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By Tom Kehoe
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M men’s and women’s
dimming teams took it on the chin over
he weekend at the 1988 National Invita-
ional Dual-Meet Championships in Tus-
aloosa, Alabama.
The women opened the three-day
ompetition with a victory over Southern
llinois University but suffered losses the
rext two days to the University of Flor
ida and Clemson University.
The men were defeated by the Uni ver
ity of Iowa, the University of Arizona
md Florida.
Despite their poor record, the Aggie
men kept it close — losing to Arizona by
only two points and by three to Florida.
All three teams are ranked in the nation’s
top 10.
Once again, both A&M teams had to
forfeit all diving points to their oppo
nents.
The women were led by Joan Wojto-
wicz and Courtney Searcy.
Wojtowicz collected two first places
against Southern Illinois, a first and a
second against Florida and a first and a
second against Clemson.
She also posted an NCAA qualifying
time in the 1650-yard freestyle against
Southern Illinois with a time of 16 min
utes 28.94 seconds.
“That’s really great for Joan,” said As
sistant Coach Jay Holmes. “It takes some
pressure off of her in the spring.”
Searcy aided the Aggies by leading off
the medley relay with a strong back-
stroke leg and winning the 100-yard
backstroke aganst Southern Illinois.
“Courtney swam a great leadoff and
went her lifetime best in the 100 back on
one of the relays,” Holmes said.
Other Aggie women winning individ
ual events over the weekend were Susan
Habermas, Laura Grimes, Jennifer New
comb, Roxanne Nelson, Brenda Wright
and Ginger Hurley.
The men were led by Mike Varrozza.
Varrozza, a junior, contributed four
individual victories and swam on four
winning relays. He also qualified for the
NCAA championship meet as he won the
100-yard butterfly in 48.51 seconds
against Arizona.
Another outstanding performer for the
Aggies was breaststroke and individual
medley swimmer Todd Bartee. Bartee
won three individual medley races and
placed second in the 200-yard breasts
troke twice while pushing teammate Don
Boyd to victory in the same event.
“Todd Bartee is a solid swimmer,”
said Holmes. “He didn’t want to swim
the 200 breast the second day, but he
jumped in and went his lifetime best.”
“Overall the men swam well,” Holmes
said..
“The Arizona meet came down to the
last relay.”
That event was the 800-yard freestyle
relay. The Wildcats barely outtouched
the Aggies in the grueling race by .08 of
a second.
A&M’s next competition will be over
the semester break when they travel to
Hawaii. They will participate in the
Rainbow Invitational and in dual meets
against other teams doing their
Christmas training on the island.
Texas gets Palmeiro, Moyer
in 9-player deal with Cubs
ATLANTA (AP) — Rafael
Palmeiro, the second leading hit
ter in the National League last
season, was traded from the Chi
cago Cubs to the Texas Rangers
in a nine-player deal Monday.
The Cubs also sent left-handed
pitchers Jamie Moyer and Drew
Hall to Texas.
The Rangers gave up lefty
pitchers Mitch Williams, Paul Kil-
gus and Steve Wilson, infielder
Curtis Wilkerson and two minor
league players to be named later.
Palmeiro, 24, sparkled in his
First full major league season. He
batted .307 with 41 doubles, eight
home runs and 53 runs batted in.
He also had a 20-game hitting
streak.
“We were looking for an offen
sive player, and we feel like we
got our cake and can eat it, too,”
Texas general manager Tom
Grieve said.
Grieve said it would be deter
mined in spring training where
Palmeiro would play, either at
first base or in the outfield.
The Cubs and Rangers each
have built young pitching staffs,
which are now reshuffled.
“We really wanted to help our
bullpen, and everybody in base
ball knows Mitch Williams has
one of the best arms in baseball,”
Cubs general manager Jim Frey
said.
Williams, 24, was 2-7 with 18
saves and a 4.63 earned run aver-
age.
He pitched in 67 games last
season, and his 231 relief appear
ances are second-most in the ma
jors in the last three years. Wil
liams held opponents to a .203
average, the second-lowest
among American League reliev
ers with 50 or more innings.
Frey admitted the trade left a
void in left field.
“Maybe we’ll call another press
conference soon to fill it,” Frey
said.
Kilgus, 26, was 12-15 with a
4.15 ERA in his first major league
season.
He pitched three shutouts,
fifth-highest in the AL, and tied
the Texas club record.
Wilson, 24, was 15-7 with a
3.16 ERA in 25 starts at Class AA
Tulsa. He also won three times in
the playoffs.
Wilkerson, 27, batted a career-
high .293 in 117 games. He
started 77 games at second base
and 14 at shortstop.
Besides Palmeiro, the Rangers
got a young starter and reliever.
Moyer, 26, was 9-15 with a 3.48
ERA. He made 30 starts and al
lowed three earned runs or less in
23 of them.
He has pitched at least 200 in
nings in the last two years.
Hall, 25, was 1-1 with a 7.66
ERA in 109 relief appearances
with the Cubs. He was 4-3 with 19
saves and a 2.34 ERA in 49 relief
outings with Class AAA Iowa.
College basketball isn’t helped by resemblance to NBA
Still recovering from A&M’s longest
football season ever, my mind is slowly
retrieving the files of winter sports. But it’s
really a kind of a learn-as-l-go process,
since my favorite winter sport is usually
indoor football watching.
But I am not so enamored with football
that a sport like basketball can’t steal a bit of
my interest. So here’s a shot at the hoops.
First of all, my experience in the sport
consists of being a center on a third grade
team, numerous playground efforts, and
watching college players and pros play. But
even with such limited experience, it’s easy
to notice that the game has gone through
some giant changes over the years.
The easiest thing for me to notice has
been the closing of a gap between the style
of play between the National Basketball
Association and college ball. The NBA has
always been known for it’s fast-moving,
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Assistant Sports Editor
rough-and-tumble format. But this is fairly
knew to the college ranks.
It amazes me that a goal of college
players is to get a shot at playing with the
“pros” in the NBA. I find it hard to believe
that enjoyment of the game would be a
motive to play in the NBA, when similar
games take place in neighborhoods all over
the place.
The NBA is the crudest, most
disorganized of all forms of basketball.
Players shove, elbow, knee, trip, punch and
otherwise manhandle players of the other
team. It’s incredible. These players are
atleast in their 20’s, and many in their 30’s,
and they get on the court and act like ten-
year-olds.
One of the most amazing things to me is
to watch the transition of a college player to
a pro. Guys like Kelly Tripucka and Kiki
Vandeweghe, who played lor Notre Dame
and UCLA, were standard “good guys” in
college. But, in the NBA, you can find them
right in the midst of the pushing, shoving
and fighting.
Something happens when a college
player gets a shot at the pros. They have to
get tough to make it. It’s not that they have
to get better or practice more —but that
they have to learn such important moves as
the forearm shiver and the uppercut.
The worst thing about it is that college
programs are molding themselves after the
NBA.
Just a few years ago, almost any college
game around showed teamwork, coaching
and sportsmanship. Today, college games
are filled with ball-monopolizing “solo
acts,” lenient coaching and as many elbows
thrown per minute as the NBA.
What is causing the college game to “go
pro?” Part of the problem could be the
additions of the 45-second shot clock and
the three-point shot.
The shot clock has taken away a lot of
strategy in the college game —such as the
four-corners play.
Sure, we’ve all been frustrated more than
once when a team simply held the ball, and
the lead, and let the game clock expire. But
when the four-corners suddenly
disappeared because of another time
saving device, you realize it was a big part of
the game.
And the three-point line — another
NBA-influenced addition — has done as
much at taking away from the team effort
as anything. Now every team has to have a
“specialist” who can shoot the outside shot.
Today the “good” college teams are the
fast-moving, physical ones that have a
specialist for everything from shot blocking
to passing to stealing.
Specialization seems to be a key. Sure,
teams are going to have one or two guys
that score more than the others. But it’s
enjoyable to watch an entire team work and
flow together with the deft of a single
person. That’s what team sports are meant
to do.
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