Sdnesday, February 18, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 9 Sports idy Aggies ike on UH he Texas A&M Lady Aggie bas- all team will take on the Univer- tfof Houston today at 5 p.m. in ofheinz Pavilion. JpThe Lady Aggies currently stand f B-H on the season and 4-8 in ■"Southwest Conference play, while ■Lady Cougars are 15-8 and 7-5 tithe SWC. ||T|\Bhe game today marks the second Jleting of the season between the teams. UH won the first game 0 on Jan. 19 in G. Rollie White eum. ouston has a really fine team good chemistry,” A&M Coach i Hickey said. “They play with intensity, and that will make it y toueh contest for us.” Ags try for sweep against Cougars The Texas A&M men’s basket ball team will try and complete a sweep of the Houston Cougars tonight at 7:35 p.m. at Hofheinz Pavilion in Houston. The Aggies won the first meet ing between the two schools ear lier in the season 57-45 at G. Rollie White Coliseum. A&M is coming off a 65-58 loss to Texas Tech in Lubbock and has lost six out of its last seven conference games. Houston comes into the game- off an overtime loss to Baylor last Saturday. The Cougars are in fourth place in the Southwest Conference with a 7-5 mark, 15-8 overall. A&M, however, has dropped to seventh in the conference at 5- 7, 13-10 overall. Aggie notes . . . A&M forward John Trezvant did not foul out of a game before SWC play began; he has now fouled out of six of 11 SWC games, including last Sun day’s game against Tech. A&M comes away with split in double-header at Lamar jackets, Mavs continue to battle r top spot in Midwest Division ■OUSTON (AP) — The Houston lockets rode the performance of inter Akeem Olajuwon to their :th straight home victory over the s Mavericks as the two teams fl&gle for supremacy in the NBA’s ^Nidlvest Division. Biitthe Mavericks still own a live- inc lead over the Rockets after doijfday night’s 105-100 Houston ifa ict|ry and neither team is talking nd iboui who owns first place and who’s enting. ed. H'; nurijlfs a natural rivalry and it’s get- ina ingl hotter, especially with both ee earns playing better,” Maverick ppplpd Derek Harper said. Houston guard Dirk Minniefield’s ;eri( omment last month that the Maver- A :kslwere only “renting” the divi- ion’s top spot has been replaced by ■ded comments of respect for in he opposition. , . . F ... n'hciii "It s too early for us to get ex- jtel ited,” said Mavericks center James ^fcldson, who scored 20 points ■grabbed 17 rebounds Monday iig|t. “We haven’t won the division .^Bmd we haven’t gone very deep I tie playoffs.” The Rockets know it will be diffi cult to make up five games with only 32 remaining. “I don’t just worry about Don aldson, I worry about the whole team,” said Olajuwon, whose 36 points and 16 rebounds led the Rockets. “His offense is as good as it’s ever been.” The Rockets are playing without forward Ralph Sampson, recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery, and guards Lew Lloyd and Mitchell Wig gins, banned from the team for drug abuse. Still, Houston has rallied to make a strong defense of its division title. If the Rockets do catch Dallas, the Mavericks know Olajuwon will lead the way. Olajuwon blocked a shot by Dallas’ Rolando Blackman with 13 seconds to play. That was a key to Houston’s victory. “This kind of elevates the inten sity of the rivalry, that’s for sure,” Blackman said. “We’re just going to try to fend them off and they are try ing to make up ground. We both want to win badly.” By Loyd Brumfield Assistant Sports Editor The Texas A&M baseball team ventured away from the friendly confines of Olsen Field for the first time this season and managed a split in a double-header against Lamar University at Vincent-Beck Field in Beaumont Tuesday. Both games were see-saw affairs, with Lamar taking a 4-3 win in the first game and A&M escaping with a wild 17-14 victory in the second game. The Aggies got off to a promising start in the first game. Right fielder Don Wren led of f the top of the first inning with a double, and shortstop Ever Magallanes followed by reach ing first on an error by Lamar’s Da vid Lowery. Third baseman Scott Livingstone of A&M then came to bat and hit into a double play which scored Wren, and the Aggies led 1-0. Lamar had a 2-1 lead until the top of the fourth, when A&M first base- man Todd Schmidt hit a single to drive in left fielder Tim McWilliam and center fielder Chuck Knoblauch to give the Aggies a 3-2 lead. A&M starter Darryl Fry was pulled from the game in the sixth in ning after Reynolds singled again. Gary Geiger came in to relieve him and allowed two straight singles — Chuck Knoblauch one to Brad Pemberton, which al lowed Reynolds to score, — and one to Mike Sarbaugh, which scored pinch runner Richard Barnhardt. Fry, 1-1, was the losing pitcher for A&M. He lasted five innings and al lowed seven hits, four runs, two walks and had four strikeouts. The second game was a game of errors as A&M had six and Lamar had two. Lamar grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first, but the Ag gies struck back quickly with six runs in the top of the second. Wren sin gled to drive in Schmidt and desig nated hitter John Byington, and Magallanes singled to drive home Terry Taylor catcher Maury Martin. Livingstone followed with his first homer of the year to drive in the remaining three runs. Lamar came back with four runs of its own in the fifth inning to close the gap to 6-5, but A&M upped its lead in the sixth with two more runs as Knoblauch scored McWilliam, and Schmidt drove in second base- man Terry Taylor. A&M remained in control with one run in the seventh and three in the eighth, but the Cardinals got four runs in the bottom of the eighth to make things interesting. Akeem Olajuwon “We’re not superhuman,” he said. “They could catch us. If we had a couple of injuries, it would make us kind of fragile.” The victory over Dallas was the first of a crucial four-game home stand for the Rockets, who face Bos ton on Thursday and Utah on Satur day. “We still control our destiny,” Houston Coach Bill Fitch said. “To win all four (home games), we had to beat Dallas. By the time Utah gets here, they won’t get barbeque — they’ll be facing raw meat.” Mattingly signs contract for $1975 million NEW YORK (AP) — Don Mat tingly of the New York Yankees on Tuesday became the highest-paid player produced by 13 years of sal ary arbitration, winning a one-year contract worth $1,975,000. That surpassed the $1,850,000 contract won last Friday by pitcher Jack Morris of the Detroit Tigers. Mattingly, however, trails Jim Rice of the Boston Red Sox, Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles and Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies, who are believed to make more than $2 million a year. The Yankees had offered Mat tingly $1.7 million. Arbitrator Arvid Anderson heard the case Monday in New York and, restricted to picking either the figure offered by Mat tingly or the Yankees, chose the larger amount. Decisions also were reached Tues day on two other arbitration cases heard the day before. Both players — outfielder Kevin McReynolds of the New York Mets and pitcher Danny Cox of St. Louis — were los ers. Of the 19 cases resolved thus far, Mattingly and his agent, Jim Kri- vacs of Clearwater, Fla., had been trying to negotiate a longterm deal with Yankees owner George Stein- brenner, who offered a two-year contract reportedly worth $3.5 mil lion. Krivacs and Mattingly rejected the offer and decided to go through arbitration. Mattingly settled on the $1,975,000 figure as an apparent ap peasement to Steinbrenner, who said he would refuse to make any new deals worth $2 million per year. )n laiev m f U jams: nappy Hour H . 4-7 st-'-' ’onl)' nee.' ave out 1 den naH intii i, AH itiiH SUNDAY RIBEYE SPECIAL