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Page 6 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, JAN 30, 1976 Club Sports By DANA McNABB Battalion Staff Writer The lacrosse, racketball, rifle and rugby teams at Texas A&M will begin their scheduled season of competition with a possible NCAA national championship in store for the Rugby Club and a pre-season coaches poll rating of number one in the Southwest Conference for the Lacrosse Club. Houston will challenge A&M in the Aggies’ first home game of the season, Feb. 15. The TAMU Lacrosse Club will sponsor a lacrosse tournament on April 24 in which their A team will play three games and the B team one game. LSU, Texas Tech, and Baylor are the guests of the Aggies in this tournament. RUGBY The Aggie rugby team is the de fending NCAA national champion team for 1974. Due to conflicts, an NCAA rugby championship was not held last year (1975), leaving the TAMU Rugby Club with the honors an additional year. Texas A&M will host the 1976 NCAA National Col legiate Rugby Championships on March 27-28. This competition will draw the 16 best college teams in the United States to A&M. John Lipscomb said of the A&M team: “A&M has an ex cellent chance at winning the na tional championship if all stays well. ” The Aggie Rugby team is in the Central Division of the Texas Rugby Football Union. Union play for the A&M group begins Feb. 7, with two home games scheduled. At that time A&M will take on the Austin Blacks. The second home game will be a match of the A&M team and Hous ton Blacks on March 6. RACKETBALL A tournament in San Antonio, Feb. 13-15 will be the Texas A&M Racketball Club’s debut for the up coming season. The Aggies plan to enter 12 people in the tournament. DeWare Field House will ac commodate a home racketball tour nament February 20-21. The tour nament is open and although cluh members may enter at no cost, a fee of $3 to play is set for non-members. Registrations for the tournament will be Liken at 845-1074. Singles and doubles racketball scores will be posted in the future on the racketball ladder in DeWare Field House. LACROSSE The TAMU Lacrosse Club boasts a number one rating in a pre-season coaches poll, overcoming their pre vious injury-riddled season in 1975. Other teams competing in the Southwest Conference include Baylor, the University of Texas and Texas Tech. An intra-squad scrimmage will swing the lacrosse team into their official season Jan. 31, at 9 a.m., on the Main Drill Field. Streak of losses hits Wake Forest AP Sports Writer Will the real Wake Forest basket ball team please stand up. At the beginning of the season, the Demon Deacons couldn’t lose for winning. Now they can’t win for los ing. “Right now, we just need a victory more than anything else to bring out the best in the team and get us back where we were in the beginning,’’ Wake Forest Coach Carl Tacy said Wednesday night following an 88-85 overtime loss to fourth-ranked North Carolina. The loss was the fifth straight and sixth in the last seven games for Wake Forest, an enigmatic team that at one time had a 10-0 record and a place in the nation’s Top Ten. The Demon Deacons included North Carolina, North Carolina State and Maryland, three formida ble Atlantic Coast Conference col leagues, among their victims earlier in the year. But unfortunately two of the games did not count in the league standings and as a result, the onetime giant killers are saddled with a 1-5 ACC record and a dismal outlook for the near future. I think when you’re in a winning rather than a losing streak like we’ve been in, you have a better chance of pulling out a game like we had to night, Tacy said. “I think the team CtlGlAS DE mm RAVEL Tips CL/^^EXICO With vacation time fast approaching, many of you will no doubt be traveling to Mexico. Some of you might even be coming back. Here are some helpful hints. 1. A man on a burro always has the right of way, unless he appears to be a weakling. 2. In local cantinas, pouring a shot of Cuervo down a man’s collar is not thought to be humorous. 3. Falling onto a cactus, even an actual Cuervo cactus, can be a sticky proposition. 4. It is tough to find hamburger rolls in the smaller towns; it’s best to bring your own. Football players to vote on awan By CARL KEY Battalion Staff Writer The Aggie Heart Award will lie presented to one of the graduating senior football players of the 1975 season. The award will be given during an honor awards program held in the Rudder Tower Auditorium tomor row at 6:30 p.m. This is the only award other than being named one of the team cap tains which is chosen by the football players themselves. Stadium is The Aggie Heart Awardgn senior football player byavoti varsity squad. The award is upon such merits as effort, determination, dedication am other intangible traits. The awards program is fret public. A film of the highlights oft! season will be shown alongw announcement of team captai the presentation of the Heart! The Heart Award has beet sented 11 times since its incept 1965, with Ted Lamp winnit award last year. not complete Photo by Cum Cope The Rugby Club, defending national champions since 1974, prepares for the upcoming season. for Olympics A Associated Press RIFLE RY The Texas Aggie Rifle Team kicked-off the new year with a nar row 11-point victory over the Trinity University Rifle Team in a match fired at College Station last Satur day. Robert Lunsford led the Aggies with a score of 532. The TAMU Rifle Team Coach, Staff Sergeant Jesse Best, said that normally the matches are not that close and in the upcoming matches with Prairie View A&M and the Uni versity of Texas at Austin, the team hopes to do much better. Texas A&M is now 4-0 in the Southwest Rifle Association competition. The individuals in the match and their scores were as follows: Robert Lunsford (532), Jeff Potter (521), Elizabeth Nealin (519), David Wel don (514), Robert Stone (512) and James Beal (510). 20 track teams invited Bayou hosts meet By PAUL McGrath Battalion Sports Editor gave it everything they had and played well.’’ In other games involving ranked teams, seventh-ranked Maryland beat eighth-ranked North Carolina State 102-84; lOth-ranked Notre Dame routed DePaul 89-68 and No. 20 Virginia Tech crushed William and Mary 105-79. Mitch Kupchak scored 26 points and Tom LaGarde added 19 to help North Carolina squeeze the life out of Wake Forest. Kupchak and LaGarde combined for five vital points in the overtime period as the Tar Heels outscored the Deacons 11-8. The regulation game ended with the score tied at 77 as Wake Forest’s Skip Brown missed what could have been the winning basket in the last two seconds. The victory gave North Carolina an ACC-leading 6-1 record and a 14-2 record overall. Guards John Lucas and Mo How ard combined for 59 points, with Lucas equaling his career high with 34, as Maryland beat North Carolina State. Adrian Dantley moved into sec ond place on the all-time Notre Dame scoring list with 31 points to lead the Fighting Irish past DePaul. Russell Davis converted 19 free throws and scored 27 points to pace Virginia Tech past William and Mary. Some 20 track teams will converge on Monroe, L.a. this weekend to run in the Northeastern Louisiana Re lays. Texas A&M Track Coach Charles Thomas will take a 25-man squad to the Bayou Country as the Aggies are on the road for the third consecutive week. The Ags finished third in a quadrangular meet in Baton Rouge last Saturday. No awards will be given and no team points will be accumulated. The meet, run on a plywood track, will be divided into afternoon and evening events. University division and college division teams will com pete in separate categories except in the field events. “They just shoot the gun and let 'em run,’’ said Thomas. “This looks like it’s going to be a pretty tough meet.’’ Five Southwest Conference teams including A&M, will make the trip. Rice, the University of Houston, TCU and Baylor are among the 20 participants in the university divi sion. The Aggies have competed against all but Rice in previous meets. This will be the Owls first indoor endeavor of the year. Alabama, Florida, LSU, Missis sippi and Mississippi State will rep resent the Southeastern Conference at the meet. Florida has one of the top mile relay teams in the nation while LSU features its hurdlers Larry Shipp and Allen Misher. Several independents and schools from smaller conferences round out the meet. For a trio of Aggies, this will be the first outing of the indoor season. Hurdler Shilton Baker is slated to go in the 60-yard highs after recovering from a sore knee. Freshman half- miler Tony Wheeler will make his years.” first appearance ever in an Aggie uni form in the two-mile relay and the 880-yard dash. Sprinter Charles Dawson is also expected to be ready. Dawson is one of only six seniors on the Aggie squad. “We’ve improved tremendously from the week before, Assistant Coach Ted Nelson said. “Our young men are working very hard. This is the best attitude we’ve had in several Houston passes take third straight victory Associated Press HOUSTON — Houston Rockets substitute forward John Johnson says everyone thinks of him as a shooter but he can pass the ball too. Johnson had nine assists Wednes day night as the Rockets scored a 108-93 National Basketball Associa tion victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers. “Everybody thinks of me as a scorer or shooter but I can pass the ball, too, ” Johnson said. “I can pene trate and then it’s tough for a canter to pick me up because that means their small forward has to guard our center. And we have big guys who can shoot.” The Rockets outscored Cleveland 17-2 in the first five minutes of the third quarter to secure the victory, Houston’s third in a row. Houston’s Eddie Ratleff and Kevin Kunnert controlled a Rocket defense that held the Cavs to 30 points in the first 20 minutes of the second half. Ratleff blocked two shots, had a steal and scored 11 points in the third quarter. Calvin Murphy scored 25 points for Houston, passed out 10 assists and pressured the Cavalier guards hill court during the second half as the Rockets took over. Rudy Tom- janoyich added 20 points for Hous ton. Houston was behind 49-48 at the half but owned a 65-61 lead with seven minutes to play in the third quarter. MONTREAL — The main Olym pic stadium and swimming hall will be ready for the 1976 Summer Games in July although some of the facilities will be temporary. Quebec Municipal Affairs Minis ter Victor Goldbloom, who is re sponsible for the Olympics installa tions board, told a news conference Wednesday the stadium will he completed at a more relaxed pace after the Games are over. The news conference was hilled two weeks ago as the moment for the announcement of a decision on whether the Summer Olympics were to take place. “It is clear that the facilities will not be complete, Goldbloom said. “But facilities for athletes, officials and spectators will be sufficiently complete for the holding of the Games.” The optimistic prediction by Goldbloom was based on continuing good labor relations on the Olympic site. “Success is of course conditional on the continued close cooperation of all concerned,” he said, adding he hoped the workers’ sense of pride would prevent any walkouts in the future. While he said no specific assur ance had been given that further labor disputes would not disrupt the current completion schedule, he said he was heartened by reports from board members concerning their daily meetings with union rep resentatives on the site. A “disaster plan” was still avail able, Goldbloom said, in case the stadium could not be finished in time for the opening. He refused to reveal details of this plan. There are 22 senior letter® gible for the Heart Award, i which have been named season honors. Ed Simonini was miniti sociated Press Southwest G ence Player of the Year, Post Defensive Player of tfe arid United Press Interna Co-Defensiv< Garth Ten las Times Hei the Year, Fort Worth Star-XeH Defensive Player of the VeiH UPI Co-Defensive Player. A Center Vol. tea rress interna sice Player of the ■ fen Napel was namefl t lei aid Defensive PH 0 Year. Other Aggies who received! season honors include twdpl the AP and the UPI All, teams, and eight were namedl VP and UPI All-Southwestc| ence teams. A&M (iday, wa Univt nin< lie is the eved to b ! sculj: who i; 1, Hou Dor rate, f is, Foie A-XDXTLT oisriLnr every 7: 00 ~ 9 : 00 R^JiritofA&I |dedicat we feature: feu™ Roller Skating Uestatu TUESDf!" e n “ Bumper Cars I'S Miniature Golf ire. They 1 it “dated. Shooting Gal'el 8 ™ aro HnrJIirw^CO Game Machi Photographs « Concessions «^ resthe ★ * A *' * Poohs Pai 846 846 ires the s be al . To has liance, ant 5737 « in ' ,0,le Williams 5736 Bigsymbc 3re sculp MCDONALD’S Mcoo„ a ,« intramural highlights By Bryan was Be develc psed sess JTs Rip Crocker The JTs, an off-campus independent team ran over the Crocker Hall inde pendent team, 84-14 on Tuesday night. The game was actually a one-sided affair with the experience and expertise of the JTs prevailing. In the first half, the JTs scored 42 points as opposed to 6 for the Crocker team. Tom Smith was the lead ing scorer for the JTs in the first half with 10 points. Dave Fleig was next with 6 in the lirst half. In the second half, Fleig and Smith were once again the top scorers with Fleig scoring 10 points to Smith’s 6. The major difficulty faced by the Crocker team was the inability of the defenders to keep from fouling. In al most all layups executed by the JTs, the shooter was fouled while in the act of shooting. Under IM rules, if a player is fouled in the act of shooting and does not make the goal, his team is awarded one point and gets the ball out of bounds. If the field goal is successful, the scoring team receives one additional point and the opposing team gets the ball out of bounds. The Crocker team made a total of 30 fouls in the game — 15 in each half, while the JTs only had 4 fouls, all of them oecuring in the second half of play. Remember, IM Basketball play submit city off d utility bllege S i water a begins next week and will contii for mi throughout the semester. Games played Monday through Thun nights from 5:00 to 11:00 p.m. Any interested in watching the play, even they’re not playing, is invited toc< id terms. Bryan Ma and watch these games. Action tak place both on the third floor and quest for; main floor of G. Roll ie White. Station ding tod; College sday to 'ave Brj ' proposa Attention: Managers % Special Events A mandatory team managers meeting will be held on Thurs day, February 12 at 5:00 p.m. The meeting is for slow pitch softball team managers and will be held in room 267 of G. Rollie White Coliseum. Each team must send a representative as the game schedules will be given out only at this time. Points Leaders ie coiie lity Rate In the battle for IM champioiw i ]j s { Q f points, the following teams lead P l.(.]y w j la( respective divisions as of the end oft' E. ^ Fall Semester. The Military leader n rini . E-l with 304 points, followed doseU | r E-2 with 287. In the Fish division Sri |L *.l . leads with 279 points while H-2 isd® ai ) behind with 267. The fight for Civife L m dorm sports supremacy is led by Dn* I e diner with 417 points, with Walton in sec* 1 f e P ro Po: with 375 and Moore third with firm points. Keathley leads the Women’s^ re bill for t vision with 279 points to Mosher’s® Calculated while Hughes and Fowler round K the division with 248 and 243 poft 1 I respectively. Ray Wottrich of the JTs, an off-campus independent team, goes up for two points in a game last week against the independent team from Crocker Hall. The JTs won the contest handily by the score of 84-14. IM Calendar Sport Handball Singles Slow Pitch Softball Table Tennis Singles Tennis Doubles Golf Doubles Wrestling Fast Pitch Softball Entries Open 1/26 2/2 2/2 2/9 2/9 2/16 2/16 Entries Close 2/3 2/10 2/10 2/17 2/17 2/24 2/24 Be sure to watch this ad weekly for information about the Special events planned for this semester by the IM Department. The first of these events will be a Frisbee throwing contest to be held soon. More information will be In next week’s ad. Other special events now being planned include canoe rac ing, arm wrestling, Co-Rec innertube polo, and the second annual Superstar competition. Meanwhile, basketball competition is being held each week, Monday through Thursday nights from 5:00 till 11:00. The games are held on the third floor of G. Rollie White as well as on the main floor of the coliseum. Military, Fish, Women, Civilian, Co-Rec, and Recreational teams compete each night so be sure to come and watch the action even if you are not playing yourself. Referees’ Corner Four officials meetings are upcoming and should be put on your calend' They include an optional rap session from 4:00 to 6:00 p. m., Feb. 3, in the MS' per ce: ^ater co: Cafeteria, Main Floor, MSC. This is a basketball officials meeting as aretk tens meetings on FebruarySand 12 in room 267, G. R. White at 7:00 or 8:00 p.m The last meeting is a softball officials meeting to lie held in room 232ofC. White at 6:30 p.m. on February 3. This ad is prepared under the direction of the Intramural Of fice and is sponsored by McDon ald s on University Drive. Pho tos and stories b\ Paul Nettell. JOSE CUERVO* TEQUILA. 80 PROOF. IMPORTED AND BOTTLED BY © 1975. HEUBLEIN. INC.. HARTFORD. CONN. 40C uding fu dwell (set ^^59, wh cost won hperl.C °ns, an i pay bllege S : under t IsColleg an s adm 1 costs. Ir its own £ ts. Another i jse that p automa ^ouncilm 7 that ter ^Id autor g s. The c< e e separa and sewa
