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Page 14 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1980 Cycling Club to hold sports Little Aggieland By STEVE SISNEY Sports Staff Sunday may mark the beginning of new Aggie trdition. March 30 will be the first running of the Little Aggieland bicycle races. sponsored by the Texas A&M Cycl ing Team and Baskin Robbins Ice Cream Parlors. The event will be patterned after the Little Indy, a yearly bike race at Indiana State University which drew Wilson misses first practice United Press International The Texas A&M Aggies opened spring training drills in the rain Tuesday with only one key member of the team missing — Coach Tom Wilson. Wilson was hospitalized with a kidney-stone flare-up and was not expected to return until Wednesday. He was replaced onthe field by assis tant coach Jess Stiles. “Considering the head man was not here, it was a good practice,” Stiles said. “The most important thing I’m going to report to Coach Wilson was the great and intense effort displayed by all the coaches and players. “I think because of the absence of Coach Wilson, that every coach and every player seemed to work just a little bit harder, to make up for his absence.” A squad of 114 students, including 65 on athletic scholarships, opened the workouts. 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Corps units, etc., are encouraged to partici pate as a group,” suggests the race’s promotional chairman, Myron Gerhard. However, no one with previous racing experience will be allowed in the student races. A special race will be held at 5 p.m. for cycling club members. A $3 entry fee per team is being charged. Contestants for individual races will compete free, and all races need to meet at the drill field one hour prior to their race time. The A&M Cycling team has another race slated for April 12-13 for more experienced riders. Sanctioned by the U.S. Cycling Federation, the event, the Aggie land Stage Race, will be held in the afternoon. Over 100 racers statewide are expected to attend the yearly competiton. Johnston sets Aggie record; women’s swim team blanked By JOHN BRASHER Sports Reporter Tracy Johnston, the 19-year-old sophomore from San Rafael, Calif., set a Texas A&M team record in the 100-yard breaststroke at the AIAW Championships held in Las Vegas, Nev., over the weekend. Johnston was clocked at 1:07.29, breaking the old school record of 1:07.41 that she had set Jan. 18 at the Texas dual meet. Johnston also swam the 50-yard breaststroke and re corded a time of 31.27, good enough to tie her for sixteenth place. crop. For us having an inexperi enced team, we were very pleased with the way our girls swam against some of the great swimmers that were there.” Texas A&M’s 200-yard freestyle relay teams were clocked at 3:37.76 and 7:59.04 respectively. Bill Miller, assistant coach said, “This meet was the cream of the Texas A&M didn’t collect any points during the meet while Stan ford, Texas and USC fielded the top three teams. The men’s swim team has qual ified three swimmers t the NCAA Championship vard in Boston this week, James Brown, a seniorti from Pasadena, qualifiedfciil yard butterfly with a timeii| Ed Rahil, a junior f John Oberto, a seniort from Los Angeles, alsoqia the 100-yard butterflywith^ 49.57 and 49.70. Women’s netiers play Fridt By RHONDA WATTERS Staff Writer The Texas A&M University women’s tennis team will play two dual matches at the varsity tennis courts this weekend. Friday the team will play the Uni versity of Texas, with matches start ing at noon. The men’s team will also play a dual match here Friday, against Texas Tech University. They will start playing at 1:30 p.m. p.m. Saturday the University of Mis souri will challenge the women’s team. Play will begin at 10:30 a.m. Last weekend the women’s team traveled to Dallas to play dual matchers in a round-robin elimin- tion tournament with 13 other schools. They played two schools. Northeast Louisiana University and Texas, losing to both. “We had a really tough draw, said coach Hollis Hands, “but I thought we competed really well. Especially against Northeast Louisiana. We had a lot of three-set matches.” Maylyn Hooten, the team’s top player, did not participate in the tournament. Hands said Hooten could not take the time off from her classes. With Hooten not playing, Texas A&M was without its No. 1 doubles team of Hooten and Terri Neutze. The pair has a season record of 7-3. "We didn’t have them Dallas, and that hurt,”s Hands said the team* ing some dual matches ii future, preparing for its i> ment. The team will eompt state team meet at TesasQ University April 17-Apdl Water skiers take secoi in meet over weekend HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION ANNUAL INTERCOLLEGIATE HORSE SHOW Showmanship Trail Pole Bending Western Pleasure Halter Barrel Racing Entry Fee — $4.00/class TAMU EQUESTRIAN CENTER on FM 2818 MARCH 29 8:30 a.m. FOR ENTRY INFO: 845-8421 - KELLY KAYS, CHAIRMAN 845-1562 - TAMU HORSE OFFICE Tired of Rising Prices & Fuel Costs? By STEVE SISNEY Sports Staff Host of the fifth annual Polar Bear Intercollegiate Water Ski Tourna ment, the Texas A&M Water Ski Club finished second at the March 15-16 meet. Southwest Texas finish ed first. Although no Aggies placed in the individual standings at the competi tion held at Aqua Gardens, north of Centerville, the mens’ team scored third-place finishes in both the sla lom and jump events. A solid performance by the women’ team helped secure the second-place overall. For the first tournament of the spring season. 14 schools from Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana brought teams, and the total number of participants was 118. The Aggies’ next meet will be this weekend at Lamar University. It will be the last regular season tour nament before the South Central Conference Championships, ac cording to club president Bill Calk. With 20 active memlw team, practices are Somerville, althougli[il underway to try to usell Utilities Like. In tournament compeS . , , mens’ and womens’diiisJF, ie ,ase i: pete in three events: sial and jumping. Maximum speeds attamj skiers are 36 mph in slaloa on jumps, and consideralll on tricks skiing, dependii| maneuvers. 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