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Sports
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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.
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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.
After the prosecution rested its
case Tuesday, the judge said the
tampering count was the only one
that seemed to relate to the evidence
offered.
Porter, who resumed his testi
mony Tuesday, told the Lee County
jury Monday that he got $2,000
from Abernethy in his Atlanta office
on Aug. 3, 1987, and later $900 in
cash was delivered by a go-between
twice at a Wal-Mart store.
Porter testified the contract he
signed with Abernethy did not alter
his performance during Auburn's
1987 football season, when he
earned first-team All-Southeastern
Conference honors.
Disclosure of his contract with
Abernethy disqualified Porter from
playing his final game with Auburn
in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s
Day.
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