Wednesday • April 29, 1998
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|ie Texas A&M Track and Field Team returned
fom the Penn Relay Carnival this weekend and
began preparation for this weekend’s four-way
In New Orleans, La., between Tulane, ACC and
Ihouse Louisiana State University.
ft Forget About Us
ile the track athletes were finishing off a quality
lance at the highly heralded Penn Relays, the field
i were finishing up the Oklahoma Outdoor at Nor-
)kla., with six gold medals and two school records,
ihomore Jason Jacob won both the men’s discus
immer throw. He brought home the gold in the
i with a throw of 163 feet and the hammer with a
|of 172 feet 11 inches. Sophomore Travis Grasha
le men’s javelin with a throw of 199 feet 5 inches,
[anwhile, the women continued to dominate the
i. Freshman Ester Eisenlauer won the women’s
^th a throw of 160 feet. Freshman Meshell
:won the hammer throw with a heave of 170
i inches. This distance broke her own school
record of 166 feet 8 inches, which she set at the College
Station Relays on March 21. Junior Kelli Schrader
brought home the gold in the women’s discus with a
throw of 170 feet 10 inches. This throw was a NCAA
provisional qualifier and broke Schrader’s school
record of 166 feet 3 inches, which she set last year.
The field athletes will be reunited with the track ath
letes this weekend at the four way meet in New Orleans.
Disappointing Coverage
It was exciting to see the sports page of the Dallas
Morning News and find out that CBS would be cover
ing the Penn Relays in a two-hour span from noon to 2
p.m.They could not show the majority of the meet in
that two-hour span, but it is assuring that they would
recap the results from the previous days and that
morning. What followed was a big disappointment.
In a two-hour period dominated by useless com
mentary and lengthy races, the coverage failed miser
ably in its attempt to bring the excitement of collegiate
track and field to the nation. The coverage failed to show
the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter dashes, as well
as any of the hurdling events. Not only did they fail to
show these events, they never mentioned who won the
events or which universities were dominating the meet.
While the coverage did consist of the 4xl00-meter and
4x200-meter relays, it failed to show the 4x400-meter relay.
For anyone who might have been flipping through
the channels or even sat down with the intention of
watching the Penn Relays, what you saw is not colle
giate track and field at its finest. Regardless of what CBS
might think, the 4x mile relay is not the highlight of
every track meet.
— Michael Ferguson is a senior
business management major.
Sports Briefs
ee graduates
in with WNBA
W YORK (AP) — Nykesha
Ticha Penicheiro and Kristin
signed contracts today to play
WNBA.
es, a first-team All-American
nnecticut, set a controversial
il record for points in a career
I) in February.
nicheiro, a two-time All-Amer-
itOJd Dominion, led the coun
steals (5.0) and was third in as-
[7.5).
plan All-Pac-10 selection at
ford, led the team in scoring
land rebounding (9.2) last sea-
bhe also led Stanford’s women’s
from staff and wire reports
volleyball team to a third NCAA
championship in four years.
The WNBA has signed 44 college
seniors to contracts for the 1998
season and the players will be as
signed among the 10 teams in
Wednesday’s draft.
The league, which opens its sec
ond season June 11, has outdone the
ABL in signing top college players.
Blackhawks part
with Hartsburg
CHICAGO (AP) — Craig Harts
burg was fired as coach of the
Chicago Blackhawks today after the
team missed the Stanley Cup play
offs for the first time since 1969.
Hartsburg coached the team for
three seasons and had two years left
on his contract after signing an ex
tension last June. His team seemed
headed for the playoffs but finished
with a 0-6-1 slide.
Assistant coaches Lome Hen
ning and Newell Brown were also
fired.
Hartsburg’s was hired in June
1995 and his three-year record was
104-102-40, including 30-39-13 this
season. Chicago was 8-8 in the play
offs during his tenure, winning one
series and losing two.
Chicago had trouble converting
on the power play and difficulty
winning on home ice at the United
Center, where it was just 14-19-8
this season.
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Klecker steals Texas A&M record
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Robert HolUer
T he Texas A&M Softball Team (32-24-2, 6-10-1)
concluded its regular season schedule last
weekend on a down note, going 0-2-1 against
No. 17 Texas Tech and Baylor.
Unfinished Business
With the two losses and a tie, the Aggies dropped
to seventh place in the Big 12 Conference which
means they will have to play in the lower bracket of
the Big 12 tournament.
The upper bracket will have the teams that fin
ished first through sixth, while the lower bracket has
the seventh through 10th seeds.
As the seventh seed, the Aggies will meet Baylor in
their first game in a must-win if A&M plans to com
pete in the rest of the tournament.
On Sunday, Baylor played A&M to a 2-2 in 10 in
nings before the game was called due to bad weather.
Had A&M won that game, they would have moved
ahead of Kansas into sixth place and avoided playing
the extra game in the lower bracket.
Coming in at 2-14 in the Big 12, Baylor was in the
spoiler role with nothing to gain or lose in its series with
the Aggies, and spoil the party is exactly what they did.
If the Aggies get by Baylor in the first round, they will
more than likely have a date to play the No. 1 seed in the
tournament, Nebraska. Nebraska roared through the Big
12 with a perfect 16-0 record, including sweeps over No.
5 Oklahoma, No. 8 Texas, No. 12 Oklahoma State, No. 17
Texas Tech and No. 18 Missouri.
With the tie in the Baylor game, A&M went from
playing the No. 3-seed Texas in the second round as
the sixth seed o their current position.
It seems the Aggies have a little score to settle with
Baylor when they meet on Thursday, April 30, in the
single-elimination round.
Into The Record Books
The weather may have spoiled the party for the Ag
gies on Sunday, but it could not stop senior outfielder
Tanya Klecker from entering the record books as the
all-time stolen base leader for the Aggie softball team.
In Sunday’s game against the Bears Klecker swiped
the 46th stolen base of her career, breaking the record
of 45 held by Carrie Austgen and Judy Trussell.
On the season, Klecker leads the team with 16
bases in 22 stolen base attempts.
As a team, the Aggies have 80 stolen bases on the
season, which is nine more than their opponents
have even attempted.
Tiffany Esters is second on the club with 15
stolen bases and Amy Lawler is third with 14. Esters
also is tied with Ashley Lewis for the club lead in
home runs with four.
— Robert Hollier is a junior
journalism major.
IOC bans use of insulin for non-diabetics, ups
penalty for diuretics abuse in athletic events
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — The
IOC banned non-diabetic athletes
from taking insulin and increased
the penalty for using diuretics.
The moves on Tuesday came as
International Olympic Committee
president Juan Antonio Samaranch
repeated his call for sports govern
ing bodies to strengthen their fight
against drugs.
“There are many sports organi
zations which have taken no mea
sures to combat this scourge,” he
said. “Doping is cheating and has
no place in the world of sport.”
In a healthy person, insulin, a
hormone produced in the pancreas,
allows the body to use the sugar de
rived from food. Diabetics use in
sulin to help counteract the illness.
Athletes can gain muscle mass
by injecting insulin, and misuse can
result in adverse health effects, in
cluding death, IOC medical com
mission chair Prince Alexandre de
Merode said.
The IOC said diuretics will now
be regarded as a masking agent, as
are steroids. Previously, diuretics,
which can disguise the presence of
harder drugs, had their own cate
gory as a banned substance.
Four Chinese swimmers, cur
rently under investigation by world
swimming’s governing body, al
legedly tested positive for diuretics
at the world championships in
Perth in January. The Chinese have
reportedly argued that the sub
stances detected were herbal med
icines similar to diuretics.
Diuretics are weight loss drugs,
but are also used to flush other
drugs out of the system in urine.
“When you use a diuretic agent
it can hide the presence of a steroid
or a high testosterone level,” de
Merode said.
IOC officials decided to post
pone efforts to eliminate the use of
the B sample in urine testing.
The IOC had considered follow
ing the lead of the International Am
ateur Athletic Federation and ban
competitors on the result of the first
test, or A sample, instead of waiting
until the B sample had been tested.
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