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TUESDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1974
Consol wins cross-country
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By TONY GALLUCCI
Staff Sports Writer
The A&M Consolidated Cross-
Country team buried a 12-year
dynasty to set a state 3A record and
become the 1974-1975 State 3A
champions.
The title, actually more than a 3A
title, was won over approximately
900 class B through 3A schools. Fal-
furrias had previously won both
UIL state titles officially and ten
years of unofficial titles before the
3A meet was sanctioned by the UIL.
Joe Wilborn led Tiger entries by
finishing eighth among the 90 en
trants with a two-mile course time of
10 minutes and 26 seconds. Chris
Powell finished ninth followed by
John Bassett in 12th, Louis Casta-
non in 16th, Nelson Surovik in
22nd, Damon Buffington in 48th
and Jay Carlton in 60th.
Consol set the state record and
finished first with a low point total of
59. Falfurrias was a distant second
with 92 points. Falfurrias however
had the top runner in the meet with
Bern Martinez finishing first in a
time of 9:58.
Coach James Giese said of the
team, “They just did a real fine job.
It’s not every day you win a state
championship. We have a little
more depth than we’ve ever had.
Course, there’s always a newcomer
to pick up the slack.”
“The three alternates we had this
year would have made last year’s
team, ” continued Giese. “Falfurrias
just scares you, though. Last year
we would have been proud just to
finish in the top ten. We finished
second.”
“We decided last year in the hotel
room that we were going to come
back and win it,” said Giese. They
did.
“I guess I’m proudest of Nelson
Surovik. Everybody ran a great
race, but Surovik was generally con
sidered to be our number seven
runner and he finished fifth among
our group at the meet,” said Giese.
Basset the only senior on the
squad said, “It was a great way to
end my year. I went last year as an
alternate but couldn’t run because I
was hurt. It was kind of weird really,
because we knew we could do it but
we didn’t really realize we did for
awhile. It’s really a different feeling
to be state champs.”
Giese said this was his tenth year
in coaching many sports, but he had
never seen so dedicated a group of
kids. “They are very dedicated and
show excellent discipline. They’ve
been a real pleasure to coach and be
with and I wouldn’t trade it for any
thing.” He complemented Basset
for an outstanding job as a leader.
The grill work for cross country is
Wrestlers finish
second in tourney
The wrestling team had to settle
for a second place spot in the Rich
land Invitational tournament held
in Dallas this weekend.
Richland took first in the ten team
field while A&M finished ahead of
third place North Texas State by a
substantial margin.
John Manning took first place
honors in the 190 lb. class for the
Aggies. Frank Cox, Jerry Rasmus
sen and Blair Monhollon grappled
to second place finishes.
This was A&M’s last bout of the
semester. The team will take up
where they left off in the Bobcat
Invitational tourney at Southwest
Texas State on January 25.
very rigorous. The runners average
60 miles a week. They run in snow,
sleet or rain, said Giese, and they’ve
only missed one day this year “and
then I had to hold them back from
the rain.”
“The kids work all year around,
cross country, then track season,
then junior Olympics,” said Giese.
Giese, as track coach, is also op
timistic about the track season.
With 66 people trying out he is ex
pecting some talent. The cross
country runners will probably hold
down most of the long distance start
ing berths but others are more
open.
Most of the track team is made up
of sophomores and juniors, Giese
said.
Giese is looking forward to com
peting in a good invitational where
the team’s success in the meet can
be estimated for a measure of the
team’s ability. “Like finishing in the
team’s top three at the College Sta
tion relays is really an accomplish
ment.”
Giese is also enthused with new
coach. Jack Wilson, “who is doing a
heckuva job, especially with the
field events, where Consolidated
has been weak.”
Giese noted a very successful
summer in the Junior Olympics
which highlighted a number of bril
liant prospects. Giese is especially
pleased with the outstanding girl
prospects at the meet.
The cross-country runners,
though, and other track hopefuls
now begin pace work training for the
upcoming track season. The em
phasis is now off of long distance
running, but Giese says the state
champs will still be running 50-60
miles a week. “We set a goal for
ourselves and we stick to it. ”
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By TONY GALLUCCI
Staff Sports Writer
The Aggie Junior Varsity boosted
their record to 6-0 for the season
Saturday with a 92-78 win, their
second straight over Hill Junior Col
lege. On Friday the Ags escaped
with a narrow 79-77 win over Hill in
the finals of the San Antonio College
tourney to take first place.
Friday the Ags were led by Doug
Mezger with 23 points, followed by
Dale Donaldson with 18 and Mike
Williams with 11. The leading
Oiler coach
has dispute
HOUSTON (AP) — Houston
Oilers Coach-General Manager Sid
Gillman ejected Asst. General
Manager Dan Downs from the Oiler
dressing room following Sunday’s
loss to the Denver Broncos.
Downs had gone into the Oilers
dressing room following Houston’s
37-14 defeat in Denver to help a
local radio announcer with his
post-game show.
“He just grabbed me and said, T
don’t want you in my dressing
room,’ ” Downs said of Gillman.
“He grabbed me by the shoulders
and I put my hands on his shoulders
and tried to push him away. I told
him, ‘Sid, I have a job to do,’ but he
didn’t listen.
“Then a couple of the players kind
of escorted me out. I think they
thought we were about to come to
blows. It was just something that
happened ... a minor incident.”
Gillman said as long as he was
general manager of the Oilers he
would decide who came into the
dressing room.
“I am the general manager and I
decide who is in the dressing room
and who isn’t,” Gillman said.
Asked if he had established such a
rule earlier, Gillman said, “The rule
is that I decide who is going to be in
our dressing room and that is my
side of this. ”
Downs said he had helped with
the post-game show on three previ
ous occasions.
Despite the controversy,
Gillman’s weekly news conterence
was mild. Gillman praised the
Broncos for their victory.
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scorer for Hill was former Aggie
Mike Johnson who scored 29 points.
Johnson scored a total of 90 points in
Hill’s three tournament games.
Johnson and A&M’s Mezger and
Kim Wyatt made all-toumey hon
ors. A&M, Hill and Wharton
County JC each placed two players
on the ten man All-toumey squad.
Randolph Air Force Base,
Schreiner, St. Phillips and SAC
each added one.
In Saturday’s matchup, Leroy
Baerwald led the Ags with 21
points. Williams added 14, Steve
Chambers added 12 and Dale
Donaldson chipped in 10.
Robert Jammer led Hill with 28
points and 25 rebounds as Johnson
did not get hot until late in the game
and finished second in scoring with
15.
“Defense carried us home again, ”
noted coach Bob Gobin. “It was a
real good team effort.”
The Rebels hit only 39 per cent
from the field while the Aggies hit
47 per cent. The Ags also out-
rebounded the visitors, 49-41 and
lost in the foul category 23-20.
The Aggies played Tyler Junior
College in Tyler on Monday, but
results were not available at press
time. The Ags will host Tyler at G.
Rollie White tonight at 5:15 before
the 7:30 varsity game. The Ags then
finish up against Hill in Hillsboro on
Dec. 12 and Blinn in Brenhamon
Dec. 14.
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