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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. He pledged
to A&M over the University of Texas,
See Recruits on page 4
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Tyler Chapel Hill
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