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The win extended the Bulls' cur rent winning streak to five and bringing their league-best record to 46-5. Dennis Rodman, the league's leading rebounder, contributed 23 rebounds to the victory as Chicago had a 52-44 edge on the boards. Indiana, which had defeated the Bulls 103-97 in their first meeting at Market Square Arena this season and three straight wins over the Bulls at home, had five players in double figures. Reggie Miller was high with 24 points, followed by Dale Davis with 14. Pippen scored 29 of his points in the second half, including 15 in the third period when he sank three 3- pointers as the Bulls took the lead for good. Lady netters knock off Louisiana State The No. 30 Texas A&M Wom en's Tennis Team moved a step closer to a top seeding in the NCAA southwest regional tournament by handing the No. 22 Louisiana State Tigers a 5-3 defeat in Baton Rouge, La,, at the Robinson Tennis Stadium. The Lady Aggies were led by ju nior Nancy Dingwall who battled back from a first-set deficit to claim a three-set victory over No. 31 Suzana Rodriguez, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. Sophomore Vanessa Rooks tal lied a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Laura Olave after falling behind 4-0 in the first set. "I have to credit Nancy for a great comeback in the third set," A&M Head Coach Bobby Kleinecke said. "She hit a million balls while showing great stamina and effort." The victory gives the lady Aggies a perfect start at 4-0, as they enter Southwest Conference play on the road next week in Houston for matches with Rice and the Universi ty of Houston. The win over the Tigers gives the Lady Aggies the head-to-head advantage when the final southwest regional seeds are released in April. "This is a big, big regional win for us," Kleinecke said. "It does a lot for the seeding at the regional. It also gives us a win over a top 25 team." Texas A&M will host the 1996 Women's Southwest Regional Championships at the Omar Smith Tennis Center May 3-5. The winner receives a bid to the NCAA Champi onship final site. Furyk forces playoff, wins Hawaiian Open HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Furyk, forced to a playoff when Brad Faxon eagled the last hole of regulation with a 45-foot eagle putt, won the Hawaiian Open on Sunday with a birdie on the third extra hole. Furyk, who started the day in third place behind co-leaders Fax on and Steve Strieker, was tied with Strieker from the 10th through I 7th holes. That's when Faxon jolted the gallery with his spectacular eagle putt, vaulting him into the lead at II -under 277. Needing a birdie to tie, Strieker missed a 15-footer. But Furyk two- putted from 25 feet for a birdie, cre ating the tournament's first playoff since 1987. The third playoff hole — the 551-yard 18th — had treated Furyk well. In the four rounds, he had two eagles, a birdie and a par, saving him five strokes. In the playoff, his birdie came on a 4-foot putt. The tournament appeared head ed for a scrambling finish on the fi nal day with five players within two strokes of each other at the turn and four within one with one hole to play. At that point, Furyk and Strieker were in command at 10-under, but Faxon, who had been lurking one stroke behind, rolled in his eagle to change the complexion of the tour nament. Strieker's 10-under 278 was good for third place with Larry Mize and Scott Simpson. ' SCORES ROUNDUP NBA Chicago 110, Indiana 102 Seattle 118, Vancouver 109 Charlotte 1 22, Milwaukee 99 Washington 108, Minnesota 96 San Antonio 93, Houston 79 Denver 11 7, Boston 93 No-hitter, Johnson’s mark pad weekend sweep □ Mark Johnson recorded his 500th career victory Sunday as the Aggies de feated McNeese State. Staff and Wire Reports For the Aggie Baseball Team, the weekend started off with a Blank, con tinued with a fireworks display and ended with the honor of a legend. Sunday, Head Coach Mark Johnson picked up his 500th career victory, all at A&M, as the Aggies defeated the McNeese State Cowboys, 9-3. Johnson has been the Aggies’ head coach since the 1985 season and during that time A&M has reached the NCAA playoffs eight times. A&M advanced to the College World Series in 1993, and has won the Southwest Conference three times. Sunday’s starting pitcher John Sneed nearly duplicated Blank’s feat, taking a no-hitter into the seventh in ning before Cowboy Brig Taylor dou bled to left field to open the inning. The Aggies were led Sunday by ju nior designated hitter Jason Stephens, who went 3-for-4 and drove in six runs. Junior outfielder Chad Allen added to the offensive attack by going 3-for-3 with five runs scored. On Saturday, the Aggies pulled out the big guns, scoring 20 runs in the doubleheader to sweep the day’s games. A&M was led Saturday by junior third baseman J.J. Matzke, who went 5-for-7 in the two games with three runs batted in and two runs scored. Ju nior centerfielder Chad Allen also had a strong day, going 5-for-6 with three runs scored and one RBI. In the first game, Aggie starter Dean Mitchell suffered his second con secutive shaky performance, pitching four innings and giving up three earned runs. The Aggie bats came alive, however, as the game wore on, and they explod ed for four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to take the game, 6-3. The second game became a laugher in the fourth inning when A&M scored seven times to jump out to a 10-1 lead. The Aggies’ attack was keyed by Stephens’ home run, his second of the afternoon. In the second game, which was played in front of 2,274 fans at Olsen, sophomore Shane King got the win to move his season record to 2-0. On Friday, A&M sophomore left- handed pitcher Matt Blank tossed a no-hitter, the first by an Aggie since 1988, as the Aggie squad defeated the University of Texas-Pan American, 4-0. A crowd of 1,328 fans at Olsen Field watched the transfer from Galveston Junior College walk three while strik ing out 12 batters to even his season record at 1-1.The UT-Pan American Broncs contributed heavily to the Ag gies’ three wins with a plethora of fielding gaffes throughout the three- game set. In Blank’s no-hitter, the Broncs committed five errors, then booted six more during their 14-3 defeat Saturday afternoon. The last Aggie no-hitter was thrown by Fred Riscen against Rice University in 1988. Blank’s game was just the seventh no-hitter since Aggie baseball began. The three-game sweep improved the Aggies’ record this season to 5-2, while UT-Pan American dropped to 5-4. A&M has won five consecutive games after starting the season with back-to- back losses at the University of Ari zona in Tucson. 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He totalled 12 on the day. Kirkland’s sprint lifts Aggie spirits at last SWC meet □ The senior hurdler broke her own SWC record with a time of 7.68 seconds in the 55- meter hurdles. Staff and Wire Reports Baylor and the University of Texas may have made the biggest splashes at the South west Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships this weekend in Forth Worth, but it was Texas A&M’s Anjanette Kirkland who turned the most heads over the long haul. Kirkland broke her own SWC record with a time of 7.68 seconds in the 55-meter hurdles to help the Aggie Women’s Team finish third be hind the Lionghorns and the Rice Owls. Kirkland bested her time of 7.75 form last year, but did not equal her all-time individual mark of 7.64 set in last year’s NCAA indoor meet. “For two years, I ran a 7.75,” Kirkland said. “I told Jeff Jackson of Baylor that I would be upsest if I did not break the record. 1 rested Monday and Tuesday, and we didn’t do much Wednesday.” Two other Aggies also stood out in the weekend festivities. Cross country runner Shan non Etchberger broke the Texas A&M 5,000-m school record with a t ime of 16:54.68. Etchberger broke her own record, a mark of 17:09:58, set in the 1995 SWC indoor meet. One of the biggest surprises of the meet was A&M’s Thad- deus Shan non. The midterm transfer from Garden City Community College best ed some of the top run ners in the country in route to tak ing first place in the 55-m dash with a time of 6.26 seconds. “I’m getting better,” Shan non said. “I need to get stronger and better so I can win the national championship outdoors.” Wade Another top finisher for the Aggies was cross country se nior runner Matt Priest. Priest ran a 8:23:56, finishing seven seconds behind winner David Monk from Baylor. Perhaps the biggest disap pointment for the Aggies was the fact that senior hurdler and Olympic contender Larry Wade ran while injured Satur day. Wade, suffering from leg problems, finished fourth in the men’s 55-m hurdles, an event he has dominated over the past two years. Wade finished with a time of 7.28 seconds, which was still only .06 seconds off the time of winner Derek Spears from the Unviersity of Texas. Aggie Curt Young finished second in the event at 7.25 and teammate Deshond Powell took sixth at 7.66 seconds. Tim Moog, The Battalion Tim Moog, The Battalion So phomore i Bren BDone warms up during practice tor the SWC Track Texas A&M freshman Desmond Powell practices the high jump before the Southwest Conference Champi- 1 r- 1 1 1 1 . .I. . . . onship Meet last week. and Field Championships which were held last weekend.
