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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1980
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By STEVE SISNEY
Sports Staff
espite unexpected losses by its top
rformers, the Texas A&M Univer-
y wrestling team managed to take
cond place last weekend at the
A lemeet due to strong showings by
ishtnan wrestlers.
The Aggies finished with 53 points
d barely squeezed past third place
)rth Texas State University, which
thered SIVT points.
Heavily favored Richland College
ptured the meet title with 78
ints. Texas Tech finished fourth.
“We had expected to do better,”
plained head coach Bob Santini.
t the meet, our veteran wrestlers
d a tough time, but our freshmen
deed up the pace.
Eoming as a major disappoint-
:nt to the Aggie wrestlers was a
—x)nd place finish by John Sweatt,
o-time state champion in the 142-
lb weight class. Sweatt was pinned in
the final 20 seconds of his match by a
wrestler from UTEP.
Santini, the defending state
champ at 167 pounds, retained his
title with a convincing 20-0 win in
the finals.
Bill Kelvey finished second in the
118-lb division, with Rick Vigue and
Curtis Templet wach earning a third
place berth at the 134-lb and
heavyweight classes, respectively.
Unseated (unranked) freshmen
Phil Schauer, 158, and Mike Walch,
177, both did surprisely well,
finishing fourth in their respective
weight classes.
Finishing 8-2 for the season, the
Aggie wrestlers, though considering
this year as a rebuilding year, feel the
season was a success.
“It was an encouraging year. We
went into the year with six open
weight classes,” summarized Santi
ni. “Although we didn’t pick up any
stars, we picked up some good, solid
wrestlers. ”
While the Texas A&M team will
be losing its top wrestlers in the 118,
134, and 190-lb classes, several in
coming freshmen — state champions
within their own states — have indi
cated they wish to try out in these
weight divisions next fall.
The Aggies will also be picking up
a transfer student who captured the
118-lb title this past weekend.
With this expected influx of wrest
ling talent, the Aggies have sche
duled a two-week trip to California in
January to help gain national expo
sure.
Although the Texas A&M wrest
ling team is not sanctioned as an offi
cial varsity sport by the University,
the team wrestles a full varsity sche
dule.
Rockets beat
Washington
United Press International
HOUSTON — Moses Malone’s 33
points led Houston to a 110-97 vic
tory over the Washington Bullets
Wednesday night and moved Hous
ton into a second-place tie with the
San Antonio Spurs.
The Bullets were ahead 54-50 at
halftime with Greg Ballard leading
the way with 12 points.
The Rockets, 33-32, remain in
playoff contention along with San
Antonio, Indiana and New York, and
travel to Washington for a game
Thursday night.
)VV C spotlight shifts
ensi, Alamo City tonight
gi United Press International
IAN ANTONIO — The South-
igine clroppo st !p on f er ence post-season basket-
was immedi f> ur nament embarks on a new
imes tonight, but no matter what type
the touchdom listor y is bein g made > ^ wil1 sti11
ormal The pi tbl same old teams battling for
r emergenev 'championship.
Int tournament moves to San
Hio for the first time ever —
igtips were on tinging a major college event to a
as rolling dom vn that does not have a Southwest
me to stop near nference school,
ing,” Andrade sibeague officials voted last year to
ane was still ta.ff.og the tourney to the 16,000-seat
they sawsomeol ’niisFair Arena, partly for a
lingoutofthegai uige of scenery and partly to eli-
ockpit. Itwasloate the home-town advantage
ngers were trarioyed for the past three years by
craft. ! Houston Cougars.
■s said fire quidWever thought much about the
'lane’s fuselage> utrality aspect before now,” said
nly the cockpitr *asA&M University coach Shelby
||alf, whose team won the regular
■in title and is the favorite to cap-
n cameras set upmjjg post-season tourney. “But
\ a ,\ ° r Houston has come on in the
0 mister Ltt\'„t er p art 0 f season I’ m gl ac f
ed the plane ’ re not pl a yj n g j n Houston again
>n the govenwrPt
this year.”
Tonight’s quarterfinal round
games will have the Texas Lon
ghorns (17-9) meeting the Houston
Cougars (14-13) and the Texas Tech
Red Raiders (15-12) meeting the
emotionally charged SMU Mustangs
(16-11).
The Texas-Houston winner will
return Friday night to take on the
Arkansas Razorbacks in the semifin
als and the Tech-SMU survivor will
tangle with Texas A&M. Winner of
the tournament will receive an auto
matic bid to the NCAA tourney.
Texas defeated Houston in both of
their regular season games while
Texas Tech and SMU split their two
contests.
“Texas handled us better than any
team in the league,” said Houston
Coach Guy Lewis, referring to 99-73
and 84-82 losses to the Longhorns.
“We played everybody else pretty
good but Texas wore us out.”
Texas Coach Abe Lemons said
Lewis had done the best coaching
job in the Southwest Conference this
year.
“They are probably the most im
proved team in the league,” said
Lemons. “They have had a lot of
adversity but still they have come
back. We’re not playing bad, either,
but Houston has really come on. I
would think this would be an even
battle.”
SMU Coach Sonny Allen resigned
under pressure last week and his
team responded by winning a first-
round game over Baylor to push the
Mustangs into the San Antonio phase
of the tournament.
“Actually I don’t think our players
will be thinking about my situation,”
Allen said. “Players just love to play.
They are going to be up for the game,
but that’s just because it is a tourna
ment game.”
SMU and Texas Tech have a his
tory of close ball games. None of
their last nine games has been de
cided by more than six points.
In their first meeting this year
SMU won by a point in Dallas and
later in the season the Red Raiders
were winners by three points in Lub
bock.
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SAN ANTONIO — The coach
lose team is favored to win the
uthwest Conference post-season
sketball tournament would just as
in not think about it.
In fact, he doesn’t.
“There isn’t anything I can do ab-
t who is favorite and who is not,
idttexas A&M coach Shelby Met-
lon the eve of the tournament’s
i|ning games.
The Aggies won the regular season
ampionship with a 14-2 league re-
H— a game ahead of the Arkansas
Razorbacks. And Metcalf acknow
ledged that one of the big reasons for
this year’s title has been guard David
Britton.
Britton, a junior college transfer,
was inconsistent at best last year and
was frequently benched by Metcalf.
This year, with the Aggies needing
vastly improved guard play to go
with their talented front line, Met
calf made Britton a special project.
But if Britton has turned into a key
factor in the A&M success this year,
speculation began to center around
the zeal being displayed by 6-11 cen
ter Rudy Woods. Woods averaged
only 11.7 points a game this year —
making him 22nd on the league’s
scoring list.
“I haven’t talked to Rudy,” Met
calf said. I m sure he has come here
ready to play. At least I would think
so. This late in the season, if you have
to worry about the attitude of your
players, you have the wrong people
playing for you.”
Texas A&M will begin play in the
se^T a T nt ? riday ni § ht ^ the
semifinal round against the winner of
tonights SMU-Texas Tech game
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