Thursday, February 19, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9
Sports
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Turnovers spell defeat
: or Lady Aggies at UH
The Texas A&M Lady Aggies
:ontinued to struggle in South-
vest Conference play with an 88-
59 loss at the hands of the Hous-
on Cougars Wednesday night at
iofheinz Pavilion.
The Lady Aggies dropped to
1-9 in SWC action and 8-15 over-
ill.
The key to the lopsided defeat
an be seen in the turnover col-
imn — A&M committed 30 lum
bers compared to just 14 by the
Cougars.
Forward Evelyn Sanders was
V&M’s high-point scorer with 16
joints, while forward Paula
brutcher and guard Donna
ioper each had 14. Center Lisa
ordan added 13 points and 10
rebounds for the Lady Aggies.
A&M Coach Lynn Hickey said
her team’s problems are mainly
mental ones.
“I don’t think it’s a cop-out to
say that it’s psychological,”
Hickey said. “We’re 15 points
worse than we should be. It’s al
most like we expect this type
thing to happen right now.”
Hickey said her players do not
like to lose, and with games ag-
ianst Baylor and Rice remaining
on the schedule, she said the
Lady Aggies still can end the year
on a good note.
“I can only hope they can enjoy
a few more moments of glory be
fore the season ends,” Hickey
said.
^Boston routs Dallas
to end losing streak
■DALLAS (AP) — The Boston Cel
tics pride was hurt coming into
Wednesday night’s NBA game
againsi Dallas, and the Mavericks
paid for it.
■The Celtics snapped a rare two-
gaim- losing streak with a 113-96
rout of the Mavericks as Kevin Mc-
Hale scored 28 points and Larry
Bird had his second triple-double of
the year.
iitoston had lost by 20 points to
Utah and blew a 17-point lead to the
Los Angeles Lakers in its last two
games.
nWe didn’t want to lose three in a
row and then have to go to Houston
Thursday night,” Bird said. “There
was some pride involved.”
iJBoston Coach K.C. Jones said, “I
was glad we were able to quiet the
crowd down because in Reunion
Arena the quicker you do that the
better off you are.
I “We’ve had eight games in 12 days
and it was important for us to get
back on track.”
Hpallas Coach Dick Motta said, “I
think we saw tonight what it takes to
win a world championship.”
Boston, which avoided its first
three-game losing streak since 1983,
silenced the sellout crowd of 17,007
fans early.
Boston surged to a 67-46 halftime
lead after outscoring the Mavericks
37-17 in the second period.
The Celtics (38-14) built a 31-
point lead midway of the third quar
ter as Coach K.C. Jones substituted
liberally. It was Boston’s sixth
straight road game.
Dallas cut the lead to 14 points
with a 13-0 run in the fourth quarter
but the rally ended when McHale
came back into the game for two
quick buckets.
Danny Ainge scored 25 points.
Bird added 16, and Robert Parish
had 14 for the defending world
champions. Bird had a triple double
with 12 rebounds and 11 assists.
Dallas, now 32-19, was led by
Mark Aguirre who had 29 points
and Sam Perkins who added 22.
Boston is now 13-1 in the all-time
series against the Mavericks.
Cougars crush cold-shooting Aggies
By Ed Bodde
Assistant Sports Editor
Texas A&M’s road game prob
lems continued Wednesday as it was
dealt a 21-point loss by Houston, 67-
46, in front of 4,766 at Hofheinz Pa
vilion.
The Aggies, 13-11 and 5-8 in the
Southwest Conference, only trailed
34-27 at halftime and were within
five points after forward Winston
Crite hit a nine-footer from the base
line to start the second half; but
Houston then went on a 14-4 run
over the next 10 minutes to take a
48-33 lead.
Forward Rickie Winslow chipped
in six points during the run and con
tinued to show why he is one of the
best forwards in the league as he
scored two points at the free-throw
line, a reverse layup and a slam dunk
off an alley oop pass from Randy
Brown.
The Aggies made a brief
comeback using a basket by Crite
and a three-pointer by Keron Graves
to close the lead to 48-39, but a
Houston timeout, followed by an
other Winslow dunk, seemed to take
the steam out of any comeback
hopes.
“It was a combination of poor
shooting,” A&M Coach Shelby Met
calf said. “When you press, you’re
going to give up some easy baskets.
“I thought we could press them
but they handled it. UH’s guard play
has improved since last time. After
the Winslow jam, that was about it.”
A&M shot a dismal 16-of-60 for a
26.7 percent field goal percentage
for the game.
The Cougars, who improved their
record to 16-8 overall and 8-5 in
SWC play, jumped out to a 6-0 lead
on baskets by Darrell McArthur,
Greg Anderson and Rolando Fer
reira, but two three-pointers from
Paul Crawford and two inside bas
kets from Crite enabled the Aggies
to pull within three at 13-10.
The Cougars used the inside play
of Winslow and Ferreira to get back
on top 29-17. A&M’s Crawford had
a three-pointer and Darryl McDon
ald added a layup to make it 29-23.
Crite led the Aggies with 20 points
and 13 rebounds. Winslow led the
Cougars with 16 points and 11 re
bounds.
Photo by Dean Saito
Houston center Greg Anderson tries to block the Wednesday night’s A&M-UH game at Hofheinz
shot of Texas A&M’s Winston Crite during Pavilion. The Cougars defeated the Aggies 67-46.
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with a baseball bat. Atlanta Braves hero, Willie Stargell will perform in concert
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The MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society presents Willie Stargell narrating
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