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Wednesday, March 9, 1988/The Battalion/Page 9 Sports .ady Aggies’ Roper nakes AII-SWC team i they ti-whoait he bool tews rei DALLAS (AP) Y ulonda /imbish and Beverly Williams of exas were unanimous choices n the 1988 All-Southwest Con ference women’s basketball team nferenc(®* elease{ * Mon ^ a V- rector of ontrol it federal j o refutej tudy wic • studieji not spi contact, ected pci member rough if, showed the vim incident! xuals in reased fi I Texas A&M’s Donna Roper ■as also a first-team selection. I The team was selected by the line women’s head coaches. I Williams, a 5-8 senior guard Iwn Austin, is the only repeat member from the 1987 All-SWC Squad. Wiinbish, a 5-9 senior guard from Victoria, was a sec- Ind-team selection a year ago. I Joining Williams, Wiinbish and loper on the coaches’ first-team lere Arkansas junior Shelly Wal lace, and Baylor sophomore Mag- lie Davis, all forwards. I Wimbish also was named as the IWC’s 1988 Player of the Year. A Ivo-vear starter for the Lady Longhorns, Wimbish led Texas in scoring during the second half of the season with a 15.6 average. That figure places her fifth among SWC scoring leaders. Roper was second in the league in scoring, averaging 17 points a game. Arkansas f reshman center Del- monica DeHorney was a unani mous choice for Newcomer of the Year, and Jody Conradt of Texas was selected by her peers as SWC Coach of the Year. This marks the fourth time in six years that Conradt has won the honor. Con radt also received the honor in 1987. Named to the All-SWC second- team were SMU junior Laquita Smith, Texas Tech sophomore Reena Lynch, and Houston se niors Carla Fountain and Barbara Anderson. Ags thrash Cowboys in twinbill By Hal. L. Hammons Assistant Sports Editor Texas A&M pitchers scattered 12 hits over 16 innings and John Bying- ton and Scott Livingstone homered to lead the Aggies to a two-game sweep of Hardin-Simmons Tuesday at Olsen Field. Anthony DeLaCruz relieved starter Jeff Jones in the third inning of the first game. DeLaCruz pitched 1% innings to pick up the 5-4 win , improving his record to 2-0. Fresh man Steve Hughes picked up his first save. Jones gave up one run despite walking six batters. The Cowboys left the bases loaded in the first and third innings. The Cowboys broke the ice in the second by scoring on a walk, a single, a hit batter and a ground ball. The Aggies answered in the bot tom half of the inning with three of their own. With Terry Taylor run ner on first and two outs, right fielder Jim Neumann singled. Mike Easley walked, and Kirk Thompson and Chuck Knoblauch reached on errors that brought Taylor, Neu mann and Easley home. The Cowboys scored two in the fourth. But again, the Aggies answered. Knoblauch singled and Livinstone brought him home with his fifth homer of the year. Two doubles in the fifth got the Cowboys another run, cutting the lead to 5-4. Keith Langston and Scott Centala held Hardin-Simmons to four hits in the second game, as the Aggies won 8-2. A&M Head Coach Mark Johnson took the opportunity to substitute for several starters, and the subs came through. Andy Duke, starting in place of Knoblauch at short, got two hits in three at bats, drove in three runs, scored one, walked twice and stole two bases. Tim McWilliam and Livingstone walked in the first, and designated hitter Tom Carcione brought Mc William home with an RBI single. Duke led off the second with a sin gle and advanced to third on Easley’s hit. He got hung up between third and home on Maury Martin’s dribbler to the mound. “What we do with runners on third is we run on ‘down angle.’ ” Duke said. “The runner goes when the ball goes down. I did the right thing. Most of the time when that happens you’ll score. If the ball doesn’t go back to the pitcher. I’d have scored.” However, A&M came back in the third. Byington and Carcione sin gled and Deron Dacus walked to load the bases. A passed ball by catcher Clay Martin scored Bying ton, and Duke’s fielder’s choice scored Carcione. Cowboy first baseman Carl Sch reiner homered in the fourth for Hardin-Simmons’ first run. A walk, hit batter and two sacrifices in the sixth would get them their only other run of the game. The Aggies struck it rich with two out in the fourth. Byington got his fifth homer, Carcione was hit by starting pitcher Scott Williams, Da cus singled, and a wild pitch moved the runners into scoring position. Duke singled them home, making the score 6-1. The scoring resumed in the sev enth. Duke led off with a walk, took third on Easley’s single and scored on Martin’s grounder when third baseman Scott Foith’s throw to the plate was too late. Easley was gunned down at the plate after Thompson singled, but McWilliam followed with a single off new pitcher Mark Cornet to bring Martin home. at’s with lame cable sports? I want my HSE! nters fa had mm lericansmNot only do the residents of had die: pi. an-College Station have to live eficienoHthout a decent radio station, hut xly's nilow another premium service has ig itswmen nixed, at least temporarily, for of infer® s area. 3 en s ■ I'm talk in'. about, ol u r s e , Bom e orts En- tainment. Is it me, ol does good ol’ B-CS seemed dlomed to slffer the ■ndrome oi "Least Oh ®tionahle ■very- t h i n g ? ” Brumfield Sports viewpoint Heck, Waco probably has better tele vision stations than we do. The controversy started when the folks at HSE thought there was a huge potential in the Brazos Valley Area for the network, which ba sically caters to regional sporting in terests. The folks at Cooke Cablevision pretty much said, “Nah, there’s plenty of sports already on our pro gramming package.” They’re right, of course, but they’re also forgetting one very im portant thing: regional interest. HSE focuses on state-wide events, with a few Southern Belt sports thrown in for kicks. The network broadcasts all home Houston Rock ets games, as well as many Dallas Mavericks’ games. HSE also shows every Astros’ home game. With Cooke’s package now, you can catch road games for these teams, but why not have it all? A big portion of HSE’s broadcast ing is also devoted to Southwest Conference events. Not only were some A&M football games shown, but men’s and women’s basketball was also shown, and although ESPN broadcasts women’s basketball games, you won’t catch the Lady Ag gies on that network. HSE televised Lady Aggie games against Texas Tech ^md ECU this year, as well as the men’s game against SMU in G. Rollie White Col iseum, a game the Aggies won. With HSE, the potential exists for telecasts of A&M’s nationally-ranked softball team, as well as A&M tennis matches. There isn’t a better way for little-known sports to get some rec ognition. As it is now, you can catch sports entnc ficial Tue: died of dead discovi three wigwam! othe people ,vant to ■cted in i 'ssler, a he mi i. "He id no sl« lingshi on ESPN, the USA network, WGN in Chicago, or WTBS in Atlanta, but good luck in catching local teams on these networks. True, ESPN is televising the A&M baseball team’s clash with top- ranked Oklahoma State soon, but other than that you’ll get to see Texas vs. Miami, Texas vs. Arizona State, Texas vs. Stanford, Texas vs. Arkansas, Texas vs. First Baptist Church, Texas vs. the Muppets, and so on and so on. And then there’s the USA net work, where youcan see Steffi Graf or Ivan Lendl beat a new opponent senseless every week.It gets kind of monotonous. You can also catch DePaul basket ball on WGN, as well as eight million Chicago Cubs games. I’ll scream if Andre Dawson and his bunch pre empts one more episode of “WKRP in Cincinnati.” Maybe these new night games will fix that. As for W I BS, it’s more of the same, except a few NBA games are thrown in. Other than that it’s always Braves, Braves, Braves and more Braves. Oh, well, 1 guess they deserve so much exposure. After all, they are America’s Team. Cooke Executives say there isn’t much of a demand for HSE in Bryan-College Station. I don’t know about that. I’d much rather prefer A&M baseball to daily auto racing on ESPN, or the Astros and Rangers to the Braves and Cubs any day. Cable executives say they aren’t willing to delete a service in favor of HSE, and since HSE may have to be offered as a pay service only, they are reluctant to add another pay channel. That’s all well and good, but why do we neecl two NBC stations and two ABC stations? For that matter, why do we need two Country-West ern music television stations? It seems like at least one of these sta tions could go to make room for HSE. And if the only way to add the service to the area is to make people pay for it, then let those who want to subscribe sign up for it. Maybe I’m being a little too sim plistic here, but I don’t see what the problem is in adding HSE. As it stands now, I can’t wait to go home for Spring Break. I want my HSE. Columbia Pictures I'resents A Clement/La Frenais Production Starring Judge Reinhold “Vice Versa” Fred Savage Swoosie Kurtz Music by David Shire Director of Photography King BaggOt Executive Producer Alan Ladd, Jr. Written and Produced by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais Directed by Brian Gilbert c 1*M cocumwa PKrruRCS tNouarme*.« ALL RtOHTa RCMRVED LXJL°g*'? n ”pr |PG| pmentm. gudamx subgestm •a®' I Call battalion Classified 845-2611