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Sports
A&M men's
tennis team
grabs 2 wins
By Hal L.
The Texas AJcM men’s tennis
irmm began the 1987 campaign in
mpi ve fashion last weekend at
the Omar Smith Tennis Center, win
ning their first two matches of the
veer at the expense of Pan American
and Tulsa
‘AJcM Tennis Conch DeWd Kent
said he was eery pleased with his
team’s showing, paiticuiarty with the
8-1 victory Saturrlav sgainat Tulsa.
He said partKulailv m*«
factors in use Aggies’ suca
the play of freshmen Jeff Uvshitz.
Shaun O’ Donovan and Steve Ken
nedy, as weH as the continued suc
cess of No. 1 doubles team Dean
Gofdfisse and Marcel Vos.
to come out just to
sy," Kent said about
the team of Coldfine and Vos. The
two seniors are now 16-1 as a dou-
Friday’s 9-0
Pan
victory ov
pUgued by terrible
weather conditions, including a wind
chifl factor that reached into the 90s.
The conditions did not appear to
faae the Aggies, who dropped only
one set in the nine matches
The victories were even more im
pressive considering sophomore
Brent Hagarth missed both matches
with strep throat. Kent sard Hogarth
would have to be back for the team’s
next action, at the Oklahoma State 4-
Way Indoor in Oklahoma City Fri-
day through Sunday
The tournament will include
Texas AJcM. Oklahoma, Trinity and
host Oklahoma State
Kent said the team m especially
looking forward to playing Trinity, a
team that has strained relations at
best with the Aggies
There’s no love lost between us,"
Kent said.
Kent said he had high expecta
tions of dm year’s team, lie said the
leadership and the talent were there
to snake the Aggies contenders in
the conference race.
Frogs slap Aggies with fifth straight SWC loss
By Manner Jacobs
‘TSwIi f ditrr
The Texas AJcM basketball
team aroppe<i tts firtn HmfgtH
Southwest Conference game Sun
day at C. Rolhe White Coliseum
95-50 to a TCU squad that was on
the rebound
Not only was TCU on the re
bound of its upset loss to Baylor
Wednesday night, but the No. 15
Horned Frogs also dominated the
rebounding department 45-23
The big difference in the bail-
game was the hoards," Conch
Sheflby Metcalf said "We iust
weren’t moving our feet as well as
we needed to ”
TCU’s Larry Richard finished
the game with 17 rebounds and
had 11 at halftime, while the Ag
gies could only muster a team to
tal of 9 at the half.
Besides the Aggies diftK ultv in
getting rebounds? AJcM also nad
problems finding forward
Winston Crke, who finished the
game with only nx points and two
rebounds, between the sagging
TCU zone
“We can’t afford the luxury of
having our better players not play
well," Metcalf said To win the
big games, your better players
have got to perform."
And to win the lag games, most
teams have to take advantage of
opportunities created by turn
overs or four-on-one fast breaks
— AJcM couldn’t cash in on ei
ther down the stretch
With 9:15 left in the game, the
Aggies were down 41-55 until
forward Tadd Thomas hit five
straight points, including a 3-
potnter, and the TCU lead was
down to one at 41-40.
Paul Crawford then made two
free throws to give the Aggies a
42-41 advantage, igniting the
crowd of 5,815.
The next five minutes saw a
back-and-forth game with TCU
grabbing a three-point lead. 50-
47, on an 18-foot jump shot from
center Tony
.. Pkp« hfd the hot hand for the
Horned Frogs as he finished the
> points on 8 of 11
tne outside
game w
shootin
Vogs
with lb
g from
Metcalf said it was AJcM’s strat
egy to make Papa take the outside
snots.
“We challenged him and he
met the chaileisge." Metcalf said.
"I knew he was a good shooter,
but I didn’t think he’d take that
many shots ”
AJcM never got closer than
three points in the final three
minutes, thanks to blown oppor
tunities.
The Ames turned the ball
over on a tour-on-one fast break
that, if converted, would have cut
the lead to 52-50 with 1:54 to go.
After the turnover, the Aggies
had to foul. With 28 seconds left
and the score 52-48, TCU’s soph
omore sensation Jamie Dixon
missed a free throw, but ARM
could not grab the crucial re
bound for a try at a comeback,
comeback
"If we would have caps!allied
on the mistakes and turnovers,
we could have won the game."
AJcM guard Keron Graves said
It looked like the Aggies were
headed to victory in thefirst min
utes of the first naif as they raced
to an 8-2 lead with 16:47 left.
But then the Garvin Holcombe
show kicked into gear as the TCU
guard poured in 10 unanswered
points en route to a 17-2 run by
the Horned Frogs that gave them
a 19-10 lead
The Aggies went into the lock-
erroom trailing 50-25.
Graves was nigh point man for
the Aggies hitting lh points, nine
on 3 point shots. The nearest Ag
gie after Graves in the scoring
column was sensor guard Todd
Holloway with eight points
Holcombe joined Papa for
high-point honors for TCU with
16 points, while Norman Ander
son added 10.
AJcM was able to hold Dixon,
who averages 15.1 points a game,
to just three points.
The Aggies fall to 12-9 overall.
4-6 in SwC. TCU improved its
record to 19-4 overall. 10-1 in
conference.
A A M travels to Austin
Wednesday night to take on the
Texas Longhorns
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AJcM’s Todd
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held Dixosi to three points but loot the earn*
50. AJcM dropped to 4-6 in conference play.
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