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SPORTS 7
Wednesday, April 12,1989
Aggies move to 40-1 with
sweep of Texas Southern
A&M preps for Texas by breezing past Tigers
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
A&M’s Travis Williams (left) beats a pickoff throw during A&M’s 11-1 win in game one Tuesday.
By Tom Kehoe
SPORTS WRITER
It was the same old play with a dif
ferent cast.
The top-ranked Texas Aggies,
now 40-1, demolished Texas South
ern in a non-conference double-
header Tuesday night as they
cruised to a pair of ten-run wins.
A&M’s incredible record is the
best in Southwest Conference his
tory. TSU fell to 14-21 on the year.
The Aggies jumped out to big
leads in the first inning of both
games and never looked back en-
routeto 11-1 and 13-3 victories.
Coach Mark Johnson opted to rest
his starters for most of the night as
he began to substitute liberally in the
fourth inning of the first game and
didn’t play any regulars in the sec
ond game.
“Our Tuesday games are set up to
give our pithcers work," Johnson
said.
So there was a purpose to this en
deavor. But it appeared to be an ex
tended batting pracitce for the Ag
gie nine.
In the first game A&M opened up
smoking. Kirk Thompson began the
Aggie onslaught by walking in his
leadoff at bat and tallying the first
run of the game. The scoring contin
ued as John Byington, Eric Albright,
Aggie Update
• Score: Texas A&M 11-13, Texas
Southern 1-3.
• Record: 40-1.
• Ranking: First.
• Next game: Friday against No. 10
Texas at 7 p.m. at Olsen Field.
Mike Easley, Travis Williams and
Jim Neumann followed Thompson
to establish an immediate 6-0 lead
for the Aggies.
The Tigers managed their only
score in the third inning as out
fielder Kevin Davis scored on a field
er’s choice.
The Aggies countered with a vol
ley of scores of their own in the third
as freshman Jason Marshall, starting
for the injured Chuck Knobluach,
scored the seventh Aggie run and
was followed by Thompson and
Terry Taylor to bring A&M’s lead to
9-1.
The final Aggie runs came across
in the fifth as substitutes Trey Witte
and John Wood crossed the plate to
bring the sum to 11 runs in the
seven-inning game.
Tim Herrman picked up the win
for three innings of work as he sur
rendered three hits and notched
three strikeouts. Sean Lawrence and
Kerry Freudenberg each worked
two innings to close out the game.
The second game began with a
different cast as no regualrs took the
field. However, that brought no ill
effects for Johnson’s squad.
The Aggies jumped out to a quick
5-0 lead in first inning and never
looked back. Freshman Travis Wil
liams led the A&M batsmen as he
clubbed a two-run homer and scored
another run as his team collected 13
hits and seven walks along the way to
a 13-3 win. The game was halted in
the eighth inning due to the ten-run
rule.
Junior Brent Gilbert earned the
win, working three innings as he
struck out three and gave up two
hits. Anthony De La Cruz worked
three innings of relief, allowing just
one hit and no walks as he struck out
three.
Sophomore Steve Hughes allowed
the Tigers’ only runs as he gave up a
three-run home run to TSU’s An
thony Hill.
Jonnson said he was pleased with
the direction his team is heading this
week as they prepare for their
homestand showdown with the Uni
versity of Texas.
‘‘Knoblauch could have played if
he had to,” Johnson said. '‘He just
has a little muscle spasm in his back
and I think he’ll be ready to go on
Friday.”
T-shirt not worth the fighting; Intramural sports too serious
Intramurals: recreational fun — or is it a
fiercely competitive exercise designed for
ex-hign school stars dreaming of athletic
prowess?
Intramurals is supposed to give students
a chance to participate in athletics and give
them a break from the rigors of studying.
However, here at Texas A&M, home of
one of the largest intramural programs in
the country, the need to win at all costs has
warped this purpose.
Last Monday, I played in the last
intramural game of my college career. My
softball team was eliminated from the
playoffs. As 1 sat there afterwards thinking
about not playing intramurals anymore, I
realized that intramurals was no less
competitive than the varsity sports offered
at A&M.
It is not uncommon for an intramural
team to hold team trytiuts. Many of these
Stan
Golaboff
Sports Writer
tryouts are more intense and demanding
than the practices of many professional
teams.
The intramural office has long
recognized that there would be a difference
in the talent on teams, so they organized
various leagues based on a team’s
experience, talent, and desire to win.
Teams can play in one of three leagues.
The ‘A’ league is for teams with a lot of
talent and expertise. The ‘B’ league is for
less intense teams and the ‘C’ league is for
people who just want to play for fun.
Now this is how it is supposed to work.
In reality, though, there is really no
difference in the leagues, except that A&M
athletes and former intramural champions
have to play in the ‘A’ league.
Everyone who has played intramurals
has probably run into a player whose
concern about winning made the game
unpleasant for all.
This player can usually be seen yelling at
officials when the officials make a call
against his team or yelling at teammates for
making a mistake.
Many of us, including myself, have been
guilty of being that person doing the
yelling.
Now that I will no longer be playing
intramurals I can ask myself, “What the hell
was I getting so excited about?”
It’s not like we’re playing for the national
championship or large amounts of money.
In fact, all we were really playing for was
the right to wear a T-shirt that said we were
intramural champions. Is a $10 shirt worth
all this big-time pressure to win?
On March 29, an A&M student was
charged with three counts of assault and
one count of criminal mischief because of
an incident in an intramural basketball
game. If found guilty, this student could be
paying anywhere from $80 to $800 in fines.
How can a T-shirt be worth all that? It must
be a helluva a T-shirt,
It is true that this incident is an extreme
example, but how long before it becomes
the norm? Some intramural games are
drawing more fans than some of the
athletic programs here at A&M.
There was a time when cheating in
college athletics was an exception, but
nowadays it seems to be the norm.
Intramural games are supposed to be fun
and relaxing.
However, with all the pressure to win a
stupid shirt it is hard to find a game that is
relaxing, even in ‘C’ league where everyone
is supposed to be playing for fun.
Is it any wonder that, with such a win-at-
all-costs attitude in intramurals, the
ressure to win in big-time college athletics
as led to such rampant cheating?
Next time you are playing an intramural
game and you feel the urge to “read the riot
act” to an official or a teammate, remember
what you are playing for ...a T-shirt and
some fun and relaxation.
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