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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1980
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By JON HEIDTKE
Sports Reporter
Texas A&M’s women’s basket-
S ball team travels to Baton Rouge
:his week to participate in what
head coach Cherri Rapp calls “the
strongest of the AIAW regional
tournaments.
Three of the 12 teams involved
re ranked in the nation’s top five
country: LouisanaTech (2), Texas
(3) Stephen F. Austin (5). The
; winner of the four-day tourna
ment will advance to the national
championship in Mount
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of his conmiaHj The eighth-seeded Aggie
»e shown at" rLadies, 18-11 on the year, open
tournament action today with a
11 student omt rematc ^ Houston at 9 p.m.
store Profits» The A &Z ies eased l) y Houston
-esentativetnfJB adier in t ^ ie y ear 75 -&4, hut the
iopwillbeginI« ou S ars knocked the Ags out of
■ the state tournament last week
with a 66-61 overtime victory.
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The girls were very excited
about playing Houston,” Rapp
said. “After all, it is not very often
you get a second chance like this.
We don’t want to end the season
with them (Houston) beating us
; twice in a row. Besides it would
give us another shot at Louisana
Tech.”
The winner of the Texas A&M-
Houston game will play Louisana
Tech at 9 p.m. Thursday. Tech
downed the Ags earlier in the
year.
Lori Foreman continues to
lead the Aggies in scoring with a
16.4 average. The 6-2 sophomore
also leads the team in rebound
ing, averaging 7.2 per game.
Senior Peggy Pope is next scoring
and rebounding with averages of
14.7 and 6.9. Rapp has also been
aided by the improved play of
Trigg Crawford. The College Sta
tion junior has been averaging
14.4 points over the last five
games.
The Cougars, who bring a 17-
12 record into the tourney, rely
on a physical inside game and the
shooting and passing of Kip
Anderson. In their overtime win
over the Aggies, the Cougars won
the game at the free throw line,
hitting 24 out of 34, compared to
the Ags’ 7 of 11 from the line.
The rest of the field includes
Arkansas, Texas Tech, Wayland
Baptist, LSU, Oral Roberts,
McNeese State and Southeast
Louisana.
Aggie Ladies’ senior Lori Forman goes for a shot against SMU
in early season action. The Aggie Ladies open Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics for Women regional tournament play
tonight against Houston in Baton Rouge, La.
ansAgs take fifth place
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t venture in kf Southern Methodist, the defend-
llcd Endow ing women’s national collegiate
ition is simple Ahampions, fought bad weather and
ill be given !i> Rough course to win the Texas A&M
>n—that them:Invitational GolfTournament played
P|S week at the Briarcrest Country
icept was tha 31ub Golf Course in Bryan,
public an opporti SMU finished with a three-day
;1 persons o: :otal of 952 for the 54-hole tourna-
ces who had n- iient played Sunday, Monday and
:> help huma: Tuesday. Host Texas A&M finished
persons would:wo shots behind second-place
ass on their P ’Houston Baptist, which posted 981.
ise that wouldn The two lowest individual scores
relonged to SMU’s Missie
> politicians ancMcGeorge, who finished with 230 —
ung more thanliA shots above par — and her team-
isessed, as Stoneinate Kyle O’Brien who ended with
5. !39. Junior Kim Bauer was the
irsues this drear 0West Texas A&M golfer, finishing
ite sure there iss aurdl with a totaI of 242 -
ever have been- Texas A&M junior Rita Aguilar
hot the lowest individual round of
hie tournament Tuesday, finishing
i ■■■MHH^b'ith a 73, one above par. She
inished seventh in the tournament.
Texas A&M coach Kitty Holly said
y SERVE t AS^NBft ie i w ^°^ e six-member team played
' cleaners bui »finsistently. The other Texas A&M
jze in altering golfers were senior Carol Berry
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RTS. JEAN HEMS,»*fo), treshman Jackie Bertram
ikets. ETC 252), Shiela Oldfield (259) and soph-
( ./more Monica Welsh (259).
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course. That’s a course that de
mands outstanding fairway shots, or
else, Holly said the golfer is in
trouble.
Now that she’s finished hosting
the thirteen-team tournament, Hol
ly is going to concentrate on getting
her team back into last year’s form.
“The last three years we have
qualified a team for the nationals,”
she said.“We just need some more
experience.”
Next week, the Aggies will com
pete in the Betsy Ross Tournament
hosted by the University of Texas,
which finished fourth in the Texas
A&M tournament.
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By RICHARD OLIVER
Staff Writer
It’s baseball time again, and the
Houston Astros have hit the ballfield
with a new look and an old burden.
Full spring training begins this
week, and critics are looking keenly
at an Astros team (plus a couple of
new faces) that nearly pulled off the
Cinderella story of the 1979 season,
finishing a mere IVa games behind
the Cincinnati Reds in the western
division of the National League.
Long labeled the “Lastros” by the
media, the organization has slowly
but surely built up a team that has
become respectable and even envied
in some parts.
The purchase of the team by John
Mullen has injected something the
Astros have never before experi
enced— big bucks. Over-the-winter
acquisitions of Nolan Ryan and Joe
Morgan via the free agent market
signify the end of a “hands-off’ atti
tude usually held by the team man
agement.
Historically, the Astros’ manage
ment, led by since-departed “Spec”
Richardson, had avoided the free
agent market, choosing instead to
rely on minor league hopefuls and
trades to build a contending team.
Not until Joe Sambito, Jeff Leonard,
Terry Puhl and Craig Reynolds lifted
the Astros out of the baseball slums
last year have these attitudes paid
off.
Thus the Houston Astros now are
under the watchful eye of the media
and baseball buffs who have sup
ported the team through several
“this is the year” seasons, only to
watch as the team slipped dismally
and unnoticed through the season.
The rise or fall of the Astros this
year hinges largely on the success of
newly-acquired Ryan, the fastball
Comm en tary
artist. Ryan, who led the American
League in strikeouts, now teams up
with National League strikeout lead
er J.R. Richard, Cy Young-nominee
Joe Niekro, and Ken Forsch, who
no-hit the Atlanta Braves last season.
This staff should be one of the finest
in the major leagues this season, de
pending largely on Ryan’s oft-
injured arm and Richard’s consis
tency.
The gambles of Tal Smith, a high
ly-respected baseball mind and the
Astros’ current general manager,
have paid off thus far for the Astros.
Smith has pulled off some remark
able and shrewd trades despite the
past stumblings of Richardson, who
traded off names such as Morgan,
Cesar Geronimo, John Mayberry
and Rusty Staub during his stint as
general manager.
Smith is responsible for bringing
in present manager Bill Virdon, All-
Star shortstop Craig Reynolds, reli
able catcher Alan Ashby, and now
Ryan, among others.
Despite the brilliant pitching
corps of the Astros, the season s suc
cess lies mainly in the bats of highly
capable but equally erratic regulars.
The Astros’ repeated efforts over
the winter to trade Joaquin Andujar
for some power came up empty-
handed.
The power is there in the present
lineup, however silent the bats were
last year. The addition of Morgan to
the lineup should add some punch,
and his playoff experience can only
be a positive factor.
The low-key Virdon, long-known
for his baseball smarts and ability to
extract great play out of mediocre
players, has expressed great hope for
the coming season, saying, “If we get
good overall offensive production,
the pitching we’re capable of and
consistency, I feel the Houston
ASt i r nln W -> 11 be le « ltimatc contenders
m 1980.
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ever in 1979, and with the •idrl'K Y f
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