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    Monday, January 25, 1988/The Battalion/Page 9
Sports
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Senior quarterback Craig
Stump was named the winner of
■the Aggie Heart Award Saturday
night at the Texas A&M football
[aanquet at the Hilton.
The annual award is given to
|the player who best exemplifies
the spirit of the rest of the team
Eind is based on dedication, integ
rity, desire and heart.
Stump began the season as the
Starting quarterback, but was re
placed by Lance Pavlas and then
Sucky Richardson as the season
progressed. He came off the
snch during A&M’s 14-0 win
over Arkansas to direct a late
^coring drive. He started the final
two regular season games against
TCU and Texas, but was used
only for punting in A&M’s 35-10
win over Notre Dame in the Cot
ton Bowl.
The Most Valuable Players for
the season were also named Sat
urday, as Keith Woodside took
the offensive honors and line
backer John Roper won the de
fensive award. Punt returner and
flanker Rod Harris won the MVP
for special teams, and Ronnie
Glenn for the 12th Man Kick-Off
Team. All MVPs were chosen by
the players.
After receiving the award.
Stump gave a short speech and
thanked his coaches and team
mates.
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From Staff and Wire Reports
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) —
he Texas A&M men’s swim team
on only three of 13 events against
e University of Arkansas in a 72-
41 defeat Saturday, while the Aggie
omen swimmers gained five event
ctories in their 114-103 loss.
The Aggies did, however, have
o swimmers qualify the NCAA
ampionships.
Susan Habermas qualified in both
e 200-meter backstroke and the
0-meter individual medley, and
avid Cole qualified in the 200-me-
tr freestyle.
The Razorbacks outscored the
ten in the second half to win their
cond straight meet after losing to
ationally-ranked South Carolina
to weeks ago.
A&M led 22-21 going into the
ne-meter diving competition. Ar-
nsas took eight points in diving
id never trailed again.
After the one-meter diving, the
Aggies outscored Arkansas in only
ine other event, the 200-yard breast
troke.
A&M’s Jeff Garry captured first
in the 200-yard breast stroke in
2:08.69 and Julian Summers took
third to win the event for the Aggies.
Cole qualified for the NCAA
championships with his first place
win in the 200-meter freestyle.
Danny Stevens took second and
Ed Altman won third to sweep the
event for the Aggies.
In the men’s two other victories,
David Komel won the 200-yard free
style and Danny Stevens placed sec
ond. Neil Kallmeyer clocked a
1:56.36 in the 200-yard individual
medley for first place and Scott Mc
Donald took second.
A&M’s women’s team was lead by
Habermas who took first in both the
200-meter backstroke and individual
medley events.
Dodie Stapp captured first the
200-meter fly.
The Aggie women dominated the
500-meter freestyle taking the first
three places with Joan Wojtowicz,
Suzanne Fiori and Jennifer New
comb finishing in the top spots in
that order.
By Hal. L. Hammons
Assistant Sports Editor
HOUSTON — Well, everybody
knew Cinderella would wake up one
morning and find that her coach
had reverted back into a pumpkin.
The Houston Cougars finally
burst Texas A&M’s bubble in a 67-
63 nail-biter at Hofheinz Pavilion
that shouldn’t have been that close.
The loss was the Aggies’ first of
the Southwest Conference season.
They dropped to 4-1 in SWC play
(12-7 overall), while Houston went
to 3-2 and 8-6.
All A&M’s hopes finally were ex
tinguished with eight seconds re
maining. Rolando Ferreira con
verted both ends of a one-and-one
free-throw opportunity to give the
Cougars a four-point cushion.
Houston hit both of its shots and
five of its six free throws in the last
2:29 to stymie the Aggies’ comeback
attempts.
The game looked over when Dar
ryl McDonald air-balled from 23 feet
out with 40 seconds left and the
Cougars up 64-58. The ball bounced
out of bounds, giving UH the ball.
However, Freddie Ricks stole the
ball on the in-bounds play and con
verted a lay-up to close to within
four points.
Horace Chaney hit the front end
of his one-and-one, and James McG
hee hit a three-point shot with 12
seconds left. But Ferreira’s free
throws killed any hopes for the Ag
gies’ fourth last-minute win in five
conference games.
In between squandered opportu
nities, the Aggies managed 20 turn
overs. They led UH in giveaways 11-
3 at halftime.
The turnovers were the key to
Houston opening up a first-half lead
that ballooned to 10 points at half
time. The Aggies turned it over five
times in a row and seven times in 10
trips down the floor between 13:30
and 7:45.
Meanwhile, three Cougar three-
pointers — two by Richard Hollis
and one by Chaney — helped Hous
ton to a lead it would only lose once.
A&M was led by forward Donald
Thompson, who had 18 points and
14 rebounds. Ricks and Keron
Graves added 12 points apiece, while
McDonald got 10 points and seven
assists.
Houston freshman forward Craig
Upchurch led the Cougars with 18
points, including 12 in the first half.
Ferreira added 16, and Hollis scored
11.
Chaney, declared ineligible for
the Cougars’ previous game against
Southern Methodist, was cleared for
the game and contributed 12 points.
A&M Head Coach Shelby Metcalf
said, “I think if Chaney had missed
one more game it would have really
helped us.”
McDonald said, “We weren’t
counting on (Chaney) not playing.
There’s no doubt he helped them.”
Metcalf and Ricks both said the
Aggies did not play with the same in
tensity as they showed in their ear
lier games.
Metcalf said, “The first half I
thought we weren’t as aggressive as
we should have been, but I thought
we came on in the second half and
remedied that.
“The guys came back and com
peted in the second half. Hey, they
didn’t want to throw the ball away.”
Ricks said, “Coming into this
game I think we were a little over
confident. 1 think it was showing in
practice.
“We should have learned from
the Rice game that if we don’t come
out each game and play hard that we
were going to be in trouble, but it
took a loss to do it.”
McDonald said, “I feel our team
came back to reality. I guess we
thought, . . . ‘we beat the best three
teams, we can beat anybody.’ And we
came into Hofheinz, and they played
pretty well, and we didn’t play well at
all.
Metcalf said he would not specu
late on the implications of this game
on the conference race.
“It’s an old cliche, but it’s true,” he
said. “It would be foolish to think of
anybody but Texas Tech in Lubbock
right now.”
A&M travels to play the Red Raid
ers Wednesday.
Houston crushes Lady Aggies 87-66
By Loyd Brumfield
Sports Editor
HOUSTON — The Texas A&M
women’s basketball team fell behind
in a hurry during the first half and
never recovered against the Univer
sity of Houston, losing 87-66 Sunday
at Hofheinz Pavilion.
The loss leaves A&M with a 9-5
season record and a 3-2 Southwest
Conference mark.
A&M guard Donna Roper was
saddled with three quick fouls in the
first two minutes of the game and
was never a factor during the first
half.
All of her 14 points came in the
second half.
Roper was removed after her
third foul with the Lady Aggies
down 14-10.
A&M made it 14-12 before the
Lady Cougars scored eight straight
points to take a 22-12 lead which
they never relinquished.
Turnovers plagued the Lady Ag
gies during the first half, as A&M
had 17 to UH’s three.
“We didn’t handle their press
well,” A&M Coach Lynn Hickey
said. “You can’t have 17 turnovers to
their (four) and expect to win.”
UH, which led 47-29 at the half,
outrebntmded A&M 47-44.
“We didn’t follow our game plan,”
Hickey said. “We wanted to pack it
in with a 2-3 zone and we didn’t. We
just stood around.
“Considering our best ball-han
dler (Roper) missed almost 14 min
utes of the first half, we were lucky
to get as close as we did.”
Forward Evelyn Sanders was the
leading scorer for A&M with 15,
Roper was next with 14, and guard
Traci Thomas had 13.
Thomas also had nine rebounds,
which tied her career high.
The Lady Cougars were led by
Kelli McCabe, who had 19 points.
Barbara Anderson had 14 points
and seven steals, Cozette Ealy had 12
points, and Karen Yee rounded out
the double-figure scorers with 10.
“You’ve got to give Houston a lot
of credit,” Hickey said. “They are a
top 20 team. They’ve had a couple of
bad losses (against Texas Christian
and Texas), and we just caught them
on a night when they had enough
time to recover.
“We’ve got to forget this one.
We’ll bounce back.”
A&M’s next game is Tuesday
night at 7:00 against Texas Tech in
Lubbock.
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Presents
the seventh annual
CARL STEVENS
Professional Development
and Selling Seminar
January 29-31,1988
115 Kleberg Center
Texas A&M University
The Seminar
The Carl Stevens Professional Development and Selling
Seminar is a 16-hour lecture seminar comprised of a se
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opment and involvement. It is an opportunity for students
to build and enhance communication and selling skills—
skills that are essential to entering and progressing in to
day’s business world.
The ability to sell yourself and express your ideas is
seldom learned in the college classroom. Texas A&M
students now have the opportunity to participate in the
Stevens seminar, which will be conducted January 29
through January 31,1988.
SCHEDULE
Friday, January 29
noon-1 - Registration
2-6 p.m. - Introduction and Concepts
Saturday, January 30
8 a.m.- 5 p.m. - Steps to Selling
Sunday, January 31
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