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13 The Battalion SPORTS 5 Friday, July 28,1989 Dodgers edge Astros, 7-5 i. (ap)-nJ d overwheltj to keep it *rs out of tW union a fooii i’s fully Japi] "lories. “ us anythiJ lave,” worlfl Thursdavaij I l,6?2to?l!| t Nissan’s so|(I "dnesday aii;| fter an lJ ’AW andwJ »n musdeait| makers’ straj s in the tradi outh. rt also rtp ' to Japanest ent andjapj tation foret- ae was tryii[ ily,” work: of the ora HOUSTON (AP) — Lenny f Harris provided the bat. Eddie I Murray provided the knockout punch. Murray, using a 32-ounce bat provided by Harris instead of his usual 36-ounce model, pinch-hit a three-run homer off Houston relief ace Dave Smith in the ninth inning Thursday to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 7-5 victory over the Astros. “I finally said I’ll take this little [ piece of nothing up there and use it and luckily it worked,” said Murray, who had been given the day off by manager Tom La- sorda. “I guess he’s taking all the credit for it now but it was fun to come back and win the game.” Harris gave Murray the bat, which he called “the chosen one,” before the game and insisted that he use it. Mike Morgan, who lias struggled since the All-Star break, got the victory by pitching a scoreless eighth inning. Jay Howell got the final three outs for his 20th save. “It was good to come from be hind for a victory, we needed something like that,” Morgan said. “I’m glad Lenny gave Eddie ‘the chosen one.’ It got a homer for him and a victory for me.” Smith had given up only one homer in his last 170 1/3 innings and failed to get a save for only the second time in 23 chances. “He (Manager Art Howe) brought me in to get a ground ball,” Smith said. “I threw him two sinkers out of the zone and the third one was a fastball that stayed up.” The Astros went into the ninth with a 5-4 lead. “No one game will ruin what we’ve done this year," Astros sec ond baseman Bill Doran said. “You can’t go through a whole season and not blowalead.” Mickey Hatcher and Jeff Ham ilton singled to start the ninth off Larry Andersen (2-3). After re liever Juan Agosto struck out pinch-hitter Mike Scioscia, Mur ray batted for Dave Anderson and hit his 10th homer of the year. The Astros led 5-1 after six in nings, but the Dodgers scored twice in the seventh on singles by Mike Marshall and Mickey Hatcher, Hamilton’s sacrifice fly and Rick Dempsey’s RBI ground- out. Astros starter Jim Deshaies left after giving up a leadoff walk to Harris and a single to Jose Gonza lez in the eighth. Andersen gave up a run-scoring single to Willie Randolph before getting Kal Daniels to hit into a double play and Marshall, who had three hits, to fly to right. Deshaies walked Randolph in the first and Marshall doubled him home to end Deshaies’ string of 19 1/3 scoreless innings. Glenn Davis, who had not started for two games because of a bruised foot, doubled to start the second against Ramon Marti nez. Martinez hit Ken Caminiti with a pitch and both runners ad vanced on a passed ball. Billy Hatcher’s single to right scored both runners and Gerald Young’s single to left scored Hatcher. Two more Texas prep athletes arrested on criminal charges SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Two more Texas high school football players have been arrested and jailed on criminal charges, with the latest against Judson High School squad members. A potential Judson High starter was kicked off the team and a for mer player was banned from an up coming all-star game after the two were arrested on burglary charges. Michael D. Garcia and Destry Lee Ensley were arrested by suburban Universal City police who received a tip that items in some residential burglaries were being sold at pawn shops by teen-agers. Police believe the two may be part of a group of teen-agers that bur glarize their schoolmates’ homes while the families are on vacation. The two youths were arrested Mon day. Garcia, 18, was a key member of the Rockets’ 1988 Class 5A state fi nalist team. He graduated from Jud son last spring. The former nose guard was a first team member of the San Antonio Express-News Greater San Antonio Class 5A team and was the newspaper’s 1988 Greater San Antonio defensive player of the year. Ensley, 17, was a junior varsity player last season and had a chance of being the team’s starting nose guard this year as a senior, Judson football coach D.W. Rutledge told the San Antonio Express-News. Judson played the Class 5A championship game last season against Dallas Carter High School, the football team which has seen nine of its players and former play ers charged with armed robbery. Two of those students, Gary Ed wards and Derric Evans, both 17, have pleaded guilty to the charges and face maximum life sentences in prison. Their sentences will be de cided Aug. 11. “It (Garcia and Ensley’s arrests) made me sick when I heard about it,” Judson superintendent Dr. Ga len Elolf said. “I said, ‘It makes us sound like Carter High School.’” Two Dallas Hillcrest High School students also were arrested, includ ing one on Monday, and are charged in a June armed robbery. In response to the Judson ath lete’s arrests, Rutledge kicked Ensley off the football team. “We have a hard, fast rule about players being involved in drugs or stealing and that rule is that they are off the team,” Rutledge told the San Antonio Express-News Wednesday. “That’s a rule that was made a long time ago and it has nothing to do with personalities. It’s just the rule and we are going to follow it.” Garcia was to play in the Texas High School Coaches Association All-Star Football Game at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Irving’s Texas Stadium. But after his arrest, Rutledge banned him from the game. “No, Mike will not represent us at that game,” Rutledge said. “I’m going to send the other player (defensive back Derwin Gray) we nominated.” Rutledge said he met with Garcia and Ensley and their mothers Wednesday. “They made some bad choices. It is something that disappointed me a great deal. It hurts us a great deal to see this happen,” he said. ? 6-year-oli! fa \ iTtech’s Thurman trying srcpresent , • -■ * A 0 to survive despite size hetiin Pokes’ training camp s would lost 7 /on. ■THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) iresident o! “ Tyrone Thurman has about as lufacturin; chance of making the Dallas ntimidatior Cowboys as a bug does surviving a ted bv tht c °lbsion with the windshield of a tra- rgin of vie. ctor trailer. KHowever, the 5-foot-3, 145- 0 f this elec P° un( l Thurman, a free agent from iupport for # xas T ec h, keeps making great lanagemeni P* a y s 1116 land of the NFL giants. s company,: 1 we’re min; i [Super flea may just have the best ^ Plods we’ve seen in training camp, ^better even than Kelvin Martin, but ■fortunately his hands aren’t very ■ge,” said John Wooten, the Cow- i Bys’ top scout. “He’s a tough little 1* Q TP scooter. ” iiji* 1. WIAras \y-ooten spoke, Yhurman Streaked between two defenders to I catch a perfectly timed pass from IJ5 iTroyAikman. ■ ■“Tyrone reminds you a lot of Ger ald McNeil at Cleveland,” Wooten said. “He’s a great kick returner and he’s an excellent receiver. Of course, he’s so short it’s sometimes hard for eved to the quarterback to find him. rs “He probably has a 50-50 shot to make our team because we have to have aggressive kickoff units. If Ty rone doesn’t make it here, then I bet the Canadian teams will gobble him up.” Coach Jimmy Johnson isn’t as op timistic as Wooten about Thurman’s chances. “It would be difficult for him to hang on,” Johnson said. “He’s a hard worker and I like his attitude but he has a lot to overcome.” Thurman knows all this. “I’ve had the odds stacked against me before,” he said. “Realistically I’m going to have to show a lot re turning kicks if I’m to make this team. ” Special teams’ coach Alan Lowry said it’s difficult for a small man to play in the NFL. “The problem that you run into is that an arm tackle can bring you down,” Lowry said. “You get hit with one arm and you’re down. Thur man’s only weapon is to be able to run away from people.” Cardinals looking to stay close in NL East ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jose Oquen do’s hitting streak ended at 23 games, the longest in the majors this season, but two of his teammates are going strong as the St. Louis Cardi nals try to stay within striking dis tance in the National League East. Vince Coleman has stolen a ma jor-league record 50 consecutive bases since last September, and right-hander Jose DeLeon has thrown 19 consecutive scoreless in nings in his last three games. Coleman stole three bases and drove in both runs and DeLeon threw a two-hitter over eight innings in Wednesday night’s 2-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs. The fourth-place Cardinals are within six games of the first-place Expos entering a three-game week end series in Montreal. “Now that the streak has ended, at least we picked up a game,” said Oquendo. “I hope vfe can get a win ning streak going.” Oquendo hit .464 (39 for 84) dur ing the streak and raised his average to .299. DeLeon certainly seems to be back on track, with victories in his last two outings. He went into the All-Star break with a five-game losing streak. In his first start after the break, DeLeon lost his sixth straight deci sion, but he pitched well, giving up two earned runs in six innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers. In his last two starts he has given up five hits in 15 innings with 14 strike outs, lowering his earned-run aver age to 3.23. “I feel I’m throwing the ball as well as ever,” said DeLeon, 10-9, who was troubled during his losing streak by a sore shoulder that he hurt swinging a bat too hard on June 9. “I’m not going to swing the bat like I used to do,” said DeLeon, who is hitting .083. “I’ve got a terrible swing. It doesn’t matter what I hit.” Coleman has won the National League stolen base title in each of his first four major league seasons and leads the majors this year with 44. Despite his streak, though, he was struggling before Wednesday’s game. When Willie McGee came off the disabled list last week, Coleman was benched for five games while going through a 4-for-35 slump. His three steals were his first since July 16 and his RBI were his first since he drove in three runs July 6. “That’s how I would like to have it all year long,” Coleman said. “I want to contribute to winning ballgames. Of course, the hottest Cardinal before Wednesday was Oquendo, a career .258 hitter before this season. During his streak, Oquendo had 13 RBIs and scored 15 runs. In one stretch he had seven consecutive two-hit games. Oquendo, hitting in the third spot for the first time this season, went 0- for-3 on Wednesday. But he hit two balls hard and was in the on-deck circle when the Cardinals made their third out in the eighth inning. TANK MCNAMARA® AT THE CEREMONY TO RETIRE HtS> NUMBER. r TM£ RELUCTANTLY RETIRES’ Pitcher ha^ the MOUNP ANP PEMANPEP TO START THE SAME ! by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds F IMR9SAI&L&. HE'£ GOT NO VELOCITY OR CONTROL LEFT. NEITHER POESANVeoPY ON SOUR P/TCH|NO STAFF, ANP T CAN Guarantee none of my Guy* ARE GOING TO TRY TO HtT HIM HARP n on the k! [)s, the CD( ing pealeifc SWC slowly turning to leaders with strong ties to conference iff in stnol-H om 32 pet With the start of the 1989 Southwest ent in 198 Conference season close at hand, a look .harp as tit back at the turbulent 1980s is the best way — from tobeasure the change which is slowly ftnerging in a conference hit hard by the rate frocreality that money can’t always buy aen contii happiness i n college athletics, so until tli([ Six different football programs were put ;uming llitonNCAA probation in the ’80s, with SMU ik smokiflireceiving the unheard of “death penalty,” lading to a virtual evacuation in Mustang has passed athletics. All but Baylor, Rice and Arkansas ;t commor got to experience the impromptu news h amongfonference in which the particular athletic program as well as the university was placed 125,51! under one of the largest microscopes g cancerii available to man: national television, diich com-! As the conference enters the 1990s, it will eported. not be able to readily escape the ethical ose death luestions which have become such an over, integral part of major college athletics, bile almost Addressing educational, recruiting and i ever toot alumni involvement issues will have to be re than SH made a high priority for each athletic ited States department as the conference struggles to Steven Merritt Sports Editor regain the integrity and respect lost in the eyes of many around the country. The direction chosen by the SWC remains undefined, but the new leadership emerging around the conference definitely points in a positive direction. Coaches such as A&M’s R.C. Slocum, SMU’s Forrest Gregg and Houston’s Jack Pardee represent a new form of leadership in the conference, a no-frills, get-the-job- done attitude which in emphasizes hard work as the first and foremost key to success. The SWC has heard the plea for integrity before as early as 1983, when TCU’s Jim Wacker made a private appeal to the eight other coaches to correct recruiting practices before the situation got out of hand. He was ultimately ignored by these men, a move which the conference pays for every time recruiting violations and the SWC are mentioned in the same breath. But those days, before the wrath of the NCAA was unleashed, are long gone, as are many of the coaches who scoffed at the idea of putting an end to illegal recruiting practices, thereby placing themselves at a competitive disadvantage. It was all part of the game, they said. Wacker and Baylor’s Grant Teaff are the only remaining coaches from 1983, and are joined by a collection of men who have deep roots in the conference. Gone are the Jackie Sherrills and Ron Meyers, who attracted as much media attention with their flashy personalities as the team itself. Pardee and Gregg probably represent the str on crest ties to the those coaches with SWC. Pardee, an All-American linebacker at A&M in the 1950s, grew up in the west Texas oil fields, where he developed an intense work ethic that made him successful not only in college but in the NFL as well with the Los Angeles Rams. Gregg spent his younger years in the small northeast Texas town of Sulphur Springs, moving on to a successful career at SMU and later to All-Pro status in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers. Both men represent the spirit of Texas football in the ability to instill a proper work ethic in their players, an attitude that can be traced to each man’s experiences growing up in small-town Texas as well as under the leadership of such coaches as Bear Bryant and Vince Lombardi. They were never given anything, it had to be earned. The same should be true for the college athlete of today. Gregg had to completely rebuild the SMU program. It is his team now, not something left by some coach who caught the red-eye flight to anywhere when the NCAA dropped the hatchet. He has the opportunity to return SMU to the traditional glory days of football on “the hilltop,” by bringing the team back to the campus for games in Ownby Stadium, where they should have stayed. Slocum has also established himself as a low-key, say-what-you-mean kind of leader for A&M. His stand on keeping boosters away from the athletes is a logical start to solving one of the biggest problems faced by any athletic program. His strong ties with the A&M program made him the practical choice in keeping the unity of the team and coaching staff after the turmoil that A&M football went through last year. The SWC has been through good times and bad with the imported leaders, now let’s see what the hometown boys can do. i rates art e female: 27.4 pei and 26i The deatli wever, is 2.3. —H - THE CRIPPLE CREEK LIFESTYLE •Swimming Pool/Hot Tub •Tennis Courts 1 ‘Convenient Laundry Center •Large Walk-in Closets •Mext to Sorority Row •On Shuttle Bus Route •Leases starting at $320.00 CONDOMINIUMS Office: 913-F Harvey Road (In Woodstone Center next to the Wash Haus) College Station 764-8682 Spark Some Interest! Use the Battalion Classifieds. 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