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Thursday, February 12, 1987/The Battalion/Page 15 Malone’s 32 points fires Bullets past Spurs SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Moses Malone scored S2 points, including 17 in the third period, to lead the Washington Pullets to a 1 S3-108 romp over the San An tonio Spurs Wednesday night. The Bullets are now 25-22 for the year, while the Spurs, after winning seven straight prior to the All-Star break, have lost two in a row and are now 18-5 1. The Spurs, who trailed 67-57 at the half, pulled to within 89-82 with two minutes remaining in the third period only to be out- scored 19-7 over the next live and a half minutes. After that San Antonio could get no closer than 12 points. Guard Jeff Malone had 24 for Washington. Walter Berry’s 24 led the Spurs. The two Malones got things started early with Jef f firing away from the outside to score 18 in the first half. Moses, meanwhile, controlled the inside and finished the half with 14 points. The Bullets had outscored San Antonio 10-2 midway through the first quarter to go up 41 -29 af ter the first period. Moses Malone contributed defensively as well, pulling down a team-high 12 re bounds. “This was probably our best game of the year,” Washington Coach Kevin Loughery said. “Mo and Jeff set the trend f or us in the first quarter and carried it through. Our team was well- rested, and I’m sure the extra couple of days helped Mo and Jeff.” The Bullets had been practic ing in San Antonio since Monday af ter the All-Star game. “ The Spurs were playing back- to-back and we came and played our game,” Malone said. “Playing back-to-back is tough, especially when the other team is waiting in your back yard.” The Bullets committed just five turnovers in the game. Knight signs contract with Baltimore BALTIMORE (AP) — Ray Knight, rebuffed on the free agent market, reluctantly agreed to con tract terms Wednesday with the Bal timore Orioles. The 34-year-old third baseman, paid $()()(),()()() by the New York Mets last season when he was named the Most Valuable Player in tbe World Series, accepted an offer of $475,000 for a one-year contract. Should Knight reach various goals, however, he could earn an other $125,000 in incentive bonuses and automatically kick in an option year. Knight is the second prominent free agent to come to terms with a new team this year. Former Orioles catcher Rick Dempsey, the Series MVP in 1983, recently signed with the Cleveland Indians. However, the big names such as Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, Rich Gedman, Ron Guidry and Bob Horner remain at large. SMU won’t appeal if given ‘death penalty’ DALLAS (AP) — Southern Meth odist University, whose football pro gram could become tbe first to face the NCAA’s “death penalty,” will neither appeal nor contest any rul ings or findings by the Committee on Infractions, the school’s interim president said Wednesday. In a statement issued before de parting for Coronado, Calif., to ap pear before tbe NCAA panel Friday, William Stallcup also said the school will ask that it be allowed to levy its own “severe sanctions” for improp rieties in its football program. The school was called before the committee af ter allegations surfaced that it paid a football player af ter its football program was placed on pro bation in August 1985 for NCAA vi olations. Stallcup, along with Lonnie Kliever, faculty representative to the NCAA, will head the delegation to California, which will report the uni versity’s findings and propose penal ities evolving from its three-month investigation of the SMU football program. The NCAA began its probe of SMU’s football program after Dallas television station WFAA broadcast a report Nov. 13 in which David Stan ley said he was given $25,()()0 to sign with the Mustangs. The former linebacker also said he was paid $750 a month by an SMU offical from 1983 until he left school in December 1985. Two days after the broadcast, the Dallas Morning News reported that senior tight end Albert Reese was liv ing in an apartment provided with out charge by an SMU booster. Athletic director Bob Hitch sus- petided Reese from the last two games of the 1980 season. Resigna tions of Hitch, football Coach Bobby Collins and university President L. Donald Shields followed l he allega tions. SMU, which has been on proba tion four times in the last 11 years and six times since 1958, is the first school that could face the NCAA “death penalty,” meaning the school faces the possible loss of its football program. SMU voted against the new “death penalty” measure when it was adopted less than two years ago on a 427-(i vote. It set minimum penalties for institutions which repeatedly vio late NCAA rules. Penalties are subject to exceptions authorized by the Committee on In fractions, but otherwise would in clude a one or two-season suspen sion of the team and its coaches. Aggies (continued from page 14) throw, the score was tied at 4b. With 1:29 left in the game, with the score even at 54, Holloway hit a [l;iyii|), but again the bucket was called back for traveling. Texas then brought the ball down court, and after working tbe 45-sec- jond clock down to six seconds, Wayne Thomas put up an off bal- jance shot that was rebounded by Clifford. But Thomas, following his [shot clown the baseline, stole tbe ball from Clifford and hit a layup for a 56-54 lead with 33 seconds lef t, j After an A&M timeout, A&M (worked the ball into Crite, who hit a 12-foot leaner; but be was also called lor charging into Dennis Perryman, ■fhe bucket counted, and Texas, who was in the bonus, was sent down to shoot a one-and-one. The of fi cials, however, put Raynard Davis, an 89.5 percent shooter at the line. His first shot went off the left side of the rim and the Aggies gained con trol. “I was scared because I thought he’d make it,” A&M’s Winston Crite said. “Coach Metcalf told us he was their Ijeifi free-tbrow shooter. But we hung together to get the win.” The Aggies took the ball down the floor and cleared the lane for junior guard Darryl McDonald, who drove the left side and hit the 12-foot jumper. Texas then threw a lob pass down- court that went off of Todd Hollo way’s hands with 2 seconds left. With two seconds remaining, the Long horns inbounded to Fairs, who scored 14 of his 20 points in the sec ond half. He could not get his 3- point shot off in time, however, and the Aggies had their 13th win of the season. “It was probably as good as man- to-man defense as we have played against this season, but everyone played hard,” Metcalf said. “That is the thing about this team. Even through this tough streak, the guys have continued to work hard in practice.” The Aggies shot 55.8 percent from the field for the game and are now 13-9 overall and 5-6 in the SWC. NHL All-Stars slip past Soviets 4-3 in first game of Rendezvous '87 QUEBEC (AP) — Philadel phia’s Dave Poulin scored with 1:15 left as the NHL All-Stars de feated the Soviet Union national team 4-3 Wednesday night with a brilliant defensive performance in the opening game of Rendez vous ’87. Pittsburgh’s Mario Lemieux grabbed the puck at center ice, skated down the left wing and into the right faceoff circle and shot from there. Poulin, standing in the goalmouth, deflected the puck past Soviet goalie Evgeny Belosheikin. The goal topped a superb per formance by the NHL’s penalty killing units, which allowed only one shot to the Soviets in four power-play opportunities. Ed monton goaltender Grant Fuhr played a big part in the victory with several spectacular saves while stopping 21 Soviet shots. A little more than 10 minutes before, the Soviets had quieted the crowd of 15,300 at Le Colisee with a score by Anatoli Semenov at 8:04. The NHL led 1-0 after the first period on a goal by Jari Kurri and a strong defense that totally smothered the high-powered So viets. Glenn Anderson, Kurri’s team mate with the Edmonton Oilers, made it 2-0 late in the second pe riod before (be Soviets closed to 2-1 on a goal by Alexei Kasato nov. The NHL’s 2-1 lead after two periods was wiped out on a goal by Viacheslav Bykov early in the third session before Hartford’s Kevin Dineen restored the NHL’s one-goal lead at 7:03. The NHL game plan was to get off to a fast start, or at least play the Soviets even for one period. They more than accomplished that mission. Despite a defensive corps weakened by injury, the NHL completely overpowered the So viets, allowing them only five shots on goal through the first 20 minutes. The most impressive perfor mance for the NHL All-Stars was their smothering work on the So viets’ power play. The Soviets had two manpower advantages in the lirst period, but were unable to get a shot off on either one. In one of the power-play situations, the only shot on goal came from Edmonton’s Mark Messier. A lot of the good defensive work was provided by Edmon ton’s Wayne Gretzky, who was in charge of the puck for the NHL in both power-play sitations. ran to j Remember your ... with flowers from the Kroger Floral Shoppe Christian Atmosph ere A unUf ue Where Christians Meet Christians if ifir ^: :vef. 1 (|n[i (l i (Till i!*' uiswl! 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