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Thursday, March 3, 1988/The Battalion/Page 1 I Sports 'Morns clip Aggies in will i fromf to re ion iti ehind Heggs’ 17 UST1N (AP) — Super-sub Alvin gs came off the Texas bench to 17 points and lead the Long- s past the Texas A&M Aggies 8 in the Southwest Conference nesday night. eggs, a junior transfer who is las’ second-leading scorer, hit 11 is game-high total in the second and was 7-of-10 from the field, [played despite a badly sprained e that has kept him out of prac- and, :eall week, million phomore guard Travis Mays wed Heggs with 14 points, 10 in irst half. ees, oil xatuii pts icn speni id. abotrl tnald Thompson and former my horn Doug Dennis paced the es with 16 points each. Texas fs leading scorer Darryl Mc- ald was held to 12. Texas, which has won eight of its last nine, improves to 16-11 on the season and 10-5 in front of the big gest SWC crowd of the year of 9,933. Texas A&M drops to 15-14 and 7- 8. Thomas Gipson’s dunk with al most three minutes gone in the game gave the Longhorns a 7-0 ad vantage. Texas led 30-25 at the half. With Texas leading in the second half, 45-38, the Aggies’outscored the Longhorns 7-0 in the next 2:22 to tie the game 45-45. After a George Mueller hook shot in the lane, Fred die Ricks tied it for the final time on a layup, 47-47. In the next five minutes, the Longhorns oulscored the Aggies 11- 2 for its biggest lead of the night, 58- 49. Summer sports burn bumbler By Cray Pixley Sports Writer The first rays of sun have started to break through these winter days and casual athletes are popping up all over the place. When the weather is warm everyone gets out and be- comes “athletic”. I’m not talking about baseball or soccer. 1 ’ m talking about those sporting activities where the object is not just to win — but to Cray Pixley Sports viewpoint catch as many rays as possible. Sun and sports are a great combination. Exercise and a tan — what more can you ask for? Two of the most popular tan ning sports are volleyball and fris- bee throwing. Volleyball is a fun team sport that gets the energy flowing. It may be difficult to find a court and a team, but once these problems are solved you’re ready to go. Volleyball is an honors game so to speak. You must be somewhat of a de cent player in order to gain a place on the team. Your serves should make it over the net and not into it or Austin. I’m a lousy volleyball player but my friends don’t know that quite yet. I like to play, but if some im provement isn’t made I may find myself invited to enjoy the game from the sidelines. An inept player is not an asset but may be fun to watch. I won’t be able to mask my in eptitude for long but perhaps by that time I’ll become a great player like Sinjin Smith. I do have A&M volleyball star Yvonne Van Brandt in a class so maybe I’ll ask her for some point ers. Tossing the ffisbee around doesn’t need a court or a team. It is a do-it-yourself sport. The only problem with tossing a frisbee is that is looks so easy but is so difficult. There is definitely a technique and art to the frisbee toss. Not ev eryone has mastered this tech nique and need I say that I’m one of those who haven’t. A frisbee is supposed to make a graceful arc through the air not topple end over end. When I throw a frisbee it goes ripping through the air like a le thal boomerang causing the in tended receiver to cringe and duck for cover. It hardly ever makes its target arid ends up in a shrub or on top of the house. No one in his right mind would ask me to toss around a f risbee. Unfortunately, I don’t have a star frisbee tosser in my literature class to sponge off of for advice. I think I’ll keep a low profile on the frisbee circuit unless some one offers to coach a bumbling sports writer. Maybe I’ll take up the boome rang so no one but myself has to suffer from my lack of technique. ift&M netters slay op-ranked team By Anthony Wilson Sports Writer XIRPUS CHRISTI — For the !ond time in a week the A&M n’s tennis team played the role rets f giant killer, slaying No. 23 Uni- ersity of San Diego 5-3 in the rst round of the HEB College "ennis Team Championship Vednesday. JUnranked A&M defeated No. 6 Trinity Friday. 4\&M’s No. 1 singles player, lean Johnson, lost to David Stew- ^ 1 ( rt 6-3,6-4. menl |But the Aggies won three of ' 1 he remaining five singles ^ Itches, then swept the doubles -vin. iraali Vo. 3 seed Steve Kennedy beat rk Farren 6-1, 1-6, 6-3, and . 5 seed Mike Chambers beat n Mattera 6-2, 2-6, 6-1. Shaun O’Donovan, A&M’s No. 2 seed, defeated Scott Patridge 0- 6, 6-3, 6-3 in the last singles match to tie the contest 3-3 going into doubles competition. A&M’s No. 2 doubles team consisting of Dean Johnson and Craig Whitteker defeated Farren and J.R. Edwards 6-3, 6-3. O’Donovan and Kennedy, the Aggies’ No. 1 team, beat Patridge and Stewart 6-2, 6-2. “That No. 1 doubles team was phenomenal,” A&M Head Coach David Kent said. “They’ve really developed into a great team. I’m especially pleased because we’ve knocked off two of the top 25 tea ms.” The win boosted A&M’s record to 7-2. The Aggies advance to the second round of the tournament against No. 20 Northeastern Louisiana today- Sports agent given maximum sentence OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — Former Atlanta sports agent Jim Abernethy, who has had dealings with several college athletes including two Texas A&M football players, was found guilty of a misdemeanor tampering charge Tuesday night and sentenced to a year in jail. Afterwards, Abernethy and his at torney said they were confident the conviction would be overturned on appeal. Thejury of seven women and five men deliberated nearly 2‘A hours before convicting Abernethy of tam pering with a sports event. They found him innocent of two other misdemeanor charges, com mercial bribery and violation of de ceptive trade law. The charges stemmed from Aber- nethy’s dealings with former Au burn University football star Kevin Porter. Abernethy also had dealings with A&M’s Tony Bartley and Melvin Collins during the 1987 football sea son. Abernethy, who remained free on $1,000 bond, said he would appeal the verdict to the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. Assistant attorney general William Wasden said the jury’s decision would send a message to unscrupu lous sports agents. “The message is that sports agents cannot continue to ignore the rules and regulations of the NCAA,” Was den said. “If sports agents consciously inter fere with the obligation that athletes have toward a university, then they are tampering with the outcome of sports events.” Defense attorney Bill Baxley asked Lee County Circuit Judge Robert M. Harper to show leniency because Abernethy cooperated with authorities by waiving extradition from Georgia to face the charges. But Harper imposed the maxi mum sentence: one year in jail and a $2,000 fine. The case went to the jury earlier Tuesday after the judge, outside the jurors’ presence, told state prosecu tors they were stretching Alabama law “to the breaking point” in their case against Abernethy. Harper, however, rejected de fense motions to find Abernethy in nocent before sending the case to thejury. In closing arguments. Assistant Attorney General Don Valeska ac knowledged that such a sports agent case had never been prosecuted be fore in Alabama. Baxley told the Lee County jury that an innocent verdict would not “send a bad message” to the sports world. He said the laws simply did not apply to Abernethy’s actions and that Attorney General Don Siegel- man ought to be drafting new legis lation to curb sports agent abuses. 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