THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1978
Page 7
~SMU drowns conference in meet
By MARK PATTERSON
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With one more event left in the
VC swimming championships a
id cheer began at one end of the
niversity of Texas’ new pool.
|SMU Mustangs. Conference
lampions 1957, 1958, 1959,...”
id it ended, in succession with
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out-swam the conference and
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he Mustangs won 15 of the 18
imming events, setting 13 con-
nce records in the process and
ed the meet with 683 points,
as, finishing a distant second,
piled 366.5 points in the three-
event. Houston finished with
.5 while A&M swam into fourth
h a 182 total.
ven in defeat, there were some
h points for the teams trying to
ipete with SMU.
he hosting Longhorns proved
the Mustangs are human in at
t one event. Tony Scott, a
ghorn diver, won the one-meter
^ng event, an event that SMU
won for the past five years. The
ghorns swept fourth through
;h place in the same event.
,s for the Aggies, the meet was
solely as a stepping stone for
NCAA championships in Long
ich and the AAU championships
i this spring.
lob Leland, the junior out of
an, led the Aggies in qualifying
the nationals with outstanding
Ibrmances in the three events.
:land finished third in the 200-
breaststroke and second in the
100-yard breaststroke. Leland also
swam the second leg of the 400-yard
medley relay team in which the Ag
gies finished third, but qualified for
both NCAA and AAU cham
pionships. Included on the relay
team are Shawn O’Gorman, Chuck
Burr and Greg Meek.
"We had a seven-second drop off
our best time this year on that med
ley relay,” said swimming coach
Dennis Fosdick on the performance
of the relay team. “That was just an
astounding performance. And I
think we can get even faster for the
nationals.’’
It became a battle for the Aggies
to hold on to fourth place which
they gained on the first day of com
petition. Tech, finishing with 154
points for the meet, was within
striking distance of the Aggies
throughout and it took some
record-breaking performances for
A&M to hold off the Red Raiders.
On Thursday, Roger Lein,
swimming in the 500-yard freestyle
event for A&M, finished eighth in
the field, but turned in an A&M
school record with his performance.
Lein returned to the water Friday to
swim in the 200-yard freestyle.
Though he finished in the eighth
position he again broke a school rec
ord with his time of 1:45.45.
But in his best performance of the
meet Lein swam the 1650-yard
freestyle event and finished a strong
third, breaking his third school rec
ord of the meet.
In the same event, Simon Gray of
Houston won turning in the fastest
time in the nation, swimming the
1650-yards in 15:16.36.
In three other record-breaking
performances, Chuck Barr finished
fifth in the 100-yard butterfly with a
time of 50.56 qualifying him for the
AAU championship, Ed Kahil also
qualified for the AAU’s. Shawn
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O’Gorman placed fourth in the
200-yard backstroke with a time of
1:54.70, breaking the oldest school
record that dated back to 1974, and
Hugo Cuenca turned in a time of
1:53.62 finishing seventh in the
200-yard butterfly.
But the story of the Aggies re
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four school records and has a chance
to be the first swimmer from A&M
to earn points in the NCAA cham
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“I just want to make it into the
finals out in Long Beach, said Le
land after his record-breaking per
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swimming with the best people in
the nation.”
Coach Fosdick was pleased with
the outcome of the meet.
“This (meet) is what we’ve been
training for all year,” said Fosdick.
“We can come here to do our best,
but we can also see where we need
help in our recruiting.
“If we don’t get lucky with our re
cruiting we’ll be fighting for third
place forever. The way Texas and
SMU are swimming it will take new
recruits and some walk-on help if we
hope to ever compete with those
two.
“And it looks like SMU will add
79 and ’80 to their list.”
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