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a Thursday, March 31,1988/The Battalion/Page 11 Sports onard: Curry couldn’t touch Uhim, Hagler tORT WORTH (AP) — Sugar theden Ray Leonard says Donald Curry Hid not compete with him or Mar sh casu »in Hagler in the ring and that he titty i did; Curry a favor by coming out of 'Land! retirement to fight Hagler last year. Heonard made the statements in a role deposition to Curry’s attorney last ive, imrjlciober, the Fort Wort Star-Tele- ss of ouiBttt reported Wednesday, i an attrH‘ urr y> h' s trainer and his former said. Huager are suing Leonard and Hnard’s attorney for $ 1 million for rabswei Mvice they allege kept Curry out of i 45tojfl way of the Leonard-Hagler “Su- otingan iperFight” that was later arranged. Kings. HH ort Worth attorney Jon Kerr, e j n j l: Astioning Leonard on behalf of H plaintiffs, asked if he thought ckdowtfHfy cou ld compete with him. n lateJiHNo,” Leonard said. “No way.” he850(fHl saved him ... from Marvin Bank* Hauler,” Leonard added. th«ir Surry of Fort Worth became the jbsontffHhsputed welterweight champion ecember 1985. He sought advice a Leonard’s attorney, Michael Kiner, about handling money and e State! dealing with promoters in March 1®6. April 6, 1986, Curry an- nced he would not fight against In-World Boxing Association ju- |r middleweight (154-pound) mpion Mike McCallum. Curry d Trainer to handles his legal af- s, but he ended that relationship lasthenwhen Leonard announced his oreortk Jonieback plans a month later. ^■.eonard scored an upset 12- Hnd decision against Hagler in April 1987, the former undisputed dleweight (160-pound) cham- from ii se Iht pOlLC lls ■n the deposition, Leonard said he and Trainer felt Curry could any welterweight but Lloyd eyghan, the man who ended n Brry’s reign as undisputed cham- p» in September 1986. ■Regardless of your motivation, I (AP)-Hm, you did deceive Mr. Curry in r Robenm you told him that you had no lied Aofijfris to come out of retirement and eese Ill Ighi anybody. Hagler or anybody . sleaie H?” Kerr asked Leonard, butPreH'fhere was no deceit as far as I’m iissupp< toncerned,” Leonard replied, ocusohl A&M catching baseball fever; OSU game may start epidemic Ags rally to beat NTSU 5-4 From Staff and Wire Reports Olsen Field had never seen any thing like it in a decade of collegiate baseball. Capacity was 5,053, yet there was a standing-room-only crowd of 5,373 fans crammed into the aisles and every nook and cranny to watch sixth-ranked Texas A&M meet top- ranked Oklahoma State, nursing a 15-game winning streak. The Aggies lost 5-4 in extra in nings but the nationally televised game on ESPN drew raves. “This one was a great show,” said Oklahoma State Coach Gary Ward. “We’d like to play them again. On June 10th.” June 10 is the day of the championship game in the College World Series. It was a game of four home runs and big defensive plays. So spectacular was the game that a freight train stopped on the tracks behind right field so the engineer could watch the action. An Oklahoma State homer almost rolled to the train. “This was just a great game and I’m really proud of our fans,” said A&M Coach Mark Johnson. “They were tuned in from the first pitch and stayed there until the last pitch.” A&M has a 30-7 record and is on track to its best season since 1971 when the Aggies finished 31-9. A&M beat North Texas State 8-1 Tuesday and 5-4 on Wednesday af ternoon to reach the 30-win plateau. “You read all about OSU and how they are No. 1 but now we know for sure we can compete with them,” said A&M third baseman Scott Liv ingstone. A&M fans painted their faces and 1,000 of them had on batting hel mets. One small band of fans had a large fishing pole with a “crying towel” hooked on the end of the line which they dropped from the upper deck within Ward’s reach. “That’s an area called ‘George’s By Hal L. Hammons Assistant Sports Editor Texas A&M rallied for three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning for a 5-4 win over North Texas State Wednesday af ternoon at Olsen Field. The win, the second in two days over the Eagles, pushed the Aggies to 30-7 on the year. NTSU fell to 5-26. Kirk Thompson led off the ninth for the Aggies with a single, and he scored on Terry Taylor’s double. Chuck Knoblauch fol lowed with a double that dropped just under the diving NTSU cen ter fielder’s glove, scoring Taylor. John Byington followed with a sacrifice fly to center that moved Knoblauch to third, and Jim Neu mann knocked him home with another fly. The Aggies opened the scoring in the second. Tom Carcione reached first on an error and eventually scored when Andy Jungle’ ” said A&M assistant sports information director Alan Cannon. “The tradition got started several years ago when Baylor came to play and they hooked a teddy bear and dropped it near the Bears’ coach (Mickey Sullivan). It’s different,” he said. “All I know it was the loudest crowd we’ve ever had. You couldn’t hear the public address announcer,” said Cannon, who has seen all of A&M’s games. The Aggies have never had the national baseball success of their Southwest Conference rival Texas Longhorns and Coach Cliff Gustaf son. The Aggies have won three straight SWC football titles but when Duke’s grounder went between the shortstop’s legs. But the Eagles responded in the top of the third. Cecil Vega was hit by starting pitcher Kerry Freudenberg, and Danny Suges and Steve Taylor singled to load the bases. Vega scored the Eagles’ first run when Freudenberg’s pick-off attempt flew into center field. Keith Cullom and Jesse Ramon walked to force in Suges. Mike Sanders grounded into a fielder’s choice that scored Taylor, and NTSU led 3-1. Steve Hughes, who came in for the Aggies to start the ninth, got his fourth win of the year against no losses. Eagle reliever Don Coen got the loss, his first deci sion of the year. A&M Coach Mark Johnson was pleased with the improving play of Terry Taylor. The second baseman struck out four times in Monday’s loss to Oklahoma State, you talk baseball, Gustafson is still the king. The Aggies came within a game of making the College World Series last year in the championship of the Mideast Regional but lost 11-9 to OSU. Texas and Arkansas from the SWC did make it. “It was almost a replay of the game we lost Monday night,” Can non said. “We had runners on the corners with two outs but still lost.” The Aggies last appeared in the College World Series in 1964, losing their first two games. In 1951, A&M went 1-2 in the NCAA playoffs. “Everybody has the lever around but he went 3-for-4 Wednesday. “He made some good adjust ments from the other night,” Johnson said. “I think his confi dence level is much, much higher than it was (after Monday).” He was not pleased, however, with the continuing difficulties his team is having as a whole at the plate. “I don’t think we have been hit ting the ball well,” he said. “It hasn’t been a good offensive week for us.” Johnson said the team is miss ing outfielders Tim McWilliam and Deron Dacus. McWilliam is recovering from a back injury and is scheduled to begin throw ing the ball again today. Dacus was hit in the eye in Tuesday’s game and received 40 stitches. Dacus should be out for ten to twelve days. A&M plays again Friday af ternoon as it starts a three-game series with Texas Tech. here for sure,” said Cannon. “And the Oklahoma State game didn’t hurt. It’s got everybody fired up.” Olsen Field, 10 years old, is named after a prominent millionaire alumnus who attends many of the Aggie games. Olsen once spent spring training with the New York Yankees as a pitcher and still has a team picture which has him in the photo along with baseball greats Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Olsen didn’t make the big leagues and went into the oil field equipment business. “That Monday night game was a big thrill,” Olsen said. “Maybe we can get to the World Series this year.” TCU leads in 1st half of dual match Fotd weather and the 14th-ranked Texas Christian University men’s tennis team rolled into town to dis rupt the 24th-ranked Texas Aggies Wednesday at Omar Smith Tennis Center. Singles play was completed but rain postponed the doubles action which has been rescheduled for April 13. TCU leads the dual match with a 4-2 lead in the singles. “We had a great effort against a great TCU squad and we’re not fin ished yet, A&M Coach David Kent said. “We still have the doubles and that’s our strongest point. We had too many missed opportunities here, today, but they are a good team.” A&M’s No. 3 Steve Kennedy and No. 5 Craig Whitteker won their matches. Kennedy defeated Neil Smith in three sets, 7-5, 1-6, 6-2. Whitteker beat Gary Betts 6-3, 3 6, 6-4. A&M’s No. 1 Dean Johnson suf fered defeat to Clinton Banducci, 6- 2, 6-4 and No. 2 man, Shaun O’Do novan lost to Earl Zinn, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. TCU’s Eric Lingg defeated No. 4 Michael Chambers, 5-7, 7-6, 6-2. No. 6 Wayne Green lost to G<vr- rard Ronan 6-2, 6-0. Twins edge Astros 6-5 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Mark Davidson and A1 Newman keyed a four-run seventh inning as the Min nesota Twins rallied for a 6-5 exhibi tion baseball victory over the Hons ton Astros Wednesday. It was the Twins’ final home game of spring training. 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