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.”
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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!!