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You better believe
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in Phi Slama Jama
John
wagner
Now do you believe, Dick Vitale? Now do you understand?
You can take Villanova, St.John’s, North Carolina or Virginia
anytime. It’s OK.
You can say all you want about Eastern basketball. It’s all
right. And you can sit, perched atop your ivory tower on the
ESPN set, preaching about Ralph, or Patrick, or whomever,
because they simply don’t care.
They, as in the Houston Cougars, are going to the Final
Four. Villanova, St. John’s, North Carolina and Virginia are
not. Georgetown isn’t either. Nor is Boston College. All the
teams that Vitale, the Entertainment and Sports Programming
Network’s college basketball expert, raved about all year long
are gone. And Houston, which Vitale said couldn’t dodge the
bullets, is still alive and jamming.
The Cougars go by many different names. Houston Post
columnist Thomas Bonk coined two of the monikers, The Uni
versity of Hurtston, after UH’s dangerously physical practices,
and Phi Slama Jama, for the Cougars’ main love — dunking the
basketball.
But that’s not all. Television announcers have a simpler nick
name for Houston — they call them the Cavalry. UH Coach
Guy Lewis has a bench so deep he could saddle up the second
team and still win 20 games.
And that’s been the key to the Cougars’ success this season.
They can hit you so many ways, with so many different people,
that most teams never have a chance. Opponents may stay close,
but not for long.
The emergence of Akeem Olajuwon as a dominant center
has been a factor, but experts agree that without depth at guard,
Phi Slama Jama would still be pledging. Freshman Alvin Frank
lin and junior Michael Young start for the Cougars, and, along
with sixth man Reid Gettys, have given UH the solidity in the
backcourt it needed to make a run at the national champion
ship.
With the changes, the Cougars become a different team.
Take Olajuwon out, and they become a smaller, guard-oriented
team. Put Franklin in and they are quicker. Put Gettys in and
they become smarter. Like a riddle with more than one answer,
the Cougars work well no matter who’s on the court.
Although ranked No. 1 in the Final season-ending poll, UH
has had to Fight for respect. The Cougars are wild and undisci
plined, critics say. Wrong. They can’t play the slow-down game.
Wrong again. They are weak in the backcourt. No way.
Last year, when the Cougars made it to the Final Four, Texas
A&M basketball coach Shelby Metcalf said the rest of the coun
try didn’t really look down on Southwest Conference basketball
— that the SWC was respected for its talent and caliber of play.
The Coogs’ success, Metcalf said, was just helping that reputa
tion along.
And so it is this year. The Coogs may not win it all, but they
sure have made people — even Dick Vitale — change their
glances from East to South when they think of quality college
basketball.
USFL: Reaves leads
Bandits past Stars
United Press International
Philadelphia never looked
better for John Reaves. And
John Reaves never looked better
in Philadelphia.
Returning to the stadium
where he began his pro career,
Reaves passed for 248 yards and
one touchdown in the First half
Sunday to spark the Tampa Bay
Bandits to a 27-22 USFL victory
over the Philadelphia Stars.
“It’s great to win here,”
Reaves said. “I was 0-8 as a star
ter with the Eagles. Coming back
to Philadelphia where my
daughter was born and back to
this staduim was a great feeling.
I looked forward to it all week.”
The Bandits, 4-0 and the
USFL’s only unbeaten club,
scored on four of their first six
possessions en route to a 27-13
halftime lead. The defense took
over in the second half as the
Stars lost for the first time in
four games.
Reaves, who was a first-round
draft choice by the NFL’s Phi
ladelphia Eagles out of Florida
in 1972, hit 16-of-32 passes for
269 yards. He accounted for
Tampa Bay’s first touchdown on
a 33-yard pass to Eric Truvillion
just 2:38 into the game.
After David Trout kicked his
first of three field goals — a 35-
yarder — to bring the Stars with
in 14-10, Tampa Bay scored a
touchdown and two field goals
by Zenon Andrusyshyn on its
next three possessions.
In other games Sunday, Bos
ton beat New Jersey 31-21,
Washington edged Michigan
2216 in overtime and Chicago
defeated Los Angeles 20-14.
Birmingham downed Arizo
na 16-7 Saturday night. Oak
land is at Denver tonight.
At East Rutherford, N.J.,
three New Jersey fumbles in the
final period set up touchdown
runs by Richard Crump and
Tony Davis and a 45-yard Tim
Mazzetti field goal, helping the
Breakers down the winless Gen
erals.
At Washington, Kim McQuil-
ken fired a 22-yard TD strike to
Joey Walters on the first drive of
overtime to win it for the Feder-
als. At Chicago, Greg Landry
threw a 5-yard TD pass to Doug
Cozen and Kevin Long scored
on a 1-yard run to lead the Blitz.
The Blitz and Express are 2-2.
At Birmingham, Ala., rookie
Scott Norwood kicked three
first-half field goals and Corne
lius Quarles, in his first USFL
game, scored on a 39yard run as
the Stallions beat the Wranglers
Saturday night.
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Track, tennis teams
win weekend events
The Aggie men’s track team
and the Texas A&M tennis
teams both tasted success in this
weekend’s action.
The track team brought
home the gold from the Baylor
Invitational after strong per
formances in the field events
and the hurdles in Waco. And
the tennis teams were also big
winners as the women’s squad
defeated Southwestern
Louisiana on Friday and
Louisiana Tech on Saturday and
the men’s team won its only
match this weekend by defeat
ing Louisiana Tech 7-2 on
Saturday.
Jimmy Howard won the high
jump with a leap of 7-1 Vs, Greg
Porter came in first and John
Cole came in third in the discus
and Juan de la Garza and
Richard Lamb finished first and
second in the javelin to score big
points in the field events.
Craig Moody finished first
and Chappelle Henderson
finished second in the 110-
meter high hurdles to give the
Aggies more points in the over
all standings while Andy Elliott
turned in a strong performance
in the 1,500-meter run with a
winning time of 3:55.61. The
Aggie mile relay team of Derrell
Austin, Bill Shelton, Tony Grier
and Henderson rounded out
the scoring for Texas A&M.
The Aggie women’s team
finished second behind Rice by
only two points, but it too had a
good outing.
Suzanne Sheffield, 1,500
meters; Chandai Phillips, 100-
meter hurdles; Sheffield, 800
meters; Deanie Palmer, 400
meters, and Esther Dedrick in
the 500-meter run were all indi
vidual first-place winners for the
Aggies.
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GOLF DOUBLES: Grab a partner
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Doubles Competition! Entries open
today and will remain open through
Tuesday, April 5. You may sign up
for a tee time when you register.
Available tee times are: 8 a.m., 11
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day, April 7 through Wednesday,
April 13. Green fees are: $3.50 for
students and $4.50 for faculty/staff.
PENBERTHY: Tomorrow is the last
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day, March 29 at 7 p.m. Running
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HANDBALL DOUBLES: Don’t
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tries for this event close tomorrow at
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Classes A, B, C, and Recreational.
Play begins Monday, April 4.
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BLES: Hey, TAMU archers! Entries
are now being accepted for Intramu
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mile stretch of the Brazos River. For
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All-University Basketball Championships
On Sunday, March 6, the All-University Basketball Championships
were held. In the Women’s A action, the ALL STARS ran into foul troui
which resulted in a loss to the 2%’ers by a score of 36-27. High scorerfct
the 2%er’s was Francey Beall. In Women’s B Division, the Underwood
Devils beat the McFadden Flames 35-29.
In the Men’s Class A All-University Basketball Championship, th
Iceman walked away with the title by outscoring the Jim Bobbers 42-37.1!
the Men’s Class B action the Clydesdales held off a second half rally!?
their opponents, Jamm to narrowly win the Championship by a scored
32-30.
The CoRec Class A Team GAG ran away from their opponents
Dumb Jocks. The final score of the CoRec A All-University Championslif
game was 62-48. And in Class B action the Bucs rallied from their halftii*
deficit to outscore Showtime 38-35.
The following is a list of the winning teams and members:
The 2%’ERS take home the Women’s Class A
Basketball title and T-shirts!
Men’s Class A
Icemen
Ben Langston
Boh O’Brien
Kevin Cunningham
Ed Gillen
Joe Jenkins
Dwight Arnold
Jimmy Hall
Gag wins the All-University Corec Class A
Basketball Title!
Women’s Class A Women’s Class B
2%er’s Underwood Devils
Sue Lilly Ronda Rychlik
Kay Schwartz Denise Pearce
Stacie Frank Gaye Denley
Debbie Drillette Sherri Larimore
Beth Mamaliga Rhoe Evans
AnRae Gill Sara Hlavinka
Marla Wells Mich Hlavinka
Patty Dotson Susan Cohen
Cindy Hamblen
Leigh Collins
Men’s Class B CoRec Class A
Clydesdales GAG
Sam Bell James Waldrip
Tommy Sugg Russell Webb
Randy Smith Danny Thompson
Kelly Raper Terri Warren
David Beal Becky Stecker
Gary Kubiak Ronda Walker
Jeff Farrar Linda Roessler
Steve Reis Jurnett Smith
Bob Bitters Craig Gargotta
Mike Whitwell Joe Phillips
Chris Peterson
Congratulations to the All-University Championship Teams!
SPORTS CLUB NOTES
CoRec Class B
Bucs
Ross Simmons
Joe Schultz
Scott Abel
Darla Kimbrough
Allison Hensel
Jeanie Pruitt
Sharon Fontenotc
David Bishop
The Clydesdales claim the All-University Men’s Class B
Basketball Championship!
The Texas A&M Handball Team
went to Chicago to play in the 18-
Team National Intercollegiate Hand
ball Championship Tournament. The
Ags earned the honor to play in the
nationals by heating TU in the
Southwest Divisional Cham
pionships. The TAMU team re
turned to College Station as the #3
handball team in the country. Lake
Forest College in Chicago was first
and Memphis State University was
second. The TAMU individual re
sults were:
Jeff Davison 1st Men’s Division C
Bobby Winans2nd Men’s Division C
Brent Bertrand4th Men’s Divison C
Matt Pokryfki Quarter Finalist B
Sue Oakleaf2nd Women’s Division A
Brenda Crim
4th Women’s Division A
Caroline Henning
3rd Women’s Division B
Also, at the tournament TAMU
Handball Coach, Lance- Lowy was
named National Commissioner of the
Intercollegiate Handball Association
and will serve in that capacity for
three years. Congratulations Ags!
The TAMU Judo Club competed at
the Texas State Collegiate Cham
pionship on Saturday, March 19 at
Bee County College in Beeville,
Texas. The following individuals
placed for the TAMU Judokas:
Steve Falconer 2nd 143 wgt division
Bryan Grunewald
3rd 172 wgt division
Good going Judo Club!
The TAMU Men’s Rugby Club will
be playing in the National Cham
pionship Playof Tournament here at
Texas A&M April 23 and 24. E-
teams will he playing in this ton?'
ment that will decide the 1
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tional Finals in Athens, Georgia
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