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THE BATTALION Page 11
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1980
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By MIKE BURRICHTER
Sports Editor
ie red-hot Texas A&M baseball
i, 19-4 on the season and winner
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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
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this season.
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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.
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0 , Jince the National AIAW Cham-
of March IF Mips, March 7-8. The women
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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
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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.
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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.
NOTE: In Thursday’s edition of
The Battalion, it was reported that
Tom Chandler was entering his 2nd
season as head baseball coach.
Chandler is in his 22nd year as coach.
The Battalion regrets the mistake.
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