun
iors Matt Farnum and Kyle Parcus, as well
as a 4-for-4 day from junior transfer Justin
Ruggiano to claim the third and deciding
game in the Nebraska series.
Farnum, who started the game for the
Aggies, improved his season record to 5-0
and Parcus closed out the last 2.2 innings to
record his first save of the season. Farnum
also pitched seven innings for the Aggies
and claimed the win in the first game against
UTSA this season.
“(A&M) did a good job of mixing it up
on us at the plate,” said UTSA Head Coach
Sherman Corbett. “(Farnum) did a great job
of getting his breaking pitches over the plate
(in the first matchup), and that kept us off-
balance. He pitched a great ballgame.”
Now A&M will look to junior right-han
der Brian Finch to close out the season
series against the Roadrunners.
Finch will try to change his luck against
UTSA after being pounded for all five of its
runs on four hits in the March 4 matchup
when he relieved Farnum in the eighth inning.
He will bring a 2-1 record into the game
with a 5.73 ERA in 22 innings of work and
has recorded 15 strikeouts this season.
Finch’s last start was against Texas-Pan
American March 9. He did not earn a deci
sion after allowing four runs on six hits in
four innings.
He will try to earn the win against a
Roadrunner team that is coming off a 13-2
loss on the road against the McNeese State
Cowboys. The win gave the Cowboys the 2-
1 series win in the first conference matchup
for both teams.
The Aggies hold the all-time lead in the
series 11-4, but the Roadrunners hold a 3-1
advantage in games played in San Antonio.
The game will also hold some emotional
ties for Corbett, who played for A&M from
1982-1984, and UTSA Assistant Coach
Jason Marshall, who was a four-year letter-
man for the Aggies.
“They are very special people to me,”
Johnson said. “They played for me and they
are Aggies. I root for them in every game
they play. I just hope they don’t have a real
good ballgame on Tuesday.”
JOHN C. UVAS • THE BATTALION
Junior Kyle Parcus delivers a pitch in Sunday’s game against Nebraska.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
A&M football team begins spring
practices today behind Kyle Field
The Texas A&M football team will begin its spring
practices today at the grass fields behind Kyle Field.
The practice season will consist of 15 practices and
will mark the official beginning of the Dennis
Franchione era at A&M.
A&M lured Franchione away from Alabama last
December and signed him to replace R.C. Slocum as
the new Aggie head coach.
Today's and Wednesday's practices will be held in
only shorts and T-shirts under NCAA regulations,, and
full pads will be used in Friday's practices.
The team's first scrimmage will be March 29 at Kyle
Field, and the annual Maroon and White game will
be held April 12 at 2 p.m.
Anyone is welcome to watch the Aggies' spring
practices, but registration is required for anyone
hoping to attend.
To register to watch practices, call 458-2185.
Practice today and tomorrow will be held from 3
p.m. until 6 p.m.
Men’s tennis team hosts doubleheader
By Jeff Allen
THE BATTALION
The No. 11 Texas A&M men’s
tennis team is set to take on Northern
Arizona University and Wichita
State University today in what is to
be the final doubleheader of the
2003 season.
The double dip, which comes as
part of an eight-match home stand
for the team, is the fifth one of the
year. During that stretch the Aggies
have accumulated an 8-0 record,
including a win last week against
No. 7 Duke that went a long way
toward solidifying the Aggies’ place
in the polls.
“(The team) has earned the rank
ing,” said A&M Head Coach Tim
Cass. “I’m happy for them because
it’s their ranking, and they are the
ones that were successful in (earlier)
matches, and that’s why we’re where
we are at.”
The competition today doesn’t
look as fierce as it did last week
when the Aggies were facing a
national power.
In the first match, the Aggies (12-
5) will square off with a Northern
Arizona squad that struggled early in
the season. The Lumberjacks lost six
of their first seven matches out of the
gates this season and have been trying
to climb out of that hole ever since.
The Lumberjacks come into
College Station riding a three-match
losing streak, including losses
against A&M-Corpus Christi and
No. 55 Texas Tech.
The second match for the
Aggies is the night cap with
Wichita State, which is coming off
a 3-1 performance last week at the
HEB Team Championships held in
Corpus Christi.
The Shockers will play the Aggies
for the first time in nearly 15 years
when they take the court at 6 p.m.
tonight at the A&M Tennis Center.
Three wins at the tournament last
week have been all the Shockers have
been able to muster so far this season.
Wichita State has dropped match
es against three Big 12 teams, suffer
ing losses at the hands of the
University of Nebraska, Baylor
University and the University of
Texas, three schools that the Aggies
will play later this season when con
ference play resumes.
The doubleheader comes at a
time when the Aggie men have final
ly hit their stride after starting the
season slow. The men pieced togeth
er a six-match winning streak and
have gone undefeated in their first 10
home matches of the year.
Last Thursday the Aggies were
able to get Big 12 play off to a good
start against the University of
Colorado. The Aggie men defeated
the Buffaloes 6-1 at the Tennis
Center, extending the Aggies’ win
streak to its current six games.
“We really want to put ourselves
in position to win the Big 12,” Cass
said. “The conference matches are
very, very important. You must go 8-
0 in conference to get the job done.”
In the meantime, the Aggies have
managed to answer some of the lin
gering questions from early in the
season. They have started to play
solidly in doubles competition,
which has given the team real
momentum in the last five matches,
all of which the Aggies have won by
snagging the crucial doubles point.
The Aggies begin at 1 p.m. facing
Northern Arizona and at 6 p.m.
against Wichita State. The Aggies
will complete the home stand
Saturday against No. 19 Alabama.
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