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Page 8 The Battalion Tuesday, January 15, 1991 Montana garners Male Athlete of the Year award SFLOUPOT'S^ BOOKSTORES HUY USED HOOKS AND SAVE Norlh«j:ale across f rom Post < >t f ice Kctlmoml Torrace rH*xt to A«‘u<I<miv Soillll^itlo on t.oorjio Itu.li MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE PRESENTS the motion picture HIGHLANDER WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16 AT 7:00 P.M. IN RUDDER THEATER. TICKETS ARE ONLY $2 AT RUDDER BOX OFFICE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL 845-1515 NEW YORK (AP) — While the San Francisco 49ers are trying to threepeat as Super Bowl champions, their quarterback, Joe Montana, has repeated as The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year. Montana became the fifth athlete to win the award twice and the fourth to win it consecutively, edg ing out Texas Rangers pitcher No lan Ryan in balloting announced Monday by the AP. Last week, Montana was named the NFL’s Most Valuable Player for the second straight season by the AP. Montana, 34, who passed for 274 yards and two touchdowns in San Francisco’s 28-10 playoff victory 1 over Washington on Saturday, re ceived 33 of a possible 138 first-place votes and 259 points. “He’s special,” former 49ers cen ter Randy Cross said. “He has an aura about him. It’s an air. OJ. had it. Namath, Staubach, Graham, Luckman, guys like that. With Joe, you almost felt, if every game were a Super Bowl, you’d be undefeated. It’s almost not fair. He’s never played a huge game that he hasn’t won.” Ryan, 43, who surpassed 5,000 ca reer strikeouts and pitched his sixth no-hitter last season, had more first- place votes (36) but wound up with 254 points. Wayne Gretzky of the Los Angeles Kings was a distant third with 11 first-place votes and 104 points. AP-member sports writers and broadcasters were asked to vote for three athletes, with a first-place vote worth five points, second three and third one. Montana, who already has led the 49ers to four Super Bowl titles, is the first man since sprinter Carl Lewis to win consecutively. Lewis won the award in 1983 and ’84. Also two- time winners are pitcher Sandy Kou- fax (1963-65), golfer Byron Nelson (1944-45) and tennis player Don Budge (1937-38). Montana is the 12th football player to win the award, although none other than Montana has won it since O.J. Simpson in 1973. The award, initiated in 1931, has gone to baseball players 22 times. Montana started his career with the 49ers in 1979. Since then, he has been the Super Bowl MVP three times, last year setting Super Bowl records with 13 consecutive comple tions and five touchdown passes in a 55-10 victory over Denver last year. He has thrown for 34,998 yards and 242 touchdowns in his career. This season, he led the 49ers to a 14-2 record and was the league’s sev enth-leading passer with an 89.0 rat ing, one year after setting an NFL record with a 112.4 rating. He led the NFC with a completion rate of 61.7 percent, threw 26 touchdown passes, and set a club record with 3,944 passing yards. Last August, Montana signed a four-year contract extension through the 1994 season, when he will have played 16 seasons in the NFL. “I’ve played for so long it’s actu ally part of my life,” Montana once said. “... Eventually, it’s going to be over, and when it is over, there is no coming back to it.” Rounding out the voting for those receiving more than two votes is Bo Jackson of the Los Angeles Raiders, 77 points; cyclist Greg LeMond, 77. Professional Computing MS A CALCULATOR FOR YOU! 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She came in and com peted and that’s what we needed.” Also scoring in double-figures for the Lady Ags were Yvonne Hill and Sheri Dillard with 20 and 13 points, respectively. Sheila Johnson led the Lady Ti gers with 25 points and 14 rebounds. The Lady Aggies return to South west Conference action Friday night when they host the Baylor Univer sity Lady Bears in a 7:30 contest in G. Rollie White Coliseum. A&M, which now owns a three game winninng string, will bring a 2- 2 SWC mark into the tilt. The Lady Ags are tied for fifth place with the Texas Christian Uni versity Lady Horned Frogs. It was another clean sweep for UNLV in The Associated Press col lege basketball poll Monday. The Runnin’ Rebels beat San Jose State, Utah State and Fresno State last week, pushing their record to 11-0. Their reward was a unanimous No. 1 ranking with all 64 first place ballots and 1,600 points for the sec ond straight week in the voting by sports writers and broadcasters. Behind UNLV, it was status quo for most of the Top 10. Arkansas pushed its record to 15-1 with victo ries over Texas and Texas Tech and remained No. 2 with 1,520 points. The Razorbacks play UNLV at Ar kansas on Feb. 10. Indiana, Ohio State, North Caro lina, Arizona, UCLA and Syracuse held their positions from last week. The only change came at No. 9, with Kentucky up two notches from No. 11. St. John’s remained at No. 10 with Sunday’s victory at Connecticut, which dropped from No. 9 to 13th. There were two new teams in the rankings. Utah (15-1) used 12 straight victo ries to show up at No. 23 and Seton Hall (10-3) grabbed No. 25 despite a loss at home to Syracuse. They replaced Georgia Tech and Texas-El Paso, who each lost twice and fell out of the rankings. The Yellow Jackets (9-5) were No. 24 and UTEP (10-4) was No. 25. Ohio State, at 14-0, and UNLV are the only unbeaten major college teams. Indiana is 14-1 and North Carolina improved to 13-1 with a double-overtime victory at Virginia, which slipped a notch to No. 14. Oklahoma moved up one spot to No. 11 with two victories and Duke won twice and advanced two places to No. 12. Fifteenth-ranked East Tennessee State, Pittsburgh and Ne braska each moved up one notch, while Georgetown (10-3), after los ing to Providence and barely escap ing Boston College, dropped from 15th to 19th. AP Top 25 The Top Twenty Five teams In The Asso ciated Press 1990-91 college basketball poll. First-piece votes are in parentheses, week's position and records through llets ‘ Jan. 13 are listed: 1. UNLV (64)1 2. Arkansas 2 3. Indiana 3 4. Ohio St. 4 5. North Carolina 5 11-0 15-1 14-1 14-0 13-1 6. Arizona 6 7. UCLA 7 8. Syracuse 8 9. Kentucky 11 10. St. Johns 10 13-2 13- 2 14- 2 12-2 11-2 11. Oklahoma 12 12. Duke 14 13. Connecticut 9 14. Virginia 13 15. E. Tennessee St. 16 13-2 12-3 12-2 10-3 12-1 16. Pittsburgh 17 17. Nebraska 18 18. 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