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Andrew Brunkhorst — THE BATTALION

The Aggie men and women come home to a roaring crowd Sunday after the third consecutive national championship.

Aggies sprint to triple-double championship

Three times running

The air was thick from the humidity of Thursday’s rainstorm and the anticipa-tion of thousands of spectators at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, as both team titles came down to the last race at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Champi-onships on Saturday. Texas A&M over-came rain, hail and lightning delays to become the first program in collegiate history to win both national team titles in three consecutive outdoor seasons.

This is championship 32 and 33 for head coach Pat Henry, but he expressed a great deal of respect for the determi-

nation of this year’s teams to reach an unprecedented triple-double.

“I’m kind of speechless,” Henry said. “This is an unbelievable victory by both of our groups. It’s a tremendous group of young people who did some things I don’t think they could do at times this weekend. But they are big believers. During our meeting this morning they all looked at each other and left the room knowing what needed to be done. They lined up today and did some things that put us in a position to win.”

The Aggie women were tied at 39

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33 and counting ◗ Aggies head coach Pat Henry is the only coach to win dual national titles and the only one to complete a triple-double of NCAA championships.

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Seniors Tabarie Henry and Jessica Beard running in the must-win 4x400 relay at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Championships on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa.

A&M becomes the only track and field program to win dual national championships for three consecutive years.

Aggies take a hard hit in Super Regional

As the Texas A&M baseball team found out this weekend in the first two games of the Tal-lahassee Super Regional against Florida State, a two game split can be divided several ways.

The Aggies opened Super Regional play Saturday with a 6-2 victory over Florida State who sent Atlanta Braves first round draft pick Sean Gilmar-tin to the mound. As the game progressed it was obvious that Gilmartin would have to out-pitch Texas A&M junior Ross Stripling as the two traded scoreless innings. Both allowed

one run in the first inning, then the heavyweight battle ensued.

“Ross (Stripling) weathered the storm in the first inning and only gave up one run, I thought that was huge,” Texas A&M head coach Rob Childress said. “After that he settled down and

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Game three◗ The Aggies will play at 6 p.m. today at Florida State’s Dick Howser Field for a trip to Omaha for the College World Series. Today’s game will be broadcast on ESPN2.

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Senior Kevin Gonzalez bunts in A&M’s 6-2 victory against Florida State in Saturday’s Super Regional.

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campusNew sports centerThe Board of Regents approved the planning stages for a new sports performance center as long as The 12th Man Foundation raises 75 percent of the project’s $6 million dollar budget by December, according to Associate Athletics Director for Media Relations, Alan Cannon. If raised, construction will start in January 2012. Currently, the foundation has donated $600,000 in gifts.

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Quad to get long awaited make over

Vaughn Construction will begin the $13.8 million demolition pro-cess of two Corps of Cadets build-ings June 20, Lounge D and the in-terior of Harrell Hall.

The demolitions on the buildings are the start of a six-year series of renovations of residence halls that will occur on the Quadrangle. The construction on both buildings is scheduled for completion on July 29, 2012.

Lt. Col. Chris Emmerson said, the idea for the renovations came

from the Board of Regents’ 2020 master plan, and that the ultimate goal is to eventually renovate the 12 dormitories located on the Quad.

“Part of the vision the regents and the University have for the Corps of Cadets is to provide facilities that are unmatched anywhere,” Emmer-son said. “This is the first step in that vision.”

The dorms, built in 1939, have not had renovations since 1989 and are no longer up to fire and safety codes, Emmerson said. He said they are overdue for a serious upgrade; one which will include a new cen-tral heating, ventilation and air con-

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campusSenior games torch relay at Reed todayThe Reliant Energy Torch Relay for the 2011 Senior Games in Houston will begin the College Station leg of its eight-day journey at 1 p.m. today when senior games basketball athletes will circle Reed Arena at Texas A&M with members of Texas A&M’s NCAA 2011 champion women’s basketball team and Head Coach Gary Blair. This will be followed with a closing ceremony at 1:45 p.m. at Reed Arena and a 2:30 p.m. reception at the Bush Presidential Library in recognition of President George H.W. and Mrs. Barbara Bush, honorary chairs of the 2011 National Senior Games.

Brayton training fi eld doubles in sizeTEEX’s Brayton Fire Training Field, one of the largest emergency services training complexes in the U.S., has more than doubled in size to 279 acres, following a property transfer from Texas A&M University. “The acquisition of this land ensures that we will continue to expand our emergency services training and technical assistance for many years to come,” said Texas Engineering Extension Service Director and CEO Gary Sera. The transfer of three parcels of land adjacent to the Brayton Fire Training Field, Disaster City and the Emergency Operations Training Center was fi nalized in May upon approval by Texas A&M University and Texas A&M University System offi cials. The land had previously been under the control of the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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O’Brien tells graduates failure is freeingHANOVER, N.H. — Conan O’Brien, a Harvard alumnus, had some teasing criticism for another Ivy League school Sunday. Speaking at Dartmouth’s graduation, he joked that the school had an inferiority complex. Pointing to the section of tree trunk he was standing behind, he said, “You don’t even think you deserve a real podium — it looks like you stole it from the set of `Survivor: Nova Scotia’ or that a bear would use at an AA meeting.” The school gave O’Brien an honorary doctorate of arts. He praised the 1,700 graduates for earning their degrees, then boasted that “Dartmouth is giving me the same degree for interviewing the fourth lead in ‘Twilight.’” O’Brien’s run as host of NBC’s “Tonight Show” was unexpectedly cut short last year amid sagging ratings and NBC’s need to fi nd a home for Jay Leno, whose stint in prime-time was a fl op. On Sunday, O’Brien deemed failure as “a catalyst for invention.” “There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized,” said O’Brien, now host of the late-night show “Conan” on TBS. “Whether you fear it or not, true disappointment will come but with disappointment comes clarity, conviction and true originality.”

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Conan O’Brien, right, receives an honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim during commencement exercises Sunday at the school in Hanover, N.H.

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team points going into the final event behind LSU (43.5) and Oklahoma (42). Both A&M and Oregon left themselves in prime position to take the title as they competed in the final relay while LSU and Oklahoma sat watching from the infield. In other words, the best finisher in the relay between A&M and Oregon would win the national title. Senior sprinter Jessica Beard said it was exciting to be a part of such an important race.

“I didn’t have any choice but to go for the relay title,” Beard said. “I knew it was going to be very com-petitive. I loved being tied in the team score with just the relay left, it made everyone step up.”

Beard bolstered her team’s efforts with a collegiate best split on the last leg to take first in a school record time of 3:26.31. Auburn finished second in 3:26.46 followed by Oregon with 3:28.18. The finish pushed the A&M women to the front of the team title race with 49 points while Oregon finished second with 45, ahead of LSU and Oklahoma. Beard said she disregarded time and focused on fin-ishing ahead of every competitor.

“I didn’t know my split until I heard the announcer,” Beard said. “I was just thinking, ‘do this for the

team.’ Once I passed Oregon I knew we had the team title clinched. But I kept thinking about last year and how badly I wanted to win the 4x4.”

A similar scenario took place on the men’s side of the championships as the Aggies needed a first place fin-ish in the 4 x 400 relay and also need-ed Florida to finish sixth or worse for a chance at the title. Florida State was also nipping at their heels at 54 points but did not qualify for the final race. Senior sprinter Tabarie Henry said it was unnerving to have such a close race but rewarding after yelling for his teammates from the infield.

“Earlier I was doing all the calcula-tions to see where we were in regards to points,” Henry said. “I was being a team guy, being a cheerleader for the other guys competing today.”

Henry stepped away from his po-sition as head cheerleader to anchor the all-important 4 x 400 relay. After a heated race, Henry sealed the triple-double in A&M’s 3:00.62 win over LSU’s 3:01.07.

Florida’s relay wound up in sixth, meaning the Aggies took first in the team title ahead of Florida State and Florida. A&M totaled 55 points in the championships, one point ahead of Florida State and only two points ahead of third place finisher Florida.

The Aggie men were in familiar territory in their down-to-the-wire team title chase, as they have won the

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Yell leaders David Benac

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War Hymn with the track team after Sunday’s homecoming.

Senior sprinter Tabarie Henry celebrates a third straight NCCA Outdoor Championship for Texas A&M at Sunday’s welcome home celebration at Reed Arena.

past three titles by a combined four points. Henry said he met a lot of per-sonal goals and had personal failures in the meet but wanted to see the team succeed more than anything.

“It means a lot to redeem myself for not making the 400 final,” Henry said. “After Bryan Miller led us off I knew it was over. Demetrius Pin-der did his thing to open it up a little more and Michael Preble did what he needed to do. Then they trusted me to secure the win.”

Another bright spot for the Aggie women was Jeneba Tarmoh’s silver medal performance in the 200. She ran a personal best 22.34 behind first place finisher Kimberlynn Duncan of LSU (22.24). After failing to make the final in the 100, Tarmoh posted the third fastest time on the A&M all-time list in the 200, behind only two individual marks set in 2008 by Simone Facey (22.25) and Porscha Lucas (22.29).

“I feel like every bad thing that happened earlier turned into a good thing on the final day,” Tarmoh said. “Starting out the day I felt terrible, I couldn’t run or do anything, primari-ly because of my leg. At the end of the day everything is a blessing in disguise and it all happened for a reason.”

Tarmoh went on to run the lead leg of the title-clinching relay, fol-lowed by Ibukun Mayungbe, Andrea Sutherland and Beard to overtake an

early lead from Auburn and a late push for the win by Oregon. The Aggies bettered the previous school record of 3:27.33 set earlier this sea-son and the Drake Stadium record of 3:27.69 both by a full second. The victory also made the A&M women the fifth program to sweep the 4 x 400 national championships after winning both the indoor and out-door relays.

The Aggie men also had success in the pit as triple jumpers Julian Reid and Melvin Echard placed third and seventh, respectively. Reid’s bronze jump of 55-0.25 and Echard’s mark of 53-0.25 contributed a total of eight points to the Aggies’ team score.

“Being able to secure some points in the triple jump for my team was very important,” Reid said. “I knew there was a possibility it would come down to the 4x400. I was also happy our 4x100 scored some points this year to give us a chance.”

Other point contributors for the Aggies include the 4x100 relay, Tran Howell taking fifth in the 200 (20.50)

and Wayne Davis II placing sixth in the 110 hurdles (13.60). After these events, A&M stood in third with 45 points behind both Florida State and Florida. Coach Henry hinted at his pride in the fortitude of team throughout the meet.

“Our men stayed calm and did what they needed to do,” Henry said. “They picked up points throughout the day and then won the final re-lay. It’s a team effort, which doesn’t start with just first place points, but includes everybody from each of the four days here.”

Aggie fans celebrated the dual national championship Sunday af-ternoon with a welcome home cel-ebration at Reed Arena. Texas A&M University President R. Bowen Lof-tin and Director of Athletics Bill Byrne were on hand to introduce Henry and his team.

Fans witnessed the trophy pre-sentation and listened to words from coaches and athletes before conclud-ing the celebration with the tradi-tional Aggie War Hymn.


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-ditioning system, laundry room installments, built-in Wi-Fi, as well as conference rooms on each floor.

“The primary reason for the renovation of Harrell Hall is to improve the quality of life for the current cadets,” Emmerson said. “To improve the living conditions and the academic atmosphere of the dorms.”

Emmerson said cadets rooms flooded, sometimes as much as three inches of water, due to pipes bursting caused by an outdated air condition-ing system. “Cadets rooms would flood about once every two weeks, and sometimes it was an entire floor,” Emmer-son said. “You can replace the stuff that is lost but you cannot replace the memories or the inconvenience of hav-ing it lost.” Will Orlowski, a senior agricultural leader-ship and development stud-ies major, said he lived in the dorms for two years from Fall 2008-Spring 2009 and moved back his senior year from the Fall 2010 to the Spring semes-ter. During the spring semes-ter while living in Dorm 10, his dorm was flooded, causing water damage to his combat books and senior boots.

“The pipes above my dorm were leaking and the ceiling was falling apart,” Orlowski said. “I think that an overhaul is necessary because there

are too many things going wrong — the water pressure, the small space in the rooms, and the showers themselves are horrible.”

In addition to the residence halls, the Quad will also re-ceive a new four-story Living Learning Center that will re-place Lounge D.

The Living Learning Cen-ter will be open 24 hours a day, and be accessible to all University students as a place to study, use computer work stations, print papers, or just hang out.

The Cadet Academic Mentors will also be relocated to the Learning Center.

Orlowski said that having a new “technology equipped building” on the Quad will help bring students in the Corps together, and make it easier for them to study in an environment where they are not required to wear uniforms.

“It’s required to wear your uniform on campus where ever you go, which is why some people in the Corps feel more comfortable on the Quad,” Orlowski said. “Having a place for people in the Corps to study togeth-er coincides with what the Corps is all about—being aca-demic leaders—and will help us achieve that goal.”

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did a nice job.”After the Seminoles put up

a solo home run in the sixth inning, making it 2-1, the Aggies were the first to break down the opponents pitcher. With runners on second and third sophomore left fielder Brandon Wood hit a one out RBI single just out of the reach of the FSU infield to give the Aggies a 3-2 lead.

“I just wanted to hit a ground ball up the middle to score the tying run,” Wood said. “I wasn’t trying to do too much. I knew he was going to come after me with a change up so I got up in the box a little bit. He had thrown me a change up in the last two at bats that’s what he had gotten me out on.”

The Aggies would add two more runs in the inning to jump out to a 5-2 lead. It was all Stripling and the A&M bullpen would need as the Aggies tacked on an insur-ance run in the eighth to help close out a 6-2 series opening victory. Stripling was master-ful on the mound going seven strong innings allowing only two runs and one walk, strik-ing out eight.

“I thought it was a great game,” Childress said. “We played well on both sides and the two starting pitchers did as good a job as you could ask them to do.”

As the Aggies gained an important victory to go up 1-0 in the best-of-three se-ries, Childress faced a tough decision going into Sunday’s game. Either he pitched the team’s ace, sophomore Mi-cheal Wacha, or instead saved him for a potential game three.

Childress made the deci-sion to give Wacha the extra days rest and instead started freshman Derrick Hadley. Nerves overcame Hadley who, after waiting an hour on a rain delay, pitched just one inning allowing six runs on five hits.

In the first three innings the Seminoles totaled eight runs across the board before the Aggies brought out the bats. They would respond with a

six-run third inning bringing hope back into the minds of Aggies both in attendance and watching on national televi-sion.

Those comeback hopes would be dashed as the Semi-noles put together innings of two, four and seven runs be-fore the game was said and done. A&M would use five pitchers to get out of the game as wild pitching among other things, drove pitcher after pitcher to the showers.

“We couldn’t get a stop. I thought we made them ner-vous a couple of different times,” Childress said. “We had a six-run third, made them look nervous, but that’s probably about it.”

The final box score of 23-9 looked more like a foot-ball game between the two schools, as the Aggies had an uncharacteristic off day. After the hour rain delay, the game amassed nearly four hours be-fore completion; ending a day the team will likely have to move on from with the season on the line.

Florida State infielder Jus-tin Gonzalez had a three-run home and six RBIs in the rout as the Seminoles set a season high for runs and a school re-cord for runs in a Super Re-gional game.

“It was just surreal,” Gon-zalez said after the Seminoles pounded out 16 hits against five Aggies pitchers. “We fight to live another day.”

“If you had told me we were going to score nine runs tonight, I would have felt pretty good about our chanc-es,” Childress said. “Florida State did an outstanding job, took us out to the woodshed.”

In two of the most polar opposite games the Aggies have played all season, A&M finds itself preparing today for a game that will either end their season or send the team to Omaha, Neb. for the Col-lege World Series.

“I think they (A&M play-ers) have got a pretty short-term memory 65 games in,” Childress said. “I think they are going to come out and play hard tomorrow.”

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