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Sports Editor dp. Cartoonist Hogs by 2 'Horns by 12 Red Raiders by 1 Stangs by 18 Wildcats by 2 Tigers by 7 Gators by 7 Hawkeyes by 14 Hurricanes by 4 Falcons by 10 Pokes by 3 Oilers by 6 6-5-1 64-29-3 Hogs by 3 'Horns by 4 Red Raiders by 1 Stangs by 10 Bruins by 2 Tigers by 3 Gators by 4 Hawkeyes by 14 Hurricanes by 7 Falcons by 2 Redskins by 3 Oilers by 3 8-3-1 63-30-3 Doug Hall Sports Writer Hogs by 3 Homs by 10 Red Raiders by 6 Stangs by 13 Wildcats by 3 Tigers by 3 Gators by 2 Hawkeyes by 7 Hurricanes by 4 Falcons by 7 Redskins by 5 Oilers by 7 7-4-1 56-37-3 Pete Herndon Sports Writer Hogs by 7 Homs by 5 Frogs by 4 Stangs by 14 Bruins by 14 Tide by 1 Gators by 3 Hawkeyes by 3 Hurricanes by 1 Falcons by 3 Pokes by 6 Oilers by 4 6-5-1 55-38-3 SWC stepping on Red Raiders With most of tiie “Eyes of Texas” firmly fixed on Houston and Little Rock, the most entertaining and im portant game in the Southwest Con ference will be played in Lubbock. When Texas takes on Houston, the Horns will be trying to stay alive in the hunt for the league championship. When Arkansas hosts Baylor, the Bears will put their unblemished conference slate to its severest lest of the season. BRANDON BERRY Sports Viewpoint So, in a battle of battered bones against tired-out tadpoles, who stands to escape the inglorious igno miny of a last-place finish? Central — schools that once served as Tech prep factories — are non starring at >MU, A&M, Arkansas and Texas. But when the Horned Frogs of TCU invade the West Texas domain of the Tech Red Raiders, approxi mately 30,0(H) die-hard fans will be treated to the only game in the con ference that really means something. TCU and Tech are both 0-5 in the conference, have both already lost to Rice and will both lose their remain ing games. Lubbock will be the battle ground and to the victors go the spoils of eighth place. To the losers go the ag onies associated with ninth place. This is college football drama at its finest and its only a wonder that it isn’t the Raycom SWC Game of the Week. The strangest thing about these tna two teams is that they were both un defeated at different points in this football season. TCU opened the season with wins over Tulane and Kansas State. But SMU stopped the “Rolling Loads” win streak, which began a seven-week long series of futilities for the Frogs. TCU starts freshmen everywhere, and the inexperience is manifesting itself in confusion, mistakes and pe nalties. The Red Raiders, meanwhile, used their wishbone offense to gal lop off to three straight nonconfe rence victories. But Tech’s brief run of success was successfully “de-boned” by the born-again Baylor Bears in a 3I-0 pasting. Tech has tried breaking the wish bone, throwing from the flexbone, connecting the arm bone directly to the leg bone and throwing the dogs a bone, but the Raiders don’t seem to possess enough beef to compete with their much-bigger SWC rivals. The Horned Frogs are headed for better times for the same reasons they are now experiencing prob lems. Their freshmen, who coin cidentally are ranked by nearly ev eryone as the best recruiting class in the SWC, will someday be seniors and TCU will someday be back in the lilly-padded paradise of con tenders and bowl games. Raider Coach Jerry Moore, who has failed to re-establish the pipe lines that once fueled Tech as far as the Orange Bowl, is now rumored to be on his wav out. The wishbone offensive experi ment has failed miserably and illus trated why the SWC deserted the formation years ago. Watson Brown has given the tra- ditionallv-doormattish Rice Owls a new offense, some much-needed wins and a new lease on somewhere other than the conference cellar. The Raiders, isolated from the rest of the conference by miles of fertile fields and fetid desert, have lost their ability to successfully com pete in the SWC because of an in ability to harvest one of the lew crops that grows in the West Texas sun — good high school football players. And about the only name being seriously bandied about as being the most-likely replacement for Moore is former A&M coach Emory Bellard, who presently leads the Mississippi State Bulldogs and achieved his last ing fame by being the “f ather of the wishbone.” Some would think the Raiders would have learned their lesson. The best of the highly-regarded bunches of talent at Odessa Per mian. Midland Lee and San Angelo So, while everyone else tunes in to Houston or L.ittle Rock, the smart observer will be watching Lubbod.a lame duck coach and a team that could be settling in for a long-term lease in the SW(^ basement. A&M lacrosse team hosts Fall Classic By DOUG HALL Sports Writer The Texas A&M lacrosse team has a mission. First, the Aggies are hosting the 5th Annual A&M Ball Classic La crosse Tournament this weekend, g reparing them for next spring’s outhwest Association spring sched ule. Secondly, the Ags plan to prove that there are some fine lacrosse teams south of the Mason-Dixon line. “This is the largest tournament in the Southwest,” said Steve Mathia- son, a senior A&M midfielder from Houston. “But if we play up to our capability, we should win it, even though Texas and Sam Houston (State) will be tough.” The tourney, which will be held on the Ormond R. Simpson Drill Field Saturday and Sunday, includes ten teams from the South. SMU, TCU, Baylor, LSU and Southwes tern will all be in the tourney’s bracket. According to Mathiason, in the past five years, the Aggies have grown accustomed to winning games against southern opponents. “We are a good lacrosse team,” Mathiason said. “We expect to win a majority of the games we p/ay in. There are some teams that nave good programs as well, that we have to gear Tor, such as Tulane and (Texas) Tech. They have given us problems in the past. But if we play our game, we can beat — we should beat — anyone.” In fact, since 1981, the Aggies have been finalists in the Southwest College Association Championship three times, and finished third an other. Mathiason credits the Aggies’ suc cess to a combination of good ath letes — from all over the country, not just the North — and a strong la crosse training program. “We have a lot of man-power,” said Mathiason, who is serving as publicity director for the A&M tour ney. “As of this year, we have seven midfield lines (each line consists of three players) — most teams have trouble running four. We usually run three or four regularly, and once the game is in hand we’ll put in the others, who Ate t>'Aslca\Vy rookies or first-year players.” Mathiason said the Ags have seve ral talented players, who have come from good lacrosse programs in the North, but a majority of the team has learned the finer aspects of the game while at A&M. “Some people say you have to have a core of northern players,” Mathiason said. “But we’ve got a lot of guys who didn’t start playing reg ularly until they got here. They’ve been taught through our system how to play, and by the time they’re in their third or fourth year, they can play really good lacrosse against folks. i Mathiason said the level of play in the South has improved quite a Hit since he came in as a freshman. “U’s improved a great te said. “There is no question about)!. When I came in as freshman, which was in the ’82 season, we smokedev- erybody. /t was pretty much a joke, “But now, it’s not that we’ve got ten worse, it’s just that a lot of otner teams have gotten better and have learned to play good lacrosse.” The Aggies will open this week end’s tourney Saturday morning at9 a.m. against OSU, and then play Rice at l p.m. Game times for Saturdav are 9, II, I and 3. Sunday’s schedule, de- S endent on Saturday’s results, wil e posted Saturday afternoon. (if\ you £ Ac E © RECLAIIVI THE at NOVACON Kfififesr GAMING CONVENTION MOV. 9th Sc 10th events include : AD«£rD , Champions , Micro Armor , and MORE! x s Roc! ing i Clip mg, Olaj I the ( 13. won d tion. t L gamt goal time 1 and i strais £ helpt Turr R conn A CHIM 701 l