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THE BATTALION
7
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
By Troy Miller
THE BATTALION
In winning its first seven
games of 2004, the Texas A&M
team has its offense to
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team this season. Individually,
sophomore shortstop Cliff
Pennington hit .643 in the
three-game series
sweep of South Alabama.
When the Aggies (7-0) face
i University of Texas-San
Antonio (4-3) at 7 p.m. Tuesday
al Olsen Field, the Roadrunners
better have a few defensive
gems hidden up their sleeves to
keep the Aggies from making
mwin No. 8.
“No one’s going to hold our
ense down for nine innings,”
said A&M redshirt freshman
r Jason Meyer. ‘‘We’re
confident, and our pitch
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opposing pitchers spraying 94
so far this season resulting
Bi69runs. Aggie opposition has
managed only 15 runs through
kM’s seven games.
The Aggies haven’t played a
»eak schedule either. A&M
always has trouble at Sam
Houston State, where A&M has
gone 6-6 since 1990. This sea
son,the Aggies won there, 15-1.
“Personally, I always strug
gle against (Sam Houston
State)," said A&M sophomore
fa baseman Coby Mavroulis.
1 think I’m like one-for-11 the
no times I’ve ever played at
tbeirfield. Every week we move
onand we’re going to play more
and more competition.”
South Alabama made it to
tie Tallahassee Regional final
of the NCAA tournament last
season. It was the team’s ninth-
appearance in the
NCAA tournament.
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pteseason pick for Sun Belt
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Aggies win
second straight
Big 12 match
The Texas A&M men’s
tennis team subjected the
University of Colorado to its
third consecutive loss
Monday, 5-2, in a pressur
ized dome in Boulder, Colo.
The No. 9 Aggies, leading
5-0, decided to default the
remaining two matches.
“We defaulted five and six
because we had won the
match and because we’ve
been on the road for some
thing like 19 of the last 30
days,” said A&M head coach
Tim Cass. “We’ve been right
to left, north to south, and
had a 9:00 flight from
Denver. I thought it was time
to get off the road and get
hack to class.”
A&M freshmen Brett
Joelson and Marvin Rolle
we tied with their oppo
nents, 4-4 and 1-1, respec-
fively, when Cass decided to
default their matches.
The Aggies (9-4, 2-0 Big
12) swept the doubles point
and won the first four singles
matches, dropping only one
set to Colorado (4-3, 0-2).
A&M will next take to the
court at 12 p.m. Saturday
against the University of
Southeastern Louisiana at
the George P. Mitchell
Tennis Center.
JR Beato III • THE BATTALION
Texas A&M second baseman Erik Schindewolf bats in the second game of the Aggies' three-game series with the
University of South Alabama. The Aggies won all three games and will face the University of Texas-San Antonio at
7 p.m. Tuesday at Olsen Field.
the Aggies 13-3, 8-0 and 4-3.
“(South Alabama’s) a good
ball club,” said Pennington,
who leads the Aggie offense
with a .500 batting average.
“They’re a young team from
what we saw, and they had
some good arms come out of
the bullpen.”
The Aggie lineup is basical
ly intact from the 2003 A&M
squad that finished the season
batting .303 as a team. Only
designated hitter Jordy
Mitchell and outfielder Scott
Beerer are no longer with the
Aggies - Mitchell graduated
while Beerer moved on to the
minor leagues.
Now with the reemergence
of outfielder/designated hitter
Justin Ruggiano, who is back in
the lineup after injuries plagued
him throughout the summer
and fall, the Aggies have gotten
a big gun back in the lineup.
Mavroulis, who sat out last
season with a back injury, is
back in the lineup, hitting
cleanup. Mavroulis said he
hopes to hit like he did in 2002,
his freshman season, in which
he hit .252 with 17 RBIs.
‘i’ve been ready to play for
the last year-and-a-half,”
Mavroulis said. ‘‘I missed a
good year last year, so I want to
get in and get into a groove.”
Mavroulis has hit .344 with a
home run and six RBIs through
A&M’s first seven games.
The anchor of the Aggie line
up is senior outfielder Cory
Patton who threatens to do
something big every time he
steps into the batter’s box.
The Aggie lineup can legiti
mately be called one of the best in
college baseball from top to bot
tom. They are firing on all cylin
ders - and it’s only February.
That doesn’t bode well for
UTSA as it limps into College
Station after a 6-3 defeat to
Army. Roadrunner pitching has
given up 43 runs through seven
games this season.
That figure suggests that the
Aggie offense should have a field
day against Roadrunner pitching.
YCT
Continued from page 1
their opinion on how they have overcome
institutionalized discrimination and to
discuss the ethical implications of racial
preference in admissions policies.
Funding for the scholarships,
McCaig said, is provided by anonymous
alumni donors.
“We can’t guarantee that it will con
tinue,” he said. “The future of the schol
arship is solely based on future funding.”
Nick Anthis, president of the Aggie
Democrats, said YCT’s actions will only
hurt A&M’s image more.
“A&M is working hard to show this is
a non-hostile environment,” he said. “I
think this is something that would work
against that.”
Anthis said he believes conservatives
in the 1960s supported issues on racial
preference, and now they seem to have a
problem with race-based policies.
“Racism is strong in our society,” he
said. “We still have a long way to go.”
Harris Berger, associate professor of
music and performing arts and a member
of Faculty Committed to an Inclusive
Campus, said affirmative action is a use
ful tool.
“Affirmative action has been accepted
by the United States as a way to achieve
diversity,” he said. “The University
announced it will not use race in consid
ering a student for admission and we
applaud it.”
Anthis said there are racial inequali
ties in areas such as economic status.
“If an African-American applied for a
job, just based on his name he would
have a 50 percent less chance of getting
an interview,” he said. “If people under
stood affirmative action they would sup
port it.”
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‘‘Any help we can give is a service.”
Kirkpatrick said the land owner will decide what hap
pens to the cleared wood, but the most likely uses will be
fence posts for the land owner and wood being split for sale.
Kirkpatrick said former students such as himself will
take part in land clearing, and he looks forward to the
interaction with younger students — especially passing on
tales of Bonfire to a new generation while they work.
“A lot of former students said they want to come back
and take part in it,” Kirkpatrick said.
^ lot of former students said they
want to come back and take part in it
— Ryan Kirkpatrick
Bonfire Coalition chair
He said the most important aspect of land clearing will
be showing cut can be done safely.
“The reason (people) teach history is to learn mistakes
of past,” Kirkpi^rick said. “We can’t let our mistakes of
the past be repeated.”
Kirkpatrick said the drinking that went on during the pre
vious Aggie Bonfires was a mistake he hopes to learn from.
“A lot of people in Bonfire were out there getting
drunk,” Kirkpatrick said. “That’s not a good idea on a con
struction site.”
King said land clearing will be limited to the spring
semester so it won’t mimic cut or interfere with any off-
campus bonfires.
“We are not trying to compete with anybody,” King said.
King said the official position of Bonfire Coalition for
Students is not to support off-campus bonfire, but respect
the effort, such as those by the unsanctioned Student
Bonfire, of building a bonfire in a safe manner.
A representative from Student Bonfire said he was not
aware of the land clearing plans and cannot issue a state
ment at this time.
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