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Thursday • February 1, 1996
Sports
Page 9 • The Battalion
Astros’ Collins eager to do
□ This is the first year
the Houston skipper
has not had to worry
about a strike.
HOUSTON (AP) — Terry
Collins finally gets to manage
the Houston Astros with base
ball his only concern.
No players strike, no replace
ment players, no sleepless nights
and no major holes to fill as the
Astros move closer to the begin
ning of spring training.
City leaders have heeded
owner Drayton McLane’s warn
ing that he needs to average
30,000 attendance to keep the
team in Houston and not ship it
off to Virginia after this season.
McLane has invested heavily
in a marketing campaign that
features television spots from
former President and Mrs.
George Bush, Clyde Drexler and
Hakeem Olajuwon.
All-star second baseman
Craig Biggio elected to stay in
Houston, ignoring the lure of
free agency, and was aided by
first baseman Jeff Bagwell, who
agreed to restructure his con
tract to keep Biggio.
Collins literally worried him
self sick last season. Now all he
needs to do is win a pennant.
Collins has a decision to make
in left field, how to replace re
liever Dave Veres and he must
also hope that starter Darryl
Kile recovers from the worst sea
son of his career.
“We feel our pitch
ing rotation is in
tact,” Collins said.
“For the two years
I’ve been here, we’ve
felt all along that it’s
good enough, it’s
strong enough. We
just have to get Dar
ryl going again.
That’s the key.”
Kile, who pitched a no-hitter
in 1993 and was second on the
staff with nine victories in 1994,
slumped badly last season. He
finished with a 4-12 record, a ca
reer high for losses, and a 4.96
ERA.
He made four starts in Class
AAA Tucson, where his ERA was
a gaudy 8.51.
Collins also is sticking with
Greg Swindell, who was taken
out of the rotation last Septem
ber. Swindell’s ERA has not
been below four in his three sea
sons in Houston and jumped to
4.47 last season.
The Astros have several
young pitchers ready to make
the leap, but Collins has been
swayed by experience.
“We’re in a situa
tion where we think
we can contend,”
Collins said. “You
are going to con
tend with the veter
an guys. We’ve got
Doug Brocail,
Donne Wall and
some young guys.
You don’t want to put added
pressure on the younger guys.”
Collins’ major pitching prob
lem will be replacing the 72 ap
pearances and 103.1 innings
pitched by Veres, who was trad
ed to Montreal for third base-
man Sean Berry.
“The biggest area of hope is
that Anthony Young (acquired in
his job
the off season) can fill that role
and one of the keys also wiT be
the health of John Hud 3k,”
Collins said. “We think he’s fine
but until we get in a game situa
tion where he’s letting it go;
that’s the only way to determine
anything.”
Hudek was the Astros’ closer
until he had surgery last July to
remove a rib that was causing
circulation problems in his pitch
ing arm.
The Astros are set in the in
field with Biggio, Bagwell, Rick
Wilkins catching, Orlando Miller
at short, Berry at third and with
Derek Bell in right field and Bri
an Hunter in center field.
Left field is the only position
Collins can’t pencil in one name
— it could be two. He may pla
toon Derrick May and James
Mouton, which would not be all
bad because it would get another
lefthanded batter in the lineup.
“I have no problem platoon-
ing,” Collins said. “Derrick did a
tremendous job for us and we
know that Mouton brings great
footspeed and he’s coming
around offensively.
Rangers 5 late goal forges tie with Stars
□ Luc Robitaille's power play
with 2:14 left knotted the
game between New York and
Dallas Wednesday.
DALLAS (AP) — Luc Robitaille’s pow
er-play goal with 2:14 remaining in reg
ulation lifted the New York Rangers
into a 1-1 tie with the Dallas Stars
Wednesday night, keeping the Rangers
unbeaten in 1996.
Stars goalie Allan Bester was on the
verge of his first NHL shutout in more
than seven years before Robitaille tied it.
Robitaille took a goalmouth feed from
Alexei Kovalev and beat Bester while
Dallas’ Joe Nieuwendyk was in the
penalty box.
The Rangers, 5-0-4 in January, thought
they’d notched the tying goal 10 seconds
before Robitaille’s 15th of the season but
referee Don Koharski ruled that New
York’s Ray Ferraro had intentionally di
rected the puck into the net with his skate.
Bester, signed from the Orlando Solar
Bears of the International League on Jan.
21 after Stars goalies Andy Moog and Dar
cy Wakaluk were both placed on the in
jured list, made 27 saves to improve his
record to 3-
1-1.
Until he
was signed
by the Stars,
the 31-year-
old Bester
hadn’t
played in
the NHL
since the
1991-92 season. Bester hasn’t had an NHL
shutout since Jan. 9, 1989 for the Toronto
Maple Leafs.
Bester kept the Rangers scoreless when
he stopped Adam Graves on a point-blank
shot with 6:52 to play. Bester came up big
again while the Rangers skated four-on-
three, denying Pat Verbeek from the left
circle with 2:28 left in regulation and also
denying Kovalev from the right circle with
1:12 remaining in overtime.
Rangers goaltender Glenn Healy was
Bester’s equal, stopping 22 shots. The
Rangers are 10-1-5 in their last 16.
Dallas was 1-6-2 in its last nine home
games but the Stars are 3-1-1 in their
last five.
The Stars got the game’s first goal at
13:59 of the second period on defenseman
Kevin Hatcher’s fourth in as many games.
The Rangers had killed off a two-man
disadvantage for 35 seconds before Stars
left wing Benoit Hogue set up
Hatcher’s 12th.
Hogue took possession in his own
zone, steamed up center ice and left a
drop-pass for Hatcher, whose 30-foot
blast beat Healy to the stick side.
Hogue also continued to the net and
provided a screen for Hatcher’s shot with
a minute left on the power play.
The point was the first in a Dallas uni
form for Hogue, making his Stars debut
after being acquired Sunday in a trade
with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The teams managed a total of only
nine shots, five by the Stars, in the score
less and tight-checking first period.
Football impostor Weaver meets with UT officials
□ The 30-year-old man
and his lawyer met
with UT and NCAA
compliance officers.
AUSTIN (AP) — A 30-year-
old man who used a false
identity to bluff his way onto
the University of Texas foot
ball team has met with school
officials who are reviewing
the case.
Ron Weaver and his lawyer
met with UT compliance di
rector Leroy Sutherland, uni
versity legal counsel Patricia
Ohlendorf.
Ohlendorf is an NCAA rep
resentative in Los Angeles
this week, school officials said
Wednesday.
“The meeting was cordial
and beneficial for all parties
concerned,” Sutherland said.
“This remains a criminal
investigation, so we are not at
liberty to discuss the individ
ual issues.
“But, from our point of
view, I can say that most of
the university and NCAA is
sues surrounding
his enrollment, re
cruitment and par
ticipation have now
been resolved to our
satisfaction.”
Texas athletic di
rector DeLoss
Dodds has indicat
ed the school likely
won’t try to recover
the cost of Weaver’s
scholarship, estimated at
more than $6,000.
“From the university’s
standpoint, we are rapidly
moving toward a resolution in
this case,” Dodds said. “Many
of our questions have been an
swered and we are anxious to
wrap this up and move on.”
School officials had accused
Weaver of placing bets on
sports with a bookie for two
members of the football team.
But Dodds said that inci
dent was isolated and the
players involved
were suspended.
“Again, I must
emphasize that we
are confident we fol
lowed every proper
NCAA and Universi
ty of Texas proce
dure in recruiting
and admitting
(Weaver),” Dodds
said. “I am confident
the NCAA will clear us of any
wrongdoing when the case is
concluded.”
After exhausting his eligi
bility at Sacramento State,
Weaver used the Social Secu
rity number of an acquain
tance from Salinas, Calif., to
take the identity of 23-year-
old Ron McKelvey and play
two years at a junior college
in Los Angeles before trans
ferring to Texas last year.
Authorities have said they
are looking into possible viola
tions including Social Security
fraud, forgery and mail and
wire fraud.
Calls to Weaver’s residence
in Los Angeles weren’t imme
diately returned.
Weaver’s scam was uncov
ered on Dec. 31, 1995, the day
the Longhorns were set to
play Virginia Tech in the
1995 Sugar Bowl.
Weaver played sporadically
during the 1995 season, most
ly on special teams and dur
ing the second halfs of games
whose outcomes had already
been decided.
Mackovic partially blamed
Weaver’s scam with the Long
horns’ loss that night.
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