Page lOAThe Battalion/Tuesday, March 25, 1986
Sports
ABC
NFL
firei
Gegen-led Ags swamp Royals with 16 hits
NEW Y'
OJ Simp
from the
By TOM TAGLIABUE
Sports Writer
Top 20 Baseball Poll
Fred Gegen went 4-for-5 with a
home run, a double, two singles and
three RBI to power Texas A&M to a
12-2 thrashing of the Bethel College
Royals Monday at Olsen Field.
The 16-hit offensive attack by the
Aggies, 20-14, spoiled the season
opener for the Royals and first-year
head coach Kevin McDonald.
The game showcased non-starters
and four pitchers for the Aggies,
who limited the Royals, from St.
Paul, Minn., to two runs on seven
hits while striking out nine batters.
Darryl Fry, 6-4, started the game
for the Aggies and allowed only
three hits in three innings of work.
David Jones and David Bruning
made their third appearances of the
year and each allowed one run on
two hits while on the mound. Ed
Perez struck out the side in the ninth
in his first appearance of the season.
Here are the Top 20 teams in
the Collegiate Baseball/ESPN coD
lege baseball poll as of March 24:
1. Florida State
2. Miami (Fla.)
3. Louisiana State
4. Texas
5. Oral Roberts
6. Stanford
7. Loyola-Marymount
8. South Florida
9. Michigan
10. Old Dominion
11. Cal-St. Fullerton
12. South Carolina
13. Arkansas
14. Hawaii
15. Oklahoma State
16. Wichita State
17. UCLA
18. Southern Cal
19. Brigham Young
20. Georgia
home Craig Indlecoffer, who
reached based on a throwing error
by A&M first baseman Todd
Schmidt and moved to third on a
Jones wild pitch.
The Aggies continued to pour on
the offensive attack scoring three
more runs in the bottom of the sixth.
Winterburn led off the inning with
his first homer of the year. Wren fol
lowed with a triple and Tim Parma
walked before Diddams was taken
out and replaced with Phil Knutsen.
Gegen greeted Knutsen with an
RBI single to score Wren and put
the Aggies ahead 8-1. Royal catcher
Indlecoffer committed a throwing
error to score Parma and move Ge
gen to third, where he was stranded.
A&M jumped on Bethel College
starter Jon Sorenson for four runs in
the second inning. Bill Doug Potter
stroked a one-out single, stole sec
ond and was driven home on Andy
Duke’s game-winning RBI single.
Duke was doubled home by Scott
Winterburn, who scored on Bethel
third baseman Dave Marquardt’s
fielding error of a Don Wren
grounder.
son’s errant pick-off attempt. One
out later, Gegen popped up, but left
fielder Randy Danielson misjudged
the fly and let it drop in for an RBI
double.
Bruning, who entered the game
in the seventh, had a Royal rally on
his hands that inning. With one out,
Danielson reached base on Duke’s
third fielding error and stole second.
One out later, John Boich singled to
right. Potter fielded the ball and
threw home to Hutchison, who
made an apparent late tag, but home
plate umpire Alfred Ray called Dan
ielson out, ending the threat.
broadcastii
Frank Giff
analyst, a i
Hay.
| Capital
ABC and i
ting rneasu
icontract fo
more tha
sei ved as a
on the seri<
Simpson
opposite K
work’s cov
and, the sc
K named
going to ta
get more
somewhen
y Simpson
CBS and I
games. Bui
thb source
Broyles or
worked tl
Night Foot
â– Gifford,
by-play ma
gall for 15
those dutie
season — v
Sorenson was relieved in the third
by Scott Diddams, who retired the
first two hitters in the fourth before
Gegen and Blake Hutchison blasted
back-to-back homers to put the Ag
gies up 6-0.
The Royals did pick up a run off
Bruning in the eighth on a solo
home run by Indlecoffer.
A&M catcher Blake Hutchison, right, tags out
Bethel College’s Randy Danielson in Monday’s
Photo by ANTHONYS. CASPtt chads, cur
announcer
Wren moved to second on Soren-
The Royals ended the shutout in
the sixth as Todd Nygren singled
The Aggies picked up three more
runs in the eighth. Gegen and Hut
chison singled and were driven
home on Schmidt’s double. Pat
James’ single scored Schmidt to
round out the Aggies’ scoring.
A&M Coach Mark Johnson said it
was a good game to get the non
starters some much-needed playing
time.
“I thought they did well for not
having been in the ballgame for
awhile,” Johnson said. “Down the
road we may have to use some of
those guys. If somebody gets hurt,
they’re the next guy in.
“In that respect, it’s a plus. I
thought they were ready to play.
They were concentrating and they
wanted to do a good job. They knew
Rockets’ Sampson injures back in loss to Celts
game at Olsen Field. The Ags, who stopped the
Royals 12-2, host Minnesota today at 5:30 p.m. But Gif
tion of «
it was their chance.” Blows. Gi
A&M hosts the MinnesotaGoi broadcasti
Gophers in a twi-night doul
header today at 5:30 p.m. atO^B
Field. Minnesota is comingoffa5:»^^ amat l 1
she ll.u king .u the hands of Bayb J ct m *
W.k i > \1< ni< l.i\ match S 1
Monday
soared last
operations
and $50 in
ABC is
Associated Press
| } f
>
m %
Ralph Sampson.
BOSTON — This victory wasn’t
so sweet.
The Boston Celtics won their
eighth straight NBA game. They in
creased their club record for consec
utive home victories to 24, three shy
of the single-season league mark set
by the Minneapolis Lakers 36 years
ago.
But the satisfaction of Monday
night’s 1 14-107 triumph over Hous
ton was tempered by the possibility
that Rockets’ center Ralph Sampson
suffered a broken back.
Sampson was carried off on a
stretcher after falling with 2:19 left
in the first half while going for an of
fensive rebound. Neck and head X-
rays at Massachusetts General Hos
pital were negative.
There was no report on back X-
rays, but Celtics’ spokesman Jeff
Twiss said feeling and movement in
Sampson’s right leg improved since
he arrived at the hospital. His left
leg, Twiss said, appeared to be
“fine.”
“You hate to see a guy pulled off
on a stretcher,” Boston forward
Scott Wedman said.
“I tend to look away at times like
that,” Celtics’ center Bill Walton
said. “These type of things tend to
cast a pallor over the game.”
“You’re always concerned when
there’s no feeling in a limb and he
was having a little trouble with his
right side,” Houston Coach Bill Fitch
said. “There was nothing Ralph
could do to*stop that fall. That’s
what was scary about it.”
Despite the loss of Sampson,
Houston stayed in the game, which
was tied 97-97 five minutes into the
final period.
Wedman, who had 11 of his 19
points in the fourth quarter, broke
that deadlock with the first of two
consecutive jumpers. They kicked
off an 11-3 surge that gave Boston a
108-100 lead with 3:34 remaining.
NBA Roundup
“Some nights it goes like that,”
said Wedman, who sank nine of 10
shots in 18 minutes. “Once you hit a
few like that, the coaches call a few
plays for you and your teammates
start looking for you.”
The game was marred by the in
jury suffered by the 7-foot-4 Samp
son, who hit his head and upper
See Sampson, page 11
Other Monday Scores:
(home team in capitals)
two a
g Footb
the se
sou, 1
dith i
three
WASHINGTON 100
Philadelphia 93
UTAH 116
Seattle 108
L.A. CLIPPERS 124
San Antonio 102
h
latio
droj
ter i
the
will
NFI
HOMEMADE, DELICIOUS
COOKIES
> Co^StvS
O’
STRAIGHT FROM
lull I .
Yai^imy*
STICKY CHINS COOKIE FACTORY
<?/
LOCATED AT NORTHGATE
NEXT TO THE DIXIE CHICKEN