Page 10 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1979
Ladies defeat Panola
By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Sports Staff
In what was nothing more than a
controlled scrimmage, the Aggie
Ladies basketball team easily
downed Panola Junior College
88-51. It could of been worse.
Every healthy player on the Texas
A&M bench saw game-time as the
Aggies connected on 50.6 percent of
their shots in the contest. Peggy
Pope lead the Aggie scorers, hitting
12 shots from the field and two free
throws for 26 points. Pope also pul
led down 12 rebounds to lead all
players in both categories. Susan
Kimbro grabbed 11 rebounds and
added 14 points as the Aggie Ladies
ran their season record to 23-14.
“This game was worth playing,”
Coach Wanda Bender said of the
Aggie victory. “They weren’t the
strongest team that we have played
but we needed to come out and
score some points. We came out to
night, loosened up and ran with the
ball. And I think we can do the same
thing against stronger teams.
“Peggy and Julia (Crawford, eight
points and six rebounds) did tonight
what I’ve wanted them to do all year
— go to the basket with the ball.
We’ve been working on penetration
in practice, driving inside instead of
just turning and shooting.
“I know that we can go to the bas
ket on anyone. We have just never
loosened up and done it.
On the strength of Pope’s 18
first-half points, the Aggies jumped
out to a 40-29 lead at the break. If
the Ladies were affected by the loss
to Texas Monday night, their first
half performance didn’t show it.
“The girls realized that we played
the No. 2-ranked team in the na
tion,” Bender said of the Long
horns, “but we outplayed Texas in
the second half. We hit 11 out of 27
shots while Texas only hit 10 out of
27. So these girls proved to them
selves that they can play open bas
ketball with any team.”
The Panola game, one of the last
warm-ups before the state tourna
ment beginning Thursday, Feb. 22,
was special for four members of the
Texas Aggie team. Pope, Lisa
Hughes, Karen Gentz and Lola
Baker played on last year’s Panola
team that won the junior college na
tional championship. Wednesday
night’s game was the first meeting
against their old team since the
four’s departure.
“My high school coach (Sandra
Walker, in her first year as a head
coach at Panola and Pope’s high
school coach) had me play defense
in high school and I never had the
chance to shoot,” Pope said “To
night I wanted to show her I could
score. I had fun.”
Hughes felt a little strange play
ing against her old team.
“It felt weird guarding No. 10
(Margaret Wortham) tonight,” said
Hughes, selected last year to the
National All-Tournament team. “I
worked against her all last year and I
had to guard her tonight.
“The win tonight brought us up a
little bit after the Texas game. It felt
good.”
Tonight, in their final home ap
pearance of the season, the Aggie
Ladies face the University of
Texas-Arlington. Tip-off is
scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
“UTA is a good basketball team,”
Coach Bender said of tonight’s op
ponent. “It is ranked in the top 10 in
the state. So it won’t be just another
game.”
The game marks the final appear-
ence for Aggies Cindy Gough and
Margaret Byrne. The hall club’s two
seniors will perform for the last time
before the home-town fans.
“Tomorrow’s game will be dedi
cated to the two of them from us,”
Pope said of the UTA game. “It’s
our last home game of the year and
we’ve decided to make the most of
it.”
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Track team rolls
to SWC indoor mee\
By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Sports Staff
Last year the Texas Aggie men’s
track team was like a snowball: the
Aggies started out slow during the
indoor season, began building and
maturing throughout the outdoor
season and finally reached full
strength at the end of the season by
winning the Southwest Conference
outdoor championship in Austin.
The defending outdoor confer
ence champs will be trying to win
the sixth annual SWC indoor track
and field championship tomorrow in
Fort Worth at the Tarrant County
Convention Center.
But right now, the snowball is just
about the same size it was last year
going into the indoor meet — small.
The Aggies have had some out
standing performances from several
tracksters during the short indoor
season. In general, the wonderful
weather of January cut the Aggies
workout time drastically and
coaches Charles Thomas and Ted
Nelson feel the Aggies may not
exactly blow everyone out of the
Convention Center but they will get
a lot of points from some top per
formers.
Halfback-sprinter Curtis Dickey
has been spreading the name of
Texas A&M around the country by
running in invitational meets from
coast-to-coast. Dickey won a special
60-yard dash in Los Angeles over
three other speedy football players
including Texas’ Johnny “Lam”
Jones. He then flew to Albuquerque
to run against Houston McTear and
Clancy Edwards and placed third.
Dickey headed east the next week
to run in the Millrose Games in
New York City’s Madison Square
Garden where he placed fourth be
hind the likes of McTear, Harvey
Glance and Steve Riddick. The next
night he ran with the Aggie team in
Oklahoma City where he placed
first again.
Dickey has travelled so much in
the past two weeks. College Station
must look foreign to him.
“I was tired from all the travel
ling,” Dickey said. “My legs started
feeling real heavy. But I’m always
ready to run.
“I believe I ll win it again (refer
ring to the SWC 60-yard dash which
he won last year). I’ve been pretty
pleased with my running so far,
even though I’ve only been working
out two weeks and the weather has
been lousy.
T’ve worked on my starts pretty
much and they’re improving,” he
said.
Dickey is also the defending
NCAA indoor 60-yard da sll
and is planning to repe a
again this year.
,h 1 thin f K ru i un 'p»»«j
h .> c “, nf ; de , nt (i«
said. I think I can win it-
I m going to have some to
Glance. 1 ”
Dickey is not the oi
has been having a great ii
somQuarter-miler, Leslie
high-jumper Ji mmy Howard
been breaking some indoorr,
and are expected to place
SWC meet, as is shot. pilttt .
Scott who will go into the™
ence meet with the seconds
door throw in the conference
Kerr broke Curtis Mi
standing A&M indoor 440. Va -
record of 48.8 with a 48.5it
the Northeast Louisiana Invife
track meet in Monroe.
Howard broke two „ 1U1W
jump records; one in Monrcc
the other at Oklahoma Cit; |
ard cleared 7-1 at Monro™
Oklahoma City to break the
at both of those meets,
Scott threw a personal best
feet-7-inches and became the
best all-time shot-putter at
A& M. That is quite an hona
sidering that the two meninfe
him won Olympic medals;
Matson won a gold medal,
1968 Olympics and DarrowH;
won a silver medal in
Olympics.
But like everything else,.
good news and bad news. Th'
news is that quarterbackspu
hurdler-long jumper Mike!
will not be running track foi
this spring. Mosley was the lei
scorer for the Aggie track ten
year.
“It hurts, but he just has
do in football,” Nelson said,
terback is a skill position _
very important that he worh
spring football drills. Buti
hurts when you lose your Is
scorer.
“We also lost quarter-mile
thur Williams who anchorei
conference winning mile
team, to North Texas Stale
said. “He transferred so he
play basketball there. That k
because he was just a freshra
year and was second in the
ence in the 400-meter dash
mile relay is hurting at this,
But the Aggies are not do»
out by any means. In fact, Tl
feels they have a good shot
indoor championship and ai
better chance at the outdoor
pionship again.
Ruggers meet Lumberjai
The Texas A&M rugby club
travels to Nacogdoches this
weekend to play Stephen F. Austin.
The Aggies are currently ranked
third in State Cup competition. The
Aggies are coming off a 45-0 win
over the Galveston rugby club last
weekend.
The rugby club is celebrat
lOth-year anniversary. Sin
founding in 1969, the club k
the state title twice and the
title twice. Anyone who
terested in joining the team
vited to practice Monday-Tl
at 5 p.m. on the maindrillfif
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