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Free skin testing cino $100 to determine eligibility. g 100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $ 1 L $100 CALL PAULL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 776-0400 The Battalion SPORTS 12 A&M remains atop baseball poll Texas drops to seventh while Arkansas moves up four spots Photo by Jay Janner A&M third baseman John Byington reaches for a grounder during a recent practice at Olsen Field. A&M continues to lead the national baseball polls. By Jerry Bolz ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR One week and three games later the Texas Aggie baseball team is still the number one team in the nation, according to the ESPN/Collegiate Baseball poll released Monday. ESPN/Collegiate Baseball Baseball Poll Team Record 1.Texas A&M 29-1 2.LSU 26-3 3.Wichita St. 24-2 4.Miami 23-7 5.Miss. St. 16-4 B.Arizona St. 25-9 7-Texas 30-8 S.Okla. St. 20-4 9.Long Beach St. 27-4 10. Arizona 24-11 11 .Clemson 18-3 12.Southern Cal 26-10 13. Arkansas 23-4 14.California 23-8 15.San Jose St. 26-4 16.Fresno St. 20-10 1/.Florida 23-9 18.Florida St. 23-9 19.Houston 29-5 20. Ala.-Birmingham 15-6 21.UNLV 24-7 22.South Florida 24-8 23.Fullerton St. 18-9 24.Michigan 12-4 25.South Carolina 15-7 The Aggies (29-1, 3-0 in South west Conference) scored 53 runs in a weekend series against Texas Tech (1.8-11, 0-3 in SWC) in Lubbock, winning 27-2, 15-1 and 11-4 to keep its No. 1 rank for the fifth straight week. Lousiana State (26-3), No. 2 again this week, was the only other team in the top 10 to make it through the week undefeated, going 4-0 to give them a 26-3 mark. Wichita State (24- 2) went 6-1 to keep its No. 3 ranking. The rest of the top 10 was jumbled from last week’s standings. Miami won three of four games to oust Texas from the No. 4 spot in the poll, sending Texas, 3-2 for the week, to seventh. Mississippi State (16-4) made the biggest top-ten jump of the week, going 5-1 to move from No. 9 to No. 5. Arizona State (25-9) climbed one spot to claim No. 6 while Oklahoma State (20-4) and Cal State-Long Beach (27-4) both moved up two spots to take No. 8 and No. 9, re spectively. Arizona (24-11) dropped from sixth to tenth with a 2-3 record for the week to finish out the top ten teams. Only California (23-8), also 2-3 the past week, dropped out of the top 10, falling from last week’s No. 8 spot to No. 14 With the exception of Baylor and Rice, this weekend was the first of league action for SWC teams. A&M was not the only Southwest Conference team to carry an unde feated league mark out ol the week end. Arkansas (23-4, 3-0 in SWC) matched A&M’s 3-0 mark by trip ping up Houston (29-5, 0-3 in SWC) in Fayetteville. Baylor (26-6, 4-2 in SWC), who swept Rice (18-15, 1-5 in SWC) in the conference’s opening series March 17-18, lost two of three to Texas this weekend. The Longhorns now have a 2-1 mark in conference and a 30-8 overall mark. Arkansas and Houston both moved four spots in the ESPN poll The Razoi hacks were 7-0 overallfw the past week to jump from No. II to No. 13. Lhe Cougars went 2-3for the week to drop from No. 15 to No 19. The Aggies are in action again to night in a doubleheader against Dal las Baptist beginning at 5:30 at01 sen Field. I he games mark 25cent Hot Dog Night at Olsen. Hearing begins in Carter eligibility case AUSTIN (AP) — A state district judge finished hearing arguments Monday in a case between Texas ed ucation officials and the Dallas pub lic school district over a Carter High School football player’s grade and ineligibilty ruling. The outcome could affect educa tion policies statewide. “The main issue in this case is not football,” Royce West, an attorney representing the student told state District Judge Paul Davis. “It’s local control over state control” of school districts and grading policies. “The (state education) commis sioner should not impose his will on local school districts and on elected officials,” West said. Attorneys for the Dallas Indepen dent School District sued the Texas Education Agency, saying Commis sioner William Kirby had no author ity to interfere with local grading. The TEA and the University In terscholastic League argued that Kirby has authority to decide grade disputes and that the lengthy admin istrative process normally used could not apply to the Carter case because of time contraints. Davis gave both sides a week to submit other courts’ rulings support ing their positions. Neither side of fered new evidence or testimony and DISD asked Davis to refer to evi dence it submitted during a Decem ber hearing. The controversy started in No vember before the state football playoffs, when an anonymous tipster urged the TEA to examine the grades of Carter senior running back Gary Edwards. It was then discovered that Ed wards received a failing grade in al gebra for the first six weeks of the fall 1988 semester, which under the state’s no-pass no play rules made him ineligible to play football. School district officials said the teacher had erred in grading and that Edwards was eligible. But Kirby ruled in a December hearing that Edwards failed the course. As a result, Carter was disqualified from the playoffs for allowing Ed wards to play in three games whilt he was ineligible. The school distra obtained a temporary injunctios from Davis, which allowed the teaii to compete and eventually win tk state’s Class 5A championship. If Davis rules in favor of the TEA Carter’s title would be invalidated but it would not affect college schd arships the team’s graduated playen have been promised, said Dm Hicks, DISD attorney. “I don't think the commissioneris trying to hurt the district," Hicb said. “I think what we have hereism attempt by (Kirby) ... to furtherde- fine the scope and extent of his power and he really ought to have) right to know that.” Excuses don’t cut it for losers in sports Some people explain a lot of things that happen in sports as superstition, luck or some other illogical reason. There are others that have a simple explanation for everything. Who’s right? Are sports victories, defeats, injuries, streaks and all other such things bound by hexes, jinxes, curses or chance? Or are all occurrences able to be explained rationally and simply? To be honest, I’m not sure. But it’s an interesting question. For instance, the Texas A&M baseball team won 26-straight games before losing to Oklahoma State. To most onlookers, the loss came either because: A) OSU has a jinx on the Aggies. B) A&M can’t win the “big one.” C) the streak had to end sometime. D) A&M left too many men on base because of poor hitting with runners in scoring position which was caused by playing until after midnight the night before. When something bad happens, people are more likely to blame the incident on some hidden thing in their life. Like when Joe Theismann’s leg was broken in a game several years ago. How many people thought: “Well, Joe’s sins finally caught up with him.”? Others would say that Theismann never did a thing in his life to deserve a break like that. But actually, except for grace, we all deserve breaks like that. That still doesn’t answer my question. Jerry J Bolz Assistant Sports Editor But it does bring in the fact that many people see occurrences in sports as divine incidents. I hink about the last time you were playing a pick-up game of basketball. 1 was playing the other day with some friends. There was a question as to whether a foul was committed, or who the ball was out of hounds on — something like that, it doesn’t really matter. Of course, to get the game rolling again, a decision had to be made as to who got possession. You know how it’s determined if we made the right call? If the team who got possession makes a basket on the ensuing play, the right call was made. If the team doesn’t score, the other team knows they should have gotten the ball. It’s happened to you, hasn’t it? You kind of joked about the simplicity of the officiating method, but you really believed the correct verdict was reached. So what else can you do? Nobody wants to be a referee for a pickup game. And even if you have refs, you have to get instant replay officiating to be up to date. It’s amazing how far we will go to make sure nobody is denied exactly what is coming to them Whether it be placing electric eyes on the boundaries of tennis courts to hack up the line judges and umpires or videotaping a marathon to make sure nobody joins the race midway through, we are obsessed with keeping fairness in the sports world. , After all, it’s great to know the true outcomeo an event — without any disagreement. How we despise a victory won by a team who obviously cheated the whole game and never got caught- Like the old Oakland Raiders. They were the dirtiest team around, and they always won w the dismay of opponents and their fans. What is it? Do these dirty, unfair teams and athletes have all the luck? Do they have a hex on the “good guys?” Or is it that the evildoers are ^ getting away with something now, but they g e theirs” later? .., In the life of every athlete and fan, they wi encounter events that make it look like the trut prevails while others will make them thinkt er is no justice in sports. „• But face it. Everyone will get “done wrong their lives. But it’s the athlete, team or onloo e that doesn’t make an issue of wrongs done to them — or the grace given to others that is deserving of respect. Transcendental Meditation (TM) is a simple, natural, easy-to- leam mental technique practiced for 15 to 20 minutes in the momine and evening while sitting comfortably in a chair with the eyes closed TM provides deep rest for both the mind and the body. C6. 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