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Mitchell (18-14) limited the Lady Mavericks to just three hits in the A&M softball • Score: A&M sweeps a twinbill from Texas-Arlington by scores of 1- 0 an 2-1. • Record: 19-15. • Next game: Today at Southwest Texas State at 5 p.m. A&M’s Stacey Cralner (17) steals second base during A&M’s 2-1 victory In game one Photo by Ronnie Monigome^ of the doubleheader sweep of UT-Arlington Tuesday. first game as A&M won the opener 1-0 in extra innings. Mitchell was able to pitch around three erors as she got some timely defense from Renee Blaha and Michelle Mitchell. “Dana pitched two outstanding games tonight,” A&M Head Coach Bob Brock said. “She didn’t let up one earned run and limited UTA to seven hits. “Michelle (Mayfield) made some mistakes early, but she has learned a lot this year and settled down to make some key plays for us.” A&M had to rely on Mitchell’s pitching early on as UTA pitcher Debby Day no-hit the Aggies until the sixth inning. In the oottom of the eighth, Kajs lead off with an in field single. She advanced to second on a sacifrice by Blaha. With one out, Tory Parks, the club’s leading hitter at .349, doubled to center to score Kajs and win the game. “Tory has been a clutch hitter for us all year and you don’t normally look for your number two hitter to be your leading hitter,” Brock said. In the second game, UTA took advantage of an A&M error and scored first. Delana Lightfoot reached on a throwing error by May- field and then scored when Corrie Hill doubled with two outs. A&M answered in the bottom of third by roughing up starter Tamara Evans for four hits and one run. Blaha scored when Erin Newkirk singled to left and the left fielder, Debby Day, over ran the ball. Day came in to relieve Evans and ended the threat. Mitchell continued to silence the UTA bats as A&M collected nine hits over six innings. Mitchell ran into trouble in the sixth when she hit Kiki Holland and then gave a single to Kim Fielding. Mitchell then got Lightfoot to line out to Blaha to end the inning. Kajs again got A&M going in the bottom of the seventh with an infield single. Parks singled one out later and Newkirk reached on an error. With the bases loaded, Erika Eriks son bunted down the third base line and Kajs scored on a throwing error. “I really think Barbara surprised their third baseman by how fast she got down the line and that probably rushed her throw,” Brock said. With the sweep A&M improves to 19-15 and helps their standingintlit NCAA’s Central Region. UTA wai ranked fifth in region and AM came into the game ranked jeventl The top six teams make it to tht playoffs. “We have been playing prero good and these two wins are bi; pluses for us,” Brock said. “We tool it on the chin a little in California but we were in every gameweoui there. We were playing top 20 team: for the last two weeks and I real feel like this is our month to make; move.” A&M’s next action comes todayai they travel to San Marcos totakeoi Southwest Texas State in a double header. Astros boosters greeted Pitching big difference by Dome improvements as Astros, Rangers win HOUSTON (AP) — Fans arriving for Tuesday’s Houston Astros sea son opener against the Atlanta Braves not only viewed a game, but a new and improved Astrodome. The first clue the 40,000-plus fans received of the facility’s $60 million renovation was the repaved parking lot and four huge exit ramp towers. Inside, the stadium’s trademark scoreboard, which celebrated Astro home runs with a dramatic light show, was removed to make way for 10,000 new outfield seats. The seats should be installed by the end of summer, said Ethan Cartwright, marketing director of the Houston Sports Association, which owns the Astros. Luxury suites on the Astrodome’s fifth level are also being installed. Thirty-three of 72 suites have been completed. Each will seat 18 or 96 persons. “We are still selling them, but we are also looking at making them available to groups on a single-game basis. We may also allow people who have used the skyboxes on the top level to move into the suites,** Cartw right said. New electronic gadgetry on dis play includes: • One of two high-resolution vi deo screens, measuring 26 feet by 37 feet, that show instant replays of ac tion in Astros games and games else where and commercials. This first screen is elevated above the midpoint of the third base line. The other one, which will be on the opposite side of the stadium, is to be installed later in the season. • Two computerized matrix boards, 5 feet high and 55 feet long and consisting of Jiousands of bulbs, that give running information on other games as well as public service and commercial messages. The boards, in left and right field, will also provide animated images of such things as “the figure of a Base ball player hitting the ball, hands clapping or people doing the wave in a stadium,” Cartwright said. Later in the season, another ma trix board almost as large as one of the video screens will be installed in center field and a smaller one be hind home plate, he said. Astros season attendance has gone from 1.7 million in 1986 to 1.91 million in 1987 to 1.93 million in 1988. And at the latest tabulation, 13,000 season tickets had been sold for 1989, about 10 percent more than at the same time last year. TANK M*IV\MYKV ASSOCIATED PRESS Astros 10, Braves 3 Mike Scott, one day after signing a $4.6 million contract extension, al lowed six hits in seven innings and hit a two-run single, leading Hous ton to a 10-3 opening-day victory over the Atlanta Braves in Houston on Tuesday night. Scott, 1-0, will be paid $1.3 million for this season ana Monday night signed a two-year extension starting in 1990. He struck out seven but struggled with his control, walking four, aiyi gave up solo homers to Tommy ^ re gg an d Ron Gant. He was re lieved by Larry Andersen to start the eighth inning and Dave Smith fin ished. Houston took a 3-0 lead in the sec ond inning off loser Zane Smith when Glenn Davis homered in his first at-bat of the season and Scott hit an opposite-field single to right to score Kevin Bass and Ken Caminiti. Rangers 4, Tigers 0 KnucklebalTer Charlie Hougl pitched a five-hitter and Scott Fletcher drove in three runs, leadini Texas past the Detroit Tigen fl Tuesday night in Arlington befott the largest opening-day crowd i Rangers’ history. Hough, 41 years old, struck oil five and walked two en routetohi 11 th career shutout and first antt 1986. He is 3-1 in opening-dij starts. Detroit starter Jack Morris, 7*3 in 10 opening-day starts, allowed n hits in eight innings. The sellout crowd of 40,375 in Arlington Stadium included tht Rangers’ new owners and former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landn. who threw out the ceremonial firsi pitch. I In the third inning, Steve Biie chele walked and advanced to third on Cecil Espy’s double. Both run ners scored on Fletcher’s double ofi first baseman Torey Lovullo’s glovt down the right-field line. by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds TME COMMISSIONER'S 7 OFFICE CONTINUES 7 REVlEt/JlNG TAPES? TO SrEE IF TRE BA5+AEF? MANAGER l& SEMPiNO S-IGNALS TO Rig COOKIE FROM TfIE PUOOUT. Informational Meeting Monday, April 10 th. 225 MSC 7:00 P.M. For People With Diverse Musical Interests And Who Want To Apply For Town Hall Next Year. We Will Talk About Different Subcommittees And Expectations. TOWN HALL : Brings quality local, regional, and national talent to A & M campus, student body, and Byran / College Station community. Applications will b« available at this meeting and are currently available in the Town Hall cube located in 216 MSC. Due Friday, April 15 th. by 5:00 P.M. Entries accepted April 17-20 Open to current TAMU students only No fee !! CATEGORIES Sports/Action Studio/Still Life Landscape/Architecture Photos of People/Society Open category-no limits on subject (Black & White and Color in each) Ptizes for Best of Show in Color and Black & Whits Entry information available in MSC Craft Center (basement)