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Four SWC foes join
Ags in ESPN's Top 20
I ITie Texas A&M baseball team
Broke back into tire ESPN-Collegiate
Baseball Top 20 poll at No. 18 after
■ convincing three-game sweep of
then lOth-ranked Baylor, which
dropped to No. 19this week. The 35-
|1| Ags are one of five Southwest
Conference teams represented in
Bie rankings. Houston, currently
Brst in the SWC, is the highest rated
BWC team at No. 10: Arkansas is at
No. 13 and Texas follows at No. 14.
■ The weekly ESPN-Collegiate
Baseball Top 20 poll with team re-
B)rds in parentheses:
■ 1. Stanford (28-9)
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Texas A&M shortstop Rob Swain (9) and
third baseman Scott Livingstone (3) can’t de
cide who called, “I’ve got it!” for this infield
fly against Baylor Sunday, while first base-
man Fred Gegan (24) opts not to take sides.
A&M (35-11) hopes it won’t be this confused
when it resumes SWC action with a three-
game series against Rice in Houston Friday.
Kings’ court off
to Sacramento
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The Kansas City Kings, who began their National Bas
ketball Association life in Rochester, N.Y., completed a 37-year transconti
nental jaunt Tuesday when they were officially transferred to Sacramento,
Calif.
The move of the Midwest Division’s last-place team, which finished the
season with a 31-51 record, was accomplished by a unanimous vote of the
NBA ownefs, who ratified a decision made two weeks ago by a five-owner
special committee.
' “We’re delighted at the prospect of an NBA team in Sacramento for the
1985-86 season,” said Commissioner David J. Stern, who announced the
move. m
It will be the first major league professional team to be based in the Cali
fornia capital, with a population of 303,000 in a county with a 866,000 resi
dents. It’s located about 90 miles north of Oakland, home of another NBA
franchise, the Golden State Warriors.
But the Kings will remain in the Midwest Division along with the Denver
Nuggets, Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks, San Antonio Spurs and Utah
]a/.£ rather than join the Warriors in the Pacific Division, which also in
cludes the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, Phoenix Suns, Port
land Trailblazers and Seattle Supersonics.
Gregg Lukenbill, who heads the Sacramento-based group that pur
chased the Kings in June 1983, said the team had already sold 8,200 tickets
for next season, when it will play in a temporary 10,400-seat structure. It is
building a 16,000-seat permanent structure to be ready by 1987-88, the year
by which il must have additional seating or forfeit its franchise, Lukenbill
said.
To joe Axelson, the team’s president and general manager, it’s the per
fect situation after a year in Kansas City in which the team drew about 5,000
fans per game. Lukenbill estimated the Kings have lost $2.8 million in the
last two years.
“I like Kansas City, but I have no great feeling of guilt about what we
did,” Axelson said. “I have a great feeling for the city, but Kansas City didn’t
support us — for whatever reason.”
The Kings began life as the Rochester, N.Y., Royals in 1948, then
moved to Cincinnati for the 1957-58 season. In 1972, they became the Kan
sas City-Omaha Kings, then dropped the Omaha designation in 1975.
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|9. Oral Roberts (32-9)
111). Houston (35-6)
111. Mississippi State (28-9)
112. California (32-14)
13. Arkansas (29-9)
|14. Texas (41-10)
|l5. Nebraska (27-12)
16. Florida (32-9)
|17. Washington (24-2)
[18. Texas A&M (35-11)
Il9. Baylor (36-9)
|20. New Mexico (34-9)
Texas ends long drought, shocks Toronto
Associated Press
American League
Rangers 9, Blue Jays 4
TORONTO — Until a team wins
its first game of the season Texas
Manager Doug Rader believes there
are lingering doubts about a dub’s
potential.
The Rangers, after an 0-for-5
start to the 1985 season, showed
Rader on Tuesday that there may in
deed be hope for his team.
“Thank you, Lord,” Rader sighed
after the Rangers crushed the To
ronto Blue Jays 9-4 in the Blue Jays’
home opener. “There’s always some
Major League Roundup
doubt in your mind until you get
that first one.
“Until your pitcher gets his first
win, until you hit your first home
run; until you do all those things the
first time, there’s always a little bit of
doubt in your mind.”
The Rangers had to wait until the
fifth inning before they got their
first run Tuesday, and they
promptly added three more in the
same frame for good measure.
For Toronto Manager Bobby
Cox, whose club opened the season
with a split of its six-game road trip,
“It was just one of those days.”
Catcher Buck Martinez of the
Blue Jays said, “We didn’t play good
ball today. Anytime you leave run
ners in scoring position and make
four errors you’re not playing good
baseball.”
Run-scoring triples by Don
Slaught and Pete O’Brien high
lighted the Rangers’ four-run fifth
inning.
George Wright started the Ranger
rally against loser Luis Leal, 0-1,
with a single to right and Slaught
then lashed his triple into the gap in
left-center field. One out later, Toby
Harrah doubled and O’Brien drove
his triple into the right-field corner.
O’Brien scored on Larry Parrish’s
single.
The Rangers padded the lead to
6-3 in the seventh against Ron Mus-
selman on RBI singles by Cliff John
son and Buddy Bell. Gary Ward’s
RBI single in the eighth scored the
seventh run and the last two scored
in the eighth on Wright’s RBI single
and a sacrifice fly by Curtis Wilker-
son.
Garcia’s RBI grounder in the
ninth scored Toronto’s final run.
Mason, 1-1, lasted six innings, giv
ing up three runs on eight hits, walk
ing three and striking out five.
Dickie Noles went the final three for
his first save.
The loss, which dropped Toron
to’s record to 3-4, was only its second
in nine home openers and the first
in three years. A crowd of 41,284,
the second-largest turnout in club
history for a home opener, paid to
see the game.
Tigers 2, Brewers 1
DFYTROIT — Alan Trammell
drove in both runs with a homer and
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