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The Battalion Monday, April 19,1993 Memorial Student Center L.T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness FellowsPresentations Don Griffiths will cultural perspectives on the Russia we see today s s , f| B^r6i|!C^irgill will present culture differences in social support networks and their iiiittuence out health promoting behavior || If .! Monday, ^pril I9,|t993 7:00p.rp. 504-Rudder Refreshments Following For more information, please call 845-8770. % ORGANIZATIONS REGISTRATION IS NOW GOING ON FOR MSC OPEN HOUSE DON'T BE LEFT OUT ! • Pick up a form in your organization's box in the Student Finance Center or in the Student Programs Office in MSC. • Reserve a table from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. with Nancy Adams in the Student Programs Office, Room 216 MSC. Cost of tables: $20 for first table $10/ additional table „ ,, > THE FINAL DAY TO REGISTER IS TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1993 JjU MSC Open House is sponsored by ~nr MSC Public Realtions Committee Texas A&M Chapter of the NAACP 1993 - 94 Officer and Executive Board Positions now available Voting will be held Monday, April 19,1993 8:30 p.m. Room 410 Rudder Positions available: President Vice-President Treasurer/Finance Chair Secretary Programs and Research Chair Membership Chair Press and Publicity Chair Political Action Chair Executive Board Members You must have a G.P.R. of 2.25 Page 8 Winder Continued from Page 7 Carver started to talk about Brooklyn catcher Roy Cam- panella, it brought back a lit tle nostalgia and began my first history lesson. "Back in Caro, the sawmill across from the house had a baseball team that your Uncle Raymond used to play for, and they had an awesome catcher. He had the best arm I've ever seen. He could throw out any baserunner trying to steal on him even though he was sitting down. Kind of the Tony Pena before his time. I loved just to go play catch with them." Thousands of times we had drove by the old sawmill, but that was the first time he'd ever men tioned something about a baseball team. Then, a quick flash into the Reds' dugout, where the cameras caught a glimpse of manager Tony Perez, a former member of the Big Red Machine. My second history lesson. "Those Reds teams back then were probably the greatest of all time. Having all those great players on the same team is just incredible. Bench catching, an infield with Perez, Morgan, Concep cion and Rose is just awe some. Then they had Grif fey, Geronimo, and ... and ... well anyway, their right- fielder must not have been too good if I can't remember him. The sad thing about it is Sparky Anderson thinks he made that bunch of guys into winners. I could've have coached that team." The game soon ended, so we were forced to change to the start of the Phillies-Cubs game. It didn't take long for Cubs announcer Harry Garay to start butchering everything he said. I believe he had the most trouble with the name Dwight Smith. "I don't see how these Cub fans can stand to listen to Harry announce the game, because he sure ain't watch- ing-fhe same game we are. I think he might be getting a little too old for his announc ing game" "Maybe he's drunk," I said, noticing that every word was becoming progres sively worse. "He might be. I don't see what keeps Steve Stone from laughing at him. Some of the things he says are so stu pid. Stone has to be cracking up." The afternoon soon ended with a couple more history lessons and some observa tions about baseball in gen eral. As I got up off of the couch to get ready for the movies, I realized that every thing he said I was going to remember for the rest of my life. He gave me a part of his history and added it to mine, and the best part was we didn't even fight over the re mote control. dp 1993 TWE FIRST C-AME WAS O/Vf TO NOTHING-... THE SECOND G-AME WAS ONE To TWO . THANK. GrOOONESS YOU RE/U-IZ-ED BEFORE THE THIRD CtAME WAS OVER THAT BEING- NUMBER ONE OoES NOT MEAN TOO JUST SCORB ONE RUN • come out to OLSEN FIELD TUESDAY NIOHT TO HELP US G-ET REVENGE ON t.U. -^RL/N&TM Niners throw curve in Montana negotiations THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO - The Joe Montana Sweepstakes took anoth er strange turn Sunday when the president of the San Francisco 49ers said the quarterback could be the team's "aesignated starter" while competing with Steve Young. The unusual development Bears Continued from Page 7 "We could've folded our tent because we didn't look good our first game," Johnson said. "It's one thing to get beat 10-9 because everyone feels aggressive and strong, but when you are not getting the ball in play you have a tendency to slack up. The two-out rally was a breath of fresh air - we hadn't had too much of that go ing," he said. After Baylor's pitchers baffled the A&M hitters for the first two games and half of the third, the Aggies finally broke through in the fifth, sending eleven men to the plate and Baylor pitcher Jason Rathbun to the showers. After squandering two-out op portunities in the first, third and fourth innings, the Aggies started the rally off on third baseman Lee Fedora's run-scoring single and first baseman John Curl's two-run double. After A&M knocked Rathbun out with five runs charged to him, they got two runs charged to Bears reliever Aaron Richards, and picked up two more runs in the sixth and seventh off subse quent relievers Jeff Martin and Jeff Thomas. Fedora said Baylor threw the ball well against A&M, but said A&M was slow to adjust. "They were bringing the ball good, keeping us off-balance," Fe dora said. "A lot of people were guessing trying to figure out if they were came a day after Montana had reached a contract agreement with Kansas City. The 49ers, however, were unable to work out sufficent compensation with the Chiefs and the aeal was put on hold. Montana and 49ers owner Ed DeBartolo Jr., met in Youngstown, Ohio, and were expected to return to San Francisco on Sunday. Mon tana could announce as early as oing tn throw the fastball, curve- all or changeup." Johnson said that the A&M batters didn't adjust to the break ing pitches thrown by the Baylor hurlers in critical conditions when the batters got ahead of the count. "You can't just sit on a fastball and have a pretty good guess what they're going to do," John son said. "(The Baylor pitchers) are dif ferent types of pitchers, not just total power pitchers. They had a lot of breaking stuff and threw it behind in the count, and we saw some 3-2 sliders." Wunsch, after allowing a two- run first, shut the Bears down the rest of the way, striking out twelve and scattering five hits. Wunsch said the game was a typical outing for him - starting slow, but finishing strong. "I start out a little slow in the first inning, then I go strong for the next four or five, and then in the sixth or seventh it seems there's a little hump," Wunsch said. "The seventh, eighth and ninth - they seem like they coast for me. I guess it's like seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Friday night, A&M's Trey Moore threw a five-hitter as the Aggies won 1-0 after pinch-run ner David Martin scored an un earned run in the top of the ninth at Baylor's Ferrell Field. Saturday, the Aggies got a les son in turnabout being fair play, as Jeff Granger pitched a complete seven-inning game only to lose by one unearned run. After two errors in one play by A&M's Fedora and Billy Harlan Monday if the new 49ers' new proposal was acceptable. '*He does have other deals," 49ers president Carmen Policy said Sunday of Montana, who led the 49ers to four NFL titles bul played only 30 minutes during the last two seasons because of el bow problems. "Perhaps he might feel that the situation would oe less complicated elsewhere." in the sixth inning, Baylor's Jason Marshall scored from first base. Due to a stomach virus, Granger started a day late Satur day after he could not travel with the team to Friday's game in Waco. Johnson said despite a drop in velocity. Granger pitched a good game and had good com mand of his pitches. "He didn't have the velocity, but that didn't matter," Johnson said. "We made a defensive mistake and it hurt us, but that's the way it is in those close ball games- you mess up one play and it costs you a ball game." Grangef said that the team would havf£ to remain conscious of the need to keep improving. "I think this weekend proves to our hitters and our defensive guys that we have to get better," Granger said. "Our pitching staff always needs to get better, and hopefully we'll build off of it." Fedora said the team would try to regroup offensively Tuesday at Olsen against the University of Texas-Arlington, which shocked the top-ranked Aggies last week in Arlington, 8-6. Fedora said that after the loss to Baylor, Johnson told the team to pick their heads up because they would still be in control of the conference race if they took two out of three against the Bears, which they did. "We're not going to worry about Texas, Rice or any other conference team - we're going to worry about ourselves," Fedora said. Weaver takes home SWC Championship Offense after earning male athlete of month honors Con " nuedfromP °9 e7 FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS Mark Weaver put the capper on a stellar junior season for the Texas A&M tennis team Saturday, defeating Texas Tech's Thomas Cook 6-0, 6-1 in Lubbock to take home the number-one Southwest Conference singles championship. Weaver's victory was part of the Aggies' 4-3 team victory over the Red Raiders, their final regu lar-season match of the season. Considering his relative youth and ability to come back. Weaver's performance this season might make him one of the best ever at A&M, assistant coach Blake Barsalou said. "Mark Weaver is probably one of the best players to ever play at Texas A&M," Barsalou said. "Every time he gets in a tough sit uation, he turns around and makes it work. "Winning the Southwest Con ference Championship at number one is unbelievable, especially since he's only a junior. There's no telling what the guy can do." Weaver's conference title came just a day after his being named SWC March Male Athlete of the Month. Weaver, who finished 6-1 in conference play, went 6-3 overall and 2-0 in the SWC during the month of March, topped by an upset victory over 19th-ranked Anders Eriksson of the University of Texas. Weaver also logged victories in March over Coulter Wright of 19th-ranked New Mexico and George Lampert of 20th-ranked Clemson. Weaver is the second Aggie to earn such honors, as golfer Marco Gortana shared Male Athlete of the Month for February with Jim my Oliver of the Texas Christian track squad. In other action Saturday, A&M's Eric Horan, Ricardo Ro- darte and Blake Arrant also notched singles wins, with num ber-two Scott Phillips and num ber-four Bernardo Martinez falling short. Weaver and Mar tinez teamed to defeat Tech's Cook and Clint Graf 8-5 in the number-one doubles match. The Aggies will be taking part in the SWC Championships this weekend at Fort Worth. bats down that long." Wunsch, who had stated earli er in the week that he had want ed to keep his pitch count down, threw 123 pitches in eight full in nings. That number was also misleading as 25 of them came in the first inning, when he allowed two runs and two hits. From that point on, Wunsch allowed only three hits and no runs. "At first I was a little sluggish, but after the first inning, I settled down and got into a groove," said Wunsch. The Aggies improved their overall record to 40-6, while com piling a 10-2 record in conference action. The two wins over Baylor were also important because Texas, after sweeping three from Rice, will remain in second place in the SWC. Weaver \m Moi ] M D C( new Kea: schc T mor men perc staf: schc the larg tios Beh pen incr ed c that h twe stuc per: wit! trie less tior crac I inel are pric oft I sys the wit terr "es gio sut sid- usi cor ( qm ere tail ter wa sys a r wo spe tak Pit the sta cer mi: edi tirr is i to pa; D and be a paid member by 12 noon April 19th. 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