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sports Briggs says Aggies should peak when it really counts TANK MCNAMARA CALL-IN £MCWS> ARE TOE PIRTIE9T JO& IN RAPtO, 0UT SOME60PV Ll^ TO PD If. JACK! ^ITPDWNL 1 PUT T(4£^) MEAPaOJE^ON! by Bill Robinson Battalion Staff Although the Texas A&M golf team has not won a tourna ment this season, the Aggies still have a chance to win the confer ence title, all-America Danny Briggs says. “This year we’ve started at the right rate,” he said. “We started preparing for the South west Conference and NCAA tournaments in January. “You have to build up over a period of time. We’re going to peak at the right time.” Briggs said the team should reach its peak by the NCAA Tournament, which will be held May 26-29 in Pinehurst, N.C. “Man for man I think we’re as good as anybody in the nation,” he said. “It we play good we can win it. “All year long the team has had two or three guys doing well but never could get that fourth.” One reason the Aggies ha- Danny Briggs ven’t won is that their play in the short game — pitching and put ting — has not been consistent, he said. “We haven't putted well be cause we don’t have enough con fidence in our putting,” he said. To make up for it, he said, the team has been spending as much as six hours of practice, from noon to dark every day, work ing on the short game. Three of the team’s top five are now averaging an even par 72 for 18 holes and a fourth has a one-over-par 78 average, apparently as a result of the long hours the Aggies spend on the golf course. “If we could shoot our aver ages in tournaments we could win,” he said. This weekend the Aggies will be looking for their first SWC golf title since 1969 in the con ference tournament at the Quail Valley Country Club in Missouri City, near Houston. The University of Houston, which has won all but one of its tournaments this season, is the favorite in the competition but Briggs said the Aggies could win it. “Houston’s great, but I don’t feel they’re better than we are,” he said. “Its a three-team race for the SWC title between us, Houston and the University of Texas.” Six Aggie golfers will compete in the tournament with the top four scores being counted. Golfers competing for the Aggies in the tournament are Briggs, Gary Krueger, Paul Oglesby, Jackie Lee, Sandy Pierce and Kel Devlin. Briggs said the most consis tent player on the team is Gary Krueger. “Gary has been playing abso lutely great,” he said. “He was all-SWC last year and will be all- America this year.” Coach Bob Ellis also received Briggs’ praise. “When Coach got here we had never been to nationals,” he said. “Since then, we’ve been to NCAA’s four times and finished in the top 10.” The Aggies were No. 10 last year . BUT YOU POffT UNPEKSTANP!) THEY Alt WANT 10 TALK ABOUT REGGIE JACKSON!! Denver wins 141-122 Vol. 75 No. 1 ¥—— Rocket comeback failsR ea United Press International DENVER — The Denver Nuggets may have been leading at the half 73-56, but coach Doug Moe was still concerned about the ability of the opposi tion to seize the initiative late in a game. “I was so worried at half time because Houston’s been coming back on teams all year,” Moe said after his team’s 14 I -122 victory over the Rockets Wednesday. “We wanted to keep the tempo going m the second half. I thought if we let them slow the game down, they could come back.” David Thompson, benched after just six minutes the pre vious night, scored 26 points to set the pace for the winners. “David was sensational tonight,” Moe observed, “He’s had some great games, but he’s also struggled this year.” The victory was only Denver’s second in its last seven games, but it pulled the Nuggelil with Houston at 45-35 i|31 Western Division playoff; Denver survived a H comeback that narrow Nuggets’ margin to 83-7ll 7:07 left in the third (]iJ Kiki Vandeweghe thenlif straight baskets and Denvtij led away for the win 1 hompson hit 10 of goal attempts in just22ni*jljp to lead Denver. Moses 'It i« a 8 an sum my led the Rockets with 27Counci following a tele lesident of Arg for United Pri VASHINGT( •-P 1 muring Falklanc ■ President Let Reagan about 5 anil both restati peaceful resolu dispute with Grt tyi White House Speakes. 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