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21® sports Battalion/Page 15 February 21, 1983 SWC basketball: A lesson in economies of height ee: : the : ran iii Idlnv chool •on, foi: l 1 /, ' •men, ht, ail Hi women field, 6 11.46J d SWC ck, foil 19.8d. ips, fow .founk , Deami uek),3: iels, fois relims it didii Many Keynesian economists will tell you there’s no such thing as perfect competi tion. So true. Take, for example, the Southwest Conference basketball scene. Now there’s not a monopoly in the success market of the conference, but there is a duopoly. Yes, that’s right. Read the word carefully and then say it to yourself. Then say Arkansas and Houston. If you add TCU, you’re creating a triopoly, which doesn’t exist, contrary to some opinions. The Killer Frogs just don’t quite have the capital to rate with the Cougars. That’s been proven. Saturday’s matchup between the Frogs and the Hogs set TCU back to its proper category. But the Frogs have their market share. It’s considerably less than that found in the duopoly, but maybe it’s a little better than anybody else’s. Texas A&M, SMU and Texas Tech may have shares close to that of the Killer Frogs, but how they rate at the end of the “Fiscal year” remains to be seen. As for the rest of the organizations, bankruptcy proceedings are near. What’s the secret of success that the big guns have found? Well, to be consistent, we’ll continue to exemplify with the busi ness world analogy. For one thing, both members of the duopoly have crafty chief executive offic ers. Arkansas’ Eddie Sutton pulls strings, bends, folds and mutilates the concentra tion of other CEOs and their “em ployees” as well as that of the authorities that regulate the competition. Sutton also has some nifty resources in center Joe Kleine, forward Darrell Wal ker and forward Alvin Robertson. Perhaps the biggest factor in the success of Arkansas is good management of re sources. Sutton excells in this category. Houston’s CEO, Guy Lewis, is blessed with some of the best resources in the country. He’s even imported one — Akeem Abdul Olajuwon. The locals are fantastic, too. There’s Micheaux, Drex- ler, Young, Gettys, etc. But these are the only two that are really enjoying a dandy profit margin. TCU’s not doing badly. But Rice, Texas, Baylor and SMU haven’t even reached the breakeven point. Some of these orga nizations have lost some key resources during the course of the “fiscal year.” Rice lost Tyrone Washington and Kenny Austin, Texas Tech lost Charles John son, Dwight Phillips and Joe Washington and Texas lost practically everybody. The only answer for them is to wait until the resources in the duopoly run out. The lack of balance in the SWC’s “mar ket” makes the outcome of the year pre dictable. The duopoly will prevail, the middlemen will battle each other until the Finish and the rest will regroup for next year. Run season record to 3-3 Ice-Ags beat NTSU twice Sometimes coaches make deci- that lose games. Some- fies coaches make decisions at win games. Fortunately for Texas A&M Ice Hockey am, player-coach Todd Stein- leg made one of the latter, n g ■ Steinweg, who was subbing for the ill James Johns, made a key strategy decision which (urned an Ice-Ag three-game ing streak into a two-game fining streak over the ekend. The Aggies defeated North xas State twice in Waco, 5-2 d 7-5. All Steinweg did was move .ggie standout Greg Skibin Jom defense to offense. The re- 1 suit? A Five-goal performance „jat paced the Ice-Ags to their first two victories since Oct. 29, ha ve « i |i982. coiiiuf' riesovff' 4 i am renin" 1 nens® Brian ji No. :h M ‘my best win ovj| t victon mandii llv love* lareS-d lertea® iesinsinj (Arnol wonied record Skibin found the net twice in jturday night’s contest and re- rded the First hat trick (three joals in one game) in Texas &M history in Sunday’s finale. And Skibin was not the only tar in Saturday’s opener. Goal- hder Blair Oliver turned back I North Texas’ shots en route to his second victory in four is nP ! starts, yedvej g ut things didn’t start so Ik - .smoothly for the Ice-Ags, who "I fell behind 1-0 early in the First ntheperiod of the First match-up be- beatiif tween the schools. But just two effort [minutes into the second period suits Hjoe Anderson put the Aggies on | actio 11 jthe board for the First time in svictorttfbur periods(the Aggies were ,hisSrt'jsfjut out in their last game ainst SMU). Seconds later, brth Texas regained the lead, tlefosjonly to have Skibin tie it up with .-0- ^ is first goal of the night just iefore the end of the period. B The third and Final stanza was all Texas A&M. Early into . jijthe period, Steinweg scored an l^.|| inassisted goal to put the Ice- 6-3 A y&M) i>i [13 fit 6-2. r •lanflJ aiis jf-l' ehf P l)i (i ;v^ idk finf Ags ahead to stay. Steinweg’s goal was followed by Skibin’s second. Matt Coleman finished off the Aggie scoring with a open net goal with only 12 seconds remaining in the game. Sunday’s match wasn’t even that close. Skibin got things roll ing early and they never stop ped. Only three very late North Texas tallies made the game seem close. Skibin’s First of three came on a fancy breakout pass from his First-time linemate Tom Dobrez. All of Skibin’s goals for the weekend were assited by the senior Dobrez. Skibin’s second of the game came shortly after Freshman Jody Leidolf had given the Aggies a 2-0 lead. North Texas came within one goal at 3-2, before Aggie for ward Gordie Anderson closed the wild First period of scoring with his fifth goal in six games. Pinpoint passing by a charged-up Aggie offense and fine goaltending by Aggie goalie Eddie Cassavoy helped extend the Texas A&M lead in the second period. Scott Strom scored early in the period and Skibin finished off his three goal performance late in the period as the Aggie lead bulged to 6-2. John Nagy added the finishing touch with a third period goal before North Texas fired off three goals in the last three minutes off the game to make it appear close 7-5. The Ice-Ags improved their record for this inaugural season to 3-3, while North Texas fell to 0-3. Texas A&M will again travel to Waco next weekend for a match-up against the Dallas Juniors. The Juniors are made up of college-age men, but are not affiliated with any school. Texas A&M plays its home ar * ice rink in the Bryan-College games at Spenco International Station area, the Ice-Ags are Ice Rink, located off Highway 6 forced to practice and play in the in Waco. Because of the lack of Waco arena. 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