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•: ■.• ;-v v' :-i'• ■ - •*! •,k; uim-!:(;• v- ■ .•■ • ■ ■ Sports »* r 1 M i Wednesday, January 18, 1984/The Battalion/Page 15 Aggies take on 1-point Mustangs By DAVE SCOTT Sports writer Olajuwon destroyed the Aggies and 6-9 center Jimmie Gibert pulling down 13 re pul 11 n g bounds and blocking 10 shots. And when the Mustangs and Cougars played earlier this year, Koncak outrebounded Ola- onighttotakeon theSMU Mus- juwon. Texas A&M head coach Shel- The Aggie basketball team nil be out to play the spoiler role ((hen they travel to Dallas angs. But the underdog Aggies will jisujfDe up against a vastly improved dip Mustang team which has already Tome within a point of beating miston and Arkansas. Against SMU, A&M will be ced with many of the same iroblems they had with Hous- lon. The Mustangs have more S leight and more experience. And also like Houston who psAkeem Olajuwon, SMU has •foot center Jon Koncak who llu fill probably be the Aggies big- buni lest nemesis. nbiii NBA All-Star teams set by Metcalf said the Aggies will pay extra attention to Koncak. “We’ve gotta get Jimmie some help underneath,” he said. But Metcalf said that the 240- pound Koncak isn’t only dan gerous under the basket. “He’s a great shooter,” he said, “he’s not going to overpow er you.” However, the Mustangs are by no means a one-man team. They also feature leading scorer 6-7 Larry Davis and 6-5 Carl Wright, who many feel is the best athlete in the Southwest Conference. Rounding out SMU’s starting line up will be guard Butch Moore and 6-7 forward Larry Davis. Recently Metcalf has been starting Todd Holloway, who wa's hobbled by a sore knee against Texas Wesleyan Mon day night, Darnell Williams, Winston Crite, Mike Clifford and Gilbert. The first men off the bench for the Aggies have been guard Kenny Brown and forward A1 Pulliam. Through 15 games, A&M is out rebounding it opposition 5 76-46 3. Gilbert leads the Aggies in that category, averag ing over eight per game. Sampson, Aguirre picked United Press International NEW YORK — Rookie 7-4 :nter Ralph Sampson of the iouston Rockets and three-year ceaBteran forward Mark Aguirre qmUol the Dallas Mavericks were ingwicmg seven players chosen ■uesday to complete the West lirecilpm for the Jan. 29 NBA All- levtliar game at Denver’s tn arfMcNichols Arena, befell Aguirre, who is right behind s hoJ|driaii Dantley for the NBA uppisforing lead, will be making his f or fjjfirsi trip to the All-Star game, aranll Selected with Sampson and Aguirre by the coaches in the Western Conference were Kiki Vandeweghe of the host Denver Nuggets, Walter Davis of Phoenix, Rickey Green of Utah, Jim Paxson of Portland and Jack Sikma of Seattle. Named as reserves by the Eastern Conference coaches were Otis Birdsong of New Jersey, Bernard King of New York, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish of Boston, Jeff Ruland of Washington, Andrew Toney of Philadelphia and Kelly Tri- pucka of Detroit. The starting teams were announced earlier in the week. The West’s starting five will be Alex English of Denver and Adrian Dantley of Utah at for ward, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of Los Angeles at center and Magic Johnson of Los Angeles and George Gervin of San Antonio at the guard positions. The East’s starters are for wards Larry Bird of Boston and Julius Erving of Philadelphia, center Moses Malone of Phi ladelphia, and guards Sidney Moncrief of Milwaukee and Isiah Thomas of Detroit. All-Star Sampson scores 27 leads Rockets past Nuggets K) United Press International HOUSTON — Ralph Samp- m scored with 27 points, in- luding 21 in the second half, to jad the Houston Rockets to a 115 victory over the Denver Nuggets Tuesday night. I Lewis Lloyd sccared 10 points as the Rockets grabbed a 34-30 Grst quarter lead. Houston led 12-55 at the half without much lelpfroni Sampson, who sat out ill but seven minutes of the ac- iondue to foul trouble. The Nuggets yielded 21 loints on 16 turnovers to the lockets in the first half. The Nuggets ran off 10 iraight points to grabb a 67-66 ;ad with 7:55 left in the third uarter, but the Rockets rallied ehind Sampson’s 8 points to ead90-85 at the end of the third uarter. The Rockets grabbed a 10- oint lead in the fourth at the ptfinafk as Sampson scored 8 pick points. The Nuggets ral lied to within 3 points at the 2:32 mark, but Lloyd scored on a drive down the lane and made a free throw and Caldwell Jones hit a layup to give the Rockets an 8-poim lead with 1:56 left. Lloyd ended the night with 23 points for the Rockets. Dan Issel and Alex English scored 30 points each for the Nuggets to lead all scorers. The Rockets improved their record to 15-25 in the Midwest Division, while Denver fell to 16- 23. V C'Ht'MU nANCF. f.I.ASSRS S ^ C&W DANCE CLASSES ^ are starting soon at ' S GRAHAM CENTRAL STATION * BEGINNER — Sundays, 6 —— 7pm partners not required! s il * JITTERBUG — Sundays, 5 — 6pm Dips, Drops and more! ★ ADV. SWING —Thursdays, 6— 7pm Couples — add flash to your dance! John Benson (693-0461) & Linda Barron (846-4375) Call For Info ^ LOUPOT’S HAS USED BOOKS! SHOP EARLY & SAVE WITH USED BOOKS FROM LOUPOT’S pay more? $LOUPOTS>ft ( bookstore Plenty of parking behind the store NORTHGATE (At the corner across from the Post Office) Mahre falls in World Cup United Press International PARPAN, Switzerland — Swedish slalom king Ingemar Stenmark notched his 76th World Cup victory Tuesday with a typical second heat charge but bad luck continued to pla gue American Steve Mahre, who fell in the second heat and lost his chance at an apparent vic tory. Stenmark, third behind Au stria’s Robert Zoller and Steve Mahre after the 64-gate first course, put in the fastest run on the second leg through 62 gates to clock a total time of one mi nute, 47.36 seconds. He won by 0.27 seconds over Luxembourg’s Marc Girardelli, with Franz Gruber of Austria taking third place almost a second further behind with 1:48.58. It was Stenmark’s 37th World Cup slalom victory and his third in the discipline this season. Steve Mahre, denied a victory Monday when he was disqual ified for swapping starting num bers with his twin brother Phil, appeared headed for victory Tuesday when misfortune struck again. A fifth of a second quicker than Stenmark in Tues day’s first run, he was even faster than the Swede at the intermedi ate point on the second heat. Mahre, of White Pass, Wash., appeared well on his way to vic tory when the binding was rip ped off one ski and he fell. “I did not even put pressure on the ski at the time, it must have been something that hap pened a few gates earlier,” he said. Defending overall World Cup champion Phil Mahre, who has scored points in only two races this season, was disqualified for the second consecutive day this time for not rounding a gate properly in the first heat. Stenmark continued his long- expected push toward the top of the World Cup standings now led by Liechtenstein’s Andreas- Wenzel. Wenzel was 11th Tues-I day but is ahead in the combined, standings computed from the; slalom and Sunday’s downhill at* Wengen. Wenzel now has 130 point! against 122 for second-placed Swiss Pirmin Zurbriggen. Stem mark is third with 109. Sten mark tops the slalom standings with 75 points and Gruber is second with 57. “It was bad luck for Steve: first the numbers salad, then the binding torn off,” Stenmark said. “I wod enjoy my victory more if I had beaten him and some other top skiers who drop ped out.” AI Pulliam slams one through Wesleyan turnover in the game Photo by John Makely ( after a Texas Monday. Alivi sH HIGH WORK WITH THE BEST Be an engineering officer in the Air Force The Air Force is forging a new frontier in advanced technology. If you have an electrical or aeronautical engineering degree, you may qualify to work with the best and receive all the outstanding advantages and opportunities the Air Force offers. Contact: SSgt. 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