Wednesday, January 7,1987/The Battalion/Page 5 Sports y Aggies throttle SMU, 83-66 Sanders' 35 paces A&M in SWC opener 4 t By Ken Sury sports EdUm Ihe Texas AAM Lady Aggies may have missed leading scorer Donna Roper, but you never would have known k the sray Evelyn Sand ers took control in leading ARM to an 83-66 victory over Southern Methodise Tuesday night Sanders scored 35 points in the L^dy Aggies' Southwest Conference opener in G. Roliie White Coliseum to even AJeM's record to 5-5, while SMU dropped its fourth straight game to fail to 3-6 and 0-2 in confer ence action. Roper, ARM's top scorer with 18 pomes per game, underwent gall bladder snrgerry Tuesday morning. I rainer Jen Nixon said she was told surgery went well, but Roper is ex pected to be out of action for six ARM Coach Lynn Hickey said she was happy with her team’s perfor mance. “That's a good win coming back after being out For two weeks." Hickey sakT “Hatong that kind of in tensity is great, especially when youk leading scorer is out." ARM used a full-court press for much of the game and forced 30 SMU turnovers The Lady Mustangs also had a difficult night shooting as they hit only 36.8 percent for the game SMU went without a score for nearly five minutes at one point in the first half as the Lady Aggies ran up 13 pomas to lead 28-12 with eight mmutes left in the first half With six minutes left in the half. Sanders hit a short jumper to give ARM its biggest lead at 34-14. The Lady Mustangs mav have been down, but they weren t out of the contest. SMU cut the game to 42- 34 at halftime and started strong in the second half. SMU outscored the Lady Aggies 11-3 in the first five minutes of the second half to close the game within two at 47-45. But ARM went on an eight-point run as Paula CatSfcher, who was sec ond in lekftirtg “for AR\f iWtVT 1 ^ points, and Sanders accounted for the scores. The Ladv Aggies also scored 10 straight points late in the game to finally put out the game out of reach With Roper out of the lineup, freshman guard Lisa Herner saw more playing time. She responded with seven points and the 5-6 potnt guard also grabbed a surprising team-high 10 rebounds, nine on the defensive boards. fhose in double figures for SMU were Shelia Bryant with 12 points Heather Nygard with 11, and Shasta Smothers- Johnson added 10. ARM's Evelyn Sanders goes up over SMU's Heather Nygard for two points en route to a Photo by Bill Huglur* 35-point performance in the laidy Aggies' 83-66 victory over SMU Tuesday night. Ags gear for Mustangs in conference opener By Ken Sury Spsrtf t.dHm It might not be a good time to play the Southern Methodist Uni versity Mustangs, but Texas ARM will open its Southwest Conference opener against them tonight in G. Roliie White Col iseum at 7:30 p.m The 8-4 Mustangs probabtv are chomping at the oil after drop- psng then last two games in over time SMU lost to then-No 4 North Carolina, 88-86, in the i hampsonship game of the Du!la* Morning News Classic and then fefl so Bavtor. 59-55, in ks first SWC game on Saturday. And they'll be looking to prove how good they are tonight The Aggies, 8-3, are coming off a 8-2 tournament road trip that includes capturing the Con necticut Mutual Classic. Junior John Treevant was the Oassac’s mon valuable player as he aver aged 22.5 points and 14 re bounds ARM Assistant Men’s Basket ball Coach John Thornton said SMU will he a tough challenge be cause k ptaved one of the tough est non-conference schedule of any SWC team Thornton said ARM will con tinue to look to ks seniors — Winston Crke. Todd Hollowav and Mike Clifford — for lead ership. but will need a team effort to have a successf ul season Crke leads the Aggie* ui scor ing with a 16.4 average and Hol loway leads the team with 49 as sists. Clifford is the team’s defensive ramrod, averaging 9.5 rebounds an outing. “The 10 guvs we took (on the tournament swing) all contribu ted," Thornton said. "How much they keep contributing will tell how well we do the rest of the sea son." Former Ag tight end charged in shooting From staff and wire reports DAYTONA BEACH. Fla — A former Texas ARM football player was charged with attempted murder after a Friday morning shouting in cident left a 1 7-year-old girl brain dead. Ri< hard Siler. 23. who piaved ught end for ARM. was released from the Volusia County Jail Satur- da\ on $5,000 bond. T he girl, Terri Harrv. underwent surgery Fndav night and was being kept alive with the aid of a respira tor A hospital official at Halifax Medical Center said the girl re mained ir. serious condition Tues- dtm. Police said Harrs was hit in the forehead by a rictx hetmg bullet fired by Siler In statements to police. Siler said he fired a 9mm pistol toward a group of young people in an attempt to scare the youths Siler was arrested along with his brother. Clarence, 19, Roy Broxton. 24. and Bryan Christopher Watson. 18. Clarence. Broxton and Watson Rich Siler wn e t barged as alleged pi mt ipals in an attempted murder and were re leased on bond In 1983. Siler taught 40 passes for 465 yards and four touchdowns and was named first-team All-Southwest Cxmference bv United Press Inter national. NCAA calls drug-testing program SAN DIEGO (AP) — Despite con troversy and the cncs by some ath letes that they were treated unfairly, the NCAA’s new drag-testing pro gram is “a great success.” officials declared Tuesday. “We believe we have the most i oraprehrnsive and effective testing program of any sports organization in the Uruled States today,” Walter Byers, NCAA executive director, said at a news conference during the 81st amamd NCAA convention. “Its objectives are very dear —• to ensure clean championship competition and protect the health and welfare of the snsdent-athlete ’ » Toner of the University of Connecti cut, who heads the NCAA drug-test ing committee, and Dr Don Gatlin, head of the UCLA laboratory an 4 one of two experts who conducted the tests that led to 21 football play ers being disqualified from bowl games, most for anabolic steroids use. Gatlin passed out several highly technical charts and graphs detailing the testing procedure and even made a slide presentation of how the tests are conducted Urine tests have been done on 1.050 athlete's since the program was launched in November at the cross country championships and only about 3 percent have tested positive. Toner said To ensure the inte*- % of the tests. Toner said, every athlete is observed as the sample is collected. Cathn said each urine sample is divided into twp containers. One container is sealed and frozen and the other is used for tests. If traces of any of the 3,000 banned substances are found, a second test is run on the frozen sample The samples are identified in the laboratories by number, not by the ptaven' name, Catfin sakL Most of the 21 disqualified foot ball players tested positive for ana bolic steroids, a buik-buikiing sub stance which has been linked to cancer, steriluv and anti-social be havior. 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