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A&M’s 9th-inning charge
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By Doug Hall
Sports Writer
It won’t go down in the record
books as a victory, but some
might call Texas A&M’s 14-11
Monday night loss to Oklahoma
State University somewhat of a
moral victory.
Down 14-7 going in to the top
of the ninth inning, the Aggies
scored four runs against the No.
1-ranked Cowboys to draw within
a three-run homer of tying the
game. But OSU's top reliever, se
nior Marv Rockman, struck out
second baseman Terry Taylor
and first baseman Jim Neumann
to close the door on the No. 10-
ranked Aggies.
It wasn’t a bad outing for the
Aggies, who fell to 36-14-1 on the
season, especially considering
that the Cowboys have gone 78-7
in their last 85 outings, have a
team hatting average of almost
.350 and have hit home runs in
29 of their last 33 games.
OSU continued that trend
Monday by hitting four round-
trippers off two of the Aggies’
four pitchers. Starter Scott Cen-
tala, whose record drops to 6-3 on
the season, gave up a first inning
homer to shortstop Monty Farris,
and reliever Pat Wernig was
tagged for one homer in the
fourth and two in the fifth.
The Aggies, however, struck
the first blow of the game on a
first-inning home run of their
own. Third baseman Scott Liv
ingstone took an 0-2 pitch off of
winning pitcher Pat Hope and
belted it over the left-field fence
for a 1-0 Aggie lead. The homer
was Livingstone’s 13th of the sea
son.
It didn’t take long for the Cow
boys to strike back, though. In the
bottom of the first, OSU used
three hits, two walks and a sacri
fice to score four runs of its own.
Although Centala pitched a
steady game, the Cowboys capi
talized on every mistake he made.
In the second inning, following
two more Aggie runs, Centala
gave up a double to center fielder
Anthony Blackmon (4-for-5 on
the night), a single to left fielder
Ray Ortiz (2-for-3), a walk to
third baseman Robin Ventura
and two consecutive singles as
OSU ran the score up to 6-3.
All of the Cowboy starters had
at least one hit on the evening.
Four of them had two or more
hits.
The Aggies were led by Liv
ingstone’s four RBI, a Jim Neu
mann second inning home run
and Maury Martin’s two RBI —
both on OSU errors. Daron Da-
cus also had two doubles on the
evening.
A&M’s next opponent will be
No. 2 Texas in a three-game se
ries this weekend at Olsen Field.
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I IRVING (AP) — Baseball Hall of
lamer Mickey Mantle was in fair
Indition Monday, alter being hos
pitalized for chest pains, a hospital
Spokeswoman said.
■ Mantle's condition was upgraded
lioixi serious to fair early Monday,
lid Sharon Peters, spokeswoman
for Irving Community Hospital. She
lid Mantle was in the intermediate
Ironary care unit.
I The former New York Yankees’
Kreat released a brief statement
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ihesaid. Peters said Mantle indicated
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I Peters said Mantle is scheduled
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the plane. Delta spokesman Jim Ew
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ters in Atlanta. Ewing said he could
not give the origination point of the
flight.
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association with Del Webb’s Claridge
Hotel Casino at Atlantic City, N.J.,
where he was director of sports pro
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relations work and playing golf with
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Gold fine, Vos successful despite
differences in styles, personalities
Mande, 55, was inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
Mantle broke in with the Yankees
in 1951, replacing the great Joe Di-
Maggio in center field. He won the
American League Triple Crown in
1956 with 52 home runs, 130 runs
batted in and a .353 batting average.
He won three Most Valuable Player
Awards and four American League
home run titles.
In 1961, Mantle and teammate
Roger Maris made a strong run at
former Yankee Babe Ruth’s home
run record of 60 in a season. The
two were even until Mantle was
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finishing with 54 homers to Maris’
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After 536 regular-season home
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By Hal L. Hammons
Senior Sports Writer
What could a finance major from
Hollywood, Fla. and an economics
major from Amsterdam, Holland
possibly have in common?
Well, both are seniors. Both plan
to graduate, although they will both
take five years to do so.
And they both play tennis. In fact,
they compose the No. 1 doubles pair
on the Texas A&M men’s tennis
team and are ranked No. 26 in the
nation.
And Wednesday at the Omar
Smith Tennis Center, against the
University of Texas, Marcel Vos and
Dean Goldfine will be playing their
final home match for the Aggies.
Vos, who has settled into the No. 1
singles slot, is 17-5 this year. No. 2-
ranked Goldfine is 15-7.
But they really make waves as a
team. Together this spring, they are
11-3 in doubles play. Combined with
a strong fall season, the tandem is
27-5 this year.
They seem to bring out the best in
each other. Playing on the same
team for four years has made it sec
ond nature for each to anticipate the
others actions on the court. Vos’
flamboyant style at the net and Gold-
fine’s steady shot-making have re
sulted in wins all year.
The styles are reflected in their
off-court actions. Vos, who grew up
overseas, had a difficult time adjust
ing to American ways, particularly
the way Americans tend not to speak
their minds on touchy subjects.
“That’s not the way I was raised,”
Vos said.
Goldfine says the team had a diffi
cult time adjusting to Vos. After the
first few weeks, the rest of the team
had decided Vos was a snob since he
hardly ever spoke to anyone. The
real reason for Vos’ quietness, how
ever, was difficulty with the English
language, not a lack of an outgoing
personality.
When he learned how to speak
the language, the team found out
how outspoken Europeans can be.
Vos developed a reputation for
speaking his mind in any environ-
Dean Goldfine
merit, even to A&M Coach David
Kent.
Vos relates the story of the tour
nament last year in Wichita Falls. Af
ter a tough match, when Vos was
really upset with himself, Kent came
over to gripe about Vos’ play.
Vos says he told his partner be
fore Kent ever got to him that he
knew something was going to go
wrong. When Kent started talking,
Vos only got more and more upset.
So when Kent finally topped off
his criticism with the seemingly-rhe-
torical question, “Don’t you think
you’d better go home?” Vos replied,
“Yes — I want to go home!”
Vos said the stunned Kent asked
the question three times, and the re
ply didn’t change. True to his word,
Vos ended up boarding a bus for
College Station that night. When
Kent returned with the team and
went to talk to his player, the first
thing he saw was Vos’ dormitory-
room floor littered with empty suit
cases.
It would be completely out of
character for Vos to have responded
with “No, I want to stay and play ten
nis, Coach.” Vos says he hates it
when people ask questions to which
they already know the answer, or
think they know. And it’s typical of
Vos to respond in such situations by
saying exactly what the querist does
not expect.
Of course, the conflict was settled.
Marcel Vos
But Goldfine says the incident is a
perfect example of Vos’ outspoken
attitude that sometimes takes his
new countrymen by surprise and has
earned Vos the nickname of “The
Animal.”
The Animal strikes on the court,
too. Earlier this year against Pan
American, the Aggies’ opponents
questioned an Aggie “out” call in
much the same way the Aggies had
protested a similarly close call on the
other side of the net. Vos responded
by yelling, “It was as far out as the
other one was in.” The partisan Ag
gie crowd erupted, and both are
convinced the comment helped con
tribute to the easy Aggie win.
Goldfine says “outspokenness” is
the biggest difference in the two
players’ personalities. The native
Floridian says he is much more in
clined to avoid saying what he
means, when speaking out will result
in a difficult situation.
Goldfine says both of them have
become a little more like the other
after spending practically every
hour of the day together. When two
people practice tennis together for
three hours every day, then eat to
gether, recreate together and go
home to the same dorm room, habits
and mannerisms start spreading.
And so do fights, of course, just
like in any pair of roommates. But
both say they remain at peace the
majority of the time.
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