The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 24, 1983, Image 11

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    sports
February 24, 1983/Page 11
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' mother of one of the girls was
Bing to coach ... and she said,
Kdlyn jBe want you to play, but if
i, Vidiy you’re going to play, you have to
early-s
exasAH
enitriiij
[likh.' And that’s the only
ike
mdltojriiscm 1 really got into pitching,
llwas like instant success.”
■For McDonald, who attended
Laurentian University in Sud
bury, Ontario, f or one year af ter
■aduation from high school,
offers to play college sof tball we-
~ 1 reu’t too numerous. In fact, not
a single school rec ruited McDo-
l ( xlybrsHld until former Aggie coach
Bill Galloway contacted her bv
bleenli liter.
■“Before I left high school, 1
- contacted several schools," she
said. “Oklahoma State said I
- - !' could come and try out, but that
lh< y already had pitchers. When
s Galloway came to A&M, he did a
mar wipe of the infield and out-
- Sclimi field, and brought in about eight
pBw players.
MaithalB’He contacted Softball Oana-
cla (a government organi/ation)
- Kdlyn and 1 was lucky enough to be in
the right place at the right time.
Hi called me and 1 wanted logo
to school in the states and play
e Ball.
■“He said to me: ‘1 want an
athlete who isn't af raid to work
and that is going to give me all
sin:can.’That just built me f rom
toes to head and my reply was
that I wanted to go where that’s
ke - "fat they'll make me do — be
come the best 1 can be.”
ner, hlllflMcDonald. who had a B5-B re-
Jusan JlJoi'd during the Aggies' c ham
pionship season, said the nation
al title resulted from a great deal
■elay - ol work on her part and that of
:h, her teammates.
■“It meant a lot, but at the same
r elay - time, it all goes back to how hard
DouM you work during the year to get
there,” she said. “Keen though
v "t came up short the other two
unis. I years (finishing third in the
1 — A1AW during 1979-80 and
fourth in 1980-81), it was a loss,
but it wasn’t a great loss because
"c knew we'd worked hard.
■'I credit a lot of my success as
a pitcher to the defense. But if I
would have been here and had
nine strikeouts a game and not
p Bl to work for it ... I would say
that I've lost. 1 think that I've
time this'icon because of everything that
■d Tedr I’ve learned about the game.”
h Texas.! \\ Tiereas Stoll uses speed to
the RuBrpower opposing hitters,
ud-plait McDonald uses finesse and a bit
e first maids speed.
ieason imB'h I had the fast stuf f . I’d go
with it,” she says with a grin.
■But McDonald puts more
()n lv a Stock in another aspect of her
dupin' game.
Frwin SjB’My biggest thing is that 1
.rwhali^htive to play with my heart be-
u . a c(iiinsiifore I can play with anything
else,” she said. “It’s just desire. I
die b>iW al ’ * really get wound up. 1 can
ramti®T s [ en t() mus * t: > I can listen
litthis* 1 tojealm music, I can read a book
or I can go sunbathe before a
exastipp game.
'■“I like pressure and 1 like the
challenge — that makes me
pilch better and makes me be
mire aggressive. If there’s a
really tough batter up there, it
me be tougher and it
the ball move a lot
tgl
ich elcin
).IH
>rns,
"g sU P .
rom
(1 trails .makes
issiott' makes
i hall I e 'jbatter.”
andtsd ||l jBMembers of many successful
thel)alr |! athletic squads say luck plays an
to hreaf'iimportant part in their fortunes,
iress. R'dBut McDonald doesn’t agree
liter pi 11 * ! h that.
1 fell 1»^B“As f ar as luc k goes,” she said,
a wit “catching a ball, making a good
fired "fl play or making that extra stretch
id w jiM ! ' to tag someone out isn’t luck.
puititt? i Lpck comes when you get a
of a Wl break, where a stone happens to
coresfllqbe in the path of the ball and
ie ar eti31 klks it off to the side. But mak-
ea ,.(l (W’litK plays ... just comes down to
"brewing concentration and being an
athlete.”
ndA'vi"®
ng s
salt "I
(en^f^
ing
RE
Canine therapy
22P®W United Press International
DAVENPORT, Iowa — A
flog named Goldie will be spend
ing her weekdays doing charit
able work with the residents of a
nursing home as a canine ther
apist and going home to her
blaster on weekends.
^■Goldie, believed to he aban-
Spned when she was struck by a
Brsix months ago, was the sub
ject of news stories describing
|er work with the elderly at the
Ridgecrest Retirement Village.
Nursing home officials
praised the dog for lifting the
senior citizens’ spirits and allow
ing them to forget their ail-
bients.
■Goldie’s owner, John Streinz,
•saw the news reports and de-
Tnanded his dog back. He said he
thought the Labrador-Golden
•retriever was dead or had run
away.
■ But after watching Goldie
work with her patients, Streinz
knew he couldn’t take his pet
away from her work.
■From now on, Goldie will be
staving at the nursing home all
week and will go home for the
weekends.
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