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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
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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
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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
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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.
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McAllen next weekend for the
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