sports Battalion/Page il December 6,11 Aggie teams finish weekend of sports The Aggie women’s swim team placed fifth with 734 points in the Southwest Confer ence Invitational, held in the P.L. Downs Natatorium Friday through Sunday. The University of Texas won the meet with 1,153 points and Arkansas finished second with 982 points. Houston was third with 775 and the SMU Mustangs placed fourth at 771. Edlyn Bell finished third in the 200-yard backstroke, while Melanie Schmauch placed sixth in the 50-yard freestyle event. The Aggies’ “A” 200-meter free relay team finished third Saturday. Bell and Jody Tanner placed fifth and sixth in the 100 back- stroke finals and Vicki Moir was fourth in the 100 breaststroke championships finals. Bell came ba jack to finish sixth in the 50 backstroke finals Sun day afternoon and Moir wound up sixth in the 200 breaststroke. In the final event of the meet, the 400 free relay, the Aggies’ “A” and “B” teams placed fifth and sixth, respectively. The Aggie Ladies basketball team lost to the Stephen F. Au stin Lady Lumberjacks 86-65 Saturday night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. Texas A&M, 4- 3 on the season, was led by Janet Duckham’s 18 points and Kelli Harned’s 12 points. SFA, 3-1 and ranked No. 13 in the nation, was led by Tammy Mayo with 32 points and Rosa lind Polk with 18. The Lady Lumberjacks took a 43-30 half time lead after jumping ahead 28-11, and the Aggie Ladies were never able to catch up. Harned led Texas A&M with 10 rebounds, while freshman TIMELY FOR CHRISTMAS 20% OFF SEIKO QUARTZ $9 Pulsar, Quartz . 14 Kt. Watches BULOVA %< LAYAWAYS tnWE JEWELRY) CHARGE ACCOUNTS M-F 9-5:30 SAT. 9-5 415 UNIVERSITY 846-5816 Lisa Langston had nine points and four steals. Texas A&M will play Lamar Tuesday in Beaumont at 7 p.m., and will return home to play Kansas State Thursday at 7 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The women’s volleyball team lost to the University of Arizona 15-6, 15-8, 15-7 in the first round of the NCAA playoffs, eliminating the Aggies from any further play this season. Texas A&M ended the season with a 32-13 record. “We didn't play very well at all,” Aggie coach Terry Condon said, “and they played a lot bet ter than I thought they would.” The Wildcats, ranked No. 7 in the nation, are the No. 12 seed in the NCAA tournament. The men’s rugby team will be in Austin this Saturday to take on Austin RFC at 12 p.m. The men’s basketball team, after losing 73-58 to the Mar quette Warriors in Milwaukee Saturday night, travels to New Orleans on Wednesday to take on the LSU Tigers. Coach Shel by Metcalfs team is now 2-3 on the season. After LSU, the Aggies will be on the road in West Virginia, Montana, and Connecticut for tournaments. The Aggies have already been to Alaska for a tourney, as well as to Wisconsin for the Marquette game. Texas A&M begins SWC play — also on the road —Jan. 4 against the Houston Cougars. Boxing needn’t die, bulM boxers shouldn’t eitherto Well, it finally happened. Something was finally obnoxious enough to turn Howard Cosell’s stomach. Will wonders ever cease? It seems that after Howie covered the Larry Holmes-Randall “Tex” Cobb mas sacre a week ago for ABC, he was so appal led with the lopsided match and the re feree’s ineptitude at stopping the fight that he asked ABC to never assign him to cover another boxing match. Cosell also cited “the general deterioration of professional box ing” as a reason for his request. Now all we need to do is to turn football, baseball and every other sport into blood- baths in Cosell’s mind and we can rid the tube of the utterly irk-some, palaverous and nasally verbose statements that we never understand from the outspoken Cosell. Cosell is a great authority on most sports and is one of the best boxing authorities around, but if he ever sat on the sidelines of professional football game instead of in the press box, he would see and hear things that would make Holmes and Cobb look like Shields and Yarnell. Boxing is violent, but then, so is football. The problem with the Holmes-Cobb fight was not that Cobb was out on his feet, nor was the referee ignorant of the fact that he could stop the fight. The problem was that even though Cobb’s face looked like a bowl full of Alpo, his senses were entirely with him and he knew exactly what he was doing — and for that reason the referee let the fight go on. After the fight, Cobb admitted that he was out-boxed and that Holmes hurt him a few times, but he added that he was never again make boxing a pleasure totra the mandatory use of headgearinal the adoption of a standing-eightm; those fighters that are stunnedbutitfl fall and the use of a doctor asa" referee at ringside. by Frai Bi 'or Texa “started out first three Most people say that if headgear G ’the net onl Be tries. dazed or unconcious of what was going on. Regardless of what Cobb said, however, the fight probably should have been stop ped by the sixth or seventh round. By the sixth round Cobb probably only saw about 50 percent of the punches thrown his way because of the swelling around his eyes. Now that’s scary. But had a few rules been different dur ing the Holmes-Cobb fight, all the jabs Holmes landed on the Abilene native would have just scored points instead of cause Cobb’s eyes to swell. That would have made the fight a little more digestible for those weak of stomach and would have also kept Cobb’s chances alive by not restricting his vision and consequently giving him the opportunity to land more punches on Holmes. Some changes which I think would once the excitement of boxing woulddeiftLs, ■ . but those people have obviouslyn«Bi ) . a t ! U \ t an amateur fight. The use of litiR 31 ™ 1 S C would not hurt the chances of theboJ relies on one punch to end a fightnoit□ t w j t j 1 it annoy the boxing fan that it»L U j knockouts. B . a . n f f 16, Milwau Another rule pro boxing should 11 to ca rom the amateur ranks is the staBr th e tline eight count. This would helpboxers'Bf’ 8 baske ing them a chance to clear thecobw (Out from their heads after being the recipsHjmk Ray knee-wobbling punch. ranked War The last rule change which I feehpj victory sary is the use of a doctorinaneutralt!p t(;lators - The doctor would have total contriRThe Aggi whether a fight continues. IfinhisoijjPI the seasi a fighter is taking a beating thatcou iis|2-0. serious injury, the doctor could t*Both teai fight by literally throwing in thei(iJp° ,)r sliooti The bottom line is that boxingcarilB™’ as * of the most exciting sports aroundiR* 1 ^ 11 el1 ^ o i fpiit on f n#-* necessary precautions are taken.OsHf has to look back to the 19760lynipioB e 1 . nm - “Sugar” Ray Leonard and Co. pB" 16 on J L made boxing an art form in bringinB. P ei ^ ent , o o hrmhen wit pounds of gold lor the Americanlear, K hope the bigwheels in boxing real road boxing is taking and mal;t| changes soon before it's too late-sir^ ^ ^ boxing but for boxers. AGGIELAND PICTURES (Jrs., Srs., Grad Students) being taken at Yearbook Associates 1700 Puryear 9 a.m.-5 p.m. More information 693-6756 SWT wins 16th straigh United Press International SAN MARCOS — In the space of about 15 minutes last Saturday the Southwest Texas State Bobcats stopped the oppo sition four times at the 1-yard fine, drove 99 yards for the score that pur them into the national championship game and hired a head coach. The eventful afternoon on the campus of Southwest Texas brought the Bobcats to within one victory of their second con secutive national title. Southwest Texas will travel to McAllen next weekend for the NCAA Division 2 championship contest against California-Davis, which downed North Dakota Texas fhree Kenny ies’ Bn Ty, mie Gilbert < from Marqt Rivers by hi mas A&M jThe War! on a layi BATTALION CLASSIFIED Call 845-2611 JEFFS PERFORMANCE CENTER 1801 Cavitt Tune-Ups • Garb Repairs Starters • Alternators Clutches • Brakes General Auto Repairs Performance & Efficiency Mods Stock & Custom Engines Corvette Repairs of all Types Hi-Performance Parts & Accessories All Work Fully Guaranteed 822-4934 Bryan State Saturday, 19-I4. file Bobcats also iffl| 19-14 score over J; (Ala.) State. It was consecutive victory, During the game, SHI rials were up in the prdj offering the Bobcats! coaching job to Baylor» ty 'offensive coordinatotB O’Hara. He accepted S . during the midst 0 f-h§F ontlnue ' ftlsiveplay, R s\ quarter. .. n . r id TC U H He will replace jin. | hl hl , who is leaving after flea L ^ * game leaving to aSSUmc uik; /- , coaching duties at Texas! K '|" ian University. “'The team was unbelit Wacker said , whose dm become the first towint back national champion* any classification sir NCAA instituted pos playoffs in 1973. STAibd tsttmua/ AGGIE CHRISTMAS MASS 7:30 pm, December 8 St. Mary's Church jYa