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l il 6,195; shot uesday, March 6,1990 The Battalion Page 11 i file phoiv irward ink,” sau Dunk I" !. “Well... se. es on thf t reacheil ins of e.v what, lit i 20-fooi ; its rain. ?n every positively with the is a nice is excited chardson . Look at ! IS pei- n dunks. ie actual le better and it’s ; level at ndboard an. olilic.ot ig. TCI ool ston /as deac at one eir com es don’ le ficu/( liancellot ulay, b" 1 scussions Liminsh uract in- varsity t® anythin? = person- n. tool is It- 5 fired or repor at o! ^ bool l |as jne y« a fi alvanod ad and2 a or S3' dais. antract - an' 1 an ae aWi no dis Mr. Val- durinf 1 season 10,000n : baskei' = schtf 1 ' L ference coach, 5 Friday o’s sap- Ags to meet Longhorns in SWC Classic STAFF & WIRE REPORTS The Texas A&rM men’s basket ball team will get its third shot at knocking off conference rival Texas. The Longhorns’ 84-79 loss Monday night to second place Houston forces Texas to play the Aggies in the first round of the Southwest Conference Postsea son Classic. Houston center Carl Herrera scored 29 points and Byron Smith’s 3-point basket with 1:34 to play gave Houston the lead for good. Houston, 23-6 for the season and 13-3 in the SWC, finished second in the Southwest Confer ence standings and will face Rice in the first round of the SWC tournamenti Texas is new 20-7 and 12-4 in SWC play. Houston trailed in the second half until Byron Smith stole the ball from Travis Mays and hit a 3- point basket for a 68-65 Houston lead with 6:55 left in the game. Upchurch followed with a fast break basket for a 70-65 Houston lead, it’s biggest of the game to that point. Texas came back and took a 74-72 lead with 2:03 to go on two free throws by Mays Smith’s 3-pointer gave Hous ton the lead for good and Herre ra’s three-point play with 59 sec onds left, clinched it. Mays scored 19 points to lead the Longhorns. Locksdey Collie’s dunk with six seconds to go gave the Longhorns a 43-41 lead in the tightly played first half. The Longhorns led for most of the first half, but the Cougars ral lied from a 39-32 deficit and tied the score at 41 -41 with 34 seconds left in the half. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hank Gathers, the college basketball star who collapsed in the heat of competition and died, was mourned Monday as an inspiration on and off the court by teammates and his coach, who said, “Whatever we were, we were Hank’s team.” Gathers, 23, ,a fifth-year senior and center for the Loyola Marymount University Lions, crumpled Sunday night soon after sinking a thunderous slam dunk in the first half of a tournament game against the University of Portland (Ore.). “We called him ‘Bank man’ because we went to him for everything,” said Coach Paul Westhead. “We went to him for rebounds, we went to him for points, we went to him for life. “He was a walking thunderbolt.” Gathers, who was considered a certain pick in the first round of the National Basketball Association draft, was pronounced dead at Daniel Freeman Marina Hos pital. Autopsy results were unavailable Monday, but doc tors said he’d been treated after a similar collapse in De cember for an irregular heart rhythm. Gathers, a 6-foot-7, 210-pound center from Philadel phia, became the second player in NCAA Division 1 his tory to lead the nation in scoring (32.7 average) and re bounding (13.7 average) last year. The feat was first accomplished by Wichita Slate’s Xavier McDaniel five years ago. Gathers also was 11th on the National Collegiate Ath letic Association Division 1 single-season scoring list, with 1,015 points last season. After the first collapse, he missed two games, but be gan taking medication and was cleared to play again. Gathers pei suaded doctors to cut back on his medica tion, and said he felt himself strengthening. Teammate Jeff Fryer said Monday that Gathers had done something unusual before the game that turned out to be his last. He ran on the track to warm up rather than jumping rope as usual. “We thought he was crazy,” Fryer said, adding, “That was Hank.” Just 6‘/2 minutes into the West Coast Conference tournament game, Gathers slam-dunked for his eighth point, giving 22nd-ranked Loyola Marymount a 25-13 lead over Portland. He was heading back to his regular spot in the Lions’ press when he dropped to the floor. Loyola doctors rushed onto the court. After a few moments, Gathers tried to get up, struggling to his knees. But then he began to suffer what appeared to be a seizure. His mother, Lucille, ran onto the court, followed by his aunt, Carole Livingston. Their screams and cries rang through Albert Gersten Pavilion as a stunned crowd of about 3,000 watched in silence. The tournament was cancelled and Loyola Marymount, a Los Angeles school, was declared the league champion by virtue of its 13-1 regular-season re cord in conference games. Gathers’ death prompted CBS to postpone a sched uled broadcast of “Malcolm Takes a Shot,” a drama for children about a high school basketball star stricken with an epileptic seizure in the final seconds of a game. Teammates and coach had trouble talking about Gathers at a news conference Monday. “Hank represents the little kid in all of us because to Hank Gathers basketball was play, and we all want to play,” Westhead said. “Basketball was free play, and Hank Gathers was the best in playing freely.” Longtime friend and teammate Bo Kimble came west with Gathers after graduating from Dobbins Tech in Philadelphia in 1985. The pair went to the University of Southern California for a year, then transferred to Loyola Marymount, where they were the main ingre dients in college basketball’s highest-scoring team the last three seasons. Trying to share his memories with reporters, Kimble was overcome by emotion and had to be helped from the podium. Olajuwon ‘centerpiece’ in Rocket win Robinson not enough in Spurs’ 109-105 loss SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Akeem Olajuwon scored 14 of his 37 points in the fourth quarter, including the go-ahead jumper with 39 seconds re maining, to lead the Houston Rock ets to 109-105 victory Monday night over the San Antonio Spurs. Olajuwon’s 15-foot fadeaway broke a tie at 105. Mitchell Wiggins added two free throws with 11 sec- onds left to give the Rockets their sixth victory in 30 road games this season. San Antonio, which had won four of its previous six games, was led by David Robinson with 29 points and Terry Cummings with 28. The Spurs led by 82-70 with 2:26 left in the third quarter after out- scoring the Rockets 39-24 in the pe- nod. , But Houston used a 10-2 spurt midway through the lourth period to pull to 92-90 with 7:11 left. Olaju won and Mike Woodson had four points apiece during the surge. San Antonio still led 101-98 with 3:13 left, but a 7-2 rally gave Hous ton a 105-103 lead with 1:39 to play. A jumper by Willie Anderson tied the game for San Antonio. Olajuwon scored 19 first-half E oints to help Houston take a 54-49 :ad at the break. Champion sires 142 winners Sail On Bunny continues winning ways KRESS (AP) — You’ve seen it a thousand times. A great athlete re tires and becomes coach to make a lot of great little athletes. The story’s pretty much the same in Kress — ex cept the retiree isn’t a coach. But that hasn’t stopped Sail On Bunny from making a lot of great little racehorses. Ranked 17th in all-time earnings ampng quarter horses, Sail On Bunny retired eight years ago as a shining 2-year-old star. He is now the stellar attraction at Billy Boggs Stallion Station, a Kress-based breeding facility. “He was one of the fastest horses alive,” Boggs said of the 10-year-old equestrian prize. “And he’s a good siring horse.” Bunny is a Top 20 sire of winners. The chestnut stallion has sired 339 foals and 142 of those have been winners. But it is his remarkable 1982 track performance that now brings in rac ing enthusiasts with their stud fees. “He is the best horse that’s ever stood at this place,” Boggs said, “and there’ve been a lot of good horses standing here.” In 10 starts, he was first across the finish line six times, second three times and third once. His career earnings total $908,982. One of his early races could have ended the colt’s running days. In April 1082, Bunny collided with an other horse coming out of the gate at the Sun Country Futurity Trials at Sunland Park in New Mexico. Injured and bruised, he still was strong enough to finish in the No. 2 position. But the injury persisted as Bunny was sent to Los Alamitos, Calif., where he was preparing for the $715,000 Kindergarten Stakes. Trainer Jack Cascio called in two veterinarians — one to work on a But the Skoal Dash for Cash was around the corner and Cascio was seeking an edge. This time, he called in a psychic to commune with the mind of the horse. Bunny’s best performance may have been at the $1,183,000 Faberge Special Effort Futurity in August 1982. Stathoplos reported that Bun ny’s injury appeared to be bothering him in the weeks prior to the event, but that he was looking strong the day of the race — maybe too strong. We had to change the shoes the other day and the fellow told me, ‘You’d better hold on to those shoes, they’re going to be worth a lot of money someday.’ I don’t know whether they will or not, but with a horse as great as that, you never can tell.” — Billy Boggs, owner, Billy Boggs Stallion Station possible bone splint in Bunny’s leg, the other to treat his injured shoul der. The bone splint received state- of-the art laser therapy. The shoul der was treated with the centuries- old practice of acupuncture. All the attention paid off, and Bunny won the Kindergarten June Bunny broke from the gate so hard he stumbled and fell to one knee. Jockey Gary Sumpter rallied the colt and, by the midway point, Sail On Bunny was in second place and gain ing on the leader, a filly called Make Mine Cash. It was a photo finish. The filly won the race by about three inches. If Loyola mourns loss of Gathers Heading out for Located infhelM|TtfHa((, NSC Just fill out the NeeKmid^FLooking for Riders form and put it inlhe^appropriate slot. Sponsored by MSC Hospitality DOORS OPEN 6:00 P.M. BEGINNERS WELCOME! 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She was bred to Bunny Bid in Vernon after Box paid a $1500 stud fee. The result was Sail On Bunny. Box put Bunny up for auction at Ruidoso Downs in Sept. 1981, hut after the animal brought a top bid of only $9,500, Box hid $10,000 and took the colt back home. About a year later, he and partner Ray Starbuck would sell Bunny’s bleeding rights to an Oklahoma businessman for $4.5 million. The biggest question on Bogg’s mind is what to do with the animal’s shoes. “We had to change the shoes the other day and the fellow told me, ‘You’d better hold on to those shoes, they’re going to be worth a lot of money someday.’ I don’t know whether they will or not, but with a horse as great as that, you never can tell.” o<v On Monday, March 5, Computer Access is opening the doors of our new, larger store, and we invite you to come visit us. 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