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Louisville Trimsllie EaghWichita, 66-65By TOM EMORY Associated Press Sports Writerbasket-points and 21 rebounds of Jim Chones.Lo uisville—College ball’s wonder ingredient. Just put the Cardinals on the court and the opposition automatically gets better.“We seem to bring out the best in everybody,” Denny Crum, Louisville coach, said Wednesday night after his team skimmed by Wichita State 65-64. “All the teams get real emotional against us and really go all out. We just have to play better.”“1 think that should get us going. We’re off to the races,” exclaimed Coach A1 McGuire of18-0fered a letdown for five games before coming alive against De-Paul last Saturday and Xavier. “We’re not trying to bury anyone, we just want to get out of the doldrums.”Another ranked team, Vir-The fourth-ranked Cardinals trailed the high-flying Shockers until the final two minutes of theginia, needed an accurate free throw from sophomore Steve Morris with four seconds re-Missouri Valley Conference contest, when a foul and technical foul were called on WichitaState’s Steve Shogren when he swung at a Ixmisville player after receiving an elbow in a rebound tussle. Louisville wentmaining in overtime to defeat West Virginia 89-88. The sixth-ranked Cavaliers, 17-1, were tied 80-80 at the end of regulation when Mountaineer Wil Robinsonahead for good on a jump-shot by Jim Price following the inbounds pass after the technical foul shot.hit a jump shot at the buzzer. Jim Hobgood led Virginia with 21 points while Robinson had 40 for West Virginia.Price finished the game as Ixmisville’s high scorer with 17 points while Terry Benton, Shockers’ center, had the game-high 25 points.Crum’s forces hiked theirMaryland’s late rally toppled 20th-ranked Duquesne 85-71. The Terps held the Dukes to just two field goals in the final 4^ minutes with a zone defense.record to 17-2.Second-ranked Marquettefound an easy time beating Xavier of Ohio 89-59 behind the 22Sophomore center I^en Elmore scored 27 points for the 15-3 Terps while teammate Tom McMillen had 20. Mike Barrscored 22 points for the Dukes, also 15-3, and Lionel Billingsy had 20.AgsDarlingsTo Be SelectedApplications are now being taken from prospective Diamond Darlings, a group of young Texas AM ladies who will be selected to become bat girls for the Texas AM baseball team this spring.According to Joe Hughes, head freshman cheerleader and chairman of the committee to select the girls, the applications will be taken through Feb. 18 at the University Women’s office oncampus.All single girls from Texas AM are eligible for the nine spots and three alternate positions on the Diamond Darlings team, a group no doubt being named to help the morele of the Aggiebaseball team and to get more fans to the games.Hughes says the fil led will be narrowed to 25 during the week of Feb. 21 to Feb. 25. Then between Feb. 28 and Mar. 2 the nineSportsnmrsday, February 10, P/72Page | |{'B-CS CageSch ed u lewinners and three alternates w ill be named. Between then and thefirst game of Mar. 13 here against St. Mary’s, the girls will be trained and all will be used against St. Mary’s.On Mar, 14 they will be used against I-amar here and again on Mai-. 21 against they University of Minnesota. The final date they will be used will be Apr 11 against University of Houston.This is going to be a trial year for the Diamond Darlings to evaluate how well it works out.ThursdayAllen Academy at T.M.I. (San Antonio)Navasota at AM Consol (freshman)Rockdale at AM Consol (JuniorHigh)SFA Colts vs. SFA PoniesSt. Joseph’s at Iola TourneyFridayBryan (open)St. Joseph’s at Iola TourneySaturdaySt. Joseph’s at Iola Tourney AM at SMUAggieNettersOn RoadThe Texas AM tennis team roars into action this weekend in Edinburg with a dual meet scheduled today against Pan American University and will compete in the 18th annual Pan American University Intercollegiate invitational tennis tournament on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.Coach Omar Smith will place five Aggies in competition against some of the best college tennis players in the nation. The Aggie’s top-seeded player is Dickie Fikes, Sr., 3L, from Corpus Christi Miller followed by Billy Hoover, Fr., from AMConsolidated; Dan Courson,Soph., 1L, from El Paso Irvin; Bill Wright, Fr., from Ecuador and 1 mwton Parks, Soph., 1L, from Spring Branch Memorial.Other teams entered in thetournament are Pan American,Trinity, Rice, University ofCorpus Christi, Houston, LamarTech, Texas AI and Del Mar. Top-seeded player in thetourney is Bob McKinley of Trinity who ranks 19th in the U.S. lawn Tennis Associationand is backed up by three strong Trinity teammates who are odds-on favorites to cop the team trophy. Trinity finished the 1971season as the nation’s number
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