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The latest episode of the once-a-year NBA playoff saga has intro-
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vinced prs And the annual event has ushered out a group of old villains
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* However, as a result of a stunning victory by some show-stealing
veterans who have seen many games come and go with little or no
glory, the villainous defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers
have left the stage after a brief performance.
After several years of mediocre to downright bad performances in
the playoffs (and the regular season), the Houston Rockets surprised
NBA fans and followers by knocking off the Lakers, a team which has
been too successful for too long.
This time around, Kareem and his cocky cronies just couldn’t
muster up the strength to put away Moses and his mischievous
misfits. And as a result, the Lakers will watch the rest of the playoffs
from front row television seats.
But don’t think Houston had an easy time of it.
The up-and-down Rockets had to use every offensive weapon and
defensive tactic available to beat the Lakers, who held on to their
crown until the last possible moment. It wasn’t until the last 15
seconds of the first-round series that the Lakers woke up from their
year-long championship dream.
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Dream to nightmare was a harsh transition for the Lakers, who
just didn’t seem to have the Magic they used to roll over the 76ers
and the rest of the league en route to last year’s title.
Those who think that a Rocket named Moses Malone was totally
everyone from 5-foot-10 Calvin “Murf ’ Murphy (listed that way, but
loser to 5-foot-8) to 6-foot-11 Billy “Whopper” Paultz (a formidable
mountain of 250 pounds), for the Rockets to beat the Lakers.
The series featured a team of well-known names vs. one of un
known names. And the “I’m the best center in the league” contest
between the two men who may be tied for that honor, mighty
Kareem and just-as-mighty Moses, was one of the finer in recent
years’ playoffs.
Each team shattered the conventional wisdom of home-court
advantage by winning on the other’s home floor, with Houston
rent from tk doing it twice. But the Rockets, with their never-say-die-even-
against-the-world-champions attitude, also showed that they don’t
tbink much about the term “underdog” either.
Now Houston faces state rival San Antonio. Although the Rockets
are confident after winning the Laker series, they need more than
memories to upend the Spurs and to end their history of playoff
successes.
However, if the once-again-underdog Rockets can freeze “Ice”
and the rest of SA’s speedy lineup, they will have an excellent
chance of knocking off Stan Albeck’s Spurs.
The Rockets and Spurs have played some close games and some
not-so-close games in the past few years, and this is the second
consecutive year they have met in the playoffs. Houston won two of
three games in last year’s first round, and the two teams split six
games this season.
And one thing's for sure—Bobby Joe, Mighty Mo, Murf, Boons
and the other Rockets don’t want their playoff journey to end before
they have a chance to do some more giant-killing.
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Despite the beautiful day, po
le crowd and excellent tennis,
Texas A&M women’s tennis
im was beaten “handily” by
finity Tuesday 8-1 in San
itonio.
“We just took a good old-
ihioned country lickin’,” said
■ft. te nis coach Jan Cannon.
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serve their number four nation
ranking.”
The Ags were only able to mus-
a number three doubles win as
tinity dominated the courts,
a Fernandez and Judy Wil-
defeated Karen Luntz and
lyOlmedo 6-4, 7-6 to prevent a
eep by Trinity.
Cannon said the team did not
y as well as it could have but
E ire simply dominated on the
Jit.
I For example, she said Pam Hill
6nt up against Australian Gwen
:nman in the number three
[togles. Despite winning the first
h 6-3, Hill was demolished 6-1,
|5-1 in the second two sets.
“Denman was a big hitter with
iwerful serve and forehand,”
ion said. “When Denman got
i, it was all Pam could do
just get out of the way of the
jes: Amy Gloss had her
Rockets beat SA Ags split two to go 27-4
behind Murphy
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Nobody has
been able to convince the Hous
ton Rockets they are supposed to
be through for the season.
The Los Angeles Lakers didn’t
get through to the Rockets last
week and the San Antonio Spurs
failed to get their attention Tues
day night.
Despite having finished their
emotional mini-series with Los
Angeles only two days earlier, the
Rockets went out Tuesday even
ing and convincingly manhandled
the Midwest Division champion
Spurs, 107-98, in the opening
game of their best of seven West
ern Conference semifinal series.
“What was the difference? I’ll
tell you the difference,” said
Houston center Moses Malone.
“We wanted to win. That’s the dif
ference.”
Tiny Calvin Murphy came off
the bench to take Houston to a
first-half lead and Robert Reid hit
the key shots down the stretch
that helped the steamrolling
Rockets hold off the Spurs.
The series resumes at the
HemisFair arena Wednesday
night before the series moves on
to Houston for games Friday night
and Sunday afternoon.
Houston, which came into the
playoffs with a losing record, own
ed a 13-point lead with six minutes
to play.
A brief San Antonio spurt nar
rowed the deficit to 10 points, but
Reid hit a jumper to slow down
that rally. And after the Spurs ran
off six straight points to cut their
deficit to six at 96-90 with four
minutes remaining, Reid cooly hit
another jumper that ended San
Antonio’s hopes for good.
Malone, who averaged 31
points in the three-game series
with the Lakers, scored 27 Tues
day night — but it was Murphy,
the 5-9 guard, whose 15 points in
the second quarter proved the de
ciding factor.
Murphy finished with 21 while
Billy Paultz added 18.
George Gervin paced the Spurs
with 30 points, while Ron Brewer
tossed in another 18.
Houston built a 62-53 halftime
lead thanks to spurts at the end of
each of the first two periods.
San Antonio had built a nine-
point advantage of its own with
2:21 left in the first quarter only to
see Houston score the last eight
points of the period — Paultz scor
ing four and Dunleavy hitting
four.
Murphy scored only two points
in the opening quarter, but he
erupted with 15 in the second
period to ignite the Rockets to
their advantage at intermission.
The game was tied at 47-47
when Houston ran off 11 straight
points. Paultz started the streak
with a three-point play, Mike
Dunleavy added a basket and
Murphy scored on a long jumper
before Dunleavy scored again.
That prompted a San Antonio
time out, but when the Spurs in-
bounded the ball Murphy stole
the pass and raced in for another
basket that gave Houston its
largest lead of the half at 58-47.
streak of six wins destroyed as she
lost to Felicia Richitroe 6-1, 6-4;
Fernandez was beaten by Louise
Allen 6-1, 6-0; Hill lost to De
nman; Maylyn Hooton lost to Kim
Wilson 6-1, 6-2; Sonja Hutcherson
was defeated by Lee Elliot 6-4, 6-3
and Laura Hanna was beaten by
Kathy Kuhn 6-4, 6-3.
Cannon said Fernandez typi
fied the Aggies against Trinity.
“Liliana just was not able to
concentrate,” she said. “She
seemed a little lost out there and
that’s not like her.”
In doubles: Hill-Hutcherson
lost to Denman-Richitroe 6-1, 6-3;
Hanna-Closs were beaten by
Elliot-Allen 6-4, 7-5 and Fernan-
dez-Willard had the only win for
the Ags.
The loss brings the Aggies
spring record to 12-8 with four
matches left on the schedule. And
Cannon said the matches will be
only slightly less challenging than
the Trinity match.
The Ags will travel to Dallas to
take on SMU Saturday and to De
nton to play North Texas State
University Sunday.
The final two Aggie regular sea
son matches will be Friday, April
17 against Texas Tech and Satur
day, April 18 versus Texas. The
Tech match will be at the Omar
Smith Tennis Center at 1:30 p.m.
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Texas A&M’s softball team went
13 innings against Sam Houston
State during the double-header
opener Tuesday before Sam
Houston pulled away with a 2-1
victory.
The Aggies came back during
the nightcap blanking Sam Hous
ton 9-0.
Coach Bill Galloway said that
the Aggies played well enough to
win during the opener, but
“couldn’t quite buy the hit.”
Galloway said the same thing
happened when the Aggies came
up against the pitching of Sam
Houston’s Terri Young earlier this
spring.
Galloway said that there was
good defensive play by rightfiel-
der Patti Holthaus, Carrie Au-
stgen on second base and Pam
Whigham on first base.
During one play the Aggie’s
teamwork came through when
Holthaus bare handed a relay to
Austgen.
The Aggies had eight hits dur
ing the opener. Holthaus got on
base in the 11th inning with a sing
le. Mel Pritchard drove Holthaus
home for the necessary score to
kep the game going with a sacrifice
fly.
Sam Houston had five hits dur
ing the opener against Shan
McDonald’s pitching. McDonald
is now 13-3 for the spring.
Pitcher Lori Stoll, who is now
14-1, had seven strike-outs during
the nightcap. It is the most strike
outs Stoll has ever had against Sam
Houston.
Pritchard and Austgen each
had two base hits during the
second game.
Rightfielder Karen Guerrero With the double-header split
hit her first homerun as an Aggie the Aggies are now 27-4 for the
in the sixth inning of the nightcap. spring.
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