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SOFTBALL
A&M opens at home with Friday
double header to kick off Aggie Classic
The Aggie softball team will open its home schedule at 3 p.m. Friday
against Penn State.
Head coach Jo Evans: Opening
Day feeling 'never grows old'
By Milkyas Gashaw
The No. 23 Texas A&M softball
team (3-2, 0-0 SEC) will host the
annual Aggie Classic this weekend at
the Aggie Softball Complex. This will
be the home opener for the Aggies,
who began their season last weekend
in Los Angeles participating in the So-
Cal Classic, going 3-2.
The Aggies will begin play with a
double header Friday beginning at 3
p.m. against Penn State and 5:15 p.m.
against Eastern Michigan.
Head coach Jo Evans said she is al
ways excited about Opening Day at
home.
“I love game day, and what’s even
better is Opening Day,” Evans said.
“It’s your home field and there’s noth
ing else like it. It’s great because we
practice on the [Aggie Softball Com
plex] field every day, and then you
show up on game day and the field is
immaculate, the lines are drawn and
there’s people in the stands. All of a
sudden, it doesn’t just feel like your
field, it feels like game day. The feeling
never grows old.”
The Aggies have invited Penn State
out of the Big 10, Eastern Michigan
from the Mid-American Conference
and Missouri State out of the Missouri
Valley Conference.
Of these three clubs, Eastern Michi
gan held the worst record from the
previous season by finishing sixth in
the MVC with a 13-37 record in head
coach Melissa Gentile’s first season at
the helm.
Penn State’s lineup is similar to the
Aggies in that there are many freshmen
making heavy contributions to the
lineup, with freshman catcher Alyssa
VanDerveer hitting a solo home run
last week against Georgia Tech.
For the Aggies, freshman third base-
man Tori Vidales hit a grand slam
against San Diego State to propel them
to victory. Junior Cali Lanphear is
pleased with the progress that the Ag
gie freshmen are making so far.
“We had a tough loss against
UCLA,” Lanphear said. “We’re young
and they weren’t. They had a senior
All-American pitcher, but it was good
to rebound the next day and get a win.
It helped us grow and prove ourselves.”
The Aggies fell in the final game
against Purdue on Sunday 1-0 in what
turned out to be a pitcher’s duel. Se
nior ace Rachel Fox is pleased with the
way the players on the mound are per
forming.
“Our pitching out of the bullpen has
been exceptional,” Fox said. “Some
times you’re going to get roughed up
at this level, and you need relievers that
can come in and perform. We’re going
to continue to get better and better and
I’m really excited to see how our staff
will improve.”
BATT ASKS
If you could have any
Valentine's Day date,
who would it be?
"I feel like I am obligated to say
my girlfriend at this point - so
I'll go with that."
Peter McAughn,
computer science freshman
‘Til be cliche and go my mother.
I don't get to spend a lot of time
with her just because she lives
kind of far away. So if I could go
and see her I would."
Garrett Cole,
sociology freshman
BATTLE OF THE BANDS
Photos by Allison Bradshaw — THE BATTALION
Hold onto a piece of
Aggieland
It S Hot tOO late to order your copy of the
2015 Aggieland yearbook. The 113th edition of Texas A&M’s
official yearbook will chronicle the 2014-2015 school year
— traditions, academics, athletics, the other education, the
Corps, Greeks, residence halls, campus organizations, and
student portraits. Distribution will be in Fall 2015.
If yOU ha Ven t, pick up a copy of the
award-winning 2014 Aggieland yearbook that is a 520-page
photojournalistic record of the 2013-2014 school year.
By credit card go online to
http://aggieland.tamu.edu or call
979-845-2613. Or drop by
the Student Media office in Suite
L400 of the MSC.
(Top) Nathan Wells, rhythm guitarist and vocalist for Ottoman Turks, performs
at the MSC Battle of the Bands Thursday with band members Paul Hinojo, Will
Latham and Joshua Walker. (Below) The musical duo two, composed of Graham
Thompson and Tara Schickedanz, performs Thursday.
TALENT SHOW CONTINUED
make this event more successful than the
previous development project, the SGA golf
tournament.
Wimberly said the talent show will be
judged by a campus celebrity-filled panel.
“We have two amazing swimmers judg
ing, one of whom is an olympian,” Wim
berly said. “Then we have the director of
student activities, Russel Thompson, and
then we have Keith Swim, who is a man
agement professor at Mays Business School,
and then we also have Ryan Trantham, the
MSC president. So we really do have a great
group of judges.”
Jeff Claybrook, SGA communication ex
ecutive vice president and political science
senior, said the show holds a lot of opportu
nity for development.
“We have other similar events on campus
but none that are open really to all students
like this one is,” Claybrook said. “We have
a lot of talented individuals on campus, and
this is a great opportunity for students to
come out and see and support their fellow
Aggies.”
“Aggies got Talent” will premiere from
8-10 p.m. Saturday in Rudder Theatre.
Seating will begin at 7 p.m. and tickets will
be sold at the door for $7 or $5 for presale
in MSC Box Office.