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By KEN SURY
Sports Writer
The fall semester is once again
upon Aggieland.
Soon Aggies will be enjoying foot
ball, volleyDall, soccer, table tennis...
What’s that you say, soccer? Table
tennis?
Yes, indeed. That is, if you take
part in Texas A&M Intramural Rec
reational Sports.
Thirty sports are lined up for this
semester’s program, ranging from
table tennis and flag football, to this
year’s new entry — the Trivia Bowl.
Tom Reber, assistant director of
team sports, said the Trivia Bowl w ill
be similar to the popular Trivial Pur
suit game, but will probably be
geared toward sports-oriented ques
tions.
Another new innovation of intra
murals this fall is the development of
a contputer program to keep track
of every student who participates in
an intramural sport.
Reber said the computer will use a
student’s social security number to
identify each participant in a partic
ular sport.
Reber estimates that 75-80 per
cent of the student body participates
in at least one intramural activity.
“It’ll be great (the computer pro
gram), as far as seeing exactly now
many people are playing intramu
rals,” Reber said. “Maybe we’ll find
out no more than 25 percent of the
students play.”
It’s difficult to estimate exactly
how many people participate in in
tramural sports because so marly
people play in more than one league
and, often times, on more than one
team.
A person can play on either a
men’s or women’s team and one co-
recreational team, but some students
have illegally played on two or more
teams in the same league. By keep
ing track of the participants via the
computer, that problem should be
resolved.
Reber said some intramural sports
take in a large cross-section of the
campus.
“Anytime you get over 600 teams
in a sport (the expected'number of
flag football teams this semester),
you’re hitting a lot of people on
campus,” Reber said.
Another feature of the computer
system is its ability to set up game
schedules in advance. That way,
when a team registers for a sport,
they'll know who and when they play
all league games. The teams will play
on the same night and at the same
time for each game, which should
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Reber said the sports which will
bring in the most teams this semester
will, of course, be flag football and
volleyball. But one of the most en
joyable sports, in Reber’s opinion, is
innertube water basketball.
“You don’t have to be a great bas
ketball player to play it,” he said,
“but if you can’t paddle your inner-
tube to the goal you can’t score.”
Reber said the intramural depart
ment is looking forward to great se
mester.
“We’re looking forward to a lot of
students participating,” he said. “We
try to offer enough (sports) for the
star athlete out of high school or
your ‘ordinary loe’ to participate in.”
Reber added that, if any student
has ideas for new sports or events
they would like to see in A&M’s in
tramural program, they should
come by the office in East Kyle and
talk with the staff.
The intramural office currently is
taking entries for flag football, 16-
inch softball and table tennis singles.
Entries for these sports close Sept.
10 and play begins Sept. 16.
On M onday, indoor soccer and
tennis singles entries will begin to be
accepted.
Astros ‘anchor’ Pirates;
White Sox zap Rangers
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HOUSTON — The Houston As
tros are playing relaxed and winning
because the pressure of the pennant
race is off, according to pitcher Bob
Knepper.
“The five years I’ve been here, we
have always played better with no
pressure on us,” said Knepper after
Houston defeated the Pittsburgh Pi
rates 4-3 Thursday night. “I’m not
saying that we choked, but we just
don’t seem to rise to the occasion
and there’s a difference."
Knepper, 12-10, went eight-plus
innings to collect his 47th victory
with Houston, tying Dave Roberts as
the team’s all-time winningest left
hander.
Dave Smith recorded his 21st save
for the Astros, who are languishing
H'A games behind the NL West
leaders, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The victory was the eighth in the
last nine games for the Astros.
Pittsburgh took a 2-0 lead in the
first on singles by R.J. Reynolds and
Johnny Ray and a two-run double by
Mike Brown.
Houston moved ahead 3-2 in their
half of the first against Bob Walk, 1-
2. A single by Craig Reynolds and
walks to Denny Walling and Jose
Cruz loaded the bases. Reynolds
scored on Humphrey’s infield
Other Thursday scores:
(Home team in capitals)
(Only games scheduled)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BOSTON 13, Cleveland 6
TORONTO 7, Minnesota 0
NEW YORK 7, Oakland 3
KANSAS CITY 4, Milwaukee 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
ST. LOUIS 6, Chicago 1
grounder and Davis had a two-run
single.
The Pirates tied it in the second
when Tony Pena led off with a dou
ble, stole third and scored on Knep-
per’s wild pitch.
The Astros went ahead 4-3 in the
third as Walling singled, went to
third on a single by Cruz and came
home on Mumphrey’s sacrifice fly.
White Sox 11, Rangers 4
ARLINGTON — Harold Baines
went 4-for-5, including a three-run
homer, and drove in four runs as the
Chicago White Sox rapped 16 hits
Thursday night and beat the Texas
Rangers 11-4.
Joel Davis, 2-2, went seven innings
for the victory. Jeff Russell, 1 -5, gave
up seven runs on eight hits in two-
plus innings.
After Gary Ward’s RBI single
gave Texas a 1-0 lead in the first, the
White Sox struck for four runs in
the second inning and six more in
the third.
Reliever Dickie Noles got an out
before Skinner delivered a run-scor
ing single and Law followed with a
single. With two outs, Baines hit his
17th home run of the season for a
10-1 lead, knocking out Noles.
Hulett led off the ninth with his
fourth homer.
Don Slaught hit a two-run homer,
his sixth, in the Texas fourth and
rookie Oddibe McDowell hit his 17th
home run in the seventh for the
Rangers.
Cross-Country
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sters can come along and compete
on the SWC level.”
One of the bright spots in the re
cruiting area Nelson referred to is
Calvin Gaziano. Gaziano is a two-
time California state track champion
from San Francisco.
Gaziano, a business administra
tion major, chose A&M over several
major West Coast colleges for its aca
demics and track program.
“My first goal is to get a degree,”
Gaziano said, “but, in track, I want to
finish in the Top 10 nationals in
cross-country and make the NCAA
finals in the 1500-meter (run).”
A&M will i carry over 100 athletes
on its track roster, but an NCAA
school is allowed only 14 track schol
arships for men and 16 for women.
Consequently, Nelson said it’s
hard to recruit the “pure” cross
country and distance runners, if you
can’t offer a scholarship.
As a result, the ’85 Aggie cross
country team is mostly under
classmen and walk-ons.
Nelson said the SWC changed the
cross-country meets from 10,000-
meters (6.2 miles) to a five-mile
course three years ago to lessen the
strain on
competing
events.
short-distance runners
in the cross-country
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However, the NCAA meets
use the 10,000-meter event.
“We feel like, by then, (the NCAA
meet is Nov. ?5) we will have our
squad up to par and capable of run
ning 10,000-meters,” Nelson said.
“We use cross-country as a training
basis for for our outdoor track pro
gram. We’re shooting for the out
door track championship in June.
“How we do outdoors depends on
how our new freshmen do. Because
of that we may still be a year away.”
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