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Wednesday • July 5, 1993
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semester,
opened
art-time fc;
Tiger Woods ready to
eitthenee play after wrist sprain
center wj ■■■■■ r , n
re playit LEMONT, III. (AP) — With four lit-
assroome: tie words. Tiger Woods gave golf fans
ris saiffiand PGA Tour officials reason to smile:
an expect:®"The wrist is good."
sors to gf Woods, who at 19 years old has
Iso felt o become one of his sport's most popu-
as indepe T ar figures, said Tuesday the two-week
his technr ^ rom an ' n j ur V tbat forced him to
+ u • Iwithdraw from the U.S. Open cleared
PBhis mind and helped his game.
, SRI "I feel like I'm playing better now,"
eater, as* said the reigning U.S. Amateur cham-
design m pion, who tees off Thursday in the
ir user, sa: Western Open. "I haven't had time to
abs a pro Jl rest up and get my mind clear because
the onesr M sc b 0 °l ar| d all the studying I had to
ture Cents 1^°' Tb en 1 b a< ^ to 8° straight to the
Open, so I haven't had a break. That
two-week break really felt good."
, _ Woods, who just completed his
idents. |freshman year at Stanford, sprained a
problem ti: ligament in his left wrist while trying to
r centers o: hit out of the deep rough during the
ledter said second round of the U.S. Open,
thenewcer skipped the following week's
jeneficialft Nodheast Amateur and just resumed
ing or visnjP ra ^! cin ?' , , , .
^ Woods expects no problems this
week at the $2 million Western Open
Olsen Field, fans spark A&M s winning seasons
SPORTS
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pus Librar
mmodatioi:
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■at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club.
, so will tk
;ure such: iThreatening fan to
receive psychiatric exam
and were TORONTO (AP) — The woman
will take |pfi ar § e d with threatening to kill Rober-
p . „„„ po Alomar of the Toronto Blue Jays was
' ordered on Tuesday to undergo a
hree-day psychiatric exam to deter-
ine if she is fit to stand trial.
Justice Tom Mercer of Ontario
ourt's general division ordered the
ssessment for Tricia Miller, 31, at a
earing after a request from her
awyer.
Police said a woman carrying a gun
They rei In a bag told staff at the SkyDome Ho-
■cl on Sunday that she wanted to kill
of the Ee jMomar. They said she was frustrated
Lenbach,si PV P ast attempts to "develop a rela-
for womW ons b'P' anc * intended to shoot Alo-
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□ The Aggie baseball team completed
their 1 7th consecutive winning season at
home with a 25-6 record.
The following story is the second in a series of features
on Texas A&M's athletic facilities.
By Nick Ceorgandis
The Battalion
Why can’t Texas A&M baseball opponents ever win at
Olsen Field?
True, the Aggies continuously put together a winning
product on the field, but at home, they dominate like few
other teams in the nation.
Is it the overtly-obnoxious crowd that voices itself on
every pitch? The hot Texas sun beating down on oppo
nents as the games drag on? The memory of stars like
Chuck Knoblauch, Scott Livingstone and Jeff Granger
that recall of glories past?
Mark Johnson, Texas A&M’s head baseball coach
since 1985, says he thinks the Aggie crowds are a big
part of A&M’s successes at home.
“Our crowds are always magnificent,” Johnson said
during the 1995 season. “Everybody gets excited about
playing here.”
Everybody who is rooting for Texas A&M, that is.
Since the stadium was dedicated in 1978, the Aggies
have a record of 492-135-1 at home, a .784 winning per
centage. Included in that figure is the Aggies’ 25-6 mark
during the 1995 regular season. Last season was A&M’s
17th consecutive winning season at home.
The facility is named for C.E. “Pat” Olsen, a 1923
Texas A&M graduate who played in the minor leagues
for the New York Yankees. Although he played with the
likes of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig several times in
spring training, Olsen never was able to break the Yan
kees’ powerful roster and stay on the major-league level.
Olsen was involved in baseball throughout his life and
threw out the first pitch of Game One of the 1984 World
Series, a game started by then-San Diego Padre and for
mer A&M star Mark Thurmond
Although the dimensions of Olsen Field are equal to
those of most major league ballparks, it has gained a
reputation as a hitter’s ballpark. A lot of that reputation
came about in the 1989 season, in which the Aggies com
piled a 58-7 overall record, including a staggering 38-4
Photo courtesy of Texas A&M Sports Information
C.E. "Pat" Olsen Field opened in 1978. The Texas A&M Baseball Team has compiled a .784 winning percentage in its
1 7 seasons there. Such professional stars as Roger Clemens and Chuck Knoblauch have seen action there.
mark at home
That season, the Aggies scored in double digits in 17
homes games, and scored 20 runs or more four times.
Two seasons later, A&M set an Olsen Field record for
runs in a game when the Aggies crushed Westmont Uni
versity, 31-2.
Former A&M first baseman John Curl, who was re
cently drafted by the Oakland Athletics, said the team
has been so successful over the years because of the fa
miliarity the hitters have with the park.
“Everyone just feels real good when they’re up at the
plate (at home),” Curl said.
Curl seemed comfortable at the plate throughout the
1995 season, finishing second in the Southwest Confer
ence in batting average and leading the SWC in home
runs with 18.
See Olsen, Page 4
d (about t;
and herself. Police seized a
loaded .22-caliber revolver.
Miller sat expressionless with her
Graf’s run keeps her unbeaten in 1995
y J* *' 1*11 II I J Cl l /X I C7 ^7 I VO III J J V V III I
sy re aOlnJB rms crossec | a t Tuesday's hearing,
laid. j Defense lawyer Toomas Ounapuu
sople goit[ jj.,jd he consulted with Miller about
today k the assessment and she understood
of the yei’ what it involves.
*k duringth Miller will return to court July 1 1,
off to seetfc when the jydge will decide whether a
further SO-day assessrn,ent is needed.
“ L Miller, a" factory worker from Port
Ontario, is charged with threaten-
ng death, carrying a concealed weapon,
jssession of a dangerous weapon, pos-
ssion of a restricted weapon and pos-
ssion of stolen property.
ilbury signs on as New
ork Islander coach
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Mike
lilbury is back coaching hockey again
™nd this time the New York Islanders
Biope he sticks around for a while.
■ Milbury walked away from his last
■ wo coaching jobs, one after two
lyears, the other after two months. He
emained a hot property, though, and
ill be introduced Wednesday as
:oach of the Islanders, equipped with
multi-year contract.
He replaces Lome Henning, who
vas fired after one season as the Is-
anders finished last in the Atlantic
)ivision.
"I'm grateful for the opportunity,"
tilbury said. "It's exciting and I look
brward to the challenge."
It will be the second NHL coaching
ob for the Milbury, the former de-
enseman who played 11 seasons with
he Boston Bruins. He coached the
Bruins to consecutive 100-point sea
sons and Adams Division titles in 1990
and 1991, losing in the Stanley Cup fi-
aals in his first year and in the semifi
nals a year later.
(ING
i/ING
□ The German tennis star is
within two victories of her sixth
Wimbledon title.
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — In a zone
of her own and still unbeaten in 1995, Steffi
Graf surprised even herself with a stunning
performance that led a march by the top four
seeded women into the Wimbledon semifinals.
Graf slugged so many clean winners with
her forehand, her backhand and her volleys
she might as well have been playing against
a ball machine as she stretched her record
for the year to 30-0.
She jumped on Mary Joe Fernandez’s
serves as if they were traveling in slow mo
tion. From the end of the first set through
the first three games of the second set, Graf
won 14 consecutive points en route to a 6-3,
6-0 romp.
“Perfect,” Graf said, abandoning her usu
ally harsh self-criticism as she assessed the
second set. “I felt I could do anything that I
wanted to.”
It didn’t worry the top-seeded German
that she might have peaked too soon as she
pursues her sixth Wimbledon title.
“Whenever I play that kind of tennis, it
doesn’t matter — first round, last round,”
Graf said. “It’s really special to be out there.
It’s such a joy that it doesn’t really matter to
me when it is. That’s what I’m playing for.”
Next up for Graf on Thursday is Jana
Novotna, the player who virtually handed
Graf the winner’s silver platter two years
ago in one of the worst chokes in Wimbledon
history. Novotna, a 6-2, 6-3 victor over
Kimiko Date, will have to overcome the
memory of that capitulation to Graf after
coming within a point of a 5-1 lead in the
WIMBLEDON
QUARTERFINAL SEMIFINAL
third set.
“I tend to think that she can,” Graf said,
sounding not at all certain. “It’s difficult to
say because you can never put yourself into
somebody else’s mind.”
Novotna, who choked even worse in the
French Open last month when she blew a 5-
0, 40-0 lead in the third set against Chanda
Rubin, brushed aside concern about the
1993 Wimbledon final haunting her.
“Really, not at all,” Novotna said. “We are
two years further ... It’s going to be great to be
back on the Centre
Court again playing
Graf, and well see.”
While Graf and
Novotna won so eas
ily, Spaniard’s Con-
chita Martinez and
Arantxa Sanchez
Vicario took tougher
paths to reach the
semis against each
other.
Martinez’s reign
as Wimbledon cham
pion teetered precari
ously, like a ball atop
the net cord, until it
landed luckily in her
favor in a nervous
struggle against
Gabriela Sabatini
that ended with a 7-
5, 7-6 (7-5) triumph.
Throughout the tour
nament, Martinez
has sort of drifted
through, overlooked
because of the domi
nance of Graf.
‘T’m the defend
ing champion,” Martinez said defensively
when asked if she felt Graf moving toward
another title. “I’m the Wimbledon champi
on. Nobody can take it away from me.”
Sanchez Vicaro rallied from a break down
in each set to beat Brenda Schultz-Mc-
Carthy 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).
The tiebreaker went with serve until
Shultz-McCarthy mis-hit a volley to give
Sanchez Vicario a 6-4 lead. The match end
ed on the next point with another error by
S chultz -McC arthy.
Women’s singles
FINAL
CHAMPION
Boxed numbers indicate seed
Texas Rangers end losing streak, beat Cleveland 7-6
k Centet
AVE
?ry
With three home runs in the
burth inning, the Indians be-
ame the first team to hit 100
omers this season.
CLEVELAND (AP) — Mark McLemore
it a two-run double in the eighth
nning Tuesday as the Texas Rangers,
ho had blown an early four-run
ead, came back to beat the Cleveland
^Indians 7-6.
Texas ended its three-game losing
»; treak while handing the Indians their
■second loss in nine games.
■ Carlos Baerga, Jim Thome and
f Ruben Amaro homered during a
. _ — -"'lsix-run fourth inning that
tmade Cleveland the first
jteam to reach 100 home runs
©IIVC /■thin
•this season.
I’; With 100 home runs in 62
I'games, the Indians are on a pace
I to hit 232 during this strike-short
v!ened, 144-game season — eight away
'.'from the 162-game record of 240 hit by
the 1961 New York Yankees. Projected
v;over 162 games, the Indians’ pace would
* ; produce 261 homers.
’■ The Rangers trailed 6-5 entering the
'^eighth, but Eric Fox drew a one-out
vlwalk from Julian Tavarez, and Rusty
► ’Greer’s pinch single off Paul Assen-
Jmacher (2-2) sent Fox to third. Otis
Nixon’s sacrifice bunt moved Greer to
second — Fox held at third — before
McLemore slapped his two-run double
off Eric Plunk.
Roger McDowell (4-0) pitched 1 1-3
scoreless innings, and Matt Whiteside got
three outs for his first save.
After spotting the Rangers a 4-0 lead
in the fourth, Cleveland came back with
six off rookie Terry Burrows in the bot
tom half. Baerga led off with his 11th
home run, Thome drove in three with
his team-leading 17th homer, and
Amaro finished Burrows with a two-run
shot, his first.
Burrows, making his first career
start after 21 relief appearances,
gave up five hits and six runs, one
of them unearned, in 3 1-3
innings.
Ivan Rodriguez started
the Rangers’ four-run fourth
against Bud Black with a single
that extended his career-best hit
ting streak to 15 games. It was the
first of five hits off Black in the in
ning, which featured an RBI groundout
by Mickey Tettleton, run-scoring singles
by Luis Ortiz and Jack Voigt, and Este
ban Beltre’s RBI double.
Rodriguez doubled and scored on
Mike Pagliarulo’s single off Grimsley in
the fifth. Pagliarulo had to leave the
game with an injured left arm after col
liding with Cleveland’s Wayne Kirby at
first on Kirby’s grounder in the eighth.
AP Photo
Texas Rangers' catcher Ivan Rodriguez tries to tag out Oakland's Rickey Henderson in a
game against the Athletics last week. Rodriguez was chosen to start in the All-Star game.
Cedeno
remembered
as Astros’
fallen star
Nick
Ceorgandis
Sports Editor
O
n Sunday, Astros sec-
|ond baseman Craig Big
gie was voted in as the
starting second baseman for
the National League in next
Tuesday’s All-Star game.
Biggio, who will turn 30 in
December, has established
himself as one of the most
consistent performers in the
National League.
The last time a Houston
player started the All-Star
game was more than two
decades ago when 22-year old
Cesar Cedeno got the call.
The Astros’ 1973 slogan
was “It’s in the stars,” and
Cedeno was one the best in
the business.
But it didn’t last.
Cedeno debuted for the
Astros at age 19 in 1970. He
paid immediate dividends in
half a season, batting .310
and stealing 17 bases, and
the Astros had found their
new centerfielder.
Cedeno played in a time
when No. 1 draft choices
from high schools and col
leges weren’t given $1 mil
lion signing bonuses before
they even took the field for
the team that was wooing
them. Cedeno was born in
the Dominican Republic, but
Astro scouts saw so much
raw talent in him that they
brought him to Texas while
he was still a teenager.
In 1971, he played in
every game but one for Hous
ton, leading the National
League in doubles with 40.
The Astros finished in fourth
place in 1971, 11 games out
of the pennant race.
Besides Cedeno, the Astros’
only real stars were second
baseman Joe Morgan and Jim
my Wynn, both of whom were
traded within a few seasons.
As the 1972 season
dawned, Cedeno appeared
ready to capture the natipnal
spotlight. Sports Illustrated
lauded him in its annual
baseball preview, saying “For
added power, there’s Cesar
Cedeno, the centerfielder
who had 81 RBIs, 10 home
runs and a league-leading 40
doubles, and who, at age 21,
is just learning how to play
'f- - ■
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