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Battalion/Page 10
March 5, 1982
Aggies take to
for year's first
the road
‘talent test’
TANK MCNAMARA
by Denise S. Sechelski
Battalion Staff
After winning the first eight
games of the season, the Texas
‘A&M baseball team will play the
"‘University of South Alabama in
’ Mobile Saturday. Coach Tom
thandler said this double-
header will be the first test of his
.'team’s talent.
“South Alabama is a real na
tional baseball power,” Chand
ler said. “They’ve been to several
NCAA College World Series so
we hope to play well against
them.”
South Alabama Coach Eddie
Stanky, who played second base
for the Brooklyn Dodgers from
1944 to 1947, runs “a very disci
plined team,” Chandler said.
South Alabama, the Sun Belt
Conference champion, split a
double-header with the Univer
sity of Alabama last weekend to
post a 1-1 record for the 1982
season. The Jaguars finished the
1981 season with 40 wins and 23
losses.
Chandler said his team will go
into the series somewhat hand
icapped because pitcher Rick
Luecken is out with a sore elbow.
Luecken pitched four innings
Saturday against Northeast
Louisiana but developed a sore
elbow after the game.
Luecken, the leading pitcher
for the Aggies, probably won’t
miss more than one turn in the
pitching rotation, Chandler
said.
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Pearson undergoes
surgery in Dallas
No ruling for a week
on Rocket’s ejection
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DALLAS — Dallas Cowboys
all-time leading receiver Drew
Pearson underwent knee
surgery for removal of damaged
cartilage and is expected to be
gin rehabilitation within four
weeks, team
Wednesday.
officials said
Pearson, 31, underwent
arthroscopic surgery on his
right knee Tuesday at Baylor
Hospital.
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HOUSTON — A ruling is not
expected from the league office
for at least a week on the Hous
ton Rockets protest that referee
Mike Mathis improperly ejected
Elvin Hayes from a game against
the San Antonio Spurs.
Joe Axelson, National Bas
ketball Association vice presi
dent of operations, said he re
ceived the official protest from
the Rockets late Wednesday. If
upheld, the Rockets could re
play a Tuesday game in which
the San Antonio Spurs beat
them 119-117.
Mathis ejected Hayes with
1:48 left in the first half after
calling a technical foul on him.
The basis of the Rockets claim is
that normally it takes two tech
nical fouls to cause ejection.
“I want to investigate the en
tire thing for myself,” Axelson
said, “and I want to look at the
game films before making any
kind of judgment.”
Rockets officials mailed a let
ter of explanation, the game
films and the required $1,500 to
Axelson to initiate the protest.
Rockets General Manager
Ray Patterson said Mathis told
game scorers following the tel
nical call that it was his seconi
the night and that an earlieri
of a personal foul for elbovi
against Hayes had been anaia
matic technical foul.
Rockets Coach Del HarrisJ
also ejected from the gameJ
“This is not a protest ova
judgement call,” he said. “It!
rule that was not followed t
rectly.”
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eject a player after one technn
however, the Rockets claim f
rule is not used except whd
player is uncontrollable.
Runners to compete
Weekend Entertainment
by John Wagner
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M men’s and
women’s track teams will com
pete in the Oklahoma City Clas
sic Saturday — a meet that men’s
coach Charlie Thomas said will
be challenging for the Aggies
because of the' number of teams
competing.
“This is the biggest meet we’ll
be in all year,” Thomas said. “It
is an open meet, as well as a uni
versity meet.”
Thomas said the recent cold
spell has hurt his team’s training
since the track teams have no
indoor training facility. The
team has to practice outside,
even for indoor meets.
“You go ahead and work out,
but you can’t work on speed,”
Thomas said. “You just try to
hold the time you have.”
However, Thomas said, the
Aggies shouldn’t lose any places
in the meet because of the cold
because all the teams entered
have had to train under the
same conditions.
Thomas said sophomore Rod
Richardson should have a good
chance of placing in i
weekend’s meet. After loot
at films of Richardson’s p
formance in the 60-yard dasl
the Dallas Times Herald I mi
tional, Thomas said it wasij
dent how close Richardson ij
to placing.
“He was only inches aw
from placing,” Thomas sa
“We expect him to do betteri]
week.”
Women’s coach Bill Nixi
take 12 athletes to Oklahol
City to compete in 11 eventsl
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Gymnastics tri-meet
to be held Saturday
Some indication of the final
outcome of the 1982 Texas
Gymnastics Conference race
probably will come from a meet
being hosted by the Texas A&M
gymnastics team Saturday.
League-leading Texas Tech
University will compete with the
Aggies and Southwest Texas
State University in a triangular
meet beginning at 7 p.m. in 307
East Kyle.
It will be the last home meet
of the season for the Aggies.
Co-captain Mark Hartwell
said Texas Tech is becominfl
perennial powerhouse in
conference and the meet she!
be one of the best this seasoJ
“We should have a big croj
this weekend,” Hartwell sa
“Tech has a very active booij
club that travels with the tea|
“They are a real professid
team. Right now Tech is ontl
the only teams in the conferei
with a coach and has a la
enough budget to compete i
large number of
conference meets.”
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