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Fenimore named to
All-American team
Texas A&M senior Dru Feni
more capped off his collegiate ca
reer by being named to the All-
American team.
An honorable mention entry on
the squad, Fenimore led the Aggies
with a 74.2 stroke average and fin
ished with five tournament top 10 fin
ishes in 1996.
"I'm really proud that Dru made
All-American as a senior," A&M
Head Coach
Bob Ellis said.
"He's meant a
lot to our
team, not just
as a player,
but as a leader
as well."
Stanford
sophomore
Tiger Woods
received the
Jack Nicklaus
Trophy as the
nation's top
Division I
golfer.
Aggies rank eighth in
attendance in '96
The Texas A&M Baseball Team
may not have made it to the College
World Series this year, but the Aggies
still had the support of their fans.
A&M ranked eighth in the nation
with an average home attendance of
2,217 in 1996.
National champion Louisiana
State University ranked 1st with an
average of 5,816, and the University
of Texas finished 2nd with 4,703
fans per contest.
Tne Southeastern Conference
drew the largest attendance in
1996, with a total of 662,508 fans
passing through the turnstiles in 373
home dates.
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Broadcasting great
Allen died yesterday
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — Mel
Allen, one of the great voices of base
ball broadcasting, died Sunday at
home. He was 82.
A family member, who asked not
to be identified, confirmed the death,
adding Allen had been ill for some
time with an undisclosed condition.
"Mel Allen meant as much to
Yankee tradition as legends like Ruth,
Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle," team
owner George Steinbrenner said.
"He was the voice of the Yankees."
In his 58 years as a sports broad
caster, Allen did it all, from baseball's
World Series and All-Star game, to
college football and boxing.
He was best known, however, for
applying his Alabama drawl to Yan
kees broadcasts and, for 17 years, as
the voice of the weekly syndicated
show, "This Week in Baseball."
Funeral plans were not disclosed.
Holmes calls it quits
after 23 years
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — Lar-
>y Holmes, a 46-year-old grandfather
and one of boxing's great champions,
ended his 23-year career Sunday
with an eighth-round knockout of
Anthony Willis in his 70th and final
pro fight.
At the insistence of his family,
Holmes is retiring, insisting this is
indeed his last fight. So he chose
a Father's Day bout at Casino
Magic, where he fought eight
times since 1993.
After toying with his opponent for
more than seven rounds, the former
heavyweight champion delivered a
definitive right hand to Willis' temple
1:13 into the eighth round of the
scheduled 10-rounder.
It was the 42nd career knockout
for Holmes, who ended his career
with a 65-5 record. All the losses
were in championship bouts.
Nineteen fights and another retire
ment later, Holmes stepped out of the
ring for the last time Sunday.
And this time, he says, he won't
becoming back.
SCORES ROUNDUP
AL
Boston 10, Texas 9
Minnesota 4, Detroit 1
New York 5, Cleveland 4
Oakland 10, Milwaukee 9
Toronto 6, California 4
Seattle 7, Chicago 6
Baltimore 13, Kansas City 5
NL
San Francisco 8, Houston 7
Florida 4, Pittsburgh 2
Los Angeles 3, Atlanta 2
Cincinnati 7, Montreal 0
St. Louis 5, New York 4
Chicago 8, San Diego 4
Colorado 11, Philadelphia 3
Page 3
Atlanta Roadblock
Four A&M Olympic hopefuls fall on hard times at Trials
Staff and Wire Reports
Four A&M Track and Field athletes
found out over the weekend just how diffi
cult achieving Olympic glory can be.
With the Olympic Trials getting under
way last Friday in Atlanta, Aggie stand
outs Rosa Jolivet, Danny McCray, Ricky
Pfister and Kendrick Smith travelled to
Georgia to test their mettle against the na
tion’s top competitors.
After three days, the
results were a mixed bag
for the A&M Olympic
hopefuls. Although two
Aggies advanced to sec
ond-round action, that is
as far as they got.
Jolivet, who in 1996
became only the second
female Southwest Con
ference track athlete to
ever win the title in
both the 100- and 400-
meter hurdles events, was the first Ag
gie participant to taste success.
The senior placed second in her 400
hurdle heat on Friday with a time of
58.54 seconds to advance to Saturday’s
semifinal round. But despite running a
personal-best time of 55.91in the semifi
nal — a third-place finish kept Jolivet
from moving to the finals and a shot at an
Olympic berth.
However, the highly-heralded Aggie
track star will have another shot at the
Olympics this Friday when she competes
in the 100 hurdle event.
A&M wide receiver/track runner Dan
ny McCray came up big in the first round
of the 400-meter dash Saturday. Posting
a time of 45.75 seconds, the junior fin
ished fourth in his heat to qualify for the
quarterfinal races on Sunday.
Unfortunately, McCray’s dreams were
crushed when he was unable to finish his
quarterfinal race.
Pfister, who set a school freshman
record in the 400 hurdle event in 1996,
did not fare as well in the event in At
lanta. A&M’s highly-touted newcomer
failed to make it past the first round Fri
day, finishing in seventh place in the first
heat of four with a time of 51.51.
Smith experienced the same hard luck
in the triple jump later that day. The grad
uating senior posted an impressive dis
tance of 49-feet, 5-inches, yet failed to get
past the qualifying round.
Two more Aggies will head to Atlanta
this weekend in an attempt to overcome
the A&M jinx and qualify for the Games
beginning July 19th. Senior Anjanette
Kirkland will join Jolivet in the 100 hurdle
event Friday at 5:30 p.m.
Kirkland, who redshirted in 1996 due to
leg injury, owns the top time in A&M histo
ry with a finish of 12.89 seconds in 1995.
A&M freshman Michael Price also heads
to Atlanta to compete in the 200-meter
dash starting Friday at 8 p.m. Price posted
the nation’s best time by a freshman in the
200 in 1996 with a 20.35 second finish.
A&M Athletes at Olympic Trials
Rosa Jolivet — 400 hurdles
1st Round: 58.54, 2nd place, Heat 1
Semifinal: 55.91, 3rd place. Heat 1
Danny McCray — 200 meters
1st Round: 45.75, 4th place, Heat 4
Ricky Pfister — 400 hurdles
1 st Round: 51.51, 7th place, Heat 1
Kendrick Smith — triple jump
Qualifying Round: 49-feet, 5-inches,
12th place. Group A
Boys of Summer
The Aggieland Baseball League provides an opportunity
to participate in America's favorite pastime
By Ray Hernandez
The Battalion
The majority of them do not
look like collegiate ballplayers.
They do not exactly perform
like collegiate players, either.
But then again, none of them
have scholarships.
Those desperate for a local
baseball fix other than little
league action, do not think your
options faded away for the sum
mer with the conclusion of the
Aggie Baseball Team’s season.
There is another outlet for col
lege-level baseball — the Ag
gieland Baseball League.
The adult league in the
Bryan-
College
Station
area fea
tures players
between the ages of
18-29 from all over the
Brazos Valley.
The league plays a 153-game
schedule that begins in June and
continues throughout the sum
mer. The season includes an All-
Star game at mid-season, and a
playoff tournament to determine
the league champion in August.
Established in 1993 with
only four teams, the city
league opened up play this
summer with nine teams and
plans to further expand in the
near future.
Greg Jasper, vice president of
the league and a recent Texas
A&M graduate, said the league’s
ability to grow is limited to the
available facilities.
“We know we have the po
tential of going to a 15-to-l8
team league, and that goal can
be accomplished with a better
field complex,” Jasper said.
“The (city) softball program
has been very successful be
cause of their facilities.”
The league is actively in
vesting in its
Bryan or Old Tiger Field, located
at Anderson Street and George
Bush Drive in College Station.
While officials are focusing on
giving the league a solid finan
cial foundation, the love of play
ing baseball remains the prima
ry motivation for so many play
ers coming out
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collected goes into savings for
fields and facilities.
“I know we can get this done,”
Jasper said. “We are saving
money and talking to sponsors
for extra revenue. All we need
are the cities of Bryan and Col
lege Station to help out.”
Currently, league teams play
their games at either the Allen
Academy baseball diamond in
son for playing,”
Bryan Martin, a senior civil en
gineering major and second-year
third baseman, said. “Some play
to keep fit or to stay in form; the
rest of us are out there for fun.
It’s something to look forward to
every week.”
Every team has a different
method of putting its squad to
gether. Some only bring in a
group of guys and sign them.
while others have extensive
try-outs and even a mini
spring training.
Jasper, who is also a play
er/manager in the league,
said his team got off to an
early start to try to get ahead
of the competition.
“We got back from spring
break and immediately started
our workouts then,” said Jasper.
“We just wanted to get a head
start on everyone else.”
While the league is based in
B-CS, it has pulled in talent
from surrounding towns, includ
ing Heame and Caldwell. Most
of the players are either A&M or
Blinn students, and the rest —
primarily players who are on
summer vacation from other in
stitutions — come from sur
rounding areas.
As the league continues to grow
in its successes and failures, the
future of the league only seems to
show promise for adult baseball in
the B-CS area in years to come.
Bulls
Continued from Page 1
I’m the most positive-thinking guy you’ll ever
see. I thought we could win 70 games. I knew
there was a lot of work to be done. I was blessed to
be healthy throughout the entire season and to get
the game ball on the championship day.”
Artistically, Sunday’s 87-75 victo
ry in Game 6 wasn’t one of Jordan’s
better games; he shot only 5-for-19
from the floor and committed five
turnovers. Rodman, who finished a
superb series with a high-energy, 19-
rebound performance, and Seattle’s
Shawn Kemp also would have been
worthy MVP choices.
But Jordan did have 22 points,
nine rebounds and seven assists. And
his famous will to win made a major
impact on the Bulls, who played with
an intensity and aggressiveness that
had been seen rarely — if ever — during this
record-setting season.
Jordan, who also won most valuable player
awards for the 1991, 1992 and 1993 finals, com
pleted an MVP hat trick in his first full season
since coming out of retirement 16 months ago.
Jordan quit after the third championship —
and after the death of his father — because he
felt he had accomplished everything possible.
His retirement included a stint as a minor-
league baseball player. He returned to the Bulls
in March 1995, saying he learned how much he
missed basketball.
But Jordan only occasionally flashed the form
that made him one of the best players ever. After
the Bulls lost to Orlando in the second round of
the playoffs, Jordan blamed himself and promised
it wouldn’t happen again.
“I never doubted that I could get back to this
moment,” Jordan said. “But some days were hard
er than others. I’m happy I’m back, to bring a
championship back to the city of Chicago.”
He can become a free agent and has said he will
ask for $36 million over two years; his agent,
David Falk, called that figure low. Rodman and
Bulls coach Phil Jackson also can
entertain offers from other teams.
“I’m very positive,” Jordan said.
“I believe we will be back. I say we.
That means Phil and Dennis, too.”
In addition to his MVP triple
play, Jordan’s season also includ
ed first-team All-Star and all-de
fensive honors.
In the finals MVP balloting, he
received six votes from the 11-
member media panel. Kemp got
three, Rodman the other two. He
and Magic Johnson of the Los An
geles Lakers had been the only players with
three finals MVPs.
Jordan led Chicago in scoring in 17 of its 18
playoff games, averaging 30.7 points. In the deci
sive fourth game of the Eastern Conference finals
against Orlando, Jordan scored 45 points on a day
in which his teammates struggled.
In Game 6, Jordan had six points as the Bulls
used a 19-6 third-quarter run to take a 64-47 lead.
He finished the spurt with a reverse layup on a
pass from Rodman, who dominated the run with
his rebounding and defense.
Jordan is the league’s all-time leader in post
season scoring average, 33.9 points. He also is the
top regular-season scorer ever, 32 points per game.
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Jones conquers ‘The Monster’
Lehman tied Davis Love III for second place at the U.S. Open
BLOOMFIELD HILLS,
Mich. (AP) — The strategy for
slaying the course called “The
Monster” in the U.S. Open calls
for building a lead through the
first 13 holes and then hanging
on for dear life.
That’s what Steve Jones
did Sunday.
He stumbled, as did Tom
Lehman. The difference was
Jones had a one-stroke lead
when he walked to the 14th tee
box — and a one-stroke victory
when he thrust his arms in the
air on the 18th green.
“I think every young boy
that has played golf has
dreamed of making a putt on
the last hole to win,” Jones
said. “Fortunately, mine was
about one foot long, and if it
was one inch longer, I’m not
sure where I would have gone.”
The final five holes at Oak
land Hills Country Club are the
teeth in The Monster.
Jones’ journey through was
anything but a Sunday stroll.
After hitting fairways and
greens much of the day, he
drove into the clumpy rough at
No. 14, usually a sure ticket to
bogey at a U.S. Open. He
punched out short of the green,
then chipped up close enough
to save par.
“That was definitely a big
save,” Jones said. “I had a real
ly hard shot there and chipped
it up there about a foot.”
Jones nearly holed a delicate
50-footer from the fringe at No.
15, then he finally hit a hurdle
on the ,17th, hitting in the
rough to the right and missing
a 12-footer for par.
That put him in a tie at 2-
under with Lehman, who had
played the final stretch in even
par. The 18th caught up with
him, though.
Lehman boomed a driver
that ran through the fairway
and into a steep bunker, leav
ing him no shot at the green.
His sand wedge on his third
shot wouldn’t spin back, and
he missed a 20-footer that
would have preserved his
share of the lead.
“It got down to the last hole,”
Lehman said. “It was basically
match play. I felt if I could put
the fall in the fairway, the ad
vantage is to me.”