THE BATTALION Page 15 WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1981 Celtics take Rockets 109-80 “We just wanted to get the ball to the one who was going for us,” Bird said. “Tonight it was Maxwell and Parish. When they play great inside. I’m going to keep giving them the ball. Reid stopped me offensively but I’m pleased with the other end of my game. My best rebounding has been in this series.” The 109 points marked the first time in the defensive-oriented series that either team has surpas sed the 100-point mark. ck champkl laches Chailfl :e as an Dallas at 4:1 laturday. Fe.j be retumhf core, h many teacl C meetwVl will proballj iA Nal Texas has toW I 98/ Leslie Keni urdles, J* lid onhiskne >ut he’s feet ksoftheyeaii jumpofMl .■paring fort gs head to Regionals By RICK STOLLE , Battalion Staff As if competing in the AIAW ult who will jRegional Team Tournament in Denton is not enough, the Texas A&M women’s tennis team will already brola also be competing in an individual year which tourney immediately after the team meet. Both tournaments will be held Ion the campus of North Texas . Teamiii: State University. The winner of pe team tournament will get an automatic invitation to the Nation al Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women tournament that will be held May 24-26 in feel onFni Temple, Ariz. Ion t have p Texas A&M coach Jan Cannon rday. laid she feels that there will be at throughout [east one more at-large bid for the sally concew Rational tournament and possibly us that hefft (wo. neet. ; The regional meet involves 16 the 100-mC: ill should he 3 e is that it •t champion, lead can eta teams from Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. The Ags will play at 1 p.m. every day dur ing the team competition but as yet do not know who they will play. The drawing will be held tonight. Trinity University and the Uni versity of Texas have been seeded one and two respectively in the tournament. “At least I know we will not have to play Trinity or Texas first, ” Cannon said, “they both have first round byes.” Both Trinity and Texas have beaten the Ags during the season. The line-up for the Ags will be: Liliana Fernandez, Pam Hill, Amy Gloss, Maylyn Hooton, Son- ja Hutcherson and Laura Hanna. Cannon said Gloss may move up to the second position for some of the team matches because Hill has Women prepare r national meet 31st e it can X with the ireaks,” Hioi y will win. . The Texas A&M women’s track Kam qualified for two more I events last weekend in the SWC track meet for the upcoming Na tional Women’s Track and Field Championship meet in Austin. 1 Vickilee Cobem qualified for the meet in the discus with a tickets will throw of 159 feet, 9 inches. The une 1. -qualifying distance was 158 feet, to purchase!a: Although she finished second her and game, ® throw set a personal and school ication formsu record. the ticket ofc The 1600-meter relay team, be mailedtoS bade up of Sandra Cooper, Ellen tly enrolled s' Smith, Evelyn Smith and Jana i. Graves, also qualified for the meet by running a 3:42.93, a season best. The qualifying time for the ij^lay was 3:43.00. J Head women’s track coach Bill Nix said the team has three goals gping into the May 28-30 meet: IjtTo reach the finals in each event 2)To place somebody in the top six, and 3)To hit the best perform- apee of season in each event. lOnly one woman from Texas A&M has ever placed in the top six in the national meet and Nix hopes to change that this year. “Only the very best get there, with the top eight in the finals and the top six receiving points,” he said. He said the qualifying standards are usually well-exceeded in the national meet. The Aggies have now qualified five people in three events for the national tournament. Ellen Smith earlier qualified in the 400-meter dash. had tennis elbow for the past few weeks. “The girls are in fine shape ten nis wise,” Cannon said. “Mental ly, they’re not doing so hot. Almost all of the girls had to take all their exams in two days. Right now they’re mentally exhausted.” Invitations to the individual tourney were given based on the results of the State tournament that was played April 23-25. The Ags have all three doubles teams and three singles players entered in the meet. Two doubles teams and Fernan dez were given invitations follow ing the state tournament. The other doubles team and singles players received at-large bids. In singles, Fernandez, Hill and Gloss will compete. The doubles teams of Hill-Hutcherson, Closs- Hanna and Fernandez-Judy Wil lard were chosen. Cannon said she is hoping Hutcherson gets a bid at the team tournament. “Often, girls will have to pull out at the last minute when their coaches decide they have to leave,” she said, “this leaves some openings and I want to fill as many openings with Aggies as I can.” The team left Tuesday night and will have a short practice today before the tournament is sche duled to begin Thursday. United Press International BOSTON — The Boston Cel tics couldn’t have picked a more opportune time to display the style that made them the scourge of the NBA during the regular season. And now the Celtics are just one victory away from a 14th league championship — a title made more attainable with their overwhelming 109-80 victory Thursday night over the Houston Rockets in Game 5 of the NBA championship series. The Celtics ran their vaunted fast break with patience and preci sion, rebounded voraciously at both ends and guarded the basket ball as if it was a newborn. The result was a convincing triumph which gave them a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series. “The way we played tonight, very few teams are going to beat us,” said forward Cedric Maxwell, who had a sensational game with 28 points and 15 rebounds. “I feel we have the best team in the world. When this team is chal lenged, we usually respond with a good effort. If you don’t win the championship, nothing else counts.” The Celtics took command of the game with a 19-1 spurt over a 4:32 span in the opening period. Maxwell and Robert Parish com bined for 22 points in the period — three more than the Houston team — and also combined to out- rebound the visitors 9-7. Pai ish had eight straight points during the run and keyed the final three points when he rejected a Bill Willoughby dunk attempt which sent the Houston forward careening into the corner. Boston finished the period with a 34-19 lead and Houston, which shot 36 percent but lacked the re bounding to overcome its inaccur acies, never threatened the rest of the way, coming as close as 12 points only once. “We got beat in all categories of the game — rebounding, ball handling, everything,” said Rock ets’ coach Del Harris. “It was a f FREE BIKE CHECK WITH THIS AD Howard Racing Inc. 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We have no excuses, we simply got whipped.” A sidelight to the devastation was the eternal optimism of Hous ton center Moses Malone, who led the Rockets with 20 points and 15 rebounds. Malone said after Game 4 that the Celtics were overrated and that he could gather four bodies from his hometown of Petersburg, Va., and give them a run. The blowout did little, if any thing, to alter his opinion. “I feel the same way, they’re not that good a team,” said Malone, whose words brought sighs of disbelief to Rockets’ assis tant Carroll Dawson. “They’ve got a good starting five and they hustle but they’re not that good. They shouldn’t have beaten Philadel phia and they won’t beat us. They’ll be drinking Gatorade, not champagne, after the next game. ” Despite Malone’s optimism, the Celtics for the second time in three games displayed resounding supremacy. They outrebounded the Rockets 54-41, shot better from the floor and had two less turnovers. It was a marked turn around from the play Sunday, when they lost 91-86. Harris tried everything, substi tuting freely (after using six men Sunday), putting forward Robert Reid at guard and using a press in the second half. Indicative of the Rockets’ misfortune were missed uncontested dunks by Willoughby and Reid and an air-ball over the backboard by Allen Leavell. No thing worked and the Rockets also may have lost sixth man Calvin Murphy, who suffered a shoulder injury in a second-period collision with Rick Robey. “Maybe tonight we had a little better of it, more of a Celtics game than a Houston game,” under stated Boston coach Bill Fitch. “We bounced back. Our 19-1 spurt was something — any time you get something like that this late in the season is good. We were a little more patient on the fast break and we were able to get it inside more in our half-court offense.” The inside game was Boston’s strength. 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