THE BATTALION Page 9
THURSDAY, MARCH 1. 1979
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ericke goes home
Texas A&M’s men’s track squad
iuffered another cruel blow earlier
■week when freshman distance
aner Henning Gericke of South
frica unexpectedly left for home,
e didn’t know he was un-
ipy,” Coach Charlie Thomas said.
“And we didn’t know he was leaving
, s ii ' "ntil he had already packed and
ft. ’ Gericke had run a 4:03 mile as a
, high schooler in South Africa.
Earlier in the year, Texas A&M
g^^Hbeen weakened by the losses of
Mike Mosley and Arthur Williams,
j Mosley is passing up track this spring
to concentrate on football and
being
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s
next
Williams gave up track and trans
ferred to North Texas to concentrate
on basketball.
The Aggies lost a dual meet to Rice
last Saturday, 74-62, but competed
without Curtis Dickey who had tied
for fourth in the national AAU 60-
yard dash in New York the night be
fore.
This week the Aggies will be in the
Border Olympics in Laredo. Rice is
the defending meet champion and
the Aggies came in second last year.
Thomas said that ace quarter-
miler Leslie Kerr will run the 220
this week instead of the 440.
“We think Steve Willis can win
the 440 so we re going to try to score
high in the 220 with Kerr, ” the Aggie
coach said. “Dickey will run the
100-yard dash and on the 440 relay. ”
The 440 relay will have Willis,
Kerr, Vernon Pittman and Dickey,
in that order, with Emerson Brown
as top alternate. The mile relay will
have Ron Wilson, Pittman, Kerr and
Willis, with Karl Figgs as top alter
nate.
Golf
meet begins
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1 AjSTIN — The Southern
f@r|i)dist University Mustangs,
jpthfcerhaps the strongest team in
s generation-long domination of
fout^iwest Conference swimming,
Be.sifter its 23rd consecutive league
^neginning tonight in the SWC
Wimming championships.
I SMU is undefeated in dual meet
pmpetition this year and upset
bwlrful teams from Indiana and
outhern California to earn consid-
fation as perhaps one of the top five
fains in the country.
|As isual, the Mustangs strongest
)m|)etition will come from the
!exas Longhorns, who will host the
leet in one of the world’s finest
virlming facilities. SMU whipped
■ earlier this year in a dual meet.
The Mustangs roster is loaded
with talent that could produce points
in the NCAA meet.
Greg Kraus holds the conference’s
best time in the 200-yard freestyle
while SMU’s Ken Brenton, Bart E)ay
and Kim Davis are the swimmers to
beat in the backstroke, breaststroke
and butterfly competition.
The Mustangs will be heavy fa
vorites to win all three relay events
and should be dominant in the diving
as well.
Davis should also be a key factor in
the short freestyle races, but Arkan
sas’ Jerry Spencer will probably chal
lenge in both the 50 and 100-yard
freestyles.
Competition will run through
Saturday at the Texas Swimming
Center.
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SA\ ANTONIO — B.J. “Red”
fcCtmbs, a local automobile dealer
cl chairman of the NBA San An
nin Spurs, confirmed Wednesday
j is negotiating to purchase the
ouston Astros baseball team and
ie accompanying 28-year-old lease
i tin Astrodome.
[McCombs, who boasts the largest
Ord dealership in Texas, revealed
e has been “in discussions for
ut 10 days with the present As-
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!orp and several Houston banks.
Tlwill be a heck of a thing if it
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Coach Bob Ellis and the Texas
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Laredo this weekend competing in
the Border Olympics tournament,
which will take place Saturday and
Sunday.
The Aggies have made strong
showings in three tournaments thus
far: the Jim Deaton Intercollegiate at
Houston, the Pan-American In
vitational at Monterrey, Mexico and
the Lamar Intercollegiate at Beau
mont.
Tennis
Now sporting a dual-match record
of 5-1, Coach David Kent’s Texas
A&M men’s tennis square competes
in the Corpus Christi Invitational
tournament this week. The meet
runs from Thrusday through Satur
day.
Last week, the Aggies won two
home matches, beating Southwest
Texas State, 6-3, and Southwest
Louisiana, 8-1.
Rodeo
The Texas A&M rodeo club will
travel to Kingsville this weekend to
compete in the Texas A&I intercol
legiate rodeo.
Last week, the Aggies competed
in the Southwest Texas State rodeo
in San Marcos. The men’s team
placed third overall in the competi
tion. Mark Ivy lassoed the Aggies’
only first place finish with a win in
the calf roping competition.
Rugby
Despite the mud and the cold, the
Texas A&M women’s rugby team
took third place in the 12th annual
Mardi Gras Rugby Tournament in
Hammond, La., last weekend.
Saturday, the team will try to im
prove on its 18-1 season record when
it hosts Sam Houston at 10:30 a.m.
on the polo field.
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