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Page 12 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1980 for your prize-winning AOtilELMD 1981 YOUR individual photo, on the pages of the nation’s largest, and one of the best, university yearbooks, THE AGGIELAND, will be something you’ll want to keep forev er. Please plan to take just a few minutes out of your busy schedule — at the time listed below for your name and class — for a few quick poses. Freshmen-Sophomores Sept. 15-19 A-E Sept. 22-26 F-L Sept. 29-Oct. 3 M-R Oct. 6-10 S-Z Seniors, Medical, Veterinary and Graduate Students Oct. 13-17 A-E Oct. 20-24 F-L Oct. 27-31 M-R Nov. 3-7 S-Z Juniors Nov. 10-14 A-E Nov. 17-21 F-L Dec. 1-5 M-R Dec. 8-12 S-Z YEARBOOK ASSOCIATES, official 1981 Aggieland photographers, have a studio at Suite 140, Culpepper Office Plaza, off Puryear Street. Phone: 693-6756. Astros take on S.F. tonight United Press International HOUSTON — With no disrespect to Philadelphia, Montreal, Pitt sburgh and Cincinnati, the National League playoffs should hang the rules and match the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros next month. Such an outlandish move would only be in order, however, if strength-sapping drama, superior athletic play and mind-boggling managerial maneuvering were qual ities being sought for that postseason series. Los Angeles at Houston, Tuesday and Wednesday, had them all and more. “Every imaginable thing hap pened in that game,” Dodgers out fielder Rick Monday said. “That ranks with the best of them,” winning manager Bill Virdon added. Virdon’s Astros, who entered the two-game series in second place by two games, had just drawn even with the Dodgers for first place in the Western division after a tense, 12- inning 6-5 win Wednesday night. Irony of ironies, a home run for baseball’s poorest home run-hitting team won it. Jose Cruz hit the blast on the first pitch Rick Sutcliffe threw him. “This was my most important home run, for me and the team,” Cruz said. “I was looking for any thing. I was thinking I could hit a high pitch better. But it was low and outside.” Cruz said Jae was pumped up be- Bill Virdon Jose Cruz cause his team had rallied from a 5-3 deficit in the 11th. In the bottom of that inning, run-scoring hits by Astros rookies Danny Heep and Gary Woods tied the game. “We re scoring a lot of runs,” Astros regular Terry Puhl said. “We are hitting the ball as well as we have all year.” Astros third baseman Enos Cabell said the pivotal series for the Astros, which also served to ease the third- place Cincinnati Reds to within two and one-half games of the Dodgers, gave the Astros a leg up because the Dodgers face a three-game weekend series in Cincinnati while the Astros host San Francisco. Dodgers first baseman Steve Gar vey said he did not think the dis appointing series would have a de trimental effect on his team. “Now they’ve (the Astros) got to concern themselves with staying up for San Francisco,” he said. Virdon and Tommy Lasorda, the Dodgers’ boss, made almost every conceivable move to give their teams the best chance of winning. They played 43 men, and the roster be came so slim for the Dodgers that pitcher Bobby Castillo played right field and left field. Houston had 33 available players due to recent callups of minor leaguers; Los Angeles had 28, a fact which irked Monday. Castillo was moved from right field to left field during the 11th in ning in advance of Enos Cabell com ing to the plate with the bases loaded, one out and the score tied 5-5. Lasorda believed if Cabell hit a fly ball it would be to right field, and he wanted regular outfielder Dusty Baker there. Cabell did hit the 1 when Julio Gonzalez tagged^ base and tried to score (her run. Baker threw him out, With the score tied 3-3,1 gers mounted rallies and ninth innings. But bothti double plays and the secondi] matic. The bases were loaded* out when Manny MotakitJ hopping grounder toward;] baseman Joe Morgan, jumped to snare it, threw!t| stop Craig Reynolds and wat Reynolds’ relay to beat Mota. Cruz led off the ninth will drive toward the base < center field wall, butreseml fielder Bobby Mitchellmad(;| tacular sliding catch. ■■■ first bas| Astrobconfident in final stretch CruK.s homer was right on tin® NATHAN R. HINES Battalion Reporter Houston Astro left fielder Jose Cruz was looking for a home run when he came to bat in the bottom of the 12th inning of Wendsday night’s game against the Los Angeles Dod gers. The Astros and Dodgers were tied 5-5, and he knew a home run would win the game for the Astros, and put them in a tie with L.A. for the Western Division lead. As soon as he swung at the ball he knew it was headed over the right field fence. That blow, combined with the Astros two dramatic com ebacks during the game, “took the wind out of the Dodger’s sails, and put it into ours,” said ace Astro re liever Joe Sambito after the game. The Astros are going to need all the wind they can muster to get in to the World Series, but the Astros are confident they can make it. Third baseman Enos Cabell is probably the i lost confident. ‘There are a lot of games to go befo e we go to L.A. for the last series of the season,” Cabell said, “but I think we will have more than a three-game lead before we play. Of course we can’t lay back and expect the games to be given to us, we are going to have to play better ball now than we have played all year. We have the ability to win any game we play. I think we proved that by beat ing the Dodgers the way we did. One Texas A&M student in the locker room handed pitcher Joe Niekro an A&M cap. “This is to re mind you that the Aggies are behind the Astros,” the student said, but he put a condition on the gift. “We will back you, if you back us.” The Astros swept the two-game series with L. A., by scores of 5-4 and 6-5. Niekro, the knuckleball ace of the Astros pitching staff', sat in front of his locker shaking his headiii| ment after the Astros eit win. “I can’t believe this te: said. “Games like thisisv ball is meant to be. VVhata is that I got payed to sit onl and watch this game." J.R. discharged todl United Press International HOUSTON — Houston Astros pitcher J.R. Richard, hospitalized since suffering a near-fatal stroke late July, was discharged from Houston Methodist Hospital this morning and returned to his home. “He will continue to undergo treatment as an outpatient for an in definite period of time,” an Astros spokesman said. The spokesman added di Richard has made enough to return home and not be to the hospital. Hewillbeti the same team of doctoi attended him in the hospital, Richard had been allowed the hospital for brief periods, a ride in the car, a meal, or with his teammates on Tofec ONE GOOD TERM * DESERVES AMOTHER! J TELL YOUR FRIENDS J TO VOTE FOR J BRAZOS COUNTY ATTORNEY J John M. Barron, Jr. (A&M CLASS OF '71) 5-A high school results Hereford 14, Ama. Palo Duro 0 Houston Yates 12, Houston Lamar 3 Houston Westbury 15, Houston Reagan 0 Houston Washington 23, Houston Davis 0 Houston Bellaire 23, Houston Waltrip 7 Houston Spring Branch 23, Pasadena 0 Houston Milby 6, Galena Park N. Shore 3 Mesquite 28, Dal. 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