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J Thursday, January 29, 1987/The Battalion/Page 11 Sports [he 'lied ikj. 1 wanted; •ns and:'; duriip hich tkel ionic:-' -&M falters in final minute to hand Baylor win ,ggies' six-point lead dissipates after missing 3 free throws By Ed Bodde Assistant Sports Editor ^Baylor’s 71-70 victory over the 1 Texas A&M men’s basketball team "" Wednesday night in G. Rollie White t u Coliseum was just about as an emo- 1 -'^tional a game as any fan, coach or plaver will go through. led almost the entire game, resar«twi(e by eight points, but could ce str %ever |jut the Bears away. HWe shouldn’t have been in this situation in the first place,” Winston depan:Cri(c said. “T hey outplayed us in the ith airend.'’ able si J Biggie forward Tadd Thomas arv akagreed that the game could have 1 thedt;been put away earlier, mitapn “We’d get up by three or four points and we’d turn around and not phr defense a couple of times,” he said. "rwi' lr lu ' 1 Michael Williams’ winning JsJV,juniper with nine seconds left made the score 71-70, the Bears had their C first lead since the 1 1-minute mark ^ of the first half. r p\nd when Winston Crite’s 17- ( Tiftf<yter bounced off the side of the rim as time ran out, the surprising Bears had escaped with a hard- fought road win. ■‘Everyone knew Michael was going to take the last shot,” Coach Shelby Metcalf said. “Crawford had him but he (Williams) is a difficult kid to cover.” ■\&M fell to 12-7 overall and 4-4 in the SWC conf erence, while Baylor improved to 10-7 and 6-2. Hioth teams needed a win to stay within range of first-place TCU, and the pressure finally erupted into a bench-clearing brawl. ^Leading 67-62 with 1:44 left in the game, A&M in-bounded the ball and Keron Graves was fouled by Mark Buchanan. Both players ex- tMnged words but they were quickly separated and Graves went to the line for a one-and-one. Buraves missed and Buchanan soiled on a nice drive and layup at th£ other end to make it 67-64. ■With 51 seconds left in the game A&M’s Darryl McDonald was aggre- sively fouled by Robert McLemore. fo. (AP in a l» were 0 ild b: t a bate -old e er child’ n who I [he child id. gone & > pickup rv For, held to th pros a char;; ortnet s >ack to leingfto uesdat t had Ortho: ligates i he chi Both players then got into a shoving match and the bench-clearing fight ensued. Both McLemore and McDonald were ejected, and both teams were assessed technical fouls. Crawford replaced McDonald and sank three out of four free throws to put A&M on top 70-64. With the crowd of 5,007 roaring, Buchanan then stepped to the line for Baylor and calmly sank both shots to bring the Bears within four. Af ter the brawl, it was Baylor who reacted positively. The Bears scored the final five points. “We had the game in our hands but something like that (the brawl) just ruined it for us,” Thomas said. “We didn’t want to fight, we had the game,” Metcalf said. McDonald said he also thought Baylor got the momentum back as a result of the brawl. Graves missed the front end of another one-and-one opportunity with 49 seconds left, and when Bu chanan went down and drilled a 3- pointer, the scoreboard read 70-69. A&M trailed only once in the first half 15-14 but slowly edged out in front, and when Thomas hit two free throws, A&M had its largest lead at 30-22. Both teams traded baskets and a tip-in by Baylor’s James Francis with two seconds left in the half made it 38-32. In the second half, Baylor often cut into A&M’s lead, narrowing it to two points on several occassions, but the Aggies would pull out in front again by six or seven. Darryl Middleton scored all of his 14 points in the second half and Frank Williams pulled down 10 re bounds for the Bears. Todd Hollo way led the Aggies with 14 points. A&M next plays SMU in Dallas Feb. 5, and with four of the five re maining games on the road, the Ag gies now face an uphill struggle to repeat as SWC champions. Texas A&M’s Todd Holloway (right) knocks the ball out of the hands of Baylor’s Mark Buchanon during the Aggies’ 71-70 loss to Photo by Bill Hughes the Bears Wednesday night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The loss was the third in a row for A&M, which falls to 4-4 in the SWC. j$e Nightly Drink Specials Sun: $1 Margaritas All Day All Nile Mon: 500 Margaritas Tues: Free Margaritas from 8-10 Weds: Live Music or Fashion Show $1 50 Hurricanes ir Margaritas Thurs: 500 Corona s 8-10PM 509 University Drive 268-0486 18 & Over Welcome case of[* ■ excuse : | fftce tvouf parenl' from H [rating." aciertow 1 fori and couli wii Lunch Buffet Italian th 3 95 All You Can Eat 11:30-3:00 Margaritas Chianti $1 $2 00 Dinner Specials l 50 Well Drinks l 50 Margaritas all you can eat 95 Buffet for $3 (4 95 for Minors) Happy Hour 5-8pm Engineering, Computer Science, BANA And Business Majors... Find Out Where You Fit In A Big 8 Firm Dhl Xt The Management Information Consulting Division of Arthur Andersen & Co* Invite you to a presentation/reception on Thursday, January 29, 1987, at 6:30 p.m. at the College Station Hilton. Casual attire. We will be on campus interviewing graduate students in business and computer science as well as undergraduates in business, engineering, BANA and computer science on February 9 and 10, 1987. Arthur Andersen no iA