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Wednesday, February 12, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9
Aggies title hopes ride on road
A&M forward Mike Clifford looks to pass the The second-place Aggies travel to Fort Worth to-
ball off to one of his teammates under the goal. night for a battle with first-place TCU.
A&M to face
front-runner
TCU tonight
By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Sports Editor
Just four days ago, Texas A&M
was on top of the Southwest Confer
ence basketball standings looking
down on the rest of the field. But
two points and 1:51 later, the Aggies
found themselves in second place,
looking up at TCU and Texas.
Tonight the Aggies (8-2 in SWC,
14-8 overall) are hoping to climb
back into the SWC driver’s seat when
they travel to Fort Worth for a 7:30
p.m. showdown with the Horned
Frogs (9-2, 16-5) at Daniel-Meyer
Coliseum.
“It’s going to be tough,” A&M
Coach Shelby Metcalf said. “TCU
has been playing great basketball.
They looked good (in a 67-47 win
over Baylor) Saturday.”
While the Frogs were winning, the
Aggies took it on the chin against
SMU Saturday night. A&M’s 58-56
setback moved TCU and Texas a
half game up on the Aggies.
“We’ve got to bounce back,” Met
calf said. “We really needed to beat
SMU and we didn’t get the job do
ne.”
And A&M’s job doesn’t get any
easier.
After tonight’s jaunt to Fort
Worth, the Aggies travel to Austin
for a meeting with the Longhorns.
A&M also faces road trips to Rice
and Arkansas in its final six confer
ence games.
“We have a real tough situation
right now because we have to go to
TCU (Fort Worth) and to Austin,”
Metcalf said. “But it can be done. We
just have to suck it up and go do it.”
While TCU seems to have the eas
iest route to the title, since they host
both A&M and Texas, SMU guard
Butch Moore issued a warning for
the Horned Frogs.
“(A&M’s) still in the conference
race,” Moore said. “The Aggies have
a very good basketball team. If I
could tell TCU anything, I’d tell
them not to count out the Aggies.”
The Frogs will probably take
Moore’s advice, especially since the
Aggies possess the SWC’s leading
scorer and one the conference’s
strongest inside duos.
A&M guard Don Marbury, who
leads the SWC in scoring at 22.8
points a game, is capable of instant
offense anytime. Marbury scored 32
and 30 points in the two games be
fore the SMU game. However,
against the Mustangs, he could mus
ter only 12 points.
“I just had a bad shooting night,”
Marbury said. “We took some tough
lumps against SMU. But we’re think
ing about TCU now. It’s a big game.
We have to come back and play
hard.”
The Aggies’ inside game contin
ues to give opposing teams fits.
Center Jimmie Gilbert (12.6
points and 7.6 rebounds) and for
ward Winston Crite (12.3, 7.2) will
hold the key to the Aggies’ success
against the Horned Frogs.
TCU will rely on forward Carven
Holcombe for inside points, guard
Carl Lott for assists and forward
Larry Richard for rebounds.
Lendl, Lloyd win first-round matches
Associated Press
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Top-
seeded Ivan Lendl escaped a serve
banging battle with John Sadri with
a 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 victory Tuesday, win
ning the tense tiebreaker 8-6 to ad
vance to the second round of the
$1.8 million Lipton International
Players Championships tennis tour
nament.
Earlier, Chris Evert Lloyd, the
No. 1 seed among the women, held
off scrappy 15-year-old Susan
Sloane 6-4, 6-4 Tuesday afternoon
despite a stopped-up nose and an in
effective serve.
The Lloyd-Sloane match followed
the day’s biggest upset, a 6-3, 4-6, 7-
6 (7-5) victory by Chile’s Ricardo
Acuna over 12th-seeded American
Paul Annacone.
In the other men’s play, No. 15
Andres Gomez of Ecuador beat Emi
lio Sanchez of Spain 6-7, 6-3, 6-4;
No. 19 Thierry Tulasne of France
ousted Sammy Giammalva 7-5, 4-6,
6-3; and No. 25 Peter Lundgren of
Sweden defeated Jeremy Bates of
Great Britain 6-3, 6-0.
Lendl appeared to be the excep
tion to the tough first-match rule
here on the hard courts at Boca West
when he cruised through the first set
against Sadri. But his first-round
match wasn’t destined to be an easy
one.
Sadri, riding his big serve, began
to blast his service in the second set.
Lendl couldn’t make a dent in Sa-
dri’s serve, and he lost his own in the
eighth game to allow Sadri to even
the match at one set each.
In the third set, the power serving
exhibition from both players contin
ued until Sadri broke the world’s
top-ranked player in the seventh
game. But Lendl, the reigning U.S.
Open champion, came right back in
a long eighth game that went to
deuce three times.
They held serve the rest of the
way to force the deciding tiebreaker.
Lendl appeared in control again
when he won the first five points of
the tiebreaker.
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