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Wednesday, July 1, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 5 u.tyjv- Sports le Bebi vo liuiot, nia n Eit ^ D; 'anm Coaches grab wins at NCAA convention DALLAS (AP) — Coaches in vir- ually every NCAA sport — with bas- I cetball one notable exception — won lr y rod najor victories Tuesday when a se- ies of bitterly contested cut-back c licem Iieasures sponsored by the NCAA the e» < Cuan; oadsaa: on il, tl Syria' !e hs aftt ^eria ’residents Commission were voted lown. Major football schools came out he best as the special cost-cutting :onvention wound down, defeating woposals to reduce overall schol- irship and coaching limits and wa- lering down a move to curtail spring iractice. But women’s administrators and fficials of the U.S. Olympic Com- nittee also won, fighting off a Com- Itania:- j na ^ nission plan to cut back scholarship imits in most men’s and women’s Di- i ofQj ’ision I sports. htlLjB By a narrow 152-145 vote, schools oyjyJMtistained a ruling by the chair not to "Bote on whether to restore basketball ■cholarship cuts enacted last Jan- -«J ar y’ I Many of the most significant items ISgBere acted upon in Tuesday’s morn- sess i° n an( d the convention was lo conclude with a three-hour af- ■ernoon meeting. As they broke for lunch, many delegates openly ques- fHoned the wisdom of even calling tis two-day meeting. ib “Our people figure it cost about $1.8 million to put on this cost-cut ting convention,” said Dave Gavitt, commissioner of the Big East Con ference. “How many baseball schol arships would that pay for?” One question in the delegates’ minds was how the powerful Presi dents Commission would react to its first legislative defeat. Since it was formeo in 1984, the Commission had been undefeated in its moves to push through reform legislation. Chancellor John Slaughter of Maryland, chairman of the 44-mem ber Commission, promised it would re-double its efforts. “Naturally, we’re disappointed that some of the legislation we pro posed has not been adopted,” Slaughter said. “But it points out the significance of what we said yester day — that there are significant areas of disagreement, and that’s not going to change until people begin to identify some better understand ing of these issues. “I think also the Presidents Com mission failed to do a good enough job of working with other presidents and chief executive officers to get them to understand why we felt it was important that they support our proposals. To a large extent, presi dents and chancellors around the country have not followed our lead. And that’s probably our fault.” The Commmission will not relin quish its new position of leadership in college sports, Slaughter said “By all means. We were estab lished to make sure that presidents had a voice in what happens in inter collegiate athletics. Now, that’s more important than ever.” Coaches Joe Paterno of Penn State and Tom Osborne of Nebraska were among those speaking against a Pac-10 proposal to trim overall foot ball scholarships at Division I-A schools from 95 to 90. The proposition failed 69-39. A short time later, the convention passed a motion to indefinitely post pone consideration of a Commission measure to cut scholarships in 12 men’s Division I sports and 10 wom en’s Division I sports. Women’s groups had protested the cuts would affect women’s pro grams disproportionately. Olympic officials had also opposed it. In moving that it be suspended, delegates referred to the failure to cut football grants. “To take away awards from a large segment of women’s sports will be seen, whether intended or not, as clearly sexist in effect and a major setback in our commitment to an ex citing NCAA sports program,” said Paul Olum, President of Oregon University. “To refuse to cut football by a small amount and then to go ahead and reduce non-revenue and wom en’s sports is disgraceful,” Olum said. “We want to get away from a band-aid approach to solving our problems and give ourselves an op portunity to study this more care fully,” Paterno said in arguing against the football reductions. “Es pecially with the possibility several years down the road of eliminating freshman eligibility again, which we would support.” Delegates to last January’s con vention voted to reduce the number of scholarships a football program can give in one year from 30 to 25. “Football is a developmental sport more than most others,” said Os borne, who rarely attends NCAA conventions. “You may have a fresh man lineman, 6-foot-6 and 210 pounds. You hope in a year he might be 230 or 240 pounds, so of those 95, you may be lucky to have 60 that can play.” Division 1-AA schools voted 49-42 to reduce the assistant football coaching staff from seven to six. An amendment to cut scholarships from 30 to 25 passed 56-34 but a proposal that would shave total scholarships from 70 to 65 failed 47-44. Washington President William Gerberding argued that cutting football scholarships would would produce a very important “symbol,” and drew a sharp rebuke from Os borne. “I do not believe we should be too worried about symbols at this time. Football coaches live in the real world,” Osborne said. Barnes picks Olympics over A&M Texas A&M track star Randy Barnes has decided to forego his junior year of eligibilty to pursue a spot on the 1988 U.S. Olympic team. Barnes, who is the No. 3- ranked shot putter in the U.S., battled a recurring hand injury the past year at A&M, and thus, underwent minor surgery earlier in June to repair an inflamed ten don in his right hand. Despite the injury, Barnes was able to win the Soutnwest Confer ence outdoor shot put title in May along with his second consecutive SWC championship in the discus. A&M assistant coach Ted Nel son said Barnes’ departure from the Aggie track team will allow him better time to prepare for the U.S. Olympic trials next summer in Indianapolis. “It’s really tough to lose an out standing competitor like Randy Barnes, but we think this will en hance his chances of making the Olympic team,” Nelson said. Connors fights off 2-set deficit to snare victory ce emp tt apart i. Mort idler r e sou; setuji WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — wd fin ainimy Connors, America’s final Bope for the men’s singles title, ath fotBought back from the brink of elimi- ntil latBation Tuesday to defeat Sweden’s le arro elikael Pernfors and advance to the IWarll quarterfinals at Wimbledon. GomB After battling for more than 3‘/2 Bndfi » ours on the scarred grass, Connors rtofduBmerged with a 1-6, 1-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2 e Ri\c fictory and a berth in the quarterfl- Hals against Slobodan Zivojinovic of the Nr; Jugoslavia. I Also moving into the quarterfinals 194W; *' ere three Swedes — third-seeded matte Slats Wilander, No. 4 Stef an Edberg isantMiJpd Anders Jart yd — along with No. jftenik iseed Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia, isionthi jp 0 - 9 Henri Leconte of France and Bio. 11 Pat Cash of Australia. i Mkhit his worl Defending champion and No. 1 seed Martina Navratilova led the ad vance to the women’s quarterfinals by defeating Gigi Fernandez of Puerto Rico 6-3, 6-1. It took five sets for the 34-year- old Connors to win his 77th singles match in the world’s premier grass- court tournament. But win it he did, enthralling the Centre Court crowd as he rallied from two sets down and 1-4 in the third. “I don’t think I’ve been that far down here and won before,” Con nors said. “I didn’t have time to be embarrassed. I was out there being kicked.” With defeat in sight, Connors found the game that has twice car ried him to the Wimbledon title. He began taking the ball earlier, his groundstrokes were deep and accu rate, his volleys precise and sharp. And gone was the spate of unforced errors that had put him in such a deep hole. “I can still play,” Connors said. “I feel that the best thing I did out there was grind and fight.” It was vintage Connors, the man who has won a men’s record 105 tournaments in his career and who now has reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals 12 times. For Zivojinovic, Tuesday’s 6-2, 6- 4, 7-6 victory over Australian Peter Doohan had a tinge of revenge. In the second round, Doohan upset de fending champion Boris Becker of West Germany, the Yugoslav’s friend and frequent doubles part ner. Besides the Connors-Zivojinovic match, other pairings Wednesday will pit Wilander against Cash, Jar- ryd against Edberg and Leconte against Lendl. In the women’s fourth round, in addition to Navratilova, the winners were No. 2 Steffi Graf of West Ger many, No. 3 Chris Evert of the United States, No. 4 Helena Sukova of Czechoslovakia, No. 5 Pam Shriver of the U.S., No. 6 Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina, No. 8 Claudia Kohde-Kilsch of West Germany and unseeded Dianne Balestrat of Aus tralia. Evert and Shriver almost didn’t make it. “I’ve had one struggle,” Evert said after defeating South Africa’s Rosa- lyn Fairbank 6-2, 2-6, 7-5. It was her first of the tournament that was not in straight sets. “It’s not as though I’ve gone three sets every match. It’s not that I’m not pleased with the way I’m play, I’m just not pleased with my concentration level as far as clos ing out a match.” Shriver was down 1-4 in the final set and fought off two match points before outlasting No. 16 Sylvia Ha- nika of West Germany 6-7, 7-5,10-8. Livingstone chosen as All-American Texas A&M standout third base- man Scott Livingstone has been named to the Sporting News All- America team. Livingstone, who was named as the designated hitter to the squad, led the Aggies with a .403 batting av erage, with 19 home runs and 76 RBI. The junior is currently playing for the USA team which will represent this country in the Pan American games in Indianapolis at the end of the summer. Livinstone is hitting a .333 clip for the USA team and leads the 9-0 team in doubles with four. He also has been selected the Plymouth Most Valuable Player of the Game twice in the nine games so far. 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