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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1980
Ag golfers ranked
ninth in the country
By STEVE SISNEY
Sports Reporter
Sports neporter
Following a ninth-place finish at
the 26th Intercollegiate All-America
meet in Houston last weekend, the
Texas A&M golf team, ranked
seventh in the nation, is gearing up
to compete in the Southwest Confer
ence Championship April 18-20 in
Tyler.
Steve Bowman shot a 67 in the
final round in the Houston contest,
and finished fourth in the individual
standings with a 287. Oklahoma
State captured the meet title.
Competing for Texas A&M in the
SWC meet will be All-America
selections Bowman, David Ogrin,
and Richard Cromwell, along with
Brad Jones and Jay Kent.
Trying for the sixth slot on the
Aggie squad will be Dan Briggs,
Gary Krueger and Kel Delvin on a
72-hole qualifying test later this
week.
In the conference meet, a team
can enter six and count the low four
scores at the end of the 54 holes of
play.
“The conference meet is going to
be tough,” said head coach Bob Ellis.
“It will be a toss up between A&M,
TCU, Texas and Houston.”
Texas A&M is followed in the na
tional rankings by Houston at eighth,
and both Texas and TCU in the top
twenty. Houston won the confer
ence crown last year, while the
Aggies were runners-up.
“This is the best team in over six
years,” said Ellis. “They’re good
players, they work together hard,
and believe in each other and them
selves.”
Playing a demanding 20 tourna
ment schedule throughout the year,
remaining on the Aggie golfers’ sche
dule are the Southern Intercollegi
ate Meet May 1-3 in Athens, Ga.,
and the NCAA championship May
28-31 at Ohio State University.
Texas A&M has proven itself on
the collegiate circuit this year, cap
turing the Border Olympics in Lare
do, winning a tournament in Guada
lajara, Mexico, and tieing with Hous
ton for first at the fall conference
tournament.
They were also able to take the
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second place trophy at the
Pinehearst Tournament in North
Carolina March 11-13, and third at
the Harvey Penick Intercollegiate
tournament in Austin.
At both Guadalajara and
Pinehearst, the Aggies defeated
Oklahoma State, the current No. 1-
rated team in the nation.
In Guadalajara, Cromwell, Orgin,
and Bowman all tied for medalist,
but all were unable to win the com
petition as it went into extra holes.
The golf team will be losing two of
its top players, Orgin and Bowman,
this spring to graduation.
“We are going to have to get some
good players if we are going to do as
well next year as we are now,” real
izes Coach Ellis.
There are two outstanding fresh
men on this years’ squad, Gary
Kruegar from Valpariso, Indiana,
and Dan Briggs from Paris, Texas.
Yanks take
Rangers
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singled in one run to highlight a four-
run fifth inning Sunday night to send
the New York Yankees an 8-2 victory
over the Texas Rangers Sunday night
and a sweep a twi-night double-
header.
Ags thrash UH
Tennis team upsets Cougars, 5-2
By MIKE BURRICHTER
Sports Editor
Backed by a raucous crowd,
the Texas A&M tennis team pull
ed off a major upset over 13th-
ranked Houston Saturday at the
varsity courts.
The Ags, No. 20 in the nation,
had clinched the team victory,
leading 5-2, when play was stop
ped due to darkness.
Houston came into town with
high hopes of an easy victory over
the Aggies, who had lost a heart-
breaker to TCU, 5-4, the day be
fore. But freshmen Brian Joelson,
Tom Judson and Ron Kowal have
yet to be psyched out this season
and responded with fantastic play
Saturday.
Judson, the only singles victor
over TCU, blew Houston’s Mike
Liushitz off the court in the No. 5
seed duel, 6-2, 6-0. The Fort
Worth resident is the team’s only
walk-on and coach David Kent is
elated with his play.
“Judson is the best walk-on in
the nation,” Kent said. “No one
wanted him and he has turned out
great. ”
Joelson’s and Kowal’s singles
victories were a little more dra
matic.
Joelson, the Ags’ No. 4 four
seed, dropped the first set to
Houston’s Juan Ayala, 7-5, but re
bounded to take the second and
third sets by identical scores of
6-4. The third set was a thriller,
with Ayala pulling out to a 4-1
lead. But Joelson, stomping
around the court yelling at him
self, broke Ayala’s serve in the
sixth game and fought his way
back into the match. With Ayala’s
spirit broken and the crowd of
about 50 backing up Joelson, the
Oregon freshman breezed in to
win the match.
After Joelson’s match, the
crowd marched over to court six,
where Kowal was involved in an
even closer match with Houston’s
Van Manning. Manning won the
first set 6-4 and Kowal took the
second by the same score. In the
third set Kowal raced out to a 3-0
lead before Manning rallied to tie
it up. The two remained dead
locked after twelve games and a
nine point tie-breaker had to be
played. The two continued to
play even and with the score tied
at four apiece, Manning served
for the match. Manning, whose
serving stance and ensuing grunt
had an ape-like appearance, got
his first serve in but Kowal, the
Illionois high school champion
last year, returned a low, hard
shot to Manning’s backhand and
the Cougar hit his return into the
net, giving the Aggies a 4-2 lead.
Kowal and Judson then teamed
up to win the win the only com
plete doubles match. They beat
Liushitz and Ayala, 6-1, 7-5. The
other two teams of Reid Free-
man-Joelson and Jim Grubert-
Trey Schutz were leading their
matches when play was stopped.
The unfinished matches will be
played at Corpus Christi on April
24.
After the Aggies’ first two play
ers, Schutz and Max King went
down in straight sets, the Cougars
did not win another match. Kent
was ecstatic with the team’s play,
as well as the crowd’s backing.
“The crowd made the differ
ence,” Kent said. “We wouldn’t
have won without them.”
One of the leading cheerers
was Mike Moss, who played four
years of tennis for Texas A&M
before graduating last fall. The
crowds at the Aggies’ matches
this season have been relatively
small and rather sedate, and Moss
said it’s completely different at
other schools.
“All you have to do is imi
what it would be like if we wen
Houston,” Moss said, aftenltl
yell. "At other schools, thespel
tators are really rowdy, crack:
Aggie jokes during matches r
clanging the fences whilei
were trying to serve.”
Kent couldn’t be happier#]
the type of play he’s getting m|
his freshmen.
“The fearless freshmen
amazing,” he said. 'Theyseenj
thrive on competition. This
our best match of the season.]
The Ags’ next match willhe
Friday against Pan Amenc
here. Pan American defeated!
Ags 5-4 in a match earlier t
season.
The women’s tennis team pc
ed what Kent called their h
match of the year when they h
Houston 5-4 at Texas Kk).
courts Saturday.
When Kathleen Sissomu
Alexis Hefley won their doukl !■
match in straight sets, theAgp
had avenged an earlier 541
back to the Cougars earlier I
season.
The women’s team will be
the AIAW state meet in F:
Worth next weekend.
In the opener, Jim Spencer
pounded a grand-slam and Gamble
hit a two-run single during a six-run
fifth inning to lift New York a 9-4
: decision. Luis Tiant went 6Va innings
to pick up the victory and Steve
Comer took the loss.
The Rangers had a 1-0 lead going
into the fifth inning of the second
game when Bucky Dent and Rup-
pert Jones singled. Gamble drove in
Dent with a single. Jones scored
when Pepe Frias hobbled Reggie
Jackson’s slow grounder. Starter and
loser Gaylord Perry, 0-1, walked
Bob Watson to load the bases.
Reliever Dave Rajisch made a wild
pitch that allowed the runners to
advance and catcher Dave Roberts
threw wildly, allowing two runs to
Women’s athletic program
growing at Texas A&M
By KATHLEEN McELROY
Sports Stall
Just like its athletes, the women’s
athletic program is young but impro
ving, said its director, Kay Don.
“We’ve had several new coaches
and have had mostly young teams,”
she said. “We’re still in the building
stage.”
However this has been a pretty
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program — basketball, volleyball,
tennis, track and field, golf, softball,
gymnastics, swimming and cross
country.
“Right now, our softball team is
ranked fourth in the nation, and
hopefully we’ll finish that high or
higher,” Don said.
The cross-country team finished
third in the state and fifth in the the
Association for Women in Intercolle
giate Athletics Southwest regional
which includes Texas, Oklahoma,
Louisiana and Arkansas.
The AIAW is the governing body
for women’s collegiate sports, and
like the NCAA sponsors regional and
national championships.
The volleyball team, after a slow
start and coach Dave Shakel’s res
ignation at mid-season, finished sixth
in the state.
“We had a real good comeback in
the regionals — we ended up fourth
and we were seeded eighth,” she
said.
Next year’s coach is Terri Condon,
currently teaching at the University
of California-Bakersfield. She will
assume the leadership of a team
which is so young there are no
seniors on next year’s squad.
However, things went better for
first-year Cherri Rapp and her
women’s basketball team, which
won 19 and lost 12.
The Texas A&M gymnastics team
was the most successful of the teams
that have completed the season — it
was first in the state.
Four sports haven’t competed in
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tennis, track and field, andsof*
The swiinmimg team, Dcr Byl
had a new coach and quality, ki]::*
enough athletes. Only ninev«tocal l
were on this year’s team and Warnings
were trying to compete againyities see
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deep with outstanding swim# The U
“We need more bodies, andyame intc
hoping to recruit some good Nation, £
she said. weep ov
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for Don, who came to Tea' bird gair
five years ago to build thewof The yo
program from scratch. AIAV- rationally
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year and a half ago. jitchers.
“Now we can provide fundsfe Tick L
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restriction, but the change hkn a real
The college coach recrtfice Neal
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penses for recruits who pa; tiany pitc
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“It’s still a changing time,
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