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GLANCE
Jordan, Pippen top 40
in Bulls' win, 110-102
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —
Michael Jordan scored 44 points
and Scottie Pippen had a season-
high 40 — just the ninth time in
NBA history that two teammates
had over 40 points in the same
game — as the Chicago Bulls de
feated Indiana 1 10-102 Sunday.
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.
Jeff Blank’s
No-Hitter
A&M 4
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Dave House, The Battaeion
Texas A&M sophomore jeff Blank catches his breath during his no-hitter Friday afternoon at
Olsen Field as the scoreboard behind him reflects his strikeout count. 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.