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The Battalion
Thursday
March 7, 1996
Sports
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GLANCE
Rangers beat up on
Minnesota, 10-1
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — La-
Troy Hawkins was pounded for
three runs and five hits in 1 1-3 in
nings as the Texas Rangers beat
Minnesota 10-1 and sent the Twins
to their fourth straight loss.
"I took him out because I was
afraid someone was going to get
hurt," Twins manager Tom Kelly
said. "They hit some of the hardest
shots when he was in there. I know
this may sound funny, but it's true. I
didn't want to.get anybody hurt."
Minnesota starter Jose Parra gave
up three runs in the first, including a
two-run double to Mickey Tettleton.
Parra wound up allowing five runs
and six hits in three innings.
Bobby Witt got the win, allow
ing one runs and three hits in four
innings.
Damon Buford drove in three
runs for Texas, and Darryl Hamilton
and Benji Gil went 2-for-2.
Minnesota managed only five
singles. Paul Molitor nit an RBI sin
gle in the fourth.
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Indians' arsenal takes
down Astros, 7-4
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) —
The Cleveland Indians belted two
home runs, including a three-run
blast by Carlos Baerga, to defeat the
Houston Astros 7-4 Wednesday de
spite four errors.
The victory snapped a three-
game losing streak for the Indians,
who have been hampered by shaky
defense. They have committed 14
errors in their first six games.
Baerga put Cleveland ahead 3-0
in the third inning when he clubbed
a two-out, three-run home run over
the right field fence off John Hudek.
Three of Houston's four runs were
unearned. Baerga, first baseman Her
bert Perry, pitcher Jim Poole, and
third baseman Scott Leius committed
the Indians' four errors.
Perry's error on a grounder hit by
Rick Wilkins opened the door for a
two-run fourth inning by the Astros,
cutting the Indians' lead to 3-2.
1 But Manny Ramirez slammed a
pildtfrom Mark Small over the cen-
jtef'field fence in the fourth inning,
giving the Indians a 4-2 lead.
The Indians scored three more
funs in the sixth inning, two coming
on a two-run double by Jeromy Bur-
nitz,who has been filling in for Ed
die Murray at designated hitter.
Murray has not yet played yet due
to a sinus infection.
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Barkley unimpressed
with GOP field
PHOENIX (AP) — Charles
Barkley, who has expressed inter
est in running for governor in his
home state of Alabama as a Repub
lican, isn't enthused at all about
the OOP's slate of presidential
candidates.
The field is so poor, the
Phoenix Suns star said, he might
even end up voting for President
Clinton.
"I wouldn't vote for any of
these guys now," Barkley said
Wednesday during the NBA's
weekly telephone press media con
ference.
Barkley said conservative com
mentator Pat Buchanan "repre
sents the angry white male. The
only problem with that is they're
the ones who screwed this thing
up in the first place."
Barkley said he preferred Sen.
Phil Gramm of Texas, who
dropped out of the race recently,
over front-runner Bob Dole.
"Dole probably is going to win
(the nomination) but I don't think he
can beat Bill Clinton," Barkley said.
Barkley has said he's interested
in running for governor after he re
tires. He said Wednesday he plans
to play at least two or three more
seasons.
Alabama Gov. Fob James, a Re
publican, is up for re-election in 1998.
BATE
ay 12-8
SHOP
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'S. & SMI
SCORES ROUNDUP
NBA
New York 89, Toronto 82
Boston 110, L.A. Clippers 97
Minnesota 103, Philadelphia 90
Washington 99, Seattle 88
San Antonio 100, Denver 90
Utah 101, Indiana 94
I
UPCOMING EVENTS
Men's Basketball
The Aggies play Texas Tech Uni
versity tonight at 6 p.m. at Reunion
Arena in Dallas in the first round of
the SWC Dr Pepper Classic.
Women's Basketball
Friday the Lady Aggies will play
the University of Texas in the semifi-
I nalsof the SWC Dr Pepper Classic.
i
NCAA bid near as Lady Aggies roll, 91-63
A&M senior point guard Lisa Branch drives to the basket during At the
Lady Aggies' 97-62 win over Texas Christian University last week.
□ Lana Tucker and Lisa
Branch combined for
39 points in Texas
A&M's rout of Rice.
Staff and Wire Reports
One down, two big ones to go.
Texas A&M junior guard
Lana Tucker and senior guard
Lisa Branch combined for 39
points as the Lady Aggies
crushed the Rice Owls, 91-63, in
the first round of the Dr Pepper
Southwest Conference Classic
Wednesday in Dallas.
The Lady Aggies move on to
play the top-seeded University of
Texas Lady Longhorns in the
semifinals of the tournament,
which will be held at Moody Col
iseum at noon on Friday.
“We are excited about the pos
sibility of
playing
Texas
again,”
Texas A&M
Head Wom
en’s Basket
ball Coach
Candi Harvey said. “Texas has
beaten us twice this year, and
we beat them twice in 1994-95
before they defeated us in the
tournament, so turnaround is
fair play.
This is something we have
been shooting for all year, and
we overcame some past prob
lems that we have been having
in the SWC tournament.”
The Lady Aggies, who
moved to 18-11 on the year.
improved their chances of se
curing an at-large bid for the
NCAA Tournament.
A&M won the Women’s Na
tional Invitational Tournament
last season, and Harvey has said
that she felt the Lady Aggies’
strength of schedule should get
them into the held of 48 this year.
Rice, which split the pair of
regular-season games with A&M,
suffered from 30 percent shooting
in the first half. The Lady Aggies
cruised to a 42-25 halftime lead.
Tucker shot just 5-of-lO from
the floor, but was a perfect 9-of-9
from the free-throw line.
Branch hit 8-of-12 shots and
also added six assists and three
steals in her 34 minutes of play.
The Lady Aggies also received
a huge all-around effort from ju
nior transfer Melissa Rollerson.
The swingman scored 10
points and grabbed a season-high
13 rebounds in the win.
A&M built a 32-point lead at
one juncture, 74-42, before suffer
ing a rash of turnovers in the
middle of the second halL The
Lady Aggies adjusted to a slower
pace in the waning moments of
the second half and controlled the
halfcourt game.
The Lady Owls received a
game-high 14 points from guard
Gina Cafagna and a team-leading
10 rebounds from forward Tam
my McCallum, who played her fi-
"Texas A&M took advantage of us. We
self-destructed and I don't have a reason."
— Christy McKinney
Rice Head Women's Basketball Coach
nal collegiate game.
Rice’s Head Coach Christy
McKinney, whose team dropped
to 13-14 for the year, had no
clue as to why her team fell
apart in the postseason.
“I’m really sorry and disap
pointed for our players, our
coaches, our fans and our pro
gram,” McKinney said.
“We’re a much better team
than we showed today. Texas
A&M took advantage of us. We
self-destructed and I don’t
have a reason for our poor per-
formance.”
Lady Aggies 91, Lady Owls 63
Rice
...25
38
-63
A&M
.. .42
39
- 91
Rice
fg-fga ft-fta
reb
ast
Stl
blk
*P
Cafagna
5-10
1-3
9
1
2
0
14
Lalonde
1-7
1-2
2
2
0
0
4
Mundschau
1-6
0-1
2
4
2
0
2
McCallum
1-7
5-8
10
0
1
0
7
Hamilton
3-9
2-2
3
0
1
0
8
Wilson
2-4
04)
4
6
1
0
4
Garcia
4-11
1-2
1
1
1
0
10
Elsey
1-8
2-2
3
0
0
1
4
Koy
1-1
1-2
0
0
0
0
3
Totals
22-71
14-24 43
14
9
1
63
A&M
fg-fga
ft-fta
reb
ast
stl
blk
»P
Rollerson, M.
2-4
6-10
13
2
1
0
10
Tucker, L.
5-10
9-9
3
5
2
0
20
Branch, L.
8-12
2-2
6
6
3
0
19
Cemy, K.
4-7
1-1
2
0
0
0
9
Sevin, M.
2-7
0-0
6
2
0
3
4
Patterson, K.
1-3
1-2
1
1
0
0
3
Thomas, B.
0-0
0-0
0
1
0
1
0
Lake, C.
1-2
2-2
1
2
0
1
4
Spinks, A.
5-7
4-4
2
0
2
0
3
Totals
30-56
28-34 43
20
9
5
91
FG percentage: A&M
-.536
Rice - .310
3PTpercentage: A&M
-.500
Rice -
294
Attendance: N/A
Tough-luck Ags confident against powerhouse Tech
□ In their last meeting, A&M
was narrowly defeated by
Tech, 66-63.
By Philip Leone
The Baitalion
The Texas A&M Men’s Basketball
Team will meet the No. 6 Texas Tech
Red Raiders today at 6 p.m. in the first
round of the final Dr Pepper South
west Conference Classic at Reunion
Arena in Dallas.
The clubs head into the opening
round having concluded two remark
ably different regular seasons. The Ag
gies limp in with a black-and-blue 3-11
SWC record while the Red Raiders are
fresh off their first outright regular-
season SWC championship since 1985.
The eighth-seeded Aggies, 11-15
overall, come into the tournament car
rying a six-game losing streak, includ
ing last Saturday’s 75-72 loss to South
ern Methodist in the regular-season fi
nale. The defeat by the Mustangs was
the ninth of A&M’s last 10 games de
cided in the final minute, and the
eighth of the l^ist nine games decided
by five points or less.
Considering such a rough spell
down the stretch, one might think the
Aggies’ overall team outlook would be
less than optimistic with the tourna
ment’s No. 1 seed looming ahead.
Think again.
“I, think the team has an extremely
positive attitude,” Texas A&M Head
Coach Tony Barone said. “Taking into
account how many close games and
how tough mentally the losses have
been, I think they have maintained a
tremendous element of class and pride
about themselves in terms of their ap
proach to the game.”
Barone’s club will have their work
cut out for them. Texas Tech, 23-1 over
all, coasts into Dallas riding an 18-game
winning streak. The only blemish on the
Tech record was a 93-77 loss to Eastern
Michigan way back on Dec. 27.
The Red Raiders are led by the
conference’s premier player, senior
forward Jason Sasser, who is averag
ing 19.2 points and 8.2 rebounds per
game. The All-American candidate
burned the Aggies for 27 points in the
first match-up between the two teams
in Lubbock and followed with a 20-
point effort in the next meeting in
College Station.
Sasser has scored in double-digits in
all but two of Tech’s games this season.
The Aggie defense will also be
forced to contend with the three-point
capabilities of sophomore guard Cory
Carr. Carr is connecting on nearly 40
percent from beyond the arc and is av
eraging 16 points per game.
Barone is certainly aware of the offen
sive threats posed by Sasser and Carr and
hopes to keep the duo under wraps.
“You have to think in terms of con
tain,” Barone said. “With a kid like
Sasser, you have to limit his offensive
rebounds and easy put-backs. With
Cory Carr, you’ve got to eliminate the
open looks he gets to shoot three-point
er. You let him shoot threes, and
you’re going to have a big problem —
those two guys are great players.”
Though Sasser and Carr have
grabbed most of the headlines, Barone
also believes Darvin Ham presents a
challenge for the Aggies. The senior
power forward averages only 8.8 points
and 5.7 rebounds per game, but
Barone said the intangibles Ham
brings to floor more than make up for
unimpressive statistics,
“Everybody looks at Ham from the
standpoint on whether he puts up big
See Tech, Page 9
Evan Zimmerman, The Battalion
Texas A&M junior guard Tracey Anderson will
hope for more success tonight against Texas Tech.
Rangers’ Gonzalez hungry
for return to normalcy
□ The slugging outfielder
had an injury-filled 1995
season.
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla.
(AP) — It’s beginning to feel like
old times for Juan Gonzalez —
all the way back three and four
years when he led the American
League in home runs.
“My mind is ready for this
year,” the Texas Rangers slugger
said. “I feel like 1992 and 1993. I’m
in great shape
and ready to
play every day
and put up
good numbers.”
Gonzalez hit
43 homers in
1992 and 46
the following
year, and after
struggling
through an in-
jury-marred
season in 1995,
he is poised for
a big comeback.
He even showed up at
Rangers spring training early
for the first time.
“I feel different, I come early
and go home late,” Gonzalez
said. “I’m working on my body,
especially the back. I’m in great
condition, and I’ll be ready ...
every day this year.”
Gonzalez
It’s a relief for Gonzalez to feel
good again. He was relegated to
being the Rangers’ designated
hitter for 85 of the 90 games he
played in last season because of
back and neck injuries.
“Last year was a bad time for
me, because I played only five
games in the field and the rest I
was the DH,” he said. “It was
hard, but last year is history. This
is a new year and a new season.”
Gonzalez had trouble adjusting
to being designated hitter.
“It was tough,” he said.
“When the inning is over, you go
inside and stretch; then you
come back and hit; then you go
back to the bench; and then do it
all over again. It’s a hard time
for me as a young player.
“It was just a situation where the
back was hurt, so I played DH, but
this year is going to be different.”
Gonzalez is moving from left to
right field, where he’ll be able to
put his strong arm to good use.
He showed how happy he was
to be back on Tuesday against the
Yankees. His perfect throw to the
plate held Paul O’Neill at third
base, and moments later, Gonza
lez powered his first homer of the
spring over the left field fence.
“I think that’s going to be a
big help,” hitting coach Rudy
Jaramillo said. “DHing is a guy
who has to be a veteran and
been around and knows how to
do that job.
Dead Solid Horrible: Finding
golf isn’t as easy as it used to be
T here are some skills, like rid
ing a bike and tying your
shoes, that once you learn
you never forget. Unfortunately
the game of golf is not one of those
skills, as I found out not long ago.
I started playing golf when I
was in high school and was even a
member of the “renowned” Mid
lothian High School golf team,
renowned only because we made it
to the regional tournament every year.
We’ll overlook the fact that the only reason we
were there was because we were the only varsity
girls’ team in our district.
Anyway, I hadn’t picked up a club since then
until about a month ago when, after a lot of
pleading, I finally convinced a couple of friends
(weil call them Judd and Jay to protect their
identities) to let me play with them.
We decided to go on a weekday morning dur
ing the Holiday break when there wouldn’t be a
lot of other golfers on the course for me to hold
up. I was excited about playing; I really missed
the game and I had envisioned my return to golf
to be about as glorious as Michael Jordan’s re
turn to basketball.
I envisioned myself hitting the ball well, and
even shooting below 100, a task that I have yet
to accomplish. I was confident that though I
hadn’t played in four years, I would pick up
where I left off.
Not since Happy Gilmore has a more colorful
golfer hit the scene. I would like to be able to say
that it was the near freezing weather or the wet and
muddy course conditions that contributed to my far
from spectacular performance, but I’d be lying.
I’m just a lousy golfer, and as
much as I hate to admit my faults,
I always have been a lousy golfer;
but I’m obviously an entertaining
one by the way my friends
laughed at me the whole time.
It was during these 18 holes of
golf that I discovered that golf was
not — for me anyway — the relax
ing leisure sport that it appears to
be. Maybe it’s my competitive na
ture, or maybe it’s that I just hate to look stupid.
Six hours, 25 balls, and 174 strokes later, we
had finished the course. I was glad to be done. I
had suffered enough embarrassment for one day.
My score was not the sub-100 I had envisioned;
in truth it was actually closer to 200.
The day, however, was not all bad. I learned a
lot about my friends. First of all, they are very
patient people.
They ducked flying clubs, hunted balls, and
even fell knee-deep in a pond trying to recover
my ball. And secondly. I’ve got really good friends
to put up with the abuse, mostly verbal, that I
dealt out that day. I must admit, as they found
out, I don’t take constructive criticism well.
I haven’t played golf since then, not because
I don’t want to, but because I’m having a hard
time finding someone to go with me. For some
reason Judd and Jay always have “other plans.”
I am confident that my next outing will be bet
ter, but then again that’s what I thought
last time.
In the meantime, if you’re driving down
George Bush past the golf course and a ball cross
es your path, stop and pick it up.
I’m probably looking for it.