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Tuesday, March 29, 1988/The Battalion/Page 9 Sports gs fall short againstMo. 1 OSU I'eenieit S r By Cray Pixley Sports Writer Blhe 3rd-ranked Texas A&M seball team suffered a narrow 5-4 difeat in the 10th inning against No. 1 Oklahoma State Monday before a r witfiBcord crowd of 5,373 at Olsen Field ista fi/Bd an ESPN national telecast. ; NicjHThe Cowboys improved to 22-1 ksof i-Biile the Aggies’ slate fell to 28-7. veengMThe Cowboys were held to six j side. ■ ts > a season 1°W. odell.■“Our pitching staff was the bright usopgjBot in the game,” A&M Coach r (0 ^■arkJohnson said. “We held a pow- ■house offensive ball team to six the #8." ■Johnson said some of the Aggies’ dfficulties could be attributed to ■orly-executed bunt plays. ■ “I was surprised that we didn’t hit ■e ball a little better even though we out hit them,” he said. ■ OSU Coach Gary Ward expressed surprise at his team’s low hitting ontrasg hat coii ■Is insisj until ill ivere a have t the ( toeigfi tlte lii .son.lj t ides a agua't ranteei ch the pernii ■ly. |“1 thought the ball park would be a little smaller tonight, and I’m sur- ■•ised we were held to six hits and live runs,” Ward said. I “I felt I lost my ball team there for 'a while,” he said. “The crowd was so enthusiastic it was like a football ■tine.” I The game opened with a chase be tween first and second base before OSU’s Travis Law was caught by first baseman Mike Easley. I The next two OSU players singled to centerfield before being picked off in a double play. OSU answered with a double play of its own at the bottom of the First when A&M’s Chuck Knoblauch and Scott Livingstone were picked off on second and first base. A&M got on the scoreboard first with a third-inning home run by catcher Tom Carcione. Carcione homered again in the fifth and was 4-for-4 with three RBI. “Carcione had a career night,” Ward said. “That’s what we get for letting Oklahoma boys come down here.” The Cowboys scored in the fourth inning off a Monty Fariss home run that also scored Robin Ventura. The Aggies and Cowboys were tied at two runs each from the fifth to the ninth innings. The Cowboys hoped to close things out in the ninth inning but came up empty-handed. A&M’s Kirk Thompson had a key catch in centerfield and Knoblauch caught a high ball to go to the bot tom of the ninth. A&M second baseman Terry Tay lor had a rough night, striking out four times before being thrown out of the game for making a mark in the batter’s box with his bat. OSU broke the tie with a three- run homer by Law. Law’s homer was his first of the Controversy also reigned in the tenth. Cowboy pitcher Bryan Gore bun ted to first base and was tagged by Easley. Gore slapped Easley after the tag and the OSU bench emptied. The Aggies stayed in the dugout and no action was taken by the um pires. The bottom of the 10th inning saw a number of pitching changes by the Cowboys, who tried to play right handers off left handers. For A&M, Thompson walked in the 10th and Knoblauch singled to left field. Thompson scored off a Liv ingstone single to second base. John Byington popped out and Andy Duke, batting in place of Tay lor, struck out. The Aggies last run was batted in by Carcione. “We played a good ball game, and we stayed in there the whole time,” Carcione said. “We just weren’t able to pull it off.” Easley popped one to right field to end the Aggies hopes of defeating the No. 1 team. OSU had six pitching changes with Gore, 2-0, given the win. He gave up five hits and three runs, all earned. He walked five and had four strikeouts. The losing pitcher for A&M was Nick Felix, 5-2. The Aggies hit Olsen Field to night at 7 against North Texas State. Photo by Mike C. Mulvey A Texas A&M player slides safely back at first while OSU first baseman Manny Cervantes catches the pick- off attempt. An Olsen Field record crowd of 5,373 saw the Cowboys defeat the Aggies 5-4 in 10 innings. -|B6 Games bid options down to 2 ISlMll S6 ■ COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. tnJ.I(AP) — The U.S. Olympic Commit- P? will choose Atlanta or Minneapo- Jis-St. Paul as America’s potential bid jcky for the 1996 Summer Olympics, the USOC announced Monday. was«i e USOC said representatives n (liul r l ^ e two areas tnake presenta tions during the committee’s annual ‘ 1 [Bouse of Delegates meeting April ility it] tee wot Bin Washington, D.C. ■Following the presentations, the ifSOC executive board will decide , whether to submit one of the cities as in vieii^ the U.S. bidder for the 1996 Games. The board could decide not to back either city, but that is considered un likely. Atlanta and Minneapolis-St. Paul were chosen over San Francisco and Nashville, Tenn., as the final two U.S. candidates, the USOC said. “We were fortunate to have four outstanding cities interested in be coming our candidate to host the 1996 Olympic Games,” said Jimmy Carnes, co-chairman of the USOC’s site selection committee. “We are grateful to all four of them for the time, energy and en thusiasm that they demonstrated on behalf of amateur sports and the Olympic movement. However, our committee felt that the Atlanta and Minneapolis-St. Paul bid proposals were clearly superior. . . .” More than a dozen cities had ex pressed interest in becoming the U.S. bidder during a 1985 seminar in Colorado Springs. The list was eventually narrowed to Atlanta, Minneapolis-St. Paul, San Francisco and Nashville. e whisi en C-l ■d Stale be igi°. he off* imnia \ efoW' R nits s- e 1 dcarf e siness®! he W bvaSi- rid* : W price ! fro® l.theP ’ said]' presid' Ofl ras^ ’ebb* jtertf inf? oUl P )r ofi ■cliie eU v its it ^ an s ^ The New England Conservatory Chorus goes Since founding the New England Conservatory Chorus in 1949, Lorna Cooke deVaron has conducted some of the country’s most gifted vocalists. During her career with the Chorus, she has toured America, the Soviet Union, Spain and Israel. Under her direction, the Chorus has performed annually and made 18 recordings with the world renowned Boston Symphony Orchestra. 1988 marks the retirement of Mrs. deVaron from the NEC. Her farewell tour to Texas will be remembered as the end of a musical era. The New England Conservatory Chorus will perform in Rudder Auditorium, Tuesday, March 29 at 8 p.m.. Tickets are $3.50 ($2.50 for students) and may be purchased at the MSC Box Office. 845-1234. r msc J.Wi OPAS. Stark Concert Series aune 4J Conce MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society • Memorial Student Center • Texas A&M University Tickets $3.50 for adults 2.50 for children under 12 Cotton Bowl seeks corporate sponsor DALLAS (AP) — A sports consul ting firm has been retained to secure a corporate sponsor for the Cotton Bowl Classic, officials said Monday. 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