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Sports Writer
exas A&M’s new women’s bas-
ball coach and assistant athletic
Bector, Lynn Ann Hickey, stressed
. Bt her coaching philosophy isn’t
►TanS Uly coaching at all — it’s teaching.
■ I really want to consider myself a
a is spon- Icher. We’ll be a fundamentally
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uly 9.For Hickey saitl in a telephone
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B. Kansas.
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Ber herself a teacher and not a
Wllpi Bprobably because she is a teacher.
^Hckey received a baclieloi ’s degree
ded Gull »i Education from Ouachita Baptist
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mem and [ Hickey moves into her second
BHtd coaching position after spend-
all tuition SI the last five years at Kansas Slate
r employ' University.
■'esanun lPf Hickey’s accomplishments at
BHnsas Slate are any indication of
Bat’s in store for Texas A&M, then
-— .tlu women’s basketball program
By finally turn itself around.
Ihickey hasn’t begun recruiting
I the Aggies yet, but since she
I lugs a 125-39 career record into
Iconftnes of G. Rollie White Col-
lum— no one’s going to rush her.
Bhi 1984, Kansas State advanced
tld seti int the NCAA regional tournament
ind thus Icapturing its third Big Eight con-
one withtlBence title in a row. The Wildcats
finished in the nation’s Top 10 with
a 25-6 season mark.
But 25 wins in the Big Eight isn’t
at all unusual for Hickey. Kansas
State won at least 20 games in every
one of her five years as head coach.
Hickey says the Big Eight is the fifth
best conference in the nation for
women’s basketball.
“Overall, the Big Eight has a bet
ter reputation than the Southwest
Conference,” Hickey said. “Kansas,
Missouri and Colorado are usually in
the Top 20.”
Texas A&M Associate Athletic Di
rector John David Crow is pleased
with the abilites of the Athletic De
partment’s newest employee.
“We are delighted to be able to
hire a person with such an outstand
ing record to head our women’s pro
gram,” Crow said. “Her teams have
won the Big 8 championship or Big
8 tournament the past three years
and she has demonstrated outstand
ing leadership abilities.”
But by hiring Hickey, the Athletic
Department has created another
problem. The present assistant ath
letic director, Kay Donn, is currently
in arbitration with the University.
Hickey, however, is not concerned
with that situation.
“I don’t think it’s my problem
really,” Hickey said. “I don’t think I
should worry too much about what
has gone on in the past. John David
Crow was very sincere in letting me
know that he wanted me to be
coach.”
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United Press International
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Ann
iommers hasn’t been to an Orioles’
lame in, oh, say 25 years and doesn’t
pow who Gary Roenicke is. But she
n’t wait to meet the man who won
[er$l million Sunday with a grand
lam homer.
Ms. Sommers, 45, won the jackpot
WMAR-TV Equitable Bank’s
lomerun Derby during the eighth
ai ming of the Baltimore Orioles’ con
test with the New York Yankees
when Roenicke hit his fourth career
grand slam.
“I can’t believe it. I’ve never won
anything,” said Ms. Sommers, a sec
retary in Seabrook, Md. “I’ve never
had this much altentionjpefore.”
Ms. Sommers said she is an
Orioles’ fan “only to a degree” and
hasn’t attended a game “in years and
years.”
“I’d say it’s been 25 years,” she
said.
Ms. Sommers said she’s too busy
to keep track of the current Orioles’
players, and never heard of Roe
nicke before her daughter called to
tell her the news.
“I’d like to meet him though and
thank him,” she said.
The instant millionairess said she
has no immediate plans for the
money, but plans to go to work Mon
day.
“I haven’t had time to think about
it,” she said.
WMAR-TV, the team’s flagship
station, and Equitable Bank pick
names as Orioles’ players come to
bat during a selected “lucky inning”
and award prizes depending on how
that player does.
It was the first time a player hit a
grand slam during a “lucky inning,”
a station official said.
United Press International
NEW YORK — With the two pre
mier centers already claimed, the
Chicago Bulls are expected to swal
low hard and settle merely for the
college Player of the Year in Tues
day’s NBA draft.
Akeem Olajuwon, the shot-block
ing 7-footer from the University of
Houston, will be the No. 1 pick when
the Houston Rockets open the draft.
The 10 rounds of selections begin
at noon EDT at Madison Square
Garden’s Felt Forum.
Last year, the Rockets also had the
top choice and selected 7-foot-4
Ralph Sampson. As a result of a 29-
53 record and a winning coin toss
with Portland, the Rockets get an
other crack at No. 1 and the chance
to pair two of the best big men in the
last decade of college basketball.
The Trail Blazers, who have
added high-scoring forward Kiki
Vandeweghe in Phase One of their
front line rebuilding program, need
a quality center to challenge the
Lakers in the West. Portland has al
ready announced it will choose 7-1
Sam Bowie of Kentucky, an adept
passer and rugged rebounder who
missed two seasons because of a frac
tured shin.
Michael Jordan of North Caro
lina, the college Player of the Year
and the best athlete in the draft, is
available with pick No. 3 and the
Bulls don’t figure to bypass the 6-6
swingman — despite a pressing need
for a center. After Olajuwon and
Bowie, there is a sharp decline in
available talent to patrol the middle.
“Portland has made it clear they
will take Bowie,” said Chicago Gen
eral Manager Rod Thorn Monday.
“We would have given very serious
consideration to him, but Jordan is
an outstanding player and barring
anything different, he’s our pick.
“We obviously believe that center
is our principal need, but you can’t
allow a top player to get by you just
in order to fill a need.”
As for Chicago Coach Kevin
Loughery, who envisions the electri
fying Tar Heel providing some volt
age at the gate, the choice is simple.
“How can you pass up a Michael
Jordan?” he asks.
That leaves Dallas, also hungry
for strength in the middle, with a
possible choice between Bowie’s
Wildcat teammate, 6-10 Melvin Tur
pin, and Sam Perkins of North Caro
lina.
Philadelphia, which has accumu
lated three first-round picks (Nos. 5,
10, 22), then picks between who
mever Dallas doesn’t take and
Charles Barkley, Auburn’s power
forward who blends bulk and bal
letic moves.
“This draft is very important for
us,” says 76ers general manager Pat
Williams. “We got these picks six
years ago so we have been pointing
to this draft for six years. We’d like
to go big at No. 5, at 10 go for the
best player and as for 22 ... who
knows?”
Completing the order of the first
round, it’s: Washington, San Anto
nio, the Clippers, Kansas City, Phila
delphia, Atlanta, Cleveland, Phoe
nix, Clippers, Dallas, Utah, New
Jersey, Indiana, Portland, Detroit,
Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Los An
geles and Boston.
Dallas, Portland and the Clippers,
who are seeking to relocate from San
Diego to Los Angeles, have two picks
each while Denver, Golden State,
New York and Seattle are without
first-round selections.
Two names to watch in the early
going are a pair of excellent point
guards, Leon Wood of Fullerton
State and Alvin Robertson of Arkan
sas.
At power forward are Otis
Thorpe of Providence, Anthony
Teachey of Wake Forest while the
top small forwards available are Mi
chael Young of Houston and Tony
Campbell of Ohio State.
“I think we can have a good sea
son if we (Sampson) get together,”
said Olajuwon. “I can’t say I am
going to guarantee a playoff berth
— maybe I’ll be on the bench — but
119158021 don’t regret my decision
to go hardship. I came to this coun
try looking for an education. I did
what the coaches told me to do and
this is the right decision now.
“I feel I can play against anybody.
There are good players in the NBA,
but I feel I can play against them.”
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United Press International
MAMARONECK, N.Y. — Fuzzy
Zoeller, whistling a happy tune in
the rain, destroyed Greg Norman
with a 68-foot birdie putt on the sec
ond hole of their playoff Monday
and carried on to capture the U.S.
Open Championship by eight shots.
Zoeller, who opened his round
with a pair of birdies, breezed to a 3-
under-par 67 and easily bested Nor
man’s erratic 75.
It was the largest winning margin
in an Open playoff since 1929, when
Bobby Jones defeated A1 Espinosa
by 23 shots in a 36-hole playoff at
this same course.
Zoeller’s incredible downhill putt
from the back of the green, coming
in the rain, was due payback for the
40-foot putt made by Norman on
the final hole Sunday to force the
18-hole playoff.
The 32-year-old, wise-cracking American ended the
suspense early on a damp, dreary day at Winged Foot.
He led by four shots after the fourth hole and five at
the turn.
The shot on No. 2 became even
sweeter for the new champion when
Norman double bogeyed the same
hole, thereby lifting Zoeller to a
three-shot lead.
And just like Sunday, when Zoel
ler waved a white towel in undis
guised admiration at Norman’s shot,
the blond Australian responded in
kind on the 18th green Monday.
The two then shook hands.
Unlike Sunday, though, when
Zoeller squandered a four-shot ad
vantage, he wasn’t nearly as gener
ous in the playoff.
The 32-year-old, wise-cracking
American ended the suspense early
on a damp, dreary day at Winged
Foot. He led by four shots after the
fourth hole and five at the turn.
This was Zoeller’s second major
championship. His first also came in
a playoff when he won the 1979
Masters from Tom Watson and Ed
Sneed in sudden death.
Both Zoeller and Norman opened
with birdies, but Zoeller then put the
pressure squarely on his Australian
rival by jumping to the three-shot
advantage on the second hole.
Norman, winner of the Kemper
Open two weeks ago for his first tri
umph on the American Tour to go
along with 29 other titles world
wide, bogeyed the third and fourth
holes, which Zoeller parred, drop
ping him four shots back.
Norman never was able to get un
tracked and he was guilty of three
consecutive bogeys starting on the
14th.
Norman had forced the playoff
on the final hole Sunday after he
sunk a 40-foot putt to save par, one
of the most remarkable shots in the
long history of the Open.
Curtis Strange took third place,
and tied for fourth place were
Johnny Miller and Jim Thorpe. Hale
Irwin, after holding or sharing the
lead for the first three rounds,
dropped him to sixth place.
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