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THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1980 Page 11 sports 0 l$i ■fwewe* afteral, Is, 4 k ci _ Hatches a PPier»i ettingom shmen. h seem' ^ Hiiji ‘ season. 1 will be (| Aiaerii efeated earlier ti Yt>U r Li HAV£ to WAIT , CHlEP ’Tli. W£ CLEAN UP THE UEBfUS PAO£\ *HE HURAiCANE / 1 dp 1980 Rockets fall hard to Celts United Press International HOUSTON — Veteran Nate Archibald scored 20 points and rookie Larry Bird gave the misfiring Boston Celtics a needed lift in the third quarter to direct them past the Houston Rockets, 100-81, and into a commanding lead in their playoff series. Boston extended its Eastern Con ference semi-final lead to 30 without strongman center Dave Cowens over the final 13 minutes. Cowens went to the locker room for treat ment of an aching back. The fourth game in the best of seven series is in Houston Monday night. Games five and six, if neces sary, will be played in Boston. Rudy Tomjanovich’s two quick baskets and four quick points by Moses Malone, the Rocket’s leading scorer with 28 points, closed Bos ton’s lead to 55-53 midway through the third quarter. When Cowens drew his fourth foul and was re placed, the Houston home crowd came alive for the first time. But in the final five minutes of the determining third quarter, Bird grabbed the game from the Rockets by scoring six points, making a critic al steal and assisting three other bas kets. Houston, which is 0-9 against Bos ton this season, scored only four points during that Boston blitz, and fell behind 71-57 to open the four- ther quarter. The Rockets never pul led closer than 10 points. In the absence of Cowens, Cedric Maxwell scored 19 points and Cowens’ backup, Rick Robey, added 14. Bird finished the game with 18 points. Houston forward Robert Reid kept the Rockets close in the first hall with 17 of his 23 points. HOWDY WEEK APRIL 14-18 HEY AGS, show your Aggie spirit by greeting fellow students and visitors with a warm smile and a friendly “Howdy.” HIGHLIGHTS: — MYSTERY PERSON CONTEST: A FREE HOWDY T SHIRT AND FIVE DOLLARS WILL BE AWARDED TO THE 100TH PERSON TO SAY HOWDY TO ONE OF THE 5 MYSTERY PEOPLE. — HOWDY T-SHIRTS ON SALE IN THE MSC. urricanes blow Ags away By MIKE BURRICHTER Sports Editor cal tornado and thunderstorm nings that plagued weekend acti- “ Kf es seeme d minuscule compared ;xasa%the Hurricane that swept through ams tlolsen Field this weekend. swim® 1 The University of Miami-Fla., es, and ante into town ranked No. 1 in the goodiation, and with their two-game weep over the Ags, 8-1 and 4-1, e a pifhould remain in that position. The Texas bird game was cancelled, the woe xhe young Aggies, ranked ninth AIAV lationally, gave the Hurricane all pay t hey could handle with gutsy per- e chanformances from two freshmen litchers. hinds! Rick Luecken started the Friday I’sstilhiight game for the Ags and engaged ngeben a real pitchers’ duel with Miami ecnntiace Neal Heaton through the first Ictoflven innings. recnii! Luecken had limited the Hurri- las Hanes to two runs on five hits after igetiiieven innings when Aggie coach schoolfom Chandler pulled him because 1 livioiie felt Luecken had thrown too o pav nany pitches. ampos Sophomore Bobby Taylor took the id frocnound for the Ags in the eighth and thersfvas greeted by a Hurricane hitting athtearrage. omf t! Matt Tyner hit a home run with es wAlatt Minium, who had singled, on togotaoard to give the Hurricane a 4-1 ports time,’ “Dickey first again as 5 Ags ^ place in track . Curtis Dickey and Randy Hall jonal nought in two first places, and the n FobOO-meter relay team finished e and econd, to give the Aggies an im- to teressive showing in the weekend’s /ictoplruce Jenner Classic track meet, s, Six Aggies traveled to San Jose, ead iCalif., for the meet, and five brought ruz,Ihome places. [Iprod Hall tied with two others in the gledtoole vault with Billy Olson of jwed Abilene Christian and Felix Bohni of ideit^an Jose State. All three cleared 18 ijl doCeet, Vi inch, but Hall and Olson tied (1 oil!br first on the basis of fewer misses. J hit, Dickey, the Aggies’ sprint ace, ^^Itept his undefeated record intact as tie blazed by Houston McTear to win the 100-meter dash in 10.21. McTear 8 was a distant second at 10.39. i The Aggies’ 400-meter relay team placed second to Southern Califor- ffia’s. The Aggies’ 39.52 clocking was well behind USC’s 39.20. Aggie shot putter Tim Scott also tended the meet. CJl X* B75l lead. After two more singles, Chand ler yanked Taylor and put freshmn Jack Miska in. Miska walked the first batter he faced and then Mike Fer guson smacked a grand slam home run to make the final score lopsided. In the first inning, the Hurricane took the lead when Luecken walked two batters and gave up a single to Tyner. Paul Hundhammer tripled and scored on a single by Minium to give Miami a 2-0 lead after three in nings. The Ags finally got on the board in the fourth when Doug Teague reached first on an error, and scored on succesive two-out singles by Simon Glenn and Twig Little. Miami shortstop Ross Jones may have pre vented the Ags from tying the score when he dove to his left to pick off a low line drive off the bat of Joe Paul Bramhall, making the defensive play of the series. Luecken absorbed the loss, his second of the year against seven vic tories. Heaton increased his record to 12-2. David Flores handcuffed the Hur ricanes for eight innings Saturday night, and went into the seventh with a 1-0 lead. But Frank Castro walked to start the seventh and Mike Pagliaruno singled him to second. Jones then moved the runners up one base with a sacrifice bunt and Paul Dejesus knocked in two runs with a single up the middle. Hundhammer singled to score another fun and Chandler re placed Flores with Charles Guinn. Guinn gave up another run-scoring single before striking out the last bat ter to end the inning. The Ags lashed out ten hits against two Hurricane pitchers, starter Bob Bastian and Jeff Morrison, but great defensive plays prevented the Ags from scoring more runs. Altogether, the Aggies left twelve runners stranded. Mike Hurdle struck out but reached first on a passed ball to start off the fourth inning. One out later, Bramhall singled, sending Hurdle to third. Woodruff was hit by a pitch to load the bases, and Morrison re placed him. He was greeted by a Simon Glenn single, which scored Hurdle. Morrison got out of the jam by making Little hit into a force play at home and and Bobby Beach’s fly ball ended the inning. Flores dropped to 2-1, while Mor rison increased his season record to 5-2. The Aggies, now 27-7, travel to Austin Friday for a showdown with conference leader Texas, which swept Houston this weekend to up its conference record to 15-3. The second-place Ags are 13-4 in confer ence play. Tonight the Ags will open a four-game series with Oklahoma City at Olsen Field. The teams will play two double-headers, tonight and Tuesday night. Games start at 5:30. * 2 Free Cokes Everyday * Money-Saving Coupons * THE BEST PIZZA IN TOWN!! 0 CHANELLO’S IS: The pizza place with everything. . . JUST FOR YOU!!! 301 Patricia St. 846-3768 FREE DELIVERY!! 5 literacy of a great newspaper, the immediacy of great radio. KAMU-FM 90.9 Monday - Friday 7-9 a.m. Support your public radio station. 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