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eAg seniors walk off winners I We’re looking for a few good men.
After four years of heartbreak
id disappointment, the seniors on
Texas A&M women’s basketball
m finally walked oft the court
nets Saturday night,
or three years, the women’s team
It —and lost consistently. In fact,
It since 1980 had the women even
lished over .500.
ith Saturday night’s 78-b7 win
Rice, the Aggies finished the
>n 14-13 in Head Coach Lynn
ey’s first season at A&M. For
six seniors — Janet Dunkham,
i Edgar, Romy Gandy, Mary
Swerngin, Michell Tatum and
I Ann Irinka — the game in G. Rollie
W ite Coliseum was a first and a last.
t was the first time they had
walked off as season winners, but it
wastheirlast in a maroon uniform.
11 ‘There’s nothing like waiting until
yo.r last game of your last year to do
sonething," Edgar said.
II The last time across G. Rollie
W lite was the sweetest.
Il'It feels great,” Tatum said. “It
wasn’t very pretty, but we got the job
dote. Our slow start had to do with
lieing our last game. I was kind of
sir kyat the start. The dedication be
fore the ball game got me real emo-
jl ial.”
■ ’or Dunkham, the reali/ation that
ji|ias her last game came on Friday,
bu the aftershock hasn’t been felt
■ ‘(Friday) in practice it hit me,”
Dunkham said. "I started having
lejis in my eyes. All our goals were
I the line tonight. This would be
m first season over .500. The reality
th this is my last season won’t hit
:until the season’s over,
ffl lwas pretty pumped up before
the game. It’s been a long four
■lickey said she was pleased the
Texas A&M’s Beth Young (13) tries to take
the ball from Rice’s Angie Phea (12). The
Aggies defeated the Owls 78-67 Saturday
Photo by DEAN SAITO
night to record their first winning season in
five years. A&M will play its first SWC tour
nament game Tuesday against Houston.
seniors had one moment to remem-
ber, but hoped it wouldn’t be their
last memorable game of the season.
“I am very pleased for them,”
Hickey said. “They worked hard.
They put a lot of effort into practice.
"We have a lot to look forward to
now. We have a trip to Dallas we can
work on now. I hope it’s not over.
We’ll just take things one step at a
time. We have to be patient.”
Not only did the win assure the
Ags of a winning season, but it tied
the Ags for fifth in the Southwest
Conference with Baylor.
The Aggies will play Houston in
the first round of the post-season
tournament Tuesday night at 7 p.m.
in Hofheinz Pavilion. If they win, it
will send them to Dallas for the final
rounds of the SWC tournament this
weekend.
A&M’s seniors contributed 49 of
the Aggies’ 78 points and 30 of its 41
rebounds against Rice. Tatum had
17 points, second on the team be
hind junior Lisa Langston’s 24, and
had a game-high 13 rebounds.
For Tatum and the rest of the se
niors, at least one game remains, but
they’ve at least gone out winners —
finally.
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,3 ' 5 '| Houston 79, SMU 76
■ HOUSTON — Alvin Franklin hit
ii waa four crucial free throws in the final
~ mimite and Eric Dickens scored 21
burtf *poims to lead the Houston Cougars
" c ' e ! to a 79-76 victory ovei No. 13South-
:rn Methodist Sunday.
SMU held a 54-4.5 advantage eat l\
the fourth quarter when Dickens
ired six straight points and helped
JeCougars run off a 19-6 streak to
Li A fake a lit-62 lead with 8:50 remain
(i I ijgin the game.
■■^1 iFranklin, who finished the game
jith 16 points, was fouled twice in
i qualilf be final minute and put the game
cl not r by for the Cougars with four fire
iat brill rows.
vho hi Greg Anderson added 19 points
lumero ||rHouston, which finished the reg-
Barseason with a 16-12 record over-
e Tilfa: all and 8-8 in the conference.
enbautMThe Mustangs, 21-8 overall and
diev li t K)-6 in SWC play, were paced by Jon
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Koncak, who poured in 24 points.
Carl Wright had 22 and Larry Davis
added 18.
Houston will meet SMU again Fri
day in the conference tournament.
Texas 71, USC 70
AUS TIN — Mike Wacker tipped
in a missed jump shot with nine sec
onds left to give Texas a 71-70 vic
tory over Southern California Sun
day.
Ron Holmes, Southern Califor
nia’s high sCorer with 20 points,
missed only his second shot in 12 at
tempts when his 15-footer fell short
at the buzzer.
The Trojans are 18-8 and tied for
first in the Pacific Athletic Confers
ence 10 with a 12-4 record. Texas is
15-12 and ranked seventh in the
Southwest Conference with a 7-9 re
cord.
The Longhorns’ John Brownlee
scored a season-high 31 points and
Wacker finished with 24.
Wayne Carlander, who hit seven
of 11 shots from the field, finished
with 16 points to move into first
place on USC’s all-time leading
scorer list with 1,485 points.
Texas took its biggest lead of the
game, 57-50, with 8:27 left to play,
but saw it dwindle to one point. 69-
68, at 1:25. Troy LaMar put the
Trojans ahead on a layup with 27
seconds left, setting up Wacker’s he
roics after Brownlee and Karl Wil-
lock were both off the mark.
Slocum gets
Ag football
promotion
R.C. Slocum, Texas A&M’s de
fensive coordinator for the past
three years, was named the Ag
gies’ assistant head football coach
over the weekend.
Slocum will also continue his
role as defensive coordiator and
linebacker coach for the Aggies.
“R.C.’s loyalty to Texas A&M is
unmatched and he does a very
good job in all phases of the game
of football,” A&M Coach Jackie
Sherrill said. “Cm proud to have
him accept this new assignment
and Cm positive he will do an out
standing job.”
Slocum said, “Naturally, I’m
delighted. Anytime you get a pro
motion and recognition for the
job you have been doing by the
person you’re working for, it is
very meaningful....”
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