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The No.1 ranked Texas A&M track and field team finished the weekend’s qualifying session at the University of Oregon. Twelve Aggie women and 13 men advanced to compete in a total of 20 events during the upcoming national championship weekend. The men’s and women’s sprint relay teams posted top times in the 4x100, and sprinter Joey Roberts broke a 24-year-old school record with a career best 1:46.89 in the 800 meters. Sprinter Jessica Beard dominated the 400 meters with a time of 51.81, a full second ahead of the runnerup. With other strong showings in hurdles, long jump, triple jump and javelin, the Aggies look to be prime contenders for the team championships starting Wednesday in Des Moines, Iowa.
Students embrace summer Aggies tackle class, internships and globe trotting Connie Thompson
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Texas A&M’s Andrew Collazo, center, holds the Big 12 trophy and celebrates with his team after defeating Missouri 10-9 in the Big 12 NCAA Championship game Sunday in Oklahoma City.
The Battalion With the conclusion of spring semester finals and graduation, it’s finally summertime in Aggieland. While some Aggies are swapping out their Nike shorts for business suits, others plan to embrace the tan lines their flip-flops will leave after a long day at the pool. The summer months are an exciting time for students, though they choose to spend their time in different ways. For some Aggies, the summer is an opportunity to build-up the work experience section of their résumés. Katria Kendall, a senior history major, is spending the next two months in Washington, D.C., interning for the Republican National Committee. “It’s definitely a cool time to be interning with the RNC since the Republican candidates for the presidency are just beginning to announce their intentions to run,” Kendall said. She said that she would not know her responsibilities as an intern until she arrives Sunday but thinks she will be working fundraising events or constituent services. Other intern responsibilities include attending speaker presentations, luncheons, and other events with the RNC. “I’m really excited to return to Washington, D.C., for a second summer since I interned on Capitol Hill See Summer on page 3
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Aggies win 2nd consecutive Big 12 title with extra inning walk-off home run Sean Lester The Battalion For the second consecutive year, the Texas A&M baseball team needed extra innings in the championship game of the Phillip’s 66 Big 12 Tournament, and for the second consecutive year the Aggies won the trophy in walk-off fashion. “I’m really proud of the toughness our team showed this week,” Texas A&M Head Coach Rob Childress said. “We didn’t play our best baseball in three of the four games, but we never quit and kept coming.” In the first game of the tournament the Aggies took care of No. 7 Texas Tech coming from behind to win 10-5. They moved on to face No. 6 Kansas State, defeating the Wildcats 4-1 and advanced to the semi-final round. After Kansas State defeated Oklahoma a second time, they advanced to Saturday’s semi-final round to play the Aggies.
The Aggies would again have to face the Wildcats who got out to a strong lead. After closing the gap to 5-4 the Aggies allowed the Wildcats to get out to an 8-4 lead that they would have to overcome. In the eighth inning they did just that, scoring four runs and tying the score at 8-8, sending the Aggies to their second consecutive conference tournament championship game Sunday. “I thought it was a hard-fought game,” Childress said. “Guys didn’t quit, kept chipping away and had a big inning in the eighth to tie the game.” As if it was a ritual, the Aggies started extremely slow getting themselves into a 6-0 hole in the first and second innings of the championship game against the No. 8 seed Missouri Tigers. The resilient Aggies found their familiar come-from-behind style in See Championship on page 3
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Regional ◗ A&M’s regional consists of the Aggies as the No. 1 seed, No. 2 Arizona, No. 3 Seton Hall and No. 4 Wright State. At 6:35 p.m. Friday the Aggies will take on Wright State in the first matchup of the regional. Student admission will be $4.
Conference helps new students assimilate to A&M Natalee Blanchat Special to The Battalion Hundreds of transfer students flooded into Aggieland to start their new lives as Aggies at the first New Student Conference on May 24. “I think that already having experience attending a community college as large as Lone Star will help make the transition A&M much smoother,” said Emily Pau, a transfer student from Lone Star College-CyFair. The two-day conferences are an introduction to the University for first-time A&M students and will take place throughout the summer. It was great getting to know the departments for our different degree plans and getting to know the students within our majors during the conference,” said Pau. “This way we will have some familiar faces in the classroom.” See Conference on page 3
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Plane crashes at apartment complex, kills two Taylor Wolken The Battalion A small plane crashed at 8:45 Saturday into the parking lot of the Wave’s Z Islander apartment complex, striking a vehicle and killing both passengers. The Rockwell 112 single engine passenger plane left Dallas en route to Galveston where John and Kathy Holmstrom planned to visit friends and go fishing. John, a maritime systems engineering graduate from Texas A&M at Galveston alerted
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Easterwood tower of a “fuel emergency” as they approached the Bryan-College Station area. Soon after Holmstrom radioed that they were not going to make it and crashedthree miles from Easterwood Airport. Tom Latson of the National Transportation Safety Board was brought in from Houston to determine the cause of the crash. There was no fuel at the scene of the crash and no fire. A pilot who overheard the emergency calls at Easterwood has said
there was a fuel leak as reported by The Eagle. “We are out here to determine the facts of the accident, but the main purpose is to use the facts and make recommendations so we can prevent future tragedies,” Latson said. The NTSB has not released findings and said the full investigation could take a year. Taylor Wolken — THE BATTALION The plane will be removed in the next few days, and a prelimi- The wreckage of the Rockwell 112 single engine plane on the way nary report is expected within the to Galveston litters the parking lot of Wave’s Z Islander apartments next week. after crashing late Saturday night.
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