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Page 14 THE BATTALION FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1981 Sports HAIR DESIGNS FOR MEN AND WOMEN Open 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday thru Saturday Located behind Ramada Inn off University Drive in College Station SEEKING PRODUCTS AVAILABLE AUTHORIZED SEEKING CENTER 846-2924 f'oaii'icsi Wilson hopes players will stick with Aggies By RITCHIE PRIDDY Battalion Staff With 21 recruit signatures tuck ed under his belt, Texas A&M University Head Football Coach Tom Wilson hits the road again today in hopes of signing national letters of intent with those same players he signed Wednesday. In addition to signing a confer ence letter of intent, each recruit is required to sign a national letter as well, which nationally binds him to that school. This year, as in the past, the national signing day is one week following the confer ence signing date. The letters of intent the 1981 Aggie recruiting crop signed this week are binding to the Southwest Conference only. Once a player signs with one school on that day he cannot change to another school in the same conference without a penalty. He can, howev er, sign with another school out side the conference if he wishes. Barring some unforeseen event, Wilson thinks he will sign all of the recruits he inked this week to national letters. “I feel that the ones we signed we’ll keep and possibly add a cou- ‘I feel that the ones we signed well keep and possibly add a cou ple of more. I think that everybody we signed is sound and secure. ’ FIELD SERVICE ENGINEERS Explore the earth in the crucial search for oil and gas reserves as a manager of a field service laboratory. Apply your degree to the fullest and learn more than you ever imagined you could. Earn ah outstanding salary and drive your personal company car. Birdwell is expanding. And we need field service engineers who want more from a job than sitting 8 to 5 behind a desk. Position features excellent advancement opportunities. Requirements are a degree in the physical sciences — E.E,, M.E., E.E.T., engineering science, physics, geophysical engineering — and an indomitable spirit that welcomes challenge. Birdwell, a division of Seismograph Service Corporation, is an international geophysical exploration company involved in wireline services for oil and gas wells and the collection and formulation of raw seismic data. Talk with us. Or write: Personnel Director, r*—rr -r Box 1590, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74102. J-i| Jf\X/PI Phone: 918-627-3330. A DIVISION OF SEISMOGRAPH SERVICE CORPORATION A SUBSIDIARY OF RAYTHEON COMPANY jple of more,” Wilson said, making no mention of new names. “I think that everybody we signed is sound and secure.” Although Texas A&M lost a cou ple of highly coveted players —Pat Franklin of Bay City and Jerry Zachery of Midland — he still feels that the 1981 crop is of sound quality. “Overall, we feel that it is a good crop. We signed some speed in the secondary that we very badly needed; some excellent lineman, very good linebackers. We think the whole crowd is good. They will fill some holes that we have on our football team. Overall, I thought that we signed a very good crop of people.” The Aggies lost running back Franklin to Houston and Zachery to Texas Tech after a fierce recrut- ing battle. Texas A&M also signed blue chip linemen Ray Childress of Richardson Pearce and Greg Por ter of Humble. “Ray Childress was the No. 1 rated lineman in the state of Texas. We think he’s a great athlete. He’s 6-6 and 252 pounds and runs a 4.9 forty. We recruited him as a de fensive tackle — that’s a big need of our football team right now. Hopefully he’ll be able to come right in and give us some help this next year. “Greg Porter played both offen sive tackle and defensive end. He prefers defense and when he com es in we’ll start him out as a defen sive end. He’s a real fine athlete, he’s got real good speed. He’s very quick, very intelligent, very | aggressive —just a top-notch foot ball player. ” The Aggies also added a quar terback to their ranks, Marvin Wesley, of nearby Navasota. “He was rated by the coaches in their poll as the top-rated quarter back in the state. He’s an excellent runner, he runs the option real well, and we think a very good passer. In our opinion he was one we needed very badly because we needed to bring in a young quar terback. I’m very excited about Marvin.” Asked how soon the freshmen could contribute to the program, Wilson said: “I don’t know. I think that we’ll have a much more ex perienced football team this year because we’ve played the young players the past two years. I don’t know if somebody is going to step in and become a starter. I think we need some of them to come in and give us some backup help early. But to forecast that one of them is going to be a starter — there’s no way we can do that. The transition between high school and college is very large.’ THE BIRDWELL EXECUTIVEM New coach brings diversity to Aggies By CAROLYN BARNES Battalion Staff As the new assistant coach for Texas A&M University women’s softball team, Sue Becher brings diversified experience in athle tics. Becher, 25, is a graduate of Goshen College in Indiana, where she was on five varsity teams. She played basketball and volleyball for four years, tennis for three years and track and field hockey for one year each. Her college did not have a softball team. Becher said she has played soft- ball in the summer since she was 14. Her summer softball team has been Indiana State Champions three out of the last four years and in 1980 Becher was named to the All-Star regional team. Becher received a degree in physical education and health and had originally planned to teach in high school. She was working as a part-time volleyball coach in northern Indi ana this past November when Head Coach Bill Galloway, who had coached her summer softball team, contacted her to see if she would be interested in coming to Texas A&M. Becher is from New Paris, Ind. which is a small town, far from big cities. She has officially been at A&M since the beginning of the spring semester and she said that she “was impressed with the openness of people at Texas A&M.” Jock Shorts Men s tennis The nationally ranked Texas Aggies, 3-0, will be traveling a tonji road this weekend. The Ags face Stephan F. Austin University Friday and Southwest Louisiana Saturday. Both matches begin at 1:30 p.m. at the Om Smith Tennis Complex. Last weekend the Aggies ran over North Texas State and East Texas State by identical scores, 8-1. Volleyball The men’s and women’s volleyball teams will be involved in tie sixth annual Texas A&M Valentine’s Day Invitational Tournament Saturday. The men will play on the third floor of the east Kyle addition, d the women will be on the fourth floor. The men’s and women’s finals of the 47-team tournament willle played at 8 p.m. G. Rollie White Coliseum. Admission pricewilk $1.50 at the door. Advance tickets may be bought at a table setupii the MSG main floor for $1 today. All other matches, which will be held in all gyms but DeWarei! day, are free. Men's basketball The Texas A&M men’s basketball team takes a three-game win ning streak to Houston Saturday to play the Rice Owls at 7:30 pj on Autry Court. The Aggies are currently seventh in the league with a 4-7reed, but have won all three contests so far in the second half of the seas® after a disastrous 1-7 start. The Owls are in fourth place at 6-5. Women’s basketball The Aggie Ladies play the Texas Tech Red Raiders Saturday® Lubbock in what Head Coach Cherri Rapp calls “the most important game of the season.” The importance stems from the fact that the game is the openini round of the state tournament. If the Aggies are to keep any post season hopes alive, they must beat the Red Raiders, a team wtiid has already beaten them three times this season. Women’s golf Aggie women golfers Susan Yantis, Monica Welsh, Shirley Fm | long, Kim Bauer and Jackie Betram will be in Conroe Sundii i through Tuesday for the Houston Baptist Invitational. In that 54-hole tournament, teams can enter five players with tie i low four rounds each day counting in a team total. The five Aggie women qualified this week for that tournaraentl after an inter-squad qualifying 54-hole tournament on the Teiasl A&M and Braircrest Country Club courses. Riile team The Aggie rifle team will be in Fort Worth Saturday for a s bore competition against TCU. Fencing August Skopik, Larry Tharp and Denise Ehrlich will represent! the University this weekend in Cleveland, Ohio at the U.S. Junioil Olympics. The Aggie fencers have qualified for that honor by their perform ances this past fall and thus far this spring. Texa: on a week ated Men’s lacrosse The Texas A&M men’s lacrosse team, undefeated thus farafteu fall of scrimmages and one regular season contest against Texas, wl take on two more SWC schools this weekend. b The 'are bei i In a the De month UIL rule is ‘irra tionaf United Press International AUSTIN — The University In terscholastic League rule pro hibiting transfer students from playing varsity football or basket ball for one year is “irrational,” and penalizes every studei athlete who moves to a nt* school, an attorney told the Ten Supreme Court this week. Clyde Farrell said although li ly on e Dick V ketball a visit hallgar Tlie Univei fens: “I h: spirit a Camp Day ’81 Owners and Directors from outstanding Residential Summer Camps in Texas will be interviewing for all positions on: Monday — February 16th Goodwin Hall — Room 014 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Bring a Friend! purpose of the UIL rule may bet deter recruitment of high set* athletes, it sweeps too broadly* hibit, - penalizes every student "It the ba- Aggie i tip, an moves. “This rule is irrational becans it penalizes everybody,” Farrd argued before the com 1 Wednesday. Farrell represented former^ 1 ketball player Jack Sullivan was forced to miss a year ofvarsil eligibility because his j moved from Vermont to Austin® March 1977. Sullivan and his parents filed class action suit contending d* rule violates the constitution® rights of students whose i move to new cities during tl f child’s high school years. Lower courts had granted summary judgment in favor oftk UIL, ruling the organization l® 1 the right to impose the rule toct trol recruiting of athletes. Farrell argued that the UlL^ is unconstitutional, becauseiti®, pinges on an individual’s ri| family privacy and travel ai nies due process and equal protec tion. MSC TOWN HALL Presents: Hi Ticket Prices: Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3 Monday, Feb. 16, 1981 Rudder Auditorium 7:00 p.m. $9.75 $9.00 $8.25 R5]