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After falling in polls, A&M seeks
home win to recapture steam
Aggies undefeated in midweek
games but have lost four of six
By Andre Perrard
Now that the biggest series of the year
is over, the Texas A&M baseball team
will once again put its undefeated midweek
record to the test Tuesday night against the
Texas State Bobcats.
Texas State (18-24-1) is on a five-game
losing streak, and just came off a sweep at
conference foe Troy. Granger Studdard,
Tanner Hill and Cedric Vallieres lead a
three-headed attack for the Bobcats. Stud
dard leads the team in RBIs (29) and home
runs (9). He is tied for first on the team in
triples with two this season, and is second on
the team in doubles. Vallieres and Hill are
second and third in team RBIs and home
runs, respectively. Vallieres also leads the
team with nine doubles this year.
With a variety of weapons at their dis
posal, the No. 5 Aggies (37-7, 13-6 SEC) are
outscoring their opponents 84 to 24 in mid
week contests. Logan Taylor remains one of
the hottest bats in the lineup, hitting .372 this
season. After the team’s trip to LSU, Taylor
leads the Aggies with 41 RBIs this season.
He also flashed professional-grade glove skills
with a diving catch to save A&M a few runs
in one game, and his arm gunned down two
runners at the plate over the weekend.
Nick Banks has stayed hot all year, and
while his batting average is below .400 now,
Banks continues to produce runs and hits in
clutch situations, which he exhibited over
the weekend.
OLSEN MAGIC CONTINUED
the season perfect through 24 contests.
Through each year, coach Childress has
seen the magic happen within Olsen Field.
He even shaped his own definition for it.
“The definition of [Olsen Magic] is that
we are never out of the game,” Childress
said. “No matter what the score, no matter
where we are in the game, we are always
there, especially late in games. Our guys
understand the feel of the 12th Man and
the difference they make throughout the
course of the game.”
In their 2015 campaign, the Aggies have
continued to make the magic prevalent. In
one of their first series of the year, the Ag
gies trailed Dartmouth 3-0 in the eighth
inning, but a four-run eighth inning helped
the Aggies earn a 4-3 victory, and keep
their undefeated record in tact. Amid their
24-game winning streak, the Aggies trailed
UT-Pan American 3-0 in the eighth in
ning. After a three-run eighth inning, the
Aggies won the game in the 11th inning
on a Ronnie Gideon walk-off hit. Again in
April, the Aggies trailed Rice going to the
seventh inning only to win the ballgame
with a go-ahead hit in the eighth inning.
“There was one game, I think it was a
Tuesday night, against UTS A in my fresh
man year,” Nau said. “There was severe
weather coming. We had a guy on first
base. Tyler Naquin was at the plate, and we
were down 3-2. [Naquin] got two strikes
on him, and then he hit a home run into
the bullpen as lightning struck right by Kyle
Field. They called the game since it had
been seven innings, and we got the win. As
a freshman, it was pretty cool to see that.”
Longtime Texas A&M play-by-play an
nouncer Dave South offers a different per
spective of the spectrum. Since coming to
Texas A&M in 1985, he has become the
“Voice of Aggieland” to Aggie fans every
where. Through all of the years, he said his
favorite moment came with the 1999 ball
Turner Larkins will make his 12th start
of the season Tuesday and is second
on the team with 46 strikeouts.
The pitching staff remains one of the best
in the country for A&M, posting a 2.57
ERA, which is seventh best in the nation.
On Tuesday, freshman Turner Larkins will
make his 12th start of the season. Larkins
boasts a 5-1 record with a 3.31 ERA, and
is second on the team with 46 strikeouts.
In his last outing against UT-Arlington, he
worked three innings, giving up just two
hits and no runs with three strikeouts.
Texas State is 8-12 away from home this
year, while the Aggies have posted a 28-4
mark at Olsen Field. First pitch is scheduled
for 6:35 p.m.
club that went to the College World Series.
“The Clemson win in the Super Re
gional that sent us to Omaha, that to me
was as good as it gets,” South said. “At the
time, no one knew it, but they had a ban
ner they let go over the green monster out
there that said ‘Aggies in the College World
Series.’ That to me would be one of the
greatest moments. We won, get a strikeout,
game is over; Aggies win and we go to the
CWS.”
Not only has it been seen by com
mentators and fans alike, but the players
see how much of a difference the student
body makes for the team, especially late in
games. Catcher Mitchell Nau said it also
stems largely from the support of the stu
dents and fans.
“I think it is a belief from our fanbase,”
Nau said. “They think that we are never
out of a game. I don’t know how long ago
it started, but that tradition has been car
ried over and over through the decades of
baseball here, and I think it rubs off on our
players. I truly believe it comes from the
atmosphere the fans create, and that we cre
ate in the dugout. It’s a great feeling to have
in the ninth inning to know, ‘It’s Olsen
Magic time,’ so that is what it means to
me.”
During the weekend series against Mis
souri, A&M broke the home attendance
record since the Blue Bell Park renovations
in 2012, and shattered the student atten
dance record for a game. Two weekend
series, Arkansas and Missouri, are on the
all-time record Olsen Field attendance list
for a three-game series.
South said this spirit is unique to A&M.
“Other places we go in the sports I cov
er, you don’t find what we have here any
where,” South said. “There’s no one that
has anything better than this, in the sports I
cover, our football, our basketball and our
baseball, this student body is unbelievable.
There is nothirig like this anywhere in the
country. No one matches what we have
here at Texas A&M.”
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