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By Doug Walker
Reporter
Despite being edged in the team
standings, the Texas A&M gymnas
tics team had its best team perfor
mance of the year at the Texas Gym
nastics Conference (TGG)
Championships this weekend at
A&M.
Champions were crowned in the
open and collegiate divisions for the
men and in the open division for the
women.
In the men’s collegiate team com
petition, Texas bested A&M by a
scoreof 181.55 to 171.25 by winning
the pommel horse and the vault by
big margins. The Aggies had higher
combined scores on the high bar,
parallel bars and the floor exercise.
“UT squeaked by us,” Ricky Farias,
team president said. “We did really
well, but they scored an unforseea-
ble total.”
David Clubb, a collegiate All-
American and NCAA Division II
champion in the horizontal bars
event, said the Aggies put together
their best team performance of the
year.
“I really wish we could have
beaten Texas, but this was our best
team score of the year, he said. “We
really came together for this meet.”
Teams representing Rice, Ste
phen F. Austin State and Southwest
Texas State joined the Aggies and
the Longhorns in the collegiate divi
sion.
The Sokol team won the open
team title as they nipped the Bryan-
College Station team 185.30 to
181.70.
Thejuergens team was third and
the team representing Southwestern
gymnastics was fourth.
In the women’s individual colle
giate competition, A&M’s Alisa Sa-
cash took the all-around title ahead
of Amy Jensen of Southwest Texas
State.
Sacash also won titles in the vault,
the floor exercise and the balance
beam to lead a strong showing by the
A&M women.
Birgit Irgolic, an independent,
won the uneven bars ahead of
Photo by Kathy Haveman
A&M’s Alisa Sacash performs her beam routine during the Texas
Gymnastics Conference Championships held in the Read Building.
A&M’s Jacqueline Catala and Bar
bara Loudon of SWTSU.
Sharilon Hall took second for
A&M in the floor exercise, fourth in
the vault and third on the balance
beam.
Cheree Chatelain of A&M was
second on the balance beam and
fifth in the vault while A&M’s Jen
nifer Hampton placed sixth on the
uneven bars and sixth in the vault.
The A&M women’s team is young
and A&M Head Coach Ernie Kirk-
ham said he expects improvement in
the future.
“I look forward to a much better
program (men’s and women’s) next
year,” he said. “We’re hoping to start
building on the women’s program
next year.”
Clubb was the top individual Ag
gie performer in the men’s individ
ual events taking second in the all-
around competition to Mark Shaffer
of Texas.
A&M’s Hector Longoria was sixth
and Floyd Osborne was ninth for the
Aggies. Shaffer also won the rings
and the pommel horse titles.
The floor title ended in a tie be
tween A&M’s David Bunk and
Texas’James Spry.
Other Aggie floor exercise com
petitors were Clubb and Denny
Fulks (tied for fifth) and Esteban
Longoria (tied for eighth).
Bunk won the vault ahead of Spry
and Fulks.
Clubb was fifth and Longoria tied
for fourth for A&M.
The top Aggie performers in the
pommel horse were Don Cardinal in
fourth place and Steve Rowland in
fifth.
Farias finished fifth for A&M in
the rings event and Longoria was
sijcth followed by Terry Villareal in
seventh. Clubb took first in the par
allel bars while Longoria placed
fifth.
Clubb also won the high bar com
petition with Fulks taking fifth.
J.T. Fletcher, head gymnastics
coach at Bryan High and represent
ing the Bryan-College Station team,
won the men’s open all-around title
ahead of Johnathan Conrad of the
Sokol team. Javad Khorsandi of the
Sokol team was third.
Conrad won the pommel horse,
floor exercise, rings and high bar ti
tles in the open individual competi
tion.
Paul Hunter of the Bryan-College
Station team won the parallel bars
and was second in the vault behind
Ross Vines, an independent.
Meet Director Cid Galindo said
the event was a success because of
the work of the members of the
A&M gymnastics club.
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Rockets, Mavericks to renew rivalry in playoffs
HOUSTON (AP) — The first
round NBA playoff series between
the Houston Rockets and Dallas
Mavericks already has been tagged
the “Interstate 45" series.
Now Rockets guard Robert Reid
says it can be termed “heated.”
i “It’s going to be heated because
now you’re playing for (Texas) brag
ging rights,” Reid said.
“Plus, the team that wins this se
ries will automatically going to be ex
pected to face Los Angeles (Lakers)
in the Western Conference finals.
That’s automatic.”
The Rockets and Mavericks,
meeting in the playoffs for the first
time, will start their best of five
games first-round series at Dallas’
Reunion Arenn THurcrGv
The second game also will be in
Dallas on Saturday and games are
scheduled Tuesday and May 5 in
Houston. A fifth game would return
to Dallas May 7.
The Rockets closed out the regu
lar season Sunday with a 127-119
victory over Phoenix, which missed
the NBA playoffs for the third
straight year.
The Rockets had an 8-13 record
over the final 21 games of the sea
sons and they lost their regular sea
son series with the Mavericks 4-2.
Houston also will take a three-
game losing streak against the Mav
ericks into the series, including Dal
las victories in their last two visits to
The SumfHit.
All that now is meaningless, Reid
said.
“We’ve got a lot to prove in the
playoffs but at least we won the last
game and that will get us going,”
Reid said. “It’s a new season now.”
The Mavericks hadn’t won a sea
son series against the Rockets since
the 1983-84 season but Houston
Coach Bill Fitch says the Mavericks
deserved to win this season.
The Mavericks beat the Rockets in
The Summit 108-106 on February
25 and 104-96 on April 19.
“Both times they played down
here they deserved to win because
they played better than we did,”
Fitch said. “But we got a pretty good
victory in Dallas so we know we can
win there too.”
The Rockets beat the Mavericks
108-92 in Dallas and 117-107 in The
Summit this season.
IOC will strengthen
drug use penalties
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP)
—Armed with new penalties
against substance-using athletes
and unethical laboratories, the
International Olympic Commit
tee is honing its attack on doping
in sports to make sure this sum
mer’s Games are as drug-free as
possible.
"Last year, IOC-accredited labs
around the world tested more
than 37,000 samples, and 854
came back positive,” Prince Alex
andre de Merode, chairman of
the IOC’s medical commission,
said.
Anabolic steroids were the
most abused drug, showing posi
tive in 521 cases. Steroids add to
musde bulk, but have been
shown to carry serious side effects
such as liver damage. Ampheta
mines and other stimulants were
next, with 301 cases.
The labs also found 24 cases
where athletes used probenecid, a
“masking agent,” to try to hide
the presence of other illegal
drugs.
On Sunday, Merode urged the
federations that govern the sum
mer Olympic sports to adopt uni
form drug penalties, suggesting a
multi-tier plan similar to one the
IOC is using for the first time this
year.
Under it, athletes who take
drugs only to enhance perfor
mance are dealt with differently
than those who might take then
accidentally as part of a legitimate
medication. There also are stiffer
penalties awaiting repeat offend
ers, ranging up to a life ban in
both cases.
In addition, Merode said, the
IOC is considering long-term sus
pensions from the Games for ath
letes found using drugs during
Olympic competition. Presently,
an athlete who tests positive is
thrown out of those Games but
can be reinstated for the next.
Rangers relief pitcher
suspended for fighting
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Relief
pitcher Mitch Williams was sus
pended for two games by the Ameri
can League Monday for his part in
triggering a brawl between Texas
and the Boston Red Sox earlier this
month and the Rangers said they
plan to appeal the ruling.
Manager Bobby Valentine, in
Tulsa for an exhibition between the
Rangers and their Class AA affilliate
the Tulsa Drillers, said an appeal
hearing is scheduled for Friday in
New York.
“It was a boys will be boys situa
tion,” Valentine said. “Suspensions
are usually when it’s something out
of the ordinary. This was basically an
ordinary, emotional situation where
a little pushing occurred.
“The appeal will be mainly to find
out if this is a precedent that will re
main intact the entire year,” he said.
“It’s one of those things, if the sus
pension holds up, that we’ll have to
live with it and go from there.”
Williams, a 2 3-year-old left
hander, exchanged punches with
Boston’s Marty Barrett after Barrett
scored in the ninth inning of a game
on April 8.
“I figured it’d be a fine. I didn’t
figure on a two-game suspension,”
Williams said. “It’s something I
hadn’t counted on, but it’s some
thing we’ll have to deal with.”
Williams said he wants to appeal
the ruling “because I don’t feel I
should be the only one punished.”
“I realize I was the one who threw
the first punch . . . and I know I was
wrong for that,” he said. “But the
Boston players were wrong for
doing what they did. I just feel that if
action was taken against both clubs,
then it would be resolved.”
Williams dashed with the Red Sox
last season after hitting Jim Rice with
a pitch and had another run-in with
Boston this spring during exhibition
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