Page 16 THE BATTALION
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1981
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Sunday’s Results
Monday’s Gaines
Sunday’s Results
Monday’s Games
Houston 7, San
Francisco
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Cincinnati
at San Diego
Texas 4, Minnesota
5
Seattle at Texas
Montreal 4, Ch
icago 0
St. Louis at Chicago
Toronto 6, Californi
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Milwaukee at Boston
Philadelphia 5,
Pittsburgh
4
Philadclpl
ia at Montreal
Boston 4, New York
1
Detroit at Baltimore
New York 7, St
Louis 6
Pittsburgh
at New York
Baltimore 8, Milwaukee 2
Oakland at Toronto
Atlanta 3, San Diego I
Detroit 5, Cleveland 1
Cleveland at New York
Cincinnati 5, Los Angeles
Chicago 11, Oakland 3
Minnesota at Kansas
City
Seattle 3, Kansas City 2
Chicago at California
Nothing seems to go right
for Giants as
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1 SAN FRANCISCO — Nothing seemed to go right
for the San Francisco Giants Sunday.
First, Vida Blue, who tripped getting out of his car
last week, had to be scratched from his scheduled
start.
Then, a member of a parachute team entertaining
the crowd before game time missed the stadium and
broke both feet when he landed in the concrete
parking lot.
Finally, manager Frank Robinson’s gamble to
replace Blue with a series of relievers failed and the
Giants lost a “must” game with Western Division
leader Houston, 7-3, possibly ending the team’s
playoff hopes.
Robinson, faced with the unenviable task of re
placing Blue, who may have been the one man the
team could have least afforded to lose, went with
reliever Gary Lavelle, who made the second start of
his career.
But that didn’t last long.
: Lavelle, 0-6, had control problems and after facing
just five batters had allowed in one run and loaded
the bases.
Robinson had seen enough and maybe because of
the game’s importance went to the quick hook.
As Robinson walked toward the mound, Lavelle
exploded and stormed from the field after dropping
the ball on the ground.
Astros roll
“1 think I deserved a chance to pitch out of trouble
in the first inning, Lavelle said. “I don’t want to get
involved in controversy. That’s not my style. But
there wasn’t much confidence shown in me today.
Robinson said he yanked Lavelle because he
wasn’t throwing his best stuff.
“He just wasn t throwing well,” Robinson said.
“You’re pitching against major leaguers, you have to
come in with strikes right now, I don t care who you
are.”
Robinson brought in Allen Ripley who didn’t pitch
out of the jam. Instead, three more runs scored
before the Giants escaped the inning.
Houston’s Tony Scott, who haunted the Giants
pitching staff all day, ripped a double in the first
inning. Scott picked up three more hits on the after
noon, including a booming homer in the sixth.
San Francisco rallied in the bottom half of the first
inning when fireballer Nolan Ryan had control prob
lems. The Giants picked up three runs when with the
bases loaded, Larry Herndon cracked a long sacrifice
fly and Jeff Leonard hit a sheer to right to score a pair.
The Astros continued to pound Robinson’s revolv
ing door pitching moves and picked up one run in the
third to go ahead 5-3 and two more tallies in sixth. On
the afternoon, Houston picked up 16 hits and
stranded 14 runners on base. Terry Puhl chipped in
with two of those hits.
Ryan went the distance to pick up his ninth win of
the season against five losses.
Texas rallies
for 4-3 win
ARLINGTON — In his first
major-league at bat, Minnesota
third baseman Gary Gaetti
reached out for a homer with one
man on base but it wasn’t enough
as the Texas Rangers came back
with a two-run ninth inning to
beat the Twins, 4-3.
“It was very exciting but I
didn’t see the ball,” Gaetti said. “I
thought it was a double and I was
running for all I was worth.
Gaetti, who was called up from
the Twin’s Orlando, Fla. farm
team, said all he saw from winning
Ranger pitcher Charlie Hough, 2-
1, were knuckle balls “and any
knuckle ball pitcher is tough.
Hough went the distance and
allowed five hits Sunday.
Bump Wills doubled to lead off
the ninth off loser Doug Corbett,
2-5. One out later, Al Oliver
walked and Wayne Tolleson ran
for him. The runners advanced on
an infield out and Wills scored on
Leon Roberts’ infield single.
Jim Sundberg then lined a
game-winning hit to right field to
make a winner of Hough.
Speaking of the ninth inning ral
ly, Rangers manager Don Zimmer
said, “If Wills isn’t stealing, the
game is over because that’s a dou
ble play. Bump steals on his own.
“It was a helluva game for us to
win, ” Zimmer said. “If we had lost
it it would have been like sticking
a pin in a balloon. Everybody got
beat today that had to get beat.”
Zimmer noted that the Rangers
are four games behind the first-
place Royals, “but more impor
tantly we re just three down on
the loss side.
Minnesota took a 2-0 lead in the
second when Dave Engle drew a
walk and Gaetti knocked him in
with his homer.
Texas made it 2-1 in the third.
Mark Wagner doubled, advanced
on Wills’ bunt single and scored
on Bill Stein’s sacrifice fly.
Minnesota took a 3-1 lead in the
fourth on Tim Corcoran’s ground-
out and Texas closed to 3-2 in the
seventh on a throwing error by
catcher Sal Butera.
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Rookie puts Mets bad
in race with homer
United Press International
NEW YORK — Not since 1969, the year they
astounded the baseball universe by coming up with a
new miracle every day to win the world champion
ship, were the amazing Mets this ecstatic.
To a man, they came pouring out of their dugout at
Shea Stadium Sunday like some enormous tidal wave
of sheer joy to wait at home plate as a welcoming
committee for the man who only a moment before
had deposited one of Bruce Sutter’s pitches into the
right field bullpen.
He had done it with one on and two out in the
bottom of the ninth inning for a pulsating 7-6 win that
made it three in a row over the National League’s
Eastern Division-leading St. Louis Cardinals in a
game in which the Mets had once trailed by five
runs, and the victory moved them within 2 , /2 games
of first place.
There were only 13,337 in the stands to witness
this spectacle, but from all the noise they made and
the way they rocked the stadium with their cheers for
the grinning Mets’ rookie rounding the bases with
his third home run of the season, it sounded more
like 10 times that number.
“M oo-kie! Moo-kie!” the fans hollered affection
ately, even lovingly, at him as he kept running with a
beatific smile.
When Mookie Wilson crossed home plate, he was
smothered by his elated teammates, each seeking to
be the first to hug him, pound him on the back or give
him one of those high-fives for suddenly projecting
them squarely into the middle of the pennant race.
“It got a little scary when I saw my buddy (Mets’
pitcher) Ed Lynch halfway down the third base line, ”
the small-boned, high-pitch voiced Wilson laughed
afterward. I didn’t wanna run over anybody but I
wanted to make sure to touch the plate. When that
ball cleared the fence, I was so happy, I could’ve run
into a tank and not felt anything. Wilson and third
baseman Hubie Brooks each collected four hits in a
22-hit attack and the Mets’ uphill triumph was strict
ly vintage 1969.
After the Mets tied the score at 5-all in the seventh
with three runs on John Stearns RBI single, Doug
Flynn’s RBI double and Rusty Staub’s runscoring
pinch single, the Cards, who had led 5-0 after three
innings, went in front again, 6-5, in the top of the
ninth with the aid on an error by Wilson in center
field.
Cardinal rookie Tito Landrum hit a toweringdiN
to deep center and Wilson, playing much too slrf
low, chased it to the fence. The hall hit thefenceiE
one bounce and when Wilson tried to grab it, It
mishandled it, and Landrum made it home.
“I let the ball play me instead of playing it, n
plained the Mets’ center fielder. “A more expeii
enced guy would’ve given him a double instead^
trying to catch the ball like I did. But that’s mc-ta
aggressive. 1 gave it my best shot. 1 felt bad thattb
run had scored, but I wasn’t gonna go homed
shoot myself.”
Sutter, who never has much trouble with th
Mets, looked as if he had everything undercontai
again when he got the first two men up easilyenoad
in the last of the ninth. But Frank Taveras kept thins
alive with a double, and then after Wilson world
the count to 3-and-1, he rocketed the next pitch ova
the right field fence and the whole place wt
bananas.
1 don’t think I’ve been this excited sincelii
managed the dub, said Joe Torre.
Herb Norman, the Mets’ longtime equipna
man, said, "I haven t seen our clubhouse this happi
since 1969.”
If the 5-foot-10, 170-pound Mookie Wilson, wit
runs like the wind, sounds like Willie Mays wheal
talks and sometimes plays like him, the Mets bit
their most exciting performer, certainly their uoj
animated one, since the colorful Tug “You Colfj
Believe” MeGraw.
“I love the competition, the game and everythinj
about it, says Wilson, who gives all he has and ne»
short-legs it even though he’s getting only tl
$32,5(H) minimum. "Naturally, I’d like to makei
much as I can, hut the money isn’t everything™
me. I like to play hard, create a little excitemeal
Management is never gonna complain about )ii
playing too hard.”
Wilson always has time for everyone, teammates
the media or the fans.
“It doesn’t take much to make me smile,"hesaw
and then goes out and proves it everyday.
He doesn’t pamper himself, either. He suffered
severe ankle sprain makiiig ;i nit(.4 on tho find
Mike Easier two weeks ago and read in the papa
he d be out for three weeks, hut he was hackplavinf
three days later.
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IM Game Plan
ENTRIES OPEN: Handball Singles registration begins to
day, Monday, Sept. 21. Entries close Tuesday, Sept. 29 and
play begins Monday, Oct. 5. The tournament is single elimina
tion in Classes A and B and round-robin in Class C. United
States Handball Association rules will be in effect. Matches will
consist of two games of 21 points and an 11 point tie-breaker, if
necessary. Draws will be posted Thursday, Oct. 1 in the IM
Office after 2:00 p.m. For more information and entry forms
stop by the Intramural-Recreational Sports Office, 159 East
Kyle.
ENTRIES OPEN: For anyone who can hit the “Big T” shot;
the long driving contest is for you. Registration begins today,
Monday, Sept. 21 and runs until Tuesday, Sept. 29. The
contest will be held Wednesday, Sept. 30 at 5:30 p.m. at the
driving range next to the Polo Field. Each contestants has
three drives. The longest of the three will be the official
distance. The official balls will be Club Specials or Titleist 90.
One of the balls must be used. Awards will be given to the
Men’s and Women’s Champions.
CAPTAIN’S MEETING: Captain’s meetings for soccer and
Innertube Water Basketball are scheduled for Thursday, Sep
tember 24. The Soccer meeting begins at 5 p.m. in room 267 of
G. Rollie White. The Innertube Water Basketball meeting
follows at 5:30 p.m. in the same room. It’s important that every
team be represented at these meetings. Schedules will be
distributed and rules clarified.
ENTRIES CLOSE: If you haven’t signed up already for
Soccer, Innertube Water Basketball, Golf Singles, or Pick-
leball Singles and Doubles, then hurry over to 159 East Kyle
before tomorrow, September 22, when entries close at 5:00
p. m.
OFFICIALS MEETING: Tuesday, September 22, at 7:00
p.m. Lynette Ginn will meet with persons interested in of
ficiating soccer or innertube water basketball in Room 267 G.
Rollie White.
EVENTS BEGIN: Flag Football and Tennis Singles play
begins today, and the Homerun Hitting Contest is scheduled
to start at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 23 at Olsen
Field. Practice for that event will be held from 3:00 - 6:00
p.m., Olsen Field.
Signing up for in
tramural events,
left to right, Scott
Howells, Todd
McKane, Michael
Boehnke and Mark
Norris.
Steve Powell Is Tae Kwon Do Champion
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While thousands of TAMU students, facul
ty, and staff participate in the many team
sports offered by the Intramural
Recreational Sports Department, our sta
tistics show that quite a few are involved in
our informal recreation program, as well,
From September 1979 to August 1980, in
dividuals passed through our doors 309,021
times. With the opening of East Kyle in
1980, the number of informal recreational
participations increased to 444, 259. In just
the last eight months, the new racquetball
courts in East Kyle have been used 54,132
times.
The Greater Gulf Coast Tae
Kwon Do Championships were
held Saturday, September 12th in
Galveston, and TAMU club mem
bers came home with several not
able awards.
Steve Powell placed first in the
black belt hard style form and by
the end of the competition was
declared Grand Champion. Other
winners were:
Shigeru Kathda Second place -
Black Belt Hard Style Form
Sandy Pierson - First place -
Women’s Black Belt Form
Susan Miller - Second place -
Women’s Brown Belt Fighting
Andrew MacDonald - Second
place - Middle Weight Green Belt
Fighting
Terry Craig - Third place - Light
weight Brown Belt Fighting.
The Tae Kwon Do Club has per
formed well in this and other com
petitions. The success of the club
is largely due to the efforts of indi
vidual members who are responsi
ble for most of the administrative
aspects in addition to practicing.
This particular club is primarily
instructional, but members com
pete regularly, as well.
Persons interested in learning
the Tae Kwon Do Martial Arts
form should consider becoming a
member. The Tae Kwon Do Club
has performed well in this and
other competitions. The success of
the club is largely due to the ef
forts of individual members who
are responsible for most of the ad
ministrative aspects in addition to
practicing. This particular club is
primarily instructional, but mem
bers compete regularly, as well.
Persons interested in learning
the Tae Kwon Do Martial Arts
form should consider becoming a
member. The Tae Kwon Do Club
is one of approximately 25 Ex
tramural Sports Clubs serviced by
the Intramural-Recreational
Sports Department.
For more information about Tae
Kwon Do or any other club, indi
viduals should contact James Wel-
ford in the IM Office, 159 East
Kyle.
Racquets and Reservations
IM Kickers
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Womens field-goal
kicking champion
Carol Sullivan and
Janet Braly watch
one of Braly’s kicks
heads for the up
rights.
William Jordan, Carol Sullivan,
and Janet Braley became Intramu
ral landmarks last Wednesday eve
ning as they captured the annual
Field Goal Kicking Contest. These
three individuals were the first
winners of the new INTRAMU
RAL CHAMPION T-shirts, thus
making history.
Jordan fought off stubborn chal
lenges from Tracy Byers, Doug
Janda, George Gavallos to capture
both the longest goal and total pre
dicted distance. His winning shot
came from the 44 yard line.
Carol Sullivan owned the
longest kick in the Women’s Divi
sion with a boot from the 18 yard
line while Janet Braley captured
the total distance with successful
kicks from the goal, 3, 5, 8, 10, 13,
and 15 yard lines.
Wheelchair Workout exercise
sessions for the handicapped
will be held on Mondays and
Fridays from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
in 304 East Kyle.
COMING SOON... Volley
ball, Bowling, and Punt, Pass
and Kick.
FOOTNOTES
Schedules for men’s, women’s
and CoRec Soccer and Inner
tube Water Basketball teams
will be distributed at the Team
Captain’s meeting, Thursday at
5:00 p.m. for Soccer and 5:30
for Innertube Water Basketball
in 267 G. Rollie White.
Class A Champions will receive
T-shirts printed with our new
logo, while Class B Champions
will receive certificate awards
this year.
Anyone who doesn’t have
the time or the desire for in
volvement in the organized
competitive sport program may
wish to note that facilities and
equipment are available for use
on an individual basis. Bats,
balls, nets, horseshoes, and
more may be borrowed.
Check-out windows are lo
cated in East Kyle and De
ware, and for most items, all
that is needed is proper iden
tification. Racquets for tennis,
badminton, and racquetball
may be rented for 50 cents at
both of these locations. Tennis
racquets are also available at
the tennis courts. In addition,
tennis balls, racquetballs, and
handballs may be purchased at
retail prices.
Students, faculty, staff,
spouses, and dependents may
reserve handball-racquetball
courts for one hour and tennis
courts for one and a half hours
by coming to the Intramural-
Recreational Sports Check-Out
Room (157 East Kyle) or phon
ing 845-2624.
Reservations must be made
one day prior to the day yon
wish to play. There are 28
handball-racquetball courts
and 36 tennis courts, but they
go fast, so call or come by early
Our doors open at 8:00 a.iu
and close at midnight.
Jogging enthusiasts can test
our one-mile jogging trail or
stop by 159 East Kyle and pick
up a jogging map which charts
courses around campus varying
in distance from one to twelve
miles.
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new football offi
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intramural flag
football season.
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