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Monday, December 15,1986/The Battalion/Page 7 Sports WIV UlCd, -•it, said Hole ie the series; ii as a memorii: : nething w- e ; iriate,” Reids*.; l 'ter getting iks we felt sure st way to rente n-Unam sene books ssociation of •ks in the sene mcerned witli t | - was her area!! id. "But evert : books on K tysics to these ’ill be purchase book will he £ i year, Myresai I be keptina srking Collect; »nd Metecrt: rary worb u» i and locaiedc O&M Build;; |ue with a me:: be placed nea raid. i houses boob bjects, and M; fy majors lepartmen ise the series a her resource iunt has beer om faculty, s: who wishes l I. ish to donaif lave any tp# irial should c 45-7327. ailint ugs * Lady Ags take 2nd in weekend tourney By Doug Hall Sports Writer „ For the second time in as many weekend tournaments, the Texas A&M women’s basketball team made a strong showing, but came up with the second-place trophy. Last weekend, it was the Ne braska Cornhuskers who de feated the Lady Aggies 83-79 in their own Converse-Hampton Inn tournament. This weekend the spoiler was No.7- ranked Cali fornia State-Long Beach which outdistanced the Lady Aggies 97- 71 in the championship game of the Long Beach Dial Classic. The Lady Aggies (3-4), who defeated Montana State Friday night by the score of 61-43, opened the game with a strong first half Saturday night, taking the lead by as many as 10 points on two occasions. Leading the way for the Aggies were Paula Crutcher, 18 points and four rebounds, Donna Roper, 12 points and four re bounds, and Lisa Jordan who fin ished with 11 points and a game- high 15 rebounds. The Lady Aggies’ 10-point lead, however, vanished quickly at the hands of strong play by the 49’ers senior forward Cindy Brown, 23 points and 13 re bounds, and sophomore guard Penny Toler, 25 points and four rebounds. Roper, the Aggies’ sophomore spark plug, was the only Aggie named to the all-tournament team. Brown was the tourna ment’s most valuable player. Aggies nip Cornhuskers 66-64 Dallas playoff hopes dashed after loss to Philadelphia . ye iscaped after! If in a stupoi d. lid the er. Lam Ho' | [drugs,50? m ought it was d he had a f ould seetlie ! ie tried to t ( lup was al» : i a loan “in® ; gave the s" 1 !' 1 some sytiif, | cense id called it' iund only 1 1* 1 ' IRVING (AP) — Quarterback I Matt Cavanaugh, starting for the second time this season, threw two touchdown passes to Kenny Jackson, including the game-winner with 3 minutes and 57 seconds to play, giv ing Philadelphia a 23-21 victory over Dallas on Sunday and knocking the Cowboys out of NFL playoff conten- j tion. The Eagles, who won their First NFC East division game, are 5-9-1. Dallas dropped to 7-8 and saw the end of its streak of 20 consecutive winning seasons, the longest such ac tive streak in professional sports. It’s only the third time in 20 years Dallas failed to qualify for the playoffs. Cowboys running back Herschel Walker ran 84 yards for a touch down, caught a scoring pass for 84 yards, and compiled a club-record 292 combined yards, rushing and re ceiving. Dallas led 21-16 with 5:01 to play after Walker caught a slant-in pass from Steve Pelluer and outraced the Eagles’ secondary for a touchdown. Cavanaugh, filling in because Randall Cunningham had a bruised thumb, took the Eagles 57 yards in two plays. Tight end John Spagnola caught a 26-yard pass. Jackson then out-jumped defender Ron Fellows on the next play for the touchdown. The Cowboys owned a 7-6 half time lead forged on Walker’s 84- yard touchdown run — longest in the NFL this year — in the first pe riod. The Eagles, who scored on field goals of 26 and 50 yards by Paul Mc- Fadden in the first half, seized a 13-7 lead in the third quarter. Linebacker Jody Schulz blocked Mike Saxon’s punt at the Dallas 11 and Cavanaugh flipped an 8-yard scoring pass to Jackson three plays later. Dallas retaliated on the final play of the third period with Pelluer’s 30- yard touchdown pass to Mike Renfro. Walker had 170 yards receiving on nine receptions and rushed six times for 122 yards. The old club re cord for combined yardage was 254 yards set by Tony Dorsett in 1978. Cavanaugh hit rookie fullback Andrew Toney with a 47-yard pass to set up McFadden’s 26-yard field goal, giving the Eagles a 3-0 early first period lead. Dallas went 99 yards in three plays to take the lead after a 38-yard punt by John Teltschik was killed at the Cowboys’ 1-yard line. Walker’s 84-yard run gave him 12 rushing touchdowns for the year to tie Tony Dorsett’s team record. The run tied Dorsett for second place in the Dallas record books. McFadden’s 50-yard field goal in the second period broke a string of eight straight misses over 40 yards. He hit a third field goal from 40 yards out in the third period to give the Eagles a 16-14 lead. Texas A&M got some crucial free- throw shooting from Todd Hollo way and a 20-point performance from Winston Crite to edge the Ne braska Cornhuskers 66-64 Sunday before 2,657 at G. Rollie White Col iseum. The game started out like it was going to be a Maroon and White massacre with A&M (4-1) jumping to a 14-1 lead early in the first half. But all good things came to an end for the Aggies as Nebraska (2-3) scraped its way back to take the lead 27-26 with 2 minutes, 54 seconds left in the first half. After A&M led 31-29 at halftime, the two teams came out in the sec ond half and set the stage for the Crite and Brian Carr show. Act I belonged to Crite, who pumped in eight straight points to open up a 41-35 margin for A&M. But Act II belonged to the sharp shooter Carr, who kept the Corn huskers in the game with three-point bombs and timely free throws down the stretch. Nebraska, however, was just about limited to only one shot every time down the court as the Aggies amassed 44 rebounds (21 offensive) compared to the Cornhuskers’ 27 to tal rebounds (10 offensive). A&M Coach Shelby Metcalf was impressed with the performance of two out of the three teams on the floor. “We played well, and they played well,” he said. “Usually, the playing isn’t as good as the officiating, but we exceeded them this time.” Although the Aggies were a much bigger squad than Nebraska, A&M couldn’t shake the pesty Cornhusk ers. “We never really felt safe out there as long as they had those shooters,” Crite said. The Aggies weren’t safe until Hol loway hit four straight free throws to give A&M a 64-60 lead with 1:07 left in the game. A&M’s Keron Graves scored the final two points of the game to secure the victory for the Aggies with two free throws coming at the :45 mark. Metcalf was pleased to get out of G. Rollie White with a win against a team that was much quicker than his Aggie squad. “They (Nebraska) can get up and down the floor as good as any team we’ve played,” he said. “It wasn’t a dogfight. It was more of a catfight — we got scratched, but we didn’t get bitten.” A&M finished the game with a 40.7 field goal percentage but man aged a 71.4 percentage at the free- throw line. A&M’s Winston Crite (21) goes for two against Nebraska as Paul Crawford (right) Photo by Bill Hughes looks on. The Aggies narrowly defeated tl Cornhuskers 66-64 Sunday afternoon. HEALTH PROFESSIONALS! 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