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January 25,1
Aggie Ladies at top
of free throw derby
Swimming sweep
Aggies defeat LSU, Tulane in weekend
Hitting from the charity stripe:
Four members of thf Texas A&M women’s
basketball team continue to be among the
Southwest Conference free throw percentage
leaders. Janet Ouckham is first with an 82.9
percent mark. Jenni Edgar is second with 80.0.
Jackie Jones and Kelli Harned round out the
top five as they occupy the fourth and Fifth
spots. Jones is hitting a 76.9 pace and Harned is
at 76.1. As a team, the Aggie Ladies rank No. 1
in the league in free-throw shooting.
said the coliseum was the second toughest
lace to play in the country — ranking right
ehind Barnhill Arena, the Hogs’ home court.
Reggie, Reggie!: Junior guard Reggie
Roberts is leading the Aggies in slam dunks
with 17 (seven of those coming in the Aggies’
five conference games), steals with 38 and per
sonal fouls with 63. Roberts also is the Aggies’
second leading scorer with 210 points and an
average of 11.6 points per game.
Problems, problems and more prob
lems: Coach Bob Weltlich and the Texas
Longhorn basketball team are down to a suit-
up squad of just eight players after the loss of
three more players — all starters — from the
roster. UT sophomore Jack Worthington last
week transferred to Southwest Texas State,
and freshman guard Karl Willock and junior
forward Don Ellis are out for the season be
cause of injuries. Willock has undergone
arthroscopic knee surgery and Ellis has a
broken bone in his wrist. Junior forward Mike
Wacker, who sustained a severely injured knee
in last season’s loss to Baylor in Waco, is being
redshirted for the 1982-83 season. Texas
coaches and doctors had hoped Wacker might
be ready for the latter part of the season, but
the knee requires further rehabilitation.
Unknown success stories?: News doesn’t
travel too fast from Colorado Springs, Colo.,
but there are a few stories to be told about the
success being enjoyed by several athletic
teams at the Air Force Academy. The nation
ally ranked Falcon women’s basketball team
has gone through 10 games undefeated, with
its latest victory coming over Trinity Universi-
The Texas A&M men’s and
women’s swimming teams each
scored team victories in dual
meets Friday and Saturday with
the LSU Tigers and the Tulane
Green Wave.
In Friday’s meet against the
Tigers at the Huey Long Swim
Center in Baton Rouge, the
Aggie men’s team won 71-42
and the women’s team won easi
ly as well, by a ^core of 58-36.
The Aggie men now have a
record of 3-3 and the women
have a season record of 3-2.
Against LSU, John Helden-
fels was the only double winner
for Texas A&M, taking First in
the 50- and 100-yard freestyles
with times of 21.66 and 47.15,
respectively.
Chris McNeil and Rick Wal
ker also took first places for the
Aggie men, with McNeil turning
in a 1:53.56 time in the 200-yard
butterfly and Walker finishing
the 500-yard freestyle with a
time of 4:34.23.
Two Aggies qualified for
NCAA competition in one-
meter diving, as John McGhee
took First place with a score of
463.95 and Scott Seyl took
second with a score of 451.20.
First-place Onishers for the
Aggie women were Edlyn Bell in
the 200-yard backstroke
(2:16.95) and Marva Mitten in
the 200-yard backstroke
(2:32.70). The Texas A&M
women’s 50 freestyle relay took
first with a time of 25.86 and the
400-yard freestyle relay finished
first with a 4:09.47.
In Saturday morning’s meets
with LSU, the Aggie women’s
team won 71-33 and the men’s
squad won 68-44.
Darcy Wilson scored 269.05
points to win the 1-meter dive
and Tracie Tipps won the 3-
meter dive with a 293.2 to qual
ify for nationals. Susan Burk
hart, second in the 3-meter di
ve, also qualified.
In men’s diving, the Aggies'
Scott Seyl won the 1-meter dive
with a 320.2 points, qualifying
him for nationals. John McGhee
won the 3-meter dive, but did
not qualify.
()ther winners forilil
were Susan Marks, 501iJ
25.8; Jody Tanner, I
vidual medley 1:03.0
Bell, 100 backstroke,I
leen Doull, 100 freesnij
Ric k Walker,
10:04.6; ChrisO’Neal J
stroke. 1:54.4,andScoitB
200 backstroke, 1:56,l 1 1. yp
The women’s team*/0|. '0
200 medley and 200fre{|
lay events and the dm]
won the 400 medlevs
f reestyle relay.
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Leading the SWC pack: On the scoring
s, Tt
side of the slat sheets, Texas Tech’s Carolyn
Thompson, ajunior from Hobbs, N.M., scored
58 points last week in leading her team in a
71-61 w in over Houston and a four-point loss
to conference-leading Texas. Thompson
scored 34 points against the Longhorns, soli
difying her conference scoring lead at 25.5
points per game. She grabbed 18 rebounds in
the two games and continues to lead the con
ference in that department with 11.3 per
game. In SWC men’s action, Houston center
Larry Micheaux was named league player of
the week after scoring 26 points in Saturday’s
75-60 victory over Arkansas.
ty by a score of 92-41. The Air Force’s swim
ming teams have, to say the least, kept their
competition underwater for quite some time.
The Falcons’ men’s swim team has an 8-0 re
cord this season and the women’s swim team
has a perfect 11-0 record thus far. The men
have won 71 consecutive dual meets and the
women have won 42 dual meets in a row. But
not every sports story coming out of the Fal
cons’ camp is promising — the ice hockey team
has a 3-14 record and the wrestling team, now
6-5, has lost four straight meets by a total of 98
points.
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Quote of the week: Shelby Metcalf, talk
ing about G. Rollie White Coliseum and its
rowdy fans. “Playing at home is tremendous.
It’s the best place to play a basketball game in
the country.” Arkansas coach Eddie Sutton has
a differing opinion, however. Sutton, after his
Razorbacks squeaked past the Aggies 66-64,
Looking at Texas A&M opponents:
The Aggie basketball team has a 9-9 record,
but how have some of its opponents fared up to
this point in the season ? Several of the 18 teams
Texas A&M has played have above .500 re
cords, but some haven’t had such good for
tune. For instance, the Aggies lost to Clemson
and Illinois by a combined five points in the
Great Alaska Shootout. Clemson has a 6-11
overall record and an 0-5 mark in the Atlantic
Coast Conference, putting the Tigers in last
place. The Fightin’ Illini have a 12-6 record
and a 2-3 record in the Big Ten Conference. In
the Champion Holiday Classic, the Aggies lost
to Portland and defeated West Texas State.
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Walsh opts to stay
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SAN FRANCISCO — Bill Walsh had a replacement for himself
as coach of the San Francisco 49ers all lined up, but after a series of
conversations with club owner Eddie DeBartolo, Walsh has de
cided to keep the job — at least for another season.
DeBartolo said Monday that Walsh would return as coach in
1983, saying he didn’t hold him responsible for the 49ers’ poor
showing in 1982 after they won the Super Bowl the year before.
“What he has done for our club cannot be put into words,”
DeBartolo said. “In just three years he took us from a floundering
franchise decimated through trades and other questionable player
development to a great regular season and the World Champion
ship.
“Last season (1982, when the 49ers slipped to 3-6 and failed to
make the NFC playoffs), was just one for the history books. With
Bill returning, we will continue to have the formula we’ve de
veloped for championship football. We’ll be back.”
Walsh, who wanted to step down as coach in order to concen
trate on being the team’s general manager, said: “I think it is
basically a matter of continuity. We had a football coach who was
seriously interested in the 49ers. We were ready to take it to the
next step. At that point ownership became involved.”
DeBartolo was supposed to come to San Francisco Monday for
an expected announcement of a successor to Walsh, but he spent
the weekend on the phone with Walsh from his home in Young
stown, Ohio, and apparently talked him into staying on.
“We had a tentative understanding with a replacement (as
coach), but it was understood it might go either way,” Walsh said.
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