iber 13, ^Thursday, September 13,1990 The Battalion Page 11 DALLAS (AP) — The University of Tulsa may be a candidate for a slot in the Southwest Conference, a published report says. ■ The Dallas Morning News re ported in Tuesday’s editions that the school has expressed an interest in lining the SWC. I The school also has collected thousands of signatures in a petition drive. ■ Tulsa athletic director Rick Dick- In told The Morning News there was a “groundswell campaign from le University of Tulsa and the lulsa community that went on for a lonth or so, directed toward Fred Icoby and the Southwest Confer- etue presidents.” I SWC Commissioner Jacoby con- fumed that Tulsa has expressed in- ■terest in joining the conference, Which is losing Arkansas to the Southeastern Conference. ■ “Other than that, 1 really don’t Ire to say much about it,” Jacoby said “They have expressed interest, ■here has been no formal applica tion.” I Jacoby would not speculate about talion file phoio > practicing terback for Saturday. dangers sqeeze last Yanks 5-4 I NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s Steve Adkins made his major league lebut by walking five consecutive latters in the second inning as the Texas Rangers scored three runs lithout a hit and beat the Yankees 5- ■ Wednesday night. ■ Adkins, who walked eight of the 1 batters he faced, survived three lalks in the first inning with the ack Pardee «elp of a double play. He did not as coach thliveup a hit and retired the first bat- : ler in the second but then walked Mlike Stanley, Steve Buechele, Scott to " aere is any my more atojloolbaugh, Jeff Kunkel and John than (Jenkit ^ussell, giving Texas a 2-0 lead. aowasanassJ Mark Leiter relieved and walked ns at Mississipplafael Palmeiro, forcing home a ton) hasdonelthircl run. The major league record ■or consecutive walks in an inning is noking forvar'yeven but the string ended w'hen Ru- /kes again. B>en Sierra fiied out. to walk aaoip The Rangers didn’t get a hit until ry) and pwrlhlmeiro singled with two out in the and tell hirlourth. Palmeiro scored on a double ?ad ofhimja) >y Sierra and a single by Juan Gon- alez produced the decisive run. New York pitchers issued 14 lalks, one short of the club record ind the most ever refceived by the langers. The generosity enabled without Al Charlie Hough (12-10) to w in for the econd time since Aug. 11. Hough, having trouble control- and telling b ins said, animosity am! •ss, butSpikti er Manny Haii an injured It: Ing his knuckleball and falling be- ■lind most of the hitters, lasted 5 1-3 Innings. _ room, some- -porters askes ae media (roc ell the peopl butt.’ I meat; in Houston) it stuff about “That wasn't s some people ia who have id you knot Houston knocks Reds out 3-1 . the And If I have ailed Jack a ge until later ne out of .remising the Linking e wmy to go, ed and the with every the plains. wounds of tes gang had •ome young, idy to matuti men play, aer sanew ilitia. Cowboys aeir strateg ; state capin for their Cubs crush Phillies 9-3 CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Cubs scoring six runs in the first and pGreg Maddux defeated the Philadel phia Phillies 9-3 Wednesday, for his ninth win in 13 starts. Andre Dawson had three hits and drove in three runs. Ryne Sandberg hit a two-run homer, his 34th. Both homers came in the fourth inning. The first seven batters reached base off Jose Dejesus, 5-7, who walked the first three men he faced. Maddux, 13-13, went the first seven innings, allowed eight hits and struck out four. Dejesus lasted two-thirds of an in ning, giving up six runs on four hits and four walks. After the three walks, Dawson hit a two-run single. Rookie Derrick May, Luis Salazar and Damon Ber- ryhill followed with consecutive RBI isingles. Salazar scored the sixth run when the third baseman, Charlie Hayes, hobbled Mark Grace’s easy grounder. Tulsa’s viability as an SWC candi date. Tulsa is a private school of 4,500 students and plays its football games at 40,385-seat Skelly Stadium. The Golden Hurricane averaged 25,388 fans in five home games last season when it posted a 6-5 record. Tulsa then lost to Oregon in the Indepen dence Bowl. sports speaks for itself,” Dickson said. “And we would bring in a com munity like Tulsa, which has geo graphic compatibility with the SWC. We are probably in the Top 30 in the country in endowments, and it is eas ily a Top 50 institution academi cally.” Tulsa is only the 56th-largest tele vision market in the country, and “We have not formally applied, but we have formally informed ev eryone at every level, from the presi dents to the athletic directors to the conference commissioner, that we are very seriously interested in being considered,” Dickson said. Robert Don- J mesid ed: “We would be a very good fit in the SWC. We are com mitted to a strong athletic program balanced with strong academics. We are very interested in talking, if they are expanding.” Jacpby has been given authority to talk to schools about expansion. Tu- lane and Miami have expressed in terest, but Tulsa has taken the most The Golden Hurricane is 1-1 this season and will play Arkansas Satur day and the University of Oklahoma Sept. 22. The Golden Hurricane plays bas ketball in the 9,200-seat City Con vention Center. Tulsa has gone to post-season play eight times in the past 10 years. “I think our track record in major Oklahoma and Oklahoma State have large fan bases in the city to cut into the Golden Hurricane’s fan support. And only Rice in the SWC has fewer students. Tulsa officials say they are waiting to hear from the SWC. An applica tion would be only a formality, be cause Tulsa officials have talked to people at every level in the SWC. aggressive stance. Tulsa is a member of the Missouri Valley Conference in all men’s sports except football. Tulsa is an in dependent in all women’s sports. The expansion issue will be dis cussed at an athletic directors’ meet ing Sept. 19-20, Jacoby said, but any decision on expansion will be made by conference presidents at a meet ing in October. CINCINNATI (AP) — Mike Simms’ first major-league hit knocked in the go-ahead run in the 13th inning, carrying the Houston Astros to a 3-1 victory over the Cin cinnati Reds Wednesday night. Simms, who replaced Glenn Davis at first base in the 12th inning, sin ged off Tim Layana (5-3). Eric Yelding reached first on a fielder’s choice and stole second be fore Karl Rhodes was walked inten tionally. The Astros scored an insurance run on Layana’s wild pitch. Rhodes advanced to third and Simms to sec ond on a throw to the plate following Simms’ hit. Juan Agosto (7-7) pitched 1 2-3 innings for the victory. Brian Meyer got the last out for his first save of the season. The loss cut Cincinnati’s lead in the National League West to six games. Luck o ’ the Irish Notre Dame must prove worth as No. 1 to doubtful coach Holtz SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — This week’s college football poll says Notre Dame is No. 1. The Fighting Irish will have to prove it to Coach Lou Holtz. “Right now we’ve accom plished absolutely nothing,” said Holtz, whose team opens on Sat urday at home against No. 4 Michigan. “As far as being No. I, I don’t even think about it any more. They’re going to vote again.” The Fighting Irish carried the No. 1 ranking into last year’s’ game against the Wolverines and emerged with a 24-19 victory. The Irish went on to an 11-1 re cord and a No. 2 national rank ing, and Michigan went on a 10- game winning streak to claim the Big Ten title in Bo Schembechl- er’s last season as coach. Holtz was 3-0 against Schem- bechler but said he never looked at the game as a matchup of coaches. “I’ve never looked on it as Bo against Lou Holtz,” the Irish coach said Tuesday. “Maybe it’s because of my ego, that I don’t want it to be that way, because most of the time, you come out on the short end.” But, he adds, “We’ve been ex ceptionally lucky.” A lot of the Irish luck was pro vided by Raghib “Rocket” Ismail, who returned two kickoffs for touchdowns last season on a rain- slick artificial turf that stymied the offenses. “1 don’t think there’s any doubt he’s a marked man,” Holtz said of his speedy flanker. “I’ve always felt that when teams play somebody like Notre Dame first, it really helps their team,” he said. “Win or lose that first game, you are going to be further ahead when you come out of that first game. T hen it’s a question of how well you react to the win or the loss. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that one of the reasons Michi gan’s won that Big Ten championship the last couple of years is because they’ve looked forward to playing the University of Notre Dame.” Photo courtesy of Notre Dome Sports Information NO Coach Lou Holtz is pessimistic about the Irish’s No. 1 rank. The Wolverines, now coached privy to Irish strategy. by longtime Schembechler assis- Gat tant Gary Moeller, may have learned something since then from Mike Bossary, a Notre Dame graduate assistant hired by Michigan in July to help coach the offensive backfield. Bossary worked spring practice and was ‘it was an unusual time for him to leave, but those are things I can’t control,” Holtz says. “I don’t think Mike Bossary would do anything to hurt Notre Dame. 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