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THE BATTALION
Friday, November 13, 1970 College Station, Texas Page 5
Ybarbo, Moncivaiz lead Ag hopes
THE TOP two runners on the Aggies’ cross country
team are Frank Ybarbo, left, and Ruben Moncivaiz. Both
are junior college transfers and will be leading contenders
for the number one spot in the SWC cross country meet in
Fayetteville Monday. (Photo by Steve Bryant)
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By CLIFFORD BROYLES
Battalion Sports Editor
It was the weekend of last
spring’s Southwest Conference
track meet that Frank Ybarbo
and Ruben Moncivaiz met for the
first time.
Three weeks later they met
again at another track meet. This
time, however, it was a different
case.
Ybarbo and Moncivaiz placed
second and fifth, respectively, in
the National Junior College track
meet mile run while running for
Blinn Junior College and Glen
dale, Ariz., JC.
That first meeting saw the two
visiting A&M as the track re
cruiting season was starting to
get hot.
When the second meeting came,
both knew where they would com
plete their college eligibility:
Texas A&M.
Ybarbo and Moncivaiz will lead
the Texas Aggie cross country
track team Monday in the 51st
Annual SWC Cross Country Meet
at the Fayetteville Country Club
in Fayetteville, Ark.
The Aggies were fifth last
year, but should be destined to a
higher finish.
Defending champion Southern
Methodist, which wasn’t declared
champion until May of last year,
returns the top three runners of
last year’s finishers.
Texas won the meet last No
vember, but when the conference
had its annual meeting in Hous
ton in May SMU was awarded
the championship when a Baylor
runner was disqualified for not
crossing the finish line.
SMU was awarded a one-point
victory.
The Longhorns also return a
crew of top runners, but like
SMU they have the strength that
a good cross country team needs,
balance. The winner will be de
cided on who has the best five
finishers, not who has the best
individual runner.
That has been shown in meets
involving the Aggies this year.
They’ve yet to beat Texas in any
of four meets this year but Ybar
bo has won every one.
Joining Ybarbo and Moncivaiz
for the three-mile race will be
Sammy Skinner, Pat Bradley,
Dennis O’Brien, Jim Haynie and
Joe Waltz.
Skinner’s best time over the
three miles this season is 15:58;
Bradley, 16:21; O’Brien, 16:17;
Haynie, 16:16 and Waltz, 16:37.
Both Ybarbo and Moncivaiz had
rather meager starts into the
track world.
Ybarbo, who is from Nixon in
south Texas, never ran anything
longer than the mile in high
school.
“We didn’t have a track, so
when we worked out it was just
by running around the football
field,” he said.
Nixon is a Class A school and
when Ybarbo started his track
work it wasn’t as a distance man
because in junior high school they
didn't have distance running.
“I was too slow to make the
track team. I did a little hurdling,
but I didn’t make the team until
they started running the 660,”
he said.
In Texas high school track the
two-mile is not used, so Ybarbo’s
only experience until he reached
Blinn was in the mile. He did a
pretty good job in that as he won
the Class A mile in 1968 with a
time of 4:25.4.
“It seems like everything I did
was a first when I got to college,”
he continued.
“They didn’t have the two-mile
in high school, so I ran it for the
first time at Blinn. When I got
here this year it was the first
time I had run cross country. At
Blinn we ran some for practice,
but not in a meet. When we ran
the six miles down at Houston
(NCAA regional qualifying) it
was the first time I had run
the six mile in a competitive
race.”
Ybarbo said he always wanted
to come to A&M, but for Monci
vaiz it is a different story.
Originally from Phoenix, he
hadn’t heard much about A&M
until one of the coaches at Phoen
ix Union high school, who is an
Agfeie, told him about his alma
mater and asked Moncivaiz if
he might be interested.
Moncivaiz, who has some prob
lems with the wind when he runs
because a strong burst might
blow him away (he weighs only
120 pounds), started his running
career in a P.E. class when he
was a freshman in high school.
“I ran a couple of races in P.E.
class and won, and the coach
asked me to come out—that’s how
it started. There were two meets
left in cross country season and
then we started track,” he said.
The track program in Arizona
is slanted more to distance run
ning than in Texas, and it in
cludes the two-mile and cross
country is a growing sport.
That gave Moncivaiz an ad
vantage over Ybarbo, as he had
a taste of longer distance running
and cross country track in high
school and junior college.
He stayed at home and went to
Glendale JC, where he paced his
team to second place in the cross
country national meet.
Monday at 1:30 p.m. the Aggies
will bid for one of their best ef
forts ever in cross country track
with Ybarbo and Moncivaiz lead
ing the way.
Punchless Owls, Aggies collide
Would you believe a scoreless
tie ?
It’s not very likely, since they
don’t come along very often. In
fact, the last time Rice played
a scoreless tie was in 1942 when
they and the Aggies failed to
score. A&M tied SMU with zeroes
in 1960 and Texas Tech in 1946.
But the condition of the of
fenses for Saturday’s 1:30 p.m.
kickoff on Kyle Field could pro
duce something similar to the
1942 Owl-Aggie battle.
Speaking from a statistical
point, both teams are about as
even as can be.
The Aggies are sixth in total
offense and the Owls seventh,
while Rice is fifth in total de
fense and A&M seventh.
The Aggies have not been able
to run at all since fashioning a
322-yard game against Wichita
State. They are last in rushing
offense and also in defense
against the run. A&M averages
only 91.6 yards a game rushing;
take away the opener and that
falls to 62.8 yards a contest.
Rushing has been the offensive
strength of the Owls and yet they
still rank fifth, averaging 155
yards a game. They, too, have not
stopped the rush as they are one
notch above the Aggies in rush
ing defense.
The Aggies rate second to Ar
kansas in pass offense and they’ll
be facing the best defense against
the pass, which has allowed only
100 yards a game passing.
A&M is fourth in pass defense
and faces the seventh-ranked
passing offense. Only Texas has
averaged less yards passing per
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game and they’ve thrown the
football fewer times than the
Owls in the same number of
games.
Injuries to the offense could
play a big role in Saturday’s en
counter as the Aggies’ two quar
terbacks, Lex James and Joe Mac
King, both are suffering from
elbow injuries and the Owls’ top
rusher( Stable Vincent, missed
most of the Arkansas game and
tight end Mike Phillips was in
jured in the game and is doubt
ful.
James has not practiced all
week, but Coach Gene Stallings
said Thursday they’ll keep watch
ing him to see if it improves.
King’s injury has improved and
he has been working out.
Kyle Gary and Brad Dusek have
been working at quarterback this
week in case neither James nor
King is able to play.
Vincent, the 10th leading rush
er in the conference with 349
yards, is expected to play after
missing most of the Arkansas
game after being shaken up. Mike
Spruill, who has gained 317
yards, will back him up.
Phillips is the Owls’ second
leading receiver with eight
catches, and if he can’t go, soph
omore Gary Butler, who has
caught only one pass this season,
will replace him.
Joey Herr, who has really ar
rived the last few weeks, will be
at split for the Aggies. Herr
has caught 16 passes and ranks
behind tight end Homer May who
has caught 25 passes, good for
fifth in the conference, and his
backup man, Hugh McElroy, who
has nabbed 20 receptions.
Benny DeWitt and Ralph Sacra
will start at the tackles and Leon
ard Forey and Jim Parker at the
guards.
Steve Burks, the Aggies’ sec
ond leading rusher with 387 yards,
will start at tailback and either
Doug Neill, who has gained 389
yards, or Marc Black will line up
at fullback.
Johnny Gardner, who has 11
catches, most of which have come
since he earned a starting job
against Baylor, will be the flank
er.
The defensive line will have
four sophomores with Max Bird
and James Dubcak at the ends
and Bruce and Boice Best at the
tackles.
Todd Christopher and Van
Odom, who opened the season in
the defensive line, will line up
along with Dennis Carruth at the
linebacking posts due to injuries
to Aggie linebackers.
David Hoot and Dave Elmen-
dorf, the most prolific pass-steal
ing duo in the SWC with 10 be
tween them, will line up at the
safeties and Ed Ebrom and Rob
ert Murski will be at the corner-
backs.
A&M Rugby club
plays Saturday
The A&M Rugby club’s match
with the Dallas Rugby club origi
nally scheduled for Sunday will
be played Saturday at 4 p.m. on
the main drill field in front of
the Memorial Student Center, a
spokesman for the team has an
nounced.
A&M soccer team
plays two games
The A&M soccer team has two
games slated for this weekend,
with the first nonconference en
counter with a North Texas State
University squad that has cur
rently won eight games in a row.
That match is scheduled for
6:30 tonight on the Astro Turf of
the practice field south of Kyle
Field, with no charge for admit
tance. Fans coming to the game
should enter gate 5 of Kyle Field.
The second game is set for
10:30 a.m. Saturday with Rice
University, providing the opposi
tion in a Texas Collegiate Soccer
League battle. That game will be
on the main drill field in front
of the Memorial Student Center.
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