The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 246, Ed. 1 Monday, August 14, 1989 Page: 7 of 14
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MstW SPORTS
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to Browning
HOUSTON (AP) — Cincinnati
Reds pitcher Tom Browning got
in a rhythm and the Houston
Astros couldn’t get out of a
slump that is well into its second
week.
Browning tossed a six-hit
shutout Sunday as the Reds
defeated the Astros 5-0.
“They never got anything go-
ing against him today to break
nis rhythm,” said Cincinnati
manager Pete Rose. “He threw
strikes and kept their speed off
the bases.”
Browning has won his last
eight decisions against the
Astros and is 10-7 lifetime
against the club, but the left-
hander offered no secrets for his
string of success.
“I’ve had some good breaks
against them,” said Browning,
11-10. “Today we got some runs
early and any time you can get
ahead you can be more ag-
gressive. I was able to throw
strikes and make them hit my
pitch.”
The Astros lost for the fourth
time in five games and have
dropped eight of their last 11.
They remain three games
behind San Francisco in the Na-
tional League West race.
“It was a frustrating day. I got
good pitches to hit and just kept
fouling them off,” said Astros
third baseman Ken Caminiti.
“He (Browning) mixed up well,
both inside and outside, and just
keeps coming after you. ”
(See REDS, Page 8-A)
TOM CONWAY does a burnout in his Anal race
at Houston Raceway Park Sunday. Conway
claimed his sixth straight National Hot Rod
Conway ups win streak,
establishes NHRA mark
Tom Conway had a pretty
good weekend.
At Houston Raceway Park,
the site of the National Hot Rod
Association’s South Central
(Division 4) Winston Drag
teats, Conway, driving his 1989
Dragster, was the first Top
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Alcohol Dragster driver to
break the six-second barrier.
Conway’s world-record time
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Racing Series, he set the miles per hour. The speed was
world’s lowest recorded time also the fastest of the weekend.
Conway was able to speed to
his victory when he defeated
Jay Meyer of Freeport in the
finals. Conway rolled past
Meyer with a speed of 229.94
and a time of 6.104. Meyer
turned in a time of 6.194.
In the Top Alcohol Funny
in the quarter mile and was
able to hang on and claim the
Top Alcohol Dragster cham-
pionship Sunday night.
Conway’s Victory gave him
his sixth consecutive victory
on the division circuit.
In Saturday’s preliminary
Car competition, Brad Ander-
son of Covina, Ca. was able to
teat up the track and claim
first prize when his 1988 Jolly
Rancher Trans Am finished
first with a time of 6.144 and a
speed of 226.81 miles per hour.
Gary Rettell placed second to
Anderson with his 1989 T Bird.
Rettel was able to post a time
of 6.203 and a speed of 222.33.
Anderson claimed the
weekend’s fastest time and
speed in Funny Car when he
garnered a finish of 6.056 and a
speed of 229.82 in the prelims.
BRAD ANDERSON (left) and Gary Rettell line the top Funny Car time In the preliminaries
up for the final race in the Top Alcohol Funny won the title. ’
Car competition Sunday. Anderson, who posted
Aikman hot, Walsh not in Pokes’ win
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Troy
Aikman fired a volley while
Steve Walsh only managed to get
off a couple of rounds in the
debut of Dallas’ dueling rookie
quarterbacks.
“I am pleased and I felt com-
fortable out there,” said
Aikman, who completed 8 of 11
passes, including a 9-yarder for
a touchdown to Kelvin Martin, in
the Cowboys’ 20-3 exhibition vic-
tory Sunday over the San Diego
Chargers.
“I don’t know what is going to
happen three weeks down the
line. There is still lots of football
to be the starter, I’ll be ready for
the challenge.”
Aikman played the first half
and registered 67 passing yards,
while Walsh was 2-of-8 for 22
yards in about one quarter of
play. Veteran free agent Babe
; Laufenberg played the fourth
quarter.
“It’s frustrating when you
don’t move the ball,” said
Walsh. “The job is not determin-
ed yet. I am just looking for the
next chance to get out there and
show what I can do.”
Aikman and Walsh both work-
ed under a limited game plan for
the exhibition opener, which was
Dallas’ first game without Tom
Landry as head coach.
“It’s good to get this one
behind us. Now we can get into
our normal routine,” said Jim-
I my Johnson, the former Univer-
sity of Miami coach who replac-
> ed Landry.
“The most important thing for
me was not to make this a must-
win situation. That’s why a lot of
different players played in a lot
of different situations.”
\ The game also marked the
debut of Chargers coach Dan
Henning, who replaced the fired
PRO FOOTBALL
Ai Saunders.
Henning’s team committed
four turnovers, the last coming
in the fourth quarter when
Dallas cornerback Everson
Walls intercepted a Mark
Malone pass and returned it 72
yards for a touchdown.
“I don’t think anyone proved
today that he can take the reins
in any way, shape or form,”
Henning said of his trio of
quarterbacks.
Malone, rookie Billy Joe
Archer all were ineffective as
the Chargers’ lone score came in
the second period on Chris
Bahr’s 46-yard field goal.
Veteran San Diego quarter-
back Mark Vlasic, recovering
from a severe knee injury, did
not play.
Johnson said he plans to name
his starting quarterback for the
season by the final exhibition
game. The Cowboys’ incumbent
quarterback, Steve Pelluer, is a
holdout.
Walsh will start Dallas’ game
next week against the Los
Angeles Raiders, with Aikman
and Laufenberg scheduled to
play in the second half, Johnson
said.
Aikman, formerly of UCLA
and the first player taken in the
draft, directed two second-
quarter scoring drives.
The first ended in a 28-yard
Roger Ruzek field goal and the
second in the TD pass to Martin.
Ruzek added a 41-yard field goal
in the third period.
The scoring pass was lofted
just beyond the reach of two
defenders in the left corner of
the end zone.
“We called two plays in the
huddle,” Aikman said. “I saw
the double coverage, so I check-
ed to the fade at the line. Kelvin
Martin got a great release off the
ball and he deserves the credit.”
Johnson said it’s too early to
make any definitive conclusions
about the Cowboys’ quarterback
situation.
“It’s difficult to evaluate
Walsh’s performance because of
the situation we put him in and
the personnel surrounding him
at the time,” said Johnson.
“We made a better evaluation
of Troy Aikman because he
started the game. I felt Aikman
LwaiLahle to do
what we wanted him to do.”
Walsh, the first player taken in
the supplemental draft, was 23-1
as a starter under Johnson at
Miami. But he doesn’t think his
earlier play under Johnson gives
him an advantage now.
“The only thing that’s going to
matter is what happens on the
field,” Walsh said.
He added he doesn’t mind the
competition for the No. 1 job.
“Troy and I are not worried
about it,” Walsh said. “I don’t
think we’re going to be on the
same team for the rest of our
careers.”
Bucs roll past Oilers
With their starters on the
bench for most of the final three
quarters, the Houston Oilers suf-
fered a 41-23 loss to the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers Saturday in the
opening exhibition game for both
teams.
While the Oilers substituted
freely after the first quarter, the
Buccaneers stayed with their
starters for three quarters. They
built a 31-9 halftime lead, tying
their preseason high for points in
a half, and added 10 fourth-
quarter points.
Vinny Testaverde sparked the
Tampa Bay romp as he figured
into three first-half scores. He
threw touchdown passes of 32
and 28 yards and scored on a 2-
yard bootleg run. He finished
with a 9-for-22 passing per-
formance.
While Testaverde saw plenty
of action, Oiier quarterback
Warren Moon started and played
two series, completing six of his
eight pass attempts for 47 yards
and one touchdown, a 6-yarder to
Ernest Givins in the first
quarter.
Lorenzo White led Houston
rushers with 33 yards in four at-
‘ tempts.
Fuller downplays sacks
SAN MARCOS (AP) -
Houston Oiler defensive end
William Fuller diminishes the
value of the statistic that gave
him the most recognition last
season.
Fuller tied end Ray Childress
for the team lead with 8% sacks,
but there i$ more to a defensive
lineman than nailing the
quarterback, Fuller says.
“I think too much emphasis is
placed on sacks,” Fuller said.
“My first two years here, I
didn’t have many sacks and
everyone was questioning my
ability. You can’t do that.”
Fuller was generously reward-
ed for his improvement last year
with a three-year contract worth
$1.5 million.
PGA WINNER
Payne Stewart took
advantage of a collapse
by Mike Reid to take
the PGA Championship
Sunday. It was
Stewart’s /irst major
title. For details,
seePage 8-A.
Association division victory while winning the
Top Alcohol Dragster title.
(Sun staff photos by Darron Franta)
Sterling spikers
out to fill voids
By MIKE SIMMONS
Time is of the essence for the
Ross S. Sterling varsity girls
volleyball team.
The Lady Rangers have only
three players returning off the
1988 team which tied for second
place in the District 22-5A race,
and they have less than two
weeks to prepare for the opening
of tournament play.
According to Coach Bev
Bargainer, it makes this week’s.
three-a-days very important.
“We’ve got to really concen-
trate and focus on the things we
need to work on, especially this
week,” she said. “Next week,
we’ll be scrimmaging every day
through Thursday, then Friday
we go to the La Porte tourna-
ment.”
When Sterling entered today’s
workouts, only three players —
seniors Tracy Manier and
Teresa Rollo and junior Grace
Anne McKay — had varsity ex-
perience. A fourth player being
counted on, Tammy Ward, mov-
ed out of state.
‘‘I can’t remember having just
three back in quite some time,”
Bargainer said. “Because of the
way we work it, we usually have
four or five. Tammy moving
away didn’t help us.”
Bargainer said the trio of
returnees she has are “three
goodies,” but she must find
another three players to fill the
vacancies. That will a major
priority in this week’s workouts.
“We’ve got to find who can
play best and get the right for-
mula, who plays best together,”
Bargainer said. “We’ll definitely
be looking for those other three
girls.”
Players coming up from last
year’s junior varsity have pro-
mise, according to Bargainer,
but she said the three open spots
are there for the taking.
“All of them have a chance,”
she said. “We won’t have
anything definite until the early
part of our pre-district play. Un-
til then, we just want to give
everybody a chance to work and
show what they can do.”
Bargainer will start that
search this week, along with
working on conditioning and fun-
damentals.
TRACY MANIER
Sterling’s varsity will work in
the mornings from 8-11:30 a.m.,
with the first 90 minutes devoted
to conditioning and jump train-
ing. Bargainer plans to use the
school’s ROTC obstacle course
to work on the team’s condition-
ing during that part of the morn-
ing workouts.
The final l>/2 hours in the mor-
ning will be used to work on fun-
damentals.
In the second workout session
from 1-3 p.m., the Lady Rangers
will be holding workout scrim-
mages, where they will get in
defensive, offensive and transi-
tion work. They will also spend
the final 30 minutes working on
conditioning in the school pool.
The workout day will come to
an end when Sterling returns for
a 90-minute session beginning at
6 p.m.
Bargainer is thankful that
volleyball workouts are beginn-
ing a week later than normal this
season, since it eases a conflict
between volleyball and summer
softball play.
“We’ve had a lot of girls in the
softball playoffs and a lot of
them went to nationals,” she
said. “That week (of national
play) didn’t fall on the first week
of workouts this year, so we
should be at full force (today) or
Tuesday.”
The Lady Rangers won’t
waste any time looking to fill the
vacancies in their starting
lineup at that time.____________
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