(ALE NOW IN TH Page 10/The Battalion/Thursday, March 10, 1988 1, i i i a i 111111 a ■ i ■ ■■ a ,11„ j i ■ n ■ i ■ i ri i i ■ ■ il ■ i.lX IT'S A HIT !!! Promotional Video only Full Length Available in July 1 t ^ I SUM- ' fXs 1 2th Man Sports Ag racquetball team dominates regional tourney championship, By Lyneen Johnson Reporter Texas A&M, dominant over other Southwest Conference schools in football and baseball, captured yet another title last weekend at the South central Region Intercollegiate Racquetball Championship in Den ton. Ten members of the A&M extra mural racquetball team competed in the tournament, bringing home 10 first place awards including the overall regional championship. Vicki Oliver and Diana Galindo, competing in a four-person team di vision, used their expertise and skills to capture 2nd place overall in the women’s division, racquetball club president Ed Schipul said. Oliver and Galindo took 1st place in Division I doubles while Oliver placed 1st in Division I singles. Backed by a strong No. 2 team, A&M’s No. 1 men’s team took 1st place overall in the men’s division. The No. 1 team from the Univer- city of Texas placed 2nd, with North Houston taking 3rd and 4th place, respectively. A&M’s No. 2 team followed, plac ing 5th in the men’s division. “Each school sends their top four men and women as its number one teams; however, they have the op tion to send a second team in each division,” Schipul said. “The second team does not get tournament points for the school . . . it is its own entity. “The second team, when they are as good as ours, is able to knock out other people . . . preventing other schools’ number one teams from re ceiving places and team points,” he said. A&M’s No. 1 team of Bruce Bick- nell, Phil Theimer, Curtis Acheson and Danny Duffy took 2nd in Divi sion 1, 1st in Division II, 1st in Divi sion III and 1st in Division IV, re spectively. Bicknell and Theimer also placed 3rd in Division I doubles, while Acheson and Duffy took IstinD- sion II doubles. The second team compete Mark Mills, Schipul, Patt Sadd, Duane Barone also received aw* the club president said. Mills won Division I Consofe and Schipul won Division II Cot lation. Sadd and Barone placed Division II doubles. Winning the regional title wi A&M a better seeding at the tional Intercollegiate Champion in California, April 7-10. “Last year we were seeded ivti which resulted in an early elk tion by the number one teams,"S( pul said. “This year we will haveacht to participate more and shouldo out ahead last year “However, until April wewil lax and admire the huge trop; that we brought home last «t end.” of our 16th place na MIA dets h (Vedne; ruce w liter h dhnsoi he club "I d( iave d< hem," srime t jrag thi han it r The ! adv; izine’s dets’ cl bout Si In tl barter ; ast seas iliment nates Jykstra Of .)( yonder M i Stanley gets to relive childhood memories as Rangers put him behind plate for now Mark uns, im Shot to Tiing, as P'rancisc xhibitu McGv ff Mik nd inr ame of MMM ruiRiS'j' VylB) to TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESENTS AN AGGIEVISION PRODUCTION PRODUCED BY GREG KEITH ARTISTIC DIRECTION BY YOLLIE LOPEZ AND SEAN SMITH SCREENWRITER ROBERT DOWDY SECRETARY ALMAZ SMITH VIDEOGRAPHY BY STACEY BOTT PETER HUGHES STEVE WHITE CRAIG SUTHERLAND >4CC£M©I0fl A&M BUY ONE TODAY r 1 ORDER YOURS AT OUR ALL MATERIAL SUITABLE FOR AGGIES ^ TABLE IN THE MSC ^ PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — Mike Stanley is happy that the Texas Rangers finally did what al ways happened to him when he was growing up in South Florida. They assigned him a catcher’s mitt. “I was always the kid they stuck behind the plate,” said Stanley, who has gone from a jack-of-all-trades utility man to the Rangers’ starting catcher. “I’ve always had these strong legs and that’s where being a catcher starts,” Stanley said. “If your legs go, so does your offense and defense.” Stanley spent the off-season try ing to increase the velocity in his arm after throwing out only five of 79 baserunners in 61 games with the Rangers last season. Former Ranger Joe Ferguson, a strong-armed catcher in his playing career, tried to teach Stanley his catching methods. “When I was working with Fergy, we weren’t really working with my abilities,” Stanley sbid. “Fergy. really had some great ideas but they were geared to a player of his nature and abilities." Ferguson blew away baserunners with his bazooka-arm. Stanley’s power must come from his legs. “He (Ferguson) had a powerful arm and I nave an average arm,” Stanley said. “I have to do different things to get my velocity up.” Despite Stanley’s throwing prob lems and 18 passed balls, Manager Bobby Valentine saw enough prom ise to trade Don Slaught, the only Rangers catcher with major league experience, and gamble on Stanley. ny b said. “I’m happy that right now) able to become Mike Stanley. ‘It’s just like every hitter haiii 30-foc r field “The laid he’s Iver tlui ferent style. You can’t makeer v' j ' body have one lundofahittingsraT 1,11 ^ ,l “What worked for Fergy ^ ([)( | necessarily work for me.” * Valentine made a project ley and {personally took chargeo!r* n< 11 development. “I stayed on in Dallas fori one month after the season anc worked two solid weeks on thf ing,” Stanley said. “We filmed it, “It’s a gamble f rom the standpoint that he doesn’t have much major league experience,” Rangers Gen eral Manager Tom Grieve said. “But he’s worked hard at improving his throwing and I think it will pay off this season.” Stanley believes off-season work on mechanics will help improve his average this season. “My big thing is getting my foot- viewed it and looked atothercz ers and studied them. “I took all those new habiuk with me (to Fort Lauderdale, Fli he said. “I’m trying to do then things now.” Stanley was called up to the Hi ers from Class AAA Iune2anc lidified his position 6 N< is EDI must r< It h; since B rones - his position by hitting for the month. He finished wiilj ; , ' .273 average with 37 runsbatt«|J w j^ er ”‘ l and six home runs. ]| I ll -‘> II even b AND GO student ERNMENT TEX/VS A&M UNIVERSITY playing ended 26 anc Confer Desy ing in a at the night ; westeri Louisia ment it WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE FOR PARTICIPATING ON SATURDAY MARCH 5,1988 IN A COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT. 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