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A&M’s Wilbert awaits
Lubbock arrest warrant
Misdemeanor charge stems from brawl
with Texas Tech fans after Feb. 5 win
By Nick Georgandis
The Battalion
William Harrison/ The Battalion
Joe Wilbert shoots during last season's game against
the University of Houston.
Texas A&M junior basketball play
er Joe Wilbert has yet to receive an
arrest warrant issued for him last
Thursday by Lubbock County author
ities relating to Wilbert’s involvement
in a post-game scuffle earlier this
year at the Lubbock Municipal Colise
um, according to the Texas A&M
sports information office.
The incident occurred on Feb. 5,
following the controversial ending to
the Aggies’ 89-88 win over Texas
Tech.
As the Aggie players and coaches
attempted to leave the playing floor
and reach the visitors’ locker room,
they were confronted by several Tech
fans who had left the restricted view
ing area.
A braw
followed in which
Wilbert, a junior transfer forward
who was named Southwest Confer
ence Newcomer of the Year, hit Texas
Tech student William Scott Patterson
in the face.
The 2 1-year-old Wilbert is accused
of Class A misdemeanor assault, pun
ishable with a maximum sentence of
one year in jail and a $3,000 fine.
Colin Killian, A&M’s assistant
sports information director, said the
athletic office has been advised by
University attorneys not to comment
on what Wilbert’s plea will be once
his case comes to trial.
Jan Blakcklock, Lubbock County
misdemeanor prosecutor, said a court
date for Wilbert will be set after
Wilbert is arrested.
Wilbert declined to comment on
the case, citing the advice of A&M’s
legal counsel.
Cowboys lose offensive starter
as Gogan signs with the Packers
The Associated Press
IRVING — Kevin Gogan was ex
pected to become the first offensive
starter to leave the two-time defend
ing Super Bowl Dallas Cowboys via
free agency Monday.
Gogan, who started at right guard
last season for
the Dallas
Cowboys, has
accepted a
three-year,
$3.6 million
contract with
the Los Ange
les Raiders.
The Dallas
Morning
News reported
in Monday’s
editions.
A Raiders spokesman said the team
had no immediate comment.
Gogan, 29, was expected to sign
the deal Monday, making him the
sixth Cowboy to sign with another
team this off-season. Tony Casillas,
"They told me they'd match
any offer I received, and that
simply wasn't true."
- Kevin Gogan,
former starter for Dallas Cowboys
on his signing with the Packers
John Gesek, Jimmie Jones, Bernie
Kosar and Eddie Murray already have
signed with other teams.
“Tm a little upset,” Gogan told the
newspaper from his home near Seat
tle. “I always felt I’d return to Dallas.
“They told me they’d match any
offer I re-
ceived, and
that simply
wasn’t true.”
Gogan will
get a $1.3
million sign
ing bonus and
another
$550,000 for
the 1994 sea
son. Each of
the next two
seasons are
worth $875,000. He made $1.27
million over seven seasons with Dal-
las.
Owner Jerry' Jones had said protec
tion for quarterback Troy Aikman and
running back Emrnitt Smith was his
top priority among free agents.
Kenya’s Nedti defends Boston marathon crown, sets course record
The Associated Press
BOSTON — No one ever called
the Boston Marathon course fast.
Until Monday.
Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya
smashed the record in defending
his men’s title and Uta Pippig of
Germany broke the women’s
record.
Bob Kempainen, a 27-year-old
medical student at Minnesota,
broke the American record in fin
ishing seventh on a day that saw
temperatures reach the mid-50s
and runners taking advantage of a
19mph tailwind.
“I was not aiming to get a fast
first or second half. I was only
concentrating on the pace other
people were running,” the 24-year
Ndeti said.
He covered the 26 miles, 385
yards in 2 hours, 7 minutes, 1 5
seconds — 36 seconds better than
Rob de Castella’s Boston record set
in 1986.
Ndeti’s time was the fifth-fastest
ever and the fastest in the world in
six years.
It was only 25 seconds off the
world best of 2:06:50, set by Be-
layneh Densimo of Ethiopia at Rot
terdam in 1988.
The 26-year-old Pippig won in
2:21:45.
She broke the women’s record
of 2:22:43, set by Joan Benoit
Samuelson in 1983, and moved
Germany’s Uta Pippig wins women’s
title in record fashion as top runners
benefit from substantial tailwind
into third place on the all-time
list, 39 seconds behind the world-
best of 2:21:06 set by Norway’s
Ingrid Kristiansen at London in
1985.
Second on the all-time women’s
list is Samuelson, with the Ameri
can record of 2:21:21 at Chicago
in 1985.
In winning for the second con
secutive year, Ndeti became the
fourth straight Kenyan champion.
His countryman, Ibrahim Hussein,
won in 1991 and 1992.
Kempainen, the runner-up at
New York last November, ran
2:08:47. The previous mark of
2:07:52, by Alberto Salazar at
Boston in 1982.
Ndeti held off late-charging
Andres Espinosa of Mexico, the
199 3 New York City Marathon
champion.
Ndeti ran almost an identical
race to a year ago, biding his time
over the first half of the course be
fore surging to the front.
Ndeti seized the lead for good
just before 2 2 miles, overtaking
little-known Boay Akonay of Tan
zania.
Last year, after winning, Ndeti
gave his 2-day-old son the middle
name of “Boston.”
“Last year was a miracle to me,”
he said Monday.
At the halfway point, Ndeti was
ninth, as Keith Brandy of Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., led in 1:04:52.
Therefore, Ndeti ran the second
half dose to 1:02:00.
Kempainen was timed in
2:08:47, five seconds faster than
Salazar’s previous mark of 2:08:52
at Boston in 1 9 8 2.
“If somebody had told me what
I ran today, I think I would have
won the race or been close,” he
said, “but I was seventh.
“1 feel baffled because I don’t
know what to make of my race,
how much was it was the wind or
the great field.”
Espinosa’s runner-up time was
2:07:19, also under the previous
course record and the sixth-fastest
ever.
He was followed by Jackson
Kipngok of Kenya at 2:08:08,
1 992 Olympic gold medalist
Hwang Young-Jo of Korea at
2:08:09 and former 10,000-meter
world record-holder Arturo Bar
rios of Mexico at 2:08:28.
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