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A&M pitcher Jon Peters, who is sitting out the season after el
bow surgery, had his number retired in Brenham Saturday. He
set a national record of 53 consecutive wins with the Cubs.
BRENHAM — Texas A&M fresh
man Jon Peters was honored in his
home town Friday night, when his
number was retired. In a pre-game
ceremony before about 200 fans at
Fireman’s Park, Peters’ number 21
was retired and placed on the left
field wall.
His jersey will be placed in the
school trophy case along with pic
tures of Peters and his Brenham tea
mmates from the 1986-89 seasons.
Peters, who led the Cubs to a
state-record three consecutive 4A
championships, set a national record
last spring when he recorded his
53rd consecutive high school victory.
Peters’ number was the first to be
retired by Brenham High, which has
produced several major-leaguers, in
cluding former Red Sox/Brewers
star Cecil Cooper and several cur
rent minor leaguers.
“It’s a great honor, and I’m proud
of it,” Peters said. “But it wasn’t all
me — it was my teammates, too.
“They helped me out when I
wasn’t at my best. It was a team ef
fort.”
The night’s festivities were also set
Virginia joins Brown chose golf over gridiron
list of schools
wanting Penders
DALLAS (AP) — Tom Penders’
stock continues to rise. Virginia has
joined the list of schools wanting to
lure him away from Texas, a Dallas
newspaper reported.
Penders, whose Longhorns fell
88-85 to Arkansas Saturday in the
NCAA Midwest regional final, will
be asked this week to interview for
the vacant head coaching position at
Virginia, the Dallas Times Herald
reported Sunday.
Penders said Saturday, however,
that he hadn’t heard from Virginia
officials about possibly replacing
Terry Holland as Cavaliers’ coach.
“My policy is if someone wants to
talk to me, I’ll listen,” Penders said.
“Every coach has to do what is best
for himself and his family.
“I love the University of Texas
and plan to be here for a long, long
time. We’re working on (a new con
tract). Maybe I’ll have an announce
ment before too long.”
Holland resigned to become the
athletic director at Davidson. Offi
cials have met with Penn State coach
Bruce Parkhill and Stanford coach
Mike Montgomery, but have put off
a decision in order to seek Penders
and Xavier coach Pete Gillen, the
source told the newspaper.
Stanford Athletic Director Andy
Geiger confirmed that Montgomery
met with Virginia twice and also said
Virginia would like to talk to Gillen
and Penders this week.
Asked if he has an interview
scheduled with any school, Penders
said, “I have no plans, nor have I
ever had plans. If someone really
wants to talk to me. I’ll talk. It might
be nice to see how other schools do
things.”
Texas Director of Athletics DeL-
oss Dodds and Penders have said
that Florida Athletic Director Bill
Arnsparger called seeking an inter
view with Penders about the vacant
coaching position at Florida.
Atlantic Coast Conference Assis
tant Commissioner Fred Barakat
called three weeks ago to tell Pen
ders he had recommended him for
the North Carolina State and Vir
ginia positions.
Penders has taken the Longhorns
to back-to-back NCAA tournament
appearances, and is 49-18 in two
years at Texas.
T HE WOODLANDS (AP) — T he entire Brown fam
ily believes Billy Ray chose the right sport.
Brown’s father, Charlie, played football for the Oak
land Raiders and his brother, Chuck, also played foot
ball, for the St. Louis Cardinals.
But when it came Billy’s turn to make his mark, he
picked up his golf clubs and accepted a scholarship to
the University of Houston.
And no one tried to steer Billy toward football.
“They kind of watched out for me and told me not to
get into it,” Brown said. “It’s such a cut-throat business
and golf is, too, but your career lasts a little longer in
golf.”
Brown hopes to make them all proud this week when
he tees up in the field for the $1 million Independent
Insurance Agent Open at the Tournament Players
Course at The Woodlands Country Club.
Brown made the cut in his hometown event last year
for the first time after four tries and would like to play
well before the home crowd.
“It’s fun to have people pulling for you instead of
against you,” Brown said. “Out on the road, they are al
ways pulling for the favorites and the underdogs kind
of get left out.”
Brown has almost pulled himself out of the under
dog category this season with four top-five finishes
going into the Nestle Invitational at Bay Hill Country
Club in Orlando, Fla.
He ranked No. 13 on the money list with $188,208 at
the start of the tournament after finishing 125th as a
rookie in 1988 and 85th last year.
Discarding his gambling tactics has been one im
provement, Brown said.
“I don’t think I was mature enough to know that’s
what I was doing,” Brown said. “But once I started ma
naging my game, I could see I was making a lot of
dumb mistakes.”
Brown’s new strategy is still aggressive, but smarter.
“I’ve put a lot of emphasis on getting in the fairways
and hitting the greens, not so much shooting for the
flags,” he said. “I try to make birdies when I have the
chance, and the other holes, try to get my par and get
out of there.”
Brown was the NCAA champion as a freshman at
Houston and earned All-America honors four straight
years.
But near the end of his PGA rookie year in 1988,
Brown almost missed the cutoff of the top 126 players
that qualified for the 1989 tour.
He went into the final week ranked 122nd and fin
ished 125th.
“That was very tough on me and my wife,” Brown
said. “That Tour School is tough. I don’t ever want to
do that again. It’s gruelling.”
Brown moved up to 85th in 1989. A tie for second at
the Kemper Open was his best finish.
This year he’s been in the top five at the Phoenix
Open, the Hawaiian Open, the Honda Classic and the
Tournament Players’ championships.
Fighter Benavides denied
WBA featherweight title
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) —
Jesse Benavides won a 10-round
decision from WBA junior feath
erweight champion Jesus Salud
Sunday, but he won’t be given the
tide because it was an unsanc
tioned fight.
“I feel like a champion right
now,” Benavides said. A | feel uke
a legitimate world champion.”
But the World Boxing Associa
tion earlier ordered Salud to face
No. 1 contender Luis Mendoza
Saturday in Colombia and said it
would strip the title from him if
he didn’t.
Salud chose the Benavides
fight, which was televised nation
ally, and plans to take legal action
to prevent the WBA from strip
ping the title.
The fighters, both 26, weighed
in at 124 pounds.
Salud (34-4) battered Bena
vides (29-1) with body shots
through the first five rounds, tak
ing control with a hard-charging
style. In the fifth, a right ribs fol
lowed by a combination left Bena
vides reeling before the bell.
“I had him in the fifth and I let
him go,” Salud said.
In the sixth, Benavides, a for
mer four-time national Ckjlden
Gloves amateur champion from
Corpus Christi, employed a stick-
and-move game plan that turned
the fight.
Benavides won the sixth and
seventh rounds. By late in the
eighth, Salud was missing with
regularity.
Benavides steamed after Salud
with a vengeance in the tenth. He
landed a left uppercut and drove
Salud into the ropes with a fol
low-up right hand. The fight
ended with Benavides peppering
a dazed Salud.
The loss won’t help Salud with
the WBA.
“They’ll use it against us,” said
Stanley Hoffman, one of Salud’s
managers.
Bradley first
$3 million earner
in LPGA history
PHOENIX (AP) — Pat Bradley
became the first LPGA player to
reach $3 million in career earnings
with a one-stroke victory Sunday in
the $500,000 Turquoise Classic.
Bradley, with career earnings of
$3,059,768, made a two-foot par
putt on the final hole to beat Ayako
Okamoto, who made a bold charge
on the final nine. Okamoto birdied
Nos. 10, 13, 14 and 17 to tie Bradley
at 12 under at the 6,514-yard, par-
73 Moon Valley Country Club.
But on the 18th green, Okamoto
three-putted from 40 feet, just miss
ing a four-foot par putt that would
have forced a sudden-death playoff.
Okamoto finished with a 71 for a
281 total, 11 under par.
Bradley then tapped in her
‘ " 71 fo
>utt to
cap a round of 7l for a $75,000
check and her second victory in the
tournament. She also won in 1987.
It was the second victory this sea
son and 25th in 17 years on tour for
Bradley, who turned 39 Saturday.
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to honor Peters’ teammates from the
1986-89 seasons. Several of them
were on hand to help Peters accept
the honor.
Brenham won the state
championship from 1986-88 and
lost in the final last year. Peters said
the 1986 squad was probably the best
of the four teams.
“I think that was the best team
ever to play here,” Peters said. “We
were pretty dominant then.”
The other teams were also great,
Peters said. Still, his greatest thrill
was breaking the record last spring,
he said.
Peters wanted to be a starter on
the Aggie staff this season, but has
been redshirted this season since un
dergoing elbow surgery last month,
he said.
“It would have been tough to
break into the rotation with all the
great pitchers we have,” Peters said.
“Things happen for a reason. Maybe
next year. My goal is to be a starter.”
The Cubs could have used Peters
Friday night. They sqeaked past Wil
lis 8-6 in extra innings on a Matt
Bentke two-run home run.
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