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A&M’s Chad Broussard argues with an umpire after a called strike out in last weekend’s sweep over Missouri. Brous
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By ALAN LEHMANN
(The Battalion Staff
The No. 16 Texas A&M Aggies will open
their Southwest Conference slate this week-
nd when they host Texas Tech. The Ag
gies (25-7) and Red Raiders (21-11) will
quare off Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday in
a 2 p.m. doubleheader.
Tech opened its conference schedule last
weekend when the Red Raiders took two of
three games from Houston.
The series will feature a superb Aggie
pitching staff against the hot bats of the
Raiders.
Aggie pitchers have combined for a 2.64
earned run average and have allowed op
posing hitters an anemic .204 batting aver
age. The Raiders have relied upon hitting
— hitting .337 as a team.
A&M will try to keep alive its seven-game
winning streak, that started March 13 with
shutouts over Iowa State and St. John’s.
The Aggies swept a three-game series from
Missouri last weekend and took a twinbill
from Southwestern Tuesday.
Saturday’s vitctories over Missouri were
both dramatic and costly.
The Aggies came from behind to win
both games in extra innings, but lost star
right fielder Dan Robinson when he col-
See Ags/Page 8
Razorbacks tar,
feather ’Heels
DALLAS (AP) — Arkansas is like a time
bomb. North Carolina found out Thursday
night what it’s like when the bomb goes off.
Four straight 3-pointers, three of them
by Lee Mayberry, triggered a second-half
surge Thursday night that carried No. 7
Arkansas to a 96-73 victory in the Midwest
Regional semifinals.
“If we blow up and
things to right for us,
we’re very tough to
stop,” Coach Nolan
Richardson said.
“And that’s what hap
pened to us.”
The Razorbacks
(29-4), seeded fourth,
will play Saturday
night in the regional semifinals against
Texas. North Carolina ends its season 21-
13.
It will be Arkansas’ first trip to the final
eight since 1979.
Mayberry started the big second-half run
with a 3-pointer that gave the Razorbacks a
57-54 lead with 10:37 to play. After George
Xavier done in
by UT’s Blanks
DALLAS (AP) — After firing blanks in
the first half, Lance Blanks found the mark
and helped Texas shoot down Xavier in the
NCAA tournament Thursday night.
Blanks, 0-for-8 in the first half, scored 26
of his 28 points in the
second half as the
Longhorns rallied
from a 16-point deficit to beat
Xavier 102-89 and set up an all-
Southwest Conference final in the
Midwest Regional.
“I challenged myself mentally at
halftime,” Blanks said. “I didn’t want
it to be the last half of my career. I
started driving and the shots began to
fall.”
Texas (24-8) will play seventh-ranked
Arkansas (29-4) on Saturday at Reunion
Arena. Arkansas, which beat the Long-
Lynch made a free throw to bring the Tar
Heels to 57-55, Mayberry made two more
3-pointers and Todd Day made another in
just over a minute, giving Arkansas a 66-55
lead.
“The streak in the second half of 3-point
shots was too much to overcome,” said
North Carolina coach Dean Smith, who suf
fered his worst NCAA tournament defeat
since a 92-65 loss to Purdue in 1969. “I
think it hit us hard and we got impatient
trying to catch up, and that was my fault.”
Mayberry had eight points in the first
half, when he also had three fouls. He didn’t
make a basket in the
second half until his
3-pointer that started
the rally.
Richardson said he
used a timeout to
urge his sophomore
guard to shoot the
ball.
“I thought he was
passing up too many 3-point shots he can
knock down,” Richardson said. “I told him
T don’t care if we win or lose, just put up
your shot.’ ”
The advice paid off. After the Razor-
backs went up by 11, North Carolina got no
See Razorbacks/Page 9
horns twice this season, advanced with a 96-
73 victory over North Carolina. It’s the first
time two SWC teams have made it to the fi
nal eight of the tournament.
The Longhorns are going because their
“BMW” guard trio —Blanks, Travis Mays
and Joey Wright — operated on all cylin
ders. Mays scored 32 points and Wright
had 26.
“I drive a Pinto myself, but I think I see
why they drive a BMW at Texas,” Xavier
coach Pete Gillen said. “We couldn’t stop
those guys. We tried a
zone, a triangle and
two and every de-
we could think of. Blanks
was really unstoppable.”
Xavier, which upset Georgetown
in the second round, finished 28-5,
the most wins in school history. Early
in the second half, it seemed like the
victory total would be even higher.
Led by their 6-foot-10 duo of Derek
Strong and Tyrone Hill, the Musketeers in
creased their 53-41 halftime lead to 16
See Longhorns/Page 9
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