Wednesday, January 7,1987/The Battalion/Page 5
Sports
y Aggies throttle SMU, 83-66
Sanders' 35
paces A&M in
SWC opener
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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.
Byers called upon the NFL to join
the NCAA in fighung steroid use
“We think that drug usage and ef
forts to combat drug usage in sports
is one of the most sigmluant issues
of the day." Byers said “We think it’s
not only important to the welfare of
student-athlete, but it’s extremely
important for the welfare of the
country and young people to per
suade those who have been swept up
in the drug culture that that is wrong
way to go."
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