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NEi [E WTM ead nit Sports SB i l ipigfii The Battalion Page 3 • Monday, July 15, 2002 mg. e ’s burninr Vidmark said, ’as started b\ t week in stet; ragged and cr lines several i: ; ! ped the Me: med into a ; the Dev ist. and firefij ns to reach the 1 w'ere burer. i rn states as ' ; :rn Coloraii ildtire forced- e Saturda\ \ aw n of aboui- s were allo»e: l y. "n Arizona.ai. fire had te of the Coroi est by Sunday: vere evacuee town of aid. J uc byiR tq: ; ends had pit each that d: ‘ couldn't si earned thai probably a ikets and to. the lure ofil legree day the waves e ld "just he- • tier niorer. n't go into et. Pareni she was ft® :r when ^ * iV ' it pustedtatai* SPORTS IN BRIEF Boone leads Reds past Astros, 8-3 HOUSTON (AP) Knuckleballer Jared Fernandez pitched seven strong innings for his first major league win as the Cincinnati Reds snapped a four-game losing streak with an 8-3 victory over the Houston Astros on Sunday. Aaron Boone was 3-for-5 with two doubles to help stop the Astros five-game winning streak. Fernandez (1-0) struck out eight, tops for a Reds pitcher this season, in just his fourth major league start. Fernandez limited the Astros to three runs and seven hits. Tim Redding (3-5) allowed five runs and seven hits in 3 1- 3 innings. He was lifted after being spiked on a play at home plate in the fourth inning. He's listed as day to day. Rangers lose lead in 4-3 loss to Twins MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - David Ortiz and Torii Hunter home- red in the bottom of the eighth inning as the Minnesota Twins overcame two home runs by Alex Rodriguez to beat the Texas Rangers 5-4 Sunday. Trailing 4-3, Hunter led off the eighth with a shot to right- center off Colby Lewis (1-2). Then Ortiz hit his homer to straight away center, giving the Twins the lead for good. The rally came a half-inning after Rodriguez, who homered for the third straight game, appeared to send the Rangers to their second straight win over the Twins with his two- run shot off reliever Mike Jackson. The Twins went up 3- 2 after Luis Rivas hit a two-run single in the seventh. Armstrong begins to make move in Tour 2002 TOUR DE FRANCE Dutchman Kroon wins eighth stage Karsten Kroon, of the Rabobank team, won the 134.9-mile run through Brittany from Saint-Martin-de-Landelles in 4 hours, 36 minutes and 52 seconds. Three-time champion Lance Armstrong rernained in eight place in the overall standings. Stage 9 (Time Trial) Monday, July 15 Lanester to Lorient 52 kilometers (32.2 miles) Lanester 16 feet SOURCE: Associated Press; Societe du Tour de France; ESRI PLOUAY, France (AP) — Finally, Lance Armstrong turned on the speed as the Tour de France neared the parts of the race where he hopes to build his fourth straight championship. A day after losing time in a crash, Armstrong covered the final part of Sunday’s eighth stage through Brittany in excep tionally fast time to keep pace with race leader Igor Gonzalez Galdeano of Spain. “That’s probably the good news about the crash — it’s that I was really forced, for the first time in this race, to go as hard as I could, and I think it was pretty fast,” Armstrong said. “It was confirmation that I feel good. “I’ve been feeling good in the races, but you ride along in the group and it’s not possible to really test it.” Karsten Kroon led a Dutch sweep of the top three places Sunday. While remaining eighth over all, Armstrong said he was impressed by the speeds reached by riders in this year’s Tour. “They attack from the begin ning, and they don’t seem to ever stop,” he said. “The other day we did 100 kilometers in two hours — I don’t remember the last time we did that. “The reason I think they are attacking is because the Tour has moved all the difficult stages to the rear. They know that now is their time — it’s a guess, a hypothesis.” Those difficult stages start Thursday, when the Tour enters the mountains —^Armstrong coun try in each of his three victories. On Monday, there was anoth er stage where the American has prospered — an individual time trial. But the defending champi on said he was picking Gonzalez Galdeano to claim the 32.2-mile stretch. “I’m second fiddle,” Armstrong said. “Galdeano will be good, he can win the time trial.” Gonzalez Galdeano, who rides for Once, leads Armstrong by 34 seconds, thanks largely to a Saturday crash that caught Armstrong’s back wheel and slowed him down by 27 seconds. “If Galdeano has a super day on Monday and wins by another 30 seconds — and he has (a lead of) over a minute — then we will have to be aggressive” later in the Tour, Armstrong said. Last year, Armstrong locked up his third straight Tour title by blowing away the competition in the last individual time trial. He said he felt at the “highest level” of his career after the win. But the American says liis Spanish rival is feeding off tht strong momentum gathered in the Tour’s first week. Gonzalez Galdeano “will have the yellow jersey, (and be) very motivated. They (Once) seem to be very confident in their declarations — so he’s the favorite.” The Spaniard said it would be “a dream” to retain the yellow jersey after Monday’s ninth stage. “I’m going to try to have a good time trial — I’m against the best racer out there,” Gonzalez See Armstrong on page 4 Aggie recruiting on a roll for 2003 By Kevin Espenlaub THE BATTALION Though the 2002 football season is fast approaching, some of Texas A&M head football coach R.C. Slocum’s attention has been focused on the future as the list of oral com mitments for the 2003 season has grown to 15, one of the strongest early classes in the program’s history. One of the more recent high school players to commit to the Aggie program is Tyler Chapel Hill wide receiver Tyrell Gatewood. The 6-foot-1-inch receiver turns in a 4.4-second 40-yard dash but will switch to quarterback for his senior season in high school to help run Chapel Hill’s new wishbone offense. “I really liked the coaches at A&M,” Gatewood told the Tyler Morning Telegraph. “It’s a good aca demic school and I think I’ll fit in good with the offense. They liked the fact that I could make a‘play after I got the ball.” Gatewood was listed as a presea son third-team pick by Texas Football Magazine, and racked up 420 yards on 22 catches last season to go with 62 rushes for 640 yards and 1 1 touchdowns. Oral commitments are non-binding, and the first official day student ath letes can sign a letter of intent is Feb. 5. Gatewood’s commitment contin ued a week of East Texas commit ments started with Texas Football’s first team defensive end Justin Warren from Tyler Lee. 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