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    Wednesday, March 7,1990
The Battalion
Page 9
[Walvano: ‘I love coaching basketball’
iC State coach preparing for ACC tourney as officials look for way out
tALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — While call. were under way. dence to warrant criminal charges ii
Valvano prepared his team for “There were some matters that “I think that, basically, everything that state on point-shaving allega
JRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — While
bi Valvano prepared his team for
Atlantic Coast Conference tour-
linent, North Carolina State ofli-
lls were on the phone Tuesday try-
K to figure out what to do with
V * 1 '
J“As of right now I’m the basket-
Iball coach at N.C. State and I look
pnvanl to the ACC tournament,”
Valvano said. “I love coaching col
lege basketball and my commitment
■o fulfill that obligation.”
nThe tournament begins Friday in
[Charlotte, and that’s where the sea-
|son will end for the Wolfpack.
JN.C. State is ineligible for the
|NCAA tournament, which it won in
HSHll, because of sanctions imposed
(last year by the NCAA for violations
[involving the sale of complimentary
|tickets and sneakers.
□ While Valvano was going about
[his coaching duties, the executive
iconinmu'f ol the VC. State board of
Hustees met privately via conference
“There were some matters that
they asked me to pay attention to,”
said acting chancellor Larry Mont-
eith, who confirmed the meeting was
about Valvano. Monteith partici
pated in the meeting from the Cha
pel Hill office of C.D. Spangler Jr.,
president of the University of North
Carolina System.
“The executive committee of the
board of trustees expressed confi
dence as to how the administration
has handled the matter to date, and
gave the administration clear in
structions to continue negotiations
util a satisfactory resolution has been
achieved that is in the best interest of
the university,” school counsel Becky
French said.
French would not comment on
when, or if, negotiations with Val
vano and his lawyer, Art Kaminsky,
would resume. Pat Gibbons, a
spokesman for Kaminsky in his New
York office, said no negotiations
were under way.
“I think that, basically, everything
at this point is up to the university,”
Gibbons said.
The university can terminate Val-
vano’s contract without financial
penalty if the coach is found guilty
of a major NCAA violation or a fel
ony. But if N.C. State terminates
Valvano’s contract without cause, he
would receive $500,000. He is paid
$106,000 a year and the contract au
tomatically renews itself for five
years every August.
Calls for Valvano’s resignation
came last week after ABC News re
ported that four Wolfpack players
nad conspired to shave points in as
many as four games during the
1987-88 season, or purposely lost a
game in return for money. ABC said
one of the players is former Wolf
pack star Charles Shackleford, now
of the New Jersey Nets.
A New Jersey prosecutor said
Monday there wasn’t enough evi-
ady Ags open SWC Tourney
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The Texas A&M women’s basketball team will
face the Lady Cougars in the first round of the
Southwest Conference Women’s Basketball Tourna
ment Wednesday night at Moody Coliseum in Dal
las.
Tipoff is scheduled for 6 p.m.
A&M finished the season on a down note, losing
its last two games to Houston, 94-76, and Texas
Tech, 85-76, at G. Rollie White Coliseum. With the
back-to-back loses, the Lady Aggies fell to 16-11
overall and 8-8 in SWC play.
The Lady Aggies finished tied with Texas Chris
tian for fifth in the league standings. According to
SWC rules, officials had to flip a coin to see who
would gain the fifth place seed in the tournament.
A&M won the flip and has to play the No. 4 seed,
Houston.
The Lady Cougars took a commanding lead over
A&M in the last meeting between the two teams,
posting a 15-7 lead with 12:53 left in the first half.
“We didn’t act like we were ready to play at the be
ginning of the game,” A&M coach Lynn Hickey said.
“Houston just pulled ahead and made us play catch
up.”
A&M fell into foul trouble as the game progressed
trying to claw its way back into the game. Sophomore
gaum LaTanya Irving and junior forward Diane
DeCree each had four fouls with half of the second
period remaining. Houston was able to capitalize on
A&M’s woes as they went on to win the game by 18
points.
In their first meeting at Hofheinz Pavilion in
Houston, senior guard Lisa Herner scored a career-
high 28 points, as the Aggies trounced Houston, #8-
67. Herner, who had been averaging 5.6 points a
game, said A&M entered the game with a fierce tie-
sire to beat the Lady Cougars.
“Before the game, you could just see the intensity
on everybody’s face,” Herner said. “I think that
game gave me an edge.”
T he Aggies were able to hold onto a narrow 36-34
halftime lead largely in part to their free-throw
shooting. Herner was eight-of-eight in free-throws
and senior forward Lori Dillard was six-of-six.
A&M scored 11 of its final 15 points from the line.
Even the Lady Aggieswere surprised at how well
they shot.
“Usually we can say we lost the game because of
free throws,” Dillard said. “I think we won that game
because of them.”
Baseball negotiations start up again;
opening day of season now in jeopardy
shot
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; againsiBNEW YORK (AP) — Baseball ne-
ulay an gotiations resumed Tuesday night
n Hou aftera nine-day layoff and took on a
■nse of added urgency when man-
reement’s Player Relations Commit-
irsttim ter canceled an owners meeting
: befatscheduled later in the week,
h a wit i Milwaukee owners Bud Selig, the
d, I ju‘PRC chairman, made the announce-
I wouloBjent just before negotiations re-
Rmed in Commissioner Fay Vin-
■nt’s office at 6 p.m. EST. The PRC
Bet for about three hours Tuesday
e Bternoon before the negotiating
Session and Selig said it will meet
pain Wednesday morning.
B“We have been in close contact
ry with other 20 clubs,” Selig said.
3 BThey have been not only cooper-
mive but totally supportive.”
1 Management’s lockout hit its 20th
want Mday on Tuesday and both sides say
pat if camps don’t open by Monday,
ocedurtithere’s little chance opening day
act thtlpuld remain on April 2 as sched-
view. uled.
atisticj A quarterly meeting of owners
ter thcH^ * 3een scheduled for Thursday
lea^fBoming in Irving, Texas, but the
• [|JPRC thought it was better to nego-
□ r tiate than to spend a day traveling
and briefing owners.
tie the
“To come to Dallas just merely to
be given an update which they can
be given by telephone ... would be a
waste of time,” Selig said. “What
could have more top priority than
negotiations with the association. So
to take another day or two off to go
“I
It was a very productive
meeting. The hawks and
doves were very pleasant
today. You’d never know
there were such creatures
if you had attended the
meeting.”
— Bud Selig,
PRC chairman
to Dallas seems to be unproductive
and unreasonable on our part.”
The PRC meeting on Tuesday
started late because a morning snow
caused some delays at New York’s
airport.
The sides remain apart on salary
arbitration, the benefit plan, roster
size, minimum salary and collusion
protection language. The biggest
obstacle is the union’s demand to roll
back arbitration eligibility from
three years to two years, the way it
was before the 1985 agreement.
The six-man PRC — comprised of
Selig, Fred Wilpon of the New York
Mets, Carl Pohlad of Minnesota, Re-
insdorf of the Chicago White Sox,
John McMullen of Houston and
Fred Kuhlmann of St. Louis — has
been described as divided between
hardliners and more concilliatory
owners, the so-called hawks and
doves.
Selig was in a playful mood Tues
day and used those terms jokingly at
a short briefing.
“It was a very productive meet
ing,” he said. “The hawks and doves
were very pleasant today. You’d
never know there were such crea
tures if you had attended the meet
ing-”
Selig and Wilpon attended the ne
gotiating session along with Vincent,
Deputy Commissioner Stephen
Greenberg and Chuck O’Connor,
the PRC’s general counsel.
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Lady Ags golf team
ends in sixth place
By VINCE SNYDER
Of The Battalion Staff
The Lady Aggies’ golf team
shot a 965 total for three rounds
to finish sixth at the Utah-Dixie
Classic in St. George, Utah.
The three-day tournament
started on Sunday and finished
Tuesday.
A&M was led by junior Re
becca Sims who shot 79, 78, and
80 for a total of 237 and a tie for
eighth.
Sims was only five strokes off
the lead heading into the final
round.
The 18-team tournament was
won by host school Brigham
young who posted a 936 total.
Iowa at 941 took second place,
while Lamar shot a 942 to round
out the top three spots.
The next action for the Lady
Aggies will be the Betsy Rawls
Longhorn Classicin Austin on
March 16-18.
Ags
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(Continued from page 7)
fould the Cougars do without me?
that’s hard to say. David Klingler,
JH’s backup quarterback, would
irobably take my place, and my
lecision to go might let the team
lown, but they’re tough. After all,
xiach Pardee went to the NFL to
oach for the Oilers and the guys got
Over it.
; • How would mom feel about my
lecision? Well, she’s a great woman
nd I love her, but she doesn’t want
ne rushing into anything. She said
’sup to me to decide what’s best.
Now that the key factors are taken
care of, what’s left?
“What’s the 6-2 senior up to right
now?” you ask.
I’m glad you asked that question,
because he’s in Houston working out
in spring football drills with the
Cougars.
I wonder if that’s a hint or a trick?
No matter what it is, Ware has to
have some sort of idea of where he’s
going. A lot of people say he should
take the money and run. But it
would be a shame not to see if the
“one-armed bandit” could pull
another rabbit, or Heisman in this
case, out of his helmet.
I don’t envy the guy for the choice
he has facing him. But please Andre,
pick a tune that you’ll be happy with.
And please hurry.
(Continued from page 7)
first five innings, striking out nine
batters, and allowing only two hits.
“I felt good,” Bullard said. “I
needed to get some innings in, be
cause I wasn’t throwing strikes in my
last outing. I was getting ahead with
the fastball, and getting the strike
outs with the slider.”
But in the sixth Bullard walked
five hitters, and blew a pickoff
throw.
“The leadoff walk really hurt me.
After that, I was trying to guide the
ball in,” Bullard said. “I couldn’t
throw a strike then.”
The Aggies capped the scoring
with four runs in the sixth inning.
They used four hits and a walk to
put the game out of reach.
A&M’s bats continued ringing in
the second game, and the Aggies
jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the first
inning.
Tim Holt led off with a walk, and
advanced to third on Witte’s double.
They both scored on Travis Wil
liams’ home run.
The homer, Williams’ third of the
season, was his first at Olsen Field
this year.
“It’s nice to finally hit one out for
the home crowd,” Williams said. “It
was a 3-2 fastball. I stayed back on it,
and got lucky.”
One out later, Rollen continued
the hitting spree with a triple, deep
down right field line. He scored the
fourth run of the inning on Brous
sard’s double.
Broussard advanced to third on
catcher Blake Pyle’s single and
scored on and error. Pyle scored
when rightfielder Yates dropped a!
fly ball.
A&M scored a single run in the
second inning when Robinson
reached on a fielder’s choice and
stole home.
With Broussard on first and Rob
inson on third, Broussard took a
step toward second, and fell down.
When the pitcher turned to pick him
off, Robinson broke for the plate.
The pitcher threw home, but it was
too late, and Robinson slid in safely.
The Bobcats didn’t score until the
eighth inning.
Aggie starter Sean Lawrence
lasted five innings and allowed only
one hit, before he had contol prob
lems. Although he struck out seven
hitters and didn’t give up any runs,
Lawrence walked seven batters.
Bo Siberz pitched two innings of
one-hit relief, and struck out four
batters.
Pat Sweet came on in the eighth
inning, and had problems immedi
ately. He walked the leadoff hitter,
and one out later, gave up four hits
sandwiched around aYiother walk.
Sweet got out of the jam with a
grounder and a smash liner that Jeff
Bernet speared. He stayed in to
pitch the ninth inning, and had to
face the tying run twice before re
tiring the side.
Johnson said he expected the
Bobcats to play better.
“I never anticipate anything to be
easy,” Johnson said. “I was sure glad
we broke it open, and the guys were
swinging well.
“We didn’t take a lot of pitches,
w hich was good. We stayed ahead in
the count.”
With seven doubles, a triple and
three homers, the Aggies were defi
nitely ahead in the power depart
ment, too.
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dence to warrant criminal charges in
that state on point-shaving allega
tions involving Shackleford and
businessman Robert Kramer of Den-
ville, N.J.
But North Carolina authorities
said they will press ahead with their
investigation.
“I don’t think it has an impact on
our investigation,” Wake County
District Attorney Colon Willoughby
said. “I don’t really know a lot about
what the Denville police were doing
because we were not informed about
that. I have reason to believe that the
investigation may have different fo
cuses. I don’t think I can elaborate
on that much more.”
Willoughby said a preliminary in
quiry shows “there is a reason why
this matter should be investigated.”
Shackleford has acknowledged ac
cepting nearly $65,000 in loans
while a student, an NCAA violation,
but has denied any role in point
shaving.
Cowboys pick
up two more
Plan B agents
IRVING (AP) — Tight end Jay
Novacek of the Phoenix Cardinals
and linebacker Lybrant Robinson of
the Washington Redskins signed
contracts with the Dallas Cowboys,
bringing to 14 the total of Plan B
players to join coach Jimmy John
son, the club announced Tuesday.
The Cowboys also signed four
more free agents, bringing the total
of non-Plan B free agents signed to
13. They are defensive end Lester
Brinkley of Mississippi, tight end
Charles Henry of Miami, Fla., de
fensive back Tim Sims of Miami,
Fla., and defensive lineman Mitch
Willis of Southern Methodist.
Navaceck is a five-year veteran
who was a sixth-round draft choice
in 1985. Robinson was a 1989 fifth-
round pick out of Deleware State.
Brinkley was signed as a free
agent by Pittsburgh last spring but
was released before the season
started. Henry spent most of the sea
son on the Cowboys developmental
roster. Sims was a reserve in the sec
ondary two years for the Hurricanes
and Willis played in 47 NFL games
in four seasons. He was drafted in
the seventh round by the Los An
geles Raiders in 1984.
Green Bay signed 20 Plan B play
ers last year and the Cowboys are
fast approaching that total.
The New York Jets have the next
highest total of Plan B signings with
four, the NFL office said.
The Cowboys began their 1990
return from a 1-15 season on Tues
day with a series of meetings.
They will undergo strength eval
uation and conditioning checks un
der Mike Woicik on Wednesday.
Woicik replaced the dismissed Bob
Ward.
The mini-camp ends on Thurs
day.
Johnson said he expects several of
the 14 Plan B signees to win starting
jobs next season.
“I think we’ve really elevated the
talent level in some critical areas,”
Johnson said. “We’ve been able to
bring in some talented young play
ers and some veterans who are going
to provide leadership.”
Johnson said Novacek is an espe
cially welcome addition. Tight end
was not a strong point on the Cow
boys offense last season as starter
Steve Folsom had only 28 catches for
265 yards and two touchdowns.
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