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The tickets can be picked up at G. Rollie White Coliseum at ticket wit dows 5 and 6. Any tickets remaining after today will go on sale Fridayai a.m. Coverage begins at 6:50 p.m. Saturday, and kickoff is scheduled for' p.m. Proceeds from the viewing will be donated to the Aggie Band tohelpdt fray its travel costs for the coming year. Coverage is being provided by Home Sports Entertainment. HSEisprr.j viding the service on a pay-per-view basis for subscribers, but HSEisr available on local Cooke C .ableVision. The game is the third in three years between the schools. LSU has won both of the previous games 35-17 and 17-3. The Tigers also lead in career meetings 24-14. There have been thre! ties. The Aggies are ranked 11th by the Associated Press, while the Tiger are at No. 17. A&M will be trying to rebound from Saturday’s loss to Nebraska 24^ at the Kickoff Classic. The game will be the season opener for LSU. A&M sports information also announced that A&M’s home openerwr; Alabama Sept. 17 has been moved to 3 p.m. to accomodate coverage I ESPN. ESPN will televise the game nationally as the first half of a doubl header. Cubs defeat Astros 3-1 behind Sutcliffe homer HOUSTON (AP) — Rick Sutcliffe pitched a six-hitter and hit a two-run homer and a double as the Chicago Cubs beat the Houston Astros 3-1 Wednesday. Sutcliffe, 11-11, retired 13 straight after giving up a second-in ning single to Rafael Ramirez. The right-hander struck out five and walked one for his 10th complete game. Rafael Palmeiro led off the fifth against Jim Deshaies, 9-11, with a double and stole third. Two outs later, Sutcliffe hit Deshaies’ first pitch over the scoreboard in right Column for his first homer of the season aiicl fourth of his career. Chicago had taken a 1-0 leadi:| the second. Andre Dawson led of:| with a single and took third who I Vance Law doubled. Law moved to third when Davy; was caught in a rundown afteri ground ball by Palmeiro and thcl scored on Damon Berryhill’s infiel!:| out. Sutcliffe lost his shutout in tbl eighth when Denny Walling doublet; home pinch-runner Alex Trevino Deshaies allowed five hits in six:: nings, striking out seven and wall ing none. (Continued from page 9) Alan Trammell in the AL and Kirk Gibson of Los Angeles in the Na tional League. Trammell is the heart of the Ti gers. Detroit lost the top two players of the franchise in the past two years to free agency when Gibson and Lance Parrish (Philadelphia) left for big money contracts. Yet, the Tigers remain the team to beat in the AL East because of Tra mmell. The Tigers have only played .500 baseball while he’s been injured. Gibson has taken charge of a Dodger club which is short of pitch ing and full of free agents from all over the majors. His personality has meant more to the team than even his power at the plate. He gives the Dodgers the toughness they used to be known for but have lacked the past few years. Some other strong candidates in the AL are Wade Boggs and Mike Greenwell of Boston and Frank Vi ola of Minnesota. Boggs is leading the AL in hitting Volleyball with a .360 average and Greenwf j leads the league with 103 RBI wi ranking third in the league in hittr; with a .340 mark. Viola, a pitcher, is the AL’s fc| 20-game winner and a virtual kwl for the American League’s c | Young award. However, with tal Twins in second place in the All West and trailing Oakland by q: games he doesn’t look to be aa»| tender. Other deserving players in tk| National League include Pitoj burgh’s Andy Van Slyke, Atlantaij Gerald Perry and San Diego’s Tor, Gwynn. Van Slyke has led theresurl gence of the Pirates while showin;| one of the best arms in the majorj and hitting for power. As for Perry and Gwynn, neitkj has a realistic chance because thei:| teams are buried at the bottom i the NL West standings. Perry is leading the NL in hittin;; with a .323 average, and Gwynn cl right behind him in the hittkl charts with a .321 average. It’s scarj to think how terrible the Bravtil would be without Perry. (Continued from page 9) of the 32 teams that were invited to last year’s NCAA tournament. Four of the teams finished in the top 10 nationally including Texas (tied for No.3). Most of the matches are on the road, but matches with top teams such as Northwestern (Sept. 7), Ken tucky (Oct. 15) Texas (Oct.26) and Louisiana State (Nov. 11) will be at G.Rollie White as will the Texas A&M Invitational (Sept. 9-10). The Invitational will be a four- team tourament in which the Lady Aggies willplay host to three teams that finished in the Top Twenty last year: Arizona State, Colorado State (No. 5) and Ohio State. Givens wants the students and fac ulty to meet a challenge he pre sented in a letter he sent to the fac ulty and staff of the universir mailed just before school began. “If we can generate the same kinda spirit as the football team and get the crowd involved that should be worth a few points when we at home,” Givens said. “We need people to come in there and reall) intimidate teams with their presence so that when people come in there their knees get a little wobbly they feel the pressure of the seventh man.” Tonight the Lady Aggies open their season on the road at Lamara: 7 p.m.. They continue the road trip with matches at LSU on Friday night at 7:30 and against the Universityol New Orleans Saturday at noon. The home opener is next Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. against Northwestern at G. Rollie White Coliseum. Viera (Continued from page 9) Viera about coming to A&M. Al though it was a change from Florida, she said she loves it here. Playing volleyball at a junior col lege was a lot less competitive than at A&M, she said. Being a Division I program, the Lady Aggies play the best teams in the country, and always have to be at their best, she said. “We play pretty high, pretty much power volleyball because it’s Division I,” Viera said. Being one of two outside attackers on the court, Viera is right at the front of the power. She said the most exciting part of playing her position is that she has the chance to slam the ball straight down to the opponents floor. It’s a great feeling, she said. Viera said the low point of last season was that they were such > mentally “young” team that it took* long time for the players to filter tht coaches instructions. The best part of last year was that the Lady Aggies learned a lot which has carried over to this season, she said. The team members are very re laxed with each other and spend a great deal of time together off the court, Viera said.“We are extreme!) comfortable together, like a family, she said. “There are no cliques.” Having a male coach hasn’t been a problem to Viera or the rest of the team, she said. “As long as he (Givens) knows what he’s talking about, that’s the main thing,” she said. She added that it is good that we have a woman assistant coach, referring to first year coach Cindy Alvera.