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Wednesday, April 5,1989
A&M softball team sweeps UTA
Mitchell, Kajs
lead squad
By Stan Golaboff
SPORTS WRITER
Behind the pitching of Dana
Mitchell and two runs from Bara-
bara Kajs, the Texas A&M Lady Ag
gie softball team swept a double-
header from the University of Texas
at Arlington 1-0 and 2-1 Tuesday
night.
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.
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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
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Applications will b« available at this meeting and are currently available in the
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Entries accepted April 17-20
Open to current TAMU students only
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Open category-no limits on subject
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