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4 sports Battalion/Page 15 January 28, 1982 Ladies outlast Frogs ‘ proles > expres lowledgi corapaii :ilenc dei •mic side ess cai ion,' ersityei lies ige, spun >r at Moa e in Emm undersli! t added: , I thinkif: irtant. We that aciin is and con fund, e athleiici money to! he chemii iay, ‘Heyj 100 mici itici/e thel Aggie forward Lynette Joiner attempts to pass around Terri Moore of Baylor Univer sity during the Bears’ 74-60 win over the Aggie Ladies two weeks ago. Hosting Texas photo by Donn Friedman A&M defeated TCU Wednesday night in the opener of the Southwest Conference tournament, and will play Houston’s Lady Cougars today at 2 p.m. Court ruling to allow NFL to widen interests .. Vandiwl (kill III pj| United p ress | n t erna ti ona | . reported YORK — A f ederal h the higtcourt ruling allowing owners of carch fwffitional Football League teams ir and ct to own an interest in other pro- 3uit, fessional sports teams will “re- 'andivers new” their interest in buying ar haven N ort H American Soccer League pleasure, franchises, officials say. nee aiin«g ,! fhe 2nd U.S. Circuit Court „ Yamfoof Appeals in Manhattan con- ithletics^htded Tuesday that the NFL’s led morel hau on cross-ownership, im- n acadenJpot* i n 1978 to counter the ris- ud a fan I htg competition from the NASL, said buifr 15 anti-competitive and did whall v ®* atec l the antitrust laws. salary)"' NASL Commissioner Phil Woosnam said: “I fully expect that today’s decision will encour- .^age NFL owners and, for that IS®* 12 *matter, ow ners of other sports teams to renew their interests in the acquisition of NASI, franch ises.” li The court sent the case back to the district court to determine the amount of damages to be awarded the NASL. “The net effect of the NFL ban is substantially to restrain competition, not merely com petitors,” the court said. “It therefore violates the rule of reason.” The decisions came on the appeal by the NASL of a district judge’s dismissal after trial of an injunction against the NF'L ban as well as the NASL’s damage complaint. The appeals court, noting the NASL’s $30 million loss last year, concluded the NFL violated the Sherman Act when the team owners agreed on a ban against the holding of any capit al investment in a team of another league. The NFL argued the ban was necessary not only to prevent leaks of “confidential informa tion” by NFL cross-owners to NASL competitors, but to allow the NFL to compete efficiently in the professional sports league market. The trial record, however, the court said, showed the NF'L ban had its harshest impact on pro soccer. It kept the NASL out of much of the market supply of sports capital and skill and hurt some soccer teams in their efforts to campaign against the competitive pro football team. by Gaye Denley Battalion Staff Freshman post Michell Tatum, upset that her team’s SO BS win over TSU failed to make the KBTX-TV news broadcast Tuesday night, decided to do something about it. First she called the station to complain. Then she scored a season-high 20 points Wednes day night in G. Rollie White Col iseum to help push the Aggie Ladies past TCU 66-58 in a game that was hard to overlook. Texas A&M trailed the Horned Frogs for much of the Southwest Conference tourna ment opener, but managed to stay close enough for Kelley Sul livan’s basket at the buzzer to send the game into overtime with the score tied at 56. The Ladies went ahead 58-56 in the five-minute overtime on a basket from Lynette Joiner, one of her seven on the night, and never gave up the lead. Romy Gandy’s free throw with three seconds left made the final score 66-58. Guard Kelly Krauskopf attri buted the Aggie comeback in the closing minutes to a unified de sire to win. “I think we wanted it more than they did. Everybody on the team wanted to win real bad, and the five people on the court could feel it. It just helps you play better.” Rebounds were another big factor. Eleven players each pul led down at least one of Texas A&M’s 62 rebounds, and Tatum, Joiner and Janet Duck- ham combined for 40 of that tot al. The shorter TCU team could manage only 36 rebounds. The Aggie Ladies led for most of the first half, extending their initial 2-0 lead to 16-12 be fore the Frogs’ F'ran McKnight sank six straight shots to put TCU on top 31-23 at halftime. But back-to-back baskets from Tatum, who compiled her 20 points in only 20 minutes of playing time, brought the Ladies to within four at 35-31. Another basket from Joiner with 14:43 left in the game tied it up at 37, and the lead bounced back and forth for the next 10 minutes. Tatum fouled out with 2:51 remaining and the Frogs lead ing 54-48. Baskets from Joiner and Kelli Harned, Tatum’s re placement, pulled Texas A&M to within two with 1:19 left, but a pair of free throws from TCU’s Penny Ford almost put the game out of reach. The Ladies refused to die, however, and after three time outs, Cathy Foreman scored for the Ladies with 18 seconds left to make the score 56-54. Then with 9 seconds left, the officials called a jump hall between Texas A&M’s 6-3 Harned and TCU’s 5-6 Andrea Surratt. To no one’s surprise, Harned won thejump, and Sullivan hur ried downcourt for a final shot. She rebounded her own miss, hurled up a desperation shot as the buzzer sounded, and pre pared to be mobbed as the shot crawled in. Tatum, in her finest perform ance of the season, was the high scorer, followed by Joiner with 18 points and McKnight with 16. Duckham finished with 10 points and a game-high 15 re bounds. With five steals, Sheryl Clark led an Aggie defense that caused 23 TCU turnovers, compared to Texas A&M’s 17, and shut down any TCU threat from inside the lane. “TCU had some bad breaks,” Krauskopf said. “We caused them to have a lot of turnovers.” The win, the Aggie Ladies third straight, advances them to the second round of the SWC tourney, where they face the University of Houston at 2 p.m. today. The Lady Cougars, the fourth seed in the tournament, had a bye in the first round. Tatum is confident that the underdog Aggies will advance even further in the tournament. “If we keep playing with a lot of aggressiveness and intensity, we have as good a chance as any body in this tournament,” she said. In other tournament action, Rice meets second-seeded Baylor tonight at 6:30 in G. Rol lie White, and the University of Texas, the top seed and the de fending champion, plays SMU at 8:30. AH games will be played on the main floor of the coliseum. Admission is 50 cents for stu dents with a Texas A&M I.D. card and an all-sports pass. Gen eral admission seats for all other adults are $2 a day, and reserved seats are $3. italian cuisine FINE ITALIAN FOOD AND WINES OPEN MON.-THURS. 11:00-2 p.m. 5-10 p.m. FRIDAY 11:00-2 p.m. . 5-11:00 p.m. SATURDAY 5-11:00 p.m. RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED w^twte: o Prescriptions Filled Glasses Repaired 216 N. MAIN BRYAN 822-6105 Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 8 a.m.-l p.m. The Best Pizza In Town! Honest ISH The Beta Rho Chapter of Phi Sigma, a recognized biological honor society at Texas A&M University, is currently screening applicants for initiation during the Spring Session of 1982. The following is a list of qualifi cations for membership: 1) All faculty members with research interest in the biological sciences, 2) A minimum of two outstanding undergraduate students, . 3) Graduate students with more than twelve credit hours, A) Must be in the upper 25% of their department with at least a GPR of 3.5, 4) All students must have a minimum of 25% of their course work in the biological sciences. 5) And students must have a marker interest in the biological sciences. If you are interested, send your qualifications for consideration by February 5, to: Kirby Stafford Dept, of Entomology, Campus 846-3412 Mr. Gattfs Pizzamat AFTER 5 P.M. — MIN. $5.00 ORDER [Ixsjj)®san:i(B For your photographs m The Battalion The Battalion is taking applications for pho tographers for the spring semester, if you have some spare time, camera equipment and knowl edge of darkroom procedures, apply in person in Room 216 Reed McDonald. Ask for Angel Copeland.