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Lady Ags struggle in home tourney
Softballers hurt by injuries, errors in 3-3 outing
By Hal. L. Hammons
Assistant Sports Editor
If it was bad, it happened to the
Texas A&M softball team this week
end.
A rash of injuries, errors and
missed opportunities led the Lady
Aggies to a 3-3 record in the Lad)’
Aggie Invitational.
A&M lost to tournament-cham
pion Illinois State 2-1 in Sunday’s
first-round game. The Lady Aggies
followed with a 2-0 loss to third-
place Louisiana Tech in an eight-in
ning second game.
Saturday the Lady Aggies split
two games, losing to Sam Houston
State 3-2 in extra innings that af
ternoon, and then beating No. 9
South Carolina 3-0 in the nightcap.
Friday’s games saw A&M beat Mc-
Neese State 9-1 and No. 17 Okla
homa State 3-2.
It was a weekend for the under
dogs. Fourth-ranked A&M placed
fifth in its own tournament, while
No. 9 South Carolina finished sixth
out of seven teams. OSU placed sec
ond, while unranked SHSU placed
fourth.
A&M started the tournament with
massive injury problems. Center
fielder Erin Newkirk has an injured
ankle. Second baseman Julie Smith
has a fractured fibula. Top utility
player Renee Blaha has an injured
arm.
But no. That wasn’t bad enough.
Shortstop and leading hitter Liz
Mizera sprained her wrist midway
through the first game Sunday.
Then her backup and backup
pitcher Catherine Stedman injured
her knee in a collision at second base
in the extra inning of Sunday’s sec
ond game.
A&M finished the tournament
with nine healthy players on the ros
ter. Stedman was on deck when the
final out was made, and she was
going to have to stand at the plate
and wait for a walk if she came up to
bat.
The results of the injuries were
massive position changing and er-
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rors that accompanied th em.
Regular third baseman Rhonda
Halbert wound up playing three po
sitions. Catcher Carrie Heightley
played the final two outs at third.
Regular right fielder Tory Parks
g layed the last game at second base,
econd and third were each played
by three different players in the
course of the tournament.
The errors came at the worst pos
sible time — the final inning of the
last game.
With Jennifer Smith on first,
Heightley fielded a grounder by
Barbara Carter at third and threw to
first, but no one was covering the
base. Smith moved to third, and Car
ter advanced to second. An error on
Parks on the next play brought the
runners home, and A&M was not
able to score in the bottom half.
A&M had its chances to score.
With one out in the sixth Halbert
walked, Heightley bunted for a sin
gle, and Halbert took third on an er
ror on the throw. Heightley stole
second, and Barbara Kajs popped
up. Stedman walked to load the
bases, but Erika Eriksson popped
out to end the inning.
The team blew a similar opportu
nity in the Illinois State game. After
giving up two early runs, A&M
loaded the bases with two out in the
bottom of the third. Eriksson
f rounded into a fielder’s choice to
ill the rally.
In Saturday’s loss to Sam Houston
State, A&M had the bases loaded
with one out in the bottom of
seventh with the score tied 312.^
reached on an error, Ochoa s
and Parks reached on a fielde
choice that forced Kajs. The 14
kats decided to walk Liz Mizerai
tentionally, putting the winningn
on third.
Ochoa tried to take home on
wild pitch to Stedman and v
forced at the plate. Stedman»
walked intentionally after theplav
On the first pitch to Height!*
SHSU catcher Cheryl Stoat bluffed
pick-off to first. The first basema
second baseman and right fieli
f aked attempts at the ball, and Pan
bought the lake. She broke forhos
where she was tagged out easily
send the game to an extra inning.
The Lady kats scored in the tor
the eighth on back-to-back doul
and held on for the win.
The Lady Aggies came backinii
second game to score all three
their runs in the bottom of thefts
Ochoa, Parks and Mizera sin|
open the inning, and two SouthG
olina errors brought them home
Lakers snap Mavs’ streak with 108-97 rout
DALLAS (AP) — The Los An
geles Lakers not only snapped the
Dallas Mavericks’ club record 11-
game winning streak on Sunday but
also delivered a message in the con
vincing 108-97 victory.
The Lakers gave the Mavericks
something to ponder for the upcom
ing NBA Western Conference play
offs.
“We answered the challenge. We
wanted to play good defense and
take the crowd out of the situation,”
said Earvin (Magic) Johnson, who
had his eighth triple-double of the
year.
“They were number one in re
bounding coming in and that was a
challenge to us.”
The Lakers outrebounded Dallas,
52-40.
Lakers’ Coach Pat Riley said Los
Angeles had targeted the Mavericks.
“Dallas had been running rough
shod over people and that got our
attention,” he said.
“We’ve not played anywhere near
the past
vor. Maybe we won’t have a false
sense of confidence going into the
playoffs,” Mavs’ owner Donald Car
ter said.
this level for the past few weeks. So
Dallas really brought it out in us.”
The Mavericks made no excuses
for the blowout.
“The Lakers are really good in the
clutch time,” said guard Derek
Harper.
“ They are the greatest, the world
champions. I don’t think we really
got a message. They are great and
were clicking on all cylinders.”
Byron Scott scored 28 points,
James Worthy had 23, and Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar added 20 for the
Lakers.
ev
Dallas Coach John MacLeod said,
“We just need to file this one away as
a learning experience. The Lakers
us made us pay today.”
“Maybe the Lakers did us a big fa
it was the Lakers’ seventh victory
without a loss against division lead
ers.
James Worthy scored 23 and Ka
reem Abdul-Jabbar added 20 points
for the Lakers. Earvin (Magic) John
son had his eighth triple double of
the season with 14 points, 16 assists
and 10 rebounds.
Mark Aguirre paced Dallas with
27 points, Derek Harper scored 15,
and Rolando Blackman added 14.
Basketball player dies
after suffering seizures
The defending world champiol
who have the best record in theMf
at 47-10, took Dallas outoftheg
early behind the hot-shootingScol
The Lakers, who had won 15cc|
secutive games earlier in the
outscored the Mavericks 33-19inii|
second period to take a comman
60-42 halftime lead.
It was the most Dallas had tn
at the intermission in a game I
season.
Scott had 18 points in the firsthiBj was ta n
and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had 12M f L nt V ol
the Mavericks fell far behind in
nationally televised game by sh(J^. e( j nie jf
ing only 36 per cent from the field jL ^
Dallas, which has now lost Mj ter
three of its games to the Lakers[m..|| ac [. cc j
year, cut the deficit to seven pc» ex “i uS t
in the third period but could ne'flu ^j e
get closer. Jo ast ’ ”
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Jeff
Taggart, a Canisius College basket-
11 plav<
ball player who suffered a seizure as
he sat on the bench Saturday during
a game against Niagara, died of car
diac arrest just as he entered a local
hospital’s emergency room, accord
ing to the team physician.
But questions about delays in get
ting Taggart onto a stretcher and
out of Memorial Auditorium and
about what caused the fatal heart at
tack surfaced Sunday as the small
Catholic school attempted to cope
with the tragedy.
Dr. John Gabbey said confusion
led to a several-minute delay be
tween when ambulance personnel
arrived at courtside and when they
got to the Canisius bench and began
removing the stricken player from
the building.
“They (ambulance personnel)
came around to the far end of the
court with the stretcher,” Gabbey
said.
“There was some confusion in
there on their part that they were
waiting at the end of the court think
ing we were going to bring Jeff Tag
gart down to them.
“When they realized that we
weren’t and that they were needed,
they came down the court and we
put him on the stretcher,” he said.
Gabbey, who had been working
on Taggart for several minutes be
fore the stretcher came, estimated
“three to three-and-a-half minutes
were lost in some of this confusion
and traveling.”
However, he added, “I don’t think
that would have made a significant
difference in the outcome of the sit-
Dr. Sung-ook Baik, the Erie
County Medical Examiner, said an
autopsy Sunday revealed Taggart
had “an enlarged heart.”
“He had some heart problems,”
Baik said. “I don’t know what the
underlying cause of the heart prob
lems were.”
He said his investigation is contin
uing and that it will be at least seve
ral weeks before toxicology tests are
completed and more information is
available.
Gabbey described in detail the
treatment provided to Taggart, a ju
nior from suburban Lackawanna.
Taggart, who started the game,
was substituted for after playing
about the first eight minutes of the
game.
The decision was a coaching one,
Gabbey said, and Taggart was fine
when he sat down on the bench.
Within minutes, however, Gab
bey, who sits behind the Canisius
bench, noticed team trainer Pete
Koehneke attending to Taggart and
immediately went to the bench.
“When I arrived his body was
rigid and he had random jerky mo
tions of the head, neck and upper
extremities,” Gabbey said, adding
that those symptoms are consistent
with a seizure.
uation.”
A dispatcher at Gold Cross Ambu
lance Service, which took Taggart
from Memorial Auditorium to Shee
han Emergency Hospital about two
miles away, said manager James
Martinez.
“He was breathing, he had a pulse
and his airway was clear,” he said.
“He continued to breathe on his own
and continued to have a pulse the
entire time he was on the bench. He
did not show signs of oxygen defi
ciency.”
Gabbey said all athletes at Cani
sius are given an extensive preseason
physical before actual workouts be
gin.
Crenshaw comes
back to win Ooen:
: Texas
tch game
MIAMI (AP) — Ben Crenshaw
came from four strokes back with
a bogey-free 66 and scored a one-
shot victory Sunday in the Doral
Open Golf Tournament.
Crenshaw, with wife Julie and
infant daughter Katerine in his
gallery, nailed down the 14th vic
tory of his 15-year career with an
18-foot birdie putt on the final
hole.
But with Mark McCumber and
Chip Beck playing behind him,
he didn’t know it was the winner.
He could only prowl nervously
while they followed him to the
18th, each needing a birdie to tie
and force a playoff.
McCumber, twice a winner of
this title, left a long birdie putt
short. And Beck, who scored the
first victory of his 10-season ca
reer in Los Angeles last week, was
wide on his long attempt to tie.
The victory, secured on a 274
total, 14 shots under par on the
rain-dampened Blue Monster
course at the Doral Country Club,
was worth $180,000 from the to
tal purse of $1 million and
pushed Crenshaw’s earnings for
the year to $233,248.
McCumber and Beck tied for
second at 275.
McCumber, afflicted with what
he called “a touch of flu,” had a
68 in the warm weather that pro
duced showers early in the day.
Beck had a 69.
Bobby Wadkins, who led
through the first three rounds in
the quest for the first title in a 14-
season career, hit into the water,
made double bogey on the fourth
hole and was not a factor again.
He also made double bogey on
the 10th and finished with a 76
that left him far back at 280.
And Jack Nicklaus, the 48-
year-old Golden Bear who was
dmitted
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within striking distance through
the first three days of play, simply
couldn’t get it going.
A part-time player since scor
ing his sixth Masters triumph in
1986, Nicklaus had a frustrating
75 and was at 283.
He won $7,914 for the tie for
24th and remained just short of
becoming the first man to achieve
$5 million in career earnings. He
now has $4,984,804.
Ray Floyd, who chipped in on
16th hole, was fourth alone at 276
after a 68.
John Mahaffey, PGA cham
pion Larry Nelson and Joey Sin-
delar were another stroke backai
277.
Mahaffey birdied the last hole
for a 67. Nelson and Sindelar
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caught him with birdies on the
17th.
“I didn’t really know, but after
15 years out here you kind of
learn crowd reactions. I knew
somebody had tied me,
Crenshaw said.
So he needed a birdie on the
18th.
And he got it, hitting his ap
proach about 18 feet below the
cup and rapping it in.
“A pretty sight,” he said.
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