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Texas A&M The Battalion Sports Friday, March 25, 1983AThe Battalion/Page 13 pmtm n Block npact be mini] eport nand fon s a result fovement economic lentsut rn crop nallenhai h averagt 1 marki ise to bet er bushel, is reported Rain, bad course make TPC tough Battalion file photo Just around the corner and driAggie wide receiver Jimmy Teal (23) tries to evade toward next fall soon, as Head Coach Jackie lnn ex P i linfcbacker Cedric Ellis (42) in a scrimmage last Sherrill will gather his troops Tuesday to begin apnceti swing. Teal and the Aggies will begin looking spring practice. United Press International PONTE VEDRA, Fla. — Play ing 36 holes of tournament golf the same day would be a grind anywhere, but at the controver sial Tournament Players Club it’s a marathon. That’s the “chore” facing the golfers in the $700,000 Tourna ment Players Championship af ter the opening round was post poned from Thursday to today because of rain and it was de cided to play the final two rounds on Sunday. “It’s a challenge,” said reign ing U.S. Open and British Open champion Tom Watson, one of the favorites to win the largest first place check ever given out on the PCA Tour — $126,()()(). “It’s a chore to play on this course. It’s like playing a football game in a blizzard. Sure, every body has to play, but you’d rather have ideal conditions.” Three-time champ Jack Nick- laus, the only golfer to win the 10-year-old TPC more than once, feels the two-year-old course needs a “major overhaul. “They’ve made a lot of changes since last year (when he failed to make the cut),” said Nicklaus. “But they’ve been minor in nature, just bandaids. The changes lessen the penalties for bad shots, but they don’t help the good shots. “They haven’t given us room to play,” Nicklaus complained. “There’s nowhere to miss, to play it safe. You feel like you’re in a straitjacket.” The course, located near the Atlantic Ocean in northeast Florida, was already soggy in spots from earlier rain before a storm swept in early Thursday. The rain ended several hours af ter daybreak but left the course, with pools of water in many of the bunkers, virtually unplay able. With more rain forecast for early afternoon, Clyde Man- gum, deputy commissioner of the PGA Tour, announced at 8:38 a.m. EST — barely an hour after the first threesomes had been scheduled to start — that the first round was postponed for 24 hours. Fair weather was forecast for today and for Saturday’s second round but a threat of rain hangs over Sunday’s 36-hole wrapup. Officials were unwilling to say Thursday what they would do if they were unable to complete the tournament Sunday. In order to speed up Sunday’s play, the cut at the end of the second round will be the low' 60 scorers and ties rather than the original low 70. when co he said. -s Rockets fall to Blazers I | dllBEOniteii Press International IN RTLAND, Ore. — Blackman, Aguirre lead Mavs past SD The otdion Rockets made Cleve- okesmeiuftd phd Indiana look like also- > carry tl: ns in the race for drafting lingtor ghtk to Ralph Sampson by •on bit nergy I -doping a 104-97 decision to had nocafe ■Portland Trail Blazers hat the:: h»sday night. ghi$ap«®he Rockets have lost I I of IhePenttjtir last 12 games and hold a in ihe "TPS'; record, worst in the NBA. Weapons, his season will be a success for rquotedoiejifickets only if they finish The tngi)st in the Western Division and shipped sin a coin flip with Indiana or could ha'tlefeland. , and not e public" The winner of the coin toss will have the No. 1 pick in the collegiate, draft, most likely the Virginia center. Portland had a 48-43 half time lead, then blitzed the Rock ets 39-26 in the third quarter to build an 18-point lead, 87-69, going into the fourth quarter. The Rockets did close to with in five points three times in the final period but their troubles weren’t over. Houston coach Del Harris cal led a timeout but when the horn blew to resume play, Harris cal led another and told referee Bob Rakel that his team didn’t understand its instructions the first time. When play finally got under way, Portland forward Mychal Thompson stole a Tom Hender son pass, Blazer guard Lafayette Lever swiped the ball from Ter ry Teagle and the Blazers built an 8-point lead with 32 seconds to play and sealed the win. The victory capped a perfect season for Portland against the Rockets. Five times the teams met and five times Houston lost. Calvin Natt and Jim Paxson led the way with 25 and 21 points respectively. The one bright spot for Hous ton was 5-foot-10 guard Calvin Murphy. The 12-year veteran had only eight points but his tot al gave him 17,777 for his career and moved him up to the No. 18 position among the NBA’s all- time leading scorers. Portland coach Jack Ramsay looked ahead. “We are 10 games over .500,” he said. “We have 12 games left and most against teams we are contending against for playof f position.” United Press International SAN DIEGO — For Dallas’ Jay Vincent, winning is the proverbial being in the right place at the right time. “They have great young ta lent like us,” he said after the Dallas Mavericks defeated the San Diego Clippers 118-113 Thursday night. “They’re play ing without Bill Walton. In a game like this, it comes down to who gets the right breaks. We got the right breaks at the right time.” Kelvin Ransey’s jump shot w'ith 1:13 left to play broke a 111-111 tie, opening the way for the Dallas victory. It was the second straight win for the Mavericks, 36-35, and com pleted a six-game season sw'eep over the Clippers, 23-47. Neither side led by more than 6 points in a game that had 30 ties and 15 lead changes. Re serve Rolando Blackman led Dallas with 23 points while Mark Aguirre added 20, including 12 in the fourth quarter. Dallas shot a blistering 68 per cent from the field on 44 of 65 shots. All five San Diego starters scored in double figures, but got little production from their bench as the Dallas reserves out- scored San Diego’s 56-10. San Diego was led by Terry in named* ving’TM lists i n,t‘iiherdf| t up. a lot of M ihe souifl vo-tyrretfj med yij ivists doilj lecoy. i s rather i they run* way Iron 1 ! said SI [iiig «dl is theGrflj von-VioM ■d thecroSj ainst the | ople werej K k the ttj ■adoSattl c arrested! he base al the tij ion violet*! s niany aS | re route] ontanaJ ¥ * All * University Mixer * * Tonight 4:00-7:00 p.m MM Cummings, who scored 26 points, while Michael Brooks added 25. “By getting all this playing time, I feel more confident,” said Brooks. “At the beginning of the year, I was rellly imma ture. Now I’m playing a mature game. With the confidence I have now, playing basketball is fun.” In other games, Walter Davis scored 25 points and Maurice Lucas 21, allowing Phoenix to romp past the Kansas City Kings, 112-95. Kansas City re serve center Steve Johnson had 27 points. Washington knocked off Chicago, 102-96. MM YOU DESERVE A BREAK TODAY. R. 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