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Wednesday, April 13, IQSS/The Battalion/Page 11 ... ' • • Brenham schoolboy sets win record Peters strikes out 15 for 34th straight victory 1 BRENHAM (AP) — Rifle-armed Jon Peters ripped through his oppo nents’lineup Tuesday with 15 strike- iuts and set a national high school iaseball record for most consecutive reer victories by a pitcher. Mixing a lively fastball with sharp rves on a mild Texas night, the 17- year-old Brenham High School fight-hander claimed his 34th raight career victory against Con- e Oak Ridge with a 5-0 one-hit n. “1 was just glad to get it over,” said he soft-voiced junior of the final Irikeout in the seven-inning game. )ne swing, you know, and it could have been a home run. “This is the biggest thrill of my areer,” said Peters, who has never bsta high school game since starting |s a freshman in 1986. About 1,200 fans, many in the jreen and white of the Brenham tubs, crammed every seat in Fire- Jian’s Park and cheered wildly at the ''final out. I Peters’ teammates rushed the field and hoisted him on their shoul ders as out-of-town cameras blinked dTV lights followed. It was the largest crowd since Houston Astros fastballer Nolan Ryan appeared here for Alvin High School in the 1960s. Non-paying fans crowded on an adjacent elevated railroad track. Peters had a no-hitter through 6!/s innings. He now has 80 strikeouts in 41 in nings, having give up only two earned runs and 15 hits for an earned-run average of 0.44. Peters’ mother is an elementary school physical teacher, and his fa ther is a math teacher at Blinn Ju nior College in Brenham. Local enthusiasts say Peters has only lost two games in his career, both in youth baseball before high school. One was in the state finals as a teen-ager, and the other was against Taiwan in the national Little League World Series. As a freshman in 1986, Peters posted a 13-0 record with a 1.97 earned-run average. The Cubs won the state championship in their clas sification with a 30-3 record. During his sophomore year, Peters had a 15- 0 record with a 1.07 earned-run av erage, and the Cubs went 28-2 in winning their second straight state title. The Brenham bats began the game in silence, keeping the out come in doubt until the fifth inning. The Cubs had outscored their first three league opponents 56-3 and were ranked No. 1 in their classifica tion in the Texas high school coaches’ poll. With Tuesday’s victory, the Cubs improved their 1988 record to 19-3 overall and 4-0 in league play. With a crouched delivery similar to fastballer Ryan’s, the 6-foot-1, 195-pound Peters beat a record held since 1977 by Mike Pill of West Cov ina High School in Edgewood, Calif., as recorded by the National Federation of State High School As sociations headquartered in Kansas City. Conroe Oak Ridge, 6-8, threat ened in the second inning after an infield error, a walk and a forceout to put runners at second and third. Peters, who struck out Oak Ridge’s first four batters, got the final out with a high, tight fastball for a swing ing third strike. The Cubs, two-time defending state champions in Class 4A, the state’s second-highest enrollment classification, finally gave Peters the runs he needed with a two-out, fifth inning rally that began with a run scoring triple by Sean Cooper, nephew of major leaguer Cecil Coo per. Three hits later, the Cubs had three runs. Pinch-hitter Jim Kruse, son of a co-owner of Brenham’s famous Blue Bell Dairies, put the game out of reach with a two-run single in the bottom of the sixth. Peters survived a bases-loaded seventh-inning stirring by Oak Ridge. He struck out the first batter to raucous cheers, but the second batter reached on an error. Then came the first hit, an opposite-field grounder slapped just inside third base, and then a walk. The third baserunner was caught in a rundown when he attempted to score on a ball that was dropped by the catcher, and Peters struck out the final batter. idekicks finish best home season DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Side- kirks have completed their best |pme season ever, but problems be- veen the players and owners of the JMajor Indoor Soccer League teams Pqjav make all of the work of the past Tpe months meaningless. ■The Sidekicks defeated Minne- ■ta 4-2 Sunday to give them a 22-6 i home record, best in club history. [The defending MISL champions drew 15,198 fans at Reunion Arena, which has a capacity of 16,824 for ■ccer, to the final home game. They finished the home season with an average of 9,878 fans, a 14.4 percent increase over last season. With two games remaining in the regular season, the Sidekicks are tied with Cleveland for second place in the MISL Eastern Division. But the end of the regular season could mean the end of the season and possibly the end of the road for the MISL because of a disagreement between players and owners over management’s proposed salary cap. Team owners have given the play ers’ union until Friday to agree to a i It’s 11:42 p.m. in College itation, and the sports A troubled evening in the world of sports By Hal L. Hammons Assistant Sports Editor Viewpoint r-6,0 desk is all aflutter with distress. It runt seems there is basically nothing liisa happening in the outside world, portswise. Big deal, one might say. Well, when we have to fill a huge chunk )f the paper with random sports tuff and there is considerably ie di: more space than stuff, well, there are words for that kind of situa tion that don’t belong in a family newspaper. Or even The Battal- on. Perhaps the problem is that we don’t have enough sports here. I ion’t know, . . . maybe there hould be a professional field tockey team here — the College Station Cyclone, perhaps? — that :ould pack the Kyle Field bleach- frs on such balmy Tuesday nights '™is tonight. Perhaps we should have sent a reporter to cover the intramural oftball playoffs. I know I was in volved in a game before I came to Oi work, that was worthy of, well, at least four or five column inches. Vou know the kind — lots of mis- akes early, fighting back with rharacter and determination, two uns in the bottom of the last to pull out the “W,” etc., etc. If the Battalion advertising de partment had sold a few more ds, you could be looking at Sports Illustrated’s lovely Elle 0^ MacPherson trying to get yon to buy a skin magazine that’s pre tending to be a travel-and-fashion ^magazine under the title of a ports magazine. But OOOOOO! Of course, if someone had one on a mad shooting spree on he Fightin’ Texas Aggie golf nurse Tuesday, there would be o problem. The ever-innovative att sports gurus could have fit hat into the boundaries of sports ews. I can see the headline: ^Frustrated golfer turns tables — puts hole in balls.” Or maybe “12- gauge scores hole-in-one on Ag links.” Hmm. j It’s about now that the staff starts regretting not sending a staff member to cover the Texas Relays last weekend in Austin. Sitting through a downpour for ours before hearing that A&M had withdrawn its team from the ompetition could make one kick ing personal experience column. »Voes of sports journalism, how far to go when pursuing a career, effects of rain on water-soluble Ink and water-permeable paper, Id nauseum. I You see, it’s not all press-box Jjeats and lunch with Jackie here, o matter what you might have been told. We work hard for the “money.” Oh yes, rumor has it that we are compensated moneta rily for this legalized slavery. My friends over at Lamar Savings have yet to see much evidence of that, but our upper-echelon staff ers insist that it is so. Who am I to argue, a lowly sports peon in the kick-in-the-crotch world of colle giate journalism? Do you think it’s easy making an interesting tidbit of informa tion out of an interview with some athlete with the charisma of an major kitchen appliance? Let me give you an example: “Wellwedidntplayuptoourpo- lentialbutyougottagivethemcre- dittheyplayedhardandtheydeser- vedtowinandmyperformancewas- ntuptoparbutweknowweareagoo- dteamandwewillreboudnfromthi- ssetbackandbereadyforthenextg- ameanditsgoingtobeatoughones- ureNowhereStateis2-48buttheyh- avealotoftalentedpeopleandthey- rearisingprogramandtheyvegive- nalotoftoughteamsdifficultywere- goingtohavetohavestrongshowin- gsfromoffenseanddefensetogeto- utwithavictory.” And I’m trying to write that down manually from a standing position while I try to think of an other question to ask when he quits. A question to which he might have a rea/answer. And then we get up to the newsroom — the Battcave, as I af fectionately call it. Staffers slave away in front of smoking cathode ray tubes trying to effectively con vey the importance to the free world of Joe Blow’s spiel on the possible uses for nuclear waste in tomorrow’s agricultural commu nity. Not a pretty sight. In the meantime sundry peo ple call up the newsroom for the most ridiculous information, like what some guy’s phone number is. Only a strong desire to uphold what few good relations exist be tween students and the student press keeps me from asking, “You know, you could figure that one out yourself with a student directory and a couple hours of Sesame Street.” Honestly, all these people com plain about athletes having IQs and hat sizes of approximately equivalent values. I’ve met a lot of athletes, in all strata of the sport ing spectrum, and each one of them seemed to have a basic grasp on the concepts of alpha betic and numeric sequencing. But I’m not complaining. None of them have called tonight, and my precious memories of them have allowed me to stretch this story to fit the hole alloted by my illustrious editor. Thank you, guys. salary-cap reduction from $1,275 million to $898,OOP. The owners say if the players do not agree to the salary cap, they will fold the league without holding playoffs. Radwanski, player rep- e for the Sidekicks, says Eddie resentative tor tne aiciekicks, says dealings with union officials have been “very frustrating.” “It makes me upset because I feel like I’m dealing with a bunch of am ateurs,” he said. “They’re just up there playing a game, but the game they’re playing with is our employment. “If we have to go up there and ring some heads, it will get worked out.” Talks were held Monday, and other discussions are expected throughout the week in an effort to keep the MISL in operation. The talks were between MISL Commissioner Bill Kentling and union leader John Kerr. 1 2th Man Sports Cycling enthusiasts ride in Bicycle By Doug Walker Reporter Local cyclists joined members of the Texas A&M cycling team and other racers from around the state and the southwest in the Ag- gieland Bicycle Classic held in cold, windy weather Sunday at the Texas A&M Research Park. Cyclists competed in six races of varying distances in the open and collegiate categories in the event sanctioned by the United States Cycling Federation (USCF). Racers competed in the colle giate events for individual and team points that help the teams qualify for the national meet later this year. Teams representing Southwest conference schools and colleges from surrounding states made up the 18-team collegiate field. The meet has been held for the past few years as the Aggieland Stage Race and was changed from a stage format to a criterium race this year, according to Judd Micheal, A&M cycling club presi dent. In the stage format racers com pete in races over a span of two days with winners determined by aggregate times in those races. A criterium race is a one-day event in which racers only race once. A&M racers were competitive in the collegiate division as A&M’s Annette Wolfe won the women’s 20.4-mile race ahead of Roxana Fugleberg of Oklahoma and Stephanie Green of Rice. The men’s races consisted of events covering 25.5 and 40 miles. Rice’s Wendell Loyd captured the men’s B title in the 25.5-mile event as Erick Lind of Baylor took second and Kelly Fuelle of Texas Tech was third. A&M’s fin ishers were led by Charles Hogan in fourth place. Other Aggie fin ishers were Doug McCord in sev enth place, Phil Burkhalter in 11th and Chris Bartholomew in 14th. The men’s A (40 miles) title was won by Oklahoma’s Randy Root with Texas Tech’s Richard Walker in second and Texas’ Sammy Coulotta getting third. A&M’s Eric Waldheim was in a position to win the race with less than 100 yards to go, but he fell and finished sixth. Other A&M racers were Scott Rost (8th), Judd Michael (11th place) and Dave Cowger (12th). The open races were designed to spark local interest in cycling according to Robb Harris, a meet volunteer and former A&M team member. “Citizens’ races get the public acquainted with what real racing is like and help publicize the sport," Harris said. In the women’s 7.2-mile open race, Melinda Jones took first with Angy Darby coming in sec ond and Lynne Sonju taking third place. Men competed in two open races covering distances of 18 and 20 miles. In the 18-mile event, Lazzlo Szatze was first, followed by Philip Baker in second and Stacy Sacky in third. Steve Corsano, a local rider, won the open 20-mile race ahead of Eric Holloway and Dan Koser. The cold weather had some ef fect on the number of spectators for the races, but did not affect racer attendance, according to Race Director Dennis Tang. “We expected better weather and more spectators, but the weather hasn’t affected racer turnout,” Tang said. “We still had a good number of racers. We had close to 200 entries. We had 20 to 25 entries in the women’s colle giate and open races and about 50 riders for both men’s colle giate and open races. “This is mainly a group effort of the club and we couldn’t have done it without the help of the whole cycling team. Lori Anderson, race promoter and marketing director, said out side sponsorship enabled the team to raise about $2,500 and set a foundation for future races in coming years. “In the long term we want to build on it. We’ll definitely have sponsors for next year and we will make a progress report for the major sponsors to keep them posted on the plans for the next race,” she said. USCF sponsorship was needed to keep the club’s sanctioning by the federation so they can con tinue to compete for national USCF titles. “We need to have one race each year sponsored by the USCF to keep our USCF sanction. We’re monitoring the turnout to see if we will have another race later this summer,” Anderson said. Cyclists competed for trophies for the first three places as well as ribbons, cash and various prizes for leading prime laps in the races. The prime laps are designed to make the pace more rapid and tighten the field of racers, Harris said. 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