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CO/UPUTER (409) 268-0730 403B University Drive (Northgate) College Station VISA/MasterCard IBM and Hercules are trademarks of their respective companies. Page 12/The Battalion/Thursday, March 31, 1988 World skating competition gets more blahs than ‘ahs lat By Cray Pixley Sports Writer Anyone who caught the World Figure Skating Championships this weekend were treated to a weary- lackluster rerun of the Winter Olym pics. There were the stale com parisons be tween Brian Boitano and Brian Orser. There was the hype of a re-match be tween Katarina Witt and Deb bie Thomas but this confronta tion was a ghost of a battle. The women seemed to have left part of their drive and vitality in Calgary. Thomas, who finished a disap pointing third in the Olympics, had a “golden opportunity” to redeem herself in front of Witt and the world. Thomas skated well in the short program but faltered once again in the long program leaving Witt an other world title. The tragedy of Thomas’ average performance was that on that night in Budapest, Hungary Witt was a very beatable competitor. Witt had hoped for a climactic end to her skating career but it didn’t happen. Her performance in the long pro gram was technically weak com pared to several other skaters such as Canada’s Liz Manley and Japan’s Midori Ito. Witt had few triple jumps, a staple of a world champion, and large por tions of her program were filled with doublejumps. Even her artistic quality was sub dued, and her marks were not that high — plenty of room for a Thomas triumph. Thomas did not triumph, in fact, she skated almost a copy of her Cal gary performance which was not good enough. The medal winners in Budapest were the same as the Olympic’s. Thomas had to settle for her second bronze medal. Witt won but she wasn’t championship material that night. Thomas is ready to put skating be hind her, and who can blame ner? She didn’t take home the gold and there was no story-book ending. There was little excitement in the womens’ competition at World’s, Cray Pixley Sports viewpoint 3 former JUCO stars will play in Final Four MIDLAND (AP) — Three former Midland College teammates who played in the junior college version of the Final Four will now compete in the real thing. Oklahoma’s backcourt duo, Ricky Grace and Mookie Blaylock, and Kansas guard Lincoln Minor all transferred from Midland College, one of the nation’s top JUCO pro grams. The program that also produced the Atlanta Hawks’ Spud Webb is a happy hunting ground for Division I scouts. Midland Coach Reggie Franklin, who coached Grace, Blaylock and Minor as an assistant to former head coach Jerry Stone, said he urges his players to transfer to schools where they can make an immediate contri bution. “When you come from a junior college, you don’t have time to sit on the bench. You need to go right in and start,” said Franklin. “They (Blaylock and Grace) just got on a great team with Oklahoma and have been able to contribute more than has Lincoln,” who is often the first player off the Kansas bench. In his second year playing for Sooner Coach Billy Tubbs, Grace is averaging 14.8 points per game and pulling down 3.6 rebounds. The 6-foot-2 guard, who attended Dallas’ Wilmer-Hutchins High School, sees more than 34 minutes of playing time per game and has 265 assists for the season. Grace dished cJff a school-record 363 assists in his final year at Mid land, breaking Webb’s record. Blaylock averages 16.7 points and 4.1 rebounds and also plays more than 34 minutes a game. This season the 6-foot-1 Blaylock set an OU record with 141 steals, equalling his record-setting mark at Midland. He is just two shy of the NCAA season steals record, and his 13 steals against Centenary set an NCAA for most in a game. Franklin said he knew Blaylock would be a top collegian the first time he saw him play at Garland High School. “I guess you could say he’s been a thief all his life,” he said. “Now he’s just getting more publicity for it.” Minor, averaging 4.9 points and 1.5 rebounds, has startea 12 games for the Jayhawks. The 6-foot-3 product of Houston’s Westfield High School averages 15.6 minutes of playing time. Grace played on the 1984-85 Chaparral squad that finished fourth in the National Junior College Ath letic Association tournament. Minor and Blaylock led last sea son’s team, which ended its 32-4 sea son with a 69-68 loss to Southern Idaho in the NJCAA final. In 1985-86, the year the three played together, the Chaps had 33 victories without a loss until falling to eventual NJCAA champion San Jacinto College in the tournament’s first round. only a sense of fatigue The men’s competition tually the same exceptwithai Boitano had long been bi the man who should successful quadruple jump t petition, but he was denied!] Boitano had planned to quadruple as a sign-off fori ^ e i All-P petitive career. R that 1 If Boitano had been the phoenix C successfully land the quad(Rwhen have been a stellar end tohii Bill Bidv There was no quad forSi because a Canadian stole hi] der — and not that Canadian! The history-making Canai little-known skater namtt Browning. Browning had tried a Olympics but had failed i was me d,” Cr and (s ly men he Cardii re "ere, ( till have < He didn’t fail this time, during ou Browning landed the jm kJ playe made the record books in fejals in Ch place. Louis did adn't est Not to say Boitano was jjhiflk I kn because he took the goldtr- players fel ing Orser once again. Rime in The World ChampionsbRhe C; etly passed by, and a phaseitather Agg skating is complete. Orser, Boitano, Wittandii are gone. But new talent is visibiti form of Browning, Ito and Conr gni befo p)69 wi |l hate Tsaid or no" all t Bidw< led u re pprove tl jfConrad Hwas tl Bw sin Jlinals i beat RocklHa, Bird gets as Celtics Rout as ■ a few BOSTON (AP) - Languid, “A had 35 psoints and theta - os A tics outscored Houston 13-lR the Si their lead dropped to oucRfi ou early in the fourth quarttr #a 26-0-L [wo wb n Bk is was city (50, lim in thi year aged 1< Gty off 'dwell to Bum, t rg this feat the Rockets 117- NBA Wednesday night The Rockets, playin injured center Akeem had cut a 90-81 deficit toil the end of the third <j When Cedric Maxwell j first basket of the fourthi)! the lead was down to one. But a field goal by D Ainge and two hy Jim ft made the score 96-89 wiBkiriousI left. Purvis Short hit twieni to St. throws for Houston, buthe(l959 se got the next seven pomtsjMieir r Fred Roberts, to complete: ASM he w and take a 103-91 leadjisliithises, of the game, with 7:27 top pies play The closest the Rocket.'omisky P after that was seven pointsaeld in 19i 106 with 2:05 to go and lllbne NF with 1:25 left. B°ache Ainge had 22 points anti wed the erts added 16 for Boston, rge crowc trailed 63-60 at halftime to Row, wl on to win for the 11th tint F games. Backup forward Buck Jell led Houston with 18 poitnl Barry Carroll, who starttl cause Olajuwon has a stJ right knee, had 17, and! McCray 15. 0) IjU Wildcats purring from the attentic coach anxious to go to Kansas C DALLA! n in tl Rhan R comj ul yea hite h; that i of trai TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The Uni versity of Arizona’s first-ever trip to the Final Four is getting plenty of at tention in Tucson. So much in fact that Wildcats Coach Lute Olson says he will be glad when his second-ranked Wild cats leave Thursday for Kansas City, Mo., the site of the NCAA Tourna ment windup. “Everybody is talking about the team,” he said. “You pick up the pa per, you turn on the TV, you see the Wildcats. It’s definitely a focal point.” Arizona, 35-2, faces 34-3 Okla homa in Saturday’s semifinals. The Wildcats have been installed as 7-5 favorites to go on and win Monday night’s title game. “We’ve been saying all along our goal is to get to the Final Four,” said senior center Tom Tolbert. “But ob viously, if you say that, you want to win the whole thing. We know there are two more games to play.” “Everybody is excited and every thing,” said All-America junior for ward Sean Elliott. “But we still real ize there are two games left and we still have our mind set on the na tional championship.” The team returned from the re gional in Seattle to a campus recep tion Sunday night at McKale Center with 9,000 screaming fans. “The fans are going crazy right now. We can’t go anywhere without people saying something about the (North Carolina) game or asking about the Final Four,” said Elliott. Or about Final Four tickets, which some people are asking up to $4,000 each for in classified newspapers ads. The hoopla should quiet down some — or will by Olson’s design — once his team reaches Kansas City. Olson took his Iowa team to the Final Four in 1980 at Indianapolis. His Hawkeyes lost 80-72ini finals to Louisville, which! UCLA in the finals for the tie. “I felt that after that (i we didn’t control the player much as we should have.' few more things to happen Iowa needed the exposure gram wasn’t where it is todl Olsen. “With this team, we thing more than the NCA^ us to do. Once we get their- Thursday, we’ll control tl We’ll tell them whentogenl to eat, when to go to the bus- go to the movies, when® when to go to bed. That’s the way it’s beer when we’re on the roadatj the big thing. I don’t want to be any different than been all year long in terms 1 ' ration.” K-State’s Kruger bows out of UT job hunt AUSTIN (AP) — University of Texas Athletic Director DeLoss Dodds said Wednesday that Lon Kruger of Kansas State University has asked UT to remove his name from the list of possible candidates for the head basketball coachingjob. Several newspapers reported that Kruger had been or would be of fered thejob. Dodds, in a statement, said Wednesday that Kruger had visited the UT campus on Tuesday. “We had a discussion. There was no job offer, and he has asked us to remove his name from any consider ation,” Dodds said. Reports linking Kruger with Texas surfaced after he led the Wildcats to the NCAA Midwest Re gional final before losing to Kansas on Sunday. Dodds said Kruger had been in Austin only one other time before Tuesday and wanted to see the Er win Center, where the Longhorns play, and other facilities. Asked if he had been offered the job, Kruger told the Austin Ameri- can-Statesman, “I’ll visit with you later,” then boarded an airplane at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday for the trip back to Manhattan, Kan. Kansas State Athletic Director Larry Travis said he was aware that Kruger was going to talk to Texas because Dodds asked perto “I don’t resent anything: ■ said. “That’s part of the/ We’re going to do everyth!* to keep him here.” Former Texas Coach h° s lich, who was fired March - g about $74,000 in base salat) total package of $100,000. Kruger, who makes $ year, has discussed a contr/ sion and possible raise at 1 Travis said. The Daily Texan, studf* 1 paper at UT, quoted Krugf mg salary was “not an issue Kruger starred at pointr Kansas State in the 1970s.