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HOUSTON Jeff Bagwell became
the 13th player in major league history
to hit 30 or more homers in eight con-
secutive seasons, and the Houston
Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers
6-1 Wednesday. night.
Houston won its third straight and
increased its NL Central lead to one
game. Los Angeles has lost four in a
row but remained 2 1/2 games back in
the crowded NL wild-card race.
Sterling
water polo
tops Alvin
Championship, held Aug. 15 17 ar Snowshoe
Mountain Resort in West Virginia.
Bars. 16, won the Youth Traditional division (ages
13-17). despite trailing by as mans as 20 points on
the second day and by eight points going into the
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HOUSTON ASTROS SLUGGER Jeff Bagwell hits a double as Los Angeles
. Dodgers catcher Paul Lo Duca looks on during the fifth inning Wednesday.
for the event last year and
hopes to repeat that success ' ,
this year.
Callaway, from Baytown,
plans to put his first round'
loss from Great Bend behind
him and concentrate on this
weekend. He hopes his suc-
cess on the divisional level
this year will help him pick
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Baytown l ee product Drew
Tate could be second on the. .
depth charfat quarterback if his
progress continues to please
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz.
Ferentz-met with the media'
Tuesday and..according to a
Hawkeyesports.com report, was
upbeat about Tate, a freshman.
, - " We had a good fet'ling'about
him in reefuiting, and the
Back to work
Houston Texans linebacker Troy Evans
i stops San Diego's"Andrew Pinnock during'
Saturday’s preseason game, the Texans
■ travel to face Tampa Bay tonight' at 7.
Bagwell hit a three-run homer in a a
four-run first inning, the 410th home
run of his career.
Wade Miller (11-11) won for the
fourth time in five decisions, allowing
an unearned run and seven hits in
seven innings.
Shortstop Adam Everett helped
Miller out of trouble in the first. With
two on and two outs, Adrian Beltre hit.
a grounder up the middle that Everett
gloved and threw to first for the
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CALVIN BARY; 16. a student at Barbers Hill High world champion in the Youth Traditional division after
School, is the International Bowhunting Organization his recent victory
U.S. sprinters
running out
of laughs, fast
The most notable achievement so far
by an American male sprinter at the
World Championships in Paris was to
hold up the meet for a half-hour while he
threw a world-class fit.
The ugly American — some surprise ’
— turned out to be Jon Drummond.
Trying to get out of town before track's
top officials kicked him out, Drummond
announced Tuesday he was pulling out of
the rest of the meet, and the remainder of
the 2003 season for good measure. But
that didn't satisfy the honchos at the
International Association of Athletics
Federations.
They wanted to see the door hit
Drummond on the way out. So they, too,
announced he was being tossed “for
behavior bringing the sport into disre-
pute," and some IAAF officials don't
want to stop there.
We’ll get to what Drummond did to
merit double-secret probation, but first,
his apology:
‘Tfelt very strongly that-I wasdisquali- . 1
Tied from the race unfairly, and I protest-
ed my disqualification,” he said in a
statement that sounded like it was written
for him by Robert Downey Jr. "It was
never my intention to harmthe sport in
any way or to inconvenience my fellow
competitors or the fans.
Three years ago at the Sydney
Olympics, Drummond ran the first leg
for the gold medal-winning U.S. men’s
400-meter relay team, then joined his
teammates in a hugging, mugging, preen-
ing, flexing, posing and clowning display
during the national anthem. Told after-
ward that most Americans watching back
home were mad enough to stick a foot
through their TVs, Drummond came up1
with this classic of contrition all by him-
■i' self: / -
“Jon Drummond never won an
.Olympic gold before," he said, losing the
rest of his countrymen because of an
annoying habit of referring to himself in
the third.person, “so sorry,”
In this latest incident, Drummond ran
; afoul of a new rule governing false starts
and was disqualified in his Sunday heat
: for the 100-meter race. What followed
was 30 minutes of hilarity.
First, Drummond lay down on the track
and wouldn’t get up. Then he rolled
across the infield grass sobbing and later
dunked his head into the steeplechase pit
and splashed water around. Then he
ripped off his shirt, struck a Charles At las
pose, and just for good measure, hugged
his coach and granted an interview.
And all the while, Drummond kept
arguing with officials and shamelessly
playing to the stadium crowd like some
cross between Nancy Kerrigan and Chris
Rock.
It might have been funnier, too, if
Drummond wasn’t about to turn 35 and
run out of chances, or if the Summer
Games weren't less than a year away —
opening ceremonies begin Aug. 13 in
Athens — or if Drummond ’s sidekicks
were treating the rest of the world at this
' meet the way U.S. sprinters usually do:
like props.
Instead, it 's the Americans who keep
turning up in the background of every-
body else’s highlights — though Jerome
Young finally claimed gold in the 400
meters. „ -■ , • . • ■ . \
Maurice Greene, who just turned 29
and is the reigning, Olympic and three-
time world champion, finished eighth out
of nine sprinters in his semifinal heat -
after injuring his thigh.
"He's been finished since last year,"
Michael Johnson, who owns a drawer full
of golds from the worlds and Olympics,
said of Greene in a column he's writing
for a French newspaper. "He will never
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(DeLaCerda) and Jennifer (Ray) really ,
came through tonight." said , senior
captain Ashley Ray, who had five
goals and eight steals.
Another player upping the intensity
of her play, was sophomore Jacquelyn
Traylor who had four goals and a steal.
“I had some good looks tonight, and
the ball went in for me," Traylor said.
"We al! felt a little more pressure and
had to step it up a notch with two of
our starters missing."
The Rangers (4s2) had a tougher
match and fell behind I -0 early in the
first. Then the combination of sopho-
mores Ryan Watkins and Chris
Gonzales went on a scoring binge.
First it was Watkins, then Gonzales
scored twice, and finally Watkins
again, and the score was 4-1 Rangers
at the end of the first quarter.
The duo of Watkins and Gonzales
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went on to score four goals each as the
boys held off a late surge by the !
Yellowjackets.
If not for junior goalie Chris Barny ’s
22 saves and the defense of freshman •
2-meter guard. Austen Oliver's last-
second steal, the game could have
been a loss.
"Alvin played a good game tonight,"
said senior captain Gene Starling,
"and could have beaten us if not' for
the scoring by Ryan (Watkins) and
Chris (Gonzales) and the team defense
By GENE STARLING
Special to The Sun
Tlie Ross S. Sterling Rangers and
Lady Rangers beat the Alvin
. Yellowjackets in a district match
Tuesday night, with the boys winning
a close match 8 7 and the girls win-
ning 12 8.
The Lady Rangers (6-0), who were
without two of their best drivers in
senior captain Nikki Pence and sopho
more Keegan Wagstaff , led all the way
and had.their largest lead at 10-4 in the
third quarter before Sterling coach
Mac McDonald made numerous sub
stitutions.
“The ■ young girls Ann Beth
(Capetillo). Jackie (Traylor), Megan
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The Baytown Sun ■
Local boy Calvin Bary won hjs division al the the
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CLERMONT, Ind. -One
weekend after a disappointing
first round' loss, Lee
Callaway, defending NHRA
Division 4 Top Alcohol
Dragster champion, is ready
to get. back on track for the
Mac Tools U.S. Nationals at
Indianapolis Raceway Park, , Up national event win
the biggest event in drag rac-
ing. Callaway qualified No.' 4
championship round on Sunday. He was competing
in the longbow class. where bows are made of wood
and have no sights.
. ‘Baryconfessed he was
spilt bv a narrow two points.
. He won a two-year scholarship at a college in
Ohio-, $173 (which the 1 BO keeps in trust until he
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