Monday, January 27, 19867The Battalion/Page 13
Hickey’s Ags end 3-game skid
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By DOUG HALL
Sports Writer
After three consecutive Southwest
Conference losses — the last two on
the road — Texas A&M Women’s
Basketball Coach Lynn Hickey was
glad to be back in the friendly con-
tines of G. Rollie
Saturday night.
The fact that the Lady Aggies’ op
ponent, the Rice Owls, were 0-6 in
the SWC, offered Hickey’s team an
even better chance to break their los
ing streak.
Not to be denied, the Lady Ags
used a pressure defense, a strong in
side game and their overwhelming
quickness to trounce the Lady Owls,
90-62, and raise their SWC record to
4-3.
“We’re a little bit quicker than
they (the Owls) are,” Hickey said.
“It’s kind of like us against Texas.
G. Rollie White Coliseum. The Aggies blasted the
Owls, 90-62, to break a three-game losing streak.
Photo by ANTHONY S. CASPER
A&M center Nette Garrett (42) battles Rice for
ward Marci Zajac (30) for a loose ball Saturday at
It’s a case of being half a step quicker
to the ball all the time. ’
Indeed, A&M, now 10-8 overall,
used its quickness to pressure Rice
into 19 turnovers and come up with
12 steals.
After last Wednesday’s 80-75 loss
to Houston, Hickey decided the
Lady Ags would use full-court pres
sure against Rice to help open up
their fastbreak offense.
“I was very pleased,” Hickey said.
“We wanted to press full-court
throughout the game. In the second
half, (leading 43-20) we tried to
change the pace some and fell into a
1-3-1 zone. We tried to play some
man-to-man, but (Rice center Holly)
Jones hurt us.”
All fourteen members of the Ag
gie squad saw playing time Saturday
night, with all but three contributing
points.
Senior forward Lisa Langston and
junior transfer Evelyn Sanders led
the Ags with 15 points apiece.
Hickey, who started three fresh
men, was especially pleased with the
play of freshman center Lisa Jordan,
who had 12 points and led all re
bounders with 10.
“I thought Lisa Jordan played an
excellent game,” Hickey said. “She
worked the whole time. She was
physical and talking the whole time.”
Sanders, who has averaged only
17 minutes of playing time and 6.7
points in A&M’s previous SWC
games, was a key figure in the Ags’
tough defense.
“When we bring Evelyn in,”
Hickey safd, “it’s because we know
that she’s going to pick up the de
fensive part of (the game) and make
some things happen. We’re a much
better team when we’re able to run
the ball. We seem to run it better
when she (Sanders) is at the point of
that defense.”
Hickey acknowledged the fact
that beating Rice was a far cry from
beating No. I-ranked Texas, but
said A&M showed a great deal of
promise for the future.
“Granted, we weren’t playing the
best team in the conference,” she
said. “But what was pleasing was
that, at one time, we had three fresh
men and one sophomore out there
(on the court), so we’re really talking
about the future.”
Ag golfers
stand 11th
in Mexico
GUADALAJARA, Mexico —
The Texas A&M women’s golf
team opened its spring season
Sunday at the Oklahoma State In
vitational and stands in 11th-
place after the first round of play.
A&M, the defending South
west Conference Champions,
shot a combined score of 315 on
the Guadalajara Country Club
course to finish 18 strokes behind
tourney-leading Florida.
SMU, a team which A&M Coif
Coach Kitty Holley says will be a
strong contender in this year’s
SWC race, carded a 302 to end
the opening round tied for sec
ond-place with Tulsa.
In the individual standings,
Texas’ Sue Ginter leads all play
ers with an even par round of 72.
Six golfers are tied for second
with 73s.
Fiona Conner, one of the Ag
gies’ four returning golfers,
posted A&M’s best round with a
4-over par 76.
The tourney’s second round
begins today and the final round
is scheduled for Tuesday.
Sutton seals Phoenix Open
with risky shot on 18th green
Associated Press
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Hal Sutton,
under pressure from Tony Sills,
played a courageous shot over the
corner of a lake on the 18th green
that nailed down the title in the
Phoenix Open Golf Tournament
Sunday.
Sutton, the leader all the way this
hot, sunny day, needed only a round
of par 71 as Sills and Calvin Peete
were unable to sustain a challenge in
the occasionally gusty winds.
Sutton, a former PGA titleholder,
gained this sixth victory of his five-
year PGA Tour career with a 267 to
tal, 17 shots under par on the Phoe
nix Country Club course.
The victory was worth $90,000
from the total purse of $500,000 and
pushed his earnings for three tour
naments this season to $ 137,967.
Sills, 30, not yet a winner in three
full seasons as a touring pro, re
corded his career-high finish with a
68 that tied him for second with
Peete, the defending titleholder
here and a runaway winner two
weeks ago in the Tournament of
Champions.
They were at 269, 15 under par —
one better than Peete’s winning total
last year — and two shots back. Each
won $44,000.
Peete also had a 3-under-par 68
despite an erratic putter.
“I had a chance to put some heat
on him but I just couldn’t keep the
putter hot. I missed short birdie
putts on the 12th and 15th and that
just about did it,” Peete said.
Dan Forsman, who scored an ea
gle-3 on the final hole, was next at
66-270 but never really got in the ti
tle chase.
He was followed by Don Pooley
and Australian Greg Norman, tied
at 271. Norman had a closing 70,
Pooley 69.
No one else really was in it.
Sutton, now the winner of three
official events and a team title in the
last six months, had a two-stroke
lead over Sills going to the par-5
18th.
But Sills put the pressure on him
when he ran a long-iron shot over
the sun-baked fairway, onto the
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green and to within six feet of the
flag. He had that putt for eagle-3.
Sutton, in the fairway, never hesi
tated. Playing it safe, laying it up, he
said, never entered his mind.
He, too, took an iron, a 2-iron
from 246 yards, started it out over
the corner of the lake.
“I played it toward the left bunker
and it went there like an arrow,” Sut
ton said. It kicked off the grass of a
mound facing the bunker, kicked
onto the green and ran through to
the fringe, some 15 feet away.
That did it.
But it wasn’t easy.
“It was a tough putt,” Sutton said.
“I was frozen against the fringe and
had to hit down on it. Sometimes a
shot like that can explode and you
run it 6-8 feet away.”
But he ran it up to within tap-in
distance and made the birdie putt.
That made moot the possibility of
Sills’ eagle. And Tony, who had
failed on a four-footer on the 17th,
also missed this one and had to settle
for a birdie that lifted him into a tie
for second.
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