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Texas trims
Redlegs, 7-5
PORT CHARLOTTE, FI*. (AF)
_ Ruben Sierra drove in three runs
with a single and sacrifice fly, and
Bobby Meacham broke up a tie
game with a two-run bloop single,
pushing Texas past the Cincinnati
Reds 7-5.
Sierra keyed a four-run third in-
ning against Tbm Browning with a
two-run single, giving the Rangers
a 4-1 lead.
Kenny Rogers, who pitched two
perfect innings and struck out three,
earned the victory.
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Texas pitcher knows how to battle back
By MICHAEL A. LUTZ
Associated Press Sports Writer
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP)
— Texas Rangers pitcher Kevin
Brown knows he had a 14-game
minor league losing streak that
stretched over two seasons and en-
ded last May 2.
It’s in the record book so he
knows it happened. Just don’t ask
Brown to recall the sordid details.
“I’m real good about putting
things out of my head once they
happen,” Brown said. “I guess
that’s a good thing, it helps you not
dwell on things.”
Brown bottomed out with a 2-7
record and a 6.13 earned run aver-
age in his first 10
starts last season.
Then he turned it around, finish-
ing 10-3 with a 2.33 ERA in his last
16 outings and continued his suc-
cess with the Rangers, making four
was tough,”
his T-
said Brown,
wasn’t used to
league night-
to losing. It’s
recalling
mare, “1
a whole different same when you
have to handle failure. You dopT
have to accept it, you just have to
handle it”
Brown, now buttling for the No.
? pitching spot in the Rangers' rota-
tion, has been handling it well.
Brown said part of his problem
was concentrating more on me-
chanics than his pitches.
“Instead of thinking about what I
wanted to throw and where I wan-
ted to throw it, I was starting my
windup and thinking about where
my leg was and where my arm was
instead of concentrating on the
pitch.’’ Brown said.
Brown deckled to give it the old
“I tried to approach k like I used
to in college, go out and be aggres-
sive and really attack, throw inside
and ha my spots and make k
count,” Brown said. “I know when
I go out and do what I can do, they
can’t push me around."
Pitching coach Tbm House also
has worked with Brown to develop
an off-speed pitch to complement
his fast ball and slider
“He’s got to have something off
speed because his slider and sinker
are so much the same velocity.”
House said. “You’ve got to have
something to slow the hitters’ bat
down a bole.”
Brown has chosen the splk finger
fast ball and has been experiment-
ing with the pitch since last Sep-
tember.
“What we’re looking for is a
help get you over the
S&
third pitch to
don’t have a
and slider to
hump,” Brown
The Rangers were one of
most active teams at the off-
trade mart but Brown tried
note the rumors of pitchers
ved in trades.
“I never want to get a job be-
cause someone was injured or
traded,” Brown said. “I’m just
trying to stay on the path of im-
provement right now. 1 came into
spring training thinking I had no
shot at making k.
“Now there may beaoopening.
It’s a matter of a v being
opened.” ~
Quickie Quote
~ tT» just trying to stay on the path of improve-
ment right now. I came into spring training thinking I
had no shot at making k.”
Kevla Brown
Sports
' THE MEWS-TELEGRAM,
Sulphur Springs, Taxas,
Tuesday, March 14,19t9 AS.
Cats host Paris tonight
Sulphur Springs’ baseball Wildcats entertain Paris tonight in an-
other early season District 10-4A headliner. The contest opens at 7
p.m. in Eagle Park.
Coach Benton Rainey’s Paris club stands 4-2 overall and 1-0 in
district play while skipper Rick Robertson’s Wildcats are 4-1 overall
and 1-0 in district action.
Senior lefty Jack Ford (1-0) will pitch for Paris. In his only deci-
sion in three outings, Ford blanked North Lamar, 7-0. Senior righ-
thander Steven Spencer (3-0) will pilch for the Wildcats. He’s got the
decision in all three of his starts, including one-hitlers against
Greenville and Trinity Academy and a four-hitter against L—E in a
2-1 district win at Tbxarkana.
Robertson is hopeful the Cals will emerge from an early-season
hitting slump tonight that has seen them get only five hits in their last
two games.
Soccer Cats entertain Marshall
Sulphur Springs enters the home stretch of the 1989 schoolboy
soccer season tonight when they face Marshall in a 7 p.m. game at
Wildcat Stadium. The Cats close out the season on Friday night with
a home game against Mt. Pleasant
ctuipnur springs is coming on rwo strong ouungs. inc wiux.au>
held Longview to a scoreless tie last Thursday night and came back
the next night to throw a scare into an older and more experienced
Longview Ranger club team. The Cats dropped a 4 2 verdict but
scored the game’s final two goals.
SSHS will bring an 8-8-1 season’s record into tonight’s action. The
Wildcats will be trying to avenge last month’s 4-2 U» to the
Mavericks last month in Marshall.
Sports schedule for City-Area
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TUESDAY, MARCH 14
“*“• .....High School Baseball *
Wildcats host Paris in District 10-4A game at Eagle Park, 7 pan.
Sulphur Springs at
High School Tennis
Grand!
Saline for 4 pm.
High School Soccer
Wildcats host Marshall at Wildcat Stadium (V), 7 pm. JAH
NBA Basketball: Rockets at Sacramento, 9:30 pjn. .
Exhibition Baseball: Ranger* play Chicago White Sox at Port
Chaffotik, Fla., 12:30 pm. ^
WEDNESDAY, MARCH IS
NBA Basketball: Mavericki at Golden State. 9:30 pm; Spun boat Milwaukee.
7 JO pm.
Exhibition Baseball: Broken play Deuod at Pen Charlotte. Fla.. 12:30 pm
Elliott repeats as All-American
By Tht tiiKMlW fnu
Sean Elliott didn’t have to be
told he had made The Associated
Press All-America team. But he
was happy to find out.
“It's a real good feeling. Going
into the (NCAA) tournament, k’s a
real emotional boost," the Arizona
senior said. “By this time, there’s
something that tells you. you al-
most know you’re going to be on
the team.”
Elliott, the only repealer on the
first team announced Monday, was
joined by seniors Danny Ferry of
Duke, Stacey King of Oklahoma.
Sherman Douglas of Syracuse, and
freshman Chns Jackson of Louis-
iana State.
“This is a tribute to our team and
its position.” said Elliott, who ad-
ded that this year he is “a lot stron-
ger and a lot smarter on the court,
and 100 percent better on defense,”
The voting was done by the same
national panel of sports writers and
broadcasters which selects the
weekly Tbp Twenty. Each voter
selected three teams with points
distributed on a 5-3-1 basis.
The second team was comprised
of seniors Pervis Ellison of Louis-
ville, Glen Rice of Michigan,
Mookie Blaylock of Oklahoma and
Charles Smith of Georgetown, and
sophomore Jay Edwards of Indiana.
The third team was seniors Todd .
Lichti of Stanford and George Mc-
Cloud of Florida State, juniors
Hank Gathers of Loyola
Marymount, the nation’s leading
scorer and rebounder, and Lionel
Simmons of La Salle, and freshman
center Alonzo Mourning of
Georgetown.
Elliott, the 51st ptayer to repeat
as an All-American in the 41 years
a team has been selected, was the
top vote-getter with 324 points and
was named on the first team by 63
voters, just edging Ferry, 318 and
61. and King. 316 and 60.
The 6-foot-8 Elliott, the Pac-lO’s
all-time leading scorer, leads the
top-ranked Wildcats by averaging
22.0 points and 4 3 assists and is
second in rebounding at 7.0. He is
considered the perfect swingman,
switching easily from the forward
to the guard position.
Jackson, college basketball’s all-
time freshman scoring leader with
942 points, became only the second
player of his class ever to make the
team. Wayman Tisdale of Okla-
homa was the only other freshman
selected as an All-American.
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Stacey King
Ailing Mays facing uphill climb
Lady Cats nab golf title
Sulphur Springs’ Lady Wildcat
golfers won their second straight
tournament Monday with a con-
vincing 66-stroke victory in the
North Lamar Invitational, which
was played on the Paris Country
Club course.
Coach Sharon Barnes’ bnksters
shot a season-low 406 to win han-
dily over runnenip Ml Pleasant
(466).
The Lady Cats captured the top
prize in the Sulphur Springs girls
Invitational last Friday with a 414,
and earlier finished second in the
ML Pleasant Invitational with a
415.
JJ. Rone
Springs Monday
gain medalist honors,
of the Lady Cats was third medalist
with a 103.
“This may be the most talented
group of golfers we’ve had in my
four years as coach,” said Barnes,
who has taken her teams to the VanNuys,
state meet three straight years. “If
this group continues to play consis-
tently we will be able to hold our
own at the regional and stale levels
DALLAS (AP) —
Mavericks center
Donaldson, who began the
rehabilitation of his knee today,
faces months of uncertainty about
whether he can continue his NBA
career, a doctor says.
t “It’ll be week by week* month
by monlh,” said team physician Dr.
J. Pat Evans. “We won’t be able to
make a decision until September as
to whether he’ll be able to come
back next season.”
Donaldson underwent surgery to
repair a tendon that was ruptured m
the game against Houston Friday.
Meanwhile, forward Roy Tarpley
«tii be icicA>eu this week from a
California rehabilitation center, the
team said. He was suspended from
the team Jam. S by NBA thug
counselors for violating the
league’s substance abuse policy.
His return to Dallas is an exten-
sion of bis rehabilitation, said Dr.
Dave Lewis of the Adult Substance
Abuse Program treatment center in
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by firing a 92 to ■
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The 24-year-old power forward,
voted Ihe NBA’s best sixth man last
season, must first complete his
therapy and after-care program to
the satisfaction of counselors and
physicians before he can return to
the team.
“Based on what the doctors have
told us. Roy has been doing well,”
said Rick Sund. Mavericks vice
president of basketball operations.
“They feel he is now ready to ex-
tend the therapeutic process to his
home eav----- ”
Tarpley averaged 14.8 points and
10j6 rebounds this season.
“I’m glad he’s coming back to
Dallas,” Sund said. “I'm frying to
stay as unemotional as I possibly
can because the Na 1 thing we’re
concerned with is Roy’s health.”
The 7-2, 278-pound Donaldson
rrill wear a brace for at least two
months, Evanasaid.
“The surgery went as expected.”
he said, adding the operation look
oearty two hours.
The surgery was the first for
Donaldson on one of his knees. He
had an operation on his right lower
leg following the 1987 playoffs to
correct a stress reaction.
While Evans expressed hope
Donaldson calks bta* ike ou&
return, he was not overly optimis-
tic.
Evans termed the injury “very
serious. It’s the worst dung that
could happen to the structure of the
knee.
“1 think I’ve heard of only one
other (basketball) player rupture the
patellar tendon and 1 never heard
whether he was able to come hack.
There’s just not much experience
with an injury like this to a high-
performance athlete.”
DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas
Mavericks knew they were in
trouble, having lost six of their last
nine games and starting center
James Donaldson to a season-en-
ding injury, but the Milwaukee
Bucks delivered a knockout punch.
Ifcny Cummings scored 25
points Monday night to lead the
Bucks to a-111-95 NBA victory
over the struggling Mavericks.
Dallas has now lost 30 games,
^he most the team had k)6t in a sea-
son since 1985-86.
“They’re missu« some key
players but we still can't lake any-
thing for granted,” said Bucks for-
ward Larry Krystkowiak. We
could tell from the start that we
could win. We’d have been kicking
ourselves if we didn't lake advan-
Milwaukee clung to a 62-59 ad-
vantage with 9:23 to play in the
third period before Cummings star-
ted a decisive 14-4 run, hitting a
19-footer from the left baseline for
a 64-59 edge. Cummings added a
three-point play and a layup while
the Mavericks went almost three
minutes without a point
The Bucks posted their fifth
straight victory.
Dallas, K»niinp Denver and
Portland for the eighth and final
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Cat frosh belt Panthers, 17-9
Sulphur Springs erupted for 14
runs in the first inning Monday and
coasted to a 17-9 road win over
North Lamar in freshman baseball
innings to pick up the win. Clevon
Alexander and Lex Spencer fol-
lowed Sartain to the mound.
The Wildcat frosh will host Sal-
tillo in a 5 pjn. game on Friday.
Eric Thurman banged out a pair
of doubles, scored twice and drove
in four runs for conch Mike Ses-
som's freshman team, now un-
beaten in three games. Kyle Pate
also had two hits, including a triple,
and drove in three nuts.
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Ex-Wildcat John Pearce will join Aggie coaching staff this week
the 1985 Wildcat powerhouse team
as a member of new Tfexas Aggie football coach R. C. Slocum’s soft . 296-
Pfearce, who has forged a renurtabte coaching record at Claes SA hole
Willowridge in the shadow of Houston, will announce Ms rerigaabna in
possibly later today — and will join the Aggie soff im-
i spring workouts at College Station open Monday
KUive that Slocum has the Aggie pragoat headed in
rove if he
felt there was shfl any skoflduggery going on. a la die Jackie Sherrill
regime.
Had Pearce not accepted the attractive offer with the Aggies, he
would have undoubtedly joined Forrest Gregg’s coaching staff on
June 1. the date die
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