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Scott not concerned
with encore season
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike
Scott says he is not going to worry
about a 1987 encore to his Cy
Young Award-winning campaign
of 1986.
“I’m not even going to think
about it,” the Houston Astros’
split-finger fastball wizard said.
“I’m certainly not going to stop
and look at all my stats and see
where I was last year at the same
time.
“I’m just going to take it game-
by-game, inning-by-inning. I’d be
real surprised if I matched last
season.”
Scott wound up the 1986 cam
paign with an 18-10 record and
major league highs of 306 strike
outs and 275.1 innings, and a ma
jor-league low earned-run aver
age of 2.22.
If his start in 1987 is any indi
cation, he may do even better this
year.
Scott tossed a one-hit, one-walk
shutout at the Los Angeles Dodg
ers Wednesday night, striking out
10 in Houston’s 4-0 victory as he
ran his record to 2-0. He had
oeaten the Dodgers 4-3 in the sea
son opener in Houston nine days
earlier.
“My one goal when I went into
spring training was to have a de
em start this season,” he said.
As long as I’ve played, I’ve never
jotten off to a very good start. I
tad a terrible start last year.
“I’ll take this start.”
He lost his first two decisions
Ind had a 7.20 ERA to begin
986, then was just 5-4 on June
6. But he rallied with the devel
opment of his new split-finger
lastball to win 13 of his last 15 de-
lisions.
I Although Scott is 2-0 already
Jiis season and was masterful in
;jhc‘ one-hitter against the Dodg
ers, catcher Alan Ashby thinks he
ill be even better later in the sea
son.
Ashby said that Scott, who lim
ited the Dodgers to a third-inning
single by Mariano Duncan and
retired the final 15 batters, was
not as dominant as he was late last
year.
“I’m just going to take it
game-by-game, inning-
by-inning. I’d be real
surprised if I matched
last season.”
— Mike Scott
‘I don’t think he’s as overpow
ering now as he was then,” Ashby
said. “Stuff-wise, this game didn’t
compare to his no-hitter (last
Sept. 25 against San Francisco.).
“He just had them (the Dodg
ers) hitting the ball at people the
whole game this time. But the re
sults were outstanding.
“He’s still mighty good right
now, and I think he’ll get even
better as the season goes on.”
As usual, there were claims
that Scott was doctoring the ball,
and balls that had been fouled
and taken out of play were scruti
nized in the Los Angeles dugout.
Dodger pitcher Rick Honey
cutt, who wasn’t in the game, ex
amined the ball a number of
times.
“The scuff marks were all iden
tical,” Honeycutt said. “I don’t
know what grade of sandpaper
he (Scott) was using, but it was a
finer grade.”
Los Angeles Manager Tommy
Lasorda, though, didn’t want to
downplay the fine piching per
formance.
“He pitched a heckuva game;
you can’t do anything about that
one. The guy was too tough for
us,” L^asorda said.
Senior Liong excels in role
os LodyAg student-athlete
By Ed Bodde
Assistant Sports Editor
It’s somewhat of an accomplish
ment these days if a student can
graduate in four years. It’s even a
greater feat when it’s a student-ath
lete, who must learn to budget time
for athletics and for school. Well,
Laura Liong, a senior on the Lady
Aggie tennis team, is graduating on
time this May, with a 3.65 grade-
point ratio in finance to boot.
Ironically, Liong, who is from
Singapore, wanted to come to the
United States to go to college be
cause she said the Singapore society
puts too much emphasis on school.
“I kind of wanted to come to the
United States for school because I
never really fit into the (Singapore
school) system because it’s so pres
surized,” Liong said. “Study! Study!
Study! I was kind of like the black
sheep because I played so much ten
nis. I just never fit into the grind of
things there when you’d study 24
hours a day. The only thing that
mattered was your grades, and I
couldn’t do that.”
Liong also wanted to be able to
play tennis — competitive tennis.
She didn’t start playing tennis un
til the age of 13, but she didn’t take
the game too seriously back then.
“I just started playing because
there was a court at my high school,
so I took up tennis,” Liong said.
Two years later, Liong got her
first real tennis lessons when she
participated in an eight-week tennis
camp in Australia. After returning
to Singapore, she continued to play
three or four times a week at a local
club. But tennis was more important
to her now.
“When I came back from Austra
lia, I played in the junior tourna
ments, but more seriously,” she said.
“I mean I was thinking about win
ning them. And then I almost beat
the No. 1 junior in Singapore. I was
more interested in it (tennis), and I
got a lot of press because I got bet
ter.”
After finishing high school at 16,
Liong went to Florida to play in the
Orange Bowl Tournament and later
met A&M men’s tennis coach David
Kent at the Nick Bollettieri tennis
camp.
“That’s really when I started to
know about tennis scholarships,” Li
ong said. “Before that, I never knew
anything of scholarships.”
Kent ended up offering her a
scholarship, and she accepted.
“I never really looked anyplace el
se,” Liong said. “I knew of A&M aca
demically. You here of some schools,
and I knew (A&M) was a good
school. When I took a recruit trip
here, I liked it. Hey, if they want to
pay my way through school, I’m
going to say,‘Sure.’ ”
With the decision to get an educa
tion about 9,000 miles from home
came the realization that she wasn’t
going to see her family too often. Li
ong, who hasn’t been home in 2!/2
years, said it’s been difficult being
away so long. But Liong said adjust
ing to life in a different country
hasn’t been too hard.
As the No. 1 player in Singapore,
she had aleady traveled quite a bit,
playing junior tournaments in Ja
pan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. She
also got to play in the Wimbledon ju
niors in England.
“It was more of having to adjust to
being away from home,” Liong said.
Now, after four years at A&M, Li
ong is on the edge of graduation and
faces some important decisions in
her life.
She has applied to the University
of California, UCLA and USC for
graduate school. She hopes to get
her master’s and do some invest
ment banking.
Liong also said she would like to
give the pro tour a try, but admits
she probably started tennis too late.
“1 think part of it is I started too
late,” she said. “I think I’m too far
behind to catch anyone to do real de
cently on the pro tour. But I’m going
to try it this summer.”
An extremely emotional player,
Liong often talks to herself to get
pumped up during a match.
“If I end up winning Wimbledon,
I’ll play for a few years and put the
MBA on hold,” Liong said, laughing.
Whatever Liong decides to do, she
certainly has two good choices in
front of her.
Ags, 'Horns
may sell out
Olsen Field
A record crowd may greet
Texas A&M and the University of
Texas when the two baseball
teams play a three-game series to
day and Saturday at Olsen Field.
The Aggies, 36,-14-1 and 9-3 in
the Southwest Conference and
ranked l()th by ESPN, are com
ing off a 14-11 setback on na
tional television at the hands of
top-ranked Oklahoma State.
The Longhorns, ranked sec
ond in ESPN’s poll, come in with
a 44-7 record overall and an 11-1
SWC conference slate.
A&M and UT will play a single
game tonight at 7 p.m. and will
play a double-header Saturday
beginning at 2 p.m.
All reserve seats for the series
have been sold out, but general
admission tickets will go on sale at
5 p.m. today and noon Saturday
at Olsen Field.
Tickets are $2 for adults and
$1 for those high school age and
under.
Lady Ags take pair from Bearkats
The Texas A&M softball team
took a pair of games from Sam
Houston State University in Hunt
sville Thursday by 6-0 and 7-0 mar
gins. •
The Lady Aggies chalked up 22
hits in the two games, including 6
doubles.
Shawn Andaya got the win in the
First affair to up her season record to
23-4. Julie Carpenter earned the win
in the second game as she allowed
only two hits. Carpenter improved
to 14-2 on the year.
A&M has won 26 of 27 games on
the road but is only 10-5 at home;
A&M is 37-6 overall.
A&M Coach Bob Brock said the
pitching, especially Carpenter’s out
ing, was the key.
“Both of our pitchers did a very
good job,” Brock said. “I think more
people all the time are seeing what
kind of job Julie Carpenter can do
for us.”
A&M will play at Northeast Loui
siana Saturday and Louisiana Tech
Sunday.
A&M cyclers
to host race
The Texas A&M cycling team will
host the Aggieland Stage Race this
weekend in Normangee.
Saturday’s races will consist of 10-
mile time trials, a 33-mile road race
and a 66-mile road race. Sunday’s
races will be held on campus and will
feature a 40-mile race around the
campus drill field.
More than $3,000 in cash and
prizes will be awarded, and preregis-
tradon for the event will be held to
day from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. in room
300 at the Manor House Motor Inn
and at every race site.
For more information, call Cycles
Etc. at 846-2453.
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EriKa Gonzalez-Lima
3333 Student Blvd., Apt. #845
College Station, TX 77840
April 7, 1987
name of Manager
Day Duck Apartments Management Office
1111 Landlord
College Station, TX 77840
Dear Manager:
According to the terms of my lease, I will vacate
my apartment, no. 845 "Day Duck Palace Apart
ments," on May 17, 1987. I will clean the apartment
in accordance with the move-out cleaning instruc
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Sincerely,
Erika Gonzalez-Lima
Forwarding address for the return of my security
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Erika Gonzalez-Lima
2222 Parentslove Street
Sweethome, TX 09999
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April 17,1987
Editor: Erika Gonzalez-Lima
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