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GLANCE
Grizzlies' streak hits
22 in loss to Hornets
VANCOUVER, British Colum
bia (AP) — The Charlotte Hornets
salvaged the last stop of a five-
game road trip and sent the Van
couver Grizzlies to their 22nd con
secutive defeat Sunday with a 121-
88 victory.
Charlotte, which snapped a
two-game losing streak, finished 3-
2 on its five-game trip and moved
within one game of Miami in the
race for the eighth and final playoff
spot in the East.
Vancouver moved within two
losses of the longest losing streak
in NBA history — 24 straight by
Cleveland in the 1981-82 and 82-
83 seasons. The Grizzlies broke
the single season record Friday
with their 21 st.
Matt Geiger led the Hornets
with 20 points and 10 rebounds.
Glen Rice scored 18 despite play
ing with a sore back.
Bryant Reeves had 17 points
and nine rebounds for the Griz
zlies, who allowed the most points
they ever have at GM Place.
Magic dominate
Knicks, win Atlantic
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Or
lando Magic claimed their second
straight Atlantic Division title Sun
day, beating the New York Knicks
98-79 behind a 32-point perfor
mance by Shaquille O'Neal.
The defending Eastern Confer
ence champions tied the NBA
record for fewest turnovers in a
game with three while improving to
34-1 at Orlando Arena, where they
won 40 consecutive regular-season
games before losing to the Los An
geles Lakers last week.
The Magic are 20-4 since the
All-Star break and, at 54-18 overall,
moved within three wins of the fran
chise record for victories in a season
with 10 games to play.
Longhorns paste Rice
behind two-hitter
AUSTIN (AP) — Scott Leon
pitched a compete game two-hit
shutout of Rice on Sunday as the
Longhorns won 12-0. It was
Texas' seventh straight win.
Leon (4-2) walked only two
batters while striking out four.
Texas took the lead in the bot
tom of the first on MacGregor By
ers' single and Danny Peoples'
RBI double.
Texas put the game away in
the fifth by sending 11 men to the
plate and scoring seven runs on
six hits.
Peoples went 2-for-4, with a
double, a triple, two runs scored
and three RBI.
Rice (22-13) lost its seventh
straight and fell to 2-9 in the South
west Conference. Adam Herdon (2-
1) took the loss for the Owls.
Texas upped its record to 24-
13 overall and 6-2 in the SWC.
Astros make final ros
ter moves for spring
HOUSTON (AP) — The Hous
ton Astros on Sunday optioned
lefthanded pitcher Dean Hart-
graves to their AAA Tucson farm
team and placed righthanded
pitcher John Hudek on the 15-
day disabled list.
Hudek's stint on the disabled
list was made retroactive to
March 22. He has been idled by
a torn muscle in his neck.
To fill Hudek's roster spot, the
Astros have recalled lefthanded
pitcher Alvin Morman from Tuc
son.
The moves get the club to the
25-player roster limit for Mon
day's opening day of the 1996
season.
Blackhawks' Probert
knocks out Dallas, 5-3
CHICAGO (AP) — Bob Probert
had his first two-goal game with
Chicago and also assisted on Brent
Sutter's goal Sunday, leading the
Blackhawks to a 5-3 victory over
the Dallas Stars.
Tony Amonte and Jeff Shantz
also scored and Ed Belfour made
22 saves for the Blackhawks, who
won for only the second time in six
games without injured scoring
leader Jeremy Roenick.
Benoit Hogue, Brent Gilchrist
and Greg Adams scored for the
Stars, who almost have to win their
final seven games to avoid missing
the playoffs for the first time since
moving from Minnesota to Dallas
in 1993.
Signed as a free agent before
last season but suspended by the
league for recurring problems with
drugs and alcohol, Probert has
played well for Chicago since get
ting reinstated before this season.
Ags dismiss UT, answer NCAA call
Stew Milne, The Battalion
Members of the Texas A&M and University of Texas track teams sprint toward the finish line in the Men's 100-meter dash Saturday at the Anderson Track Complex. Competing in
the event for A&M were Billy Fobbs (second from left), Michael Price (center) and Toya Jones (second from right). Fobbs won the event with a time of 10.32 seconds.
Texas A&M had NCAA Championship qualifiers in five events on Saturday
Stew Milne, The Battalion
Texas A&M senior Todd Pratt skies over the bar en route to a first-place finish in the high jump during Sat
urday's competition at the Anderson Track Complex.
Raiders’ big bats, comebacks Lady Ags trounce Tech
doom Aggies all weekend for fastest start ever
Texas Tech swept A&M in a four-game SWC series
Staff and Wire Reports
It was not Kyle Field, nor
was it packed with 75,000
screaming fans, but the An- 4
derson Track Complex was
the sight of another tough
clash between Texas A&M
and the University of Texas
Saturday.
In a men’s dual track and
field meet, the Aggies blew
past the Longhorns 98-55 in
a meet laden with NCAA-
qualifying times.
All told, A&M had NCAA
qualifiers in five events, in
cluding the 400-meter relay
in which Michael Price, Toya
Jones, Billy Fobbs and
Michael McKinney set a new
meet record of 39.77 seconds,
breaking the old mark set by
A&M in 1982 of 40.15 sec
onds.
Also posting a qualifying
mark was senior Curt Young,
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) —
Texas Tech’s Jeff Peck tossed
a complete-game four-hitter
as the Red Raiders routed
Texas A&M 12-1 on Sunday.
The win extended Tech’s
home winning streak to 25
games dating back to last
season. The Raiders (35-4
overall, 10-2 SWC) have won
six in a row.
The Aggies (24-12, 5-7)
were swept in a four-game
series for the first time in
school history.
After giving up three hits
and a run in the second in-
who ran a time of 50.78 in
the 400-m hurdles. He
smashed the track record of
50.80 set by former Aggie
Richard Murphy in 1993.
Also qualifying for the up
coming NCAA Champi
onships were Tim Bryant in
the long jump, Fobbs in the
100-m dash and Fernando
Palomo and Nery Kennedy in
the javelin.
In all, the Aggie men took
first place in 13 of the 19
events while rolling up 98
points — nearly double the
Longhorns’ total.
Although heavy winds af
fected some of the times, the
Aggies still dominated the
night’s action.
Perhaps A&M’s most domi
nating performance came in
the javelin. Besides Palomo
and Kennedy’s times, A&M
also had the fourth and sev
enth-place competitors.
ning, Peck (6-0) allowed just
one hit the rest of the way, a
bunt single by Jason Tyner in
the fifth. Following Tyner’s
hit, Peck struck out 13 con
secutive batters.
The Raiders, meanwhile
jumped on A&M starter John
Sneed early, scoring nine
runs, on 10 hits before Sneed
exited in the fourth.
The Aggies committed a
season-high six errors.
The game capped a horri
ble weekend for the Aggies in
which they had hoped to as
sert themselves in the South
west Conference race, but in
stead found themselves 5-7 in
the standings.
The Aggies were hit with a
Mack truck in the first game
of the series, played Friday
night during a wind storm
that averaged 30 miles per
hour with gusts up to 44.
The Red Raiders jumped
all over A&M starter Matt
Blank and every other pitch
er the Aggies tossed out on to
the mound — ringing up 26
runs on a school-record 29
hits en route to punishing
A&M 26-9.
The Red Raiders blasted
nine home runs on the night
compared to just one — a solo
shot by Aggie catcher
William Shifflett — for A&M.
On Saturday, A&M played
more like the No. 15 team in
the nation, but was still no
match for No. 2 Texas Tech.
Although the Red Raiders
fell behind in both games,
they staged late rallies to
take the doubleheader — 10-7
and 7-5.
With the embarrassing
weekend behind them, the
Aggies now have a break
from conference play with a
game Tuesday against Sam
Houston State followed by a
three-game weekend state
against perennial doormat
Dallas Baptist.
The Aggies will return to
conference play on Friday,
April 12 when they host
Texas Christian University
in the first of three games at
Olsen Field.
The Aggies will not face
Texas Tech again this season
unless the two teams meet in
the SWC Tournament in Lub
bock.
Staff and Wire Reports
The streaking Texas A&M
Women’s Tennis Team com
pleted a weekend sweep of
Southwest Conference oppo
nents by trouncing the Texas
Tech Red Raiders, 9-0, Sunday
at the Lubbock Municipal Ten
nis Center.
The Lady Aggies, who also
beat Texas Christian 6-3 on
Saturday in Fort Worth, are off
to the fastest start in school
history with a 13-3 overall
showing and a 4-1 record in
SWC play.
The victory over the Red
Raiders was the lady Aggies’
sixth straight and capped off a
stretch of five consecutive road
matches.
Leading the way for A&M
was senior Wilson Pate, who
B y the time you read this, I may
already be in Sportz Edita’s
Paradise (Sorry, Coolio.)
This is no April Fool’s joke, this is
baseball’s Opening Day.
If you’ve ever spoken to me be
fore, you know exactly where I am
right now — The Astrodome in
Houston for my 11th consecutive As
tros’ home opener.
My impending entry into the job
market has made this Opening Day
all that more important because it
seems likely that my next job won’t
be as lenient about letting me have
most of the day off.
won her 12th straight match
and improved her record to 14-
1 overall this spring with the
victory over Tech’s Carrie Hel-
bing , 6-4, 6-0 at No.2.
Lady Aggie junior Julie
Beahm improved her spring
record to 12-3 by dominating
the Red Raisers’ Lauren
Spears, 6-1, 6-0, at No. 5.
“We felt in control the entire
day,” Lady Aggie Head Coach
Bobby Kleinecke said. “Tech is
an improved team from last
year, but we knew in order to
win today, all we had to do was
come out and take care of busi
ness.”
The Lady Aggies will close
out the regular season with
four matches at home, first wel
coming Southern Methodist to
the Omar Smith Tennis Center
Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
The last four years have been
tough because I’ve also had to miss
school to go to Houston. Today, my
schedule would normally include
Graphics, Anthropology, Graphics
Lab and Literature of the Sea. Alas,
my classmates will have to forge
ahead without me.
To my professors, there should be
little surprise in my absence given
the number of times already this se
mester that my seat has been con
spicuously empty when lecture be
gins. This time I really don’t feel
that bad though, because I consider
this excursion as legitimate as any
note I could gamer from Beutel.
To my parents, yes, this is the
reason I’m graduating with that 2.6
GPR, because my priorities are
arranged thusly.
To everyone stuck in class read
ing this, shame on you. Do yourself a
favor and remember what’s impor
tant in life. Take a minute to smell
the beer and hot dogs.
Evan Zimmerman, The Battalion
Texas A&M infielder David Finkel makes a tough throw at third while
pitcher Scott Barrett checks the baserunners at Olsen Field.
Professors, here is why
I am skipping your class