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Wednesday • October 18, 1995 Sports Page 9 • The Battalion o o^o«o#o#o« Indians finally A&M football team solve Johnson in need of quick fix □ Cleveland begins the World Series against Atlanta Saturday. SEATTLE (AP) — The Cleve land Indians overcome it all — Randy Johnson, the Kingdome and history. The epitome of bad baseball for four decades, the Indi ans reached the World Se ries for the first time since 1954, beating the Seattle Mariners 4-0 Wednesday night to win the AL play offs 4-2 behind seven shutout innings from Den nis Martinez. The Mariners, for the fourth time in 16 days, asked Johnson to save their season. Relying on his slider more than his over powering fastball, he kept his team close until Carlos Baerga’s homer capped a three-run eighth, and Johnson left to a standing ovation that included the applause of Indians pitcher Orel Hershiser. Martinez, though, matched Johnson pitch for pitch, holding the Mariners to four hits in sev- □ The team has en tered the Top 10 for the first time ever. Staff and Wire Reports The Texas A&M Soccer Team will begin its final homes- tand of the 1995 regular season today by hosting Nebraska, the eighth-ranked team in the Cen tral Region. The Aggies are ranked sec ond in the region with a record of 12-3, and climbed four spots to claim the No. 10 spot in the latest issue of the Soccer Ameri ca Collegiate Top 20 Poll. It is the Aggies first appear ance in the Top 10, and the team’s highest ranking ever. The Aggies are led by junior forward Kristen Koop, who brought in A&M’s second Southwest Conference Player of the Week award Tuesday after recording four goals and three assists to pace the Aggies to three wins on the road last week. en innings. At 40, he finally won for the first time in the postsea son and became the oldest pitch er to win a league championship series game. Now the Indians, who won 100 times in the regular season and swept Boston in the first round of the playoffs, will take on the Atlanta Braves, the team with the best record in the Na tional League. The World Series starts Saturday night in Atlanta. Greg Maddux, likely to win his fourth straight NL Cy Young Award, will start Game 1 for the Braves. Orel Hershiser, 7-0 in the postseason, will likely pitch for Cleveland. The last time the Indians went to the World Series, they were wiped out in four games by the New York Giants. The low- light of that event in 1954 was Willie Mays’ catch against Vic Wertz. Cleveland last won the World Series in 1948, beating the Boston Braves. Bob Feller was the star of that team, and the Flail ’of Fame pitcher was at the Kingdome on Tuesday night Stew Milne, The Battalion Aggie Diana Rowe brings the ball upheld against Texas Tech. T here’s a strange feeling floating around Aggieland these days, foreign to anyone who has followed the sports scene here the last two or three years. The Aggie Yell Leaders have come under fire for their efforts, or lack thereof, at A&M football games this season. Eyebrows have already been raised at the pending expansion of Kyle Field and the approved measure of con verting its playing surface to nat ural grass. But at the forefront, there’s one burning question most people have been debating and mulling over lately: What’s wrong with the Aggie football team? The Aggies have looked just plain sick the last four weeks, and fans have had a hard time dealing with it. Entering this sea son, A&M had built a gaudy 32- 3-1 record over the last three years, and fans aren’t accus tomed to seeing the Aggies lose. But that’s what they’ve done recently. The team had not lost more than one game in the regu lar season since 1990, but this year they lost two in a row, and it was almost three. This was supposed to be A&M’s season of promise. One week, they’re the No. 3 ranked team in the country and talking national championship. The next, their Southwest Conference un beaten string is over, and the team is suddenly anchored with a .500 record. To top it off, the Ag gies were forced to eak out a home victory over SMU in front of a noticeably depleted student section. Quarterback Corey FTillig and the offense are under fire. The coaching staff is feeling the heat. Blame is being thrown around everywhere. There is no joy in Mudville. But don’t fret, Aggies, there is hope for the future. It may be hard to believe, but A&M’s per formance against SMU has a silver lining. I know it was the weak and hapless Ponies, and that the Aggies had no business even letting them stay in the contest past the pregame coin flip. But there are some posi tives that can be taken away from that game. First, the game-winning drive and touchdown in the game’s waning seconds showed the .Ag gies they are capable of perform ing under the gun. If the oppor tunity presents itself again, the team realizes it is capable of moving the ball in the one- minute offense when the game is on the line. “It was good for our team to play in a game like that after go ing four weeks since we’ve expe rienced a victory,” Head Coach R.C. Slocum said. “It was better for us to win like that than to smooth to a victory. I think this will do more for us in reality.” The SMU victory also proved a huge confidence booster and a good experience builder for the young A&M team. “We have young players and a lot of them haven’t been in these (close game) situations,” Slocum said. “It’s good for a young team to play in those and great for us down the road.” Although times are tough right now, Slocum and his team are far from writing this season off. Slocum said the team can point back to three years ago, when the A&M team got off to a slow start. “The year we went 12-0 (1992), we played against Stanford and stumbled through that whole ball game,” Slocum said. “But we found a way in the end to win it. We came on and built on that and end ed up having a great season.” The team is fired up heading into the Baylor contest this weekend. Plus, the Aggies have bulletin board material to light a fire under them. Baylor linebacker LaCurtis Jones was quoted Tuesday as say ing, “I feel they got a couple more losses coming ... They’re a team ranked highly that just got too hyped with itself, reading papers... If we go out and play hard and do what we’re supposed to do, we should win the game.” If those fighting words don’t mo tivate the Aggies, nothing will. I think the Aggies’ problems can best be defined as a slump. In real ity, the defense isn’t playing that badly and the offense isn’t any worse off talent and ability-wise than any other A&M team in the last three years. But as far as slumps go, the Ag gies had better break out of this one in a hurry. Their fans are los- ing faith, and there aren’t many teams left on the schedule like SMU who will feel obliged to cough up a victory when the game’s on the line. Aggie Soccer Team enters final home stand General Class Meeting Wednesday October 18, 8:30pm Rudder 510 C S&^ AGGIE TFjo .BlUffl * tamands FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE! NIGHTLY SPECIALS rf\, ICE COLD LONGNECKS hi |(r WELL > WINE, DRAFT, & VUy SHOTS OF SCHNAPPS 6-10 p.m. Wednesday - Sunday Denim & Diamonds Reminds You To Always Drink Responsibly! Ask Our Front Door Staff About Our Designated Driver Program Wednesday RETRO NIGHT TY ENGLAND w/Express 103 Hottest Dance Music from the 80’s U-GOT THE LOOK CONTEST Ladies Compete for Over $500 in Cash & Prizes Thursday DAISY DUKES PARTY! 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