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September 16,1982
Cooper
(continued from page 11)
Kansas and Missouri, along with
several basketball scholarship
offers.
But Cooper chose Texas
A&M.
“The main thing I \Vas look
ing for in a school was a good
solid athletic program with a
good reputation,” she said. “I
also wanted to go to a school with
a top softball program and a
good women’s athletics
program.”
As her senior year came to a
close, Cooper wrote a letter to
Brock telling him she was in
terested in playing at Texas
A&M. The feeling was mutual.
“He already knew all about
me,” Cooper said, “And he
wrote me back and told me he
was interested in me, because
they were losing their third base-
man (Maria Resendez, a
senior).”
All it took was a visit to the
campus and Cooper was
hooked.
“I came on a weekend,” she
said, “and there weren’t many
people around, but I wa^ really
impressed with the school and
its neatness. You know, the cam
pus is so pretty, and of course I
had heard all about the tradi-
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tions.’
She’d heard about them, but
she’d never had to bat against
them. Cindy Cooper, meet
Aggie softball tradition num
bers one and two — Lori Stoll
and Shan McDonald.
Stoll and McDonald are the
Aggies’ pitching staff. They
don’t just pitch in ball games,
they control them.
“When I watched them pitch
in practice I knew they were
good, but it wasn’t until I got up
to bat against them that I step
ped back and said ‘Wow, these
guys are awesome,’” Cooper
said.
“They throw the ball so hard
and they move it around so
much that you really have to
think when you bat against
them. In summer ball I could
just stick my bat out there and
“These First 10 games have
helped us to get everybody to
play together and to get to know
each other better,” she said. “We
didn’t go out there feeling like
we had to win all 10, but to
experience.”
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get a hit, but you have to be on
top of things against them.”
And so far, the Aggies’ oppo
nents haven’t been. Cooper and
her teammates are rolling right
along. The freshman third base
man fits right into the Aggies’
mold of pitching, defense, and
speed.
In the first inning of the
Aggies’ second game against
Baylor on Monday, Cooper
singled, moved to second on a
sacrifice, and scored when the
Baylor first baseman threw the
ball into left field attempting to
pick her off.
T hat was Texas A&M’s only
run, but McDonald threw a two-
hit shutout at the Bears and the
Aggies left Waco victorious.
Cooper says the Aggies’ 10-0
start may be a sign of things to
come.
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Rockets deal Malon
for Jones, draft pick
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DAI
United Press International
HOUSTON — The Houston
Rockets, who are suddenly
offense-poor one month before
training camp, gave their fans
something to watch next season
besides themselves.
While Coach Del Harris
struggles to rebuild his club over
the winter in the wake of their
trade Wednesday of high scor
ing center Moses Malone, South
Texans can zero in on the per
formance of the Cleveland
Cavaliers.
The worse the Cavs play, the
more the No. 1 draft choice
obtained from the Philadelphia
76ers will be worth in 1983.
That draft choice was
obtained by the 76ers from the
Cavs in 1977 and, along with
76ers center Caldwell Jones,
made the Malone trade go
through.
If the Cavs should finish last
this season as they did in 1981-
82, then the Rockets would flip
with the Eastern Conference’s
worst team for the rights to draft
7-4 center Ralph Sampson — a
franchise-maker like Malone.
Sampson, the University of Vir
ginia All-America, would be
Harris’ choice.
“Sampson. No question,” he
said.
But even if center Pat Ewing
entered the draft after two sea
sons at Georgetown?
“Then it would be a lot of fun
to pick between the two,” Harris
said.
Rockets owner Charlie Tho
mas said he decided to trade
Malone when he learned
Malone wanted to play for the
76ers more than he did the
Rockets. But Thomas didn’t dis
close to the 76ers his disappoint
ment in Malone, and Thomas
would not budge in his demand
for Jones and Cleveland’s No. 1
draft choice in bargaining face-
to-face with 76ers owner I Jarold
Katz Tuesday night.
“When we went down their
list of offers, nothing else would
work. It wasn't that we wanted
what they wouldn’t give,” he
said.
Katz returned to Philadelphia
early Wednesday without a deal
but his attorney called Thomas’
attorney in the late afternoon to
accept Thomas’ terms, the Rock
ets owner said.
The 76ers’ Sept. 2 offer of
$2.2 million a year to Malone,
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run at it, to see if we could
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Jones the same amount
rookie Sampson $500,000,1
the Rockets will have saved
million this coming season
S 1.2 million in 1983-84.
“We can go out and In
good solid free agent for
than that,” Thomas said.l
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Thomas disclosed he
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he signed Malone to an
sheet that the Rockets cou
match the money.
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said Thomas, an auto dr
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and what I can’t. I took that
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man can or cannot do. Id
get in the league to get
over.”
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