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Men’s track team finishes
fourth in LSU Invitational
by John Wagner
Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M men’s track
team finished fourth in a field of
seven teams at the LSU Invita
tional Indoor Meet Saturday.
Richardson finished second in
the 60-yard dash. In the field
events, Jimmy Howard placed
second with 7-0 3/4 in the high
Although the Aggies had no
first-place finishes, five of Coach
Charlie Thomas’ athletes
finished second.
In the track events, Rod
jump. Kevin McGinnis came in
second in the shot, and Johnny
Hector and Mike Mullins placed
second in the long jump and
pole vault. Hector had a 23-10
3/4 in the longjump and Mullins
vaulted 15-9.
The mile relay team, com
prised of Richardson, Tony
Tolsen, Gary Scurry and Ver
non Pittman, finished second by
improving its time to 3:13.05.
Also helping the Aggies to
fourth place were third-place
finishes by Darryl Shoemake in
the 1,000-yard run and Vernon
Pittman in the 440-yard dash.
Shoemake ran a 2:13.15 and
Pittman ran a 49.02.
In the team competition, the
Aggies finished behind the Uni
versity of Texas, LSU, and Flor
ida State University. The Aggies
collected 66 points. Texas led
with 99, LSU had 83 and Florida
State finished with 68, 2 more
than the Aggies.
The next meet for the Aggies
will be the Southwest Confer
ence indoor championships in
Fort Worth on Feb. 19-20.
Swim meet
Aggies place second in SMU Invitational
by Bill Robinson
Battalion Staff
Despite finishing no better
than third in any event, the
Texas A&M men’s swimming
team placed second in the SMU
Invitational this weekend.
The meet was a big oppor
tunity for the team’s freshmen
to prove their abilities, coach
Mel Nash said. “We left a lot of-
big scorers at home for the meet,
as did several other schools.”
The meet was good prepara
tion for the younger members of
the team going in to the South
west Conference meet in three
weeks, he said, adding that he
was pleased with the team’s per
formance in the strong competi
tion.
Hosting SMU won the meet,
which included six teams. The
University of Houston finished
third, Texas Tech fourth, TCU
fifth and Baylor sixth.
the 200-yard individual medley
on Saturday.
Sophomore transfer Bruce
Woelfel led the Aggies, placing
in three events. Woelfel finished
fifth in the 50-yard freestyle and
Woelfel placed third in the
200-yard breaststroke Sunday,
while freshman Todd Robeck
finished fourth and junior Jim
my Jaster was sixth.
Another strong performer
for the Aggies was freshman
Jack Fink, who finished fourth
the 100-yard freestyle and
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fifth in the 200-yard butterfly.
Sophomore Tim Brown
by Bill Robinson
finished third in the event.
Also turning in good indi
vidual performances were
junior Mike Hoche, placing
fourth in the 1650-yard frees
tyle, and freshman Jim Hani-
gan, sixth in the 200-yard back-
stroke.
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The Aggies also placed third
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coach Bob Ellis said Sunday fol
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finish in the 10th annual Pan
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weekend.
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season.
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the Aggies placed above several
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of the nation’s top teams, a fact
Ellis attributed to driving.
The Aggies averaged be
tween 11 and 15 holes-per-
round in which they reached the
green within the average, two
strokes under par.
Texas A&M did slip once
during the tournament,
however.
“We made some mental mis
takes in the second round and
dropped from sixth place to
eighth place because of a 297
score,” he said.
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