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)S nblewet Battalion Sports Page 7 • Tuesday, November 30, 1999 Cowboys trying to change road woes SPORTS IN BRIEF iggies named to [Ig 12 first-team :ed to be in anythin! ually sound,” shesMexas A&M seniors Amber st drama; hedidirWoolsey and Summer Strickland start acting the pot jnd sophomore Jenna Moscovic as simple as that.” me selected to ?r went on a New:he 1999 All-Big >s the play. Amo:;[2 Conference m was “Tumbht /olleyball First who found in earn, the league ching enthusiasipce announced o. -esterday. o children ofhetcH'he 13th- e three young nep[. a l k ed Aggies as a logical fit. iave the largest airt of belief in c ■ e p r esentation said. "She belie,: )n the first team are little grownup; S i nce no other school has more r opinions andteeiirMp t wo players listed on the 14- >urs or mine. member team which was selected was a poitiaiti 3 y| a vo1;e the leagues’ head [umsible womani:; ;o8ches . een mother anddiMyoolsey was a unanimous se- S — along with Kia Young of ’o'u'tho'rrfciden, §' lor Universlt Y Kell V Campbell , , , . s! 116 University of Colorado, ark to the girl. IfcM Cady of Ka y nsas state Uni . ’round she is iers '^’ P ^ er of the Year Nanc V ho best’she knmvM enderin 2 of the University of ™ raska and Erin Aldrich of the STRICKLAND CORBELLI ierful love story _ ^ ?lf-esteem younf,ii ,lve,sl * : ' y/ 0 Texas, around and sai-B^ 00156 ^ who receive d all-Big a l se ?>” ' L2 honorable mention as a junior, Tumbleweeds” * :de l ea g ue this season with a r movies in whidift 3 hittin S percentage in confer- on, including than play as A&M went 16 ' 4 and iking the Dead"an;i n | s hed an all-time high second in in "The King is.- he Big 12 standings, inner finds herseiifF^ 6 also leads t he league with t Academy AwarT |385 hitting percentage for the ull season and leads the Aggies ike it all withabii#i|h 4.26 kills and 1.55 blocks ominated or youTer game. RThe 1998 Big 12 Freshman of :he Year, Moscovic is making her first appearance on the all-Big 12 first team. She is averaging 11.76 11 insists per game in addition to av- -rXHUUlpging 1.25 kills, 2.24 digs and , , ■*;. 3,82 blocks per game, rly largeobjectslitoHstrickland is also making her s, smaller thingsappearance on the all-confer- strai^ds of hair, as wj nceteam _ ghe is the Aggies’ pri- I organisms. a g, r y passer and led the team ver is being studied 3.53 digs per game in con- the computet mojence play. >r large, easf\frt£^She posted career highs in he study subjer: im above or beis mple to view tr. solid ones. every category during her senior year and was instrumental in the . Aggies’ wins against then-No. 8 Nebraska and then-No. 9 Texas. Strickland recorded the first triple-double of her career against the Big 12 champion Cornhuskers and posted career highs with 19 kills and an A&M season-high 27 digs against the Longhorns. Volleyball team to host tourney games The Texas A&M Volleyball Team received its seventh consecutive at-large bid to participate in the NCAA Champi onship tourna ment and has been selected to host first- and second-round matches. The Ag gies will face the Stephen F. Austin University Lady- jacks, winners of the Southland Conference tournament, Thursday at 7 p.m. at G. Rollie White Coli seum. The University of North Caroli na, winner of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, and Big Sky tournament champion Univer sity of Northern Arizona, also will make the trip to College Station and will begin tournament action Thursday at 5 p.m. The winner of the North Caroli na-Northern Arizona match will face the winner of the A&M-SFA match Friday at 7 p.m. at G. Rol lie White. “We received a really fine draw,” A&M volleyball coach Lau rie Corbelli said, “and I’m very happy we will be playing here at G. Rollie. The support of the Twelfth Man and the Maroon Club is a huge boost to our program.” The Aggies are 14-0 in home matches this season and have won 17 consecutive home match es dating to last year. see Briefs on Page 8. IRVING (AP) — Away from Texas Stadium, the Dallas Cowboys have lost on natural grass and plas tic turf, during the day and at night, on Sunday and on Monday. The Cowboys (6-5) have two chances left to get it right: Sunday night in New England and Christ mas Eve in New Orleans. Their playoff chances probably depend on it. “I think that we understand ex actly where we are and what needs to be done from here on out,” coach Chan Gailey said. “We know what’s at stake.” Since an overtime victory in the opener at Washington, Dallas has lost five straight road games. The sad part is that the Cowboys led those games by 17, 14, 10, 7 and 3 points. The key has been the second halves. Over those 10 third and fourth quarters, the Cowboys have been outscored 81-16 and their of fense has been shut out in eight of those periods. “We’re just not finishing the job on the road the way we have at home,” Gailey said. “We’re just not finishing the job on the road the way we have at home.” — Chan Gailey Cowboys coach Gailey refuses to buy into the the ory that Dallas is a bad road team. From his perspective, the problem is strictly second halves, not second halves outside Texas Stadium. “I make a much bigger deal about playing better in the second half than about being on the road,” he said. This is not exactly a new prob lem. The Cowboys have lost seven of their last eight road games and nine straight against teams from outside the NFC East. The Patriots and the Saints both fall into that category. Breaking that streak, which dates to August 1997, is crucial to Dallas’ playoff hopes. The Cowboys are a game behind Washington in the NFC East, but they hold the tiebreaker over the Redskins. Winning the division is the only sure Dallas has of making the playoffs because of the pack of teams fighting for wild-card spots. “The good thing about us,” quar terback TToy Aikman said yesterday, “is that if we make the playoffs, we’re going to be hitting our stride, because if we’re not, we won’t be in.” The Cowboys know they only have themselves — on their 1-5 road record — to blame. “I think everyone realizes how close we have been to not talking about how vital each one of these games is,” Gailey said. “That’s what upsets you the most.” Another offshoot of Dallas’ road woes is that it has prevented win ning streaks. The Cowboys have not won consecutive games since starting 3-0. They hoped a 27-13 victory over Green Bay would be the boost they needed, then they lost 13-9 in Arizona. Now they are hoping a 20-0 vic tory over Miami on Thanksgiving will be the kickstart they need. “That’s got to be a confidence builder,” linebacker Randall God frey said. “This last win was good, but we’ve got to keep it going.” Rose to try to gain reinstatement through courts NEW YORK (AP) — Pete Rose is launching an Internet petition and may sue baseball to end his lifetime ban. “You can’t keep a guy from making a living,” he said Nov. 23 in an interview with the Associ ated Press. “It’s not the American way.” Following an investigation into his gambling, baseball’s career hits leader agreed in August 1989 to a lifetime ban from the sport. He applied for reinstatement in September 1997 and while commissioner Bud Selig has said sever al times that he has seen no evidence that would make him change the ban, he has not formally re sponded to Rose. “If you find in your heart you didn’t want to give me reinstatement, just write back and say, ‘No,’” Rose said. “I know he has stationery. I know the mail is delivered in Milwaukee. ” Rose claimed baseball’s lawyers “black mailed” witnesses against him during its inves tigation 10 years ago. When pressed for details, he referred comment to his lawyer, Roger Makley, who declined com ment when contacted at his Ohio office. Those who led the investigation at the time. Fay Vincent and John Dowd, denied Rose’s accusation. Rose was in New York for today’s launch of sportcut.com., which through Jan. 15 will con tain a fan petition calling for Rose’s admission to the Hall of Fame. As long as he is banned from baseball for life, Rose is ineligible for the Hall. “One thing you have to un derstand is we’re not looking for a fight,” Rose said. “If that has to be an option, that will be an option. That’s a last re sort. I don’t need it. The game doesn’t need it.” While baseball’s rules al lowed Rose to apply to reinstatement after one year, he has waited eight. He did not want to apply while Vincent was commissioner — Vincent headed the Rose in vestigation as deputy to commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and hired Dowd, who com piled the report on Rose’s gambling. “Fay Vincent wasn’t going to give me a chance,” Rose said. “I have no respect for John Dowd. He didn’t do an impartial investigation. We’re sick and tired of him going on the air and talking about all this evidence he ha^.” ROSE Rose also is angry Dowd put his report on the Internet. “How much is he making on the Dowd report?” Rose said. “If I died tomorrow, we wouldn’t hear about John Dowd again until the day he died.” Dowd said Rose is wrong. “We did it to educate the public, and we did it solely at the firm’s expense,” he said. “We never charged anyone a dime.” The document Rose signed says, “Nothing in this agreement shall be deemed either an admis sion or a denial by Peter Edward Rose of the alle gation that he bet on any major league baseball game” but it also says, “Peter Edward Rose ac knowledges that the commissioner has a factual basis to impose the penalty provided herein, and hereby accepts the penalty imposed on him by the commissioner and agrees not to challenge that penalty in court or otherwise. ” Giamatti said he personally had concluded that Rose bet on the Cincinnati Reds, the team he was managing, to win. 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