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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1987)
Late Nite HAPPY HOUR 10 pm-12 midnight Every THURS-FRI-S AT GUITAR PLAYERS and SINGERS 1st BEER FREE to Players & Singers Come Play Our Guitar or bring yours (accoustical only please.) *1.99 PITCHER OF BEER MTV or Sports in Aggie Room 3109 Texas Ave. Bryan 823-7470 School of Hair Design 693-787S 1406 Texas Ave. S. College Station, Tx. Shampoo, cut & blowdry (men & women) $££0° PERMS $16 '50 All work done by students Supervised & checked by our qualfied, professional instruc tors Page 10/The BattalionAVednesday, May 13, 1987 Call Battalion Classified 845-2611 TAMU MATH CLINIC The summer Math Clinic at Texas A&M University is once again being offered Through the department of Curriculum and Instruction. Diagnostic and remedial services will be provided for a limited number of elementary and junior high stu dents. Thoses students whose progress in mathematics has been considerably slower than expected are encouraged to apply. It is expected that students in third grade through ninth grade would be eligible. Individual diagnostic testing will be provided for a limited number of children. Those children who are then accepted for the Clinic will receive individual reme dial attention by clinicians trained and supervised by the staff of the Math Clinic. Preliminary diagnostic testing will be conducted in three sessions, beginning July 6. Those children accepted for the remediation phase of the program will attend daily one-hour remedial sessions from July 15 to August 5. The fee for diagnosis is $25 while the fee for remediation is $75. A limited number of scholarships will be available for those applicants with established needs. For applications or more information, contact Dr. Clarence Dockweiler at 845- 8397 ■If AM/PM Clinics Minor Emergencies 10% Student Discount with ID card 3820 Texas Ave. Bryan, Texas 846-4756 401 S. Texas Ave. Bryan, Texas 779-4756 8a.m.-11 p.m. 7 days a week Walk-in Family Practice ■ .vU'Y&v Y-- ’iP Intense competitor, proven winner, bad lo$f A&M's Andaya still looking for elusive NCAA champions! By Hal L. Hammons Assistant Sforts Editor The game. A steady drizzle comes down and lightning flashes across the sky, but it isn’t raining on Shawn Andaya’s parade. It rains on everyone else, though, as the Texas A&M softball team manages to com plete 4!/_' innings against Sam Houston State in the last game of the Lady Aggies’ regular season. But the rain doesn’t chase the fans away. About 60 or 70 people — easily three times the normal crowd at an A&M softball game — slick it out through the rain, huddled underneath overhangs, under nearby shelters, or just suf fering in the bleachers. Many are not in a position to see much of the game at all. But they want to be there when Shawn closes out her final season as a Lady Aggie sof tball player, so t he dampness is worth it. Andaya doesn’t even seem to notice the rain, either before or during the game. Even af terwards, when there were no more pitches to throw or to hit, she ignores the drizzle that quickly is turning into a down pour as she obliges a fan who wants her to autograph four or five softballs. ... Coach Boh Brock: “ The thing that best characterizes Shawn is that she gives everything, and she asks nothing in return. There’s never a day Shawn doesn’t give everything she has.” . . . The mound. From the moment she faces her catcher, and without uttering . a single word, Andaya is in com plete charge of the game. In stark contrast to the jerky, crow-hop ping style of the opposing pitcher, Andaya’s motion is smooth and rhythmic, not even disturbing her trademark pony tail. Quickly site gets ahead of the batter and goes to her knockout punch, the riser. The pitch comes in high and hard, crossing the plate at eye level and landing heavily in the catcher’s mitt. The batter, hope lessly and helplessly fooled, swats futilely at die ball that is already in the glove. Strike three. . . . Teammate and fellow-pitcher Julie Carpenter: “She’s a very dedicated, aggressive pitcher. She just goes t ight at them. . . . Her , L ^ ' a -i ; r - -'V • J;. ■ ■, ' w - t 1 it A m A ’ ; best pitch is the riser. It looks like it’s coming right at you, but it’s not.” . .. The practice. The girl in die light blue shirt that says “All-Star” is a picture of concentration at first base as the team takes infield practice. Although Shawn says site en joys playing first because it allows her to relax more, it tloes not show in her face. At die plate taking batting practice, her mouth never opens. She stoically steps into the batter’s box and promptly drives the first pitch about 230 leet to the base of the center-field fence at Bee Creek Park field I. “Great shot, Shawn!” her team- males cheer in their typically en couraging style. Andaya, already concentrating on the next pitch, doesn’t react. Only while shagging flies in the outfield does she relax. As a tea mmate flits a deep fly to her in center, she leaps for the catch that she ends up making at about shoulder level. “Good one, Shawn,” a team mate yells/ and the team laughs. Andaya smiles. . . . Four-year teammate Judy Trussell: “She's so mentally tough. Sometimes we let our selves slack off a little sometimes because we think, ‘Shawn’s going to do it.’ . . . She wants it more than anybody else. She plays to win.” .. . The person. “Do you mind if I eat?” she asks as she eases into-a booth at Mania’s Pizza, a favorite hangout of the team. A long-time veteran of media interviews, she jumps right into conversation about her life as the star pitcher on the sec ond-ranked softball team in the country. It does not take long for the competitor in her to emerge. When asked what sfie thinks about when on the mound, she smiles with a twinkle in her eyes. “This probably sounds cocky,” she says, “but each batter is a chal lenge. It’s a one-on-one battle against the batter, and I want to see if I can win.” She usually does. In her four- year career at A&M, which in cludes two second-team All- America selections, her record is 106-27. When the losses do come, how ever, the reaction is not pretty. Shawn readily confesses she is itot a good loser. But she says that attitude makes the losses come with less frequency. “A bad loser makes a winner,” site says. She says all losses are tough to swallow, hut the ones that are most difficult to take are the ones that site worked hardest to make into victories, only to see slip away. “If you get beat, you get beat,” site says. “That’s easier to accept. But if I’ve done a lot of things to get to a point and make a mistake, tliat’s tough to handle.” But likewise, the sweetest wins •ifr life? She is: hatic inherrepli Over even last vearof tiling m and emp “Yes, she says. She sees liet slipping away and youldM Q2 one final piece ofthepu, 1 put into place beforeshe “We have less than it to make that dream tin she savs. “Everythinge^'J hei e for me, but thaum,, I he conversation tun,: SiateT ullerton, and less frequent on Anclaya'I "We don’t like eathoih sa\ s. summing up in at the relationship betwet] team and the l.adv R are the ones that are toughest to N< ). 1 u ‘am in tbecounn earn. She' relates the' storv of a The rivaln / came to, College World Series game in Sh awn last v, ear, when which she pitched shutout ball for he at he i and her team 23 innings. Unfortunately for tin t* nati onalc hampioml hei, the Lady Aggies were' sinii- She bat as eai larlv unable to score. fourth i inniiu! I- when ila After six or seven hours of tai IS so oretl ibeii first play, the* game was finally post- CO uld feel i ihe game poned until the next day. aw ay. She savs she was surprised With no so are, a Fullt when, instead of coming back ne r was invoj ved in a tji with the other Lady Aggie pitcher the plat to finish tfie game. Brock wanted “We' ve se< •n replays fier to do it. nd wc ■ think silt So, with an aching arm Inn III it the umpire (.illnlht seeing die game as hoi s to win or Her conve ■i sat inn a lose, Andava took ihe mound ini lated, , howe ■s et , when again and held down the fort tin- hilitv of a t en latch is disc til A&M scored to win 1-0 in the “I’ve heat them hei. 26th inning. savs. “V iV II lx • teadv." T hat was one* of the two vears "I re; illy Ik >pe it Kime Andaya and the Lady Aggies US and them in the tin made it to Omaha, each time sir e sav s. "It winding up as one of the* final two tw o teams in t teams in the Series. Each year saw her chosen to But are tl; the All-Tournament team. tei Still, she says that honor just CM h. del gets filed away in the back of hei r, hill t we’re mind along with all the others she “I th ink w< has accumulated over the years. vs to “For some reason, awards and re< cts h< ;rself. “1 knov v,i all that stuff doesn’t mean that mi are. much to me,” she says. “A week "It's hard to explain later I forget alwnit it.” W't * wai nt it. And each of those vears in ice. V M’lMI SO ( l(iy Omaha, the Lady Aggies finished second. That’s something Shawn Whai t if Cal 1 State wins Andaya does not forget about. “The n the Phis year, the last in a distin- an guished career. Shawn wants But. as il she’s still more than anything else in the sol ft hall during the conn De AS deft Rc U.S. mi “deiciu from tli ate mot Rr.lg high sc 1 nojiga, must n< ferjse > bejgei know w turn fit attiu kc< .Klii at area n< Foi Ob' ■ AP) ammig Irai|i je ■ Per other T families Seam Wheelei pen ent com lit io Jan Win has eluded her A College championship. Is it really the one honor that she hurries to cove Cum The one she bases by explaining Noi lice any other. times the best tearti Class |i World Series the game. able-hot “But if we win, « while ( most important she says, and smiles a Bai row sait 1 r i * ' % 'W- i V . •• Milf ■ v Your Best Bet fbn by one made E tirie pat of iialu ■rinrt and am cils sa Pei tag. ad\ertei Ball m n n hei Tuc band, v I , was Of c i. “T all of She s tnlerest State. 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