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The Battalion Sports
Friday, March 25, 1983AThe Battalion/Page 13
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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 — $126,()()().
“It’s a chore to play on this
course. It’s like playing a football
game in a blizzard. Sure, every
body has to play, but you’d
rather have ideal conditions.”
Three-time champ Jack Nick-
laus, the only golfer to win the
10-year-old TPC more than
once, feels the two-year-old
course needs a “major overhaul.
“They’ve made a lot of
changes since last year (when he
failed to make the cut),” said
Nicklaus. “But they’ve been
minor in nature, just bandaids.
The changes lessen the penalties
for bad shots, but they don’t
help the good shots.
“They haven’t given us room
to play,” Nicklaus complained.
“There’s nowhere to miss, to
play it safe. You feel like you’re
in a straitjacket.”
The course, located near the
Atlantic Ocean in northeast
Florida, was already soggy in
spots from earlier rain before a
storm swept in early Thursday.
The rain ended several hours af
ter daybreak but left the course,
with pools of water in many of
the bunkers, virtually unplay
able.
With more rain forecast for
early afternoon, Clyde Man-
gum, deputy commissioner of
the PGA Tour, announced at
8:38 a.m. EST — barely an hour
after the first threesomes had
been scheduled to start — that
the first round was postponed
for 24 hours.
Fair weather was forecast for
today and for Saturday’s second
round but a threat of rain hangs
over Sunday’s 36-hole wrapup.
Officials were unwilling to say
Thursday what they would do if
they were unable to complete
the tournament Sunday.
In order to speed up Sunday’s
play, the cut at the end of the
second round will be the low' 60
scorers and ties rather than the
original low 70.
when co
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IN RTLAND, Ore. —
Blackman, Aguirre
lead Mavs past SD
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hat the:: h»sday night.
ghi$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
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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.
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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
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27 points. Washington knocked
off Chicago, 102-96.
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