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Monday, April 20, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9 Sports &M golfers capture ►WC championship ;m the fm tation resd lS | Isooneof^ Itat peopltQ, ^ United S| e d nations |, population 1 developm es should n om the til 0 million^ md other it sample, he problem, Ik re in 20 ia worlinJ ers are ® irious jroi' iturv,hea Brazil, 8, ipia, Indii,] i South l From Staff and Wire Reports ■ATASCOCITA (AP) — Three Texas A&M golfers fired sub-par rounds Sunday as the Aggies overcame a 10-stroke deficit and Iptured the Southwest Confer- licc golf championship. ■The Aggies’ sizzling 6-under- par 278 over the final 18 holes S lve them a three-day total of J3, one over par for the tourna ment. jAfter the first two days, the ■niversity of Houston seemed |estined to give coach Dave Wil liams his 1 1th spring SWC hch unpionship. Houston led sec ond-place Arkansas by four strokes and Texas by seven Biokes. ■ But the Cougars stumbled to a ^-over-par 290 on Sunday. Hous ton lost 12 shots to the Aggies and jmrished tied for second with Ar kansas, two shots behind A&M. feel fantastic,” A&M Coach |ob Ellis said. “I knew if we had a od round, we’d have a good mce of winning.” ■ Sophomore Roy Mackenzie led feM down the stretch with a 3- jmder-par 68. Junior Neil Hick- Hfson shot a 69, freshman Randy Lee a 70 and senior Randy Wyle an even-par 71, along with junior Gary Gilchrist. “The golf pro there said it looked like we were about four shots behind Houston going into the final round,” Ellis said. “I didn’t want to tell the players that because I wanted them to con tinue playing well.” Individually, Houston’s Tray Tyner won the 1987 SWC med alist title. Tyner shot a 65 and car ded a two-under 71 on Sunday. “1 thought one of the big keys for our players down the stretch was the fact they didn’t have to go head-to-head with the leaders,” said Ellis, whose fourth- place team at the start of the day al ready was in the clubhouse before Houston, Arkansas and Texas had reached the 18th green. “Our people just had to sit back and play their game, and that’s what they did. You’ve got to give this group a lot of credit. It seems they’ve been battling back in the last few tournaments and good things have happened for us.” It marked the 10th time the Aggies have won the conference title. They last won the title in 1982. Longhorns take 2-of-3 from Aggies A&M wins third game to clinch tourney berth stros, Scott take 1st game; m B eds, Power grab second nrcnA« :INCINNAT1 (AP) — Kal Dan ' Jf J)L v |l( hit his fifth homer and scored hue, and Ted Power held Houston to jive hits over 6% innings Sunday (olive the Cincinnati Reds a 6-2 vic- and a double-header split with J ' the 'istros. ,l . vWlouston won (he first game 7-3 as Bill Doran drove in three runs with a pah of homers and Mike Scott and pro Andersen stopped the Reds on i tree hits. One of the hits was a homer by Daniels. ■ower, 2-0, gave up a two-run homer to Billy Hatcher in the first en. Fi tid Sa inning of the nightcap, then kep»t Houston hitless until Hatcher doubled in the sixth. Hatcher’s horner, his second, ex tended his hitting streak to a career- high 13 games, and he went 5-for-10 for the day to boost his average to .481. Scott, last year’s National League Cy Young Award winner, domi nated the Reds in the opener, allow ing just three hits and two walks be fore leaving with a stiff back after the seventh inning. By Homer Jacobs Sports Editor The Texas A&M-Texas baseball series at Olsen Field this weekend was a three-game set that was deter mined by out-pitching and pitching out. The Aggies fell to the Longhorns in the first game Friday night 8-2 as UT’s Curt Krippner (9-0) took the mound and gave up only five hits. And the final game of the series saw A&M’s Gary Geiger handling UT batsmen in a 10-3 drubbing of the top-ranked Longhorns. But the game was the second af fair, which featured the play of the series. With A&M trailing Texas 10-4 in the bottom of the sixth inning of a seven-inning game, the fireworks began. Shortstop Ever Magallanes, who went 8-for-13 for the series, fu eled the fire with a three-run homer over the left-field fence. The first homer of the year for Magallanes capped a five-run rally that positioned A&M with a 10-9 deficit going into the last half of the final inning. Aggie first baseman Jim Neu mann led off the inning with a walk, and pinch-runner Andy Duke then made it to third on a wild pickoff at tempt by Texas pitcher Steve Cantu. After pinch-hitter Tim McWilliam grounded out, the Aggies and A&M Coach Mark Johnson were faced with a one-out situation and No. 9 hitter Maury Martin at the plate. With the count 1-1, Johnson called for the sacrifice squeeze, and the Texas dugout called for a pitch- out. The pitenout won as Duke was tagged out, enabling the Longhorns to grab the 10-9 win. Johnson said the squeeze situation is a guessing game, and Texas just picked the right count for the pitch- out. “You can look back and kill your self,” he said. “I called the squeeze, and they guessed right.” Johnson also said there was no sign-stealing on the Longhorns’ part. “I don’t think they did at all,” he , for $19 some from sales of jo« one froiM >e. It F® defense ilm ret Con® 1 ublican stni mittee'stal edapM said, ’tbeaf® Give Yourself The Graduation Present You Deserve Today! the H"' the H 01 ;, ernieii ;• ft at if ill. ice the S K tc# ner£ L ’S& ■nioria itnia ||S , ;ith ft “SV 4 ,i. K] with no payments for 90 days Quality Pontiac-Buick-GMC Trucks and Subaru is offering guaranteed financing for graduating Aggies and graduate students. With your proof of employment and good credit or no credit, we'll finance your purchase for up to 60 months through GMAC. With no payment due for 90 days. With as little as 5% down. 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The Aggies’ victory was the first over the Longhorns in the last 11 tries, but the whole series seemed to be a moral victory for A&M players as well. “I think we realized we can play with them,” said Geiger, who picked up his ninth win of the year. Magallanes said the victory in the final game was a relief of sorts to the squad. “It gets the monkey off our back to finally beat Texas,” he said. “It will definitely give us a boost for the tournament.” Johnson reiterated Magallanes’ remarks. “It did our players good to see them get beat,” he said. “ That helps a bunch, probably more than people realize.” William Windom as "Thurber / the one-man play. For 15 years, William Windom has delighted audiences with his one-man showcase of James Thurber, Hew Yorker magazine's most famous writer and sketch artist. MSC Town Hall Broadway presents William Windom in Thurber I” Thursday, April 23 in Rudder Auditorium at 8 p.m. Windom is one of America s best loved stage and television actors, lie is best known for his Emmy Award winning role in MBC-TV's 1969-70 series, "My World and Welcome to It", based on the work of James Thurber. Most recent ly, he has played Doc Seth Hazlitt in CBS-TV's "Murder, She Wrote". As Thurber, Windom is Thurber. He is at once light, bright and very right in his musings^about the world as seen from a cartoonist's pad. Make plans to enjoy this evening of unique wit and comic art. For tickets call the MSC Box office, 845-1234. VISA and MasterCard accepted. J.c DC MSC Town Hall Broadway