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at them niliate Keep ^ euardei stressed hi a com, Ernest | tioned o orders,» the shooi loved at i nation, orge adherence "alley sai rry them as possillt 1 e d joining the My matic rifle THE BATTALION Thursday, February 25, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 7 ,GGIE PLAYMAKER Charlie Jenkins (11) dribbles against Texas defense of Scooter ,enox (24) and Jimmy Blacklock (30) in Tuesday night’s game at G. Rollie White Coli- eum. The Aggies moved into a sixth place tie with the Longhorns following their 65- 4 win. (Photo by Mike Rice) »jiff(7 and UT-Arlington died by its find new iii tomorrow, \g tankers face top teams many nati ■ the U.S, i duction mill icals. 1 be atak'i iy were % of the chq |y MICHAEL RICE naximumpnj lattalion Sports Writer The Texas Aggie swim team is esticides 4 forking out hard as ever this s possible, it ,eek as it prepares to swim its 1 be done »i| foal two dual meets of the sea- 5 and proto on, The first will be Friday in lallas against SMU and the sec- iuce todajj , n dwill be against the University 3 product^ f Texas at Arlington, in Arling- on, Saturday. The task of wining will be jrmidable one indeed, as both sams are ranked in the top 20 in ke nation, while A&M stands un- anked. SMU is sixth, while ITA was ranked 13th last year. It would take nothing short of miracle for the Aggies to ■merge victorious in one of the and he 50s teets. The Aggie swimmers pres- track towaii ntly are boasting a 4-2 won-loss — the Vilti ecord and will probably finish at i for hanii be .500 mark for the season. The feature race of the week- imese—asp nd will be for Steve Prentice, South W fho has qualified for the nation- .’e up onifr S«ti os a« )t re/ci itionit covert in 1«1 e fail als in the 200-yard backstroke. Prentice, swimming his lifetime best of 2:00:4 in the event against Arkansas, will be pitting his ef forts against Ronnie Mills of SMU, who holds the conference record and will be defending his 1:55:8 best effort. “We’re not going to taper at all for these meets,” Coach Den nis Fosdick said. “We’re just going to be swimming for the experience we need for the con ference meet in March. There will be no pressure to win just for the sake of winning.” Mike Hicks, the team captain, added, “We’ve got to go on swim ming tired because these two teams are about the best in the Southwest area. But we’ll still be looking for some good times in these meets. I think when we rest, everyone is going to go a lot faster than they have ever swum. I’m predicting a lot of surprises in the conference meet.” OPEN SUN. THRU THUR. TIL 1A. M. BUY A (mma lY.iao oiark (y AND KEEP THE GLASS 35c 16-OZ. GLASS A CONTEMPORARY GLASS FOR COCA-COLA Trodt-mark® COLLECT YOUR SET OF 6 OR S! BtfWtenmchiutzd 501 S. Texas Ave. These two meets also will be the last dual meets for graduat ing senior Tom Sparks, who is the only senior on the swim team this year. Sparks, a sprinter for the Aggies, swam in the na tionals for A&M last year and is also a two-year member of the T-Association. “We’re starting to work on the small things, like on stroke im perfections and starts,” com mented Fosdick. “These are qual ity workouts now, not quantity workouts. On the whole, we’re doing fairly well.” Jean Henry, who is trying to initiate a movement for women’s swimming at A&M, will be swim ming at Rice this Friday, to qualify in more events for the NCAA nationals in April. Miss Henry, a good all-around athlete, has already qualified for nation als in the 100-yard backstroke, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard free style and the 200-yard individual medley. Netters play in UCC meet The Texas Aggie tennis team opens play today in the Univer sity of Corpus Christi Invita tional tennis tournament at the Howard Butt Tennis Center in that Gulf Coast city. The tournament will be a team affair with the 16 teams in the meet playing team matches to decide the team champion, rather than individual play, which was the style used at the Pan Ameri can invitational two weeks ago. Coach Omar Smith said each team will play three or four matches at the tournament with all first round losers dropping in to the losers bracket and continu ing play. The meet will have five of the top seven teams in the nation in cluding host Corpus Christi, Trin ity, Rice, Brigham Young and Utah. Also expected to be on hand will be Pan American sin gles champion Jon Gardner of Southern Methodist and his team mates, and also teams from the University of Texas at Austin and Baylor of the Southwest Con ference. Match play will consist of five singles and two doubles matches. Drawings of the first round have not been announced. Playing for the Aggies at the tournament will be Jon Ragland, Dickie Fikes, Mike Hickey, Tom my Connell, Lawton Park and Dan Courson. ' • i YOUTH RALLY PETTIS NORMAN Dallas Cowboy Star Athlete To Visit BOB TOLAR With Today’s Sound! Saturday-February 27 7:00 p. m. In The Auditorium of the FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH COLLEGE STATION Five cage sophs man Ag controls By CLIFFORD BROYLES The hours are fading fast on the 1970-71 basketball season—a disappointing one for the Texas Aggies, who were one of the pre-season favorites to claim the Southwest Conference championship. Now with only three games left on the calendar, the Aggies have suffered through a 8-15 record and are 4-7 in SWC play. It’s been one of these years for the Aggies. They went 4-8 in nonleague play and then, after winning their last two nonconference efforts, were really hoping for a good start in conference action and a 2-7 record has proved that didn’t come about. The Aggies started the season with predictions of title hopes because of four returning seniors. But an injury cost A&M the services of Pat Kavanagh just before conference play. “We spent the first month finding out the kids we were playing weren’t going to win for us, then we spent January in a transition and we’ve come around and played some good ball in February,” Coach Shelby Metcalf said. That transition came when Metcalf made his five sophomores a more integral part of the game, despite the fact that they did not have the experience they needed to compete head-on in SWC competition. Now the Aggies have won their last two, including an important road victory at Tech. Jeff Overhouse, the leagues top candidate for sophomore of the year, has started since the opening game and, since mid season, Charlie Jenkins and Bob Gobin have manned the point position for A&M. Wayne Howard has started the last six games and Bill O’Brien has also seen action as a guard. They’ve done a lot of the playing in the second half of the season, and now its beginning to pay off with a crisper and sounder brand of basketball. Overhouse had his best day as a varsity starter when he pumped in 27 points against Tech Saturday and has a good chance to pass such heralded Aggie sophomores of the past as Bennie Lennox and John Beasley in first-year scoring. Howard, a high school All American, started the season seeing very little action but since gaining a starting spot against Arkansas three weeks ago has averaged 15 points a game. It was an early season misunderstanding that slowed Howard. “The coaches and 1 had an early season misunderstanding. We couldn’t get together on what we expect out of each other but that’s been straightened out now,” Howard said. Overhouse said that he had felt the pressure early in the season. “I 1 -d moved into the lineup to take Cooksey’s place. And I guess 1 Was pressurized because I knew I had some big shoes to fill.” He talked the situation over with the coaches and told them that it really didn’t matter whether he started or not just as long as we won. He explains the improvement of the team as a matter of maturity. “It was just a matter of time until we got everything going. We were learning with each other. We were learning the moves of the seniors and they were learning ours.” Gobin was a high school All-American also, in both football and basketball. He is pleased with the way things have come along. “The coaches could have really got down on us (the sophomores) when we started losing but they stuck with us and we’ve come along. “The big thing now is we’re playing together. We have learned each other and we’re more confident to try the bullet pass inside or just working the ball in general,” the Perryton High graduate said. Jenkins is a two-sport athlete also, and will change uniforms soon when he joins the Aggie baseball season. There he will be an integral part in a young pitching staff. The sophomores also mentioned the leadership of the squad from the veteran players. “All our seniors have shown leadership at one time or another when we needed it,” Gobin said. Overhouse added that he had received a lot of help from his fellow big men, especially Rick Duplantis. “Rick and I are about the same size and so we have a lot of same moves and fakes and he’ll tell me who I can do what to rather than what an individual performer had done.” Talk With Gordon Richardson Our Provident Mutual Pro At Texas A&M 707 University Drive We don’t want automatons at Provident Mutual. We want people who think for themselves... and who want to serve others. A successful insurance agent is independent. There’s no ceiling on his earnings. He has his own clients. Makes his own decisions concerning them. 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