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The jaststroke form deal toward her t referee Robert observe the al- ie power to re- jles that would spite the avail- turn judge who is the minimum ■ experience re- uance at South- •line judgment." seen made in a ympic Games,” nfortunate that j Year ouston and Brian or. 3-6 junior guard, scoring leader at jame. '-2 senior guard, n free-throw per- and 3-point per- nd averaged 20.5 l senior forward, ’s top rebounder o) and averaged 1.6 blocked shots. 8-10 sophomore e SWC in field ige (60.8) and game) and aver- s. -earn consisted of o of Texas, a 6-7 Tony Battie of 6-11 sophomore >rd of Houston, a ard; Shaun Igo of forward-center; Thursday • March 7, 1996 Sports Page 9 • The Battalion Texas, Tech women team’s win, eye each other in final Saturday Q The top-seeded Lady Longhorns cruised to a 109-78 win over TCU. DALLAS (AP) — Amie Smith scored 12 points and pulled down 10 rebounds, leading six players in double figures, as 24th-ranked Texas defeated Texas Christian, 109-78, Wednesday night in a first-round game of the Southwest Conference postseason tournament. The Lady Longhorns (20-7) advance to a semifi nal match against Texas A&M (18-11), which beat Rice, 91-63, in another first-round game. Jackie Jenkins led TCU (2-24) with a game-hit 29 points, plus 7 rebounds and 4 steals. Leah Gar cia, with 15 points, was the only other Lady Frog in double figures. Garcia was credited with 5 steals. Texas led 47-30 at the half, and Lady Long horns coach Jody Conradt got all 13 of her players into the game. Only Smith and Erica Routt saw more than 20 minutes action. SWC newcomer of the \ ear Vanessa Wallace, Angela Jackson, and Taryn Brown also scored 12 points for Texas, and Amber Hasenmyer has 10 points. Wallace, Routt and Angie Jo Ogletree each got three steals. Danielle Viglione hit on 3 of 5 three-pointers to account for all of her points. The Lady Longhorns connected on 59 percent of their field goal attempts (43 of 73) while holding TCU to 37 percent (27 of 74). Texas had a 52-38 edge in rebounds. Stacy Price had 9 points, 9 rebounds and 3 steals for TCU. In the final game of the evening, Texas Tech struggled but eventually knocked off No. 7 seeded Baylor, 90-79 at Moody Coliseum. The Lady Red Raiders led 49-31 at halftime, but the Lady Bears played tougher defense in the sec ond half and drew within 11 at the final buzzer. Senior Michi Atkins, the Southwest Conference Player of the Year, led Tech with 26 points. The Lady Raiders will face Houston Friday in the semi finals. The Lady Coogs upset SMU Wednesday. King sees Tyson as modem Ali □ The former champ was a no-show at Wednesday's media day. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mike Tyson was a no-show and Frank Bruno was late, so boxing pro moter Don King was left to pound the heavy bag Wednes day on behalf of their March 16 heavyweight title fight. King said he sees a direct cor relation between the comebacks of Tyson, who was jailed on a rape conviction, and another for mer protege, Muhammad Ali. “Four years were taken out of the peak of their careers and both are historic figures who were caught in the eye of the hurricane of controversy,” King said. Ali, stripped of his heavy weight title for refusing to be drafted during the Vietnam War, fought a couple of tuneups before taking on Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden in the first of their three epic bouts. King said Tyson and Bruno had originally planned to attend Wednesday’s news conference, but Tyson changed his mind af ter hearing that Bruno was not. coining. Bruno, however, did show — late. The British boxer said he hoped Americans won’t hold it against him if he beats Tyson. Tve had so much warm re sponse from people in America,” Aesaid. “I’d like to thank them personally but this is war time and this means business. There’s 5,000 English people coming over to see me and they just can’t wait to see the fight.” The bout at the Las Vegas MGM Grand is Tyson’s first title fight since Feb. 11, 1990, when Buster Douglas knocked him out in the 10th round. It’s the third fight since his release from prison on March 25. He tuned up for it by dis patching Peter McNeely in 89 seconds and Buster Mathis Jr. in the third round. Bruno is the WBC defending champ in this case, but Tyson defeated Bruno Feb. 25, 1989, to win the undisputed heavy weight crown. King deflected criticism from those who knocked him for set ting Tyson up with a couple of easy opponents at the start of his comeback. “You hear the hungry roar of the crowd, saying, ‘Who has he fought? These guys are nothing.’ Well, they were supposed to be nothing,” King said. “But they’re never satisfied. It’s like feeding the Christians to the lions. Tech Continued from page 7 numbers,” Barone said. “But he really doesn’t. He’s just a blue- collar worker who does whatev er it takes to win.” Tonight’s game marks the 10th time A&M has faced Texas Tech in the SWC tourna ment with the Red Raiders lead the postseason series 5-4. A&M is 3-1 as the No. 8 seed in the SWC Classic and is hoping for a repeat performance of 1987. That year, the eighth-seeded Aggies surprised the conference with upsets over No. 1 Texas Christian, No. 4 Texas Tech, and a 71-46 triumph over No. 2 Baylor in the tournament final. A&M went on to lose a close one to Duke in the opening round of the NCAA Tourna ment, 58-51. A&M junior forward Gary Nottingham said he thinks the Aggies have a chance to slip into Dallas and upset the heav ily favored Red Raiders. “I think we have a real op portunity to maybe catch them osleep,” Nottingham said. "They’ re going to have to take u s seriously now because it’s tournament time. 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