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Astros win fifth in row, downing Expos 9-5
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONTREAL — Houston won
its fifth straight road game as Ken
Caminiti drove in two runs to
help the Astros beat the Montreal
Expos 9-5 Wednesday night.
The Astros started the season
with three straight losses at home
against Philadelphia, but swept a
three-game series at New York
over the weekend.
Houston scored two runs on
wild pitches, including the go-
ahead run in a three-run seventh
to take the lead as the Expos
again missed closer John Wette-
land, out with a broken toe.
The Astros rallied for seven
runs in the seventh inning in a 9-6
victory on Tuesday against Mon
treal.
Mark Portugal (2-0) pitched six
innings, giving up five runs and
four hits.
Montreal starter Mike Gar
diner (0-1) gave up three runs
and didn't record an out in the
seventh.
The Expos scored three runs in
the sixth to take a 5-4 lead, two on
a fielding error by shortstop An-
dujar Cedeno.
Caminiti and Cedeno had RBI
singles in the seventh and Brian
Barnes threw a wild pitch to al
low a run to score.
A sacrifice fly by Scott Servais
and Portugal's RBI single off
Chris Nabholz gave the Astros a
2-0 lead in the fourth. But the Ex
pos came back in their half of the
fourth on Marquis Grissom's
two-run homer, his second.
Houston made it 3-2 in the
fifth on Caminiti's single and
added a run in the sixth on Nab-
holz's wild pitch with a runner on
third. Nabholz allowed four runs
on eight hits.
Aggies record at 38-5
Continued From Page 7
A&M built a 3-0 lead and never looked back.
Freshman righthander Jeff Jansky started the
game for the Aggies and picked up his first win of
the year. Righthanded junior Kevin Bosse pitched
the last three innings for A&M.
Johnson said he was excited with the efforts Jan
sky and Bosse gave on the mound.
"It was fun to watch Jansky and Bosse pitch be
cause we had not been able to get them much work
recently," Johnson said. "I was glad to see them
perform, and perform well on such a tough night."
Bouncing back from the Sam Houston games
was important, Lewis said, although overlooking
the Tigers could have been easy.
"The doubleheader was frustrating so it was nec
essary for us as a team to play well against them,"
Lewis said. "Their record is not that impressive but
you have to give them some credit because they did
drive down here."
Harrison
Continued from Page 7
Amid the ribbing and chanti
ng there is a fine line to good-
natured sarcastic heckling and
brutal, insensitive harassment
on both sides of the playing
field.
There was a small crowd
Wednesday that withstood a 33-
degree wind chill to see A&M
play Texas Southern, and Jim
my Harrison sat on the front
row with the rest of the Raggies.
He said that the incident was
unfortunate, and both sides
took it too personally.
"We were just being face
tious and our own selves, and
several of their players were do
ing the whoop - making fun of
that - and shooting the finger,
and that's uncool to us," he
said.
He said the group supports
the Aggies by heckling, and
doesn't mind having them heck
le back, as long as both groups
don't hurt each others' feelings.
"It could start a fight and it
can just start anything, and
that's not what we're out here
for," Harrison said.
"The main thing (we do) is
support the team, that's the
main goal for all of us who sit
up here. Whether (the team) is
number one in the nation or not,
we're out here."
He said there have been
times he's said things he has re
gretted, but the same people
who sit and yell at the opposing
players also try to make sure
what they say will not offend
the other team in the proper
context.
"The players come out here
and they know they're going to
be ragged on, but they're people
just like everybody else - we
don't hold them on a higher
plane than us," he said.
"If we think we say some
thing that could be construed as
racist, impolite or just down
right nasty, we won't say it. If
we do say it, we tend to get on
our own, and look at each other
and say that's uncalled for."
Harrison said he neither
knew nor condoned whoever
created the "go back to the bor
der" comment and said that
some of the remarks made
Wednesday night against the
TSU team were in excess.
Fans showed up with radios
to harass the team about an inci
dent in Japan where the TSU
Ocean of Soul band got caught
stealing electronic equipment.
However, after the game,
fans on the second tier of Olsen
Field tossed the A&M and TSU
players excess hot dogs from
A&M's 25-cent hot dog night
promotion. A&M pitcher Kelly
Wunsch even tried to hit one
back into the stands with a bat.
A&M Coach Mark Johnson
said that although the team
needs A&M's fan support, the
fans do go overboard some
times. Johnson said he had sent
a letter to the fans earlier to dis
courage them from behavior
that could be offensive.
"I don't think we're bad,"
Johnson said.
"At every ball park, there's
one or two that just do not
know how to handle things
well, and they'll say something,
and then all of a sudden every
body assumes that's part of a
group," he said.
With the possibility of A&M
receiving a NCAA regional
playoff host site, Johnson has
said that the community sup
port and ranking will play an
important part in whether
Olsen Field is picked, and he
said A&M's home record is in
dicative of the fans' support.
"Whether we have regionals
or not, we have to have the 12th
man in the stands; our record at
home indicates that," Johnson
said.
Johnson said he appreciated
the fans and felt their energy
level was unique to a special
group of rowdy college baseball
fans, including Mississippi
State, Arizona and Arizona
State.
But, he said he worries about
the environment created at
Olsen Field when fans lose con
trol.
"The thing I want to be sure
of - I want families to be able to
come out to the ball park with
their little ones and not have to
hide from the noise or from
racial slurs or vulgar language."
Earlier in the season when a
visiting University of Maine
player started the first game of a
double-header with a couple of
errors, the A&M fans were all
over him until he went down
with an injury on the field.
Then they stood and cheered
him as he got up.
Harrison recalled a similar
story about a 1990 series with
the University of Illinois.
The fans rode the players all
game until they left the field
and by chance met at the Chick
en to enjoy themselves after
ward.
"It was Spring Break, there
was nothing to do, and a bunch
of us went over to the Chicken
to play dominoes - the Illinois
baseball team walks in, and we
started talking to them."
Johnson said he has never
had a team complain about the
playing conditions at Olsen
Field
"They have kind of a "rag
ging" approach to opponents,
and I've never had our oppo
nents say I hate coming here -
they all like to come here,"
Johnson said.
"They're humorous, they get
involved with it, and 99 percent
of the time, our opponents will
say it was fun to play at Olsen
Field."
In regard to the racial and
Sam Houston incidents, visiting
players' parents and relatives
and community families visit
ing Olsen Field to watch their
favorite sons play ball need to
be remembered.
While incidents at Olsen
Field are generally few and far
between, A&M fans should
temper the right to yell whatev
er you want with the responsi
bility of consideration and re
spect for another persons' pride
and heritage.
And then yell accordingly.
Someone who saw an un
healthy dose of the A&M fans 1
behavior told me, "Man they
need to watch their "racial epi
taphs."
He did not mean"epithets."
Racial jibing these days is
just about the most divisive and
insulting behavior a fan can ex
hibit.
Coming from a high school
where I saw 400 people run
across a busy Houston city
street all in the name of a riot,I
would hate to see it happen in
any arena here and see more
people injured in a hateful at
mosphere.
So, think twice and keep the
games fun in the name of what
this university should stand for.
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