Monday, February 10, 1986/The Battalion/Page 13
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Members of the Texas A&M Rugby Club (horizon
tal stripes) reach for the sky to try and grab a loose
ball during its match with the Alamo City Rugby
Photo by GREG BAILEY
Club Saturday. Alamo City won the first side, 12-7,
and A&M took the second side, 14-4. A&M hosts
Corpus Christi Saturday at 1 p.m.
A&M men
swimmers
rip Rice in
dual meet
By KEN SURY
Assistant Sports Editor
Texas A&M’s men’s swimming
team won easily, while the short-
handed women’s team lost a close
competition in a dual meet with Rice
Saturday at the P.L. Downs Natato-
rium.
The Aggie men, who won 63-41,
had at least a first-place win in every
event except the diving competition
because they don’t have any divers.
The Ag wotnen, meanwhile, were
tied with Rice at 52 points going into
the final event, the 400-yard free
style relay.
But since the women’s team has
only five swimmers and a limit of
three events each can swim in, A&M
Swimming Coach Mel Nash said he
bypassed the relay events to concen
trate on individual swims.
Nash said he felt the Aggies swam
well and competed as he expected
they would — with one exception.
“Terri Hurley’s loss to the Rice di
ver (Pam Berry) in the diving com
petition was totally unexpected,”
Nash said. “We’ve been having prob
lems with our outdoor pool (includ
ing the diving area) and so Terri was
unable to practice all week.
“We even had to send her to Rice
for the diving competition. Last year
she beat the Rice diver by over 60
points, but this time not being able to
practice an entire week really hurt.”
Each of the Ag women won her
speciality events, as did the A&M
men, who also did well swimming
some of their weaker events.
Aggies Rachel Benzel and Suz
anne Fiori scored a close 1-2 finish in
the 1,650-yard freestyle, finishing
0.42 seconds apart.
A&M’s Chris O’Neil, who has al
ready qualified for the NCAA
Championships in the 100-yard but
terfly, won that event with a time of
48.83 seconds, nearly four seconds
faster than A&M’s Chris Fanning
who finished second.
Saturday, A&M will take on per
ennial-powerhouse Texas in a dual
meet at the P.L. Downs Natatorium
starting at 2 p.m.
It will be the Aggies’ last meet be
fore the Southwest Conference
Championships in Austin. The
women compete Feb. 27-March 1
and the men on March 15.
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By TOM TAGLIABUE
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M Lady Aggies
used a pressure man-to-man defense
and the inside scoring of Paula
Crutcher, Nette Garrett and Lisa
Jordan to defeat the SMU Lady
Mustangs 78-68 Saturday night.
The three Aggie players com
bined for 52 of A&M’s 78 points and
helped keep the Ags in the hunt for
a Southwest Conference tournament
bid.
The Lady Ags won their third
game in a row and upped their re
cord to 13-9 overall, but more im
portantly took sole possession of
fourth place in the SWC, with a 6-4
record.
Crutcher led the Ags with 19
points, eight assists and 17 rebounds
— the most by a Lady Aggie this sea
son.
Garrett came off the bench to
score 18 points and pull down eight
rebounds.
Jordan dropped in a career-high
15 points and grabbed nine re
bounds, while Lisa Langston con
tributed 10 points to the Lady Ags’
attack.
A&M Coach Lynn Hickey said the
win was a team effort and helps keep
the momentum going toward the
tournament.
A&M’s Nette Garrett
“We put good pressure on the
ball, we ran the ball well at times and
we saw each other on the floor,”
Hickey said.
“(SMU) played a lot of multiple
defenses. They played a box-and-
one, all kinds of crazy stuff defensi
vely. I think we adjusted to it pretty
well because you don’t see those
things very often.”
Hickey said if there was anything
negative about the game, it would be
turnovers — 21 of them for the Ags
compared to 18 for SMU. The turn
overs kept the game close as SMU
fought back late in the first half.
I he Ags at one point were held
scoieless lor nearly four minutes as
A&M’s Paula Crutcher
SMU tied the game at 26-26 with
4:33 to play before halftime.
SMU took the lead three times in
the next minute before the Ags took
the lead for good, scoring eight un
answered points to lead at the half
36-31.
The Aggies opened up a 49-39
lead early in the second half on the
inside play of Crutcher and Garrett.
Although SMU closed the gap to
five points with 10 minutes left to
play, the Aggies opened up their of
fense and took their biggest lead, 70-
56, with 4:01 left.
SMU was led by Sheila Bryant,
who had 19 points and nine re
bounds coming off the bench.
Hickey said the key to the game
was rebounding and scoring from a
variety of players.
“The (girls) worked hard. We’ve
been trying to it get across to them
that they’ve got to keep going,”
Hickey said. “This is the time of the
year in which you have to get bet
ter.”
A&M’s Lisa Langston was held to
only It) points in 38 minutes on the
court, as SMU blanketed her all
night.
“1 think the big key tonight, is
(SMU) played a box-and-one on Lisa
Langston most of the game — they
took her out and we still won the
game,” Hickey said. “That has got to
start telling something to some other
people. We’ve got some more people
to go to.”
The Aggies began the contest in
their zone defense, but changed to
the man-to-man, which they used
throughout most of the game.,. The
Ags’ defense caused 18 SMU turn
overs and limited the Ponies’ field
goal percentage to just under 40
percent.
The Aggies have six conference
games remaining before the SWC
tournament. This week they must
take their three-game winning
streak on the road against TCU and
Texas, the No. 1-ranked team in the
nation.
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