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SPORTS
No. 2 ranked Ags get a crack at LA Tech
By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
Ruston,LA. The bulldogs bit
the Aggies. Now the Texas A&M
softball team is mad - and ready
to Fight back.
Saturday night, Louisiana
Tech swept the Aggies in a dou
ble-header, 1-0 in 11 innings, and
2-1. Those two wins earned the
36-13-1 bulldogs a regional bid.
The Ags, now 44-10 overall, have
a chance to redeem themselves
since they host Tech in the best
two out of three games Thursday
and Friday.
The last time the two teams
met a few weeks ago, the Aggies
blitzed the Bulldogs 9-0.
Tech Head Coach Bill Gallo
way, who coached at A&M before
moving to Tech four years ago,
said he felt the teams were more
evenly matched than the 9-0
game indicated.
“They beat us 9-0,” Galloway
said. “At that time, I didn’t think
there were nine runs difference
between us. I think we proved
that with these two wins.”
A&M entered the latest game
with Tech on a 12-game win
streak. However, the Ags hadn’t
played in two weeks, since the
Missouri Tournament on April
28. In addition, they didn’t prac
tice during dead week and only
practiced three days during finals
week.
“We had been on a roll,” said
A&M Head Coach Bob Brock.
“We would win a game and then
say ‘next.’ Then we hit the layoff,
and it hurt us. We were rusty. Of
course, all of our players will
make over a 2.0 (GPR).”
The two week layoff did in
deed hurt the Aggies.
In the first game against the
first inning gave Tech a quick 1-0
lead.
By the seventh inning, it ap-
ppeared the Ags would lose an
other one run game. However, a
rule the Ags have learned this
year is with homerun queen Liz
Mizera at bat, anything is possi
ble.
The freshman smashed her
17th homer of the year 190 feet
over the leftfield wall to tie the
game.
That run appeared to spark
the Ags, but two singles and an
error sent Tech into regional play
with a 2-1 win.
For Galloway, the wins were es
pecially sweet.
“They’re the number two team
in the nation and have a tremen
dous program,” Galloway said.
“It was exciting on our part. We
have played A&M head to head
the last four years. Two years
ago, we came close to sweeping
them here. ”
At 2 a.m. Monday, the Ags got
word that they would have a
chance to meet Tech again.
The Ags showed Sunday
against Northeast Louisiana in
Monroe, La. They will be ready to
play. A&M stomped the Indians
7-0 in 7-0.
Andaya had a perfect game in
the first game until the fifth in
ning when Louise Bellon singled
with two outs. That was the only
hit the sophomore All-American
gave up as she struck out nine.
Bulldogs, the Ags could manage
only five hits.
A&M shortstop Judy Trussell
reached as far as third base, with
a single and two sacrifices, but
was left standing on the bag in the
fourth inning.
A&M pitcher Shawn Andaya
struck out 13 over 11 innings and
gave up only three hits. But, two
walks and a single to opposing
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pitcher Tami Cyr did Andaya in.
In the second game, the Ags
showed just how rusty they were.
Two errors and a walk in the
So now, it’s back to thinking
about La Tech. Only one word
comes to mind — revenge. And
that’s what the Aggies are think
ing about as they begin their
march toward Omaha, Neb. and
the World Series.
Olojuwon to appear
in science fiction flick
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Houston Rockets
star Akeem Olajuwon is appearing
in a science fiction movie that will be
filmed in Los Angeles this summer,
a spokeswoman for 7-foot National
Basketball Association player says.
“It sounds like something that will
be a lot of fun for him, and he’s ex
cited about doing it,” spokeswoman
Andrea Mason said Monday.
Mason said Olajuwon decided last
week to appear in the film “Kill-
Bots.”
The movie will star actress Linda
Blair, who earned fame after ap
pearing in the thriller “Exorcist.”
Olajuwon’s role in the movie is a
small one, Mason said. He will play a
security guard at a robot program-
:flit
ming facility.
The athlete will be paid $ 1,000 for
his part in the movie, which will be
gin production in August, she said.
The film will be produced by Julie
Gorman and will be directed by Jim
Wynorski, who wrote the screenplay.
Arkansas gears up
for championship
indoor track meet
Associated Press
Akeem Olajuwon
Track star Car! Lewis
named Texas 'hero'
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Carl Lewis, the first
track and field athlete to win four
gold medals at an Olympics since
esse Owens in 1936, was recognized
y the Legislature on Tuesday as an
official state hero.
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“Carl Lewis is an outstanding ath
lete whose world-renowned achieve
ments have brought a high measure
of attention and praise to his
adopted home of Texas,” said a
House-passed resolution.
Lewis, who has lived in Houston
for several years, won the four med
als at the 1984 Olympics in Los An
geles.
“Thank you for helping me feel
like a true Texan,” he told House
lawmakers after they approved the
resolution.
Lewis also was named U.S. athlete
of the year for four straight years by
Track and Field News, and in 1984
was named the world’s best athlete
by several sportswriters groups.
He holds the NCAA records in
both the long jump and the 100-yard
dash.
The athlete also was honored in
the Texas Senate on Tuesday.
Carl Lewis
FAYETTEVILLE — An Arkan
sas track team led by Olympian Mike
Conley goes for its fourtn straight
Southwest Conference outdoor
track championship Friday and Sat
urday.
Coach John McDonnell’s Razor-
backs will be running on their home
track as the favorite to capture the
outdoor title. In addition to its out
door titles, Arkansas has won five
straight SWC indoor championships
and 11 straight cross country cham
pionships.
The last team other than Arkan
sas to win a league track crown was
Texas A&M in 1981. The Razor-
backs also are the 1984 and 1985
NCAA indoor champions and won
the NCAA cross country title last
fall.
Texas, Houston, SMU and Baylor
are expected to battle for second
place.
Conley, a silver medalist at the
1984 Olympics in Los Angeles in the
triple jump, is the favorite in that
event and in the longjump. He is ex
pected to try to win points for Ar-
xansas’ relay teams also.
It’s not a red carpet, but Conley is
ival ti
:k — a
treatment at the
a new longjump
the triple jump -
— and has a be
Razorback trac
and triple jump runway constructed
in front of the grandstand.
Conley has won every SWC long
jump competition the past four
years. His best jump this year — 26
feet 7>/2 inches — is short of the meet
record set in 1981 by Olympian Carl
Lewis.
He holds the SWC meet record in
— 56 feet 2-yi inches
>est this season of 56
feet 4 , / 2 inches. Assistant track coach
Ted King of Arkansas said the triple
jump record should fall.
“Mike will beat that and rightly
so,” King said. “The new runway,
particularly at the take-off point, has
a beautiful consistency and is
bouncy. So there should be a lot of
great performances this weekend.”
Four NCAA champions will com
pete, as well as defending confer
ence champions in 12 of the 17 indi
vidual events.
Texas’ Patrick Sang is to defend
his 1984 SWC title in the steeple
chase, SMU’s Rod Jones in the 400
meter, SMU’s Roald Bradstock in
the javelin, Texas’ Marty Davenport
the discus and Texas A&M’s Ar
turo Barrios in the 10,000.
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Rangers loo.
at alternative
to end slump
From hypnotism
to firing Rader
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Associated Press
ARLINGTON — Caught u
ever-worsening slump, tne Ti
Rangers are apparently consider:
everything from hypnosis of plai
to eviction of manager Doug
to get the team out of the cellar
At 9-20 on the season and
with Pittsburgh for the worstr«
with rittSDurgn tor tne worstreclpt
in baseball, the Rangers needmMz'J
team officials admit.
Rader has suggested hypnosP*”
an Oklahoma psychiatrist who;
previously helped some playen;
prove.
And the front office has gro
suddenly quiet about Rader’sfuti*|
“I’m not going to respond tot® •
but don’t read anything into dsp
said Ranger President Mike StootH ^
response to a question . • ,1
whether Rader’s job is safe. H R , ( |
Last June, when the Rangem:,!^ ,
floundering in last place, Rader, aU rs
a contract extension to 1987.l )ar( |’ l(
this week Stone said he can’t dixB^j t
Rader’s future with the team.
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“We re committed to brint t | ( ist
winner here,” he told the : n the r
Worth Star-Telegram. “We fdl r iE sc |a)
improved our club in the off-st savi
and we have said from the oiaJon-
that we intended to field an rl usual
proved ball club over 1984. I, pi
Rader has suggested that theK/aited i
call on Dr. Douglas Brady, a welbaii fax
garded psychiatrist ana hypi%n and
who is a close friend of Stone/
Dallas Morning News reported.
Brady hypnotized Rader and
fielders Gary Ward and Bobbyj
last season, and both Ward
Jones reported positive results
P
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“So much of the game is ■
said general manager Tom Grie«p
the idea. “If a player has an inter®
I say ‘sure.’ BmEI
Ward struggled at the platerljjpujol
ing the first three months lasliitholic
son. Much of it was mental, sKjmich’s
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ming from being hit in the face omose>
fastball in September 1983,hesai<pfij on
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sion, Ward was hypnotized andp! Xwo
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“I don’t know what he did," "Hstho<
said. “He put me in a tranceH-finn
talked to me. It played a big roltiulfch fl,
helped me remove some thoulHcatic
that were in there (his mind) i At an
shouldn’t have been. But I havfisl city
credit myself, too, because 1 woiipar sei
very hard, too.” efende
Rader, bothered by the Ran®icial
slow start hist year, was hypin >sanctii
by Brady around the same time p e
Ward.
But this year, Rader admitshej
feel the blade of the firing ax sw|
ing closer.
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“It (being fired) wouldn't
shock,” Rader said. “I can appret, ^ ^^
the impatience of the front ofli ..
and of the fans.” .
He said this week he can’t fiffBI |j
out why the team is doing so poor an ‘ '
‘I’m not going to lay it offonl. * u '.
— ” Rader said.
players ” Rader said “They’re ilanes u
mg. I don t know what else we
do. We’ve tried about everythin y.
know of. Sometimes there ’dna'b,
you re held accountable for that'c •
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