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Basketball ports Monday, January 30, 1984/n~he Battalion/Page 15 Jody Tanner broke Texas A&M swimming team records in the 50- Photo by BILL HUGHES and 200-meter backstroke in the meet with Texas Tech Friday. immers beat Tech, Rice By DONN FRIEDMAN Sports editor I It was a clean sweep for the OTexas A&M men’s and women’s swimming teams at Downs Nata- torium this weekend as both teams easily defeated Texas ■ech on Friday and Rice on Saturday. I When the national rankings were announced earlier this week, with the Aggie men in the feth spot, it gave the team a Dost — a boost that helped the team overcome the flu virus that Inad stricken some of the team, Head Coach Mel Nash said. ■ But the ranking also gave fuel to the Red Raiders’ desire for , victory. W; “Texas Tech was coming, • looking for an upset,” Nash said. H But that’s all the Red Raiders . could manage — a look, as the [: men out-swam Tech 77-35 while ’ jAhe woman won easily 78-35. H From the First event, assistant poach Tracy Johnston said, the Kggies weren’t going to let ■tech's upset dream materialize. ■ On the lead-off leg of the ; Women’s 400-meter medley re- | lav, Jody Tanner swam a school ®cord 59.02 in the 100-meter 1 backstroke. H Tanner, Johnston said, is a C sprinter who usually is entered Ipnly in races where she has to i&yim 100-meter or less. “I like swimming the shorter Bents,” Tanner said. “I know ; what to expect. I am not real sure of myself in the longer eyents.” I But despite her lack of confi dence in her ability to swim in Itjnger races, she streaked to Wiother school record 2:09.83 in —' the 200-meter backstroke. ■ Tanner strained a muscle in her back in Saturday’s meet Ptainst Rice, but is expected to be able to compete in the women’s next meet, two weeks away. i I Before their swim suits had Bne to dry, the Aggies met the kiie Owls. Rice, whose swim- ■ing program resembles their Cfl 1 hapless football program, was in match for the Texas A&M J teams. I Texas A&M swimmers com peted in off-events, different events than they would normally compete in, and still defeated the Owls by a substantial mar gin. The men won 68-35 while the women scored 60.5 to Rice’s 41.5. But next week’s meet won’t be as easy for the Aggie men when they travel to Austin to take on the University of Texas, the nation’s third ranked team. The women’s team will swim in two weeks against Texas’ women, who are also ranked third in the nation. Nash says the Aggies’ top-dog role is reversed for the coming meet. “We’ll go for the upset next week,” he said. Pan Pizza’s “In” At Pizza Inn! If you’re looking fora panful of the best deep dish pizza you’ll ever taste, try our new Pan Pizza! We could go on forever describing it’s great flavor, but we’ve picked some choice words that say it all... 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It will be two years ago next Wednesday since the Houston Cougars have lost a SWC game. It had been almost two years since Arkansas had lost a regular-season league game to anybody except Houston. So it was more than a surprise when the Razorbacks fell to the Rice Owls in Houston last week. It was a First-class shock. Now it must be determined if this was more than an isolated happening, or if Arkansas has become vulnerable to more and more such incidents within the league. And it might well be the latter con|idering what happened to the Razorbacks Sunday. Arkansas lost to Villanova in Philadelphia on national television, 58-54. It was the first time the Hogs have lost two games in a row since late in the 1982 campaign. As the week begins, the sixth-ranked Houston Cougars have run their SWC win ning streak to 31 games, the latest being an 84-58 thrashing of last-place Baylor. A game in which Houston coach Guy Lewis cleared the bench letting almost every member of his team play. Even Benny Anders, who was just allowed to return to the team this week after quitting earlier this season, saw playing time. In li mited action Anders couldn’t score, and showed that he had lost some of his Phi Slama Jama skills when he missed a dunk. Arkansas is at 6-1 while SMU and Texas Tech are at 5-2 and both having new hope for second place after Rice’s upset victory. SMU and Texas Tech will close the first half of the SWC schedule against each other on Wednesday night in Dallas and both warmed up for that encounter with lopsided wins on Saturday. The Mustangs routed Texas, 105-81, and Texas Tech broke loose from Texas A&M in the late going to pick up a 74-49 decision — a game highlighted by an ongoing argument between the Aggies and the officials. Texas coach iiob Weltlich said his team had been totally out played Saturday night. “We haven’t been dominated like that all year,” he said. “This happened to us a lot last year, but this is the first time it has happened this year.” SMU has already won 17 games this season. In Lubbock Saturday night, Texas A&M’s Darnell Williams was kicked out of the game for picking up two technical fouls and Aggies’ coach Shelby Metcalf picked up a technical as well during the frantic final mi nutes in which Tech outscored A&M, 25-2. Arkansas will have all week to rest up from its double disappointments in Hous ton and Philadelphia before having to play on Saturday night at home against Baylor. That should end the Razorbacks’ two- game losing streak, but the Hogs still have games on the road against SMU, Texas Tech and Houston and will face both Hous ton and North Carolina in Arkansas so there are plenty of tests remaining for coach Eddie Sutton and his team. The key games this week both involve SMU. The Mustangs first host Texas Tech Wednesday night and then will make the trip to Houston for a game with the Cougars on Saturday night. SMU center Jon Koncak outplayed Hous ton center Akeem Olajuwon in their first battle this season, but the Cougars emerged with a one-point win in Dallas on a clutch basket at the end by Michael Young. Hockey team ices SMU twice DALLAS — The Texas A&M Ice Hockey team extended their winning streak to three games, beating Southern Methodist University twice 10-3 and 7-4, this weekend. In Friday’s game the Aggies jumped to 9-0 lead before SMU scored late in the second period. Team captain Gordie Ander son and senior Greg Skibin each scored hat tricks, three goals in a game. Jody Leidoff added two goals for the Aggies. SMU gave the Aggies a bit more competition on Saturday. The Aggies lead 2-0 at the end of the first period, but SMU scored early in the second period to make the score 2-1. 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