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ion’s top spot has been replaced by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.
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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.
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