Page 10 THE BATTALION
MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1978
Dickey leads Ag track team
United Press International
AUSTIN, Texas — Burly Texas
A&M running back Curtis Dickey
raced from behind to give the Ag
gies a victory in the 400-meter re
lays Sunday to highlight the finals of
the 51st Texas Relays.
Dickey and his teammates —
Charles Butler, Ray Brooks and Les
lie Kerr — posted a 39.35 winning
time in the relay event, giving
Dickey a good chance to be named
outstanding performer at the relays.
Although no team totals were
kept, reporters and meet officials
vote on the top performer and top
team. The results will be announced
Monday.
Dickey, a 6-2, 205-pounder, also
raced to the championship in the
100-meter dash on Saturday with a
time of 10.22.
Dickey was at about the middle of
the pack when he received the ba
ton, then roared past the field for
the victory in the 400-meter relay.
“I was in third or fourth place
when I received the baton, but our
handoff gave me a good running
start,” said Dickey, who had not
been on the track before the meet
for two weeks because of spring
football drills.
Kerr and other Aggie teammates
conceded they could have improved
on their relay time with more prac
tice.
“Brooks ran up on me and our ex
change was pretty sorry,” Kerr said.
“But Dickey and I had a pretty good
pass.”
Kenyan John Kebiro outdistanced
the field with a 8:43.02 to capture
first place in the 3,000-meter in
vitational steeple-chase — finishing
a full second ahead of New Mexico’s
Harrison Koroso.
The University of Arkansas,
6,400-meter relay team of Steve
Baker, Tom Camien, Michael
Lawther and Mark Anderson raced
to a 16:28.1 to win the 6,400-meter
relay with a 70-yard victory over
runnerup Arizona.
Southern University’s Ricky
Davenport captured first place in
the collegiate 110-meter hurdles —
with a 13.68 time, edging New
Mexico’s Fatwel Kimiayo, also a
Kenyan, who had won the 400-
meter hurdles the day before.
Kimiayo also ran a leg on New
Mexico’s winning distance medley
team to earn consideration, along
with Dickey, for outstanding per
former.
A field of seven runners ran in
another main event, the Jerry
Thompson Mile Run, but the win
ner — Randy Wilson of Oklahoma
— came in with a relatively slow
406.74.
Handball in the Olympics?
By AVA KING
A freshman from Texas A&M Uni
versity may represent the United
States in the 1980 Olympics in a
sport that is relatively new to the
Southwest.
The sport is European team hand
ball and the student is Brenna Kerns.
The word “handball” used here is
misleading.
“Team handball is not in the re
motest way related to handball, ” said
Texas A&M P.E. instructor Mark
Noble. “It is so similar to basketball
that it’s easy to make the transition
from basketball to team handball.
The game is played on an indoor
court that is longer and wider than a
regular basketball court. Each team
consists of six court players and one
goalie. The object of the game is to
advance the ball, which looks like a
small soccer ball, by passing and
dribbling. The ball is thrown past the
goalie through the goal to score.
Team handball is played much like
international basketball with a faster
pace and more steps.
“Agile football players and tough
basketball players make the best
team handball players,” Noble said.
The A&M team handball club was
organized this semester by Noble. It
consists of 23 men and one woman.
“But, we are always looking for bet
ter talent,” Noble said.
Kerns spent all of last week at the
Olympic Training Center in Col
orado Springs, Colo., qualifying for
the U.S. Women’s National Hand
ball Team. Kerns was the youngest
player at the training camp and the
only one from Texas. The women
worked out six hours a day perfecting
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the finer points of the game.
“I’ve never worked so hard in my
life,” Kerns said. “I broke one finger
and jammed another one.”
Until she came to A&M last
semester, Kerns had never heard of
European team handball. In high
school she ran cross country track
and played baseball.
How did Kerns become interested
in this sport?
“Mark (Noble) saw me wearing my
letter jacket and asked me if I was
good at athletics,” she said. “Then he
told me about the handball team and
gave me a form to fill out.”
Kerns will be attending other
training camps in preparation for the
Olympic trials, which will be tele
vised on NBC. Two other Aggie
women applied for the team but
were not accepted.
The U.S. Team Handball Federa
tion has invited the A&M team to
participate in the 1978 U.S. National
Team Handball Championships to
be held at New York’s Hofstra Uni
versity in May. There A&M will be
competing against such teams as
West Point, the Air Force Academy,
and UCLA. Each team is limited to
sending 16 players and three staff
members.
“I plan to send my best 16 players
to New York,” Noble said. “I don’t
care if.they are men or women. ”
The Men’s Regional Team Hand
ball Tryouts will be held in June.
Fifteen men from each region of the
United States (north, south, east and
west) will get an all-expense-paid
week in Colorado to compete in the
National Sports Festival Trials and
Team Selection. Out of those 60 men
the National Training Team of 20
players will be picked.
Noble hopes that possibly two or
four of those chosen will be Aggies.
Plans are under way to make team
handball a regular P.E. course and
an intramural sport for the fall
semester of 1978.
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SALT LAKE CITY —Billie Jean
King and Martina Navratilova say
they’ll now try to extend their tour
nament winning string this year to
eight when they get together for the
1978 Wimbledon women’s doubles.
doubles — the $100,000 Bridges
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King and Navratilova ran their
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starts this year when they won the
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Wade of England and France’s Fran-
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ping Navratilova’s winnings for the
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By STEVE MAYER
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much needed offense while boosting
the defense as well. It proved itself
successful as the team defeated Ar
kansas 5-5 in Fort Worth last
weekend.
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