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By Cray Pixley
Assistant Sports Editor
Anxious fans waited 35 min
utes longer than expected for the
start of the benefit basketball
game between the Aggie All-Stars
and the Dallas Cowboy
Hoopsters.
The Hoopsters couldn’t quite
find G. Rollie White Coliseum
Saturday night.
“We were given Aggie direc
tions and went the wrong way on
University,” Cowboy cornerback
Everson Walls said. “We were
headed for Houston.”
The Cowboys mission was to
take on the Aggies — not the
Houston Oilers — to benefit the
I Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Cen
ter.
Fans breathed a sigh of relief
[when the Cowboys finally found
their way to the A&M campus.
Walls acted as the unofficial
I coach for the Cowboys by shout-
[ ing directions to Eugene Lock-
I hart, Thornton Chandler and the
I rest of the team.
“I’m not really the coach,”
I Walls admitted. “I just like to tell
j people what to do, and sometimes
I they follow my advice.”
The Cowboy with all the bas-
| ketball experience, Manny Hen
dricks, was surprisingly silent.
“I played basketball at Utah,
but I don’t coach,” he said. “I’ll
leav^ that to Everson.”
Former A&M standouts Rod
Bernstine and Ira Valentine tore
up and down the court as if they
were on Kyle Field again. The
players dribbled about four times
from one end of the court to the
other. Not much finesse, but
there was speed and power.
Keith Woodside played in ten
nis shoes, not high-tops, but
racked up 20 points for the Ags.
His efforts were topped only by
Bernstine who contributed 21
points.
“I like to play because it’s a
benefit game, and it’s good to see
the fans,” Woodside said.
Former A&M player and Har
lem Globetrotter Willie Foreman
seemed to settle for “only” 17
points.
Both Woodside and Bernstine
showed NBA sparks with long
three-point shots.
Lockhart acted the clown by
shouting, “You’re cheating,”
when the officials’ calls went
against his team.
“I’m a loudmouth, and I like to
make jokes,” Lockhart said.
Hendricks, Walls and Lockhart
said they enjoy playing benefit
games because it keeps them in
shape.
Chandler was the Cowboys’
Larry Bird with 31 points, while
Lockhart and Steve Gogan
chipped in 23 and 22 points re
spectively.
“It’s good to break a sweat and
do some running,” Lockhart said.
The Aggie All-Stars led most
of the game to win 123-116, but
fan satisfaction was the important
factor.
Both benches were mobbed by
autograph seekers the entire sec
ond half.
Although the Cowboys arrived
in College Station without a
promised top name, the fans
didn’t seems to mind.
Danny White, Tony Dorsett or
Herschel Walker had been guar
anteed to appear but didn’t make
the trip.
By Hal L. Hammons
Sports Editor
Texas A&M showed no signs of
self-destruction after being swept by
the Texas Longhorns as they re
bounded for a sweep of their own
against Texas Christian Friday and
Saturday.
The Aggies staved off a late rally
by the Horned Frogs for a 10-7 win
Friday. They followed with a nail-
biting 4-2 win in extra innings and a
9-1 blowout Saturday.
The first game Saturday math
ematically assured A&M of a berth
in the Southwest Conference tour
nament. The top four teams in the
conference get invitations.
A&M is now 46-11 on the season
and 15-4 in SWC play, trailing con
ference-leader Texas by three
games. TCU falls to 26-31 and 7-12.
The weekend was dominated by
A&M’s Chuck Knoblauch and Scott
Livingstone. Both went 7-for-12 for
the weekend. Both had home runs
and game-winning hits. They even
both had “Olympic-moment” plays
in the field.
A&M Head Coach Mark Johnson
said, “Chuck and Scott both hit the
ball well this weekend. They came
out and played well. They played
well defensively, too. That’s some
thing that gets overlooked a lot.”
TCU trailed 8-2 Friday before
erupting in the top of the sixth. The
first five batters got hits off A&M
starter Sean Snedeker, 8-1 on the
year and 5-1 in conference, and four
had scored before Nick Felix came
in to stem the tide.
It didn’t look like it was going to
work at first, as Felix balked in the
fifth run while pitching to the first
batter, Brad Owen. That put Mike
Moore on second with no outs.
Owen followed with a sharp
grounder up the middle, and Knob
lauch turned a spectacular double
play by tagging Moore out and
throwing to first to retire Owen.
Felix was in complete control after
that, retiring the Frogs in order the
rest of the way and striking out
seven of the nine.
The Aggies got started early, as
Knoblauch was hit by Tim Mauser,
7-5 and 3-3, on Mauser’s first pitch
of the game. A walk by Terry Tay
lor, doubles by Livingstone and John
Byington and a single by Mike Eas
ley brought in four runs to start the
game.
Homers by Kirk Thompson and
Livingstone added to the total.
The first game Saturday, sched
uled to be the short game, wound up
being the long game when the Ag
gies scored in the bottom of the sev
enth to tie the score at two.
Knoblauch doubled to right field
with two outs, and Kerry Knox was
brought in to relieve starter John
Briscoe.
See Aggies, page 10
Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
A&M second baseman Terry
Taylor throws to first during Sat
urday’s second game against
TCU. The Aggies won 9-1.
Close, but no cigar; perfection one step away
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periodically the
Sports Information
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■untry. I cheered
Bien the Rockets
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Hammons
Sports viewpoint
of them shook me up like the scores from
Comiskey Park in Chicago.
My Orioles were winning.
Perhaps I’m weird. No, scratch that — I
/mow I’m weird. Perhaps I’m weird in this
particular way. But I was really rooting for
them to keep up the good work.
Perfection is a precious rare thing in this
world, but the Orioles are pretty close to
having it. Perfect incompetence.
I personally know how difficult the quest
can be. Many times I as a sports reporter
have failed to get the right quote from some
coach or athlete. At times it was because I
didn’t ask the right question. Occasionally it
was because I couldn’t read my notes.
But when the quest is meeting with
success, it is necessary for others to treat the
would-be perfectionist with either honor or
jealousy. I choose honor.
But perfection necessitates continued
action, and the O’s came up a bit short
Friday.
Different people get disappointed at
different things. Some get upset when they
get a B instead of an A. Some get upset
when they get mustard instead of
mayonnaise. I hate to be disappointed
when I see a promising streak come to an
end. Is that so strange?
No one thought I was strange when I
wanted Pete Rose to keep up his 40-plus
game hitting streak. Anyone back in the
glory days of baseball who would have tried
to make Lou Gehrig miss a game during his
“Iron Horse” streak of more than 2,000
consecutive games would have been shot.
Same basic concept here.
I find it comforting to see the natural
order of things coming out so plainly even
in the world of sports. The Baltimore
Orioles are a perfect example of putting
together a combination of poor pitching,
poor fielding, poor hitting and poor
coaching, shaking the whole mess together,
and pulling out exactly what you think you
should. An altogether poor team.
But you’ve got to give them credit for
being as close to perfection as can be
reasonably expected. Indeed, they have
exceeded all expectations. Currently they
stand as having lost 23 out of 24 contests.
But Chicago isn’t comparable to the O’s.
And much in the same way as my boys in
orange and black, we on the Battalion
sports desk for the coming semester
promise to strive for nothing short of
perfection.
We don’t expect to reach it. We don’t
expect to get as close as the O’s, even.
But you can know for a certainty the
sports section you read this week, manned
by next fall’s staff, will be as good as
possible.
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