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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 ^^^MeiVsBosketboll^ 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. The toughest job you’ll ever love We admit it. It takes a dif ferent kind of person to be a Peace Corps volunteer. We won’t mislead you with glowing pictures of exotic lands. The hours as a volunteer are long. The pay is modest. And the frustrations sometimes seem overwhelming. 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