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Page 8/The Battalion/Friday, March 14, 1986 OHveras onlyA&M veteran of NCAAs By TOM TAGLIABUE Sports Writer Texas A&M senior triple juniper Francisco Oliveras leads the Texas A&M men’s track and field team into the NCAA indoor championships this weekend in Oklahoma City. Oliveras is the only current team member who has competed in an NCAA ■ championship Men’s Track before. Last year, he placed seventh at the NCAA outdoor meet. Along with Oliveras, A&M Track Coach Charlie Thomas sends freshman shot putter Randy Barnes, junior long jumper Ian James and freshman sprinters Stanley Kerr, Kendric Wesley and Maurice Holt into the NCAAs. Barnes, who was a second place finisher at the Southwest Confer ence indoor meet, qualified for the NCAAs at his first indoor meet ever. He won the shot and qualified with a put of 63 feet, S 3 /* inches. That mark was the sea son’s best for Barnes. James qualified for the NCAA meet in early February when he leaped 25 feet, 2% inches at the Dallas Times Hearltl Invitational. Kerr, who was an upset winner in the 60-yard dash at the SWC indoors February 15, qualified with a time of 6.22. Wesley and Holt both qualified in the 500-yard dash in the NCAA meet just a week ago at the “Last Chance” meet in Ari zona. While those six NCAA qual ifiers are in Oklahoma City, some 20 other men’s team members will travel to Houston to compete in A&M’s first outdoor meet of the season at the Rice Invitatio nal. Both the men’s and women’s team will compete March 21-22 at the Texas Southern Relays in Houston. It will be the first out door meet of the year where both the men’s and women’s teams will be represented. No. 1 Duke, Georgia Tech survive scares Associated Press Top-ranked Duke and No. 6 Georgia Tech had surprising battles Thursday as both struggled to vic tory in the opening round of the NCAA basketball tournament. Duke needed 27 points from Johnny Dawkins, including 20 in the second half, to come from behind af ter the intermission and defeat little- known Mississippi Valley State 85- 78, while Georgia Tech beat back unexpectedly tough Marist 68-53. “I knew we would present Duke with some defensive problems,” MVU Coach Lafayette Stribling said. “You (the media) thought we were just a little team that got here by luck. I said before there were 63 un derdogs (in the 64-team tourna ment), but I think you were trying to put me under the underdogs.” In other day games Thursday, Temple defeated Jacksonville 61-50 in overtime, Louisville stopped Drexel 93-73, No. 2 Kansas crushed North Carolina A&T 71-46, Villa- nova downed Virginia Tech 71-62 and Old Dominion defeated West Virginia 72-64. In night games, No. 12 Memphis State routed Ball State 95-63; 15th- ranked Oklahoma downed North eastern 80-74; No. 18 Michigan State edged Washington 72-70; Ala- bama-Birmingham nipped Missouri 66-64, and DePaul beat Virginia 72- 68. In later night games, it was Pur due vs. Louisiana State, and No. 8 North Carolina vs. Utah. Duke, now 33-3, was down by seven points on two occasions, the last time at 44-37 at the start of the second half of the East Regional game at Greensboro, N.C. Missis sippi Valley was down 69-67 before Duke finally pulled away with an eight-point run in which Dawkins scored six. “I didn’t think we were prepared for the quickness they had at all posi- NCAA Tournament tions,” Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski said. Consecutive baskets by Frank Smith and Keith Thomas gave Old Dominion the lead for good at 38-35 in the Monarchs’ victory over West Virginia, 22-1 1. Old Dominion, 23-7, led by Kenny Gattison’s game-high 27 points, will now meet Duke on Satur day. Mark Price scored 26 points as Georgia Tech, 26-6, used a 12-0 spurt over a four-minute spat) in the second half to pull away from Mar ist, 19-12, in the Southeast Regional at Baton Rouge, La. Marist, making its first NCAA tournament appearance, took a 40- 37 lead over Georgia Tech early in the second half bef ore the Regional's top-seeded team made its run. Defending national champion Vil- lanova, 23-13, got 20 points from Harold Jensen and held off a late surge by Virginia Tech, 22-9, for its victory. Appearing in its seventh straight NCAA tournament, Villanova will play Georgia Tech on Saturday. In the Midwest Regional at Day- ton, Ohio, sophomore center Tim Perry scored six points in overtime to lead Temple. 25-5, past JadsJ ville, 21-10. Perry, who missed the from of a bonus situation with threem ™ onds remaining that would given Temple the victory in repi lion, stored the Owls’ first pointsi lj|^ f the overtime. Ill Second-ranked Kansas, 32-3,la | four players in double figures.ledli | ass Danny Manning with 15, andu nevet threatened in toasting ps North Carolina A&T, 19-8 The top seed in the Midwestlt gional. Kansas will meet TetnpleSj u relay. Senior forward Billy Thomp#: scored a game-high 24 points an grabbed 10 rebounds as No. Lous ville. 27-7, pulled away in thesecoai half against Drexel, 19-12, in tit West Regional at Ogden, Utah Texas edges by New Mexico; BYU outlasts SMU (continued from page 7) a 30-point effort. Guard Kelvin Scarborough added 17 points and eight assists, but the Lobos could not offset Texas’ balanced attack. A tip-in basket by Davis with 4:40 left gave the Longhorns the lead for good. Brown countered with a free throw but Brownlee then hit back- to-back baskets and New Mexico could get no closer than 68-66 on a driving layup by Scarborough with seven seconds left. UT’s Wayne Thomas hit the first of two free throws with six seconds left to ensure Texas’ advance to the second round of the NIT. Texas, making its first appearance in the NIT since it won the tourna ment in 1980, is now 19-11. New Mexico finished the season at 17-14. break a 63-63 tie and advance BYU to the second round of the tourna ment. Brigham Young 67, SMU 63 PROVO, Utah — Brigham Young junior center Tom Gneiting scored 20 points, including a pair of critical free throws, to lead the Cougars past Southern Methodist 67-63 in the first round of the NIT Thursday night. Gneiting sank a pair of free throws with 12 seconds remaining to The Mustangs, led by Kevin Le wis’ game-high 27 points, had a chance at overtime when SMU guard Scott Johnson missed a field goal with five seconds left and Lewis rebounded. But Lewis’ turnaround jumper inside the key missed and the rebound was pulled down by BYU’s Jeff Chatman, who was fouled and sank two free throws to end the game. a free throw by Mustang guard Butch Moore. Moore hit the first shot and missed the second after a disputed blocking foul with 57 seconds left, but his missed shot was grabbed by Johnny Fuller who tipped it in. The victory gives BYU a 16-11 overall record, while SMU drops to 18-1 1. Mei I .im.ii lc< I t< < 29 .ii in and h\ as many as nine pointsintii sei ond hall. .. But Wilson stored 15 secondy ^ .j ( points to lead a Patriots'tomelad SMU trailed 41-36 at halftime, but battled back to tie the game 63-63 on George Mason 65, Lamar 63 BEAUMONT — Senior Ricky Wilson hit a 50-foot jumper with two seconds left to give George Mason a 65-63 win over Lamar Thursdav night in the first round of the NIT. short baseline shot to tie the stort 50. 1 he Cardinals stretched the to six points. 60-54. with live die- tiles left on a Inn Let In (aegAnde son. I ST( lice « their i tion i Palme pect 'hargt i Polii jberg s :er fol :iad rt uspic nurde But jicted Sitspec With 8: 19 to play Kenny Sandcn ,insl !! who h ad Ceoi gr Mason with! .... . shall n mints and I 3 assists, connectedt* I u With 3:06 to play, Wilson cot nected on a three-point playtouJ row the Cardinals’ lead to60-59 Bird on target for Celtics in 135-119 victory over Spurs A&M men in 3rd Ag Associated Press SAN ANTONIO — Forward Larry Bird missed just two shots and finished with 33 points in leading the Boston Celtics to a 135-119 NBA victory over the San Antonio Spurs Thursday night. Bird — whose only misses were a free throw and a three-point attempt — made four three-point shots, eight field goals and five free throws. The rest of the Celtics didn’t miss much in the first half either as they raced to an 80-69 lead. Boston hit 32 of 40 attempts bef ore the intermission for a blistering 80 percent from the field. Bird led the visitors’ first-half barrage, scoring 31 points and grab bing seven rebounds. San Antonio, which has lost 10 of its last 11 games, was led by Mike Mitchell’s 30 points. The Spurs played without three injured starters. Bird left all four of the Spurs who attempted to guard him shaking their heads. After the six-year veteran nailed his club record-set ting fourth three-point attempt, Spurs forward Jeff Lamp looked at a screaming Coach Cotton Fitzsim mons and said, shrugging, “I just can’t cover him out there, coach.” NBA Roundup at SWC meet WAS Rockets 426, Trail Blazers 448 HOUSTON — Playing without starting point guard John Lucas and center Akeem Olajuwon, the Houston Rockets’ relied on Ralph Sampson’s 32 points and 17 rebounds in a 126-1 18 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers Thursday night. Lucas did not dress after skipping a team practice on Wednesday. In his absence, Allen Leavell scored 22 pionts and rookie Steve Harris scored 13 points. Clyde Drexler led five Blazers in double figures with 26 points as Portland, 33-35, lost its ninth-straight road game. With 2:40 left in the third period, Houston led 84- 77, as Lewis Lloyd hit for 13 of his 17 points. The Rockets’ margin expanded to 94-81 when Robert Reid bit three jump shots and stole a pass resulting in two Jim Petersen free throws. Other Thursday Scores: CHICAGO 1 12 Denver 102 L A. LAKERS 105 Seattle 92 Late Wednesday Scores: Golden State 1 18 UTAH 1 1 1 person ^Icarrien lOulS A einmeI men’s swimming team linds '^“fllrounc (out th place .die! the first day of 4 _ AUSTIN The place alter me iirsictayon s j ona | a Southwest Conference swim nr . [ n j- Thursday. Blffice 1 eXaS. tilt ITlCITlbC d e fe n ding SwifTiminS SWC I pious, leads the pack with S| points. SMU is second with 263, lowed by Arkansas with 150 with 92. 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