| Summary: | april 16, 1982 the concordian page 11 sporting eye f Player of the week Playing baseball indoors has never been too popular. Mothers especially would find excuses to keep the national pastime, with its bats and gloves, outside. One shattered lamp or broken anything and the game would be forever banished from the cozy confines of the living room. Because of mothers, baseball has been relegated to outside play resulting in such historical land-marks as Fenway Park, Yankee Stadium and, of course, the beloved, late, great Metropolitan Stadium. O.K. I know that for several years now the game has been played in a few enclosed domes on a carpet-like surface. But, liv-ing in an "end of the world" place like Moorhead tends to shelter one from life's realities. Take a look at the Board of Regents for example. When the rumor of a domed stadium in Minneapolis finally reached these parts, a group of Cobbers with visions of broaden-ing their horizons (liberal arts education, you know) decided to go and see the opening game at the dome. These were the type of Cobber who wanted to be a part of history without having to go Greenland or Lapland. The type of Cobber who will use any ex-cuse for a party. Sort of your basic, random, Calvin Griffith-hating, Tony Oliva-Ioving, Cobber senior who thinks the Twins are "just that close" to winning it all. Getting to the stadium is a bit of an expedition. The 36 block bus ride went quickly as the group from Concordia sang a few rousing renditions of "We're gonna win Twins, we're gonna score. . .etc." They cheered after each verse. They also cheered the bus driver. The bus driver cheered, too. Twins fever-it's contagious. After getting off the bus, the group all turned and saw it. There it was, looming high in the sky, some ten blocks down the street— the Hubert H. Humphrey Meirodome. The Dome, or "the hump," if you're hip. The Cobbers just called it the Dome. Soon the group of Cobs were stampeding down the sidewalks rushing toward the stadium much like Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin-man, Cowardly-Lion and Toto running to the Emerald City to see the Wizard. Only this time the runners were hurrying to see the Twins and the Seattle Mariners. Just as the Wizard did a good job of fooling the people of Oz so do those two teams try to fool the public into believing they are really watching major league baseball. Twins fever, like love, tends towards blindness. Walking from chilly 34 outside into a beautiful huge stadium —where the temperature is twice that— was, indeed, im-pressive. Playing outdoors would have been more conducive to throwing snowballs than baseballs. Chalk one up for Hubert's dome. We cheered next when Pearl Bailey sang the Anthem and Muriel Humphrey Brown tossed out the ceremonial first ball. Sitting out in left field, the Concordia crowd just missed grabb-ing one of Gary Gaetti's two home runs. He just about had a third dinger but was thrown out at home plate. Dave Engle had a third Twin blast. Overall there were 18 runs scored and 25 hits. Definitely a hitters paradise. Fielding, particularly in the outfield, may cause some pro-blems. High bounces off the bad carpet baffled Twins out-fielders. We forgave their miscues and, in fact, started an im-promptu fan club. Mickey Hatcher was our man. He came through with two hits. More cheers. For some reason people found it amusing to throw coins onto the field. You would think after paying eight bucks to get in, $1.75 for some nachos, $1.25 for pop and $2.00 for a program, that money would be the last thing to be tossed out. Our man Hatcher didn't mind but he didn't pocket all the quarters. He said, "I figured the groundscrew and clean-up people could use it more than me. So I left it." We love ya, Mickey. Well, just like Dorothy and Toto didn't exactly find what they were looking for, neither did the Concordia group. Despite a chant of "the game's not over" it soon was, and the final score was 11-7 in favor of Seattle. Yet, the Twins showed flashes of power and with big Kent Hrbek, the hometown hero, a potential "Cinderella story" is in the making. Twins fever —they're now 4-2. The Twins will win their share of games, maybe even more than Calvin deserves. And the Dome will draw the fans; it is a beautiful building. Perhaps more expensive than the Emerald City but still beautiful and probably worth it. Despite all the cheers and fun, at least one Twins fan missed the old Met which now stands empty and alone, waiting for the wrecking ball. Cheers Racketmen beat Valley City by Rolf Sponheim The Concordia > men's tennis team won its first game of the season with an 8—1 smashing of Valley City April 1. The Cobber racketmen crushed the visiting squad, gaining all their victories in two sets. The one Cob-ber loss was given up at first singles in a tough three set match. The Cobbers played Moorhead State yesterday and will attempt to improve their 1—5 record when they take on Northern State, Black Hills State, Valley City State, and South Dakota today and tomorrow in Aberdeen. by Thor Tolo Concordia's Andy Odegaard has earned honors as Player of the Week following his convincing victory ten days ago against a Valley City opponent by scores of 6-1, 6-0. Andy also teamed up with no. I singles player Wayne Rice, a Willmar junior, to capture their doubles match 6-2, 6-3. Cobbers won the interstate battle 8-1. Odegaard labeled his singles triumph "a good win going into Easter break." and he "hope it car-ries over" as the outdoor season is just around the corner. As an honorable mention aIlT conference performer for the Cobber hockey squad this past winter, Andy led the team in Andy Odegaard assists but claims he "would trade it all in for a national champion-ship." A 5-11 sophmore from Roseau, the hometown of eight skating Cobbers as well as Min-nesota North Star standout Neal Broten, enjoys hunting in his free time and views tennis as "more of a relaxing sport." When asked his goals as a stu-dent here at Concordia, the Phy Ed major took little time in poin-ting out that "a national hockey ti-tle has always been a dream." Hockey is obviously his sport, but if he wants to "relax" his way to a national singles tennis title-I don't think there will be any ob-jection to that idea either. Service to Odegaard. The third doubles team of Vic Young (foreground) and Scott Engum moves together to gain control of the net. [Nate Dlgre photo] Intramural track meet scheduled The Concordia Intramural In-door Track Meet will be held Sun-day, April 18. Competition will begin at 7:30 p.m. T-shirts will be awarded to each first place win-ner. Entry forms are available now in the fieldhouse office. Entry deadline is Thursday, April 15. 11 i.m.-3 p.m., 7 Dtyt • W«*k $2.50 MONDAY NIGHT (5 to 11 p.m.) ENCHILADA SPECIAL 2 Cheese or 2 Beef or 1 of Each Only S2.25 — Rftfttiltr $2-45 Applications now being taken tori; Photo Editor Arts, Feature & Entertainments Editor Graphics Editor Technical Editor Sports Editor News Editor Applications due Friday, April 16, 1982 Questions? 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