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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.
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Boggs’ station since October when
Boggs returned to the Kress facility.
Boggs said he came in contact with
Bunny through one of his owners,
Jake Box, a Portales, N.M., wheat
farmer who raised the champion
from a colt.
Box bought Bunny’s mother, Miss
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Bid in Vernon after Box paid a
$1500 stud fee. The result was Sail
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Box put Bunny up for auction at
Ruidoso Downs in Sept. 1981, hut
after the animal brought a top bid of
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About a year later, he and partner
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bleeding rights to an Oklahoma
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“We had to change the shoes the
other day and the fellow told me,
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money someday.’ I don’t know
whether they will or not, but with a
horse as great as that, you never can
tell.”
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