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THE BATTALION THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1979 Page 11 esU the sports me notes rogs host baseball team VU4 yill| mm considj) Trying to regroup after its losses sfedienij o Baylor in last weekend’s rain- fiwhotlia wrtJied series, the Texas Aggie ^avis,^ aseball team travels to Fort Worth ^alAssnoplal TCU this weekend. Imp ' The Aggies, 5-3 in Southwest 's involij Conference play after dropping both 1 games to the Bears, are scheduled affidaii), 3 play a single game Friday after- hat tie j oon and a double-header Saturday -ethet, eginning at 1 p.m. ject.Htj Marl Thurmond and Mark Ross, the Until I 16 hvo winningest pitchers in Texas affidavit! &M|iistory, will pitch the first two ames for the Aggies. Thurmond s invohj ast the first game of the Baylor se es as laJais. it was the first loss he has lasson, {afferied in regular-season play as an !ischmaad>gie. Thurmond had won 28 )Aisille« raigh; regular season games and 16 idythffl raight conference games, producli fi° ss took the loss in the percent ?ort|hed second game, losing 5-3. sherrien he game was called in the sixth in- ingpecause of darkness, it reguljj,Left fielder Mike Hurdle con- ood heti nue ^ his hot hitting streak for the it const! $>ies in the Baylor series. In the high eg st seven games Hurdle has raised >ooze. > s ayerage 84 points, carrying a 3 bureausfeason average, tilled si The Aggies return home to meet ecessaryjklahoina City in a pair of double- ivjth (Ik eaders Monday and Tuesday. Men s golf The Texas A&M golf team traveled to Houston Wednesday to compete in the All-America In vitational Golf Tournament, scheduled to run through Saturday. The tournament field includes the top teams in the nation and features a variety of competition for team, . individual, two-ball and four-ball matches. In Wednesday’s opening round, the Aggies shot a team total of 293 to leave them in tenth place at the end of the day. Coach Bob Ellis sent the Aggies’ second team to Austin last week to compete in the the Lago Vista In vitational Tournament. The Aggies finished third, with Jay Kent of Texas A&M winning the individual title with a 214 total. Matt Tillingh- ast posted a 221, Kel Devlin had a 223, Mike Dawson ended with a 228 and Biff Alexander scored a 234. Women s golf After finishing fifth in last week’s Lady Paladin Invitational in Green ville, S.C., the Aggie Ladies golf team travels to Vidor for the Lamar irbanks vows University Lady Cardinal In vitational this weekend. The tour nament will be held at the River- wood Golf Course. In last week’s play, Texas A&M’s Shirley Furlong took fourth place honors in individual play. Furlong and Terry Moody of Georgia finished regulation play tied at 229. Furlong birdied the second playoff hole to capture fourth. Kim Bauer of A&M finished eighth. This week’s tournament is the final work-out before the state championships April 20-24 at East Texas State Universtiy in Com merce. Tennis The Aggie Ladies tennis team traveled to Ausin last weekend for the 31-team UT-Austin Invitational Tennis Tournament. The tourna ment was rained out but not before the team chalked up a few victories. Susan Schilling and Kathleen Sis- som defeated Oklahoma State’s De bbie Cunningham and Linda Chris topher in the Division I consolation round. In Division II play, Mary Guerra and Ferol Hinkle downed Jane Set- ree and Cary Carton of Texas Tech. Before rain halted action, A&M’s Maylyn Hooton was still alive in the consolation singles. The Aggies will host Southwest Texas State University Saturday on the varsity courts, starting at 1 p.m. revive nited Press International EKVER — Newly released his New England Patriots con- ict, [an apologetic Chuck Fair- ^Vednesday admitted he had gic wand,’’ but nevertheless ed|to transform the University Colorado football program into a |lgnal power. can mark this down,” said panks, as he officially accepted s as head coach of the Col- uffaloes. “We will win. I ow how long it will take, but appen.” anks met with reporters two ter settlement of a three- onthlold contract dispute between e thb NFL Patriots and CU offi- ak The! Patriots had tried to keep irbanks, hired by them from the Diversity of Oklahoma, from quit- ng so he could return to college oachinj. But they agreed to halt efforts when the university id i| would pay $200,000 and ks would drop claims for de- ayments of 105,000. It would have been nice to have smooth transition, but that didn’t ppeln,” Fairbanks said. “Un- lubtedly I made some errors, but I pjjhink I was the Lone Ranger, ire were others who made mis- ikes too.” Details of the settlement were not tleased until late Tuesday after ov| RwUavd Lamm contacted CU resident Roland Rautentraus and ged a public announcement be ade. Faiijbanks repeatedly apologized r the controversy and said he now GAYLAND MOULDER I00KKEEPING & TAX SERVICES INCOME TAX PREPARATION 4103 S. TEXAS BRYAN PLACE 2 blocks north of Luby’s 846-4774 Buffaloes looked forward to meeting his players and beginning the task of re structuring the CU football pro gram. “I would have liked to have had a more pleasant way to resolve the situation and I apologize to the people interested in the Colorado University football program,” he said. “I am anxious to become ac quainted with the people involved with the university and the football team.” Fairbanks acknowledged that CU’s recruiting efforts had suffered because of the controversy, but said nonetheless spring drills would begin as scheduled Saturday with the anticipation of producing a com petitive 1979 Big Eight Conference squad. “It appears to me there is a lot to be done to put the program on a level that everyone would like to have,” he said. “This university is one of the very fine state universi ties in the nation. “I have no magic wand, but I see no reason why in the future this football program can’t be one of the top echelon.” Fairbanks, who suceeds Bill Mal lory who was fired at the end of the 1978 season after six years as CU’s head coach, said he had tried to as sist in the recruiting effort but was bound by legal restraints. When Is Your Buying Softball Posting a 12-6 season record, Texas A&M’s softball team travels to Springfield, Mo., to compete in the Southwest Missouri State In vitational Tournament Friday and Saturday. The tournament field will include four teams that played in the na tional championship tournament last year. In their last outing the Aggies won two and dropped one in the Texas Women’s University In vitational Tournament. Texas A&M defeated TA and Northwest Loui siana 7-2 before losing to Kansas 4-2. Leading the mound corps for the Aggies are Sami Evans, with a 6-4 season record, and Shannon Murray at 5-2 on the year. Women s Rugby After two shutout victories last weekend, 38-0 over Dallas and 14-0 over Austin, the Aggie women’s rugby team gained sole possession of second place in the Texas Rugby Union. Ending the regular season with a 24-2-1 record, the Aggies advance into the Texas Women’s Cham pionship Sunday to face the Hous ton Hearts April 15 in Dallas. 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