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rally stifles
lady Aggies
By DOUG HALL
Sports Writer
For the second time against Ar
kansas, Texas A&M played 35
minutes of solid, competitive bas
ketball against the Lady Razor-
backs.
Unfortunately for A&M Coach
Lynn Hickey and Lady Aggies,
college basketball games last 40
minutes, as UA " '
defeated A&M Women’s
Basketball
urday.
“We did some really nice
things,” Hickey said. “For three-
quarters of the game, it was ours.
But we just didn’t have enough to
go into those last five minutes.”
The Lady Ags, 9-7 in the
Southwest Conference, took a
slim 36-34 lead into the locker
room at the half, after leading by
as many as seven points — 32-25
with 3:38 to go.
Both teams shot well in the sec
ond half as they traded baskets
which led to a 60-60 tie wdth 5:24
remaining.
But as UA guards Tracy Webb
(21 points, seven rebounds) and
Deborah Williams (15 points, five
rebounds) poured in the points,
the Lady Ags hit a cold spell.
A&M was led by its all-time
leading scorer, Lisa Langston,
with 16 points.
“At tne end, when we really
need to score, we got rattled,”
Langston said. “We had been tra
ding baskets with Arkansas the
whole game. I remember looking
at the scoreboard and seeing it
tied at 60. The next thing I know
it was 60-69.”
Hickey said the Lady Ags’ in
ability to get to the free-throw
line was a factor in the game.
A&M did hit 7-of-8 from the line,
but all those efforts came in the
second half after UA had built a
lead.
A&M will play Houston
Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Dallas’
Moody Coliseum in the opening
round of the SWC postseason
tournament. If A&M wins, it will
play No. 1 Texas, 27-0, which has
an opening round bye.
Miracle nets piece of SWC title for A&M
By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Sports Editor
Not only will the Texas A&M bas
ketball team have to kiss its sister,
but it’ll also have to kiss its cousin.
The regular season ended Sunday
and the standings showed a log jam
at the top — TCU, T exas and A&M.
So the Aggies got the unexpected
— another SWC Championship for
1985-86.
After an impressive 93-76 win
over Arkansas Saturday night in
Fayetteville, Ark., the Aggies needed
little more than a miracle to win a
share of the Southwest Conference
championship.
Last week, A&M Coach Shelby
Metcalf said, “Sure it’s possible (to tie
for the SWC title), but you’re talking
about applying logic to a conference
that doesn’t subscribe to it.”
A&M needed to win its remaining
two games. In addition, the Ags
needed TCU to lose its last two
games against Texas Tech and the
University of Houston and for
T exas to lose to Tech.
The Ags took care of their busi
ness by defeating Rice Wednesday
night and Arkansas Saturday af
ternoon.
T he win over the Hogs was the
Aggies first in Barnhill Arena since
1971.
The Aggies took control of the
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game with nine minutes left, out-
scoritig the Razorbacks 24-7 to go
ahead 66-48.
After that, the Hogs never got
closer than 13.
The key to the game was re
bounding as the Aggies pulled down
45 to the Razorbacks’ 29.
A&M guard Don Marbury got a
game-high 26 points on a 12-of-20
shooting day, while forward
Winston Crite added 22 and got a
game-high 11 rebounds.
The win was the Aggies’ fourth in
a row and left them with a 18-10
overall record and 12-4 SWC mark
heading into next weekend’s SWC
Tournament at Reunion Arena in
Dallas.
“We’ll go to the conference tour
nament with the longest winning
streak,” Metcalf said. “I’m pleased
with this year considering the people
we’ve played. I’m really happy for
our players. It’s a great thrill to win
at Barnhill. That will usually get you
the championship or a share of it.”
Which is exactly what it did.
The Aggies probably wouldn’t
mind giving the Cougars and Red
Raiders a little peck on the cheek.
The Horned Frogs lost to the Red
Raiders 62-52 Wednesday night and
followed that with an 85-83 to the
Cougars in Houston Coach Guy V.
Loewis’ last regular-season game Sat
urday night.
T ech pulled a second upset Sun
day afternoon with an exciting 63-62
win over Texas at the Erwin Center
in Austin — the first time the ’Horns
have lost at home this season.
So the Horned Frogs ended Sat
urday disappointed — their chance
at an undisputed title gone. The
’Horns went to bed smelling roses.
Sunday, however, the tables were
turned. Texas players sat dejectedly
on the bench after the one-point
loss.
Both days, the Aggies wete smil
ing.
Aggies ransack Ragin’ Cajuns, win 8th in a row
By TOM TAGLIABUE
Sports Writer
Mike Scanlin’s 4-for-8 hitting day,
including three home runs, helped
the Texas A&M baseball team to a
double-header sweep, 3-2 and 1 1-6,
of the Southwestern Louisiana Ra
gin’ Cajuns Sunday at Olsen Field.
A crowd of 775 saw the Aggies,
w ho have an eight game winning
streak, win — .
their 200th Baseball
game at Olsen
Field and improve their record to
10-6.
In the first game, Darryl Fry
pitched his second straight complete
game and upped his record to 3-1.
He gave up only two runs on four
hits, four walks and struck out six
Ragin’ Cajuns.
USL’s two scores came on solo
home runs by Todd Thomas in the
third and Ron Robicheaux in the
fourth.
Scanlin picked up the game-win
ning RBI in the first game with his
fourth home run of the year, which
came in the third with Jeff Schow
aboard.
Sunday night, the Aggies com
pleted the three-game sweep with an
11-6 stomping of the Cajuns, who
fell to 8-12.
The game looked like it would be
a repeat of Saturday’s 16-2 laugher,
as the Ags picked up seven runs off
of two USL pitchers in the first in
ning; .
Cajan pitcher Charlie Carter set
down Schow, the first Aggie batter,
and then proceeded to serve up four
singles and two walks for six runs.
Scott Livingstone and Scanlin hit
consecutive singles and Gary Geiger
drove them in with a single. David
Rodriguez and Pat James followed
with consecutive walks before Ever
Magallanes finished off Carter with
an RBI single.
Mery Waukau, who came in to
finish the first, was greeted by Robi
Chandler and Maury Martin, who
connected for RBI singles - driving in
two runs each. He then issued a walk
to Schow and gave up a single to Liv
ingstone.
The Aggie scoring threat was
A&M’s Jeff Schow (9) looks a pitch across the
plate during this weekend’s three-game series
Photo by JOHN MAKELY
with Southwestern Louisiana. The Aggies (10-6)
swept the Ragin’ Cajuns, 16-2, 3-2, 11-6.
stopped when Scanlin hit into a dou
ble-play.
A&M scored three more runs in
the fourth to go up 10-0. Mike Scan
lin led off the fourth with his fifth
home run of the year — a 400-foot
blast over the center field fence. It
was Scanlin’s first home run over the
“The Monster” in his four years at
A&M.
Kyle Atkinson (2-1) took the lead
and cruised through four innings
before giving up four runs in the
fifth and two runs in the sixth.
USL got an RBI double from
Thomas and a three-run double
from Randy Robicheaux in the fifth
to make it 10-4.
Scanlin answered in the fifth with
his sixth home run of the season —
his 29th career round-tripper, just
one shy of tying the A&M career
home run mark.
David Jones, Pat VVernig and
Barry Smith followed Atkinson to
the mound. No runs were scored off
the three Aggie relievers.
The Aggies went 8-0 and swept
three series in the last week.
“It was a great week for us,” A&M
Coach Mark Johnson said. “(The
w'ins this week) really helped us.
When we started the week, we
needed to play each game one game
at a time and kinda get things turned
around and play relaxed — and the
guys did.”
The A&M next plays Tuesday
when it takes on Sam Houston in a
double-header beginning at 1.
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