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Texas A&M SPORTS The Battalion
Wednesday, November 11,1992
Mavericks still winless after 118-104 loss to Wolves
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS - Doug West
scored 15 of his 23 points in the
first half, when Minnesota built a
21-point lead, and the Timber-
wolves earned their first victory,
118-104 Tuesday night over the
Dallas Mavericks.
It was the initial win of Min
nesota's Christian Laettner, the
NBA's third-overall draft pick. He
had 14 points, 12 rebounds and
five blocked shots.
Chuck Person and Micheal
Williams, also in their first seasons
with the Timberwolves, scored 24
and 20 points. Minnesota (1-2)
was coming off a 121-119 overtime
loss to Golden State.
Walter Bond, a free agent from
the University of Minnesota who
starts for Dallas because guard Jim
Jackson — the league's fourth-
overall draft choice — hasn't
signed, scored 25 points. Derek
Harper added 23 for the Maver
icks (0-2).
Person had 10 points and West
nine in the first quarter, when the
Timberwolves shot 57 percent and
took a 38-27 lead.
Bond's 10 third-quarter points
kept the Mavericks from getting
blown out, though they still
trailed 94-77. With Randy White
scoring seven points, Dallas began
the fourth with an 18-9 run that
made it 103-95 with 6:53 to play.
Dallas trailed 113-104 when
Harper hit a 3-pointer with 3:07
left. But the Mavericks, who were
blanked in the final 3:32 in their
opening 122-106 loss to Utah,
didn't score again.
Laettner made two free throws
— the Timberwolves were 33 of 36
from the line, including 22 of 23 in
the second half — and Person
made a long 3-pointer to seal Min
nesota's victory.
Eckersley becomes only 4th reliever to win AL Cy Young
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OAKLAND, Calif. - Dennis
Eckersley, who had a career-high
51 saves for the Oakland Athletics
this season, on Tuesday became
the first reliever since Detroit's
Willie Hernandez to win the
American League Cy Young
award.
He received 19 of 28 first-place
votes from a panel consisting of
two writers in each of the 14
league cities. With three seconds
and three thirds, Eckersley totaled
107 points under the 5-3-1 system.
Jack McDowell of the Chicago
White Sox was a distant second
with two firsts and 51 points, fol
lowed by Roger Clemens of
Boston with four firsts and 48
points. Mike Mussina of Baltimore
was fourth with two firsts and 26
points, followed by Jack Morris of
Toronto with one first and 10
points, Kevin Brown of Texas
with nine points and Charles
Nagy of Cleveland with one point.
Hernandez won the Cy Young
in 1984. Milwaukee's Rollie Fin
gers (1981) and New York's
Sparky Lyle (1977) are the only
other relievers to claim the AL
pitching honor.
Eckersley, the second A's pitch
er in three years to win the award,
came to Oakland in 1987 intend
ing to be a starter. After 18 years
in the majors, he has emerged as
one of the best closers in the histo
ry of the game. In the last five sea
sons,. he has 220 saves in 246
chances.
This year, the 38-year-old right
hander converted all but three
save opportunities as the Athletics
won their fourth AL West title in
five years.
Even A's manager Tony La
Russa, not usually given to hyper
bole, tended to ^ush when talking
about Eckersley s season.
'Tt's amazing you can have
that much stuff and be that com-
f >etitive night after night," he said
ate in the season. vVhat can I
say, he's the best thing going in
baseball."
Eckersley's amazing year may
be remembered more for the
shocking way it ended.
In Game 4 of the AL playoffs
with Toronto, Eckersley came on
in the eighth with a 6-2 lead. Two
Blue Jay runs scored before Rober
to Alomar hit an Eckersley pitch
for a two-run homer that complet
ed a five-run Toronto rally. The 7-
6 win gave the Blue Jays a 3-1 lead
on the way to winning the play
offs and the World Series.
Eckersley began his major
league career in 1975 with Cleve
land, going 13-7 with a 2.60 ERA,
and threw a no-hitter on Memori
al Day 1977 against the California
Angels. After being traded to
Boston before the 1978 season, he
became the first Red Sox pitcher
in seven years to win 20 games.
Davis
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In South Carolina, 78,000 peo
ple showed up to watch North
Carolina play Clemson. North
Carolina and Clemson!?
How many fans came out to
see Southern Mississippi at
Florida? Gainesville had 82,882
rowdies in town.
Are these fans better than us?
Are they more loyal than us?
They must be because their
teams aren't nearly as good as
ours, and none of them surpass
our student enrollment by the
30,000 or so that the numbers re
flect.
In fact, I remember Stanford
losing to a certain Texas school
way back in August by a 10-7
margin.
So what did you do last
week?
Washing your car and/or
hair is not a valid excuse. It was
an overcast day, and cleaning
your hair doesn't take all after
noon.
Were you visiting Grandma?
Grandma could have visited
the week before when A&M
took on Southern Methodist in
Dallas. It was the perfect week
end to take care of those pesky
familial relationships.
Were you watching it on tee-
vee?
Bad Aggie. Bad, bad Aggie.
You should be punished for
such apathy by having to serve
as the tackling dummy for line
backer Marcus Buckley this
week.
You have one more chance to
make things good with your
beloved football team. Texas
Christian University comes to
Kyle Field on November 21, and
the Horned Frogs will be look
ing for an upset.
Don't laugh. The T-sips did
last week and were then sound
ly defeated by TCU, 23-14.
And if you want extra credit,
you could go to Houston this
Thursday, and then to Austin on
Thanksgiving Day.
Or is this team still not good
enough for you?
Lady Aggies
Continued from Page 5
seed in the SWC tourney will be
guaranteed. If the Lady Aggies
lose, they will have to rely on a
coin flip to determine their seed.
The Lady Bears will have extra
incentive on their side tonight, as
their early-season winning streak
was put to an abrupt halt Oct. 14
when A&M breezed through Bay
lor's Ferrell Center with an easy
three-game win. That additional
motivation is something the Lady
Aggies are expecting to confront.
“They want to beat us real
bad," Wood said. "We always ex
pect that from Baylor.
"We are definitely looking for
them to come out and play hard."
Edmiston backed up her team
mates' comments, but with an air
of confidence.
"I'm not worried, but I am ex
pecting Baylor to come in ready to
play hard," Edmiston said.
“We're just going to concentrate
on our side of the court and doing
what we have to do to win."
The Lady Aggies gained a char
acter-building experience to pre
pare them for Baylor with their
trip to California, even though
they split their two matches.
With their loss to Cal Poly-SLO,
A&M was forced to look inward
for motivation to come back and
defeat Nevada-Reno. As a result,
the team has found its second
wind at the time when it needs it
most.
"I think as a team, we got
things prioritized and put into
place after we lost to Cal Poly,"
Edmiston said. "I think it (the
road trip) was a good step for us."
The loss Edmiston spoke of
seemed to be just one of many
close matches A&M has suffered
this season. The Lady Aggies
were within striking distance in
all three games, but Cal Poly man
aged to pull each of them out.
"We kind of found ourselves in
California," Wood said. "(When
we) lost to Cal Poly, we had to sit
down and evaluate ourselves.
"I think it helped us. We went
out against Nevada (Reno) and
just had a blJTst."
Houston's 12th Aggies
a Standing Committee of the Aggie Professional Forum
invites you and your friends to
A Pre-Game U of H Bash
on
Thursday November 12, 1992
5:00 PM - Kick-Off
A $1.00 donation for the Scholarship Fund will be collected at the door.
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