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Page 12 THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1981
Jock
Shorts
Men’s track
Head Aggie Coach Charlie Thomas, whose Texas A&M track
squad won both the Southwest Conference Indoor and Outdoor
Championships last season, will be honored Wednesday night in
Dallas as the state’s college Spring Sports Coach of the Year for the
1980 season.
The awards banquet is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the grand
ballroom of the Loew’s Anatole Hotel in Dallas.
Sports Car Club
Seventeen drivers competed Saturday in the “Press on Irregard-
less” Rallye.
This was a special kind of race in that each of the 17 drivers was
accompanied by a navigator and given a list of directions which they
were to follow in sequence while going the average speed given.
The “rallye” covered 50 miles, all within Brazos County. The
drivers, however, traveled through several surrounding counties,
passing through Caldwell, Anderson, lola, Lyons and Somerville,
traveling anywhere from 85 to 210 miles in the three-hour period
before giving up and going to a party.
Since only two cars reached one of the five check points given on
the directions, it was decided to revise the rallye and run it over.
Five cars started once more shortly after dark. Despite the added
hazard of rain, the cars muddled their way through the course, with
four finishing. The winners were:
Expert— Bill van Ravensway, Mike Love (navigator), 1,296, 1st place; Ken Kolod-
zie, Mike Chatelle (navigator), 1,338, 2nd.
Novice — Kevin Buch, Eric Esch, 1,506, 1st; Ronnie Harris, Randy Milton, 1,842,
2nd.
More Sports Car Club
Sunday the Club held its second autocross of the spring at Zachry
parking lot. Forty-nine drivers participated in the event, with some
drivers coming from the Houston Region Sports Car Club Associa
tion and Galveston. Top runners in Sunday’s autocross were:
B Stock — Kenneth Baker, 1st; Carl Cramm, 2nd; J. Bittle, 3rd; Joey,Conte, 4th.
C Stock — Andy Gray, 1st; Richard Watson, 2nd; Kimball Ayer (Houston), 3rd.
D Stock — Kyle Stallones, 1st; Doug Smith, 2nd.
E Stock — Bill Ong (Houston), 1st; Kevin Buch (Galveston), 2nd.
F Stock — Thomas Thrash, 1st; Barry Ballard, 2nd; George Sydnor, 3rd.
G Stock — Paul Dotson, 1st; Mike Love, 2nd; Bill van Ravensway, 3rd.
H Stock — Victor Lutan, 1st; Larry Chan, 2nd; Steve Hoeckley, 3rd.
Truck — Grant McFall, 1st.
Prepared 1 — Don Lamar, 1st.
Prepared 3 — Eric Esch, 2nd.
Modified — Darrell Huan (Houston), 1st (top time of the day); Bill LaBarge, 2nd.
Men’s Tennis
The Texas A&M University men’s tennis team takes on Austin Peay
University at 1:30 p.m. today at the Omar Smith Tennis Center on
campus.
With a record of 6-1, the nationally ranked Ags will be trying to
overcome the effects of the team’s first loss.
The starting lineup for the Ags will be: Brian Joelson, Reid
Freeman, Trey Schutz, Max King, Tom Judson and Leonard Smith.
The doubles teams are: Joelson-Freeman, Judson-Ron Kowal and
Schutz-Smith.
Baseball
The Aggies open the 1981 season Friday at 1 p.m. with a double-
header against Northeast Louisiana. Texas A&M will also play the
Indians in a twinbill Saturday at Olsen Field at 1 p.m.
Head Coach Tom Chandler, entering his 23rd season at the Aggie
helm, has a number of positions to fill before opening day and
reports have it that the battle for starting positions may continue all
the way up to game time.
Softball
Coach Bill Galloway’s Texas A&M women open softball play with
a doubleheader against Texas Woman’s University at 6 p.m. Friday
and then take on UT-Arlington in a twinbill at noon Saturday. All of
the action will be at Bee Creek Park in College Station.
Women’s swimming
A 17-woman squad will represent Texas A&M in theTAIAW State
Meet Friday and Saturday at the University of Houston.
The Ags’ entrants include Gail Otten, Shelley Carbone, Lilli
Cole, Tracy Johnston, Tori Tessen, Kathy Mitten, Elyse Robeck,
Michon Breisacher, Philis Bums, Cathy Cargen, Cindy Green,
Kristi McMahon, Kim Miller, Marva Mitten, Julie Moffat, Christi
Jacobs and Cindy Seelig.
Pool Tournament
held at the underground RR on campus. An
Adam’s two piece cue will be awarded and
anyone can join! Don’t miss it — every Thurs.
7:00 p.m. Winners of Feb. 19, tournament were:
1st Charlie Hoag
2nd Todd Hurrell
Aggies play Frogs at 7:30 p.m.
TCU, Rice search for hamburger
United Press International
What is a hamburger to some may be
steak to somebody else and that gas
tronomic comparison turns out to be fitting
for tonight’s Southwest Conference menu.
It is the Arkansas Razorbacks, of course,
who will be going after the steak — already
owning half the SWC championship and an
overwhelming favorite to annex the rest of
it tonight when they host the last place
SMU Mustangs.
The Rice Owls and TCU Horned Frogs,
meanwhile, will be going after the hambur
ger. But when you have wasted away on the
starvation diet the Owls and Frogs have
been on for all these years, any morsel looks
like a banquet.
A victory by Rice over Houston tonight at
Hofheinz Pavilion would clinch a spot for
the Owls in the middle third of the SWC
final standings and a win by TCU over Texas
A&M in Fort Worth would all but wrap up a
similiar finish for the Frogs.
That, in turn, would bring them a home
court advantage in the opening round of the
conference’s post-season tournament next
■Monday night.
This will be the sixth SWC tournament
and neither Rice nor TCU has ever hosted a
first-round game. Banished to the road,
neither Rice or TCU has ever won a first-
round game to advance to the glamour por
tion of the tourney — which this year will
be conducted in San Antonio.
So plenty will be on the line in the va
rious gyms around the conference.
The fourth SWC game tonight will find
Texas Tech visiting Texas and that game
means plenty to the Longhorns, who want
to at least partially wipe away the memory
of an embarrasing 29-point loss suffered at
the hands of Texas A&M on regional televi
sion last Saturday.
And Tech has something to battle for as
well, since they are still in the race for third
place — a finish that enables that particular
team to bypass the first round of the tour
ney altogether and move straight to San
Antonio.
Rice carries a 7-7 record into its game
with the mysterious Houston Cougars, who
vaulted to the top of the league race with
five games left and promptly lost three in a
row to fall two games behind the Razor-
backs.
If Rice can upset the Cougars, the Owls
will not only clinch a home spot in the
playoffs but will keep alive a slim hope to
finish as high as a tie for third place. Rice
has not finished that high in the standings in
11 years.
TCU, meanwhile, is tied for sixth place
with Texas A&M at 6-8 going into their
meeting. The Aggies, although drilled by
the powerful LSU Tigers last Sunday, have
won five of their last six conference games
and are looking to revenge a league opening
loss to TCU.
But if the Homed Frogs can win tonight,
the only thing that would keep them out of a
homecourt berth for the tournament would
be a string of events that includes Texas
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winning its last two games and TCU drop
ping its finale against Baylor.
Meanwhile, Arkansas should roll
fourth conference title in five years (l
them having been shared with Texas). Ht
Razorbacks beat SMU by 42 points wb
they met in early January and Arkansasisii
the midst of a nine-game winning strei
“The flu that hit our ball club, partida
ly the flu that hit (center Scott Hasting!
really had a negative influence on on
team,” said Arkansas coach Eddie
referring to a three-game losing streahlt
Hogs went through early in the confera*
campaign.
“Since we have got healthy we haveWi
stretch during which we have played otl
standing basketball.
“Scott has made a big difference font
this season. I don’t think you can win bin
any level unless you have someone
tive in the pivot area. And Scott has tolt
one of the outstanding players in theconfa
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Murphy’s
a hero again
United Press International
SALT LAKE CITY — Calvin
Murphy scored a game-high 38
points, including 12 in the final
quarter, in leading the Houston
Rockets to a 106-102 win over the
Utah Jazz Monday night.
Murphy put the Rockets ahead
for good, 100-99, with 55 seconds
remaining in the game.
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