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Texas A&M’s Kyle Hawthorne makes one of 1979 baseball season gets started with an ex-
his frequent trips around the sunny basepaths hibition game with Hosei University of Tokyo,
last season. Hawthorne and the Aggies are Japan. Pre-game ceremonies are scheduled to
hoping for sunshine today as Texas A&M’s start at 3 p.m. at Olsen Feld.
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For all interested parties, there
will be approximately 75 female
swingers at the Briarcrest Country
Club Feb. 25, 26 and 27.
How could a respectable place
like a country club entertain such a
group of women?
It’s easy, because those 75
females will be swinging their
woods and irons on the golf course
in the fourth annual Texas A&M
Women’s Intercollegiate Golf Tour
nament.
A strong field of 15 teams will be
in Bryan to compete in the only
home tournament the A&M wo
mens team will have this season.
According to Aggie coach Kitty Hol
ley, the favorites in the three-day
tournament would have to he de
fending champion SMU, the Uni
versity of Tulsa, the University of
Texas and Texas A&M.
“We are very excited about play
ing this tournament at Briarcrest,
Holley said. “The course and the
greens are in great shape right now.
The only thing we are waiting on
now is a good report from the
weatherman.”
The tournament used to be
played at the Texas A&M campus
golf course but was moved to Briar
crest because the facilities are better
for a tournament.
“Briarcrest has a practice range
which the campus course doesn’t
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FORT WORTH — Freshman
Billy Allen scored a game-high 23
points Wednesday night to lead five
Southern Methodist players in dou
ble figures for an 89-77 win over
Texas Christian.
The game was a makeup of last
Saturday’s iced-out contest.
The win enabled SMU to tie
Houston for sixth place in the
Southwest Conference and force a
coin flip for home court advantage in
the first round of the post-season
tournament Saturday. The toss was
won by Houston, which will host
the Mustangs in a 12:40 p.m. game
Saturday.
Allen scored 14 points in the sec
ond half as the Mustangs broke out
of a ! 38-38'halftime tie into a com
manding eight-point lead just seven
minutes into the second half. TCU
never could get any closer than
seven points, that coming on a John
Mansbury jumper with 8:43 left.
Also in double figures for SMU
were Phil Hale with 18, Brad Bran
son at 14, Richard Harris at 12 and
Reggie Franklin 11.
Mansbury was high scorer for
TCU with 21 points while senior
Steve Scales, playing his last home
game, hit for a season-high 19 points
and pulled down a game-high 12 re
bounds.
TCU finished the regular season
at 6-20 overall and 1-15 in the SWC
while the Mustangs ended up 12-16
nnd 6-10 '
have and you really need for run
ning a good tournament,’’ Holley
said. “We are very pleased with the
arrangement we have at Briarcrest
and it’s just about as tough as any
course we ll play on this year.
“Lengthwise all the courses we
play on are about the same. But
Briarcrest is one of nicest courses
we ll play on and you can get in
trouble very fast if you’re not care
ful.”
The Aggies will have a little ad
vantage in the tournament in that
they practice at Briarcrest everyday
except Monday.
“This course is tight,’’ junior
Carol Berry said. “You have to play
placement rather than trying to kill
the hall because of the narrow fair
ways. If you hit too long, you’ll end
up in the trees.”
“Real aggressive players will
come in here and try to kill it and
that’s when they run into trouble,”
said Rita Aguilar.
The Texas A&M tournament is
the first one for the women this
spring and Holley is hoping for big
things from the young team later in
the year.
“Our goal is to get into the top 10
in the country,” Holley said. “We
have a young team with two
freshmen (Shirley Furlong and
Monica Welsh), two sophomores
(Andrea Welch and Kim Bauer), two
juniors (Aguilar and Berry), and one
senior (Betty Ghio).
“We have real good depth on our
team. In fact, there should be a
good recruiting crop out of high
school in 1980 and with another
good girl we could win the national
championship in two years. ”
Holley is expecting a lot out of the
younger players on the team but
golf is different from other team
sports in that the younger players
really can’t count on the older ones
to cover for them if they make a mis
take. Golf is an individual sport
where each player takes her own
shot and the crowd doesn’t roar con
stantly.
“I was very nervous my veiy first
qualifying round for a college tour
nament,” said Furlong. “You don’t
know what to do or how you’re
going to perform. I still get nervous
each time we have qualifying
rounds.
“We have to find our own motiva
tion,” Aguilar said. “We have to go
out and want to play well for our
selves and the team.
“A lot of our motivation is team
spirit,” Berry said, “we really want
to improve and go far nationally.”
A good sign of the motivation the
women have is their continuous at
tempt to practice in the Bryan-
College Station weather the last two
months. Besides, you can’t go to the
gym and hit golf halls when it’s rain-
in g-
“We’ve had about 10 to 15 days of
good practice since school started, ”
Holley said. “We’ve played five full
rounds (of 18 holes) and three or
four nine hole-rounds.”
“But we re not in any worse shape
than any of the other teams coming
to the tournament. The teams north
of us have had snow and ice so we
probably got more practice. All we
need is some good consistent prac
tice, and of course, good weather.
“But overall, we are in real good
shape this year. I think we could
finish seventh or eighth in the coun
try. I’m very confident of this team,
in fact, I ve already made reser
vations for the national tournament
in Stillwater, Okla. I’m ready to go
and I know the team is.
Although the Aggies are not
picked to win their tournament,
they should do well and could easily
win it.
“We play better as underdogs,
Holley said. “We mess around the
first days and then jump over about
five teams the final day. I just hope
we jump over five teams the first
day and stay ahead.”
The 15 teams in the the tourna
ment, which starts Sunday at 8:30
a.m., will be SMU, Tulsa, Texas,
Texas A&M, Houston Baptist,
Lamar, Memphis State, Midland
College, Oklahoma, Oklahoma
State, Sam Houston State, Stephen
F. Austin, Temple Jr. College, TCU
and Texas Tech.
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