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TANK MCNAMARA
by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds
Mats’ Strawberry named
NL Rookie of the Year
Liberty
Fighting Irish agree to meet BC
much to delight of bowl officials
United Press International
State, culminating in a lackluster
6-5 season.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Notre
-Dame ended two days of uncer
tainty Monday and accepted a
bid to play 19th-ranked Boston
College in the^ilver anniversary
of the Liberty Bowl Dec. 29.
“We believe we’re going to
have one of the most exciting
football games in the country,”
said Tim Treadwell III, chair
man of the Liberty Bowl Selec
tion Committee.
“They felt they wanted to
have a chance to sit down and
think about it and let their emo
tions settle down,” Treadwell
said. “The boys, coaching staff
and administration wanted time
to stop and think — to get over
the shock and disappointment.”
ity to play,” said Gene Corrigan,
director of athletics at the South
Bend, Ind., school.
Treadwell said Notre Dame
put off accepting the invitation
because of its disappointing 23-
22 loss to Air Force Saturday fol
lowing its loss a week ago to Penn
The Notre Dame players
voted unanimously Sunday to
accept the bid because Tread
well said they “wanted to go out
winners.”
Asked why the Liberty Bowl
held out for Notre Dame after
such a mediocre season, Tread
well said, “Notre Dame is like the
Dallas Cowboys. They’re one of
the most exciting teams in the
United States . Notre Dame is
Notre Dame. They are the
largest draw on TV.”
United Press International
NEW YORK — Darryl Straw
berry, a slugging outfielder who
recovered from a poor start to
provide a bright spot in an
otherwise dismal season for the
New York Mets, Monday was
named the National League’s
Rookie of the Year by the Base
ball Writers Association of
America.
The 21-year-old Strawberry
was named the league’s top
rookie on 18 ballots cast by 24
members of the BBWAA and
had 106 points to beat out Atlan
ta Braves pitcher Craig McMur-
try for the award.
McMurtry received the re
maining six first-place votes and
49 points and was followed, in
order, by Chicago Cubs outfiel
der Mel Hall, Cincinnati Reds
outfielder Gary Redus, Houston
Astros second baseman Bill
Doran, Houston pitcher Frank
DiPino, Los Angeles Dodgers
first baseman Greg Brock, San
Diego Padres pitchers Luis De
Leon and Mark Thurmond and
Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Lee
Tunnell.
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Jim Frey took him asidet
worked diligently at improii
his natural skills. Strawbti
slowly began to develop cm
deuce in himself and wenta
batting tear during the sect
half of the season thatliftedl
final average to a respecii
.257. Forty-eight of his 108!
went for extra bases.
name the word,” Strawberry
said. “I thought it would be
much closer. I was really wor
ried about McMurtry. Any time
a rookie pitcher wins 15 games
you have to think he had a great
year. I was concerned about my
late start but I was fortunate
enough to make some good last
ing impressions.”
Strawberry is the third Mets’
player to win Rookie of the Year
honors, joining previous win
ners Tom Seaver (1967) and Jon
Matlack (1972) in the select cir
cle. Strawberry’s selection ends a
four-year domination of the
award by the Dodgers.
A lanky 6-foot-6, 190-pound
left-handed hitter who has been
referred to as a “black Ted Wil
liams,” Strawberry hit more
home runs (26) and drove in
more runs (74) than any rookie
in the league despite opening
the season in the minor leagues.
Strawberry was the Mets’
leading hitter in spring training
but was sent to Tidewater of the
International League to start the
season in order to get more sea
soning. Recalled on May 4, he
started out slowly and was bat
ting only .179 after seven weeks
and striking out once every
three times at bat.
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In addition to his pro»i
with the bat, Strawberryt
proved to be an excellently
tinner and possesses one oil
league’s best throwing am. G ,
Strawberry gives muchofl that state 1
credit to his fine season tofu d him as e
now the manager of the Qicftxas A&M B
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Jim Frey had faith in to the b
Strawberry said last SepteitL has worke
“He told me before the seal
that I was going to putupf
numbers. And when things|
rough, we went to Ml
together. He’s been my let
I stayed close to him.”
Frey said it was just am
of Strawberry workingharde:j
improve on his skills.
Notre Dame officials kept a
lid on Sunday’s team vote until
Monday.
Tennis team winds up fall season
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“We have determined that the
general sentiment of the players
favors accepting the opportun-
With Notre Dame’s accept-'
ance in the Liberty Bowl, the Ir
ish and Mississippi are tied for
having the worst record of any
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Boston College, 8-2, eagerly
accepted its bid after romping to
a big win over Holy Cross Satur
day. But the Eagles had to sit
back and wait while the Liberty
Bowl scrambled to land an
opponent for the silver anniver
sary game.
by Bob Caster
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M men’s tennis
team finished its fall season this
weekend at the NCAA tourna
ment in Fort Worth. The tour
ney began Saturday and lasted
through Monday.
Three Aggies, Greg Hill,
Mark Smith and Grant Connell,
made it as far as the third round
of the 64-player tournament in
singles play before being beaten.
Hill and Smith were seeded
fourth and fifth in the tourna
ment, respectively.
The Eagles have only played
Notre Dame once, a 1975 con
test won by the Irish, and neither
team has ever played in the Li
berty Bowl.
Aggies
(continued from page 13)
out to cap off an undefeated
season.
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The fall tennis season is pri
marily a practice and experience
season wnich allows the players,
especially the new ones, to gain
experience and allows coaches
to evaluate performance. The
team will now focus on the
spring season when the race for
the SWG tennis crown begins.
“I’m very pleased with the
quality of our overall perform
ance this fall,” said Aggie coach
David Kent. “Our main objec
tive of the season was to give
everyone playing experience,
especially our freshmen. We
accomplished this and 1 think
there is no question that we can
play tough within the Southwest
Gonference.” ,
The season allowed Kent to
take a look at his personnel and
reflect on the team’s strengths
and weaknesses.
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are dead-even.
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thing this fall, and that was
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“Looking back, I’d say the the
key performances came from
Greg Hill. I feel that he is our
best player going into the spring
conference season,” Kent said.
“Behind Greg, Mark Smith and
Grant Gonnell (both freshmen)
and No. 3.”
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Kent said. “It’sourlackofdtj I
through three doubles ten |
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a championship. Since they beat
Baylor the pressure is off of
them for the Cotton Bowl —
they have a lot of things going.
Our players have the opprotun-
ity to do something about it,
though.”
“Just look at the Texas de
fense and the points scored
against them all year and you’ll
see they are a good football
team,” Sherrill said. “They
should be playing on Sunday
with their defense.”
One thing the Aggies are
going to have to do is move the
offense past the unrelenting
Longhorn defense — somehow.
The Horns have one key fac
tor that the Aggies don’t have yet
— depth. Two-deep, Texas is a
veteran team with 21 seniors
and only one freshman.
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Rifle team sweeps honors
at Aggie Invitational match
The Texas A&M rifle team
swept all honors in the ninth
Aggie Invitational that began
Nov. 12-13 and was completed
Nov. 19-20.
Fourteen teams competed in
the tourney. The University of
Texas was the only other South
west Conference team present.
The Aggies competed with
both their first and second
which won first and
place honors, respec-
teams,
second
lively.
A&M also took all of the top
individual places with team
mates Glenn Park and Kevin
Schabacker battling it out for all
of the titles.
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the tourney with Kevin Scha
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