Page 10/The BattalionAThursday, March 6, 1986
Sports
By CAI
Lady Ags fall to Coogs in tourney
Watkins scores 37 to lead UH into semifinals against Texas
From Staff and Wire Reports
Lynn Hickey
DALLAS -— Houston beat Texas
A&M, 80-73, in Wednesday’s first
round of the fourth annual South
west Conference Women’s Post-Sea
son Classic at Moody Coliseum.
A&M now has lost each of its four
first-round SWC tournament games.
The Lady Aggies lost to Houston in
the opening round of last year’s
tournament, 84-72.
A&M finishes the season with a
16-13 overall record.
The Lady Aggies had split with
the Lady Cougars during the regu-
Women’s Basketball
lar season, losing 80-75 in Hofheinz
Pavilion arid winning 71-70 in G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
Sonya Watkins, Houston’s 6-1 se
nior center, set a tournament recbrd
with 37 points in the A&M game.
Watkins finished the regular season
as the conference’s leading scorer,
averaging 20.7 points per game. She
also led the Cougars in rebounding
with 8 a game.
A&M’s all-time leading scorer,
guard Lisa Langston, ended her ca
reer with the Aggies in her home
town of Dallas.
Houston, 5-3 in SWC tournament
play, improved its season record to
19-9.
Going into Wednesday night’s
game, A&M Coach Lynn Hickey was
concerned with the Lady Aggies’ in
experience, as she has been all year
long.
“Houston is a senior group with a
lot to prove,” Hickey said. “We’re so
young and naive that we still don’t
know that you’re not supposed to go
out and beat a group like that.”
Houston now goes on to challenge
No. 1 Texas (16-0 in the SWC and .
27-0 overall) in a semifinal game at 8
tonight. The Lady Longhorns, who
received a first-round bye and have
a 7-0 record in three previous tour
naments, have never lost to a confer
ence opponent in 56 games.
Hickey said LIT, which leads the
nation with a 55 percent field goal
average as a team, may be ripe for an
upset.
“Any time you play a team for the
third time in a season, you just don’t
know what’s going to happen,”
Hickey said. “(The Longhorns) are
in a very, very dangerous position.”
Lisa Langston
Razorbacks fend off
Mustang rally, 82-75
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scored 24 points and grabbed 11 re
bounds to lead the Arkansas Lady
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Southern Methodist in the first
game of the Women’s Southwest
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State’s Bryan McDonald takes the attempted pickoff throw Wednes
day at Olsen Field. A&M (12-6) takes a 10-game winning streak into
today’s double-header with Northeast Louisiana in Monroe, La.
cut the margin to 6
with 2:22 left, but
closer.
Felicia Bluitt led
with 16 points.
The Lady Razorbacks were tied
with Texas Tech with 13-3 SWC re
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