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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
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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.
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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
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