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ie mu (l « BatUlk* Mr > lay-mi Vt ‘ H0 S piy| ( an irritantl : s ofthejc^ e chaiigj casing m in the area wjj | *nt of the viewpoint By SEAN PETTY Battalion Sports Editor ge may - » there arepf :lwife biiiT itchers vs. hatters; ho will win game? Here we are sports fans, near the end of yet another long semester fschool. And once again, you have given it the old college try. • P^Heing £ sportswriter of sorts, I find it interesting that you can relate and^H^ anything in life to sports. I mean, just think, you can compare ;hool with a baseball or football game or any other sport. now that it’s the bottom of the ninth inning so to speak, it’s time ni "rv a 1°°^ back at t * ie first eight-and-a-half innings of this semester s jou or I, the batter, saw it. You are also going to have to make a " ' ^uSsion here in the bottom of the ninth as to what kind of strategy you r te^^B use to w ’ n books. ra , eS ‘ . S u t let’s go back to the beginning of the season. It was early January \J ° iBjyoii left winter camp (your home at Christmas break) with hopes of wP hin « With a P er ^ ect recorc k wr a 4 d), by the time May rolled around. 947 .Borne of you had nifty slogans to get you fired up like, “3.9 in ’79” or (9 and who knows, maybe even 1.9 in ’79. • r some of you knew that this was a rebuilding year and that a 4.0 rasimpossible so you and the front office (your parents) might settle Jr something a little less than perfect. You might even be able to at akst olav 500 ball all semester and pull a 2.0. Plus you had to travel to ilollege Station and play the entire season on the road, away from the rse-mid^H ° i »• ,u.. i. i.i e ^ bvifc iome crowd. Jimmy the Greek would definitely have to take those , . ataneibles into consideration when he forecasted your final season ‘risH2yefliT ..‘■ding. ’ y "jgHnd another thing, you had to face an experienced group of pitchers “%|^Hchers) who had an unfair advantage over you because they already “IMw all the material of the courses you were taking while you 'Matured into your 15 hours as a rookie. ' ^ Oh, you might have had some scouting reports on what kind of game been hev pitched from players who had played against them the previous e(ester but you still weren’t sure how you would play them. Does n’sSlOOi hat willti bat meteorology teacher still make you turn in those ridiculous re- ■ts about the weather in Olympia, Wash.? Or will he change his ^Htegy this spring? JHo you played for several weeks until that first big series. You knew fo ur -g a m e (four test) stand would be crucial to the final standings ~ o you brought the meat of the lineup in. You spent all night before game, going over the pitchers’ best pitches. And by the end of first week of tests you were either on top of the division or loijndering in the cellar. But you continued to play on up to the All-Star break (spring break), 'oti played the first half with nagging injuries such as hangovers. You a 11 (laved with three hours of sleep in three days. You even missed a few e ^WsMDtices (classes) because vou felt you needed to give your batters a income tmilie and 1st But there was no one to put in your place, almost t«o after spring break you started to realize just how low you might mbile n inert: Hsh and the front office let you know what they felt about your recent lump. And you knew you were going to have to rally after the break in ■ tnjer to save the franchise. * n ft° u nB , ist as you started your rally though, the sun came out. All of a tsclKXMt^cklgjj you found yourself spending afternoons away from practice. fou ended up on softball fields, at baseball games, at the swimming ml reas you started to get out of shape and the pitchers were getting .on spal 0 f y OU a g a i n . I Bryan, ■J n d now with approximately one week left in the season, it s time ban ! or [the big push. Some of us have already been mathematically elimi- e biau f rom having winning seasons but others are still hanging in ow the Jj er( . 3 1970 *’s time for you to make the decision. It s the bottom of the ninth, 'ou’re one run down, have two men on, two outs and the count is three umlx >allsand two strikes. Will you strike out next week? Or will you knock “ s K>th men in with a shot to right field? Well, it’s up to you. Only you mow how the pitchers will pitch. es arenoii f or me ^ we jj^ j t * s a rebuilding year. Good luck slugger. turn bit e count)] Spurs make history United Press International SAN ANTONIO — George Ger- vin and Mike Green scored the criti cal points in the last 90 seconds Wednesday night to give San An tonio a 111-108 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers to send the Spurs into the NBA Eastern Conference championship series against the Washington Bullets. The win gave San Antonio its first playoff victory in three years of NBA existence. San Antonio let an 18-point lead slip away and fell behind, 104-100, with 3:33 to play. But Louie Dampier hit a basket and Mark Olberding hit a free throw to tie the game at 104-104 and with 1:27 to play, Gervin hit a free throw that put the Spurs in front for good. After a missed shot by Philadel phia’s Maurice Cheeks, Green made two free throws to give San Antonio a three-point lead. Julius Ervingcut the 76ers’ deficit to one with two free shots with a minute to play, but a crucial basket by Green with 43 seconds left raised the Spurs lead to three points. Two free throws by Gervin with 11 seconds to play, following a missed shot by Philadelphia’s Bobby Jones, clinched the game and the series for San Antonio. Gervin, the NBA s leading scorer for the past two years, scored 33 points and Larry Kenon added 27 to the Spurs cause. Green, who started at center in place of the injured Billy Paultz, hit 18, including nine in the final period. Erving scored 34 to lead the 76ers, who were hampered by the loss of Darryl Dawkins. Dawkins injured a knee early in the game, returned to play most of the first and all of the second quarter, but left the game again early in the second half and finished with only 11 points. San Antonio, which in 11 years of playing in the ABA and NBA had never won a seven-game series until Wednesday night, will open the Eastern Conference title round in Landover, Md., Friday night with the second game set for Sunday af ternoon. In addition to Green, the Spurs had an unlikely hero in Dampier, the 11-year veteran who had seen little action in the playoffs. Dampier was called on to guard Cheeks through much of the second half and limited the hot-shooting Philadelphia guard to 20 points. Dampier also made a long-range shot with 2:15 to play that cut Philadelphia’s lead to one point and started San Antonio’s momentum that carried the Spurs to the victory. San Antonio’s largest lead came midway through the second quarter at 43-25. But Philadelphia had cut that deficit to nine points by the end of the half and the 76ers went ahead late in the third period. The lead changed hands nine times in the fourth quarter. Ring Dance Pictures available at Rudder Box Office Friday and Saturday Those not picked-up will be mailed. Bring your receipt! FOR A NEW DINING EXPERIENCE Come to the big new salad bar in the Sbisa Dining Cen ter Basement. Quality First 'pen 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m Monday thru Friday laylii^ Eddie Dominguez '66 Joe Arciniega ’74 )ir Gi ' ou want the real lf> not frozen or • We call ft Fean Food ®reme,” [l 1 * 15 location: iNorthwest Hw y ifornia ‘Dreamiii IS BACK CUSTOM SWIMWEAR CREATED ESPECIALLY FOR YOU! LOW PRICES YOU SELECT YOUR EXACT TOP + BOTTOM SIZE FROM HUNDREDS OF DIFFERENT STYLES, COLORS, & FABRICS. LOCATED IN TOP DRAWER PANTS CO. (TOWN & COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER) BRYAN — 846-0201 WEEKLY HOUR S WED . & FRI. 3-6 THUR S 3-8 SAT. 10-5 “If we had been knocked out this time we would have been crushed, ” said San Antonio coach Doug Moe, whose club had lost in the first round last year to Washington and in the opening round the year before that to Boston. Philadelphia coach Billy Cunning ham, I couldn’t ask the players to play any harder. It was a tough loss. There were two teams out there that really went down to the wire.” “As far as I’m concerned, Wash ington doesn’t exist right now. When you win a big series, you just want to enjoy it.” Moe had special praise for Green, his lean center who had to battle the more muscular 76ers inside. “Mike is a good shooter,” the coach said, “but he has been off. I think when he took that last shot I said ‘oh no.’ “One thing’s for sure,” said PHILADELPHIA (108) C. Jones 3 5-8 11, B. Jones 6 1-2 13, Dawkins 4 3-4 11, Erving 11 12-16 34, Cheeks 9 2-5 20, Mix 7 2-2 16, Bibby 0 1-2 1, Money 1 0-0 2. Totals 41 26-39 108. SAN ANTONIO (111) Kenon 11 5-7 27, Olberding 2 5-6 9, Green 7 6-7 20, Silas 2 3-4 7, Gervin 12 9-10 33, Gale 2 1-2 5, Dampier 2 0-0 4, Dietrick 3 0-0 6, Bris tow 0 0-0 0. Totals 41 29-36 111. Philadelphia 20 27 34 27—108 San Antonio 29 27 22 33—111 Fouled out — Silas. 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