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The Battalion Wednesday November 29, 1995 At a Glance Sports Briefs Rangers stand firm on 1996 ticket prices ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers announced Tuesday that they are holding the line on most ticket prices for the 1996 season. Also, discount tickets programs are being extended and expanded. Ticket prices will range from $20 for club boxes to $4 for bleachers. Children 13 and under will pay $2. The $1 discount for groups of 25 or more, half-price night discount for groups of 40 or more on selected nights, and half-price Tom Thumb Tuesday discounts will be extended to the upper boxes in the front of the upper deck of the infield grand stand. Previously, the group discounts had appllecf to only to upper re served, Home Run Porch, left field reserved and grandstand reserved seats; while the Tom Thumb Tues day discounts had applied to only the upper reserved and grandstand reserved seating. Phanatic antics' in 1991 cost Phillies $100,000 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Phillie Phanatic, the wild, cartoon like mascot who entertains Philadel phia baseball fans, has cost the Phillies $128,000. The big green character knocked down a 68-year-old man at a 1991 church carnival, and a Common Pleas Court jury awarded Carl G. Seidel $100,000 in compensatory damages Monday. The jury awarded Seidel's wife $28,000 for the loss of his companionship. The Philadelphia Phillies base ball team, which owns the rights to the Phanatic, was ordered to pay the settlement. Seidel, now 72, a retired bus dri- I ver, called the award "peanuts." He I had asked for at least $525,000 and claimed that the Phanatic commit ted assault and battery. Sports Roundup NBA Aggies cruise past UMBC in opener □ Tracey Anderson led A&M with 17 points in the win. By Philip Leone The Battalion Excellent free throw shooting; Defensive intensi ty; An inferior opponent. Those were the keys in the Texas A&M Men’s Bas ketball Team’s 75-47 thumping of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County Retrievers at G. Rol- lie White Coliseum on Tues day evening. In the regular-season opener for A&M, the Aggies sprinted out to an early lead by capitalizing on UMBC’s dismal shooting and by cashing in on the Retriever’s 14 first-half turnovers. Strong inside play from sophomore center Dario Quesada combined with a 19-0 scoring run helped A&M take a 40-20 advan tage into half time. From that point, the Aggies con verted 14-of-17 free throw shots to cruise to the easy victory. A&M Head Coach Tony Barone was pleased with the way his team performed in its season debut. “This was the most im pressive first game out of the box since I’ve been here,” Barone said. “I was also very excited with the level of intensity we had on defense. “We made them rush some shots, which created some turnovers for us.” After losing by 28 points, UMBC Head Coach Tom Sullivan said his squad did some things well, but was just overwhelmed by the quality of A&M’s lineup. “It was just a tough situa tion for our kids,” Sullivan said. “Defensively, we exe cuted well at times, but A&M was simply flat-out more talented. I recognize the fact that they had an ex cellent recruiting class, and that showed this evening.” No member of this incom ing recruiting class shined more than A&M’s junior guard Tracey Anderson. Anderson, a junior college transfer, led all scorers with 17 points and had five steals in his first game at the Divi sion I level. After the contest, Ander son was pleased with his Aggie debut and credited the coaching staff s prepara tion in helping the Aggies tie a school record with 21 steals on the evening. "On an individual level, I think I played well and helped the team do some things to win,” Anderson said. “As far as all the steals. I’d have to say it was due to the scouting report we got from the coaches in practice. We knew just about everything they were going to throw at us on of fense.” Besides Anderson, Barone also recognized the play of a number of his younger players, including JUCO transfer guard Der rick Hart and freshman for ward Calvin Davis. “I thought Derrick had an excellent game tonight by applying a lot of pressure on defense,” Barone said. “Calvin Davis came out and really worked on both sides of the ball and hit a couple of three pointers. “And you can’t take away from the way Dario (Quesa da) played. He shot well around the perimeter and caused a number of turnovers on deflections.” With a solid season-open ing performance under their belts, the Aggies will pack up and head to Milwaukee to take part in this week end’s First Bank Classic. In the opening round of the tournament on Dec.l, A&M will face the Universi ty of Wisconsin-Green Bay, an opponent that Barone be lieves will offer the Aggies some stiff competition. “Wisconsin-Green Bay has made the NCAA Tour nament the passed two years, and they’ll be a royal pain to play,” Barone said. “They’re relentless on of fense. You’d usually say teams were relentless on de fense, but, with all their mo tion, they’re relentless on defense. "The game should be a quality learning experience for us.” Aggies 75, Retrievers 47 Texas A&M ...40 35- 75 Maryland-Baltimore ...20 27- -47 UMBC fg-fga ft-fta reb ast Stl blk <P Thompson, T. 3-8 9-10 7 4 2 1 15 Bellinger, K. 3-4 2-2 7 1 0 0 8 Poisez, E. 0-0 1-2 2 0 0 0 1 Simms, A. 3-4 3-4 7 2 1 0 11 Merritt, K. 4-16 0-0 1 2 0 0 0 Hayes, E. 0-1 1-1 3 1 1 0 3 Van Veen, M, 1-4 0-1 0 0 0 0 2 Skalsky, M. 1-1 2-3 5 2 2 0 7 Barber, L. 2-2 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 Totals 14-41 18-23 33 12 6 1 47 Texas A&M fg-fga ft-fta reb ast stl blk »P Nottingham, G. 4-6 4-4 6 0 2 0 12 Schleder, M. 1-2 1-2 2 1 0 0 4 Quesada, D. 5-8 0-0 7 2 4 0 10 Kessel, K. 6-9 4-4 3 0 5 0 17 Hart, D. 1-6 3-5 1 9 2 0 5 James, Q. 3-8 0-0 0 6 5 0 7 Davis, C. 2-3 0-0 0 1 1 1 6 Cornelius, J. 3-6 6-6 2 0 1 1 14 Ockey, J. 0-1 0-0 1 0 0 0 0 Totals 25-49 18-21 24 20 21 2 75 FG percentage: A&M -.510 UMBC -.341 FTpercentage: A&M- Attendance: 2,056 .857 UMBC -.783 Evan Zimmerman, The Battalion Texas A&M junior college transfer forward Gary Nottingham goes up for a layup against Maryland-Baltimore County Tuesday night at G. Rollie White Coliseum. Sega tourney brings out the best(worst?) Rockets 116, Clippers 103 Heat 111, Mavericks 89 Upcoming Events A&M Volleyball The Lady Aggies will host a sec ond-round NCAA match Sunday at 3 p.m. at G. Rollie White Coliseum against the winner of tonight's South Carolina-Hofstra game. Aggie Football Saturday the Aggies will face Texas at 2:30 p.m. at Kyle Field in the final SWC showdown between the two teams. A&M Powerlifting The Powerlifting team will com pete in the Longhorn Invitational this Saturday in Austin. F or some reason, my mother bought me a Sega Genesis system for Christmas my freshman year in college. She re gretted it immediately, because I spent all of my free time playing it. She regretted it even more when I brought it to school last summer. Something about my grades going down, she said. But my grades never suffered from the Sega, mainly because my room mate Jason was always playing it. When I got College Football ‘96 early this fall, Jason never left the house. Come to think of it, I don’t think he ever left our living room. Food and sleep were replaced by Northern Illinois and San Jose State playing it out on the televi sion gridiron. Me (coming home from school): “Hey Jason! What’d you do today?” Jason: “You should have seen it, man. Today I beat Eastern Michi gan 125-3. Then, I was Colorado State, and beat North Texas 89-9. It was a great day.” Me: “I ran into Sandy today and she said that ya’ll had a test today. Did you take it today?” Jason: “How could I take a test when the Scarlet Knights of Rut gers were scheduled to take on the Ducks of Oregon? Class can wait. That’s just too good of a matchup to pass up.” So Jason continued to improve on his Sega football skills. He be came so good that he almost lost interest. But then he heard about the College Football USA ‘96 Cam pus Championship held at Bull- winkle’s Tuesday night. “Dave, every man has a mo ment that defines him as a man,” Jason said. “I believe my moment will come at this Sega tournament. Then again, it might have come last week when I beat Ohio 137-3 with my eyes closed.” He walked into Bullwinkle’s last night and was not fazed by the other 54 teams who would be vying for the championship. He simply whispered “Let’s rock” and walked to the registration table. In the first round, he and his teammate Sunil Kapoor steam- rolled their opponents, 73-36. But in the second round, Jason and Sunil went up against two guys who were Sega professionals. They tried valiantly, but in the end they fell, 54-48. “This game they play,” Jason said. “I do not know it.” When it came down to it, Jason just hadn’t spent enough time on the practice couch. “We probably play more than we should,” said Randy Long, a member of the team that defeated Jason “It kind of gets in the way of our studies. But you don’t have to put that though, I mean my mother might read this column some day.” She could have read that her son won the tournament, but that honor fell to competitors Joe Devine and Pete Sarafin. “In our marketing, we’ve learned that college guys are play ing in the dorms, frats and apart ments,” said Eric Peterson, a rep resentative of Electronic Arts, which makes College Football USA ‘96. “People are having their own tournaments. These people Eire sports fans who like to play video games.” Kara Sessums, a waitress at Bullwinkle’s, was unimpressed by the large turnout. “It’s a little bit on the weird side,” Sessums said. “I don’t see how you can spend so much time and energy on something like that. It must be a guy thing.” To guys like Jason though, it’s a way of life. “I’m gonna go back to practicing every day until the next tourna ment,” Jason said. “Next year, that trophy will be mine. Never under estimate the heart of a guy who knows that the University of Pacif ic doesn’t match up well with the North Carolina State Wolfpack.” BREITLING 1884 CHRONOMAT The quintessential mechanical timepiece. Thirty minute and 12- hour totalizers, seconds subdial and date calendar. Water resistant to 300f. On strap or bracelet. JOHN D. HUNTLEY, INC. “Very Personal Inuestments" 313-B S. College Ave. college station, tx 77840 (409) 846-8916 NSTRUMENTS FOR PROFESSIONALS Sign up to ruin tickets for the u.t. game! Freudian Slip realizes that the next show is on a Thursday night. Freudian Slip also realizes that the Thursday night lineup is all new. But Freudian Slip would like to point out that you can tape the NBC TV shows. You can’t tape improv. Thursday, Nov. 30 9 p.m. Rudder Forum Tickets ($3) go on sale at 8. Doors open at 8:30. Have you seen those lines? I’d get there early if I were you. CLASS OF 1997 JUNIOR ACTIVITIES!!! E-Walk 1995 November 30th 97 Minutes after noon Meet at Bonfire Stack Scheduled activities: United Way Fundraiser (bring $1 to support the United Way)—Pull-Out Yell at Stack- Motivational Speaker, Dr. Lee Phillips - Picture in the shape of '97 at Kyle Field — Pictures with an elephant — Live radio remote — Prize giveaways from the Chicken, Roadhouse, Black Eyed Pea, and more -- Party that night at King of the Roadhouse on Northgate!! DON'T TRASH THE TRADITION!!