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Monday, February 20, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9
Ags finish third
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Mahres take gold, silver
Photo by DEANSAITO
Aggie center Jimmie Gilbert smiles with deter
mination as he prepares to shoot against 7-foot
SMU center Jon Koncak. The Ags lost 60-58.
United Press International
SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia —
Ski racing twins Phil and Steve
Maine of the United States
snapped out of their season
long slump to outclass the com
petition Sunday and win the
gold and silver medals in the
men’s Olympic slalom.
The 26-year-old Mahres,
from White Pass, Wash., sud
denly regained their form when
it counted for their 1-2 victory.
Didier Bouvet, 22, a French
outsider whose best result be
fore was eighth in a World Cup
slalom, skied the race of his life
to lake the bronze medal.
Ironically, it was Steve Mahre
who was ahead after the first of
the two runs with Phil in third
spot — the twins separated by
Sweden’s Jonas Nilsson. But
Phil staged a blistering second
run to place first overall with
Steve, skiing that leg more cau
tiously, slipping back to second.
Bouvet was fifth after the
first run but had a fantastic sec
ond run to move up to third
place overall.
The Olympic medals pro
duced spectacular ends to the
Mahres’ racing careers. They
both said they intend to retire
shortly. Phil, World Cup cham
pion in 1981, 1982 and 1983,
and Steve, who has finished 58
times in the top 15 in World
Cup races, were having a bad
season this year — until Sun
day.
Phil’s total time in winning
the gold at Sarajevo was 1:39.41
minutes — 21-100ths of a sec
ond ahead of Steve’s 1:39.62.
Bouvet posted 1:40.20 minutes.
U.S. men had never won a
gold medal in Alpine competi
tion, but Bill Johnson broke
that slump earlier this week by
scoring an upset victory in the
downhill and the Mahres added
to it with their 1-2 finish Sun
day.
Phil Mahre’s victory also gave
U.S. skiers three of the six Al
pine events — Debbie Arms-
tong won the women’s giant sla
lom, with teammate Christin
Cooper taking the silver.
But the Mahres — perhaps
fortunately — did not have to
contend with Swedish star In-
gemar Stenmark and Luxem
bourg’s Marc Girardelli. Of the
seven slalom races contested on
the World Cup circuit this sea
son, Stenmark and Girardelli
had won three apiece.
Stenmark was barred from
Sarajevo because of semi-pro
fessionalism while Girardelli, al
though skiing for Luxembourg,
is an Austrian national and
could not race for Luxembourg
because he did not have a pass
port from that country.
Steve Mahre had what ap
peared to be a comfortable lead
after the first run, 0.67 seconds
ahead of Nilsson and 0.70 faster
than his brother.
But Phil posted the second
fastest time in the second run —
47.86 seconds — to move into
the golden slot while Steve
clocked a cautious 48.77 sec
onds which was the eighth best
time in the second leg.
Mahre was very relaxed for
someone who had just won an
Olympic gold medal. In fact he
said the slalom at Sarajevo was
just another race.
“I was confident after four
days of good training and felt I
could win,” Phil Mahre said.
But the emotion showed
through three hours later al
though for a very different rea
son — Phil got the news that he
was a father for the second time
with his wife Holly having had a
baby boy while he was racing.
“She was at home doing all
the work and I was out here
playing,” Phil said, adding that
he would have preferred to be
with his wife despite the glory
of Olympic gold to crown his ca
reer.
Twin brother Steve, although
‘This is more of an
event for the public so
it’s a bigger race. So I
feel it’s a big victory
for everybody — and
for myself. ’ — Phil
Mahre
“kinda disappointed” that he
missed the gold, was still happy
enough with his silver.
“If it’s not me, it better be
him,” Steve said.
Steve, who had a flawless first
run, said, “I was a little disap
pointed. I had to have a perfect
second run in order to beat
Phil.”
Bouvet was third fastest in
the second run with a time of
48.21 seconds which was
enough to move him up to
third, just 5-100ths of a second
ahead of Nilsson who slipped
back to fourth place overall.
Top time in the second run
went to Italy’s Oswald Toetsch
— 47.67 seconds, which moved
him up from seventh into fifth
place.
There were 60 gates in the
first run and 58 gates. Both
tracks were hard and sometimes
icy but conditions for the race
were ideal with sunshine and
temperatures just below freez
ing.
An enormous crowd of
55,000 turned out for the race
but the mainly Yugoslav specta
tors had to be told repeatedly by
loudspeaker to stop whistling
and booing at non-Yugoslav
racers.
As it was, the best Yugoslav
performance was the seventh
place by 27-year-old veteran
Bojan Krizaj.
Phil was World Gup cham
pion three years running, from
1981 to 1983, and was second in
the 1980 Lake Placid Olympic
slalom.
“This is more of an event for
the public so it’s a bigger race.
So I feel it’s a big victory for ev
erybody — and for myself,” he
said. “I feel like it was just an
other World Gup race. I had
two good runs and I was a little
lucky a lot of other people made
mistakes.”
Both Mahres have said they
intend to retire from racing
once the current season is over
and Steve would be leaving the
international race circuit with
almost as many honors as Phil.
He is reigning world giant sla
lom champion, placing first in
that event in Schladming, Aus
tria, in 1982, and has been 58
times in the top 15 point scorers
at World Gup events.
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By BOB CASTER
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points on a reverse layup and
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the Aggies went ahead 54-51
with 2:43 left in the game. But
with 1:50 left, Davis tied the
game up for the Mustangs with
a free throw.
The Aggies took the rebound
played the stall, waiting for the
last shot to materialize. That
shot came with three seconds
left and was taken by Crite and
bounced in and back out of the
bucket, forcing the game into
overtime, lied at 54-54. A last-
second foul by Darnell Williams
sent Davis to the free-lhrow line
for SMU and in that final sec
ond, Davis was able to do what
the Aggies had attempted all
night.
Meanwhile, the women de
feated SMU 75-61 behind cen
ter Michell Tatum’s 26 points
and 20 rebounds. Lisa Lan
gston, the only other Aggie in
double figures, added 13.
The women play the Univer
sity of Texas tonight in Austin.
The Longhorns are the top-
ranked team in the nation this
year.
But Davis shocked the Ag
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■ttempts from the line. More
nporlantly, Davis put in his
two free throws with one
:cond left in overtime to put
tawn any hopes for a badly
leeded Aggie victory.
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By DAVE SCOTT
Sports Writer
“A gut-check.”
That’s what head coach
Shelby Metcalf termed the Ag
gies’ 60-58 loss to SMU Satur
day.
Metcalf used that termino
logy because it Lakes guts, cour
age, for players to keep fighting
when any mistake could mean
responsibility for a loss.
Three of the last four games
for A&M have been “gut-check
ers” and losses. The Aggies lost
by one to Rice and by another
by a single point to Arkansas.
When Metcalf said the close
games and gut-checks are good
for a team only “Only if you
pass them.” He said he likes
players who are willing to un
dergo a “gut-check”.
“I like those people who are
willing to take the responsibility
of being a hero,” he said.
Forward Winston Crite could
be one of those people. He took
the responsibility of taking the
last shot in regulation, which he
missed.
Trying to be a hero is tough,
but being a goat is worse.
“We would like to win a few
of them,” Crite said.
Guard Darnell Williams
agreed. “These one point losses
hurt.” he said.
Williams may have been
hurting the most. With one sec
ond remaining in overtime, he
was called for a foul that gave
SMU two game-winning free
throw attempts.
When the whistle blew and
the referee pointed at Williams,
his eyes bulged wide in disbe
lief, he collapsed to the court
and remained face down for
several seconds.
But Metcalf didn’t blame Wil
liams, although he was disap
pointed with the outcome of the
game.
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