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sports THE BATTALION Page 11 FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1980 aseball team faces ech this weekend By MIKE BURRICHTER Sports Editor ie red-hot Texas A&M baseball i, 19-4 on the season and winner t during his Diversity. kL,. r . , ,, , t.ifine or its last 11 games, will take K 16 ^ exas Tech Red Raiders this > Lee Roy u-siVjjgkgjjj j n a three-game series at feen Field. ■ggie coach Tom Chandler may ■ three freshmen pitchers against ■ 2-4 Raiders. The Aggies’ 6-3 Ethwest Conference record places Bi second in the league behind p6-0 Texas Longhorns. Houston freshmen Rick Luecken Robert Slavens, both sporting -team tourney 'rinity, will en to the Aggfe this season. uelingroadtripJ rgies will now “-game hoineste] ,1’s opponents ad are as folio* darch 21, 6f te University [omen to run [TSU Relays 5-0 records, may be joined by either Jack Miska or David Flores in the pitching rotation this weekend. Luecken and Slavens will pitch on Saturday, and Chandler will start Miska or Flores in today’s game, scheduled for 3 p.m. One of the two will be stepping in for sophomore pitcher Bobby Taylor, who has lost the last three Friday conference games the Ags have played. The Ags are led at the plate by junior left fielder Joe Paul Bramhall and senior centerfielder Simon Glenn. Bramhall, who hit .227 last season and was used mostly as a pinch runner, is leading the team with a .415 average. Glenn, who hit just .212 last season, is hitting .385 for the season and leads the team with a .395 batting average in South west Conference play. Junior first baseman Rodney Hod- e Texas A&M women’s track will contend outdoors for the March 22, H itlime this year when it faces 11 n Louisiana, ter teams in the Texas Southern i|ersity Relays this weekend, ach Bill Nix said the meet is sprint-oriented and some top from various parts of the coun- darch 24, 2 p.®#ill be in competition, issouri. P tr sprinters are good, but being larch 25,5:30f frint-oriented meet, they’ll be sity (doubled igalot of top runners,” Nix said. ’ " “yll have a tougher time. [afs not to say the distance and vents will be easy although the s field area is possibly its igest point. |e team has had somewhat of a 0 , Jince the National AIAW Cham- of March IF Mips, March 7-8. The women oach’s Softba overa n ou t Q f 124 Is. the nationwide indoor meet, |r Sande Lambert had the best f the women, amassing 3,830 Pomona bts in the pentathlon to take 4th M . te. Shotputter Iris Tipton took rmen’s Uni' 1 ' 1 ' |h in her event. [arch 23, 6 p. U innesota, ( A ffi ics 0 ul the Bee Creek the end of A»“] liege Station. tate r ■ of Northern 0 ■ Fullerton Illinois t Missouri ahoma Univers") * * » * * * * * * * * * * * M K * * * * * K X * * » GREEKS: AN AGGIE ADDITION Interested in finding out about sororities? Texas A&M Panhellenic is inviting you to their 1980 Rush Forum to answer questions you might have about sorority life and how you can become involved. WHEN: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2nd at 7:00 p.m. WHERE: THE RAMADA INN BALLROOM (TEXAS at UNIVERSITY) *Open to all female undergraduates at A&M *For more information call 693-2807 AROUND THE WORLD IN 5 DAYS INTERNATIONAL STUDENT’S WEEK. MON.-FRI., MARCH 24-28 INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION INVITES YOU TO EXPERIENCE A NEW WAY OF LIFE. TRY SOME REALLY VERY EXOTIC FOOD, BE ENTERTAINED BY DANCERS AND SINGERS FROM MANY NATIONS, SEE CULTURAL AND FASHION DISPLAYS FROM FIVE CONTINENTS, AND MUCH MORE. Event Time Place y Cultural Display Folklore Show International Center Open House 11:00 AM-3:00 PM 11:30 AM-1:00 PM 3:00 PM-5:00 PM MSC Main Hall MSC Lounge Bizzell Hall Cultural Display Folklore Show 10:00 AM-3:00 PM 11:00 AM-1:00 PM MSC Main Hall MSC Lounge Reception for Consuls Food Fair Fashion Show Talent Show 2:00 PM-3:00 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM-8:30 PM 8:30 PM 701 Rudder Tower MSC, Room 201 MSC, Room 201 MSC, Room 201 All Night Party 8:00 PM Lulac Hall, Bryan A&M wins in stride Track team keeps piling up points, honors By KATHLEEN McELROY Sports Staff Sure, the Texas A&M University football team beat Texas, and the basketball team went to the NCAA playoffs. But right now the most successful athletic program at Texas A&M is the men’s track team — the Aggies won the Southwest Conference indoor meet in February and finished seventh in the NCAA national indoor meet last Saturday in Detroit. Texas A&M now goes for another win at the City of the Palms Invita tional outdoor meet in McAllen. The one obstacle that may stop the Aggies from winning the meet is the University ofTexas team, which beat the Aggies at the Rice Invitational two weeks ago in Houston. “The thing about competing against Texas,” said Texas A&M assistant coach Ted Nelson, “is that UT is real strong in the same events we are. ” Both schools have had suc cess in the shot put, discus, and sprint events. But one event in which Texas A&M is superior to Texas — and for that matter the rest of the nation — is the pole vault. Randy Hall has dominated all his competition. Hall, a senior from Port Lavaca, won the NCAA championship with a vault of 17-9V2. A week earlier at the Rice meet, he set a Southwest Confer ence pole vault record when he cleared I8-OV2. Hall is the only collegiate vaulter to clear 18 feet this year, and the 14th American to do so in history. Curtis Dickey, a senior from Bryan, won his third straight NCAA indoor 60-yard dash at the Detroit meet with a time of 6.12. Junior Les lie Kerr, who won the Southwest Conference outdoor 400-meter dash last year, finished fourth in the 400 meters. Other entrants in the McAllen meet are Baylor, Pan American, Rice and University of Houston, with the Cougars probably posing the only threat to the Aggies and Longhorns. The Aggies will compete without Dickey who will stay in College Sta tion for the football banquet Satur day night. Other football players on the track team — freshmen Johnny Hector, James Redus, and Don Jones — will compete. Hector and Redus are long jumpers, and Jones is a high jumper. Two players are injured and won’t compete in the McAllen meet. Freshman sprinter Eference Mur phy pulled a hamstring muscle at the Rice meet, and Nelson said he isn’t sure when Murphy will be healthy. Sophomore high jumper James Ho ward, who holds the Texas A&M high jump record, has had back troubles and hasn.t competed in the outdoor meets this year. BOOK SALE *COME & SEE THIS HILARIOUS COMEDY FOR ADULTS & CHILDREN ALIKE!* March 20, 21 8:00 pm Special Saturday Matinee on March 22 at 2:00 pm Place: Rudder Center Forum Children $1.00 Students $1.50 Adults $2.00 CALL 845-2916 FOR RESERVATIONS OFF ORIGINAL PUBLISHED PRICES de leads the team in home runs with eight, and is followed by junior third baseman Harry Francis, the team’s cleanup hitter, with five. Chandler, into his 22nd year as head baseball coach for the Aggies, will be honored between games Saturday for winning his 500th career game earlier this season against Baylor. Jack Pardee, Washington Redskin coach and for mer Aggie football great, will partici pate in the ceremony. Pardee is scheduled to be the speaker at tonight’s Aggie football banquet, scheduled for 7 p.m. in Duncan Dining Hall. 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