The Battalion
SPORTS
Monday, May 1,1989
Ags take two from
FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
HOUSTON — The Texas A&M
baseball team went into the weekend
series against Houston with one eye
on Fayetteville, where the Arkansas
Aggie Update
• Scorei A&M wins two of three
from Houston by scores of 11-10, 3-
Hand 12-0.
• Record! 48-4.
• Ranking: Third.
• Next game: Friday against Arkan
sas at 7 p.m. in the First game of a
three game weekend series.
Razorbacks held a one-game confer
ence lead over the Aggies and were
playing host to third-place Texas.
It looked like a chance to make up
one or more games on the Hogs, giv
ing the Aggies the upper hand when
the two teams meet this weekend at
Olsen Field.
But one weekend later, nothing
has changed. Despite dropping a
ame to the Longhorns, Arkansas
epl its one-game lead over A8cM,
which won the series but dropped a
game to the Cougars in Houston.
A&M (48-4, 15-3), second in the
Southwest Conference and ranked
third nationally in last week’s ESPN-
/Collegiate Baseball poll, dropped
the first game of Saturday’s double
header but came back to win the sec
ond game to win the series.
The Aggies showed in the open
ing game Friday afternoon they can
still come from behind and win base
ball games, as they rallied for four
runs in the eighth inning to take an
11-9 lead, and eventually won the
game 1 1-10.
Catcher Eric Albright hit two
home runs, and starter Pat Sweet, 8-
3, pitched eight and one-third in
nings to earn the victory. Anthony
DeuiCru/ pitched the Final two outs
to record in.s first save of the season.
Houston (41-13, 7-10) scored
three runs to take a 9-7 lead after six
innings, but the Aggies came back in
the eighth to score four runs and
take the lead for good.
Andy Duke singled and Mike Eas
ley doubled to open the eighth and
Jim Neumann tied the game 9-9
with a triple off Cougars reliever
Kenny Mayberry, 0-1.
Houston coach Bragg Stockton
replaced Mayberry with reliever A1
Benavides, who gave up two more
runs when Kirk Thompson hit a sac
rifice fly and walked Albright with
the bases loaded.
Houston catcher Fred Hinojosa
hit a solo home run in the ninth in
ning to close the lead to I 1-10, but
Mark Hooker flew out to left with
two men on base to end the game.
Coupled with Arkansas’ 5-4 loss to
Texas Friday night, the Aggies
found themselves in the exact posi
tion they wanted to be in — tied for
First place in the conference.
Coogs
That first-place tie was short
lived, however, because the Aggies
were crushed 11-3 in the first game
of Saturday’s doubleheader. Cougar
starter Eric Rasberry, 9-4, pitched
Five innings and gave up the Aggies’
three runs to earn the win.
Aggie starter Ronnie Allen, 8-1,
was taken out in the third inning af
ter Houston rallied for five runs.
The Cougars went on to score four
more runs off DeLuCnu in the fifth
when Cougar shortstop Russell
Stockton hit a three-run homer,
The Aggies had 12 hits in the
seven-inning game, but stranded 13
baserunners. They left two runners
on base in each of the last five in
nings.
There were to be no late-inning
heroics this game, and Russell Stock-
ton said the Cougars didn’t lack the
confidence to beat the Aggies follow
ing Friday afternoon’s game.
“We knew we could play with
them after (Friday’s game),” Stock-
ton said. “W’e hit the ball and scored
runs with them. It was just a matter
of our pitchers being able to stop
them.”
Although the Cougars’ pitchers
contained the Aggies’ high-powered
offense, A&M came back in grand
fashion to beat Houston 12-6 in the
third game.
Aggie left fielder Jim Neumann
hit three home runs and drove in
seven runs, and starter Keith Lan
gston improved to 9-0 as the Aggie
batters handled the Cougar pitchers
for 12 hits.
Senior Scott Centala picked up his
Aggie right fielder Andy Duke returns to 11-10 A&M victory over Houston at Cougar
first base to avoid a pickoff try in Friday’s Field. A&M won two games from U of H.
eighth save with three 1-3 innings of
relief. He came in for Langston in
the sixth inning wfith the bases
loaded and two men out, but got out
of the jam without making a pitch by
picking Cougar freshman Chris Tre-
mie off second base.
John Byington went four-of-Five
at the plate, including two home
runs.
A&M Head Coach Mark Johnson
said the Aggies have to get out of
their recent slump before they meet
Arkansas.
“We’ve got to get it going,” John
son said. “We’re not in a real strong
spurt right now, there’s no question
about it. We’re not far off, but I
didn’t think we were on all cylinders
today.
“We had some great play by some
individual poeple, but as far as a
team, we had spots where we weren’t
sharp.”
Football owners should stop caving in to demands of rookies
The scouting is finished. The picks have
been made. Now the most difficult and
agonizing part of the football off-season
begins.
It’s more arduous than training camp.
More taxing than the 16-game regular
season. And it requires more planning and
strategy than the playoff drive to the Super
Bowl.
Yes, (shudder), it’s how time to sign the
draft picks.
It’s the time of year when the stud pick
says he might play baseball instead. It’s the
time of year when he says, “I’ll sit out the
whole year if the money’s not right.”
It’s the time of year when owners and
GMs should say, “Go ahead.”
How does this keep happening? How is
it, year after year, more and more
pretentious, arrogant and ego-inflated
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Tom
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Sports Editor
jerks come out and hang the hopes of the
fans, those who really pay their salaries, in
limbo?
1 know one player doesn’t make an entire
team. But one First round draft pick can
come awfully close.
Think of the elation Packer fans felt
when the silver-haired gentleman strolled
to the podium and meekly announced that
Michigan State’s leviathan, Tony
Mandarich, would be lining up in the green
and gold this fall. Think of the elation
Keith Woodside and Kenneth Davis felt
hearing that Mandarich would be using his
4.6 speed and super-human strength to
knock out loading bay-sized holes to run
through.
Now consider the deflating feeling that is
running through Green Bay players and
fans alike as Mandarich says he wants better
money than the top pick ip the draft, Dallas’
Troy Aikman.
New Cowboy owner Jerry “socks and
jocks” Jones stepped on quite a few toes
across the league when he announced the
early signing. Intially he peeved outgoing
commissioner Pete Rozelle with the early
announcement of Aikman’s signing. That
completely blew the suspense ESPN was
hoping for when it paid for exclusive
coverage of the Sunday draft.
The second and more widespread effect
of Socks and Jocks jumping the gun is how
it really has screwed up the salary scale for
other teams trying to sign their picks.
Aikman is getting $ 11 million over six
years with a multi-hundred thousand dollar
bonus. That upsets many owners who now
have to try to keep pace. Miami Dolphin
owner Joe Robbie is one of them.
“I don’t see any rookie coming into this
league making more money than (Dan)
Marino and (John) Elway, without ever
having faced an NFL line,” Robbie said.
Robbie’s right.
And he has a vital stake in this issue. The
Dolphins took Florida State running back
Sammie Smith and Florida defensive back
Louis Oliver in the First round. Both have
indicated that unless their demands are
met, they’ll sit out.
The owners should take a stand. Let
them sit. It certainly doesn’t pay to watch
the games on their Zeniths when they could
compromise, suit up and earn a little less
than their Shylock-like agents put them up
to asking.
This is the year to quit capitulating to
athletic avarice. Let Prime Time ride the
bus in the middle of the night as he travels
between games in the Ocean front League
or wherever he’d be pigeonholed in the
minor leagues. Let Mandarich try pro body
building. And let the rest of us get on with
the game on the field.
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