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
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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.
Senior Ric Vigue, who wrestles in
the 134-lb class and junior Bud
Moore, who wrestles at 190, make
up the rest of the team.
The 11-team tournament, hosted
by UT-El Paso, will begin on Friday.
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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.
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Irv Brown, the WAC’s supervisor
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the officials’ dressing room. Toone
had ejected the 64-year-old Williams
from the game which the Air Force
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