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Volume 70, Issue 91,
Monday, February 14, 2005
Sports Cougars pull ahead in Round 3 at Minute Maid By Tom Carpenter
The Cougars grabbed their first lead of the season with a three run explosion in the bottom of the third and then held on to win their first game of the 2005 campaign, 6-1 against No. 9 ranked Texas A&M in the finale of the Minute Maid Classic at Minute Maid Park. "This was a very well-played game, especially on our behalf," UH head coach Raynor Noble said. "This reminded me tonight of what Baylor did to us in the first game; they didn't do very much wrong. It feels better to be on this side of the fence instead of the other side." Leadoff hitter Jake Stewart started the two-out rally with a single. Junior outfielder Travis Tully followed with his first homerun as a Cougar, a towering shot over the right field fence that gave the Cougars (1-2) a 2-1 lead.
Junior southpaw Matt Farrington gave up one run on seven hits to lead the Cougars to their first victory of the season, a 6-1 drubbing of Texas A&M at the Minute Maid Classic. Nathan Lindstrom/ The Daily Cougar Junior second baseman Kevin Roberts ripped a line shot to center that rolled to the wall for a stand-up triple and sophomore first baseman Brad Lincoln knocked him in with a single to up the score to 3-1 Houston. Junior starter Matt Farrington picked up his first win with a solid outing by limiting the Aggies to one run, a solo homer in the second, and four hits in seven innings. Farrington and Lincoln were named to the Minute Maid Park College Classic All-Tournament Team. "This was a well-pitched game by Matt Farrington," Noble said. "He set the tone and we had some timely hitting. This was a gratifying win after a couple of tough losses." Roberts tied a Cougar record with two triples as the Cougars out-hit A&M 11-6. Stewart led the Cougar attack with three hits. Oklahoma State took advantage of three errors in the early innings to scratch out two runs off UH freshman starter Ricky Hargrove in the Cowboy's 3-2 win Saturday. The Cowboy's win moved the Cougars to 0-2 on the season. After the Cougars clawed their way back into a tie by scoring two runs in the sixth on back-to-back doubles by Roberts and Lincoln and a sacrifice fly by sophomore infielder Dustin Kingsbury, the game boiled down to a one-out winner-take-all situation in the top of the eighth when the Cougars, trailing 3-2, loaded the bases with two outs. Noble sent lefty Farrington to the plate to pinch-hit and the Cowboy coach countered by moving first baseman and closer Adam Carr to the mound. Carr whiffed Farrington and buzz-sawed the Cougar bats as he set UH down in order in the ninth. "It's going to take us probably three or four weeks into the season to see kind of how we level out," Noble said, It takes that long to see who can do what and who needs to be where." In the season opener for both teams, Baylor tattooed Cougar pitching for 16 hits Friday as the Bears cruised to an 8-6 win. Baylor starter Ryan Lamotta stifled the Cougar bats until the Cougars broke through for two runs in the fifth when Roberts was hit by a pitch and Lincoln doubled to left scoring Roberts. Freshman Mark McGonigle walked and Farrington blasted a three run shot that brought the Cougars within one run at 5-4. The Cougars host the Rice Owls on Tuesday at Cougar
Field in the opening salvo of the 2005 Silver Glove Series. The teams enter
the 4 p.m. game deadlocked 64-64 in the crosstown rivalry that began in
1948.
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