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Page 10 The Battalion Thursday, March 2,1989 YESTERDAYS DART TOURNAMENT Blind Draw Doubles Tuesdays 8:30 Home Dress Code near Lubys 846-2625 Afghanistan: The Cultural & Social Implications of Soviet Withdrawal INSIDE AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN A film sponsored by: The MSC Jordan Institute for International Awareness and introduced by Dr. Manochehr Dorraj, Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science Dept. Monday, March 6,1989 Room 510 Rudder 8:30 PM Come experience 'an outdoor cafe brought indoors' ** A cool, contemporary atmosphere spiced with jazz music Happy Hour 4-8 p.m. Weekdays 11a.m.-8p.m. Saturday ! 1 bar drinks i 1.50 premiere drinks >.75 draft beer 109 Boyett (Northgote) 846-7275 Shop now for a savings on dresses for Easter! Shellenber ger ’s Spectacular Take along spanking new spring activewear at $10 OFF each item! Open Thursday till 8:00 GUYS! $10.00 OFF ALL POLO SHORTS Fun in the sun plus a ten dollar savings! Cotton shorts from Polo in a variety of colors and patterns. Shop early for the best selections! Hurry! Coupon good through March 11. shellenbergers GIRLS! $10.00 OFF ALL LADIES SHORTS Splash into spring in cotton shorts from Ralph Lauren and Ruff Hewn. A cool way to save from Shellenberger’s. Hurry! Coupon good through March Tl. shellenbergers Plant your ad In The Battalion Classified and harvest the RESULTS! Phone 845-2611 for help in placing your ad. Hogs, Houston get SWC wins Arkansas 83, Rice 70 Lee Mayberry scored 26 points and Keith Wilson had 23 to lead the Arkansas Razorbacks to a 83-70 Southwest Conference win Wednes day night over the Rice Owls in Houston. Dana Hardy had 20 points to lead Rice, while Kenneth Rourke and Andy Gilchrist followed with 14 points each. Arkansas improved its record to 20-6 overall and is tied for first in the SWC with Texas with a 12-3 con ference mark. The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for the Owls, who are now 12-15 and 6-10. The Razorbacks outscored the Owls 19-7, including nine by May berry, to lead 42-24 at the half. Arkansas led 57-39 with 12:21 minutes left in the second half be fore Rice scored 11 straight to cut the Razorbacks’ lead to seven with 8:52 left. A pair of baskets by Mario Credit put Arkansas up 64-51, but the Owls then went on a 14-4 scoring run to cut their deficit to 69-65 with 2:59 left. But two baskets by Wilson gave the Razorbacks a 73-65 lead with 1:18 left, and Rice was never closer than six again. Arkansas led 8-2 early in the game on a pair of three-point shots by Wil son. The Razorbacks led 18-8 before the Owls came back to cut the Ar kansas lead to 22-17 with 8:19 left in the first period. Houston 75, Baylor 59 Richard Hollis scored 20 points and grabbed 1 1 rebounds Wednes day night in Waco to pace Houston to a 75-59 Southwest Conference victory over Baylor. Hollis, who made all 10 of his free-throw attempts, scored 12 sec ond-half points as the Cougars im proved to 17-12 overal and 8-7 in the SWC. Baylor, losing its ninth straight contest, drops to 5-12 overall and 1- 14 in league play. Craig Upchurch scored 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds for Houston. Michael Flobbs led Baylor with 18 points while Kelvin Chalmers came off the bench to score 14 points and grab eight rebounds. The teams traded leads in the opening half before the Cougars set tled for a 34-32 halftime lead. Hollis’ layup with 15:33 left the Cougars a 42-36 lead. However, the Bears used a scoring run to cut the Houston lead to 51 -50 with 7:4 1 remaining. Upchurch’s driving dunk will 2:25 left capped a 15-6 Houston scoring run and gave the Cougars their largest lead of the game, 66-56 Baylor, which hit only 37 perceia from the field, got no closer than IJ points in the final two minutes. Houston, which struggled in tb first half while hitting only 33 per cent, bounced back in the second half on 64 percent shooting. Arkansas meets up with Houston Sunday in Houston for the teams'fi. nal game of the SWC regular season. Sports agents face racketeering trial CHIC AGO (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday gave the Final go- ahead to the trial of two sports agents accused of using payoffs and threats to get college athletes to sign contracts with them. After rejecting a defense attor ney’s request to have Norby Walters and Lloyd Bloom tried separately, U.S. District Judge George Marovich ordered jury selection to begin. Softball (Continued from page 9) scoring Stacey Crainer. Dawn Steele (1-1) was the losing pitcher in the First game. The second game was a complete opposite oFthe First for Mitchell. She had a much tougher time get ting the SWT hitters out and seemed to show signs of fatigue. “Dana made some mistakes, but when the runs are there it doesn’t matter,” A&M Head Coach Bob Brock said. Mitchell has pitched all nine games for A&rM this year due to an injury to A&M’s other pitcher, Michel McSpadden. McSpadden burned her hand and won’t be able to pitch for at least ten days. Mitchell struck out just one batter in the second game and walked three. SWT also roughed her up for four hits. However, Mitchell was able to pitch out of several jams. In the sec ond inning with runners on second and third with no outs, Mitchell was able to get SWT to hit three straight ground balls to end the inning with out any scoring. Mitchell again got in trouble in the third when, with one out, SWT had runners at second and third. Mitchell then got SWT to fly out to short and left to end the threat. Mitchell saw her 33-inning scoreless streak come to an end in the fourth when freshman Kim Cash singled home Donna Umhoefer with the bases loaded. Mitchell then got Susan Elza to ground out to end the inning. A&M opened the second game hitting the ball well as they loaded the bases. A&M scored its First run when Tory Parks scored on a field er’s choice in the First inning. A&M scored the winning run in the third when Erika Eriksson hit her second of three doubles in game two to score Carrie Heightley with two outs in the inning. SWT scored three runs in the top of the seventh to take a 4-2 lead, but the game was called due to rain be fore A&M batted in the seventh. Un der NCAA rules the game reverts back to the last complete inning played (the sixth), so A&M was de clared the winner, 2-1. Debra Jones (1-1) was the losing pitcher in the nightcap. A&M has won seven in a row since dropping a double header to the University of Texas at Arlington to open the season. During that streak A&M has outscored their opponents 27-2. “There will be only one trial and will involve both defendants,”Maw vich said. The government contends [lit two New V’ork-based agents offeree dozens of college athletes monei cars, clothes, concert tickets ami trips in exchange for signecj —anc usually post-dated — agreement giving them exclusive rights to rep resent the athletes in professional contract negotiations. Walters, 58, and Bloom, 29, have both pleaded innocent to charges racketeering, mail fraud, wire fraud and extortion in the case. Bloom's attorney, former federa prosecutor Dan Webb, said ht wanted his client tried separateh from Walters because their defenses could conflict. The trial is expected to providear, inside look ait what prosecutorssayis the seamier side of college spon- and prosecutors’ plans called fortes timony from several professional athletes who dealt with the tv agents. The sports world is closely mon itoring the case because it raises se rious questions about the structun and practice of big-money college athletics, especially lucrative football programs. “I am only going to allow evidence I in this courtroom that is relevantirl this courtroom,” he said to theattor j neys. “You’re going to put ceriaitij balls into play afid I’m going tositupl here and call them fair or foul.” The government says that sinetl the athletes signed contracts witll Walters and Bloom and continuedto| receive athletic scholarships, univer sities were defrauded. Under NCA) rules, the contracts made the atli letes ineligible to play college sports. The indictment also says that it the students tried to back out ol the contracts, the agents often threat ened the players with violence ot economic harm. Tech (Continued from page 9) command. Doug and some key buckets.” Donald hit -J Thompson said. “We held our com posure more tonight than we did early in the year. We might have folded earlier in the season, but we’ve matured a little bit.” With the win, Texas A&M avenged a 75-68 loss at College Sta tion earlier this season. The Aggies have won three of their last four games going into their final game with Texas. Tech has lost three of their last four. “We gave up a nice lead at the end of the First half and that really hurt us,” said Myers. “I think they scored six points in the last minute and that was important.” Lynn Suiter had nine points for the Aggies (all in the second and Freddie Ricks added seven at his personal streak of double-figurc scoring games ended at seven. “Suber did what he does best- come in and score,” Metcalf said. Metcalf said his team showed ma turity by coining back. The Aggies shot 76 percent from the field in the second half, and Coach Shelby Metcalf credited ihis seniors, Thompson and Dennis, with spurring the comeback. “I felt the key point of the game was the end of the First halF,” he said. “That’s when our seniors took a little He credited the Aggies’ patient offense with cementing the win. “The reason they were shooting better (than Tech) was because they were patient on offense and got the ball to their big guys and got good shots,” said Myers. “When things were going badw might have folded, but that just shows you how far (the team) has come,” he said. “The defense heldus in there. They just picked it up and went a little harder and here’s there suits.” A&M shot over 60 percent from the field for the game. Metcalf and the Aggies closeout the regular season Saturday night at 7:30 in G. Rollie White Coliseum against league-leading Texas. \ARRIBA, ARRIBA! Begin Summer with a Cultural Fiesta! 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