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: r? ■ ... . • • ■.. •• BATTALION Wednesday, April 28, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 7 nington, III, SWC golf, tennis tournaments start Thursday Fifteen top golfers meet for SWC medalist honors wmm X. ers By CLIFFORD 11ROYLES Battalion Sports Writer Fifteen golfers from seven Southwest Conference schools will be on hand Thursday as they open 72 holes of medal play for the Southwest Conference indi vidual championship. I The meet opens on the A&M Igolf course at 8 a.m. with the Igolfers slated to play 36 holes [Thursday and 36 Friday. I Team champion Texas Tech Iwill have four players on hand, with runnerup Arkansas allowed three. The Aggies, Southern Methodist University and Texas Christian will have two players [each. Baylor and Rice, which held I up the lower end in the league’s T Steve Veriato dual match play, will be allowed one representative in the compe tition to determine the confer ence’s medal winner. The Aggies of coach Henry Ransom are expected to pick be tween any of three golfers for their representatives for the meet. Ransom said that Steve Veriato, Tommy Johnson and Tommy Shelton will have a play off today to decide who will play in the tournament. Veriato, a sophomore from Hilo, Hawaii, shot 306 last year at Houston to finish eleventh. Richard Ellis, and Duke Butler, two other Aggie golfers last year, were in the meet. Ellis was fifth with 299, and Butler withdrew from the meet after shooting 82 in the first round. 2 sports end intramural play Playoffs are underway in two sports in intramurals this week. Class A and C softball and ten nis will complete their season Thursday marking the end of the spring intramural program with the exception of swimming. Other top contenders expected to be back that performed last year include Stan Atgelt, SMU senior from Corpus Christi, who is the top returnee from last year and Brad Wilemon of Tech. At gelt was fourth last year with a 297 and Wilemon tied for sixth with 301. Jim Whittaker of Tech had 303 for ninth and Don Brown of Bay lor had 319. Brown is expected to be Baylor’s lone golfer. Chuck Brownfield of Arkansas shot 322 last year and will be one of three Razorbacks at the meet. The real surprise of the meet could be junior Mike Mosser of the Razorbacks, who defeated the number one player of every conference team in dual match play. Either Bill Brown or Jim Cisne will join them at the tournament. Joining Whittaker and Wile mon for champion Tech will be Steve Thompson, a senior from Lubbock and a fourth player that has not been nominated. SMU will have freshman Mike Huebinger from San Antonio, who has been more impressive this year than Atgelt, and a third player that has not been an nounced. Rice after finishing last will have only representative and coach John Plumbley has nomi nated freshman John Scott from Daingerfield to make the trip for the Owls. The Aggies last captured an. individual honor in the meet in 1963 when Eugene Byrd took the individual title. The year before John Lively won it for the Ag gies and two years before that Lively and Dick Duble shared the title for A&M. Between the years of 1960-64 the Aggies won four consecutive team champion ships. The defending team and indi vidual champion from last year aren’t back. Individual champ Dean Overturf of Texas, who shot a one over par 289 last year, has finished his eligibility and the Longhorns as a team have dropped out of competition in the league. Last year Overturf and team mates Tom Kite and George Ma- chock were the top three golfers. Machock and Kite were back this year but the Longhorns decided not to play by conference regu lations and dropped out of the golf race. In final match play standings for this season were: Team Tech W 26 V 2 L 9V 2 MB Arkansas 24 12 2 Vi SMU 21 15 5V 2 A&M 20 Vs 15 % 6 TCU 14 16 8 Vi Baylor 8 28 18 V 2 Rice 6 24 17% 600 for Aaron ATLANTA </Pi — Slugging Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves became the third man in major league baseball history to reach the 600 home run mark for his career Tuesday night when he cracked his eighth of the sea son in a game against San Fran cisco. fk ; ’X * / m > ^ V * ' 'mmmr a j ^ B? .ssi?. . iggiip#*® ****>*»«*». The Texas Aggies’ tennis hopes ride on the efforts of Dickie Fikes, left, and Jon Rag land, the team’s number one doubles unit. The twosome will be the number one seeded doubles team in the SWC tennis meet beginning Thursday morning through Saturday afternoon on varsity courts. (Photo by Mike Rice) Aggies face Houston in Thursday twinbill By CLIFFORD BROYLES Battalion Sports Editor The Texas Aggie baseball team hosts the University of Houston in a non-conference doubleheader Thursday on Kyle Field. The teams will meet beginning at 1 p.m. with the first game set for seven innings and the second for nine. The double bill will be impor tant to both squads as the Ag gies will be out to get back in the winning mood; it will be their last tuneup before the Texas-Aus- tin series Monday and Tuesday. The Cougars swept a double- header from Lamar Tech Tuesday to bring their record to 24-13, and a sweep of the Aggies could put them in the picture for an NCAA spot. Coach Tom Chandler will be back for the Aggies. Chandler left the Sharpstown General Hos pital in Houston Saturday and re turned home in time to meet the Aggies as they returned from Fort Worth. Chandler said that the TCU series was just one of those things that can happen in baseball. “TCU right now has the wham my on us and they seem to win no matter what.” It’s just something that can happen in baseball, he pointed out. He gave an example of the year the New York Mets won the world series. The Mets conquered the world but lost 11 of 12 games to the Houston Astros. No mat ter what the Mets did the Astros always won. Chandler added that it hasn’t always been that way. “When I first started coaching we used to always rough up TCLT, and it was Rice that had it going then. Rice really put some crucial losses on us.” The Aggies are expected to go back to their system of using three pitchers in each game in the twinbill. That system was suc cessful when the Aggies won dou bleheaders from St. Mary’s and Houston on the road during Pias ter. Chandler hasn’t named the starters for the doubleheader but lefthanders Bruce Katt and Jackie Binks and righthanders Paul Czerwinski, Charlie Kelley, Pat Randy Brown of the Texas A&M gymnastics team performs on the parallel bars in Saturday’s meet with the University of Texas at Austin at G. Rollie White Coliseum. A&M’s women’s team had a meet with TCU at the same time. Brown’s teammate Rex Stratton won the event. (Photo by Mike Rice) Chris Sans Jamison and Charlie Jenkins will see some action. Houston is expected to start ace righthander Elroy Olthold in one of the games. Olthold, with a 7-0 record, has established a rec ord for the most wins by a Hous ton pitcher in one season. Two weeks ago, while the Aggies were playing the Tech series, Olthold pitched a shutout against the Uni versity of Texas at Austin in Houston. Since that time the Longhorns have scored 72 runs in five games. Another righthander, Johnny Hatcher, is expected to draw the other job. Hatcher—a hard-throw ing righthander—has a 4-3 record and was the starting pitcher in the second game of the first dou bleheader between the two teams. He suffered an injury after pitch ing the first inning of that game, however, and was the losing pitch er. The 24 wins for the Cougars is a school record. The double- header will close out the regular- season for Houston. Houston boasts two hitters over the .300 mark on the squad with catcher and outfielder Mike Clark hitting .478 and shortstop Eddie Henderson .319. The Aggies have nine players over the .300 batting mark for the season, with Dave Elmendorf leading with a .375 average. Chris Sans is the team’s leading hit ter in Southwest Conference play with a .418 average and has up ped his season’s average to .314 after being down to .250 only three weeks ago. In individual statistics this sea son, Butch Ghutzman leads in at bats with 139, total bases with 59 and sacrifice flies with four. R. J. Englert leads with 29 runs Loaded Owls to play without Estep in SWC net Classic scored and 45 base hits. He leads the team in stolen bases with 7. Car roll Lilly has 10 doubles, Billy Hodge leads in triples with four and bases on ball with 24. Chris Sans has 21 runs batted in and also leads in strikeouts with 18. Lilly also leads in fewest strike outs having fanned only four times in 104 at bats, or once over 26 times at the plate. The probable starting lineup for Houston will be: Mike Clark, catcher, .478; Ed die Henderson, shortstop, .319; Russ Schroeder, third base, .287; Bill McLain, first base, .267; Da vid Vinson, centerfield, .264; Phil lip Terrell, leftfield, .243; Tom Kaiser, vightfield, .198; Don Hill, second base, .165 and the pitcher. The probable starting lineup for the Aggies will be: Butch Ghutz man, .302, shortstop; R. J. Eng lert, .352, leftfield; Dave Elmen dorf, .375, centerfield; Billy Hodge, .366, catcher; Jim Samp son, .322, Larry Smith, .340, or Gene Reinarz, .216, rightfield; Chris Sans, .314, first base; Car- roll Lilly, .356, second base, Jim my Hacker, .274, third base; and the pitcher. Outdoor pool schedule told Spring and summer schedules have been announced for the recently-opened Wofford Cain swimming pool. The Olympic-size facility is available to eligible patrons for 5 V-z hours on weekdays and six hours on weekends, announced Dennis Fosdiek. The weekday schedule through May 30 is from 12 to 1 p.m., 3 to 6 p.m. and 7 to 8:30 p.m. Satur day and Sunday swimming -will be from 2 to 8 p.m. A slightly different summer weekday schedule goes into effect May 31. Mondays through Satur days until Aug. 29, the pool will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday hours will not change. A&M students, faculty-staff members, former students and persons staying at the Memorial Student Center and their guests are eligible to use the pool. Guests, limited to four per host, must be accompanied by a stu dent, faculty-staff member or for mer student. A&M students and eligible children 12 years or younger are charged 50 cents each. Adult ad mission is $1 each. Statistics seminar planned for Thursday The Institute of Statistics will hold its first of three “Expository Seminars on Design” at 4 p.m. Thursday in Plant Sciences Room 103. Dr. Mel Carter, professor of statistics at A&M and Brigham Young University, will speak on “Change-Over Designs.” Two other programs in the seminar series will be announced later. By MICHAEL RICE Battalion Sports Writer Coach Sammy Giammalva said it so nicely the other day when he was discussing the Southwest Conference Championships in ten nis: “The championship team has already been determined; the tournament is really for indi viduals. The tennis championships which are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Thursday may be sort of anti-climatic to Giammalva; how ever the competition on varsity courts should provide an excel lent opportunity for tennis buffs to see some really top-notch ath letes in action. Action will con tinue through Saturday. The past four conference championships have gone to Giam- malva’s Owls and they should be about as strong as ever this week. However Rice will be with out the services of three-time All-American Mike Estep due to exams and paper work he must complete as he is a graduating senior. “I sure hate to lose him,” said Giammalva, “because since he and Zan Guerry have been here we’ve won the past four confer ence championships, and haven’t lost to Texas during those four years.” Have no fear, though, Rice will be bringing Harold Solomon, who is at least as good if not better than Estep, from whom Solomon has stolen the number one spot on the team. Solomon, a freshman from Sil ver Springs, Md., reached the semifinals last week in the River Oaks Tennis Tournament before losing to the eventual champion. Cliff Richey. Solomon will be the number one seed in the singles. On their way to winning the SWC team championship in dual match play, which is their fourth straight, the Owls were beaten by Texas A&M and Southern Methodist, once each. The picture’s not too bleak for the A&M netters, however, as the doubles team of Dickie Fikes and Jon Ragland is seeded as the number one doubles team of the meet. Fikes and Ragland suc ceeded in tallying a 5-0 record against conference opponents. Ragland, who was redshirted last year, teamed with Pete Faust to win the SWC doubles championship two years ago as ★ ★ ★ a sophomore. Fikes, a junior, reached the singles quarterfinals last year before being eliminated. Coach Omar Smith plans to use the other doubles team of Connell and Mike Hickey as the second team for A&M. It may be interesting to note that since A&M entered tennis competition in 1916, an A&M team has yet to win the team championship title. The only real successes A&M has had were R. G. DeBerry, who won the singles title in 1952; the first place dou bles team of Richard Barker and Lois Rojas in 1964; and the Rag- land-Faust victory in 1969. If it’s any consolation, though, A&M did move up one in the con ference standings over last year’s fifth place. Rice, naturally led the conference this year with 40 wins and only two losses. What can one expect from the other teams in the conference in their bids for points in the tour ney ? Plenty of rough competi tion is the only answer. SMU will be moving in with only one Texan on its team, Steve Browne. The Mustangs, who lost to Rice 6-1 for the team title and once to A&M, will be depending on John Gardner and Ian Russell, both from Austra lia; and Californians Jay Paulson and Woody Blocher. Gardner lost to Rice’s Estep last year in a split set semifinals. The University of Texas at Austin is hinging its hopes on Avery Rush, John Nelson, Dan Nelson, and either Ron Touchon or Marc Wiegand. Texas pulled in third in the conference stand ings behind SMU. Texas Tech, which placed fifth behind the Aggies, will be play ing James Chisholm, Walter Hammerick, Robbie Sargent, and Joe Ben Whittenburg. The close race for last place in the conference saw TCU beat out Baylor for the bottom honors this year. Baylor will be field ing John Adams, George Mon- cada, Dan Novak, and Tom Sheives. TCU’p best will be Juan Carp- v minas, John Fletcher, New James, and John Kritser. The final team standings for this year were Rice (40-2); SMU (35-7); Texas (27-15); A&M (23- 19); Texas Tech (12-30); Baylor (8-34); and TCU (2-40).. ★ ★ ★ Netters whip UH in final warmup The Texas Aggie tennis team— in its final warmup before the Southwest Conference meet this weekend—Tuesday defeated the University of Houston 4-3 in a practice match at John E. Hoff Tennis Center on the UH campus. A&M defeated Houston 4-2 earlier this year. The Aggies started off by win ning the number one match as Dickie Fikes won over Jim Ram- beau by default. The Aggies trailed 3-2 after singles with Dan Courson coming up with a big number 5 single win. Then Fikes and Ragland, who will be number one seeded in doubles play in the Southwest Conference tennis meet, grabbed another win by default over Rich ard Lay and Ronnie Flores. The decisive second doubles match provided the margin of victory as Mike Hickey and Cour son defeated Tom Gustavson and Gene Rhoades, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. Horns crush Dallas Baptist AUSTIN —Texas pounded Dallas Baptist 11-6 and 14-0 Tuesday in its final non-confer ence competition before next Mon day’s Southwest Conference base ball showdown with Texas A&M in College Station. The Longhorns, who have now won 22 of their last 25 games to move their season mark to 30-9, used 12 and 17-hit attacks to de feat Dallas Baptist. Walt Rothe had three hits, in cluding a two-run homer, his ninth of the year, in the first game. David Chalk went four for five and John Langerhans had a three-run double in the nightcap. Dallas Baptist, now 12-16 on the year, led 6-3 in the opening game after two-run homers by Mike Samuells and Gerald Tut- row. Results of the Houston match aree: Singles: Dickie Fikes, A&M, def. Jim Rambeau, UH, by default. Ronnie Flores, UH, def. Jon Ragland, A&M, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4. Richard Lay, UH, def. Mike Hickey, A&M, 6-1, 6-2. Tom Gustavson, UH, def. Tom my Connell, A&M, 6-3, 7-5. Dan Courson, A&M, def. Gene Rhodes, UH, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5. Doubles: Fikes - Ragland, A&M, def. Flores-Lay, UH, default. Hickey - Courson, A&M, def. Gustavson-Rhoades, UH, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. Sports Car Club slates autocross A Sunday driving event that will be new to most area sports car buffs is scheduled by the Texas A&M Sports Car Club. The English style autoeross will be held on a grassland course off the west loop (FM 2818) south of College Station, announced club president Tom Wedel. Professor Allen Parker, visit ing professor from England in the Aerospace Engineering Depart ment, will be event master. The competition consists of three timed runs—with the best count ing—on a half-mile course includ ing two straights and several bends. Cars will be run by classes. Two cars will run at a time, sepa rated by a half lap. “This event is ideal for normal road cars,” emphasized Kerry Bonner, who noted the club will meet Thursday at the Old College Station City Hall. “The event will not damage vehicles and no tire wear occurs,” he added. “It is almost impos sible to roll or otherwise damage a car on sod.” Additional information and en try forms will be available at the 7:30 p.m. Thursday meeting.