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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.
Sponsors for the event in
cluded 24 Hour Cyms of Texas,
Zephyr Club, KKYS-FM, Cold’s
Gym and Aggieland Schwinn.
These sponsors were among
many who supplied prizes for the
competitors.
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