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gh’s i wor THE BATTALION Page 11 MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1980 Aggies’ successful season ends Friday The Travis County ,'hich was investigatin irgery allegations rough and raphs of a May 16, etween Rothkopfand! sked Yarbrough to appfi ae grand jury to _ He told the grandjun iet with Rothkopf iys later was indicted(J ited perjury. He resigned from 4; ourt July 15,197 lature was opening pro move him from office. At his trial in ry took only 15 in, then sentencedli ars in prison —thek ee given any Texas pi cent years His attorneys claimed nccrning the forgen >bile title and foulla nigh used inhisconven ithkopf should nollt| initted at his trial, What he was connfl gery and foul language i\ ity at the meetiM • perjury charge on#; ng tried, Carrsai l arbrough’s appeal il court was wrong hi evidence concerning I theft, and in adm ugh’s grand juiy test irneys also objectedto ire the jury of a vide •rview of Yarbroughl vision reporter Don eh Yarbrough said 1 hkopfs whereabout ise him to comefoiv truth about the nst Yarbrough. Olh wed Yarbrough not hkopfs whereabout ling him remain in li Louisville wins in overtime to knock Ags out of tourney IN NOVEM &ER., 26/ /VCAA DIVISION X BASKETBALL TEAMS STARTED THE RACE FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP . AT 1-01 AAI ON MARCH IP, ONCY /Z OF THOSE TEAMS WERE LEFT TEXAS AfM WAS ONE OF THOSE 12. TEAMS / THANKS FOR THE GREATEST A&O/E BASKETBALL. TEAM EVER./ dp I9QO eisi Astros could capture West title with ‘unparalleled’ pitching staff From Staff and UPI reports The Texas A&M University basket ball team fought to get to the top of the NCAA tournament — but the Aggies stumbled when they got to the Summit. The Aggies lost to the eventual Midwest region champion Louisville Cardinals in overtime 66-55 in the regional semifinals in Houston Friday. Texas A&M coach Shelby Metcalf said the opening minutes of the con test were the most important ones. Louisville jumped out to a quick 12-2 lead. “The game started at 7:07,” he said, “and we started about 7:10. We were a little tight to start the game. “But this team has the finest re cord of any team that ever played at Texas A&M, and there is no way I’m going to say anything bad about this game or this team.” The Aggies compiled a 26-8 record for the year — best in Texas A&M history. The Ags lose starting guards David Britton and David Goff, but the three forwards — Vernon Smith, Rynn Wright and Rudy Woods — all will return. After the slow start, the Aggies settled down and were only behind by two points — 35-33 — at the half. At one point in the second half, the Aggies by four, 47-43, at one time. But all attempts to build a six-point lead failed. “We got down by four late in the game,” said Louisville coach Denny Crum, “but I thought we held our poise good. We are a young team, but we didn’t panic. I was proud of them.” The Aggies — now 0-4 in the Sum- United Press International COCOA, Fla. — Baseball addicts /ho get turned on by low-scoring fflpes are about to encounter the erfect fix — the 1980 Houston istros. Boxers who skipped trip feel fortunate but dejected The Astros are a team with fewer all than a Bela Lugosi movie, yet used amendment »‘ ey hope to chaIlen g e for the Na - . a i fiBl League West title because of ed two-tbirds nu P ? cl V ng that is Unparalleled wing theamendn, f f: , | eleague - en Congress exlen “Talk is cheap but I think and feel ine until 1982, Tli-onfident we can contend with the he question ofwheliafijs in our division, ” says manager sscind its ratification-ill: Virdon. havedone—arelb The Astros gave it a good run last . District Court L ear before fading in the final week of till think we’ve won!#; )ing to let it slipa»'.|' ly said. "It was states that bro - Georgia, Missouri and I think the drib isible for killingEit 1 states. like to move on but we have to fib myway. If the ER ; . R VOuld be no draftiSSS-JB United Press International e we’d be locked in |In the past, fate may have only of Schlafly’s oppoifen the line between a win or a loss g of women is she hir five amateur boxers from Michi- ie taken as anythin? in. This time, it was the difference )y the rest of the® etween life and death, in the Soviet Uni) They all could have been aboard nsists thereis just' te Poland-bound Ilyushin-62 jetlin- lerfect way" for thflhat slammed into an old fort near o respond: gointoprfe Warsaw airport Friday, killing 3-1 bomber. tore than 80 passengers — includ- ifly says the anii 'g 14 young American amateur may add new liftBters. : to kill ERA, She) For different reasons, they were a coalition of conA , religious and if- Tony Tucker, 21, of Grand Rapids, to fight Carter’s pn: ll rt his shoulder in competition in says she has mospt Germany and left for home ear- signatures on pft |5 | Darryl Chambers and Lionel re responses are son, both 18, and Milton o her home. fcCrory and Hurley Snead, all of are many visit!'' Detroit, were kept home by their s eight-yearfights.v**| er to prepare for the impending her home, evenff^en Gloves championships, ow pillows and f'j Tu cker, a light-heavyweight ex- ned with “Stop! ectec f to be a top contender for the the family room4^1 Olympic team, didn’t learn of nerican eagles si;!® b ras h that killed his teammates Qtil he arrived home on another ?’s not an awfullo unannounced, it to take mypli Tucker: “I didn’t know any- u re there are any, jSg about the crash. I’m just dazed. kn hurt over these guys. I had :ome real close with them,” he “I ate, slept, argued, fought Id played with those guys. ’’ Tucker arrived in Grand Rapids •out 9 a.m. Friday to surprise his nily who had believed he was on ejetliner that went down en route Warsaw. The family earlier also thought icker’s manager-father, Bob, was the European jetliner. However, icker had told his father he was turning home and the elder Tuck- idid not fly to meet him in Warsaw. BYhen (his family) they saw me ps tar ted hugging and kissing me. thought they were happy because jey hadn’t seen me in so long. It DOkStOfG P’! is because they thought I was lt3tiV6 tO Off ■j'| e scene was gloomy at the ll Wh0 Will fH2'[o nk Recreation Center in Detroit, v^Ur<hon' nmr ere ^ boxers were preparing for irksnop, bouts in the city GoIden for all requeWs. nP17MSCC‘ tou Sh in there sometimes, idjyou’re a little worried about ayhe getting hurt,” said Cham- who fought in the past with the season. They ended up IVk games behind the division champion Cincinnati Reds and feel the off season acquisition of fastball pitcher Nolan Ryan will make up the differ ence. Ryan joins a starting rotation already including J.R. Richard, Joe Nieko and Ken Forsch. The Astros have two other good arms in Jon Andujar and Vern Ruble plus oneof the league’s top relief men in left hander Joe Sambito. “Potentially we’ve got a real gobd staff,” understates Virdon. “We’ve got to come up lith a dependable right-handed reliever who can shut down the opposition in the late in nings. We ll be looking to find tht among some of our young pitchers in spring training.” Scoring runs will be the Astros’ biggest problem. The club averaged only a little over three runs a game last year and hit just 49 home runs. STRENGTHS—Awesome pitch ing staff; good team speed (190 stolen b as es) WEAKNESSES — Not much hitting and virtually no power; little catching reserve; mediocre defense; no right-handed late inning re liever. NEW FACE — Ryan joins start ing rotation; Joe Morgan, signed as free agent, could start at second base. OUTLOOK — They say pitching is 80 percent of baseball. If the Astros are to win the division title, it will have to be closer to 100 per cent. PRE-VET MEETING MARCH 19 7:30 601 RUDDER some of those killed in the crash. “But man, a plane. That’s the last thing on your mind. “We were all set to go (to Poland). We got the letters asking us to fight. We decided if any of us were going to go, we all would. But then (trainer Emanuel) Steward said we had to qualify for the Golden Gloves, so we stayed. ” Johnson thought about his mother. She always worries about him when he fights on the road, he said. “I know there are going to be a lot of parents praying tonight, ” he said. BILL’S AND JAY’S AUTO TUNE UP all cars $Q 7'C PLUS I O PARTS Oil change filter u !oil $4.00 Tune up & oil change $12.75 By appointment only 846-9086 3611 South College Ave. PLUS OIL & PARTS AS o F^TTICAI^ Prescriptions Filled Glasses Repaired 216 N. MAIN BRYAN 822-6105 Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. ® at - 8 a.m.-l p.m. 'Jupfnam&a INTERNATIONAL CAREER? ure there arean)! i. 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One person who never looked fati gued was senior Darrell Griffith, who is on every major All-America team. The 6-4 guard scored 24 points, and led the otherwise young and inexperienced Cardinals. Even though Griffith was the leading scor er he missed five out of his last 10 shots, including the potential win ning shot at the end of regulation. “Darrell got the shot we wanted at the end of regulation, but it just didn’t go,” Crum said. Another key to the game — perhaps as important as Griffith him self— was the Cardinals’ play on the boards. Louisville outrebounded the taller Aggies 39-35, which impressed Texas A&M’s Vernon Smith — who himself had an impressive game. “I thought they were the best re bounding team,” Smith said. “But they had four guys going to the board and we had only three to block them out.” Senior guard David Britton led the Aggies with 16 points. Forwards Vernon Smith and Rynn Wright added 12 and 11. 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With the score tied at 53, the 5-10 guard stole a Bradley pass with nine seconds left in the game, and was fouled going for a layup off the steal. Goff hit both free throws with one second on the clock. Sunday, the Aggies faced North Carolina, coached by Dean Smith — the man who invented the four- corner offense the Aggies use effec tively to eat up the clock. The Aggies built up a big lead in the second half of that game, but faced a cold — frigid is more like it — spell and seemed lucky just to get out of reg ulation with a 53-53 tie. Lovers of the stall game enjoyed the first overtime — the two teams four-cornered themselves out of scoring a single point. The Aggies came back in the second overtime and took a two-point lead, blowing North Carolina’s stall strategy, and causing the Tar Heels to have to foul to try to get the ball back. Tyrone Ladson, junior substitute guard from Brooklyn, N.Y., was the Aggies’ key man in the second over time. The Tar Heels tried to take advantage of Ladson’s 57 percent free throw rate by fouling him, but Ladson caused Smith’s strategy to backfire, hitting nine of the 11 shots he attempted. It took more than 30 minutes for the two teams to finish the five- minute second overtime, as four North Carolina players fouled out attempting to get the ball. \L ,L< all i 3-4 iciat >okii oftl ha> rou< ranc ideli e nt enc« 2ntic mo ne f.