The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, February 16, 1979, Image 9

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    THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1979
Page 9
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By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Sports Staff
Although the Aggie Lady basket
ball team had a relatively easy time
defeating the University of Texas at
Arlington 72-45 Thursday night,
there was a great deal of suspense
for the Ladies until the final seconds
of the game.
The suspense was broken when
Kelley Sullivan pulled down an of
fensive rebound and put it back up
and in to give the Ladies their 72nd
point with approximately 20 sec
onds.
Why all the suspense?
“We set a goal before the game,”
said coach Wanda Bender. “If the
girls didn’t score 71 points, they
would have to practice Friday and
Saturday.
“The reason we set that goal is
because we beat them (UTA) by 71
in Austin and I figured we should at
least beat them by that much here.
They almost didn’t make it there,”
she said laughing. “And believe me,
I would have stuck to our deal. They
would have had practice tomorrow.”
Aside from the 71 points they al
most didn’t get and the suspense
surrounding it, the game was an
all-Aggie Lady show. They con
trolled most of the game and led at
halftime 37-20.
“Our girls knew they were going
to enjoy playing this game,” Bender
said. “Don’t get me wrong though,
UTA has beaten some people who
have beaten us so that shows how
bad our girls wanted this game.
“We re playing just about how I
want us to be playing going into the
state tournament. We re scoring
Bliinco we ll anc J doing the things we want to
do inside the lane,” she said. “Our
shooting percentage has been pretty
good, in fact, we shot 48 percent
from the field the first half.
“So I think the girls are right up
there where they need to be going
into the tournament. And believe
me, it’s going to be a tough tourna
ment.”
Tough is an understatement. The
Aggie Ladies are going to the
TAIAW State basketball tourna
ment in Nacogdoches where some
of the strongest women’s basketball
teams in the country will compete
for a chance to advance to the AIAW
regional tournament. The top five
teams in the tournament will ad
vance.
But whoever made the schedule
must be either a marathon runner or
sadist. The first night of tournament
play is an example of the grueling
schedule. The Ladies will play twice
on Thursday; once at 11 a. m. against
Lamar, which has beaten them
twice this year, and again at 7 p.m.
If they win their first game, they
will probably be playing Stephen F.
Austin at 7:00, which is one of the
top teams in the country.
The Aggie Ladies were not
seeded which means they had to
draw to see which one of the seeded
teams they would play. Unfortu
nately, they had a bad draw and play
Lamar.
“I was really surprised we weren’t
seeded,” Bender said. “We have
beaten some of the teams who are
seeded above us. And on top of that
we drew Lamar who beat us by 12
the first time we played and 11 the
second time.
“If our girls win that game, they
will be physically and emotionally
sapped and we ll have to play at 7:00
Officials respond to HEW’s Title IX
Department of Health, Education
.id Welfare’s proposed regulations
for a cml ) V erning Title IX application to in-
(rcollegiate athletics would have an
Iverse effect on women’s sports,
wn Texas A&M University offi-
E Texas A&M officials made that
lervation in a formal reply to
IW’s requests for comments to
:cific questions concerning its
posed policy in an attempt to use
le IX of the civil rights statute to
lire “equality ” in athetic pro
ms for men and women at col-
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ming possible adverse effects on
omen’s sports was made in re-
3tween thel a question about the prac-
.vasgood, oality of a per capita standard,
in the p» Th e p er ca pjt a expenditure
andard would require expenditure
thousands of dollars for each
costly and unrealistic generally,
Texas A&M officials challenged
HEW’s authority to become in
volved in intercollegiate athletics.
They emphasized that intercol
legiate athletic programs receive no
federal funds and, therefore, should
not be subject to federal regu
lations. Almost without exception,
men’s and women’s intercollegiate
athletic programs at public institu
tions are funded from football reve
nue, the sole net-revenue-
producing sport at most institutions.
“The questions which HEW have
asked universities assume that
HEW has the authority to regualte
intercollegiate athletics, Texas
A&M President Jarvis Miller ob
served in a letter attached to the re
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fantlard would force women’s in-
rcollegiate athletic programs into
■esame mold as men’s programs,”
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port. “While we have answered
these questions, our responses in no
way should be taken as an ac
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Dr. Miller also pointed out that
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athletic program “which meets the
needs of our women students.”
“Texas A&M University is com
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whether we win or lose our first
game at 11:00. It is really tough be
cause we will play twice on Thurs
day and Friday.”
It is a double elimination tourna
ment so the Aggie Ladies will have
to lose twice before coming back to
College Station. And there is still a
chance they will go to the regional
tournament by receiving an at-large
invitation.
“Our state is so strong that the
at-large berth in the regional tour
nament will probably come from
Texas,” Bender said. “I think we
have a good shot at the at-large
berth if we don’t get in the top five. ”
The Ladies will have today, to
morrow and Sunday off and will
need all the rest they can get to be
ready for the tournament in Nacog
doches.
The girls will be able to rest and
take care of some small injuries and
be ready for the tournament. We re
pretty healthy all the way around,”
she said.
The Aggie Ladies will go to the
tournament without the services of
Pat Werner who is the Ladies’ third
leading scorer and a strong player at
the post position. Werner is out for
the season with a foot injury.
“We’re going to miss Pat’s scoring
and rebounding but we have real
good depth and will be able to cover
for her,” Bender said. “I think we
can lose anybody on the team and
anyone else can come in and do a
great job for us. We really don’t
have just one girl we rely on al
ways.”
The game against UTA was the
last home game for seniors Margaret
Byrne and Cindy Gough. Byrne had
12 points while Gough went score
less in her last home appearance.
Sullivan led the Aggies with 17 and
scored the all important 72nd point
for the Ladies. Peggy Pope scored
one point less than Sullivan with 16.
The Aggie Ladies finished the
regular season with an impressive
24-14 record and hope to add a few
more games to the win column be
fore they hang up their well-worn
tennis shoes.
sports. Expenditures for such ac
tivities this year will total approxi
mately $420,000. Officials said 117
women compete in intercollegiate
athletics at Texas A&M. The corre
sponding figure for men is 322.
How much more the University
would have to spend under
provisions proposed by HEW is un
clear. One means of interpretation
would require the University to
spend $100,000 more annually for
its women’s programs, while
another interpretation could result
in an additional $500,000 expendi
ture annually.
Miller said that the only source of
funding for such substantial in
creases would be from increased
student activity fees levied on all
students.
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