THE BATTALION
TUESDAY. MARCH 1. 1977
Page 9
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Battalion photo by Kevin Venner
Wally Swanson (No. 54) goes high to block Jeff Swanson’s
(No. 50) lay up. The Aggies defeated the Mustangs 89-79,
and will play Houston in The Summit Thursday night at 7.
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By GLEN JOHNSON
There was tenseness in the air at
the University of Houston swim
ming pool Saturday, when the Texas
A&M women’s swim team went into
the final meet of the Texas Associa
tion of Intercollegiate Athletics for
Women (TAIAW) state swim meet.
Texas A&M and the University of
Texas were nearly tied after two
days of swimming. U.T. led by the
end of Thursday, but the Aggies
took the lead on Friday. For their
grand finale, the Aggies won the
meet with a 12 point lead over U .T.,
the next closest competitor. The
final score was 525 points for Texas
A&M.
This is the first time in the history
of the women’s team at Texas A&M
that they were able to win a state
meet.
Members of the U.T. swim team
sported T-shirts bragging of past
victories at state meets. They
boasted with the saying “Some
things never change.” The women
on the Texas A&M team plan to re
taliate with T-shirts saying “Some
things DO change.”
Head swimming coach Dennis
Fosdick credited the whole team
with the victory. “Everyone just
worked real hard, and we pulled it
out,” he said.
For a while, the fate of the team
rested on the shoulders of the div
ers. Had they done poorly, Texas
A&M would have had to settle for
second place, but the Aggies took
sixth and seventh place in the
three-meter diving which gave
jthem the points that A&M needed
to stay in the lead. This was an un
expected asset to winning the meet,
Fosdick said.
The top swimmers who drove the
Aggies to victory were Debbie
Starr, Shirley Hill, Cindy Hallaran,
Kathy Singletary, Stacy Pletz and
Susie Lynde.
Jeannie Buckles and Jennie Hicks
also brought winning points for the
Aggies.
When one considers the mul
titude of schools entering the meet,
which included all the colleges and
universities in Texas, it becomes
easier to appreciate the Aggies’
victory.
Starr took sixth place in the 100-
yard freestyle with a time of 55.5
seconds, a seventh in the 50-yard
freestyle with a 25.3, and eighth in
the 200-yard freestyle with a 2:00.5,
which was 3 seconds better than her
best previous time . She also par
ticipated in the 800-yard freestyle
relay with Hill, Hicks, and Lynde
who took first place with a time of
7:56, and in the 400-yard freestyle
relay with Hill, Hicks and Buckles
who took first place with a 3:37.9.
Starr along with Singletary, Linda
Melis and Julie Krienke took third
place in the 200-yard freestyle re
lay, while she and Buckles, Pletz
and Krienke took third in the 200-
yard medley relay.
Hill placed first in the 50-yard
freestyle with a 24.71, which is a
Texas record, and she qualified for
the AIAW national meet in this race
as well as in the 200-yard freestyle
were she took third place with a
time of 1:02.2.
New mortuary
has top priority
over soccer club
BUDAPEST (UPI) — The City
Council of the West Hungarian
town of Kibiti first voted in favor of
building a new mortuary until the
Council chairman explained that a
new dressing room for the local soc
cer club would be more important.
“Comrades,” the chairman said,
“we have to look forward. The dead
are not producing for our Socialist
country.”
A few weeks later, after the soc
cer club had dropped to the bottom
of the league following a series of
defeats, the decision was revoked.
The half-finished dressing room
was torn down and the mortuary
will be built partly with the used
material.
Hill took second place in the
100-yard freestyle with a 53.8 and a
sixth in the 200-yard individual
medley with a 2:18.8.
Lynde, who is currently the
team’s most versitile swimmer,
swam less than her full capability,
according to Fosdick. However, she
placed in six events.
She took second place in the
100-yard individual medley with a
1:02.2, which also qualified her for
that event at nationals. She also
placed second in the 200-yard but
terfly with a 2:11, the 200-yard indi
vidual medley with a 2:13.3 and the
400-yard individual medley with a
4:41.
Lynde captured fifth place in the
200-yard backstroke with a 2:17.5.
Buckles, a returning winner from
last year, took third place in the
50-yard backstroke and in the 100-
yard backstroke with a time of 1:03.
Hicks earned the third place in
the 500-yard freestyle with a 5:09.4,
which is also a state record.
Pletz set a Texas record in the
200-yard breaststroke by taking a
first with a time of 2:31.5. She
finished first in the 100-yard
breaststroke with a 1:10.5, and third
in the 50-yard breaststroke with a
33.4.
Singletary finished with a surpris
ing sixth place in the 100-yard indi
vidual medley with a 1:04.4. She
also finished seventh in the 50-yard
butterfly.
The excitement of the three-day
meet reached a thrilling peak when
the women realized their victory.
The Aggies took first place in the
final event just to show that they
could do it, and qualified for the
Amature Athletics Union nationals
in the process.
“We were going nuts,” Starr said.
The whole place went wild. We
knew that if the divers could hold
their place, we would only have to
place fourth or better to win the
meet, but we tried to take first place
to show everyone.”
The Texas Tech team even joined
the Aggies in singing the Aggie War
Hymn on the starting blocks in
celebration of their victory over
Texas University.
iggies sweep Razorback series
By WAYNE NELSON
parked by strong pitching per-
pnces, the Texas Aggie baseball
m opened their Southwest Con-
nce (SWC) season last Friday
Saturday by sweeping a three
pe series from the Arkansas
Bryn torbacks.
riday afternoon, sophomore
it-hander Mark Ross hurled a
jen-hitter to lead the Aggies to a
| shutout over the Hogs. The win
led Ross’ season record to 3-0.
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It the plate the Aggies collected
pits on 36 times at bat.
Leading the Aggie batters Friday
ter Turner hit home runs in the
winning effort.
Head coach Tom Chandler was
pleased with the team’s first SWC
outing and Ross performance.
“Ross really did a fine job,”
Chajidler said. “We wanted to leave
him in there as long as we could^
and with this warm weather we
really didn’t think about hurting his
arm.
“More importantly, he’s got that
first one under his belt now.
“Overall the team effort was a
good one, probably one of our best
this season,” said Chandler.
The “good effort” carried over
into Saturday afternoon as the Ag
gies again dominated the Razor-
backs, taking both games of the
doubleheader, 4-3 and 4-0.
In the first game John Pockrus
came out of the dugout to relieve
David Pieczynski in the top of the
sixth inning to help the Aggies es
cape with a narrow 4-3 win.
Pieczynski was credited with the
win while Pockrus was given the
save. The win gave Pieczynski a 3-1
season reqord.
Highlighting the first game was a
three-run homer by fresbman Mike
Hurdle in the bottom half of the
fourth inning.
Arkansas quickly countered with
a three-run fifth inning, but with
the relief pitching of Pockrus, the
Aggies were able to hold on for the
win.
The second game saw the best
pitching performance of the series
with junior college transfer Jim
McWilliams hurling a three-hit
shutout. McWilliams struck out 10
batters in the first five innings and
allowed his only hits during those
innings.
A&M collected its four runs with
the aid of Winston Whiddon, who
went 2-for-3 in the second game.
He gained a home run and three
runs batted to his record.
Whiddon, - who has been
sidelined by an ankle injury, saw his
first action in four games.
The Aggies, who are now 3-0 in
SWC play and 11-2 in season
games, travel to Lubbock this
weekend for a three game series
with Texas Tech.
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people were killed by the ruthless hands of Chiang Kai-shek’s troops.
£ Thirty years later the Chiang’s regime is still ruling the Taiwanese people, not by
the mandate of the majority, but by the terror of martial law, the secret police, and
the totalitarian rule of the Kuomintang machine.
^In memory of the innocent victims of February 28 massacre and the thousands
of Political prisoners today in Taiwan, we condemn the illegitimate and cruel
regime of the Chinese National government in Taiwan.
democratic and independent Taiwan is the ultimate goal of the 16 million
Taiwanese people, including those who immigrated to Taiwan when the Com
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