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By PAUL McGRATH
Battalion Staff
Almost, but not quite. Nearly, but
not near enough.
Those words could apply to half of
the schools present at the fourth an
nual Southwest Conference Indoor
Track and Field Championship last
Friday night. A record crowd of
9,553 in Ft. Worth’s County Con
vention Center witnessed the closest
and most exciting SWC track meet in
recent years.
The final tally of team points
showed the University of Houston
the winner with 43 V2 to Baylor’s 43.
Texas A&M finished with 41, Texas
had 38 V2, Rice closed with 35 points
and Arkansas had 25. The only teams
out of contention were Texas Tech
with nine points, SMU with four and
TCU with only one point.
With one event remaining, the
high jump, five teams still had hopes
of claiming the team title. Coach
Charles Thomas’ Aggies held a pre
carious one point lead over the
Cougars with the Bears, Owls and
Longhorns tied with 35 points, six
behind the leaders.
While workmen disassembled the
wooden track and the clock neared
midnight, the high jumpers strug
gled to pass safely over a slender,
metallic bar. If they had not been
acquainted with pressure be
fore, they soon did as the situation
forced them to suddenly become
next of kin. The championship was to
be detenuined by the spring in their
legs.
After the narrowing process was
concluded, Baylor’s Kevin Delorey
won the event and six points for his
team. Delorey s victory, a repeat of
last year, coupled with teammate
Bill Wimberley’s fourth place finish,
appeared to give the title to Baylor
for the second straight year. But
Houston’s Greg Caldwell tied for
second with Texas’ Terry Daven
port, adding three and one-half
points to the Cougars’ total and
providing the narrow margin of
victory.
An inch here or a slip there could
have given the crown to any of the
top five contenders. Misfortune
especially rode hard for the Aggies as
A&M’s top contender in the 880-
yard run, Tony Wheeler suffered a
leg cramp while leading in his pre
liminary heat.
Thomas said his team could have
won the meet if Wheeler had not
been injured, pointing out that
Wheeler would have placed high in
the 880 and also could have scored
points by anchoring the two-mile
relay team. Wheeler won the half-
mile last spring at the SWC outdoor
meet.
But still the Aggies were close.
Their best long jumper, Reggie
Jamerson, placed fourth in the
event, one and a quarter inches out
of third. The mile relay quartet of
Karl Figgs, Chuck Butler, Shifton
Baker and Ron McGonigle finished
third behind Texas and Rice in a
tight race. Only the width of a dime
separated the Aggies’ from second
place.
The lane draw was the biggest fac
tor in the mile relay Thomas said.
Figgs, who placed second in the 600
yard dash, ran A&M’s lead leg, and
got a bad start due to running on the
outside lane.
While ill luck shone upon the Ag
gies, just the opposite seemed to
walk hand in hand with the Cougars.
A Texas Tech man, the favored team
in the distance medley relay, fell
down during his leg of that event,
allowing several teams, including
Houston, to finish higher than they
normally would have.
Another such slip gave the
Cougars addtional points in the mile
relay when a TCU runner dropped
the baton while leading the race.
Without that point Baylor would
have won the meet.
Houston sprinter Greg Edmonds
defeated Texas freshman Johnny
“Lam” Jones in the 60-yard dash in
the meet’s feature race. Added to his
previous win over Harvey Glance,
Edmonds has now defeated one-half
of the medal-winning United States
sprint relay team.
The Aggies received fine perform
ances from Baker and polevaulters
Brad Blair and Pat Ruehle. Baker
vyon the 60-yard high hurdles con
vincingly in 7.31 seonds. His hur
dles’ victory was his first in a cham
pionship meet.
Blair and Ruehle both cleared
16-0 feet to finish one-two in the pole
vault. It was Ruehle’s best indoor
vault, coming after a year of non
competition while being red-shirted
by Thomas.
Blair joined Wheeler on the injury
list by cutting his ankle after unsuc
cessfully attempting to vault a meet
record 16-7 feet. His injury is not
serious and he should be ready to
compete again soon.
Tommy Glass and Joel Vogt
finished second and fifth in the
1,000-yard run(2:12.8 and 2:14.8),
while Jim Brannen placedse
the 880-yard run in 1:57.4
Frank West, who wasdouli
the meet, placed second
put with a heave of 55-3 J
Teammates Randy Scott anj
Carter were fourth and
same event with throws ofjj
and 51-11 feet respectively,
The Aggies fared poorlyim
tance events as they scored
point in the mile, two-mi;.;
mile relay and distance medi
lay.
Two meet records were set
kansas’ Niall O’Shaughnesse,
2:05.5 in the 1,000-yard run,
ing the old mark by sixs«
Cecil Overstreet of Houslo
jumped Tech’s Canadian Oly
Jim MacAndrew with a
V2 feet in the long jump, neai
farther than the previous ro*
by Baylor’s Ricky Thompsoi
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DeKalb and runningback Leandrew
Brown (6-2, 203) of West Columbia
are also being heavily recruited.
Among the A&M hopefuls are de
fensive backs Basil Banks (5-10, 175)
from Galveston Ball, Sammy Sims
(5-11, 180) of Lubbock Estacado,
and Dan Davis of Texarkana. Quar
terbacks David Beal (5-11, 170)
from Russellville, Arkansas, John
Dawson (6-1, 175) of Dallas Hill-
crest, Mark Gibson (6-0, 180) of
Duncanville and Jennings Teel from
Big Lake.
offered many scholarships to stu
dent athletes on August 15, 1976.
Telephone contact is made fre
quently and coach Bellard visits the
home of each individual.
One area that the Aggies are not
hurting in is kicking. Freshman
David Applebee did an excellent
job this year, and super-kicker Tony
Franklin still has two years to set a
few more records.
With the A&M program doing as
well as it has the past few years, and
with the fine television coverage of
this year and last, the job of recruit
ing out of state is made slightly
easier. Coach Wright agree
hope to sign two, and possikk
out of state players. All
youngsters are very talen
could play other positions,
that the youngsters we havei
list and are recruiting are
quality.”
Obviously, the defensive backs
and quarterbacks are in demand at
Texas A&M. The Aggies established
their priorities in these areas before
this season. Fortunately, this year’s
crop of high school players was
flooded with excellent talent in
these positions. This is not to say
that there is a deficiency in the
other positions, such as lineman.
Billy Don Jackson (6-4, 235) of
Sherman, Hosea Taylor (6-4, 260) of
Longview, Tim Huffman (6-4, 265)
of Dallas, Thomas Jefferson and
Buzzy Nelson (6-2, 210) of San An
tonio Churchhill are super linemen
and are heavily recruited by all
schools.
The NCAA recruiting rules are
many and changing. Among these is
the 30 man signing limit, the limit of
three official visits by staff, and the
I prohibition of the players to offi-
fcially visit the college campuses
H until the seasons are over. Despite
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A&M women defeat Whart
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The Texas A&M women’s basket
ball team faces an aggressive Lamar
women’s team tonight at 5:15 in G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
“Lamar is basically the same as
last year,” coach Kay Don said.
“They have been beaten badly by
two of the same teams that have
beaten us — Sam Houston and Texas
Southern — so they should be about
equal to us in team ability.”
“Lamar is not a large team,"
coach Don said, “however their
players are aggressive and go after
the ball. That will be one of our
main problems because our girls are
not as aggressive as they should be
on the board.”
The Ags upped their record to 9-8
last Friday night with a 72-65 win
over the Wharton County Junior
College Pioneers. Wharton beat the
Aggies by three points earlier this
season on their home court.
“We lost our first game to them
because of team inexperience, but
now we have more maturity and
that contributed to our win over
Wharton,” Don said.
The two teams stayed neck-in-
neck until late in the first half when
the Pioneers ran into foul trouble
that cost them eight points in 1:28
seconds of the play. The Ags
capitalized on this and took a 16-
point lead into halftime, 44-28.
Wharton came back in the second
half and narrowed the deficit to two
points using a combination play
from Wharton’s Gayla Zwersche to 6
foot post Mamie Mauch.
“It took the girls a while to adjust
to the three big players that Whar
ton had on its team,” coach Don
said. “We had to adjust our defense
to man-to-man because when we
played them before, they only had
two really tall players.” Three start
ers on the Wharton team were
above 511”.
The combination of several 15-
foot baskets by A&M freshmen Von
Bunn plus several mid-courts passes
from Cindy Gough to Bunn widen
ed the Aggies’ lead to eight points,
which Wharton couldn’t overcome.
Bunn’s first
leg injury three
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A&M shot only 38 percet
the floor, hut made up for it
per cent on free throw
Pioneers had 42 per cent
field goals and free throws
Golfers finish thir
The Texas A&M golf team
finished third last weekend behind
Houston and Texas at the Atacoc-
sitita Invitational.
The Cougars won the tournament
with a 36 hole total of 736. Texas
was next with 750 followed by A&M
with 754.
Medalist for the tournament was
Mike Booker of Houston who shot a
two day total of 144, just one shot
behind A&M’s Rusty Day and
Monte Schauer.
Day held the first round lead with
a two under par 70. Coach Bob Ellis
was disappointed with thel
ing.
“‘We wanted to getsomeco
tion before we went to
Ellis said, “but we were
we would play a little betteri
did.
“Besides Rusty and Moi
played very poorly
players usually play mucli
than this. Hopefully we canj
together this week in Monte
Other Aggie finishers wen
Whiteside with 152,
with 153, Ricky Jamieson#:
and Jerry Orevaugh with
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