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I - . ^ 7,1994 !,rnie ^'1 m Sports l w/ Monday, January 17,1994 The Battalion Page 7 A&M basketball over the break Aggie hoopsters bounce Rice, reject Texas Texas A&M 67, Rice 64 ry s two free throws with ?ft sealed a 67-64 road vie- ihin nel r.n 5 s r p w Alex r Brett Murr . one second left sealed a i Vtory for Texas A&M over Rice on Sun day at Autry Court in Houston. A&M, which defeated preseason '' league favorite Texas earlier in the week, moved to 2-0 in SWC play and 8- 4 overall. Rice fell to 8-5 and 1-1. David Edwards and Chuck Hender son paced the Aggies with 17 points each. Rice's Scott Tynes led all scorers with 20 points. Rice used a 21-10 run during the last 13:54 of the first half to gain its largest lead of the game at 33-25. Edwards hit two 3-pointers in the game. The first one tied the game at 42 with 12:12 left; the second one gave the Aggies their first lead of the second half at 45-44 with 10:25 left. Rice led, 62-60, with 1:14 left when Tynes v canned a three-pointer from the top of the key. 'Twenty-five seconds later, A&M regained the dead when forward Joe Wilbert turned an of fensive rebound into a bucket, was fouled by Tynes and made the free throw. That gave the Aggies a 63-62 lead with 0:49 to play. After a Rice turnover. Chuck Henderson converted a pair of free throws to push the lead to three points with 26 seconds left. - Associated Press Lady Aggies 76, Lady Owls 47 The Lady Aggie basketball team turned a stretched their lead to 58-39. Hickey started to delve deeper into the A&M bench, and the Lady Owls never challenged the rest of the way. Sophomore center Kelly Cerny scored 10 points for A&M, and sophomore point guard Lisa Branch added nine points and eight assists as 12 of 14 Lady Aggies scored. Junior center Nicki Manzo, 10 points, was the only Rice player to reach double figures. - Jose de Jesus Ortiz Texas A&M 85, Texas 84 Kyle Burnett Ahe Battalion Aggi< with ,'tight game with Rice into a blow out by outscoring the Lady Owls, 44-15, during the second half of Saturday's game. Michael Smith, Damon Johnson and Tony Barone, Jr. celebrate after defeating Texas, 85-84, on Wednesday at G. Rollie White. Martha McClelland, Bambi Ferguson and Lana Tucker came off the bench to spark the Lady Aggies (9-3, 2-0) to a 76-47 win and a share of first place in the SWC with Texas Tech. A&M head coach Lynn Hickey said she was pleased with the way McClelland stepped up to stop Rice's guard penetration on the fast- break while dropping in 20 points for the A&M offense. Rice head coach Cristy McKinney said she thought the Lady Owls did not do a good job containing McClelland. "She is a very good player, and we just didn't do a good job defending her," McKin ney said. "You can't let her take uncontested shots as we did." With A&M leading 45-39 midway through the second half. Rice was held scoreless during a six-minute stretch while the Lady Aggies Texas A&M forward Joe Wilbert blocked an attempted last-second layup by Texas' B.J. Tyler to pre serve the Aggies' 85-84, come-from- behind victory on Wednesday night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. A crowd of 5,823 watched the Aggies (7-4, 1-0 in conference) battle back from a seven- point deficit with 2:42 remaining in the second half to beat the Longhorns (7-6, 0-1) in the teams' Southwest Conference opener. "This was a nice win for our program," A&M head coach Tony Barone said. "I'm proud of our players, and I'm proud of the way they fought at the end of the game." A&M guard Chuck Henderson played a vi tal role in the Aggies' late run by making two three-pointers in the last two minutes. Hen derson's second three-pointer came with 0:27 left and narrowed the score to 83-84, Texas. Longhorn guard Tommy Penders, son of Texas head coach Tom Penders, was fouled on the inbound pass by Damon Johnson, See 'Horns/ Page 8 A&M football coordinator positions open after break By Mark Smith The Battalion The Texas A&M football team lost two of its key coach ing figures during the holiday break. A&M's defensive coordinator Bob Davie and offensive coordi nator Bob Toledo will not be on the Aggie sidelines next season directing the maroon and white. Davie announced on Jan. 7 that he would become Notre Dame's defensive coordinator. Toledo, who had served as offensive coordinator and quar terback coach since 1989, was fired on Jan. 3 by head coach R.C. Slocum. Davie had served as defen sive coordinator and inside line backer coach for the Aggies dur ing the past five years. He was promoted to assistant head coach last spring. Davie said he had trouble de ciding whether to accept the po sition with Fighting Irish. "Whenever you have a change like this you're going to experience some mixed emo tions," Davie said. "I don't know if people know or care how hard this decision was for me to make, but it was extreme ly difficult. "My decision came down to the challenge that Notre Dame presented." At the end of the past season the A&M defense was national ly ranked No. 1 in pass efficien cy defense with 74.9 yards per game. No. 3 in total defense with 247.6 yards per game and No. 2 in scoring defense 10.82 points per game. Slocum said he believed A&M needed to change its of fensive coordinator to help the team develop a more pro-style offensive system. Toledo, however, defended his direction of A&M's offense. "I did what I was told to do here at Texas A&M, and I did the best I possibly could do," Toledo said. "We won a lot of games and broke a lot of records and I'm proud of what I did. " During Toledo's career at A&M, the offense broke SWC and school records in 1990 for yards rushing with 3,829 yards and set A&M's total offense record with 5,653 yards, In 1991, the offense broke the A&M scoring record with 36.6 points per game, and this past season broke a school record with 404 points for the season.. Gary Kubiak will take over the duties of the quarterback coach. Kubiak, who was A&M's running backs coach, was quar terback for A&M from 1979-82 and played for the Denver Bron cos for nine years. Slocum said Kubiak is highly qualified to assume the position. "Gary's knowledge of the quarterback position is out standing," Slocum said. 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