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Rugby raids Rockies
By DAVE SCOTT
Sports Writer
Although the Texas A&M Rugby team’s third
place finish in the Western National Champion
ships was slightly disappointing, they were lucky
the tournament was held at all. They were even
more fortunate they made it to Colorado to com
pete.
Listening to club president Stewart Nolan re
count the story, it sounds as if the team’s adven
ture would have made “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
look like a fairy tale.
Heavy snowstorms blanketed most of Colo
rado last week and Boulder, Colo., the site of the
tournament, was hit, postponing play. However,
the team members didn’t hear about the news
until they had already flown from Houston to
Dallas, where they were to catch a connecting
flight to Boulder.
The delay was made easier by the airline treat
ing the team to cocktails during the layover in
Dallas. After the tournament was moved to snow-
free Pueblo, Colo., the team caught their Denver-
bound flight and the alcohol continued to flow.
So much so, that they drank the plane dry, Nolan
said.
Although the tournament officials had found
a clear, dry field, the two day tournament was
going to be squeezed into just Sunday. This left
the 23 A&M rugby players stranded with nothing
to do. Undaunted, the team members jumped
into five rental cars and navigated the treache
rously iced mountain passes to go skiing in Win-
terpark, Colo.
The players managed to pull themselves off
the ski slopes and leave some new found female
acquaintences so they could play Rugby.
The team won two of three, losing to New
Mexico State University, 0-3, in its opening
match, and then rebounding to beat the Univer
sity of Missouri-Rolla, 7-4 and Nebraska, 21-3.
Eight teams competed in the tournament.
The Aggies qualified for the Western Nation
als by winning the Texas Collegiate Champion
ships last month. The Aggies third place finish in
Colorado was not good enough to advance to the
national tourney. Only the winner advances to
the national tournament, something an A&M
team has never done.
The Aggies, who finished their season 20-3-1,
did place five members on the Western National
Championship Select Side. They were: Joel Hick-
erson, Bill “Hoover” Baker, Curtis “Buster”
Deussen, Mike Livergood and Nolan.
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play just as tough off the field. Here, the team
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SEATTLE — Mark Aguirre
led 29 points and Jay Vin-
r^faUeading the Dallas Mav-
” llCS H lo a 197-90 win over the
an l *le SuperSonics Tuesday
forcing a fifth and final
in Dallas in the best-of-
: playoff series.
iseum on the campus of South
ern Methodist University.
Aguirre scored nine points in
the first quarter when the Mav
ericks went on top, 27-20, a lead
they never relinquished. Seattle
pulled to within 45-43, with one
minute left in the first half, but
Dallas steadily pulled away in
the second half.
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the dale of their first road vic
tory as a franchise.
added 16.
Aquirre scored 12 points in
the third period when the Mav
ericks exploded for a 79-65
lead. Vincent sealed the victory
by scoring 11 of his points in the
final period.
Rolando Blackman scored 21
points and Pat Cummings 16
for Dallas.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Janice
Lawrence of Louisiana Tech
was the first pick in Tuesday’s
player draft of the fledgling
Women’s American Basketball
Association.
The nine teams in the league,
which will begin play this fall,
went through seven rounds of
collegiate selections and an ad
ditional seven rounds of free
agent picks of players who al
ready had finished their college
eligibility.
picked Maria Nicholson of Vir
ginia Union; New Jersey chose
Pam McGee from Southern
California and Dallas chose
Tennessee’s Mary Ostrowski.
Chanel Hamilton of Washing
ton, D.C.
Valdosta State provided both
the fifth and six picks, with Jan
ice Washington going to Hous
ton and Pam Johnson being se
lected by Baltimore.
Columbus, getting the first
choice in the free agent draft,
took Lynette Woodard, for
merly of Kansas, while Chicago
went for 6-8 Ann Donovan, the
tallest player in the draft, who
played at Old Dominion.
The fifth game will be played
iursday at the Moody Col-
The Mavericks had not won
Jack Sikma’s 27 points paced
the Sonics, while A1 Wood
In other playoff action: Bos
ton over Washington, 99-96,
Philadelphia beat New Jersey,
110-102, Atlanta downed Mil
waukee, 100-97, and Utah over
Denver, 129-124. Phoenix and
Portland played late.
Lawrence, a 6-3 center who
averaged 16.7 points and 8.1 re
bounds the past season, was
chosen by the New York team.
Milwaukee, selecting second,
Kim Mulkey became the sec
ond Louisiana Tech player go
to in the first round when At
lanta made her the seventh
pick. Chicago then took Lori
Bauman of Drake and Colum
bus finished the first round of
the college draft by taking
Rounding out the free agent
picks were Cindy Noble (Ten
nessee) to Atlanta; Barbara
Kennedy (Clemson) to Balti
more; Lee Henry (Tennessee)
to Houston; Nancy Lieberman
(Old Dominion) to Dallas; Patty
Joe Hedges (Kentucky) to New
Jersey; Tara Heis (Maryland) to
Milwaukee; and Molly Bolin
(Grandview) to New York.
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