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Page 8 The Battalion Monday, February 26,199(1 Five Aggies earn shot at NCAA indoor title The Texas A&M track team man aged to qualify five athletes last weekend for the NCAA National In door Tournament. The Aggies will send nine athletes to the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis March 9 and 10. Andre Cason, Steve Lofton and Howard Davis all qualified at the Arizona Day’s Inn Invitational. Ca son posted a season best in the 55 meter dash, shaving one-one hun- dreth a second off the University re cord. His time of 6.14 seconds earned Cason an automatic bid to the tournament. Lofton also qualified in the 55 me ter dash, finishing second behind Cason with a time of 6.20. Although his time did not earn Lofton an auto matic bid, he did improve his provi sional time and will travel to India napolis. Davis took first in the 400 meter run, posting a time of 46.15. His fin ish was the second best time in the 400 this year and earned him an au tomatic bid. Florida’s Tyrone Kemp holds the fastest time this year, run ning the 400 in 45.83 seconds. Kemp was the NCAA Indoor Champion in last years tournament. Yolanda Taylor and Stanley Kerr traveled to Lubbock and fook part, in the Last Chance Qualifiers Meet last weekend. Taylor earned an auto matic berth in the triple jump after she jumped 41-feet-5-inches, break ing her previous best and the school record of 40-feet-11-inches. Kerr earned a provisional qualifi cation in the 200 meters with a time of 21.15 seconds. O’Donovan extends streak, leads netters in upset win FROM STAFF & WIRE REPORTS Senior Shaun O’Donovan re mained unbeated in 1990, and led the Texas A&M men’s tennis team to a 5-3 upset over No. 25 Trinity Fri day. A&M won the two completed doubles matches to break a 3-3 tie. The other doubles match was stopped due to the completion of the dual match. “This was a great win over a ranked team,” A&M coach David Kent said. “This dual match was a great battle. It was what college ten nis is all about. We really came to gether as a team.” O’Donovan swept Greg Tour- nanl, the nation’s 33rd ranked player, in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3. “Shuan is still undefeated,” Kent said. “You really need to come out and watch O’Donovan play. He is the most exciting player our tennis team has had in years.” The Aggies also had a big perfor mance from Gustavo Espinosa, who won in both his singles and double matches. A&M was playing without its No. 3 and No. 5 players, and Kent said it was a tribute to the team that it was able to beat Trinity without them. “Gustavo Espinosa is such a great fighter,” he said. “I was really pleased to be able to win without our third and fifth players. This team has great depth and that will help us down the road as it did today.” % m & N£XT To LASTcHMcZ ro pill- Gr, R.OL\~\£ WeO. 7:30 Mavs cruise by Timberwolves, 87-82 Lady Ags take second in weekend tournament The Texas A&M women’s softball team went 3-2 over the weekend to receive second place in the Lousiana Classics Tournament in Lafayette. This marks the first time that the Lady Aggies didn’t carry away first place in the four-year history of the tournament. A&M listed sophomore pitcher Dana Mitchell, sophomore left fielder Michelle Mayfield and first base freshman Chris Wilfong to the all-tournament team. Saturday, the Lady Aggies beat Northeast Lousiana 2-1, Southern Mississippi 2-0 and lost to Southwes tern Lousiana, 0-2. In Sunday’s semifinals, the Lady Aggies beat Northeast Lousiana 1-0, but lost to Southwestern Lousiana 0- 1 in two extra innings. A&M will play the University of Texas at Arlington there on Tues day and return home Thursday to face Nebraska at 5 p.m. on the Lady Aggie Softball Field. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Sam Perkins scored 20 points, including a pair of free throws with 11 seconds remaining, leading the Dallas Mavericks to an 87-82 victory over Minnesota Sunday. Roy Tarpley led the Mavericks with 26 points as they claimed their fourth straight victory over the expansion Timberwolves this season and their seventh triumph in their last eight games. 60-52. After Sam Mitchell came off the bench to score eight straight points and give the Timberwolves a 37-35 lead with two minutes remaining in the half, but Harper’s 3-pointer and Tarpley’s two free throws with a tenth of a second to go gave the Mavericks a 40-37 halftime margin. Derek Harper’s five straight points keyed the Mavericks’ fourth-quarter comeback and gave them an 83-82 lead with 16 seconds remaining. Herb Williams stole Minnesota’s inbounds pass and Perkins was fouled in the ensuing scramble. Rolando Blackman added another pair of free throws for the final margin. Minnesota outscored Dallas 14-6 to start the second half,'and Tyrone Corbin’s five straight points gave the Timberwolves a 51-46 lead with 7:20 left in the third quarter. Another basket by Corbin with 2:52 remaining upped the margin to Both teams shot 38 percent from the field in the first half. Perkins’ six straight points started Dallas on a 21-5 run beginning late in the first quarter. Tar pley added another six points and Rolando Blackman’s layup with 7:45 remaining in the half gave the Mavericks a 30-23 lead. game, Dallas was pleased to be only the second visiting team to win at the Metrodome in the Iasi nine games. “They’ve played everybody tough here, Harper said. “Very few teams have been ableto blow them out and it’s basically because of tht tempo they play.” “We got some clutch plays down the stretch, Dallas coach Richie Adubato said. “Harpers jumper, Perkins made two big free throws, and Herb Williams made two great defensive plays one on the inbounds and then he stayed right on Campbell on his 3-point attempt to tie it." Tod Murphy led the balanced Timberwolves scoring attack with 16 points. Corbin had 15, Tony Campbell 14, Mitchell 13 and Randy Brener 10. Despite, struggling offensively throughout the Williams’ steal of Murphy’s inbounds pass set up the other Mavericks heroics. “He tried to squeeze it past me to Campbell and 1 was able to get my hands on it,” Williams said. “We made a couple of big defensive plays til! Sam (Pet kins) hit the free throws.” Still looking for the lucky ticket... $1 million ticket still missing UH catching fire on hot streak OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Officials at Remington Park race track were still waiting Sunday for someone to claim more than $1 million from Saturday’s Pick Six. Track spokesman Keith Chamblin said whoever bought the single winning Pick Six ticket had not claimed the prize by mid day Sunday. But Chamblin said it’s not that unusual for big money winners to wait a while before coming forward. “When it’s that amount of money, the majority do wait. They might want to talk to their accountant or their attorney. And a lot would rather wait until the banks open on Monday” before claiming their prize. The,winner of Saturday’s bonanza has six weeks after the end of the spring meeting — May 6 — to claim the winnings, Chamblin said. Track officials said they believed the $1,070,482.40 was the largest Pick Six payoff ever at an American track. The Internal Revenue Service gets 20 percent, track officials said, so the winner will go away with about $856,000. A crowd of 23,280, second-largest in Remington his tory, wagered a track-record $2,808,243 on the 10-race card. That handle surpassed the previous high of $2,607,523, set on April 22, 1989. ASSOCIATED PRESS The Pick Six, in which patrons try to pick the winners of races 2 through 8, had not been hit in six days. The carryover heading into Saturday was more than $627,000. The Houston Cougars are head ing toward the Southwest Confer ence Post-Season Basketball Classic March 8-9 as the hottest team in the league. They’ve won nine consecutive games and coach Pat Foster said he sees a solid team developing for the stretch run to the NCAA playoffs. “We’ve got a chance to get a lot better in a short period of time and if we do we’ve got a legitimate chance to get into the NCAA tourna ment and do something,” Foster said after the Cougars defeated Southern Methodist 71-63 in a regionally tele vised game. Foster has gone to a seven-man rotation in the Cougars’ streak. It has made them more consistent. Their 21-6 record is the best since 1983-84. An 11-3 SWC record keeps Houston on target for a regular sea son second-place finish behind the Arkansas Razorbacks. Houston plays at Texas A&M on Wednesday night and plays host to Texas on March 5 in its final two games of the regular season. In other games on Wednesday, Mem SMU is at Texas Tech. Baylor isat Texas Christian, and Texas is al Rice. Saturday’s games find Texas al DePaul, Rice at Arkansas, SMU a Baylor, and TCU at Mississipf Stale. The l ech-A&M game k been moved to next Sunday. Foster said SMU gave theCougj all they wanted. “That was a long 40 minutes,” said. “They came out in a zone am that hurt our offensive execution We haven’t seen a zone in quite w'hile and we didn’t look goo against it.” A pros includi before THE SANDSTONE CENTER (409)690-303 -421-6322 Eating Disorders? Depression? Stress? Anxiety? Relationship Problems? Drug or Alcohol Problem? Free Confidential Consultation 24 Hours Every Day 4201 Texas Avenue South, College Station, Texas 77845 r-SOARDWALK SALON Welcome 'Suzette Edmonds and Jamie Neff Suzette has been a stylist for 11 years and has attended seminars and anvanced haircutting and coloring classes including “Jingles” in London, England. Jamie specializes in acrylic nails and hot wax manicures and pedicures. She has attended advanced classes with Tammy Taylor nails. 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