Monday • April 10, 1995
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Baseball team sweeps Dallas Baptist
Roger Hsieh/THE Battalion
Sophomore outfielder Chad Allen is tagged out at home plate by a Dallas Baptist player this week
end. The Aggies move into first place in the conference after UT’s win over TCU.
Lady Aggie tennis
team goes 1-1
The A&M women’s tennis team
moved to 9-10 on the season with a
5-1 loss to BYU and a 5-1 win over
Utah.
Sophomore Nancy Dingwall
posted the team’s only victory in
Saturday’s match against BYU.
The team won four of the five wins
in straight sets on Sunday.
“Now we just have to focus on the
Baylor and Texas matches,” said
Lady Aggie coach Bobby Kleinecke.
“Both matches will be very tough.”
The team will go on the road this
week for the last two games of the
regular season. They will face Baylor
on Tuesday and UT on Saturday.
Men’s tennis team
brands Mustangs
The Aggie men’s tennis team
improved their Southwest
Conference record to 2-1, 9-7 overall
by defeating Southern Methodist
University 5-2 on Friday.
Carlos Tori, the number two
seed, defeated Kevin Epley 6-2, 6-4
while teammates Eric Horan,
Eduardo Martinez and Ricardo
Rodarte also defeated their
opponents in straight sets.
In doubles play, the Aggies won all
three matches. Blake Arrant and
Bernardo Martinez defeated Alfred
Hanser and Paul Stephens 8-4 and
the teams of Horan and Rodarte and
Tori and Krause won their matches.
The Aggies will next face the Rice
Owls when they travel to Houston on
Saturday for a dual match.
Golf team to play in All
America Invitational
The Texas A&M men’s golf team
will compete in the 40th All America
Intercollegiate Invitational today and
Tuesday at the Old Orchard Golf Club
near Houston.
The tournament will consist of 36
holes being played on Monday and
18 holes on Tuesday. In addition to
A&M, 15 other teams will compete
including Southwest Conference
schools Houston, Baylor, Rice,
Southern Methodist and Texas Tech.
Drexler sinks buzzes
beater against Denver
DENVER (AP) — Clyde Drexler
banked in a 30-foot shot at the buzzer
Sunday, giving the shorthanded
Houston Rockets a 123-120 win over
the Denver Nuggets.
The Rockets, who won for just the
third time in seven games without
starters Hakeem Olajuwon and Vernon
Maxwell, clinched a playoff spot for the
third straight season.
The Nuggets, who lost despite
shooting 55 percent from the field, lost
their third straight game and fell into a
tie with the Sacramento Kings for the
last Western Conference playoff berth.
Drexler, who finished with 34
points, took the inbounds pass at half
court with 2.4 seconds left, dribbled
twice and fired his winning shot.
□ Strong pitching was
the key to the Aggies'
weekend success.
Staff and Wire Reports
The Texas A&M baseball
team continues its winning
ways Saturday, winning both
games of a doubleheader from
Dallas Baptist University
at Olsen Field to take a
three-game sweep of the week
end series.
The Aggies extended their
winning streak to nine games
and improved their overall
record to 26-13-1. In the second
game, the Aggies used five
home runs, including two by se
nior first baseman John Curl, to
take a 9-1 decision.
Sophomore pitcher Ryan
Rupe, now 3-1 on the year,
took the win by working five
innings, giving up just two hits
and one walk while striking
out six batters.
Also hitting home runs for
A&M were senior shortstop
Robert Harris, junior first base-
man Jeff Bailey and junior out
fielder Chad Alexander. It was
Alexander’s sixth round tripper
of the season.
The game and the series
sweep was never really in doubt
after the second inning when
the Aggies racked up six runs to
take a 6-0 lead.
In the first game Saturday,
freshman pitcher John Sneed
pitched a seven-inning com
plete game, walking just one
batter while allowing seven
hits. The first-year player also
walked just one while collect
ing three strikeouts.
The score was tied 3-3 in the
bottom of the sixth inning when
sophomore Jason Stephens
stepped up to the plate and
knocked a solo home run to give
the Aggies the lead and the final
score of 4-3.
In Friday’s series opener, the
Aggie bats made an opening
statement to the Dallas Baptist
pitching staff by pounding five
pitchers for a total of 11 runs on
14 hits. Every Aggie starter col
lected at least one hit in the 11-
5 shellacking.
A crowd of 1,672 at Olsen
Field saw senior pitcher Justin
Atchley record a complete game,
his third straight for the team.
Although Atchley, now 6-2 on
Q Robinson maintains
leading role with 26
points and 1 8 rebounds.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) —
David Robinson had 26 points
and 18 rebounds Sunday as San
Antonio won its 15th straight
game, 101-87 over the Los Ange
les Lakers.
Robinson barely missed his
first triple-double of the season,
getting eight blocked shots in the
Spurs’ club-record 26th road win.
San Antonio, the NBA’s
hottest and best team with a 56-
18 record, continued its domi
nance of the Lakers, winning
the season series 3-1 after
sweeping them 4-0 last season.
It’s the first time the Spurs have
won consecutive series against
Los Angeles since the 1982-83
and 83-84 seasons.
Coming off a 23-point victory
over Utah on Friday night, the
Lakers saw their seven-game
home winning streak end when
the year, allowed 11 hits, the
hitters provided plenty of fire
power to keep Dallas Baptist at
a distance. Atchley continued to
display extraordinary control,
walking just one batter while
striking out four.
Curl’s two home runs in the
nightcap Saturday gave him 10
dingers for the season. Last sea
son, Curl hit just two home runs
and the Aggie season leader,
Harris, managed only seven.
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they couldn’t sustain a fourth-
quarter rally.
Los Angeles started the final
12 minutes trailing by 17 points,
and cut the deficit to 92-84 on
Cedric Ceballos’ putback of a 3-
point attempt by Eddie Jones
with 3:28 remaining.
Ceballos later had the ball on a
breakaway, but fumbled it away
as Vinny Dpi Negro grabbed it
and threw the ball downcourt. An
other time, Ceballos fought for an
inside basket only to have Robin
son take it away.
Sedale Threatt sank a 3-
pointer to pull the Lakers to 95-
87 with 56 seconds remaining,
but they ran out of time.
Ceballos led Los Angeles with
26 points and 10 rebounds.
Vlade Divac added 18 points.
Robinson scored only nine
points in the first half, but he
regained his shooting touch
and scored the Spurs’ final six
points of the third quarter to
give them an 82-65 lead head
ing into the fourth.
Women’s gymnastics team
wins national championship
□ The Ags edged out
rivals UT and Miami of
Ohio for the title.
Staff and Wire Reports
The Texas A&M women’s
gymnastics team became Na
tional Champions this weekend
by winning the 1995 NAIGC
Collegiate National Gymnastic
Championships held at Virginia
Tech University.
The Aggie women received
their highest point total,
142.55, to outscore their two
closest rivals, the University
of Texas and Miami of Ohio,
by less than a point.
“It was a great team effort
as we placed seven of our
nine athletes into the event
finals, “ head coach Steve
Waples said.
Denise Bean, a sophomore
chemical engineering student,
became the 1995 National
Vaulting Champion on her
last vault of the day. Bean
also placed third in the bars,
third in the floor exercises
and fourth in the all-around
competition.
Also placing for the team
were Michelle Bergeron, who
became National Champion
in the floor exercises and took
third in the beam and second
place overall, and Kobi Del
Castillo, who placed fourth in
the beam.
Waples said the ieam had
a strong overall performance.
“Our depth and dominance
on floor exercise and balance
beam, along with some great
individual performances on
vault and bars, are what did
it for us.”
The University of Texas
came in second with a point
total of 142.10. Other schools
participating in the contest
were the University of New
York at Buffalo, Southwest
Texas State and Notre Dame.
Spurs defeat Lakers 101-87,
post 15th consecutive win
Hoop dreams,
Rec Sports
realities
T here’s really no feeling
like it. As game time
approaches, you feel a
little churning in your stom
ach, your heart will start
pumping- a little faster and
your head feels a little light.
Once you’re out on the
court, the adrenaline takes
over and you forget about
everything else except play
ing, fulfilling your role on
the team. Every possession
means so much, every bas
ket puts the other team in
more trouble, every defen
sive stop takes you even
closer to a win.
And if you win, you cele
brate, but not for long, be
cause once the playoffs start,
there’s always another game
right around the corner.
NCAA Tournament time?
March Madness? Nope, it’s
better. It’s Texas A&M Intra
mural Basketball Playoffs.
Not just intramurals
mind you, but “D” League
intramurals, the best collec
tion of overweight, out-of-
shape basketball players on
the A&M campus vying to
outlast each other.
Our team has a measly
six players, but has some
how defied all logic by going
4-2, including winning our
first playoff game last
Thursday night. It was an
emotional roller coaster,
as we jumped out to a 28-
14 halftime lead, then
all but blew it in the
second half. We ended up
winning 48-43, after a cou
ple of our players hit some
clutch free throws in the fi
nal minute.
Call it male bonding if you
will, but there’s nothing finer
than sweating out a victory
as a team. When the season
started, we all knew each oth
er from work, but had never
actually played together.
This factor proved to be a
tough to surmount in the
first couple of games. No one
had played competitively
since high school, save some
members experiences on oth-
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