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Page 8 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 17, 1968 THE BATTALION Spring Sports Going Strong, Look Toward SWC Meets By RICHARD CAMPBELL Spring sports at Texas A&M will hit a high note this weekend as all the teams will be in action with track again taking the spotlight. The Aggie tracksters will be in Lawrence, Kansas for the Kansas Relays and will have a fine chance to capture a team championship should some of the top teams falter. THE MILE RELAY team com- | posed of Steve Bancroft, Tony Munson, Mike Boyd, and Curtis Mills turned the fastest Aggie time of the year last week post ing a 3:10.0. But Rice also ran their best race of the year post ing a 3:07.1, one of the best marks in the nation. Other leaders going into the weekend slate are the 440-yard relay unit composed of Scott Hendricks, Curtis Mills, Jack Abbott, and Rockie Woods. They have turned a swift 40.7 this year. In the 120 high hurdles, Woods, Deward Strong, and Abbott give the Aggies good strength. In the 440-yard dash, Curtis Mills will be a real threat with a 47.0 in competition this season. In the 100 yard wash, Woods with a 9.4 and Hendricks with a 9.5 loom as possible break throughs for the Aggies. Strong is also an outside threat in the 440-yard intermediate hurdles with a 53.4. Mills and Woods also hold A&M’s hopes in the 220 dash with 21,0 and 21.1 respec tively. JOHN HEFFNER is also a possible point getter in the three-mile run with a 14:34.5 thus far this year. In the field events, A&M is strong in some spots. Ronnie Lightfoot leads the Southwest Conference in both the shot put and discus competition. He has tossed the shot 58-5 V2 and the discus 171-5 and freshman Bubba Vincent has a 158-101,4. Marc Black got off his best effort of the season in the Texas Relays with a throw of 206-7. Kim Sutton with a 6-6^4 and Ben Greathouse with a 6-6 look like possible point makers in the high jump. Larry McIntyre has a 15-31/2 in the pole vault but was injured in the Dallas Invita tional two weeks ago and it is still doubtful whether he will be at full speed for the meet. The Rice Owls loom as the top challenger from the South west after their surprising per formance last weekend in Aus tin. Led by Dale Bernauer, the SWC sprint king as a sopho more in 1967, the Owls set two new school records and gave the SWC its only two baton tri umphs. Also, Rice, returns to the site where they enjoyed rec ord-breaking success in 1967. Their two new schools records were the 40.3 in the 440 relay and a 3:16.6 in the sprint relay. BAYLOR’S DISTANCE med ley set a SWC record with a 9:46.1, the fastest time ever Mehaffey Hired As Rice Coach HOUSTON bP) —Rice athletic director Bo Hagan announced Wednesday night that 33-year-old George Mehaffey is the new as sistant basketball coach at Rice University. Mehaffey will serve as assist ant to head coach Don Knodel. Mehafey joins the Rice staff after seven years at Robert E. Lee High School in Houston. He is a former basketball star at Texas A&M. He replaces Bo Brickels, who accepted an assist ant coaching position at David- perma-crease Westbury Slacks 3>un fttiunrs men’6 toear 828 University Drive 713/846-2706 College Station, Texas 77840 No. 1 In College Sales For Information Call: Corkey Sandel ’63 (College Master Representative) Fidelity Union Life Insurance Co. 303 College Main — 846-8228 posted by a SWC combine, bet tering the mark of 9:47.0 set in 1964 by the Texas Longhorns. Vaulter Dickie Phillips could provide a first place with his 16-0 effort last week and javelin thrower Louis Cardenas threw the javelin 226-21/2 for the best SWC mark of the year and could challenge for another first. Meets coming up for the Ag gies after the Kansas Relays will be the Drake Relays on April 26 in Des Moines, Iowa and then a quadrangular meet with Arkansas, Rice and TCU in Fort Worth. The SWC meet will be May 9-10 in Waco. ★ ★ ★ The Texas Aggie golf team is tied for the lead in team medal play and is leading low team four ball score after Wednes day’s first round in the All- American Intercollegiate Invita tional Golf Tournament in Houston. THE AGGIES are tied in team medal play with Texas and Arizona, each with a score of 290. Other team medal scores include Texas Christian 293, North Texas State 295, Florida 297, Florida State 298, Houston 299, Oklahoma 300, LSU 302, Arkansas 303, Texas Tech and New Mexico 304, Rice and SMU 311 and Baylor 312. A&lM’s low team four ball score was 61, one stroke better than Texas. Other four ball scores were Houston, Florida State, Florida, and TCU 63, North Texas, New Mexico, Rice, Oklahoma, and Arizona 65, Bay lor 66, Arkansas 68, and SMU 70. The Aggies are current ly leading the SWC race with a 15 l /2-2 Vs record leading the Tex as Longhorns, who have a 13 %- 4 1 /i mark. Then next confer ence action for the Aggies will be Tuesday, April 22 against the cellar-dwelling Rice Owls in Houston and then on the follow ing Saturday (April 26), they entertain Texas in College Sta tion. ★ ★ ★ THE TEXAS A&M netters travel to Waco Saturday for a conference match with the Bay lor Bears, the last place team in the SWC. The Aggies thus far are 4-8 in the SWC standings good enough for fifth place. Rice leads the pack with a 14-2 fol lowed by SMU and Texas Tech at 6-6, Texas at 4-6 and Baylor 0-6. A&M’s next action will be April 22 when they host S. F. Austin in a non-conference match and then return to the SWC trail April 25 when they host TCU. The SWC meet will be in Waco on May 3. WHY SITTU m L($S? 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