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Battalion/Page II
November 15,1
Weekend sports
Aggie Ladies win opener; volleyball team to host Baylor
staff photo by John Ryan
Senior forward Kelly Krauskopf of the Aggie Ladies
shoots over Nancy Seiler of Southwestern University,
during Texas A&M’s 76-59 victory in Friday night’s
season-opening contest. Krauskopf scored 11 points.
Rudd wins grand
nadonal race event
Rickey Rudd of Chesapeake, Va., grabbed the lead on the 3(kh
lap and held on to steer his 1982 Pontiac grand national entry to
(irst place Sunday in the Olobal Stralagraph 150, held at the Texas
World Speedway.
H.B. Bailey of Houston was second, followed by Bill Venturini
of Chicago.
Rudd, marking his first victory in grand national competition,
took over first place when leader Bobby Allison of Hueytown, Ala.,
was sidelined with engine trouble and was unable to finish the
75-lap event.
Allison had captured the lead on the 15th lap from Perry
Labonte of Corpus Christi, who was knocked out of the race with a
broken fuel line.
“It would have been tougher if Labonte and Allison had stayed
in,” said Rudd, who posted a 172-mph average.
Bay Darnell of Deerfield, Ill., finished behind Venturin and
Vaughn Brune of Houston was fifth.
The Texas A&M women’s
basketball team opened its sea
son by toppling the Southwest
ern University Pirates 76-59 in
front of 300 spectators Friday
night in G. Rollie White Col
iseum.
Led by sophomore forward
Jenni Edgar’s 12 points and
seven rebounds, the Aggie
Ladies outscored Southwestern
51-32 in the second half to erase
the Pirates’ 27-25 halftime lead.
Texas A&M shot only 26 per
cent from the field in the first
half, but managed 53 in the
second half to wind up shooting
39 percent for the night.
Southwestern, which con
nected on only 35 percent of its
shots for the game, was led by
Lela Robertson’s 14 points and
seven rebounds.
Texas A&M forward Kelly
Krauskopf had 11 points and
Janet Duckham had 10 points
and seven rebounds. The Aggie
Ladies outrebounded the Pi
rates 44-36 on the night.
Freshman forward Lisa Lang
ston from Dallas led Texas A&M
in rebounding with nine. The
two teams committed a total of
68 turnovers in the game, while
the quicker Aggie Ladies came
up with 18 steals to the Pirates’
nine.
In other weekend action, the
Aggie men’s and women’s swim
teams opened their home sea
sons against TCU Friday and
SMU Sat urday, with the men de
feating TCU and narrowly los
ing to the Mustangs.
In Friday’s meet, the Aggie
men’s team drowned the
Horned Frogs 75-38, as Texas
A&M took the top four places in
the 400-meter medley relay and
won all but two events in the
meet. The Aggie women’s team
lost to TCU 81-68, as Texas
A&M swimmers finished first in
the 200-meter freestyle, 100-
meter butterfly, 100-meter indi
vidual medley, 50-meter but
terfly and 200-meter free relay.
In Saturday’s dual meet, the
Aggies faced the Mustangs, who
have been selected by many to
win this year’s national cham
pionship. The Aggie men’s team
relied on two victories by Rick
Walker to give SMU all it could
handle before the Mustangs fin
ally won 60-5 1.
Walker, 7’exas A&M’s top in
dividual swimmer, won the
1,000-meter freestyle with a
time of 9:27.28, and then won
the 500-meter freestyle with a
4:38.64. The Aggies also won
the 400-meter medley relay, as
Kevin Londrigan, Mark Vimi-
nitz, Chris O’Neil and Craig
Buchmann combined for a
clocking of 3:28.20 to outdis
tance SMU’s “A” team by more
than two seconds.
Texas A&M’s Scott Reeder
won the 200-meter individual
medley with a time of 1:56.54.
The Mustangs defeated the
Aggie women’s team 73-40, as
Texas A&M could manage vic
tories in only two events. Jody
Tanner won the 100-meter
backstroke with a 1:01.73 and
the Aggies’ “A” 400-meter free
relay team won with a time of
3:39.37.
The men’s team will host top-
ranked Indiana University
Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Downs
Natatorium. Indiana, the alma
mater of Aggie coach Mel Nash,
has been a national power for
the past 23 years and was NCAA
champion for six consecutive
seasons between 1968-73.
As a member of Indiana
coach Doc Gounsilman’s teams,
Nash won eight Big Ten Confer
ence titles, was a 15-time NCAA
all-America, a member of the
1973 NCAA championship
team and swam in the 1973 and
1975 world championships.
None of Gounsilman’s former
swimmers have ever beaten an
Indiana team.
The Texas A&M women’s
volleyball team, ranked No. 13
in the latest NCAA poll, lost two
matches and won one in the
Tennessee Invitational over the
weekend. The Aggies, who de
feated Texas Fecit 16-14, 15-9,
16-14 Wednesday to move to 7-0
in the Southwest Conference
race, lost to Eastern Kentucky,
18-16, 3-15, 7-15, 10-15 in Fri
day’s tourney opener.
Texas A&M lost to Tennessee
by a score of 10-15, 15-12, 14-16,
6-15 in the next match, but
finished the tournament with a
15-12, 15-5, 15-10 victory over
Georgia.
Joey Vrazel, the Aggie Ladies’
all-America transfer from Utah,
sustained a knee injury during
the tournament and may be lost
for the remainder of the season.
Texas A&M hosts Baylor, 3-
37 overall and 0-6 in league play,
tonight at 7:30 in the coliseum.
The Aggie Ladies, who have a
30-8 season record, will host the
21-22 Houston Cougars
Wednesday night at 7:30 before
traveling to Austin for Satur
day’s showdown with the I exas
Longhorns.
The Longhorns, whose only
league loss came at the hands of
the Aggie Ladies, have a 25-14
overall record and a 6-1 SWC
record.
If Texas A&M wins Satur
day’s contest, it will clinch the
SWC title and an automatic
berth in the NCAA tourney, to
be held Dec. 17-18 in Stockton,
Calif. If the Aggie Ladies lose,
the two teams will share the
championship and a playoff will
be held Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in
Austin to determine which team
will participate in the national
tournament.
The men’s cross country
team placed second in Satur
day’s District VI, NCAA nation
al qualif ying meet, compiling 98
points to finish behind Arkan
sas. The Razorbacks, with an
amazing performance, had the
top six finishers in the 10,000-
meter race, held on the South
western University golf course
in Georgetown.
For the Aggies, Andy Elliott
led the way with a 13th-place
time of 31:05. Other Texas
A&M finishes include Jimmy
Sterling, 15th, 31:10; Aaron
Ramirez, I8th, 31:23; Vince
Stark, 28th, 31:43; Jim Bolleter,
35th, 32:00; Jeff Kurtz, 72nd,
35:26, and John Schumaker,
73rd, 35:36.'
Arkansas, Texas A&M and
Texas qualified for the, NCAA
national meet, to be held Mon
day in Bloomington, Ind. The
Aggies qualified for the meet for
the first time since 1970.
“This meet was an outstand
ing team effort,” Texas A&M
coach Ted Nelson said. “Our
goal at the beginning of the sea
son was to qualify for nationals.
Our kids had to compete over
their heads and they did. We
beat some very fine teams, teams
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with outstanding ability,
runners did more than
necessary to win.”
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