Tuesday, March 29, 1988/The Battalion/Page 9
Sports
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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
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ista fi/Bd an ESPN national telecast.
; NicjHThe Cowboys improved to 22-1
ksof i-Biile the Aggies’ slate fell to 28-7.
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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
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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.
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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
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ifSOC executive board will decide
, whether to submit one of the cities as
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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.
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New England
Conservatory
Chorus
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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.
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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.
Sports Marketing & Television In
ternational, based in Greenwich,
Conn., will represent the Cotton
Bowl in acquiring a name-in-title
sponsor and assist in the coordina
tion of television activities with CBS.
“We are pleased to be associated
with SMTI,” said Jim Williams, Jr.,
president of the Cotton Bowl Ath
letic Association. “We are in a new
era, and securing a title sponsor is a
top priority for our Association.”
SMTI performs marketing and
television consulting services for the
College Football Association, the
Breeders’ Cup Championship,
Sports Illustrated, the Seagram Bev
erage Company and maintains mar
keting associations with Mobil Cor
poration, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and
Merrill Lynch, among others.
“We are pleased and honored to
have been selected for this presti
gious assignment, and believe that
the Cotton Bowl Classic will present
an attractive and meaningful mar
keting opportunity for its sponsor,”
SMTI chairman Michael Trager
said.
Reacting to the announcement,
Neal Pilson, president of CBS Sports
said, “We have treasured our 31-
year history with the Cotton Bowl
and look forward to working with
the Cotton Bowl Committee and
SMTI in finding a corporate spon
sor for the coming years.”
The 53rd Cotton Bowl Classic,
matching the Southwest Conference
football champion against another
team, will be played January 2, 1989.
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