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Aggie women swimmers
taper off against Coogs
By KENNETH PEMBERTON
Reporter
As the swimming season pro
gressed, Texas A&M Coach Mel
Mash hoped his No. 16-ranked wom
en’s team would be able to peak just
betore the end of the season and the
Southwest Conference Champion
ships. Over the weekend the season
ended, but A&M didn’t exactly peak
against Houston.
i A&M’s regular season ended on a
sour not^ Saturday as the women’s
team lost to the Cougars, 85-55.
Nash said it wasn’t so much that the
team failed to peak, it just sort of ta
pered off a bit.
1 “We’ve got a week and a half of
rest before the Southwest Confer
ence Championships,” Nash said.
“It’s a much needed rest.”
1 The Aggies’ attention now turns
toward the SWC Swim Champion
ships, beginning on Feb. 28.
i “We have a sprint-oriented team,”
Nash said. “We do have some prob
lems with distance swimmers but by-
the championships we should have
them worked out.”
I Long-distance swimming is what
really hurt A&M against Hous
ton.The Aggies lost all matches over
200 yards except for the 400-yard
freestyle relay.
| Houston Coach Phill Hansen said
the Cougars have peaked at the right
time of the season.
1 “On paper, it looked like a dose
meet, but (Friday night’s) diving
gave us an edge — a cushion,” Han
sen said. “It was the best meet we’ve
had all year. A&M is always tough
when we swim against them.”
i Nash said the Aggies were confi
dent going into the meet, despite
Houston’s overall team depth.
I "Coming into the meet, I thought
we could win, but Houston had qual
ity athletes with a lot of experience,”
he said. “This is our second loss
>y PETER ROCHA
AScM swimmer Vicki Moir comes up for a breath as she cuts
through the water in the 200-meter breastroke event. The No.
16 Aggie women’s team lost to Houston over the weekend.
A&M will next compete in the SWC Championships, Feb. 28.
(against 6 wins). I’m not worried.”
Nash was pleased with the perfor
mance of sophomore Britt Hoefs,
who had a season best time of
2:09.78 in the 200-yard butterfly be
hind Houston’s Teresa Rivera.
One problem Nash faces is the
exodus of seniors this year* Appar
ently, he has solved that problem
with top-notch recruiting, which he
described as “better than ever.”
Junior Jody Tanner said she was
nevertheless pleased with this sea
son.
“We had the smallest but strong
est team the Aggies have ever had,”
Tanner said. “We should do well at
the (SWC) Championships.”
Nash said the Texas Longhorns
are highly favored to capture the
SWC title, but the way the rest of the
teams Finish is still anyone’s guess.
“Everyone pretty much knows
that Texas will win the champion
ships, but the exciting part will be
the fight for second, third and
fourth places. It will probably be be
tween us, Houston and SMU.”
TANK MFNAMARA®
by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds
Tech, A&M still alive in SWC;
Arkansas caught in logjam
Associated Press
The Texas Tech Red Raiders and
the Texas A&M Aggies are back in
the middle of the Southwest Confer
ence basketball race, but it may be
adios for the Arkansas Razorbacks.
“In all likelihood this knocks us
out of the race,” admitted Arkansas
Coach Eddie Sutton after his Razor-
backs were stunned on Saturday 52-
50 by Texas Tech in Fayetteville.
Arkansas had won 19 straight
games in Barnhill Arena and it was
the first time the Red Raiders had
won a game there since 1974.
“Our team didn’t respond to the
challenge of playing for the
championship,” Sutton said. “Maybe
our players don’t know what it takes
to win. We just don’t lose here.”
The Arkansas loss coupled with
Texas A&M’s 67-60 victory over
Texas Christian locked the Aggies
and Red Raiders in second place
with 8-4 records. Both teams are a
full game behind Southern Method
ist at 9-3. Arkansas is now 8-5.
In other SWC games on Saturday,
ninth-ranked SMU ripped Louisville
72-64 to up the Mustangs’ overall re
cord to 20-5, while Texas edged
Baylor 75-72. And on Sunday,
Houston beat Rice 96-91.
Texas Tech Coach Gerald Myers,
who defeated Sutton in Fayetteville
for the First time, said “I think when
a team is able to defeat another team
with a great coach, it’s a great feel
ing.”
Sutton is now 119-7 in games
played on the Arkansas campus.
“This is one of the most disap
pointing losses I’ve ever absorbed
but give Texas Tech credit, they
played very well and Bubba Jen
nings is one of the Five or six best
players in our league,” said Sutton.
Jennings had 20 points in the vic
tory.
Kenny Brown, who poured in 18
points for the Aggies against the
Horned Frogs got a pregame pep
talk from Coach Shelby Metcalf.
“Coach told us the Horned Frogs
have beaten some good teams and
we knew it would be a tough game,”
Brown said. “We knew they were ca
pable of coming in here and beating
us.”
TCU gets a chance to redeem it
self on Wednesday night when the
league-leading Mustangs come call
ing.
Arkansas, Texas Tech and A&M
all have home games.Houston is at
Arkansas, Baylor is at Texas Tech
and Texas visits A&M.
SMU ended its non-conference
slate with victories over Kentucky,
Oklahoma North Carolina and
Louisville.
“At the start of the year we put on
the schedule Five big games like we
never had before,” said SMU Coach
Dave Bliss.
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