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Page 8 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1974 A&M takes third in Border Olympics Read Classifieds Dai] Dawson, Jones lead Aggies to strong showing in Laredo meet PEANUTS 9 By TED BORISKIE Assistant Sports Editor LAREDO—Texas dominated the distances and the weights to completely overpower all oppon ents and take first place in the Border Olympifes Saturday night. The Longhorns piled up an imposing 133 points to outdis tance a strong Baylor showing of 89%. Texas A&M placed third with 70 points. The Aggies finished strong, with a second place in the mile i relay, clocking a 3:12.9 to Bay lor’s 3:11.8. Horace Grant led off for the Aggies and handed off to Gerald D’Ambrosia in third place. D’- Ambrosio held his own to hand- off to Sammy Dierschke in third. Dierschke ran an outstanding 47.1 to handoff to anchorman Doug Brodhead, just a few yards out of first. However, Brodhead could not overtake Baylor’s Tim Son. He did manage to hold off a strong threat from Texas’ Don Sturgal. The meet started out on a less than positive note as the Aggies much-heralded 440-yard relay team ran through a series of bad handoffs that culminated with Charles Dawson failing to get the baton to anchorman Scottie Jones. Dawson had a slight lead over eventual winner SMU at the time of the mishap. Jones made up for the error later in the evening by winning the 120 yard high hurdles with a time of 14.1. It represented a personal tri umph for Jones as he defeated arch-rivals Nate Robinson and Randy Lightfoot of Texas and Efrem Gipson of Lamar. Dawson also cleared his name by taking the 100 yard dash against such stellar performers as SMU’s Gene Pouncy and Houston’s Wayne Johnson. Dawson was leading by a large margin but pulled up 10 yards short of the finish, when he mis judged the finish line. He man aged to recover enough to re cord a 9.6 and edge out John son’s 9.7. A&M grid star Carl Roaches ran seventh with a 9.9, marking TKAs AIM Mustangs accept CCA tourney bid Charles Dawson Keepsake Diamond Solitaires The ultimate in beauty and bril liance . . . Keepsake Solitaires, guaranteed, registered, perfect. REGISTERED DIAMOND RINGS Embrey’s Jewelry The Aggie Store 9-5:30 Sat. 9-12 846-5816 North Gate DALLAS (A*)—Southern Meth odist University accepted an invi tation today to play in the Col legiate Commissioners Associa tion basketball tournament in St. Louis March 14-18. The Mustangs finished in a tie with Texas Tech for second place in the Southwest Conference basketball race with a 10-4 record, one game behind champion Texas. An SMU spokesman said the invitation was extended today and accepted at once. Coach Bob Prewitt said, “We are most pleased to be in the CCA tournament. Since we were un able to tie for the SWC cham pionship, this has been an added incentive for our team.” Prewitt noted the Mustangs won their last eight games of the season, and, “They proved they are representative of SWC bas ketball and I am thankful they have the opportunity to compete with some of the other top teams in the nation.” There will be eight teams in the tournament. It was not known which team the Mustangs will face first. the first time he has run the distance since winning the state high school championship two years ago. Aggie high jumper Phil Mc Guire posted his best mark of the season as he took second in the high jump with a leap of 6-9. McGuire had seen nothing but frustration the past two weeks as he had been unable to get any higher than 6-5. A&M’s Bill Newton took sec ond in the javelin with a toss of 210-10. Newton had barely managed to make it to the finals, being the eighth of nine qualifiers, but bet tered his mark with each of his last three throws. A&M finished third and fourth in the pole vault as defending SWC champion David Peterck showed signs of regaining his form after a series of less than impressive performances. He cleared 15 feet for the first time this season to finish third ahead of freshman teammate Brad Blair. His victory was probably the biggest upset of the day as he was so lightly considered he was not seeded as one of the top nine sprinters by the meet officials. “At least they’ll know who I am from now on,” he said after his win. The problem of recognition had been plaguing Dawson all season as he was not allowed to run in the Astrodome meet last month despite the efforts of the Aggie coaches. “Sure it feels good,” he said of his performance, “but I’ll be clearing 16 feet in a couple of weeks.” “I could have made 220 if I’d had another throw,” he muttered after the event. SMU’s Glenn Derwin won with a toss of 225-10. Shifton Baker continued to be the most versatile athlete on the squad as he placed fourth in the long jump. His 53.4 time in the interme diates was his best of the season while his 14.3 in the 120-highs equalled a wind-aided mark he achieved last week. Baker may have been able to place in the long jump as well had not the competition come during and after the physically demanding 446-yard hurdles preliminaries. Doug Brodhead took third in the 440-yard dash for the Ag gies, posting a good early season time of 48.3. Tom Owen placed fifth in the long jump while Horace Grant was sixth in the 880 with a 1:55.4, marking the first time this year he had run the distance. PEANUTS By THE What i streaker? as he kec “It’s v inhere thi )avid D tfassachu •ector. Not al s lenien ,us poke terfered ents, ra I Told him that i'd set THAT HE'D BE CLUB CHAMPION IF HE EVER BELONGED TO A CLUB.' Z( THE AVERAGE PAD NEEDS LOTS Of ENCOURAGEMENT Intramural Results Netters topple top teams Golfers fourth at Border The A&M Golf team of coach Henry Ransom came from fifth place to go into a tie for fourth at the conclusion of the Border Olympics Tournament Saturday. The Aggies shot a 72-hole total of 1,186 to tie Houston Baptist for fourth behind North Texas’ 1,176, runner-up Oklahoma State’s 1,158 and winner Houston’s 1,146. Tom Jones of Oklahoma State captured individual honors with a 282 total. Texas, hurting without Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw, finished in eighth with 1,195. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED The A&M Tennis team defeat ed two nationally ranked teams on their way to a fifth place win in the Corpus Christi Intercol legiate tourney. The tournament, hosting five of the eleven top teams in the na tion, was won by SMU 7-2 over the University of Houston, both ranked fourth at the time. A&M started the tourney with the only first round upset by de feating eighth-ranked Brigham Young, 5-4. Trinity, the only team to beat the Ags this season (having done so here) knocked the Aggies out of title contention, 8-1, in second round play. The Aggies then disposed of New Mexico to come up against Oklahoma for fifth place. In final round play A&M notched four singles wins and swept the doubles to beat the 15th ranked Sooners 7-2. Coach Omar Smith was pleased at the showing. He called the tourney “one of the finest . . . around. The teams are highly respected and the quality is ob vious.” Senior Dan Courson continued his winning streak at 12-0 beat ing Paul Lockwood of Oklahoma 6-3, 6-2. Tom Courson and Mark Silber- man picked up singles wins also. Smith said of the freshmen, “They finally learned how it is to play and win in a highly competitive field.” A&M will be home Friday to host Texas A&I and will travel to Baton Rouge Saturday to play LSU. 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