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Battalion/Page l|| April 15, Sutton wins game 2-1 Sambito holds Dodgers United Press International HOUSTON — California dreaming Don Sutton is back in the good graces of Houston Astros fans now that Joe Sambi to is finding the 1979 form that made him an all-star. Left-handed relief pitcher TSambito saved a 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers Tuesday jTpight for Sutton with a perform- tiance that brought an Astrodome fgcrowd to its feet and made As, ros fans shelve their anger -over a comment Sutton made in 'Cspring training. The Los ''Angeles resident said he wanted ,“to be traded to the West Coast * Tvhere he had pitched for the tDodgers for 15 seasons. He gave his former team -mates five singles in seven in- .; hings Tuesday but needed help Afrom the bullpen to record his one loss this first win against season. Sambito entered the 2-1 game with runners on first and second and no outs. Steve Sax bunted, but Sambito fielded it and threw to third base for a force. Sambito then struck out the .429-hitting Ken Landreaux and made a fine play on Steve Garvey’s smash through the box to end the inning. “When I f ace the Dodgers I’m very conscious about hitting spots and not so much trying to blow the ball by them,” Sambito said. “They are a right-handed power hitting team and you shouldn’t try to overpower them.” He retired the side in the ninth inning to earn his second save and to improve his 1982 pitching line that now reads seven innings worked in five games, two hits allowed, no runs, one walk and four strike outs. SCHULMAN 6 THEATRES 2002 E.'29th- 7:25 9:35 ROBIN HOOD Walt Disney ' 7:351:55"' ON GOLDEN dumber One Puaure of 'fhe"‘year < 7:20 9:40 SILENT RAGE Chuck Norris 7:35 9:55* _ vYAToWa Julie Andrews/James Garner 7*25 9*35 RICHARD PRYOR Live On The Sunset Strip <r) 7:20 9:40 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK “I feel like I’m pitching like I was two seasons ago,” Sambito said. The Astros, 4-5, won their fourth one-run game. Catcher Alan Ashby’s third home run of the season in the seventh inning off Dodgers’ starter and loser Burt Hooton, 0-1, untied a game knotted since the first inning on run-scoring singles by Garvey and the Astros Jose Cruz. Ashby has become the Astros’ power hitter early this season by swallowing his pride. “Since the middle of last sea son I’ve used a bigger bat and gone back to the leg kick in my swing that I used in the minor leagues,” Ashby said. “I guess at one time I was intimidated out of using it (the leg kick). It’s un usual, I’ll admit. I’ve got guys calling me Saduhara Oh and other things.” Oh, the Japanese home run slugger who hit more homers than Major League record hol der Henry Aaron, also raises his lead leg as he strides into a swing. Sutton, 1-1, received a stand ing ovation when he walked from the mound in the eighth inning but he said the fans’ appreciation of his work did not relieve all the pain. “My knee’s not f ully well,” he said. “It started reminding me about the sixth inning that it wasn’t the same knee I had last year.” While batting Oct. 2, Sutton was struck by a Jerry Reuss pitch and his right kneecap was frac tured. Empty seats might cause L c SWC to move tournamenr It hasn’t taken the folks who run the Southwest I Conference long to make up for their mistake. As soon as it appeared that the Texas Aggies just might not squeeze past Texas Tech and Baylor and into the post season tournament, conference officials took action. And quicker than it takes Billy Can non to run from first base to second, the SWC announced, through Arkansas coach Norm Debriyn, that they were shopping for a new tournament site — a site that was supposed to have been Olsen Field. But with the Aggies floundering in sixth place in the conference, the SWC decided the tournament must be moved f rom Texas A&M if Coach Tom Chand ler and his team can’t leap-frog into fourth place and land a tournament berth. Talk about pressure. The Aggies have to win most, if not all, of their remaining games to make the conference’s top four. And now they have the added weight of knowing the tournament will be moved if they can’t pull off a miracle finish. No big deal, you say? Consider this. Hosting a tournament such as the SWC baseball tournament is important. The tournament becomes a feather in the cap for the host school, a chance to showcase its program and facilities. For a short lime, all eyes in the conference are focused on the tournament site, and that’s the type of publicity Texas A&M needs. But it is easy to understand the SWC’s dilemma. Olsen Field has trouble attract ing 300 fans even when the Aggies are playing there. A tournament with four teams from Austin, Houston, Lubbock and Fayetteville won’t draw too well in College Station, and the conference knows it. Empty seats mean empty bank accounts. So the SWC is looking for alternate sites, and Razorback coach DeBriyn will be more than happy to play host. De- Briyn said he had been contacted by SWC officials about hosting the tourna ment, and that he was interested. Of course he’s interested. You can also bet that Texas coach Cliff Gustafson would like for the Longhorns to host the tournament in Austin’s Disch- In other words, if the conferei gies decide to vacate Olsen Field have no trouble finding a platen And moving the tournamentwij in favor of whomever gets the bid I( is almost unbeatable on theartitali at Disch-Falk Field, and the Razo have fantastic fan supportwheneti play within Arkansas'borders. There wouldn’t be a problera Aggies had lived up to their earing promise. This, however, is noli* retrospect, and the fact remains Aggies' chances are as thin aslheai mg on a baseball. If they win, the tourney stays not, it will probably go. The only loser in this episoded Texas A&M. It never hurts to getij prestige, and the advantagesolho^ tournament are many. Thatadvatri especially in recruiting, can nuit break a program. Just ask Gustafs UT. He’ll tell you that letting know that you have the facilities important factor in recruiting well It will be a shame if the toon has to f>e moved, because Olsen ft one of the best baseball stadiums conf erence. But without the host Olsen loses its fans and itsattractiv And empty seats make for ments. Aggie secoi during a Travis Pari Anderson wants winning Tiger team sw< in b $2 00 MON -FRl.all shows before 6 PM Senior Citizens Price $2 00 all time — Age 65 S over with ID SAT. & SUN $2.00 1st 30 Min. from opening. Student Price: $2.00 Friday only with Student ID GRAND OPENING TOMORROW! 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He likes to level with them, telling them what’s in his heart. Sometimes, he’ll talk like that to a small group of them the way he did in Kansas City last week. The Figers had been scheduled laiznsar stcsnsL INi a hl1 /\ Get it all at PORKY’S (R) You’ll be glad you came! Alex Karras - Susan Clark 7:40 9:45 CINEMA ML II 846-6714 Open 7:00 Corner Univ & College Nell Simon’s I Ought To Be In PicturesiPG) Walter Matthau Ann-Margret 7:30 9:30 ooooooooooooooooooooooo Campus Theatre to play the Blue Jays in Detroit but with the ballpark filled with snow and no chance of playing at all, they had flown out the day before so they could get ready for the weekend series with the Royals. The talk Sparky Anderson had with some of his ballplayers took place at Royals’ Stadium and was one of those informal things that wasn’t planned. It just happened. “Here we are,” said the Ti gers’ white-haired manager to a half-dozen players of his, “and we’ll say all of you are still play ing when you’re 35. If you’re done by then, it’ll be your own fault and nobody else’s. With die conditions today, you can bleed another five more years out of the game after that and with the caliber of players that you are, the very least each of you can make over those five years is $2.5 million. “Yet, if all of us walked out this door right now and tried to get jobs outside baseball we couldn’t make $150,()()() a year — and that’s all of us combined. What I’m saying is that we’re pri vileged to be able to play this game, to be able to be a part of it. Think of it — we’ve been able to ’steal’ our whole lives and no body bothers us. How lucky can we get?” When Sparky Anderson talks that way, to his players or any one else, he means it. He’s telling everybody exactly the way he feels. But people occasionally are skeptical about what he says, and it sounds as if there could lie a problem of pressure on Ander son to win — or else. 1:00 3:15 5:30 7:45 10:00 .Funniest movie of’82j “EvAUnder The Sun”(PG) “I love the pressure,” he said. “It’s no different than what I tell the players on my club. I tell them it’s easy to be on a fifth or sixth place club. I tell ’em they’ll make the same money as they would being with a club like the Yankees. The arbitrator will take care of that. He’ll compare their ability to a player at that position with the Yankees and award them the same salary, that’s all. “But I also tell my players, if that’s all they want out of base ball, then they're on the wrong team. I want to be on the top. Being in the middle of the road is like standing on thefc never getting into thev Before coming to i with whom hehasaconli runs through 1984 led the Cincinnati R world championships. I tional League pennamsi western division titlesinil seasons he managed t He has never hadalosil cord since taking overtheTl although they’ve finishedf twice and fourth and tiff second during lai season. The last thing in Sparky Anderson even about is being fired. “I feel this way abotnij: says. “If I’m nogoodatnuji I’m not doing my job,I shouldn’t have it. li (Pra and General Manager)] Campbell deckles he think I’m doing the | leave. “Nobody fires you bi self. But I never concern! about something like (bail reason I don’t is becausell lieve in myself and l my job.” TRINITY UNIVEDST! lUMMEPiTHGa Earn up to 12 hours of college cred Write for catalogue to Trinity University Summer Session 715 Stadium Drive San Antonio. Texas 78284 Call (512) 7361 O United Press Arkansas mig alent some yea ight do it on out there always onstant when ruiting high si layers in the ference. ] Texas Tech omebody fron nd that somebc ;ood. Red Raider Myers did it ag on the first day basketball play scholarship agn Tech signed from Hobbs, m straight year tf landed the pla; from New Mexi Benford, a ( aged 27.5 poin bounds for the f season. Other highlig ing day of bask were the signing Churchill star G Baylor and Ark signing of guarc Bryant, Ark. Only Houst among Southw schools did not signings Wedne tangs feel they ning for Carl standout from 1 who was amor prospects not to liest opportunir Baylor coach need of a key ] replace the los Terry Teagle, n in Heyland. T j signed 6-10 Jc Glendale Junk Phoenix, Ariz. “These two si to death,” said H hve a chance to mediately.” Arkansas coa< was at the Bry: early Wednesda 6-3 guard whe points a game d year. Elsewhere arc west Conferenci 6-1 guard Ivan City, TCU sign Tony Papa of Ai eraged 16 poin bounds a game "Its A Four "Letter % Fantasy" TALK DIRTY TOME kong Ap/Ul 15 601 Rudde/i 7:30 and 9:4-5 $<f00 oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ■'! 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