Wednesday, April 2, 1986/^116 Battalion/Page 9 Sports North Texas rally prevents A&M sweep Photo by Tom Ounbey A&M’s Gary Geiger, left, dives safely back to first base as North the double-header with the Eagles, winning 7-4 and losing 7-5. Texas State’s Tony Olivares tries to make the tag. The Aggies split A&M hosts NTSU to a single game today at 3 p.m. at Olsen Field. By Tom Tagliabue Sports Writer Late-inning heroics by Texas A&M in the opening game, and North Texas State in the night cap, resulted in a split of a dou ble-header Tuesday night at Ol sen Field. Fred Gegen’s one-out, three- run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning rallied the Ag gies, 24-17, to a 7-4 victory in the early game. Scott Scruggs’ two-out, two-run Baseball homer in the top of the 10th in ning pulled out a victory for NTSU in the nightcap. Scruggs’ homer and the com plete-game pitching of Brett Pow ers, 3-8, helped the Eagles, 8-29, scrap back to defeat the Aggies 7- 5 in extra innings. A&M Head Coach Mark John son said the Aggie defense, which committed six errors, gave Pow ers and the Eagles some help. “(Powers) battled good,” John son said. “I gotta take my hat off to him. We got enough hits, our defense just let us down.” Three consecutive RBI singles by Robi Chandler, Jeff Schow and Ever Magallanes in the sec ond inning gave the Aggies a 3-1 lead. Russ Swan started, threw four innings and gave up two runs be fore he was relieved by Gary Geiger, who tossed two innings of scoreless relief. A&M padded their lead to 4-2 on Pat James' RBI-sacriflce fly in the sixth that scored Mike Scan- lin. Russ Greene replaced Geiger and gave up a run in both the sev enth and eighth, allowing NTSU to tie the game 4-4. Pinch-hitter Kurt Dow picked up a one-out RBI single. But NTSU’s threat was stopped when Keith Cullum popped out in foul territory to first baseman Gegen, who then dove to the bag and forced out a sliding Dow. A&M sent the game into extra innings on Gegen’s clutch two- out, RBI single. Kyle Atkinson, 2-3, entered the game in the ninth but gave up the game-winning homer. In the earlier game, the Ags also ran into some trouble. After giving up three runs in three innings, Barry Smith re lieved starter Darryl Fry in the fourth. Jimmy Flowers, 2-1, pitched the last two innings and gave up one run, but it was Gegen’s fifth homer of the year that preserved the win. HogeboonrYs agent tries to arrange trade for Cowboy QB DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Cow boys have allowed backup quar terback Gary Hogeboom’s agent to speak with other teams to arrange a trade, but his agent confirms what team officials have already said: other teams have little interest in Hogeboom. Hogeboom decided to attend the Dallas Cowboys’ mini-camp Tuesday and Wednesday, but told team offi cials he hasn’t changed his mind and wants off the club as soon as a trade can be arranged. Paul Hackett, new quarterback coach of the National Football League team, said he has met with Hogeboom, and the meeting lasted “about three minutes,” “Gary explained to me his posi tion, and that is that he has asked to be traded by the Dallas Cowboys,” Hackett said. “Gary said that he just did. not want to play in Dallas. He said it was nothing personal, he just wanted to be traded.” Meanwhile, Reggie Collier, quar terback of the U.S. Football League’s Orlando Renegades, met with Dallas Cowboys officials at their training fa cility last week, Hackett said. Hackett said he and Collier, who was the Cowboys’ sixth-round draft choice in 1983 but opted for the USFL, had lunch together and Col lier toured the facility. Collier could figure prominently in the Cowboys’ plans should Hoge boom be traded. UT’s Dabbs keeps quiet on scandal AUSTIN (AP) — Former football recruiting coordinator Ken Dabbs of the University of Texas declined to comment Tuesday on reports that an internal investigation had been expanded to include allegations that Dabbs knowingly violated NCAA rules. The Austin Anlericun-Statesman reported Tuesday that Ron Brown, vice president for student affairs, had expressed concern about re ports that Dabbs had paid about $100 for two or three traffic tickets of All-America linebacker Jeff Leid- ing in the form of a loan in 1983. Dabbs, now an assistant to Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds, said he knew it was against the rules, the newspaper said. Another report said an Austin lawyer represented 20 or 30 UT football players without charge “over the past five or six years” after referrals from Dabbs. “I think my only statement would be to say there is an official UT in vestigation under way, and it would be improper to make any comments on the matter,” Dabbs said Tuesday. The involvement of Dabbs and former UT defensive coordinator David McWilliams broadens the scope of an investigation by UT and the NCAA into reports in the Anier- ican-Statesman and Dallas Morning News that football players have sold their complimentary game tickets and have received small cash pay ments, free meals and other benefits from boosters and agents. Brown said he had no knowledge that Dabbs had loaned Leiding the money or that former assistant Mc Williams — now head football coach at Texas Tech — had given players money as reported in the American- Statesman on Sunday. “As things move forward the next few days, we have to consider every possible alternative,” Brown said. “What are they? I think it’s pretty obvious. They range from doing nothing to possible separation from the university. “This again would depend en tirely on the extenuating circum stances. New Member Orientation cTMSC&OPAS * , o Wed. April 2 Rudder 504 or Thurs. Aprils 8 : 30pm i (• \ * ‘ " N \ . 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