Friday, November 18, 1983/The Battalion/Page 5
Hacky sack tourney set
by Michael Raulerson
Battalion Reporter
The Texas A&M Footbag
Association and the Brazos Val
ley Footbag Fanatics will host a
hacky sack tournament Satur
day and Sunday from 10 a.m. to
6 p.m. in Bee Creek Park.
Bryan-College Station area,
Cumings said.
Men’s and women’s divisions
for freestyle, consecutive kicks,
and singles and doubles net
events are planned.
by-44-foot court divided into
quadrants. The halves of the
court are separated by a 5-foot
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th
touch the bag with any part of
the body above the waist.
A hacky sack is a small round
leather bag Filled with pellet
sized plastic beads.
The freestyle event requires a
four-minute, choreographed
routine that is set to music, Cum
ings said. Any part of the body
can be used to strike the bag in
this event.
Registration for the Brazos
Valley Footbag Open begins at
8:30 a.m. Saturday. There will
be a $15 entry fee.
Members from hacky sack
clubs in Dallas, Houston, Austin,
San Marcos and possibly Corpus
Christi will participate in the
tournament, says Paul Cumings,
Participants in the consecu
tive kicks event will have three
attempts to score the most kicks,
Cumings said. The person with
the highest total number of kicks
from the three tries will be the
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Acting Commandant Henry C. The award is presented to ROTC
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a Legion of Valor Bronze Cross. and academic achievemenL
founder of the Brazos Valley
Footbag Fanatics. Cumings ex
pects between 25 to 50 partici
pants.
Net hack is similar to vol
leyball. A person or team must
serve to earn a point, but a match
is the best-of-three 11-point
games rather than 15-point
games, as in volleyball.
The game is played on a 22-
Day students get their news from the Batt.
The Fanatics, a club formed
in August, will represent the
alton to run
court
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by Leslie Yoder
Battalion Reporter
Residents from Walton Hall
Ivill run their traditional
(he recoiaSnarathon from Memorial Sta-
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|o Kyle Field this Saturday at
idnight.
Kirk Barker, president of
alton, says volunteers from
dorm will hold their own
idnight yell practice by the
niversity of Texas emblem at
lemorial Stadium before Tun
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ndle are lit at the same time.
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thatmosij and serves as a back-up if the
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jought back to the campus, it
will reside in coordinator Steve
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the start that we get responsible
drivers,” Barker said, “because
the marathon is hard on every
body.”
When all the runners have
completed their first half-mile,
the chain is repeated until all the
miles are run.
“Last year, all of us in the trail
car noticed that the runner was
really hurting,” coordinator Les
Lehrmann said. “We started
yelling and cheering him on. If
someone gets too tired to run,
one of us in the trail car takes
over his distance.”
During the early 1900s, Wal
ton Hall used to be an athletic
dorm.
“The athletes didn’t have
time to go out and cut on bonFire
because of their sporting
events,” Barker said. “By run
ning back the flame that lights
bonFire, though, they felt they
still had made a contribution.
Even though Walton isn’t an
athletic dorm anymore, the resi
dents still hold the marathon in
support of bonFire.
Three years ago, however,
the tradition almost died. But six
volunteers decided to keep that
tradition going.
“Each volunteer had to run
about 16 miles and this meant a
really long, hard trip for every
one,” Barker said.
Last year’s marathon took its
23 runners about 10 hours and
57 seconds to complete. Barker
said that the runners would like
to break that record this
Saturday.
He said there are 15 volun
teers so far, but expects around
30 people in all.
When the marathoners are
just outside of the city limits, all
of the runners will run the last
several miles together into Kyle
Field and around the track for
one last mile.
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