Thursday, February 7, 1985TThe Battalion/Page 11
Baylor threatens blowout;
A&M’s late rally falls short
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m, By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Sports Editor
Quicker than you can say, “Here
we go again,” the Texas A&M wom
en’s basketball team was on the verge
of a dramatic second half comeback
against the Baylor Bears last night.
Down by 19 points at halftime, the
Aggies put on a second half surge.
Ovei an I I minute span, the Ags
outscored the Bears 23-2.
Then, with just 3:22 left in the
apime, the Aggies had the ball trail
ing 55-54.
That was as close as the Ags got.
A&M forward Jenni Edgar was
called for an offensive charge. Bay
lor forward Terri Moore took ad
vantage of A&M’s mistake by driving
the lane and scoring an easy lay-up.
The Bears stole the inbound pass
after the bucket and that was all she
wrote. Baylor left G. Rollie White
with a 67-65 win.
For the Ags (10-10, 3-7 in SWC),
he story was the same. The Ags fell
jehind early by turning the ball over
nd just not executing. Then in the
econd half, A&M rallied and played
inspired basketball.
That’s been the Aggies’ routine
lie last few games.
“It’s the same old story,” A&M
(loach Lynn Hickey said. “We had a
real comeback in the second half.
11 I can do is praise them for their
econd half play. But, all I can do is
e negative about the first half.
“It is frustrating for this to keep
jfiappening. We know we can beat
these people.”
For senior center Ann Trinka
ach close loss seems to hurt a little
Snore.
“It seems like we come so close,”
aid Trinka. “We just can’t seem to
1* get over the hump. We came back
pretty good considering we were
ord,
^Blown by 20 at one point.
st and
“I guess the whole team isn’t re
ady to play. W'e go in spurts and that
ers!.. j ust won ’ t work.”
‘ oul #: Hickey said falling behind early
, .fend then having to play catch-up is
for those.Kguing old.
I “We have done it so much,”
sition, esfttjickev said. “The first time it’s a
■ount. n j ce thing to see. When you do it
Jhree or four times, it gets frustra-
I ting.”
I Aggie starting center Michell Ta
tum, who had 27 points and 21 re
bounds, said the team talked about
execution at halftime, and then went
out and executed.
“We knew we could comeback in
the second half,” Tatum said. “At
halftime, we talked about execution.
We just weren’t ready in the first
half. We’ve got to be ready at the
start, so we don’t have to catch-up in
the second half.”
In the first half, the Bears’ press
(breed the Ags to turn the ball over
nine times. The quicker Baylor team
dominated the Ags from the outside
and the inside.
“Our backcourt is so much quick
er,” Baylor Head Coach Pam Davis
said. “We just handle the ball a lot
better than they do.”
Tatum said the Bear’s ferocious
press did hinder the Ags in the first
half.
“We just weren’t in the game in
the first half,” Tatum said. lV We just
kind of panicked and threw the ball
away. In the second half we got the
ball down the court.”
Davis said several things were in
volved in A&M’s second half surge.
“We started celebrating a little
early,” Davis said. “We lost our in
tensity in the second half. Plus, A&M
handled the press a lot better.
“This A&M group can really play.
They try hard and have some good
athletes. They aren’t given the credit
for being as good a team as I think
they are.”
Hickey said beating the press and
the first half blahs are a matter of
desire.
‘T hey just decided they wanted to
go after them,” Hickey said. “We
can’t keep waiting. We have got to
get mad and go out and get these
people.”
A&M’s bench played a total of 48
minutes, but came up with only six
points and four rebounds although
Romy Gandy led the team in assists
with seven.
Trinka, who had six points and
three rebounds coming off the
bench, has been an integral part of
the Ags lately.
“I’m just doing my job,” Trinka
Photo by ANTHONY S. CASPER
Texas A&M guard Beth Young (13) drives through the lane
for a short jump shot between two Baylor defender during
the Aggies’ 67-65 loss to the Bears Wednesday night in G.
Rollie White Coliseum. A&M hosts Miami (Fla.) Saturday.
said. ; “I’m glad I’m getting the
chance to play. It’s not like I’m fight
ing for a starting position or any
thing. I just want to help out. Being
the oldest one on the team, I feel like
I can be a leader on the court.’’Just
as she does on the court, Tatum feels
the Ags will rebound from the loss.
When asked about Saturday
night’s contest with the University of
Miami, Tatum was quick to respond,
“We’re going to win.”
SWC Roundup
Sutton's Razorbacks upset Bliss' No. 4 Mustangs
Associated Press
Arkansas 69, SMU 66
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Ar-
jkansas Coach Eddie Sutton said he
vas glad Byron Irvin’s jump shot
had returned to help the Razorbacks
Ito a 69-66 victory over Southern
|Methodist University in a Southwest
Conference basketball game
Vednesday night.
“It’s been on vacation,” Sutton
^aid of Irvin’s jump shot. “(Byron Ir
vin) hit some big shots over their
zone. At halftime, I told our team
lyron was shooting so well, we
needed to get the ball in his hands.”
Irvin had 18 points and made
nine of 12 from the floor, only one
)f those inside. Arkansas’ Charles
lalentine, who had a career-high 29
joints in a 63-60 overtime loss to
sMU earlier, scored 17 points, in-
bluding 13 in the second half.
“I’ve been dreaming for a day like
this,” Irvin said. “To play this well
against one of the best teams in the
tation is special. I guess you could
by that about our whole team.”
SMU Coach Dave Bliss said the
game was hard fought, and praised
Irvin’s performance. “And Arkansas
is, of course, a great team at home,”
Miss said. The fourth-ranked Mus
tangs have not won in Barnhill
Vrena since 1976.
Freshman Kenny Hutchinson
calmly made two f ree throws with 16
seconds remaining to ice the Razor-
packs’ victory over SMU.
“When I came back in the game
late. Coach Sutton told me they
would foul me,” Hutchinson said. “I
knew I had to hit two clutch foul
shots and I was ready to hit them.
“While I was on the line, Carl
bright spit at me. The refs didn’t
j>ee it, but I didn’t let it bother me. I
just shot the ball.”
J ' Hutchinson, hitting less than 50
percent from the free-throw line
during the year, gave Arkansas a 67-
64 lead. SMU’s Jon Koncak made a
rebound basket with seven seconds
remaining, but the Mustangs didn’t
foul for five seconds and then Ar
kansas center Joe Kleine made two
free throws.
The Arkansas victory tightened
the SWC race. SMU is 8-2 in the
league and 18-3 for the season. Ar
kansas, 16-8 on the year, is 7-3 in the
conference, along with Texas A&M.
Arkansas’ Eddie Sutton
SMU’s Dave Bliss
“ll$ teen on vacation. (Byron Irvin) hit some big shots
over their zone. At halftime, I told our team Byron was
shooting so well, we needed to get the ball in his hands. ”
if! Arkansas Coach Eddie Sutton
Houston 94, Texas 80
reu A
scored 20 points to lead five Hous
ton players in double figures and the
Cougars used a baseline-to-baseline
pressing defense to wilt the Texas
Longhorns 94-80 in a Southwest
Conference basketball game
Wednesday night.
The Cougars ended a four-game
losing streak and improved their re
cord to 14-8 for the season and 6-4
in SWC play. The Longhorns fell to
11-9 and 4-6.
Houston opened the game in a
full court pressing defense and stuck
with the strategy throughout the
game, forcing the Longhorns into 23
turnovers in the game.
Texas, which defeated the Cou
gars 61-58 in their first meeting this
season, led twice in the opening min
utes but trailed 48-37 at halftime
and never made a second half
charge.
Mike Wacker scored a game-high
22 points to lead the Longhorns fol
lowed by Alex Broadway with 13
and John Brownlee with 12.
Alvin Franklin and Eric Dickens
each scored 18 points for Houston,
followed by Rickie Winslow with 16
and Braxton Clark with 10.
Rice 62, TCU 61
FORT WORTH — Senior for
ward Tony Barnett scored a career-
high 32 points Wednesday night in
leading Rice to a 62-61 Southwest
Conference victory over Texas
Christian.
The win broke a 7-game Owl tos
sing streak and upped their record
to 9-11 overall, 2-8 in SWC play.
TCU fell to 12-9 and 4-6.
The Horned Frogs jumped out to
a quick 8-0 lead at the start, but Rice
rallied to take a 31-28 lead at half
time. The Owls pushed their advan
tage to 11 points, 44-33, with 13
minutes remaining on a Barnett
jumper.
TCU closed in the later stages and
led by three, 61-58, with 2:48 to go.
But Rice moved back into the lead
and Norman Anderson’s jumper
with three seconds left fell short and
TCU’s three-game win streak was
broken.
Dennis Nutt led Frogs’ scorers
with 17 points.
Rice Coach Tommy Suitts said, “I
guess we might say that we got it in
the hole just often enough to win. I
was really proud of the way our team
hung in there and fought back.”
“Rice has always played us tough,”
TCU Coach Jim Killingsworth said.
Lewis" life
not good
as LA gold
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — Life for
Carl Lewis after the Olympics
hasn’t always been as bright as
the gold medals he won in Los
Angeles last summer.
Other American Olympic
heroes have signed lucrative en
dorsement contracts in their
home country. Lewis has not.
Some reporters, bothered by
Lewis’ lack of availability before
and during the Olympics, have
portrayed him as arrogant and
aloof.
Damaging rumors have circu
lated that he has used cocaine
and steroids, and that he is a ho
mosexual.
Deserved or not, Lewis, who
claimed gold medals in the 100-
and 200-meter dashes, the 400-
meter relay and long jump, has a
tainted public image.
“1 just don’t understand it,” he
told The Oregonian on Monday.
“I haven’t said anything to make
a person hate me. These people
are entitled to their opinion, I
guess, whether right or wrong. I
feel they’re wrong.”
He has competed twice in the
1985 U.S. indoor circuit, winning
the long jump with a leap of 2/
feet, 10 3 /4 inches in the Millrose
Games at New York, and winning
the 60 in 6.1 seconds at Satur
day’s Dallas Times Herald Invita
tional.
After winning at Dallas, Lewis
issued a terse statement to re
porters and walked away. The
statement said “I am continually
appalled and flabbergasted by
the media’s treatment of me. I
am going to continue to give in
terviews. I’ll keep trucking.
That’s who I am and that’s what I
will stay. That’s all I’ve got to
say.”
Lewis was in Portland to accept
the Prefontaine Award at the
Hayward Banquet of Champions,
given to the world’s top track and
field athlete through a vote of
athletes in a poll conducted by
Track & Field News. During the
banquet, he watched a film of his
Olympic heroics.
“Looking back at the films
brings back the same feelings I
had during the Olympics,” he
said. “It brings a frog to my
throat.
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