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ports Friday, February 10, 1984/The Battalion/Page 15 Lacrosse season starts this weekend See page 16 d, ihe jojj mes, said, ij. We b 1 breaks a’t be donij I iheir d in Alamo Stadium I United Press International SAN ANTONIO — A judge lewi W!tB rsc j a y cleared the way for i f kUSFL San Antonio Gun- l< 1 <) ' lingers to play in Alamo Sta- have()n jum, ruling that a lease v Beinenl between the team c oreogni* l j ie s i ac ii um ’ s owner is the ice. I think tkK ' ;rs from rejailliaiits, after hearing two wiceinai teeks of testimony from private will anyouMens, traffic experts, USFL 11hat shei iftials and school district ad- itivity. Si# ninistrators, ruled the lease r hair, she |reement made last year be- ng well it Ween the fledgling USFL team mthe San Antonio Indepen- e for a If lent School District is valid, md her qtThe lease called for stadium he gel5telp‘ in sion by South Texas becausesliBrts Inc., whose principle ids). Sheafner is Duval County rancher -do it in pi Jin ion Manges. Millions of yitatiheCfflars worth of renovations J sheha5ik(| ve nlr^dy been made at the ion." Bity- lies in the: . . . , Williams turned aside argu- s so e(X KijBls by The River Road Asso- A n jation, a group of citizens who . . near the stadium, which M :r Bmed Gunslinger games Hid cause noise, pollution, Hcing problems and lower the a l/Bjerty value of their homes. |Whe San Antonio City Coun- » Hlso filed suit, claiming the He violated a 1939 deed re- triction which prohibited |U Bit-making sporting events V It the facility. ■ skien »i pWe were very optimistic,” e chancel aid Gunslingers General Man- te traininiler Roger (fill. “But you never pots. mow until the verdict.” most impdHhe team’s first home game eryonewsFeb. 26 against the New Or- nadian leans Breakers. USFL officals "Ant: tad testified that denying use of snow, it's® stadium would upset the ifague’s entire 1984 season chedule. Basketball team wants support Langston hopes to lead Ags By KAY MALLETT Sports Writer O.K., so the Texas A&M women’s basketball team hasn’t been so hot the past few years. In fact, their record is 57-79 over the past five seasons and hardly anyone supports the team. At the last home game, against Rice, there were only 284 fans. But there’s at least one per son who is determined to regain some of that lost support and make the Aggies one of the best women’s teams in the Southwest Conference. “I want to do about the same thing I did in high school,” for ward Lisa Langston said. “That is to play for a team that isn’t really ranked and help them get to the top.” A&M recruited Langston in 1982 from Spruce High School in Dallas — for basketball and track. That year, she was named all-greater Dallas and all-metro in basketball and All-America for her accomplishments in track. She received track schol arship offers from all over the United States — including Ne braska and Tennessee. But Langston’s main interest was basketball. And in basketball, she was one of the top recruited women in Texas with bids from South ern Methodist, Baylor and many junior colleges. “I had a chance to go to the University of Texas and tryout, but they were already estab lished,” Langston said. “Look at Texas now. They’re No. 2 in the nation and I’d really like to be a part of the team. But when would I get to play? “If I’m going to play college ball, I want to play. You sure can’t get any experience on the bench.” That’s the main reason she came to A&M — to play basket ball. And she’s getting to do just that. The 5-8 sophomore had the Aggies’ highest-scoring game this season, 31 points against Lamar University. In confer ence play, she’s averaging 15.5 points and 4.9 rebounds a game. “I haven’t been playing as good as I can, but it’ll come in time,” Langston said. This year Coach Cherri Rapp put Langston in a new position at baseline-wing. “At the beginning of the year, I didn’t have any confi dence in my shooting at the baseline,” Langston said, “but now I’m starting to get used to it.” And she’s learning to use her quickness as an asset in grab bing steals, rebounding and driving to the bucket. “With my speed, I’m able to get at the big plays,” Langston said. “I know as short as I am. I’m going to come up against some people that I won’t be able to drive against, but we haven’t played any people like that — unless it would be against Texas — and it seems like everything just goes right for them.” Langston said she wished things would go right for the Aggies. “It’s just the little things that beat us,” she said. “For one thing we don’t talk on the court.” Langston said that support was another problem. “I really feel like the people here don’t support women’s athletics,” she said. “That’s one of the things I miss — the local support. Maybe everybody doesn’t know about us or some thing. Maybe they don’t care.” Both A&M basketball teams will be on the road in Waco Sat urday to play the Baylor Bears in the Heart O’ Texas Col iseum. The women’s game wifi begin at 5 p.m. and the men’s will follow with the tip-off set for 7:30. Ags claim out-of-state recruits Photo by DEA N SAITO Lisa Langston manuevers for position in a game against the University of Texas earlier this season. By DAVE SCOTT Sports Writer Since this year’s Texas recruiting crop wasn’t as good as usual, Texas A&M head coach Jackie Sherrill went elsewhere for his talent. Of the 30 scholarships Sherrill was offering, six were claimed by out-of-state players. Two of those six were added Thurs day. Running back Harry Johnson from Pasadena, Cal., and lineman Jon Burman from Carmel, Ind. Johnson measures in at 6-1, 185, while Burman is 6-6, 260. Bur- man is the son of George Burman, who )layed 12 years for the Los Angeles Rams. Other than Johnson and Burman, Sherrill and the coaches didn’t stray far from Texas. They snatched three recruits from Louisiana and one from Oklahoma. From north of the Red River, A&M brought home its very own moon, L.B. Moon. The highly recruited defensive line men was thought by his father to be leaning towards the University of Texas. But Moon returned from a visit to UT, cancelled an upcoming trip to Okla homa University, and told A&M coach Jerry Pettibone to “to put me down, I’m coming to A&M.” Bill Moon was pleased, a 1952 grad uate of A&M, President of the Tulsa Aggie Club, a national representative of the Asso ciation of Former Students and a member of the Century Club, you might say he had a bit of a bias. However, he said it didn’t in terfere with his son’s decision. “During the recruiting, I stayed out of it,” he said. Yet having a “good Ag” for a father didn’t hurt the Aggies chances. “He’s been going down there (to Col lege Station) since he was old enough to walk.” And now that he can run, a 4.8 in th^! 40, A&M fought for his services against some 30 different schools, including Ne^ braska, Oklahoma, Southern Methodist,’ Arkansas, Kansas, Wyoming and USC. Bill Moon said his son chose A&M be-; cause of the facilites here and the friendli ness of the students. He added that the ru mored recruitng violations and probations for SMU, Kansas and Nebraska influenced his son. In winning Moon, the Aggies get an all-around athlete who lettered in basket ball, track, plays tennis, enjoys snow skiing, and even plays a little ice hockey. Moon tips the scales at 260-pounds, but his dad says they will tip even farther. The 6-6 Moon just recently turned 18 and is lifting weights regularly. See Recruits page 16 s and in* in thedora| r-o ys, CaliLl i States a medal. 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