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Problems in Archaeology"
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The Battalion
Wednesday, March 11,
Lady Aggies
take on SMU
in tourney
Continued from Page 7
Mustangs on their own court.
The Aggies are 15-12 this sea
son, while SMU brings a16-11
record to the tournament. Each
team finished with seven wins
and seven losses in the conference
this year.
The 1992 season marked the
fifth consecutive year A&M has
finished .500 in the SWC.
Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. and will
be the fourth
Hickey
tournament
game played to
day. The winner
of the A&M-
SMU game will
face top-seeded
Texas Tech if the
Lady Raiders
defeat TCU to
day.
A&M wom
en's basketball
coach Lynn
Hickey said the Lady Aggies will
need to effectively rebound and
play defense in order to be suc
cessful against SMU and in the
tournament. She said the Aggies
lost those elements toward the
end of the season.
"We are at a big disadvantage
having to play a team that is play
ing so well at home," Hickey said.
"But we put ourselves in that posi
tion.
"SMU is playing well and with
so much confidence. Our advan
tage is our depth and we must uti
lize it."
The Lady Aggies haven't
made it to the tournament's semi
finals since 1989. A&M lost to
Houston in the first round the last
two seasons. The Aggies have
never faced SMU in the postsea-
Southwest Conference Women's Postseason Tournament
WEDNESDAY
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SATURDAY
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3. Houston (21-6)
NOON
6. Rice (13-14)
2, Texas (19-8)
6 p.m.
2 p.m.
7. Baylor (11-16)
1:30 p.m.
1. Texas Tech (23-4)
6 p.m.
8. TCU (4-23)
No. 4 A&M (15-12)
8 p.m.
8 p.m.
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The Lady Aggies began the
season 12-5 and with a 4-0 SWC
record after shocking the Univer
sity of Texas on Jan. 20 in Austin.
Since that time A&M has strug
gled with a 3-7 record.
"We got ourselves into some
tough situations - several very
close games and a couple of over
time games - and we didn't come
out on the winning side," Hickey
said. "We didn't take care of busi-
ity.
ness.
"I am disappointed we didn't
have more wins, but it is realistic
to say that the SWC is one of the
toughest conferences as far as par-
The Mustangs defeated!
Lady Aggies 62-49 in College!
tion on Feb. 12. It was theM
lowest scoring output of thel
son.
A month earlier, A&M*
to Dallas and beat SMU 69-(
Moody.
Rockets, Spurs leave Mavs behind
Cummings, Strickland
push SA past Hawks
Maxwell, Houston toast
road-weary Dallas
HOUSTON (AT) — Vernon Maxwell scored
11 of his 19 points as the Houston Rockets sprint
ed away in the third period of a 116-93 victory
Tuesday night over Dallas, the Mavericks' 18th
straight road defeat.
The Rockets had six players in double figures
as they won their fifth straight game in The Sum
mit and handed the Mavericks their sixth straight
loss.
Dallas has not won on the road since lieating
Houston 105-85 on Dec. 23.
The Rockets broke from a 52-46 halftime lead
with a 15-2 charge that gave them a 67-48 lead
with 6:04 to go in the third period. Dallas —
outscored 38-18 in the quarter — didn't score in
the period until Terry Davis' basket with 7:52
left.
Kenny Smith scored 17 points for the Rockets
and Llakeem Olajuwon, who had two points at
the half, finished with 13 and 11 rebounds.
Herb Williams led the Mavericks with 16
points and Rolando Blackman.had 14. Donald
Hodge had 13 points and 10 rebounds.
The Rockets scored the first seven points and
built a 20-8 margin en route to their halftime
lead. Thorpe had 12 first-half points and Buck
Johnson seven in the first six minutes.
SAN ANTONIO (AT) — Terry Cummings sc®
22 points and Rod Strickland added 19 as the San):
tonio Spurs defeated Atlanta 103-92 on Tuesday nif
extending the Hawks' losing streak to a season-hij
five games.
David Robinson added 17 for the Spurs, w
moved within a half-game of the Phoenix Suns ini
race for fourth place in the Western Conference.T»
Spurs are second in the Midwest Division.
Kevin Willis led the Hawks with 25 points,
Rumeal Robinson scored 16.
The score was tied at 81 at 8:56 of the fourth qua
ter. San Antonio then held Atlanta to just twofiel
g oals in the next eight minutes, using a 16-4 runt
uild a 97-85 lead with a minute left.
The NBA's top defensive team, San Antoniohel:
Atlanta to 43.5 percent shooting from the field.
San Antonio also moved to 13-1 at home underis
terim coach Bob Bass.
Willis scored 12 first-half points as the Hawks bull
a 48-45 lead. San Antonio had led by as manyasl
late in the first period, taking advantage of Atlanta
33.3 percent field goal shooting in the quarter.
A 15-5 Atlanta run, fueled by five points
Alexander Volkov, helped the Hawks take a 34-3
edge with 4:54 remaining in the half.
Astros down Los Angeles, 8-5
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) - Jeff
Bagwell's two-run double capped
a five-run fifth inning and Karl
Rhodes and Ernest Riles homered,
helping the Houston Astros defeat
the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-5 in an
exhibition game Tuesday.
The Astros, 2-3, scored all their
fifth-inning runs after two were
out against rookie pitcher Pedro
Martinez, 0-1. Rafael Ramirez and
Steve Finley doubled, while Den
ny Walling and Casey Candaele
each reached base on infield errors
preceding Bagwell's hit. All five
runs were unearned.
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expected. Then it's over.
Nolan Ryan is getting older,
Bobby Witt is getting more in
consistent and Ruben Sierra is
getting out of Texas. Rangers
fans better cherish this season
because it might be the best one
they' have for some time.
The rest of the division might
make the AL West the best divi
sion from top to bottom. The
Oakland Athletics, the Chicago
White Sox and the Kansas City
Royals should be the best of the
division.
But when it's all said and
done, look for the White Sox to
be the winners. The combina
tion of Frank Thomas, Tim
Raines and Steve Sax could pose
a serious threat to the rest of the
American League. Thomas
could also become the league's
Most Valuable Player.
The White Sox will beat the
Red Sox in the playoffs and rep
resent the American League in
the World Series.
That leaves the National
League. Let's start in the West.
It would be nice to see the
Atlanta Braves go back to the
playoffs because they are a fun
team to watch. Atlanta has been
a bad team for so long, and it's
nice to see an underdog win.
The only thing that will stop
the Braves next season will be
the Dodgers. The duo of Eric
Davis and Darryl Strawberry
should make the Dodgers the
best in the West. Ifnot,sowha
It doesn't matter who wins
the West because they will get
beat by the team from theNL
East.
The team, of course, is the
Chicago Cubs. The Cubbies art
going to surprise a lot of
this year, both on and of the
field.
Chicago doesn't have the on
field pressure it did last season
after spending a lot of money
big-name free agents. This sea
son, just like in 1989, not much
expected from the Cubbies. An*
as every true Cubs fan remem
bers, 1989 was the last year the;
took the NL East.
Off the field, two Cub events
should make news. First, Ryne
Sandberg will announce that he
will take some of his money a: J
give the United States its first
balanced budget since Eisen
hower was President.
But more importantly, the
Cubs will make news by an
nouncing that they have signed 1
new batboy — the King himself
Elvis. Elvis will say he takes the
job to get himself back into
shape before he comes out of re
tirement for his 1992 World
Tour.
In the end, the 1992 baseball
season will become an L-train se
ries. Don't be surprised to see
the Cubs take the White Sox in
seven games.
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