k**1 Aggie Ladies ready for season THE BATTALION Page 13 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1979 ii a civil enp illy have aid it. My grade!] orld, butltl this major j actually once I g tough hereal lass if yon i . Anyway, I’lj people to t e they have] Razorbacfey abilities ( Sgies ligh tlv mastered! iA&Mwil game pin If the results u Id be the dj t” Saturday. 'Al By CAROLYN BLOSSER Battalion Staff^ Texas A&M’s women’s basketball team will play its first regular game of the season tonight against the Uni versity of Texas at Arlington in Arlington. Even though its the beginning of the 1979-80 season, the Aggie Ladies already have had their share of in juries. Von Bunn, a senior from Vic toria, is out for the season with arm and elbow trouble and it is uncertain whether she will be able to play out her fourth year of eligibility next year. Tammy Grafton, a 6-foot junior forward from Iowa, broke her hand in practice and will be out for a month. Pat Werner, a 6-foot senior from Angleton who plays post, is coming off foot surgery and it will be a while before she can play at full strength. It looks like a dismal picture at first glance, but A&M coach Cherri Rapp says her team’s stiong point is depth - something the Aggies will need to stay ahead this season. Rapp is entering her first year as A&M’s head coach, replacing Wan da Bender who resigned in March. Rapp coached at North Texas State for three years, and earned All- America honors three times as an undergraduate at Wayland Baptist University. She was an alternate on the U.S. Olympic team in Montreal in 1976. Rapp purposely chose a hard sche dule for her team this season, which includes games with such national powers as Louisiana Tech, Texas, Stephen F. Austin, Louisiana State University and Wayland Baptist. “I think we can learn a lot from playing strong teams,” she said. Rapp said that A&M’s region of Texas and Louisiana is probably the strongest in the country. Last year’s regional winner, Louisiana Tech, went on to finish second in the na tion, and all of Tech’s players are returning this season. She said the key to the Aggie Ladies’ success this year depends on ball handling. “We need to improve our ball handling, ” she said. “I think that will determine how good a team we turn out to be.” Anchoring A&M at post this year will be 5-foot-10 senior Peggy Pope from Carthage, last year’s leading scorer. “Peggy plays taller than she is,’’ Rapp said. “She has a real high ver tical jump, is a good rebounder and scores well under the basket. She plays like she’s 6-2.” Also lending strength to the inside will be sisters Lori and Cathy Fore man from Guymon, Okla. Cathy is a 6-foot-l freshman, and 6-foot-2 Lori came with Rapp from North Texas State. Lori is extremely quick for her height and a good defensive player, Rapp said. Cathy, who hasn’t played much offense having played guard in high school, has been working on her shooting. Pat Werner will also add depth to the inside when she’s healthy to play. Playing forward for A&M will be Tammy Grafton, Trigg Crawford, Susan Kimbro, Lori Pye and Cathy Fuller. Crawford, a 6-foot junior from College Station, shoots well off the fast break and will also help A&M in rebounding. Kimbro is a 5-foot-10 senior from Kyle who “thinks when she plays,” Rapp said. Fuller, a senior from Weslaco, was A&M’s best percen tage shooter last year. Seeing action at point guard will be seniors Lola Baker and Lisa Hughes, sophomore Kelley Sullivan and freshman Lisa Key. Baker and Hughes are both good outside shoo ters, Rapp said. Sullivan has im proved on defense and is expected to see a lot of playing time, she said. A BRAZOS VALLEY INSTITUTION Franklin boot deflates Pokes V )ecause it 1 rst time Ci ( all seas* mg with bum isn’t missed ) say somett ranked nint >y Scanlon.i isser in the Foreman flying high tied ford jTexas A&M sophomore Lori Foreman gets up and pulls down rebound against Southwest Texas State Saturday in an ex- ribiton game at G. Rollie White Coliseum. The Aggie Ladies play their first regular game of the season tonight against the hittingonKBJniversity of Texas-Arlington in Arlington, s for 948 vr Corner! ruggers compete inter at quart ; junior from >r 681 yardsB’exas A&M’s women’s rugby it of his An won two games and lost one in I eighth annual Ozark Rugby be intere Li:-nament last weekend. > against ScAhe Aggies defeated the Ozark n not downiBlies 14.4 and Oklahoma 4-0, but 1 to the eventual tournament [mpionship team from St. Louis, quarterbacls| these twoi an the otherl d in seein nst a great! ng that wen re 47 points st SMU), h essed to tk e up and pl< of Arkanss less. We've] more physic ny quicker as, I can’t! ■ Arkansas f [ irward to f* t d 10W The Aggies will travel to Athens, Ga. to play in the annual University of Georgia Ruggerfest. The Aggies are the only Texas team invited among teams from Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington D.C. This will be the last tournament of the season for the 10-5 Aggies. A Project of | AlyJja JJlti O^nunut f FOOTBALL | Mums I * *2. Many Styles and Prices to Choose From. FREE DELIVERY $ ON CAMPUS & ^ Distribution Centers ■£ Off-Campus % On sale Tue.-Thurs. in the MSC J from: 9-5 & * in SBISA, COMMONS from: 11-1 2 4-6 ? 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Seeing that, rookie place kicker Tony Franklin — holder of 18 NCAA records — dashed up to coach Dick Vermeil and said: “Let me try it.” So Vermeil, with his team already in front by seven points, gave Frank lin a shot at making a field goal of 59 yards. “I just didn’t think he could kick it that far,” Landry said. “That’s why we turned down the penalty. When he kicked it, it seemed to take some thing out of us.” Franklin’s boot, which just cleared the crossbar, was the second longest in NFL history — the longest being Tom Dempsey’s 63- yarder for New Orleans nine years ago. “I would have traded the one I made for two I missed,” said Frank lin, who actually missed four others Monday night. “It was a poor exhibi tion on my part. “On the long one I decided I wasn’t going to try to finesse the ball. I decided I would just kick it as hard as I could. When the ball was getting closer to the goal I started watching the official and when his arms went up I got excited.” Franklin, a third-round draft pick from Texas A&M, is the only kicker in NCAA history to kick two field goals of 60 yards or more in the same game. He booted field goals of 64 and 65 yards against Baylor in his junior year. 1803 Texas Ave. For an enjoyable meal with family and friends AN AGGIE FAVORITE 1803 Texas Ave. Bryan Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Athletes may have taken $ United Press International LONDON — The International Amateur Athletic Federation has given British track and field author ities a deadline of Dec. 1 to produce a report about a 1978 meeting in Gateshead, England, at which more than a dozen athletes including world record-holders Edwin Moses and Sebastian Coe are alleged to have been paid. “The IAAF has made it known that they want these matters cleared up quickly and not dragged on into next year,” IAAF Secretary General John Holt said. 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