Wednesday, February 10, 1988/The Battalion/Page 9
Sports
M-Star Weekend festivities show up
pro football, baseball counterparts
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Now this is what basketball is all about — leg-
bids, dead-eye shooters going ballistic with long-
iistahce bombs, and aerial acrobats at their 11a-
§hiest.
Professional football
^nd baseball’s all-star
tames pale in compan
ion to the festivities of
the National Basketball
Association’s All-Star
game.
The National Football
Hague’s Pro Bowl was
played Sunday night and
[he best of the best in the
NFL could produce only
[one touchdown. The
game’s Most Valuable
Player was Buffalo Bills’
defensive end Bruce
Smith who amassed a
whopping three tackles
backs.
However, the NBA’s All-Star Game, also
iplayed Sunday, was a potpourri of slick offensive
■shots and fan-pleasing open-court moves at
■breakneck speed. Scoring was certainly no prob-
Jlem. The Eastern Conference, led by Michael
■Jordan’s 40 points, beat the West 138-133. Jor-
Idan was selected the game’s MVP.
But the real fun was the day before the game.
Anthony
Wilson
Sports viewpoint
and two quarterback
I’m talking about the Legends Classic, the Long
Distance Shootout and the Slam Dunk Competi
tion.
The Legends Classic featured former NBA
stars ranging in age from 34 to 59. The old
timers’ vertical leaps were at best minute, and if
some of them had been moving any slower, they
would have been going backward.
But their killer instincts were still intact. The
old guys are still competitors and still fun to
watch. And some of them haven’t lost their
magic.
Chicago Bulls coach and former Philadelphia
76er Doug Collins hit a three pointer in the final
minute to tie the game at 45 and send it into sud
den-death overtime, a first for basketball. For
mer Boston Celtic Dave Cowens followed a
missed shot in the overtime to propel the East
over the West. Rick Barry led all scorers with 12
points.
The Legends Classic was followed by the third
annual Long Distance Shootout, which deter
mines the league’s most accurate three-point
shooter. Shooters have one minute to shoot 25
balls from five designated spots on the three
point line.
Two-time winner Larry Bird, Byron Scott of
the Lakers, Dale Ellis of the Seattle SuperSonics
and Detlef Schrempf of the Dallas Mavericks ad
vanced to the semifinals of the Shootout.
In the second round Bird was unconscious and
unreal, hitting 23 of a possible 30 points. Ellis
nosed out Scott 12-11 to advance with Bird to the
finals. Schrempf forgot to loosen his necktie and
as a consequence choked and scored an embar
rassing five points.
Ellis hit his first four shots in the
championship round, but cooled near the end to
finish with 15 points.
However, that was not good enough to keep
Bird from collecting the .f 12,500 prize for the
third straight year.
Bird started off cold, but as he moved around
the perimeter he began to heat up. With less than
15 seconds remaining, he needed to hit his last
three shots to win.
After swishing the first two, he released his last
shot and pointed upward with his index finger
before the ball started its downward arc. (Yes
Larry, we know you’re No. 1.) Bird knew he had
made the shot the moment he released it. He was
right, of course.
Then came the creme de la creme — the Slam
Dunk competition. The dunk is the most ex
pressive art form in basketball. The slam virtually
made Julius “Dr. J” Li ving into a legend. A slam
can bring a crowd to its feet and an opponent to
its knees.
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DALLAS (AP) — Martina Navra-
Itilova needed just 40 minutes to get
[past unheralded Camille Benjamin
|6-0, 6-1 on Tuesday in the $250,000
■Virginia Slims of Dallas.
Navratilova, ranked No. 2 in the
[world, was seldom challenged dur-
[ingthe match and faulted herself for
[the lone game she lost to Benjamin.
“It was awful,” said Navratilova. “I
missed a return, and then another,
and then she aced me.
“She was serving so soft, I had a
difficult time deciding how to hit it
back.”
Navratilova gave the first point of
the match to Benjamin when she
double-faulted.
But Benjamin later could not
score more than twice in any given
game except in the second game of
the second set — the only one she
won.
Benjamin, 22, of Bakersfield,
Calif., went through three of the
match’s 13 games without scoring a
point, and watched as Navratilova
aced her three times.
“I don’t know how much is intim
idation and how much isjust playing
well,” Navratilova said when asked if
she had intimidated Benjamin.
“It’s all relative. If you lose a few
matches people get fired up and say,
‘Hey, I can beat Martina.’ ”
In early matches, No. 5 seed Lori
McNeil was upset by unseeded Mary
Lou Daniels 6-2, 6-4 and No. 2 seed
Pam Shriver defeated Lucky-Loser
entry Sandy Collins 6-0, 6-0.
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Aggie tennis squads
beat North Texas St.
By Hal. L. Hammons
Assistant Sports Editor
The Texas A&M tennis teams
each swept North Texas State
Tuesday at Omar Smith Tennis
Center, losing only two sets in 18
total matches.
The match was the season
opener for the men. The women
are now 2-0 for the year.
Dean Johnson led the men’s ef
fort singles by rebounding from a
3-5 deficit in the second set to
beat Jim Kohr 6-1, 7-5 in No. 1
singles.
A&M Men’s Tennis Coach Da
vid Kent said, “Dean does that a
lot, but he’s a street fighter. He
just keeps coming after you. He’s
a good leader to have on the
team.”
In other men’s play, Shaun
O’Donovan defeated Mark Fahey
6- 2, 6-0; Steve Kennedy beat
Keith McKay 6-1, 6-3; Craig
Whitteker beat Todd Taylor 6-3,
7- 6; Michael Chambers beat
Sandeep Chhabra 6-4, 3-6, 7-5;
and Jeffrey Livshitz beat Chris
Tihhets 7-6, 6-0.
Kent said, “We did what we
had to do to win the matches.
This should help us get ready and
give us the experience we need.”
Gaye Lynne Gensler beat Su
san Mainz 6-4, 6-2 for the No. 1
women’s match. It was the only
singles match in which A&M
dropped more than three games.
Cindy Churchwell defeated
Lori Delatt 6-0, 6-1; Cindy Craw
ford beat Cara Paapahronis 6-1,
6-2; Susan Williams beat Alex
Liske 6-2, 6-0; Derryn Haygarth
defeated Holly Pugsley 6-1, 6-2;
and Traci Nix beat Holly Ricker
6-0, 6-1.
Women’s Coach Bobby Klei-
neke said, “Gaye Lynne turned
her game around and played
well. Derryn Haygarth and Traci
Nix played their first singles
matches of the season, and they
came on and played well. It’s
hard to go into that first singles
match.”
Both A&M teams will travel to
Baton Rouge to play Louisiana
State Friday.
Ag baseball season tickets
on sale at G. Rollie White
Season tickets for the upcoming
Texas A&M baseball season are now
on sale at the Athletic Ticket Office
in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
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home games, 13 of
doubleheaders. Adult
ticket prices are $30, and childrens’
tickets (high school and under) are
Reserved seat tickets for individ
ual games are $3, general admission
tickets are $2, and childrens’ tickets
are $1. The lone exception is the
April 18 exhibition game with the
Houston Astros. Tickets for that
game are $5.
A&M, ranked sixth in Baseball
America magazine, begins its season
Friday afternoon at 3 with a game
against Lubbock Christian.
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