Sports
Monday, March 29,1993
The Battalion
Page 7
DAVID
WINDER
Sports Writer
Hand injury just
the breaks with
switch in sports
T hanks to
the Texas
A & M
Physical Plant, I
now think I
have a broken
bone in my left
hand. I don't
think they did it
on purpose, but
nonetheless I
have an injured
hand.
Since the
first of last se
mester, some
friends and I
have played
football in the large yard next to Ho-
tard dormitory. At the beginning of
the year it was a nice green field, but
after we came back from the Christ
mas holidays we discoved that
someone had made large tire tracks
near the south endzone and filled
them back in with some kind of dirt
substance. (I suspect the A&M
Physical Plant did this, also). We
continued to play anyway, and after
about a month of bone-crushing
tackles, the grass began to disap
pear. So to fix this problem, the
A&M Physical Plant was sent out to
put dirt on the lawn so the grass
could grow back.
But instead of dirt they put little
scraps of metal, shards of glass,
rocks, pieces of bricks, and one huge
chunk of cement. I guess they were
putting the nuclear waste and hypo
dermic needles somewhere else.
So after months of being able to
vent out the frustrations of school
every weekend by knocking one of
your best friends senseless, we were
forced to find a new recreation. Bas
ketball, baseball and frisbee golf
were all mentioned as replacements,
but none fit the guidelines we had
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Barking out the signals
BILLY MORAN/Tlie Battalion
Bob Davie, Texas A&M's assistant head coach/defensive The Aggies begin their second week of spring practice, which
is closed to the public, today at Kyle Field.
coordinator, leads the A&M defense through drills last week.
Perdomo earns All-American honors at NCAA meet
By LAURA GRIMES
Special to The Battalion
Sophomore Diego Perdomo earned
Texas A&M 15 points on its way to a
three-way tie for 28th place at the NCAA
Swimming and Diving Championships in
Indianapolis, Ind., last weekend.
Perdomo, a transfer from Oral Roberts
University, took fourth place in the 100-
yard butterfly March 26 to earn All-
American honors. Perdomo was second
going into the finals with a time of 47.74
in the preliminaries, but finished in
fourth with a time of 47.82.
"Diego got All-American honors - not
honorable mention, but the real thing,"
A&M assistant head coach Jay Holmes
said. "That's how it should be done. He
went in there and had fun with it. We
had a lot of fun watching him on the
awards stand."
Perdomo was the only Aggie to score
points at the meet. The Aggies swam all
five relays, but came up short in each one.
The 200 freestyle and 400 medley relays
both placed 17th, while the 400 and 800
freestyle relays both finished 18th. The
top 16 places swim in the finals for points.
To continue the run of bad luck, the
200 medley relay squad was one of five
teams disqualified for illegal relay ex
changes.
"We wanted more out of the relays,"
Holmes said. "Scoring in them would
have helped us out a lot as far as breaking
the top 20. It just wasn't in the cards."
Junior Steve Lutz was the next fastest
qualifier after Perdomo with an 18th-
place finish in the 400 individual medley.
Stanford won the meet with 520.5
points, followed by Michigan in second
with 396 points. The University of Texas
was the top Southwest Conference team,
finishing third with 326 points. Fellow
£WC team Southern Methodist finished
10th with 148.5 points.
A&M sweeps
Coogs, ties Tech
atop conference
By WILLIAM HARRISON
The Battalion
The Texas A&M baseball team's dou
ble-header against the Houston Cougars
at Cougar Field Saturday was just too big
for one day.
This year's decreased load of 18 inter
conference games to determine the
Southwest Conference Championship
pitted A&M, vying for first place in the
SWC, against Houston, struggling
against virtual elimination from the race.
After the dust settled from the 11-in
ning come-from-behind marathon series
finale that started Saturday and was com
pleted Sunday, A&M had swept Houston
for the three-game series to claim a share
of the Southwest Conference lebd with
Texas Tech at 5-1, and dropped the
Coogs to the bottom of the barrel at 1-8.
The two teams combined in the dou
ble-header for 63 funs, 64 hits, 37 runners
left on base, 35 walks and 13 errors after
seven hours and 35 minutes of play.
After the second game of the twinbill
was called fbr darkness, an additional 40-
minute debate dragged on as the two
schools' sports information staffs and the
umpires scrambled to interpret a vague
conference rule that was not specific re
garding suspended play for darkness.
A&M co-captain Billy Harlan was at a
loss to recall anything like the suspension
at Cougar Field, the only field in the con
ference without lights.
"We weren't sure about the ruling, but
we went and stayed in the hotel last night
and everybody was real positive," Harlan
said.
"It took two days to do, we spotted
them seven runs, but those guys on the
team never doubted that we could come
back because we've got the firepower to
do it."
In the first game on Friday, A&M won 6-
3 on the strength of Aggie pitcher Jeff
Granger's third complete game and right-
fielder Stephen Claybrook's four runs
batted in. A&M never trailed, and Hous
ton pitcher Jeff Wright got the loss for the
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