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Page 10 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1975 Texas, Houston hand tankers defeats Swimming team suffering from player losse By PAUL McGRATH Staff Sports Writer “It s like telling a guy who has been a miler all of his life that he will have to become a pole vaulter in two weeks, said Texas A&M Swimming Coach Dennis Fosdick. Fosdick is referring to the situa tion he now finds himself in due to the loss of eight of his top men swimmers. Fosdick has had to call on freshmen to fill the depleted ranks and has had to use some of his experienced swimmers in events they have never been in before. Six of the men have been de clared ineligible because of “freak type thing,” Fosdick said. The six came up short on the amount of semester hours they needed. The group was under the impression the hours of several courses they were repeating in order to raise their grade points would be counted. Ap parently they received information from the wrong source because shortly thereafter Coach Fosdick got a phone call saying the six were ineligible. Two more male swimmers were previously released from the team due to their involvement in a theft case. The Athletic Department would release no further informa tion concerning the pair. These players, plus graduatior losses, have negated all but 20 of the 270 points accumulated by the squad in last year’s conference swim meet. Coacb Fosdick speculated prior to the season that his team had a shot for second behind depth laden Texas. Now, he says the team will be fortunate to finish sixth, the lowest since he’s been here. “We re really in an experiment ing stage right now," says Fosdick. According to him, it takes about two Compare the savings at FedMart More Meat and Poultry Savings USDA Choice Beef for Stew $1.19ib Center Cut Pork Loin Rib Chops $1.49ib. Small Size Pork Spare Ribs 99tf ib Pork Loin Countrystyle Ribs 99tf ib. 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I lowever, despite it all, Fd feels there is a “light at theeii the tunnel.” In Fridays Saturday’s meets against Teai Houston, freshman Bob Lek took firsts in the 200-yard bra stroke both days and woti 200-yard individual medley aa the Cougars. Both ofhis timesn personal bests. Coach Fosdkl also pleased with David Dod performance in the backstroke,! ing he has continued to imprest f Greg Carver and Greg Meeii drew praise from Fosdick for & | respective efforts in the backsh and tire 50-yard freestyle. The women managed todoafe I better, breaking three A&M stk' records. Debbie Starr broke mark in the 200-yard freestyiew Carol Hemphill did thesameina 200-yard individual medley, I; other record that went out theR dow wars by the 200-yard mei relay team consisting of Starr, Fi* Hollar, Kathy Singletery'andle | McArthur. A&M was defeated ink meets. The UH meet was the11 time the Cougars have everi feated A&M. The womeno: swam against Texas and came a I fairly close, if the Homs’ 16 fc points were taken out. CoachF; dick said that “nearly every race® close. It was a good,close meet "It was a disappointmenttol® we should have beaten Houst' f Even if they did heat us, it shod have been down to the wire His swimmers have alwayss« well at the conference meet but ii year looks like a lost cause, si | Fosdick. “By conference maybe* can pull something out of this (fa I ter we’ve had. We’ve just gull have the guys to do it with. The team swims next agfa Southwest Missouri this Fridayi their last home meet. NextTuesii the team will travel to Houston * compete against Rice. Ags pass 100 mark (Continued from p. 9) SMU at 10 of 11 to the Ponies 19. A&M finished with 13tumovtl and an amazing 12 steals to tkl Stangs 28 turnovers and threestf| als. Depth proved to he the undoil of the team from Dallas. Fi'j players from each team scored 1 double figures led by Williams’ll and Parker’s 16. The Ags, thong 1 had 11 players score to SMU’seight Eleven Ags played more than 1 quarter of ball, with only fourgo*! a half or better. SMU playedei^ men for better than a quarter, k going a half or more and two playi 1 ! more than three quarters. The Ags hit 100 points for onlyth second time this season on a Park layup to up their season recordl* 13-4 and remain undefeated in w® ference. SMU dropped to 5-11 ai* 1-3. The Aggies next game is Saturdg at 2:00 on regional television broal cast from Fayetteville, Arkansas Mike Mistovich will carry thega# on KTAM radio. Arkansas is o»f game back of the Ags in secw place. SMU Player fgm fe» (tin I'ta reli pf ( Swedlund 7 9 0 0 5 1 « Swanson 5 H 0 0 12 2 » Bourguein 4 9 2 2 3 3 1' Sagehom 6 12 2 2 1 1 « Arnold () 1 0 0 0 1 » Lodwick 4 7 0 2 2 2* Robinson 3 7 0 2 2. 1 * Jaccar 1 4 1 3 5 3 * Galindo 0 1 0 1 0 0 * 1 Robertson 0 1 0 0 (1 OH Hetherington 3 6 6 6 5 2 li 1 Ralph 0 1 0 1 1 0 Team totals 33 66 11 19 38 16ii| Texas A&M Player fj>ni f'ga ftm fttt rel) p( ? Davis 6 12 0 0 8 2 1! Thornton 4 10 0 0 1 1 * Mercer 4 4 0 0 2 1 * Parker 7 11 2 2 1 5 » Floyd 2 6 0 0 1 3 ( Williams W. 7 9 4 5 9 2 1* Roberts 4 8 2 2 2 1 I 1 Erwin 1 3 0 0 2 4 ! Joseph 2 4 2 2 7 3 * Tone 6 11 0 0 2 0 H Williams M. 3 5 0 0 0 0 * Mezger 0 2 0 0 3 4 1 Team totals 46 85 10 11 42 26 IS FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIEP