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Monday, March 10, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9 Sports PRIME RIB NITE Tech ‘taketh’ SWC Classic title $9 95 Red Raiders swipe NCAA bid from Aggies with 67-63 win INCLUDES: SALAD, BAKED POTATO, VEGETABLE Photo by DEAN SAITO A&M’s Don Marbury (left) pulls the ball out of reach of Texas Tech’s Sean Gay (right) as Aggie Gary Lewis looks on. The Red Raiders upset the Aggies Sunday in Dallas’ Reunion Arena, 67-63. BEFORE YOU SPEND ALL A YOUR MONEY g Balfour House IS HAVING A <& g 777SALE MARCH 7-13 »£ All Sweats, 2 Stadium Blankets, $777 S* And Jerseys ■5 313Dominik M-F10-6 ^ — 693-0379 SAT 10-5 Ti/itTi Our Tteiv S&iufa) By KEN SURY Assistant Sports Editor d r nzcAtam/ DALLAS — Texas Tech giveth and Texas Tech taketh away. But it was all take Sunday as the Red Raiders defeated Texas A&M 67-63 before 11,323 in Reunion Arena in the final of the Southwest Conference Post-Season Basketball Classic XI and earn an automatic bid to the NCAA' Tournament, i RESTAURANTS Located across from the Hilton • in the Chimney Hill Center Basketball A&M had to settle for an National Invitational Tournament bid. The Red Raiders were kind to the Aggies as the SWC season ended. A&M made use of Tech’s cold shoot ing at G. Rollie White Coliseum to snap a three-game losing streak and enter the tourney with the longest SWC win streak. Then the Red Raiders gave the Aggies a third of the conference title as they knocked off Texas and TCU in the final week of regular season play. But Tech’s kindness ended Sun day as Tony Benford drilled shots from the outside and Dewayne Chism hammered away inside to de fend its SWC tournament title. The Red Raiders, the No. 5 seed in the tourney, had the majority of the Reunion Arena spectators root ing for them as they walked onto the court. But second-seeded A&M silenced the Tech fans early on a Jimmie Gil bert dunk and Winston Crite’s thiee- point play to open a 5-2 lead. Aggie turnovers, however, and back-to-back jump shots by Benford gave the Red Raiders a 14-9 margin with 11:33 left in the first half. A&M senior A1 Pulliam, who sparked the Aggies to Friday’s win over Arkansas, then came to life off the bench after missing a layup at the 13:55 mark and scored three straight baskets to cut the gap to 18- 17 with 8:46 to go in the half. A&M guard Don Marbury then added a 15-foot jumper and Crite dropped in a layup to boost the Ag gies to a 21-18 lead with just over seven minutes remaining. For the rest of the first half, the YMCA CAMP GRADY SPRUCE 601 N. Akard Dallas, TX 75201 EXPERIENCE A FEELING THAT WILL LAST FOREVER ON CAMPUS MONDAY MARCH 10 MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER DARLING, I LOVE YOU... See Tech, page 10 Say What You Want Battalion Personals 845-2611 IOTERURBAIV .drink specials. y,'\on^‘ a - .,VTEN' GVVf 750 Ltt® peer 5P .m.-c' ose Tuesday Mexican Beer pouis Tecate & Corona \)os equ'N 5:00 pan. ^ close 505 University Dr. The INTERURBAN 846-8741 66 an aggie tradition”