Sports
Monday, March 9, 1992
The Battalion
Page 7
CHRIS
WHITLEY
Assistant
Sports Editor
'Horns avenge
football woes
through hoops
A USTIN - Imagine yourself as a
student at the University of
Texas going to College Station
on Thanksgiving only to watch your
team be pummeled by the conference
champions.
That's what it felt like to be an Ag
gie in Austin Sunday.
In one of the most hideous halves
of basketball since Dr. Naismith nailed
his peach baskets to the wall, Texas an
nihilated Texas A&M and showed an
Erwin Center crowd of 14,272 and a
network television audience that they
were worthy of holding the top seed in
the Southwest Conference tournament.
Everything was going pretty well
for A&M in the beginning. After
falling behind 8-2 early, the Aggies
came back with eight straight points to
get their first lead of the game . .. and
their last.
A&M freshman Damon Johnson
scored to even up the game at 12-12
with 12:20 to play. That was the last
hurrah for A&M.
Not only would they not score in
the next six and a half minutes, but
Texas ran off 21 consecutive points to
turn the game into a rout before half
time.
Most of the damage was done by
the long-range bombardment of BJ.
Tyler. His three-pointer opened up the
flood gates for Texas. He would get
ten points in the run and 16 on the
See Whitley/Page 8
A&M drops to SWC's tops
UT skips past
Aggies, 86-63
By Chris Whitley
The Battalion
AUSTIN - The best and the worst of
the Southwest Conference met on the
Frank Erwin Center floor Sunday in their
regular season finale.
The best proved that they were the
best, and the worst proved that they were
the worst.
Texas jumped out to a tremendous
lead midway through the first half on the
way to walloping Texas A&M, 86-63, and
earning a share of the SWC champi
onship.
The Longhorns finished the regular
season with a 21-10 record and an 11-3
conference mark, which ties them with
Houston for the league's top spot. The
Aggies finish the regular season 6-21 and
Edwards named to newcomer team
A&M point guard David Edwards was
named Saturday to the Associated Press
SWC AU-Newcomer Team.
Edwards, a sophomore, averaged 14
points and 5.3 assists a game. He also is
ranked fourth in the nation in steals.
2-12 in conference play.
The game was decided by a 21-0 run
by the Longhorns that lasted six and a
half minutes. After Damon Johnson's
basket tied the game at 12-12, Texas guard
BJ. Tyler scored ten quick points, which
sparked Texas to a 33-12 lead with 5:47
left in the half.
The Aggies would not come closer
than 17 points.
"We got in a dry spell where we
couldn't hit a shot," A&M guard Chuck
Henderson said. "We didn't get back on
defense that well. Before we know it,
we're down by almost 25 points going
into halftime."
With the game no longer in doubt.
Texas pulled out all the stops. Albert Bur-
ditt racked up six blocked shots to tie a
Longhorn record. Dexter Cambridge hit
10 of 11 from the field to lead all scorers
with 22 points.
Texas' lead raced up to 33 points until
A&M scored ten in a row at the end of the
game.
"Texas was excellent today," said Ag
gie head coach Tony Barone. "I thought
they were the first-place team today.
Their players were really focused. After
their tough loss at Rice, I thought they
came in here really ready to play.
"They just intimidated us."
Texas used a vicious full-court press,
which helped force 17 A&M turnovers.
Longhorns' head coach Tom Penders said
the A&M miscues were a pivotal factor.
"Obviously, our defense in the first
half really set the tone and got the pace of
the game going in the style that we want
ed the game played," Penders said. "That
was the key to the ball game."
Barone said the Aggies' inability to
See Longhorns/Page 10
KARL STOLLEIS/The Battalion
A&M guard David Edwards throws up
an off-balance shot over UT's Albert
Burditt in the Aggies' 86-63 loss.
TED ALBRACHT/Special toThe Battalion
A&M's Jason Marshall cheers after the umpire second game of Saturday's doubleheader. Finke slid
calls a Baylor's Jahn Finke out at second base ‘in the past the base and was tagged out by Marshall.
Bears push A&M
to middle of pack
By Doug Foster
The Battalion
A&M head baseball coach Mark Johnson and his
team put themselves in a spot where they didn't want
to be this weekend.The Aggies find themselves as one
of three teams in the middle of the Southwest Confer
ence race trying to catch up to first-place Texas.
The Aggies, now 5-4 in SWC play, had a chance to
move within striking distance of the Longhorns with a
sweep of Baylor University. But the Bears denied
A&M, taking both games of Saturday's doubleheader
after the Aggies won the first game of the series Friday
See Baseball/Page 8
Monday, March 9,1992
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The Texas A&M Judo Team won the Texas State Collegiate
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the tournament with 18 points while Southwest Texas State finished
with 16 points. Individual results follow:
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