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Page lOAThe Battalion/Friday, May 6, 1988 Ametitie* <fou cvuttf: Pools Hoi tub, Tennis Court. Covered Parking, Large Floorplans. SettUcZA d&XesutC: Laundry Facilities Shuttle bus route. Maintenance. (^OHaaUeMCe (put need: Walking distance to Campus, Shopping and Restaurants. COURTYARD BOO University Oaks 696-3391 ttou* Stumnex & "poli HOURS:S(-F9am-6pm. Sat iOam-Spm. Sun i-4pm REjNrt A We Buy Books SCANDIA TAOS 401 Anderson 693-6505 NEWPORT SEVILLA 402 Nagle 846-8960 1501 Holloman iR 33 693-2108 PRIME CUTS AT CHOICE PRICES GEFFEN DANNY WILDE . "ANY MAN’S HUNGER” SIRE Prices Good 5/06/88 Thru 5/19/88 hasting^ something’s always on sale! Culpepper Plaza A&M ultimate Frisbe goes to regional met By Shannon O’Neal Reporter Cassettes • Compact Discs • Records • Cassettes • Compact Discs • Records • Cassettes • Compact The finals weekend pressure will be doubly tough for seven members of Texas A&M’s ultimate Frisbee club, Ultamu, when they represent the club at the Collegiate Regionals Tournament in Austin May 7-8. Club president Terry Strickland, a junior petroleum engineering ma jor from Redding, Calif., said the conflict with finals made it hard to find people to go and compete. He said the 20-member club will be bet ter represented at a July 4 competi tion in Boulder, Colorado, where about 20 teams will play. this can field is their biggesi tage because students here an able to get a lot of competitive rience. “Most of the skill in ultimaie the disk handling,” he said. 1 kind of weak there. Some rj teams we play have guys played for eight or 10 years team is really good in practict we lack experience against i guys in tournaments." Fielding a competitive ultimate team of students is difficult because of time conflicts, Strickland said. The A&M club’s chief rival, the Aus tin Bunnies, practices all week just to play on the weekend, he saidf. The Bunnies also have players from cities across the state who travel to tourna ments and play for the team. Strick land said the. experience teams like Ultimate is similar to fooikiS soccer with a disc, with theeitfj on passing, Strickland said. Am ends when the first team $core| 12 points to 15 points neededtc* He said the national club, the mate Players’ Organization,! rules of the game and tournac and announces dates for the v» competitions. Ultamu practices at 6 days and Thursdays on the Sin; Drill Field, and Strickland inv® eryone to "bring your cleats,ci on out and have some fun." SAN N ^outhwes Lgreemei draining < an SWT, The O Lelo Stan ears. ^ Jack Is State Uni officials fhursda tome at i “I see i SWT , jference t [ )J Chip r drs, said beached. He sa front-rui Ideal unti In Sar (appointr (begretth “I exp (future),’ banker 3 |ber of cc Baseball Wrap-up Brewers win 6th straight; training had her< He lis motenes coaches ities of tl But > 4-run 1 st beats Rangers 9- MILWAUKEE (AP) — Greg Brock’s triple keyed a four-run first inning and Bill Wegman pitched a four-hitter Thursday as the Milwaukee Brewers won their sixth straight game, defeating the Texas Rangers 9-1. Milwaukee’s Glenn Braggs added a three-run homer in the fifth off loser Bobby Witt, 0-5, who walked five batters in 5 1-3 innings to increase his American League-leading total to 35. Wegman, 3-3, pitched his third complete game of the season, struck out two and walked one. Texas scored its only run on Pete O’Brien’s seventh homer of the season in the fourth inning. The Brewers gave Wegmari| early lead when Witt walked bin Yount and B.J. Surhoffv one out in the first and Brock!c| lowed with a triple off the ce® field wall, just beyond Odd.? McDowell’s leaping reach. Brock scored on Witt’s wj pitch for the third run. Witttk walked Rob Deer, who moved second on an infield out an] scored on Jim Gantner's bite single to center. Surhoff singled and Dtt walked in the fifth before Bra;; homered to left, just over thee: stretched glove of Pete I neats- Braggs’ homer was his third the season and increased team-leading RBI total to20. ■ HOUS njedal wj ■hursda 2fth bin ■ “If I t Mar, tht nothing i ■ “I’ve a ton (Chi Ewing) I |f Lewis ble. 1 1,1 .i us| (iiliink abi you can i 31.” R Lewis « Schedule i P “Next ' A’s beat Jays 8-5 for 11th straight win OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Mark McGwire’s one-out single in the seventh inning scored Carney Lansford to put Oakland ahead and the Athletics stretched their winning streak to 11 games Thursday with an 8-5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Lansford walked to lead off the seventh and stole second. With one out, McGwire singled to left field off Jose Nunez, 0-1, and Lansford, running through the third base coach’s stop sign,tel the throw home by inches. Eric Plunk, 3-1, was the*® ning pitcher in relief. The Arne: can League West-leading A’sws for the 15th time in 16 games matched the Oakland club cord, set in 1981, with the ning streak. Terry Steinbach drove in runs for Oakland and Jose C/ seco had three hits and two batted in. Ja or NEW lYork K Ison, wh Hall-of- [was a i 1988 N lleague c Jacks is first-yec land an Derby (Continued from page 9) lasquez, Alydar’s jockey, who will be part of Saturday’s Derby as the rider of Kingpost. Alydar’s jockey, who will be part of Saturday’s Derby as the rider of Kingpost. Calumet Farm does not have a Derby starter, and the Affirmed team of trainer Laz Barrera and jockey Steve Cauthen, who in 1978 was an 18-year-old riding phenom, are not here. “My name is Lazzaro “Affirmed” Barrera,” the trainer has said. “He’s the best horse there ever was.” “It was one of great rivalries in the sport,” Cauthen told The Associated Press in England. “I’m proud to have been a part of it.” Cauthen has been riding in Brit ain since 1979 and has been national champion there three times. Affirmed and Alydar hooked up six times as 2-year-olds, with Af firmed winning four of them and the 2-year-championship. Their first meeting of 1978 was in the Derby, which launched probably the most exciting three-race duel in the sport’s history. In the summer of 1977 when the rivalry was only two or three races old, Barrera realized how good Af firmed could be. He also realized how dangerous an opponent Af firmed was going to be, and he told Wolfson. Wolfson tried unsuccessfully through Leslie Combs, then owner of Spendthrift Farm, to buy Alydar from the late Admiral and Mrs. Gene Markey, the owners of Calu met Farm. Affirmed won his first four races as 3-year-old in California, including the Santa Anita and Hollywood Der by s. Alydar won his first three starts, including the Flamingo and Florida Derby, then prepped for the Derby with a monster performance in the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. He was 11 lengths back with five-eighths of a mile to go and won by 13. “Going into the Derby I knew the horse to beat was Affirmed, and he game, rookie i 9.7 assi 1960-61 Joini Rookie NBA’s Greg A I' Armon Kenny ■ Jg jp^rtr-T-l and Alydar hadn’t hooked up! long time,” Velasquez said. Thei. meeting was the Laurel Futurity I 29, won by Affirmed by a neck “I like my chances going intoj Derrick . ace,” Velasquez said. 14 rc “I didn’t think there was adft Ivbte fre in hell Affirmed could beat us,”!' tasked i said. rookies Affirmed broke second and' were n still second after the one-quafl players mile run past the stands the Jacks time. Alydar was ninth. | 22 vote ‘Alydar had a rough trip," recalled. “He got hit in the e« Key 11 clod down the stretch the first £ John said not to say anything cause he didn’t want to make cusfcs.” A vet was summoned to the del I tion barn, where Alydar was0 for his postrace test, because M was in agony. Affirmed dropped to third,I regained second before taking lead from Believe It in the u| stretch. Alydar was eighth wit half-mile left and was fourth at quarter pole. “I would have needed wing! view) mirrors to see Alydar bee he always came from behind' Cauthen said. “I believe he was placed and then made a hell' run, but the challenge nt' materialized as it did in the Bel® 1 and Preakness when he was a" closer.” “He didn’t get to racing until : last three-sixteenths of a mile ad think he lost by a length or s^ thing like that,” Velasquez said. Affirmed’s winning margin* IV2 lengths. Rose recalled thinking, “HoW; going to beat us in the Preaknest Affirmed won by a neck. “After the Preakness,” Rose' “I thought with the distance s | mile and a half in the Bel® there’s no way he can beat us," After a spectacular stretch da* was Affirmed by a head. “We didn’t get the money, b» got the prestige,” said Vietch. got to greet Alydar in the win® circle at his last race agaim' firmed when Affirmed was disc/ ified in the Travers. T6 apie ' n . Regg |iiext w I 8