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Baseball Season Off to Traditional Start with Banquet and Alumni Game SPORTS Technique • Friday, February 9, 2001 • 27 Baseball season off to traditional start with banquet and alumni game Tech squad tops baseball alumni in Saturday Guest speaker Peter Gammons praises national pastime; Coach Hall exhibition; Teixeira 3-for-4 with two doubles praises staff and stresses challenge of team’s preseason No. 1 ranking. Matthew Bryan a close contest. Last year, the team By John Rafferty Those items sold for $900, $600 son was 1994, when Garciaparra Sports Editor beat their alums by 16 points in a Special to the ’Nique and $55 respectively. The evening and Varitek led the Yellow Jackets 17-1 blowout. “It’s hard to judge raised over $17,000 for the baseball into the College World Series Cham- Last Saturday the Baseball Team [the team’s ability] when you’re play- After being ranked as the top program at Tech. pionship game in Omaha. The goals defeated their alumni in an exhibi- ing against your alumni,” Head college baseball team in the country Head Coach Danny Hall intro- for the team this year are to do the tion game by a score of 8-5 at Russ Coach Danny Hall said with re- following a 50-16 year in 2000, the duced the coaches, and outlined the same thing. Returning all position Chandler Stadium. spect to the performance and the Yellow Jacket baseball team starts goals for the team. He announced players from a team that batted .342 The Alumni struck first making Jackets’ No. 1 ranking the season today. The Jackets were that Assistant Coach Mike Trapas- last season, and adding redshirted it 1-0 in the top of the third with a Stanford transfer Brian Sager congratulated on their pre-season so was named as Baseball America’s leadoff man Matthew Boggs, the Kevin Gergel single and a Rick Lock- picked up the win with a couple of rating by Peter Gammons, the guest choice for the top assistant coach in Yellow Jackets look to be the most wood sacrifice fly. Tech took it back runs and four hits in the six innings speaker at the Jackets’ baseball ban- the nation, and was also proud of talented team in the ACC this sea- to 2-1 with an RBI double by Mark he spent on the field. “I don’t think quet last Friday at the Hilton Ho- son and hope to repeat as ACC Teixeira, who went 3-for-4 with two he threw as well today as I’ve seen tel. Gammons discussed how baseball Champions. Hall also relayed to the doubles, and a Bryan Prince sacri- him throw all spring,” said Hall. is and will continue to be the na- crowd that the post-season stadium fice fly. Only to have the alumni tie “He’s going to be a very good pitch- tion’s pastime, due to a strong his- The last time that Tech renovation will take place, and the it up in the next frame with a dou- er for us, though he had a hard time tory of picking up the nation in was ranked No. 1 in same architect that has worked with ble by Jason Atha, who scored on getting the ball down in the strike times of need. Enron Park, and the new Camden Mike Yancey’s RBI single. zone today.” The Yellow Jackets saw an at- the country going into Yards park will be the architect for It took till the Jackets second Returning to the field for Tech tendance of over 300 people at the the season was 1994, the new Russ Chandler Stadium. time around to grab the lead, post- was Matthew Boggs, who was out fundraiser, including current ma- Coach Hall also stressed the im- ing a Boggs run on a Prince RBI for the majority of last season with jor league baseball players Kevin when they ended up portance of crowd support, saying double and Teixeira on a Victor injuries, which still hindered him Brown, Jason Varitek, and Jim Poole. in the College World that it was important in both the Menocal RBI single to make it 4-2. Saturday. “He’s nursing a little bit All three starred as Tech players, play of the current team and also in The Jackets continued to build of a hamstring right now,” Hall said, and gave back to the program by Series Championship recruiting top stars to play at Tech their lead in the sixth bringing the “but he was on base…and it’s nice donating items for the charity auc- game in Omaha. in the future. He also said that the score to 7-2 on a Matt Murton RBI to see him back.” tion. Varitek, who in 1994 won the new ballpark, which will cost around single and a two-run double by Teix- Although the alumni game isn’t Golden Spikes award as the best $10 million to build, will help Tech eira. a factor in Tech’s ranking, the Jack- player in college baseball, donated the work that Coach Guy did for secure future NCAA Regionals, an The Alumni refused to give into ets’ upcoming weekend is. Tech will his jersey from that season when he the offensive production of the team important aspect of advancing on their successors cutting the lead to travel to the Rice Invitational in played for the Team USA summer last year. He also stated how impor- to Nebraska for the College World 7-5 in the top of the eighth capital- Houston, Texas for their first regu- team. tant that Strength and Condition- Series. izing on a Tech error and a Mike lar season games. Also auctioned off during the ing Coach Steve Tamborra was in This weekend is an important Yancey RBI groundout. With contests on Friday against evening were Nomar Garciaparra’s getting the team in game shape. first step in reaching that goal, as Tech made the last blow to bring Lamar, Saturday against Rice, and 1994 College World Series jersey, a Hall also stressed that the top Tech plays two top-rated teams in the final to 8-5 on a Chris Good- Sunday with Nebraska, the Jackets Mark Teixeira game-worn jersey pre-season ranking is more of a chal- Rice and Nebraska in the Rice Invi- man sacrifice fly. have a difficult road trip ahead. from the 2000 season, and tickets lenge than a curse. He said that the tational. The games can be heard in Despite the win, the team walked to the Jackets game against the Braves last time that Tech was ranked No. town on WREK Radio 91.1 or over away a little disappointed with such Jerry Wible contributed to this story. during Spring Training this year. 1 in the country going into the sea- the web at http://www.wrek.org. yesterday was wave all your fingers at your neighbor day. i waved all my fingers at one of my favorite people. 28 • Friday, February 9, 2001 • Technique SPORTS Tar Heels streak by Yellow Jackets in ACC contest Maryland from pg 32 By Terence Jones rest by a Tony Akins three-pointer Jones] value to our ballclub, when My Computer Crashed with 6:44 left in the first half. The he picked up the second foul, we Yellow Jackets shot just 36 percent were up 29-21. I took him out and Coming off of a huge win over (13-for-36) in the first half, includ- we went into the locker room down No. 2 Duke at Cameron Indoor ing 25 percent (3-for-12) from be- six,” said Hewitt. Stadium, No. 4 North Carolina was yond the arc. Maryland would cling to the lead poised for a letdown against Geor- “That run was obviously a back- until 7:08 remaining when Tech gia Tech, the Yellow Jackets having breaker,” Georgia Tech coach Paul took a 55-53 lead. a week of preparation for the game Hewitt said. “I was just hoping we The Jackets, who shot 50 per- compared to just two days of prepa- would get a basket.” cent in the second half, would nev- ration for the Tar Heels. It was another great defensive er trail again. None of that mattered. The Tar game for North Carolina who held “We have to be hungry,” says Heels overwhelmed the Yellow Jack- the Yellow Jackets to just 35 per- Terps coach Gary Williams, “We ets with superior size and talent cou- cent (27-for-77) shooting, mark- did not show the same intensity to pled with frenzied support from the ing the ninth time in the last 10 start the second half.” home crowd in Chapel Hill, NC. games the Tar Heels have held an The Terps were outscored 38- Joseph Forte scored 23 points opponent to 40 percent or less from 22 in the second and shot only 37 and pulled down nine rebounds to the field. percent on the half. The bulk of the lead the surging Tar Heels past the Georgia Tech center Alvin Jones, Terps 23 turnovers came in the sec- surprised Yellow Jackets, 82-69. last weeks ACC co-player of the ond half, but Williams didn’t feel North Carolina (19-2, 9-0) won its week, scored 16 points and pulled Tech’s press deserved the credit for 16th consecutive game and upped down 18 rebounds, but was over- the defensive presence. its record to a perfect 9-0 in the matched against the talented and “It was not the Georgia Tech ACC for the first time since the deep UNC front court that com- press that caused us trouble.
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