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Sports
Knight says Indiana, Penn State
played by the rules to win titles
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Coach
Bob Knight says his Indiana basket
ball team struck a blow for the good
guys in college athletics by winning
the NCAA championship —just as
he believes Penn State did in foot
ball.
“I think it’s great that two teams
with high graduation rates and no
recruiting garbage can win national
championships in the same season,”
said Knight after capturing his third
national title.
Knight takes pride in Indiana’s
adherence to NCAA’s rules and his
insistence that student-athletes fulfill
the first part of that description.
“It pleases me tremendously for
the kids and for our system,” the
coach said in the afterglow of India
na’s 74-73 victory over Syracuse
Monday night in the NCAA
championship game.
“I’m obviously a target for a lot of
criticism for one reason or another
— some justified and some not —
and here we have three different
sets of kids with three champion
ships. Our record has been pretty
good in the tournament, and what
that means to me is pretty good testi
mony that we’re doing things the
way they should be done.”
He believes by winningjthe college
football title, Penn State did the
same. “The last couple of regular-
season games, I was rooting for
Penn State and Joe Paterno to win
the football championships,” he said.
Knight relaxed his philosophy
somewhat when he allowed trans-
fered junior-college players to join
his team. In his 16th season at In
diana the 1984 Olympic gold medal-
coach, realized that junior- college
players could provide the instant
help that was needed if the Hoosiers
were to stay competitive.
Keith Smart, one of those players,
was the most valuable player in In
diana’s victory. He figures promi
nently in Knight’s plans for next sea
son.
After third-ranked Indiana, 30-4,
had defeated No. 10 Syracuse,
Knight talked as if he couldn’t wait
to get going again, even though
Steve Alford, a two-time All-Ameri
can guard, will no longer be around.
“I can’t wait to see Keith Smart at
point guard as a senior,” Knight said
of the 6-foot-1 junior.
In the game, Smart scored 21
points, including the game-winner
— a 16-foot corner shot with five
seconds left. He took over when it
appeared the Orangemen, 31-7,
were on their way to their first na
tional title before an NCAA record-
equaling crowd of 64,959 at the Su
perdome. Smart scored 12 of India
na’s last 15 points as the Orangemen
let the game slip away. He made
nine of 15 from the field and added
six assists and five rebounds.
“If it goes in, it’s my shot,” Smart
said of his game-winner.
What it did was put Knight in se
lect company with coaches who have
won more than two NCAA crowns
— UCLA’s John Wooden (10) and
Kentucky’s Adolph Rupp (four).
There were 13 ties and 19 lead
changes. Syracuse held the largest
lead, eight points (52-44) with 13:09
left in the game and Sherman Doug
las (20 points) did best to keep the
Orangemen in front.
Syracuse, now 31-7, furiously
tried to call a timeout after Smart’s
basket, but the officials didn’t call it
until the clock ticked off to one sec
ond left.
“We discussed it at the (scorer’s)
table,” referee Jody Silvester said.
“When the timeout was picked up,
there was one second left.”
Syracuse’s Derrick Coleman, who
finished with 19 rebounds, tried a
long pass from under the basket, but
Smart was there to intercept it. He
tossed the ball some 30 rows into the
seats after the horn sounded.
Alford, Indiana’s all-time leading
scorer, finished with 23 points and
2,438 for his career.
New bill to allow lawsuits against boosters
AUSTIN (AP) — A Texas Senate
committee approved a bill Tuesday
that would allow schools and confer
ences to sue boosters who violate
NCAA rules. The boosters could be
sued for up to $10,000 per violation.
Sen. John Montford, the bill spon
sor, reminded his colleagues that
four of the nine Southwest Confer
ence schools are on probation for vi
olating NCAA recruiting rules and
three others are under investigation.
problem, the NCAA rules will not
reach a booster or an alumnus situa
tion where that person is outside any
type of sanction or purview of the
NCAA rules,” said Montford, D-
Lubbock.
“It has become obvious that the
NCAA rules cannot handle the
problem associated with alleged ir
regularities in intercollegiate athletic
recruitment. To compound that
“The institution is particularly
vulnerable since it, along with the
players, is normally the subject of
the sanctions, and yet it has virtually
no recourse against boosters who en
gage in this type of conduct,” Mont
ford said.
The bill does not provide for
criminal sanctions, but “it does pro
vide significant meaningful civil pe
nalties in the event a violation oc
curs,” he said.
The bill “does not reach players or
coaches,” Montford said. He added
that he felt current sanctions by the
National Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion “are arguably adequate in that
regard.”
Sen. Gene Green, D-Houston,
asked if Montford had considered
allowing others, such as ex-students’
associations, to sue boosters and
alumni who violate NCAA rules.
“I have no personal objection to
that. I would hate to just throw it
open to anybody without some rea
sonable connection to the univer
sity,” Montford said.
Lady Ag tennis team blanked by Trinity
The Texas A&M women’s tennis
team was shut out 9-0 by 8th-ranked
Trinity Tuesday afternoon at the
Omar Smith Tennis Center.
The Lady Aggies were no match
for Trinity, which has three of its
players ranked in the top 50 in the
country.
In singles, A&M’s Kim Labus-
chagne, ranked 47th in the nation,
lost to Jane Holdren 2-6, 3-6, and
Laura Liong fell to Trinity’s Ann
Hulbert6-1, 1-6, 2-6.
“I thought Laura played an excel
lent match against Hulbert,” A&M
Coach Bobby Kleinecke said. “I was
really pleased with her effort.”
In other matches, A&M’s Lisa
Keller fell to Elvyn Barrable 4-6, 0-6,
A&M’s Jennifer Jones lost to Jana
Klepac 1-6, 0-6. Trinity’s Katrina-
Crawford defeated Missy Kibler 6-0,
6-1, and Dabney Langhorne
knocked off A&M’s Melissa Dowling
6-0, 6-0.
In the doubles bracket, Labus-
chagne and Liong lost to Hulbert
and Holdren 3-6, 3-6, and Jones and
Keller fell to Trinity’s Barrable and
Klepace 2-6, 3-6. A&M’s duo of
Kibler and Sami Gonzales lost to
M.L. Cladis and Mary Graber 2-6, 1-
6.
“Trinity’s an excellent team,”
Kleinecke said. “They are more tal
ented than I thought. They can put
you in a position to beat yourself, but
they don’t make mistakes.”
The Lady Aggies have a busy
weekend on the road ahead of them.
They will face Arkansas in Fayette
ville Friday and play SMU Saturday
in Dallas.
The doctors of optometry affiliated
with Texas State Optical know that every
contact lens prescription must be exact.
The fit must be precise. You must be
completely comfortable.
Yet every year people spend fortunes
on contacts, put them away in a drawer
and never wear them.
Because they’re uncomfortable.
They don’t fit right.
These people have never been to
Texas State Optical.
Y)u can’t afford
contact lenses
that don’t fit right.
At any price.
A&M catcher Maury Martin demonstrates the
finer points of catching to two Little Leaguers at
the Little League Clinic held between game
A&M s double-header with North TexasSlait
A&M takes two from NTSU
Aggies pound out 22 hits in 5-2,14-1
wins
By Doug Hall
Sports Writer
Tuesday night’s double-header
between Texas A&M and North
Texas State was a series of num
bers. And fortunately for the Ag
gies, who improved their season
record to 29-12-1 with the two
victories, they were holding all
the right cards.
Between the two games, A&M
used 22 base hits and 10 North
Texas State errors to outscore the
Mean Green 19 to 3. In the open
ing game, Scott Centala improved
his season record to 5-2 with a 5-2
win. In the finale, Russ Greene
evened his record at 1-1 as the
Aggies won 14-1.
We’re trying to get as many pitch*
ers across die line as possible to
get a good indication for this
weekend.”
cued again thanks to the sir
pitching of Pat VVernig.
earned the save.
In all, Johnson continued his
policy of using as many pitchers
as possible in non-conference
games by using seven different
pitchers over the two games.
Darryl Fry, whose five victories
tie him with Gary Geiger and
Centala for the team lead,
opened the first game and faced
the minimum nine batters over
the first three innings.
A&M Head Coach Mark John
son, whose team is coming off a
three-game sweep of Texas Tech
in Lubbock, said this series is a big
one for the Aggies, especially
with the Baylor Bears coming to
Olsen Field for a three-game
weekend series.
“There is no doubt about it,”
Johnson said, “we were definitely
pushing for a good series against
them (North Texas State). And
they’re probably going to throw
their ace against us tomorrow.
“In the second game, I thought
we really hit the ball well. Russ
(Greene) threw the ball well, and
Ed Perez got to throw
In the fourth, however, John
son put Centala on the mound,
and the sophomore transfer
struggled through the next two
innings.
After the Mean Green took a 2-
1 lead on several Aggie errors in
the fourth, Johnson's squad re
sponded with a three-run fifth.
Shortstop Ever Magallanes con
tributed two RBI with a double
off the glove of North Texas
State left fielder Reggie Petty.
The Aggies’ leading hitter,
third baseman Scott Livingstone,
who has been in and out of the
lineup lately with an injured
shoulder, then brought in Magal
lanes with a line-drive single to
right field. T he Aggies added an
insurance run in the sixth, but
North Texas State never threat-
So Centala, who is situs?:
with a tender arm. had theli
impressive performance
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If the Mean G -reen, whose-
son record fell to 9-26, to
ened even momentarily in
first game, then the seconds
was all A&M’s.
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Johnson said freshman foil
Pryor would take the mound:
afternoon for the series
that starts at 3 p.m.
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every week .and just hope to
will be able to wot kin to a coni
ence game.”
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