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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.
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