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Page 14 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1980 sports Wrestlers go to state BY MIKE BURRICHTER Sports Editor The Texas A&M wrestling team heads to El Paso this weekend for the Texas Inter-Collegiate State Wrest ling Tournament. The Aggies enter the tournament for the first time in seven years as decided underdogs. During the past seven years, the Ags have come up with five state championships and have finished second twice. Last year, the Ags were unseated as state champions by Richland Col lege. This year, Texas A&M finished its dual-meet season with an 8-2 re cord, the only conference loss com ing to Richland by a score of 30-18. Coach Bob Santini will lead an Aggie team with four returning state champions into the meet. Santini, a junior from Pittsburgh, Pa., has won the state championship at the 167-lb weight class for the past two years. However, he lost his first match in state competition last week to an opponent from Stephen F. Au stin. He should enter the state tour nament, he says, seeded second. Like Santini, John Sweatt, a junior from Ada, Ok., has won two consecu tive state titles. Sweatt wrestles in the 142-lb weight class and was the chosen as the most valuable wrestler in last year’s state tournament. “John will hold the number one SALE seed, and should continue as num-* ber one throughout the meet,” San tini said. The other returning state cham pions are Bill Kelvey and Curtis Templet. Kelvey is a senior from Elleicott, Md., who won the state title in the 118-lb weight division two years ago. Last year he lost his title to a wrestler from Richland College. Santini said he will probably be seeded second this year. Templet is a junior from Baker, La. He won the heavyweight (over 190 lbs) in 1978. Last year he finished third in state. Four freshmen are on this year’s team. They are Bob Merriman, at 126 pounds, Don Parsons at 150, Phil Schaver at 158 and Mike Walch at 177. 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Pub.: Basketball Aggies can wrap it up on Friday United Press International A co-championship was clinched in College Station Tuesday night, but that was sort of expected. What wasn’t expected was that Rice would finally beat Houston and that somehow Abe Lemons and Gerald Myers would manage to get into a yelling match. At least it wasn’t dull around the Southwest Conference. Texas A&M, the team picked all along to win the Southwest Confer ence title, grabbed at least a share of it Tuesday night with a somewhat ragged 57-48 conquest of last-place TCU. The Aggies’ victory, combined with Arkansas’ upset loss to SMU the night before, put Texas A&M a game in front of the Razorbacks with one game to play in the regular season. It was the 11th title for Texas A&M in its 65-year basketball history and the first for the Aggies in four years. Texas A&M (13-2 in league play com pared with Arkansas’ 12-3) can wrap up the undisputed crown with a win over Houston Friday night. Coach Shelby Metcalf was carried off the court on the shoulders of his players and the A&M seniors cut down the nets, just the things that are supposed to happen when a team wins a title. “TCU came down here and made us earn the win,” said the relieved Metcalf, whose team had a 14-point halftime lead cut to seven in the first minutes of the third period. In Houston, meanwhile, the Rice Owls were picking up their first vic tory ever over the Houston Cougars, 81-74; and in Lubbock the Texas Longhorns were grabbing third place by themselves with a win over Texas Tech, 76-63, a contest spiced by the Lemons-Myers shouting match. Texas owned an 11-point lead five minutes deep in the second half when Longhorns forward John Danks, who had scored 18 points, picked up his fourth foul on a charg ing call. Lemons heatedly disputed the call with the officials and Myers moved in to support the decision. Before anybody knew it the two coaches were yelling, not at the officials, but at each other. They never came close to getting physical and, just to make sure, some players stepped between them. “Abe said the call was bad and I said the call was good,” Myers ex plained. “Both of us were just stand ing up for our team and neither one was trying to intimidate the officials. “Both of us just lost control. But I just take it as the heat of the game. There is nothing to hold a grudge about.” Lemons agreed. “They let the game get out of con trol,” the Texas coach said. “We could have had a real donnybrook out there. I apologized to Gerald and he apologized to me. It was just a thing in the heat of battle. There wasn’t much to it. ” Texas, however, took over third place in the league with a 9-6 record, and a win Friday night at home against Rice would give the Lon ghorns a bye in the opening round of the SWC’s post-season tournament. That might not be too easy to do, however, since Rice pulled off one of its biggest wins in years Tuesday night. The Owls had lost to Houston the 17 previous times they had met, but Rice dominated their intra-city rival ry on this occasion. If both Arkansas and Texas A&M win this weekend, the first round of the conference tournament next Monday would have Baylor going to SMU, TCU traveling to Texas Tech and Rice meeting Houston again,' this time on the Cougars’ home court. United DALLAS - panted to de iterested in < Jfn the NB any numbi t few weel ut he hasi Instead, hi :e this: “My job ri ips ready f ince tourn at, clear! lier this w ulation tl ig about ch jfhen his Arki ugh Dalla losing e tangs. j Sutton’s ov ix-year c s has mad ssional f hing bloc ns that he i omi Sonju, gether the Sonju has ive Sutton a inju was ii ght when tl UJ tangs. | think thi By Senior Dave Goff dribbles down court against TCU. Staff photo by Lyi e Texas with a i Ijegiate tc mont. 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