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Out of the blocks
photo by Donn Friedman
A&M’s John Heldenfels takes off to start the 800-yard
freestyle relay during the SWC championships in Aus
tin on Saturday. A&M finished fifth in the meet, be
hind Texas, SMU, Arkansas and Houston.
^rd-ranked Ags ready’
Polo team in nationals
t J|| by Frank L. Christlieb
Battalion Staff
In Mike McCreary’s opinion,
lie I’.S. Polo Association Inter
till "iate Tournament should
le a wide-open competition.
Who’s Mike McCleary, you
' sk? What, where and when is
'|I,U.S. Polo Association Inter-
(illegiate Tournament?
l B r ell, McCleary is the coach of
lie Texas A&M polo team,
hi< h entered the competition
as one of the top three teams in
the nation. That’s amazing when
it’s considered that most of the
other schools in the tournament
have varsity teams and the
Aggies compete on an extramu
ral club basis.
And the national event, which
started Friday at the Oakridge
Hunt Club in Darien, Conn., fe
atures 14 teams engaged in a
week’s worth of competition.
Texas A&M, which placed third
last year af ter losing 18-17 to the
University of Connecticut in the
semifinals, played a practice
game against Cornell on Satur
day and will open its tourna
ment competition tonight
against Connecticut.
Four members of the. Texas
A&M team are competing in the
tourney: Polo Club president
Clint Bogart, team captain Vic
tor Aguilar, Jorge Maldonado
and John Ames.
McCleary said the competi
tion will be strong, but one
school may have an edge over
the rest of the field.
“We were one of the favorites
in the tournament, but we had
two of our guys on scholastic
probation,” he said. “Right now,
I’d say California-Davis (last
year’s national champion) will be
See POLO page 10
No surprises in SWC
first-round matchups
United Press International
The Texas Longhorns were
already experiencing their worst
season ever, had lost 12 in a row
and two nights earlier had been
overwhelmed by the SMU Mus
tangs, 95-67.
But in the opening round of
the Southwest Conference post
season tournament Monday
night, the Longhorns outscrap-
ped, outclassed and outshot the
Mustangs in what seemed cer
tain to be the SWC’s biggest up
set of the season.
The final, however, was SMU
49, Texas 48.
“It was a miracle win,” said
SMU coach Dave Bliss, whose
team trailed by nine points with
3:30 to play only to stage a stun
ning comeback and survive a
final Texas shot that went
through the basket but was
ruled to have come after the
game-ending buzzer.
Jon Koncak led the 18-10
Mustangs with 10 points in their
fifth consecutive victory,
pushing them into the second
round of the SWC tourney
Thursday night against the
Texas Tech Red Raiders.
Tech took a 57-55 victory
over Baylor Monday night to
advance to second-round play.
A pair of Quentin Anderson
free throws and a slam-dunk
provided Tech with a 5-point
lead, 57-52, with 12 seconds re
maining. A three-point play by
Baylor’s Daryl Baucham pro
vided the final margin.
The third opening-round
game did not produce nearly as
much excitement as the other
two, since the TCU Horned
Frogs ran over the Rice Owls,
74-49.
Jon Koncak’s 10 points lead
SMU past Longhorns 49-48
TCU will meet Texas A&M
Thursday night in the opening k
game of the evening.
The SMU-Texas Tech win
ner will play No. 1 ranked Hous
ton in the semifinals Friday
night and the TCU-Texas A&M
winner will face the Arkansas
Razorbacks. The championship
game will be played Saturday at
12:10 p.m. before a television
audience that will span most of
the country.
Texas had not won a game
since Jan. 19 and when the Lon
ghorns lost to SMU last Saturday
night it was their 21st setback of
the season — their most ever.
But during a 6:50 stretch in
the first half SMU scored only
one point and for the first 6:57
of the second half the Mustangs
went scoreless.
Texas outshot SMU, 42 per
cent to 34, and outrebounded
the Mustangs, 45-28. But some
how the Longhorns lost.
The Longhorns’ Bill Wend-
landt put Texas in front, 48-39,
with 5:01 to go and Texas didn’t
score another point. For the rest
of the game, Texas turned the
ball over eight times and SMU
scored 10 straight points — the
last four coming on two free
throws and a driving layup by
Carl Wright.
BAYLOR (55)
Glover 1-2 1-43, Baucham 4-104-7 12, Hall 7-16
5-6 19, Shakir 1-5 6-10 8, Stern 2-6 0-0 4, Mays
1-4 1-2 3, Kaiser 3-4 0-0 6, Heller 0-1 0-0 0.
Totals 19-48 17-29 55.
TEXAS TECH (57)
Taylor 0-7 0-00. Anderson 9-13 4-4 22. Irvin 2-5
0-0 4. Reynolds 2-4 0-1 4, Jennings 8-12 3-3 19,
Benlord 3-6 2-5 8, Wojeicchoski 0-0 0-00. Totals
24-47 9-13 57.
Halftime — Tech 30. Baylor 20. Fouled out —
none. Total fouls — Baylor 19, 'lech 23. Re
bounds— Baylor 34 (Hall 10), Tech 27 (Ander
son 7). Assists — Baylor 11, (Shakir 4), Tech 18
(Reynolds 7). Technicals — Irvin, Baucham. A
— 2,548.
TEXAS (48)
Cooper 6-15 8-13 20, Wendlandt 3-7 1-5 7, Seitr
3-9 1-3 7. Carlton 3-5 0-1 6. Moe 4-8 0-1 8,
I’arrish 0-1 0-0 0, Griffin 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 19-45
10-23 48.
SMU (49)
Wright 2-6 2-4 6, Davis 1-7 2-4 4. Koncak 3-64-4
10, Piehler 3-7 0-0 6, Moore 2-8 2-3 6, Anderson
1- 3 3-4 5, Barks 0-2 0-0 0. Garrett 2-5 l -2 5.Gadis
2- 4 1-2 5, Pink 1-2 0-0 ?. Totals 17-50 15-23 49
Halftime — SMU 25. Texas 22. Fouled Out —
Seitz, Carlton. Koncak. Total Fouls — Texas 20.
SMU 24. Rebounds — Texas 45 (Cooper 18),
SMU 28 (Koncak 9). Assists — Texas 11 (Carlton
8), SMU (Moore 3). A — 2,856.
RICE (49)
Bennett 2-7 4-4 8, Cashaw 2-6 1-2 5, Shaw 2-6
0-0 4, Pettit 0-3 0-1 0. Steele 2-4 1-2 5, Barnett
1-2 0-1 2, Scnske 2-4 2-4 6. O’Neal 3-4 0-0 6.
Cunningham 6-9 1-5 13. Witten 0-0 0-0 0, Miller
0-1 0-0 0. Totals 20-46 9-19 49.
TCU (74)
Arnold 9-15 4-4 22. Cucinella 0-3 1-4 I. Christ
ensen 1-3 0-0 2. Nutt 5-9 0-0 10, Browder 7-15
3- 3 17. Mortimer 3-7 2-2 8, Kapturkiewicz 5-8
1-2 11, Papa 1-2 0-0 2, Hart 0-1 1-2 1. Pate 0-0
0-1 0. Partridge 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-63 12-18 74.
Halftime — Rice 20, TCU 34. Fouled Out —
Papa. Total fouls— Rice 18, TCU 19. Rebounds
— Rice 20 (Shaw 5). TCU 48 (Arnold 12). Assists
— Rice 13(Shaw 3).TCU 23 (Nutt 7). A— 1,205.
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