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Friday, February 20, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9 Sports lady Aggies to play Owls [for 6th place By Hal L. Hammons Sports Writer ussiatifl ^ exas A&M Lady Aggies ■jj, Jenter into Saturday’s contest widi dacv«S^' ce * n nee ^ a w * n to help en- andll were ncl sure a berth in the six-team Southwest Conference tourna- gpent. A&M Head Cojiich Lynn , —Hickey said the 4-8 Lady Aggies ■llM^ ave not sewn U P the sixth and fi- '™nal slot in the tournament, even though A&M is now in sixth place —in conference. nissintT Hickey said Rice was a team the 1 0a “-:dy Aggies could beat, but that Owls are much stronger this ear than most people thought hey would be. Rice is led by post Holly James, ho averages 18 points per game, nd guard Karen Sowada, who is out of 45 from the three-point ■ine this year. ^ Teams that play Rice have dif ficulty deciding whether to focus tore attention on the bombs of owada or the strong inside play p,.—of James, who Hickey said is one 0 the premiere players in the on fere nee. avakJ fW'ei meiu nd in o 16 fed Hickey said Rice is really the [only team in the SWC that has jreally utilized the three-point [shot this season. She said the Lady Aggies need [to keep their confidence and en- [thusiasm up and “go out and [challenge them” in order to win [the game. With two wins in the last three [games of the season, Hickey said [she thinks A&M will be assured of [a playoff spot. The Lady Aggies are coming [off an 88-69 loss to the Houston Cougars last Wednesday. Tip-off for the Lady Aggies’ game with Rice is at 5 p.m. in G. follie White Coliseum. Aggies hope to build momentum in Saturday’s contest with Owls By Hal L. Hammons Sports Writer Saturday night’s contest between Texas A&M and Rice is a game be tween teams in different, yet similar situations. The Aggies have lost seven of their last eight conference games, in cluding Wednesday’s loss at Hous ton, a game that A&M Head Coach Shelby Metcalf said was one of the worst efforts of the season for the Aggies. A&M desperately needs a victory to get some momentum worked up before the Southwest Conference tournament. “We’re hurting,” Metcalf said. “We need a win.” Rice, on the other hand, is coming off a big upset of Baylor in Waco. Still, the Owls are in last place in the conference and need to continue winning just so they can be one of the eight teams that qualify for the tournament. Metcalf said the Aggies could hardly help but shoot better than in the Houston loss. A&M shot only 26 percent from the field in the game, its worst outing of the year in that department. The Aggies are sure to remember the last time the two teams played. The upset Rice victory started the skid that A&M has yet to break out of. When asked what the Aggies planned to do differently the second time around, Metcalf quickly and succinctly said, “Beat them.” He said he planned to play Mike Clifford on the high-scoring Greg Hines of the Owls. He said Clifford was probably the best defensive player in the conference. “We won’t shut him down,” Met calf said about Hines, “but I think Mike can contain him. “What we do the rest of the way de pends on how much help the three seniors (Clifford, Winston Crite and Todd Holloway) get from the other players,” Metcalf said. Metcalf said the team really needs to develop some momentum, or I'-' 1 * 11 -y; ■ Shelljy Metcalf 12th Man meeting set for Monday at 5 p.m. Texas A&M Coach Jackie Shferrill has set Monday af ternoon as the first organizational meeting for students wishing to try out for the 1987 12th Man Kickoff Team. Monday’s meeting is scheduled for 5 p.m. in the meeting room of the football locker room under the west stands of Kyle Field. The first tryouts are scheduled for Tuesday. “This is a very important mee ting,” Sherrill said. “Out of this group the 1987 12th Man Kickoff Team will be selected, and every Aggie knows how imporant this team has become to our success.” A&M hosts McNeese State for 3 games this weekend “Mo,” before they get into the tour nament. “I really believe ‘Mo’ is going to transfer back to A&M,” Metcalf said. However, he admitted his confi dence might be so high because he wants to believe it so much. Saturday’s game begins at 7:30 p.m. in G. Rolhe White Coliseum. The Texas A&M baseball team takes on McNeese State this week end in a three-game series at Olsen Field beginning Friday at 3 p.m., concluding with a double-header that starts at noon Saturday. The Aggies 5-1 on the season and 4-0 at Olsen Field hope for better re sults this time. McNeese State swept the three-game series last year. A&M split a double-header with Lamar Tuesday in Beaumont. The Aggies have been getting strong hitting from shortstop Ever Magallanes and second baseman Terry Taylor in the early part of the season. Magallanes is 1 l-for-24 for a .458 average, while Taylor is batting .455 on a 10-for-22 effort. A&M is- batting .374 as a team and averaging 12.5 runs per game. SMU may not maximum NCAA penalty Ewil NEW YORK (AP) — Penalties proposed against Southern Method ist University’s football program by the NCAA enforcement staff stop short of the first use of the maxi mum, two-year “death penalty” shutdown, the school’s faculty rep resentative said Thursday. While the NCAA’s infractions committee is not bound by the rec ommendation and still could impose the maximum penalty on its own, SMU professor Lonnie Kliever said the staff s proposal at a hearing last weekend was the same as the school’s. “We cooperated and were not ad versarial,” Kliever said. “We dis cussed and disclosed the infractions that put us at risk with the enforce ment people. And we went into the hearing with the staff and the insti tution agreeing on violations and proposed penalties. Neither the in stitution nor the enforcement staff went in asking for the death pen alty.” Kliever would not say what penal ties the school and the enforcement staff proposed. Under legislation adopted in June 1985, the NCAA may suspend re peat offenders for up to two years, prohibiting competition, recruiting, coaching or scholarships during that period. SMU, the most penalized school in NCAA history, was already under sanction when the current charges surfaced and thus became the first program subject to the most extreme punishment. David Berst, director of enforce ment for the NCAA, would not dis cuss the case or what penalties the NCAA had asked for. Frank Remington, professor of law at the University of Wisconsin and chairman of the infractions committee, said last week that lesser penalties were an option of his com mittee. “The legislation calls for the im position of a major penalty, the loss of contests, subject to exceptions au thorized by the committee in unique situations. It is called the death pen alty, but it says the prohibition of ‘some or all’ contests. We could cancel as few as one game. It is an oversimplification to call it the death penalty. “Its purpose is the desire of mem bership to have substantial penalties. We are bound by what the mem bership tells us.” Kliever said SMU had no indica tion that its presentation at the hear ing “blunted the committee’s sensiti vity to the nature of the infractions,” but he said the university believed there were mitigating circumstances that would justify a lesser penalty. “We conducted the investigation with the cooperation and assistance of the NCAA, rather than vice ver sa,” Kliever said. “We shared and participated in the investigation.” Frank Remington, law professor at Wisconsin and chairman of the six-member infractions committee, said after NCAA schools voted 427-6 to adopt the death penalty that he considered it “a mandate from the membership. We believe if we do not apply the measure of the new pen alty structure when it seems appro priate, we will have to answer to the membership as to why we did not.” After hearing SMU’s case last week, Remington said: “The mem bership indicated they wanted se rious infractions viewed seriously. 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