Page 10/The Battalion/Friday, March 29, 1985
Who will
be Astros’
shortstop?
Reynolds cheering
for Thon's recovery
Associated Press
KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Houston’s
Craig Reynolds was ticketed lor a
season of sitting on the bench and
spot duty for the Astros last season
until a Mike Torrez fast ball knocked
out shortstop Dickie Thou for the
season.
Thon’s misfortune opened a start
ing spot for Reynolds and he filled it
admirably but all the while cheering
for Thon’s recovery.
Reynolds goes into the 1985 sea
son still cheering for Thon’s com
plete recovery and possibly facing a
return to the bench. But his ap
proach is the same.
“If Dickie is ready he’s going to
play and he should play,” Reynolds
said. “We’re close friends and I’m
pulling for him just like everyone
else is.”
Some players might feel mixed
emotions about a player recovering
from injury and taking away his po
sition. But Reynolds has not such
problems.
“I don’t feel any mixed emotions,”
Reynolds said. “I want Dickie Thon
to come back and play and help our
ballclub. If he’s not ready, then I
have to be ready.”
Reynolds was Houston’s starting
shortstop until he was replaced by
dp 1985
Thon but Reynolds proved last sea
son that he could still fill the starting
position.
Reynolds hit .260, drove in 60
runs, tied for second in the National
League in triples with 11 and ran a
14-game hitting streak last season.
“I’m preparing myself to be able
to play at all three infield positions,”
Reynolds said. “I’ve come here with
pretty much the same attitude that I
did last season. I’ve got to be ready
to play in case the club needs me.
Reynolds has played second, third
and shortstop.
“I’ll just go out each day and do
what I’m supposed to do,” Reynolds
said. “It appears to me that Dickie is
going to be ready and as time goes
on he’ll become better and better
and I’ll be spending more time at
other positions.”
Reynolds takes a similarly rosy at
titude about the Astros chances this
season in the National League West
ern Division.
“People seem to forget that we
finished second in our division last
year with the club we have right
here, even with the lousy start,” Rey
nolds said. “If we could have alle
viated the horrendous start, we
could have competed all the way
down to the wire4ast year.
“If we fall behind 10 games early
in all probability we won’t be able to
win. So we’ve got to get out of the
blocks a little better this year.”
• Photo by JOHN MAKEL Y
This Land Is Your Land
A&M recruit Marshall Land (6-8, 370) hopes to anchor the
Aggies’ ‘improved’ offensive line this coming season.
Shot clock may rule
college basketball
Associated Press
LEXINGTON, Ky.— College bas
ketball is almost certain to have a 45-
second shot clock next season, but it
likely will take longer to accept the
three-point field goal or deal with
the problem of late-game fouling,
NCAA official Edward Steitz said
Thursday.
Steitz, athletic director at Spring-
field College and longtime editor of
the NCAA’s rules committee, told a
news conference that 62 percent of
the National Association of Basket
ball Coaches surveyed called for the
NCAA to put into place the shot
clock for all games next season.
The clock, similar to the 24-sec-
ond clock used by the pros, was used
exprimentally by 23 conferences
during the 1984-85 season. It is not,
however, part of the national
championship tournament.
The NCAA will meet next week to
vote formally on the shot clock. A
two-thirds majority of the rules com
mittee is needed for passage. “The
likelihood of it failing is almost nil,”
Steitz said. A year ago it fell just
short of a two-thirds vote.”
The support wasn’t as strong for
two possible solutions to late-game
fouling — one or two shots and re
taining possession (44 percent ap
proval by responding coaches) or
giving the team fouled the right to
waive the shots and inbound the ball
again, as is done in Olympic play (50
percent).
Fifty-five percent urged stricter
enforcement of rim-hanging viola
tions. But only 28 percent supported
widening the three-second lane to
reduce rough play. Coaches also re
versed their opinion on the coaching
box inaugurated for 1984-85. A year
ago, 61 percent opposed it. Now, St
eitz said, 63 percent approved —
along with 92 percent of the officials
who responded.
Close to 4,000 questionnaires were
sent out to NCAA, NAIA and junior
college coaches, college administra
tors, referees and media. There was
a 55 percent response, or 2,188.
Steitz said the NCAA also will be
looking at installing the three-point
field goal. “Each state high school as
sociation just adopted it, and all of
our international competition and
the Olympic Games in 1988 will be
played with a three-point line. But
it’s out 2 feet beyona what we have
experimented with for the past two
or three years,” he said.
Thirty-two percent of the respon
ding coaches voted for just a three-
point field goal, 42 percent for both
the three-point line and the shot
clock.
Steitz said he expected a lengthy
debate on “how we can clean up, you
might say, the fouling at the end of
the game and, at the same time, not
take quite as long to play the last four
or five minutes.”
The NCAA, without its usual ex
perimentation, put in place at the
start of the 1983-84 season an auto
matic two-shot foul for the final two
minutes. “We passed it, thinking,
‘this penalty is severe enough to
serve as a deterrent, to fouling,’ but
it wasn’t severe enough,” Steitz said.
The rule was rescinded halfway
through that season.
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