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TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1981
Indiana takes title, 63-50
Staff photo by Chuck Chapman
Double play!
David Kennard, playing shortstop rather bleheader with Oklahoma City University,
than his regular second base position for the Substitute second baseman Clint Heard
Texas A&M baseball team, turns a double looks on. The Aggies won both games, 8-1
play during the first game of Monday’s dou- and 9-8, and will play OCU again today.
Weekend results
. Lacrosse
The Texas A&M men’s lacrosse
team defeated the Bayou Lacrosse
Club of Houston, 11-9, in Hous
ton over the weekend.
The win extends the team’s re
cord to six wins and three losses
for the season.
Tony Scazzero led the Aggies
with three goals in the game.
Teammates Al Adler, Ken Foultz
and Rich Cody each had two goals.
The Aggies return to action this
weekend when they will host Sam
Houston State University Satur
day and University of Texas Sun
day. Both games will be held at
the main drill field and are sched
uled to begin at 1 p.m.
Gymnastics
The Texas A&M men’s gymnas
tics team held on to defeat the
University of Texas-Arlington and
the Texas Tumblers to win its first
home gymnastics meet of the
year.
The Aggies scored a team re
cord 171.25 points en route to the
victory. UTA finished with 145
and the Texas Tumblers with 121.
The Tumblers are a private gym
nastics club.
Top individual finishers for the
Aggies were Ray Moltz, second
place all-around, Mark Hartwell,
fourth place all-around, and David
Semon, fifth place all-around.
Rifle team
Traveling to Austin to compete
in the Central Texas Invitational
Meet, the Texas A&M University
Rifle team came away with the
first place trophy.
Mike Winzeler led the Ags with
a high aggregate score of548 out of
600 possible points. Kurt Nauck
finished third with a score of 539.
Winzeler also took first place in
the individual high standing divi
sion with a score of 168.
Following Winzeler was Kurt
Nauck with a score of 539, John
Heye, 523 and Glenn Park, 505.
Team members who competed
as individuals but were not
counted on the team total are:
Troy Smith, 524; Harvey Haney,
511 and Renee Ruth, 449.
The team’s next competition
will be at the Fiesta Invitational
Meet April 24-25 at St. Mary’s
University in San Antonio.
Men's golf
The Texas A&M men’s golf
team tied for third in the 24-team
Morris Williams Invitational in
Austin last weekend.
The University of Houston,
ranked 10th nationally, won with
an 858 total, Oklahoma State Uni
versity was runner-up with 871.
The Aggies tied and with Oklaho
ma University tied for third with
875. The University of Texas,
sponsor of the par 72 course, was
next at 876 and number one-
ranked Oral Roberts had an 877.
Bart Cobb led the Aggies with
rounds of 69-75-72 for a ninth
place finish with 216.
Gary Krueger scored 72-75-72
for a total of 219. Richard Crom
well, Brad Jones and Danny
Briggs each finished with scores of
220.
The team heads to Houston this
week for the All-American Inter
collegiate April 1-4 sponsored by
UH.
Women's golf
Texas A&M’s women golfers
finished sixth in a 23-team field at
the Lady Paladin tournament last
week in Greenville, S.C.
Texas A&M’s final score was
923, with Florida State won the
tournament with a score of 887.
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United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — When
they give out the Academy
Awards in Hollywood tonight,
high on the list of nominees should
be Indiana’s remake of “The Phi
ladelphia Story.”
The Hoosiers, returning to the
site of their last championship in
1976, captured the NCAA crown
Monday night with a powerful
performance in a 63-50 victory
over North Carolina.
“I’ve never seen a group of kids
stay with a goal or work harder
toward an end they had set for
themselves,” said Indiana coach
Bobby Knight. “Never losing
sight of the fact that they had to
improve.”
Indiana, which began the year
in disarray with a 7-5 record, re
grouped in astonishing fashion.
The Hoosiers went on to win the
Big Ten title before burying Mary
land, Alabama-Birmingham, St.
Joseph’s and Louisiana State en
route to the title game. In all, their
average margin of victory during
the five tournament games was
nearly 23 points.
Backed by All-America Isaiah
Thomas — the tournament’s Most
Valuable Player — with 23 points
and Randy Wittman with 16, the
Hoosiers thwarted North Caroli
na’s bid to at last win an NCAA
title for Coach Dean Smith.
Indiana led 27-26 at the half on a
buzzer shot by Wittman from the
corner. Then came the charge of
the Knight brigade.
The Hoosiers opened
second half with a fury. They went
on a 12-4 burst with Thomas hit
ting four baskets and making two
steals. That brought the score to
39-30 and the Tar Heels were all
but through.
Thomas, who made 7-of-10
shots from the floor in the second
half after going l-of-7 in the first
half, did not think his performance
after intermission was the key.
“I thought the most important
play of the game was Randy at the
end of the half,” he said. “It gave
us momentum and we went up
one point and we reasserted
ourselves. He did a hell of a job
when he hit that shot at the end of
the half. I think that was the single
most important play.”
Wittman said the Hoosiers ad
justed to the news of the assassina
tion attempt on President Reagan
in Washington earlier in the day.
“It was a tragic thing,” he said.
“We felt for him and the other
people that were shot but we had a
national championship on the line
and we had to go out and play.”
Before the game, rumors ran
rampant that the NCAA might de
cide to postpone its national bas
ketball championship in the wake
of an attempt on the life of Presi
dent Reagan.
“I did not know they (tourna
ment officials) were considering
The pressure Monday night to
call off the NCAA finals was great.
The Academy Awards had been
postponed and the New York
Stock Exchange closed early.
As the president remained in
surgery, rumors of the game’s
postponement persisted as the
meeting between NCAA tourna
ment officials and officials from In
diana and North Carolina became
longer and longer.
But finally, about a half-hour
before the scheduled 7:23 p.m.
tipoff, the announcement came:
The game was on.
“Based upon the reports we
have obtained in the past couple of
minutes, we have decided to pro
ceed as planned with the cham
pionship game,” said Wayne
Duke, chairman of the NCAA Di
vision I basketball committee.
“Following consultation with all
officials, the tournament commit
tee decided to proceed in that
manner. The coaches of the com
peting teams were const
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chancellor of students
North Carolina, followed:
ment of silence and thei
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