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By Doug Hall
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[emofHThe Baylor Bears women’s bas-
en ittRtball team was in the wrong place
ijnj, at the wrong time Tuesday night
when they faced the Lady Aggies
from Texas A&M in G. Rollie White
Coliseum.
■ The Aggies, who had dropped
1 the; five consecutive Southwest Confer-
lipiss ence games prior to hosting the
^Kars in their first matchup of the
amestreason, used strong shooting and
iseffo tough rebounding to soundly whip
'life Bears 84-74 and raise their SWG
75 record to 3-5.
■ Senior forward Paula Crutcher,
:alvt: who came off the bench to score a
team-high 20 points, led the Aggies
finlii to a 48-34 lead that Baylor could
as dfflfiver surmount, despite several sec-
ptrs ond-halfruns.
^■Crutcher’s hot hand, plus tough
■ay inside by Evelyn Sanders (13
.■sints and eight rebounds) and Lisa
Jordan (12 points and six rebounds)
gave the Aggies what A&M Head
Coach Lynn Hickey called a “must
win.”
“This was a definite have-to for
us,” Hickey said. “They were aware
of the importance of this game. It’s
very important we win the Rice
game, at Baylor, at SMU and maybe
get an upset along the way.”
Sanders and senior guard Beth
Young combined for the first 10 Ag
gie points to open up a 10-5 lead at
the 16:51 mark. But Baylor, led by
the scoring of freshman Maggie Da
vis, 25 points on 11 of 17 shooting
from the floor, battled back to take
the lead at 19-18 four minutes later.
After an Aggie timeout, Baylor
came back to score three consecutive
baskets to lead 25-18. But key bas
kets by Crutcher, Young and Jordan
gave the Aggies back the lead that
they would never surrender.
Hickey, who evened her A&M ca
reer record at 37 wins and 37 losses
Tuesday, was obviously pleased with
her team’s 55-percent shooting on
the evening and also with the play of
freshman guard Lisa Herner.
“That (shooting 65 percent in the
first half) was nice,” Hickey said.
“It’s been a long time since we did
that, but we’ve been working a lot on
our shooting in practice.”
Herner, who has seen a lot of
playing time since starting guard
Donna Roper had her gall bladder
removed and was forced to sit out
the rest of the season, finished with
11 points and four assists in 29 min
utes.
After the halftime show, which
featured a three-on-three contest be
tween faculty members and student
leaders, (which the faculty won),
Baylor began to mount a slow attack
at the Aggie lead.
Davis and sophomore guard Bon
nie Henson, who finished with 15
points including the game’s only 3-
pointer, brought the Bears to within
five points on two separate occa
sions. But both times, the Aggies
were able to break the Bears’ full-
court pressure to get easy layups and
maintain their lead.
“I thought they did a good job
when they tried to jump us out front
that we were able to get the ball in
side to the baskets and get some lay
ups,” Hickey said. “They wanted this
one. It would be real easy to for
them to play scared right now, but
they didn’t quit.”
Aggie notes. . .Young went down
at the 15:24 mark in the second half
with what Aggie trainers believe to
be torn cartliage in her left knee.
However, Jen Nixon, the head wom
en’s trainer, said she did not think it
would be a season-ending injury.
A&M to meet Baylor
in do-or-die situation
By Hal L. Hammons
Sports Writer
After Sunday’s loss to Arkan
sas, which dropped Texas A&M’s
record to 4-3 in conference, every
game is critical for the Aggies if
they are to stay close in the South
west Conference race.
Tonight’s game against Baylor
is no exception. The Aggies re
turn to G. Rollie White with a
two-game losing streak and are
desperate for a victory.
Baylor, on the other hand, is
coming off a big road victory over
the Houston Cougars Monday
night and are in sole posession of
second place behind TCU at 5-2.
A&M assistant coach Jim Fee
ney said they were glad to be back
home after consecutive road
losses to Arkansas and Rice.
“We are starting to realize we
don’t have an overabundance of
talent,” Feeney said, “and if we !
don’t work hard every night, we
aren’t going to win.”
Feeney called Baylor “the most !
improved team in the conferen- >•’
ce.” They are led by guard Mi-
chael Williams and center Larry
Middleton.
“We’ve got to contain them,”
he said about the two players.
Feeney classified Middleton
with Houston center Greg An
derson as the best offensive “big ;
men” in the conference.
Aggie guard Todd Holloway i /
said it was good to be home, and
he expected a tough game with *;
Baylor.
“We have to come out and play ;
every game,” Holloway said.
He said the team was de- 7
pressed after the two losses, and
they hoped a win over Baylor will < •;
help remedy that.
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Pro Football Hall of Fame
adds seven to membership
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Run
ning backs Larry Csonka and
John Henry Johnson, quar
terback Len Dawson, defensive
tackle Joe Greene, offensive line
men Jim Danger and Gene Up
shaw, and receiver Don Maynard
were voted into the Pro Football
Hall of Fame on Tuesday.
The seven elected, swelling the
ranks of the Hall of Fame to 140,
will make up the largest single
group to be inducted since 1971.
Greene, Upshaw and Danger
all made it in their first year of eli
gibility, the first time since 1977
that three players were inducted
in their first year for consider
ation.
Johnson was the recom
mended candidate of the Old-
i Timers Committee, which nomi
nates players who played most of
their careers prior to 1962.
Csonka, who rushed for 8,081
yards and 64 touchdowns in his
11-year career, and Danger, who
spent his entire 10 seasons with
the Miami Dolphins, became the
first two players inducted from
the Dolphins’ championship
years.
Danger, a 6-2, 253rpound cen
ter, was claimed on waivers by the
Dolphins and went on to be
named to the Pro Bowl six times.
He played every offensive down
of the Dolphins’ perfect 1972 sea
son.
Greene, nicknamed “Mean
Joe,” played in 10 Pro Bowls and
four Super Bowls during his 13-
year career with the Steelers. He
played in 91 consecutive games
from 1969 to 1975 and was twice
named the NFL Defensive Player
of the Year, in 1972 and 1974.
Johnson rushed for 6,803
yards and 48 touchdowns during
a 13-year career spent with the
San Francisco 49ers, Steelers and
Houston Oilers.
Dawson became the third for
mer Kansas City Chiefs player
voted into the Hall, joining Bobby
Bell and Willie Lanier. Dawson
passed for 28,711 yards and 239
touchdowns during a 19-year ca
reer with the Steelers, Cleveland
Browns, Dallas Texans and
Chiefs.
Upshaw, now the executive di
rector of the National Football
League Players Association, spent
his entire 15-year career as a
guard with the Oakland Raiders.
Maynard joins his old New
York Jet battery-mate, Joe Na-
math, as the only former Jet play
ers in the Hall of Fame. Maynard
spent 15 seasons with the New
York Giants, New York Titans,
the Jets and the St. Louis Cardi
nals, catching 663 passes for
11,834 yards and 88 touchdowns.
Enshrinement of the 1987 class
will take place at the Pro Football
Hall of Fame on Aug. 8.
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New York fans gather in stadium
to celebrate Super Bowl victory
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP)
— Snowballs and confetti rather
than ticker-tape hailed the Super
Bowl champion New York Giants as
they returned to their stadium Tues
day to celebrate their first NFL
championship in 31 years.
More than 30,000 braved 10 de
gree temperatures for the festivities
which team officials decided to have
at Giants Stadium after a contro
versy developed over whether to
give the club New York’s traditional
heroes’ parade through the canyons
of Manhattan.
The frigid weather limited the
crowd. Organizers had prepared for
125,000 people, raising $650,000
from private donations, ordering
100,000 kazoos and stuffing bags
with pompons, buttons and confetti.
The first diehard fans, thinking
they would have to compete for
seats, spent the night in the icy park
ing lot. More gathered at aawn,
lighting bonfires and cooking tail
gate breakfasts.
Those who were there got what
they came for.
“I have a little something to show
you,” Coach Bill Parcells said as he
held up the silver Vince Lombardi
Trophy earned for the team’s 39-20
victory over the Denver Broncos
Sunday.
Parcells was showered with con
fetti from a Gatorade bucket, sym
bolic of the soft-drink shower he re
ceived after most Giants victories.
“I hope that sometime in the near
future we can all get together and do
this again,” saia quarterback Phil
Simms, the Super Bowl MVP who
joined his teammates on the stage to
receive gold medallions from New
Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean.
Fans provided some of their own
entertainment, chanting “We’re No.
1,” singing “We Are The Cham
pions” and “Go Giants Go” and get
ting into wild snowball fights.
About 100 National Guardsmen
were called in to guard the snow
piles on the field and several people
were escorted out of the stadium.
There were no arrests.
About 20 people were treated for
minor injuries from snowballs, falls
on the ice and exposure, authorities
said.
“The Giants are the first world
champions from the state of New
Jersey,” Kean said.
He added that “the Giants are a
team which knows no formal bound
aries,” but there was no doubt the I
fans rejected any claims by New
York City, where Mayor Ed Koch at
first snubbed the team by refusing a
ticker-tape victory parade.
Koch, vacationing in Poland, com
pounded the insult this week wheii
called the official Giants Stadium
celebration “practice” and kept opei£
an offer for a corpoi ation-spon-^
sored parade down Broadway.
The players praised all their fan^
for patient loyalty through the losing
seasons.
The crowd responded with a cho-^
rus of kazoos playing “California
Here I Come,” an optimistic repris^
referring to the Super Bowl next-
year in San Diego.
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