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<1 Humana 5 workshon ro gram wi| 'nal assauli, and meth- ! of charge, Consol. iship s Colligiaie inexttothe iiurdayand ss won nine ;ars. In this g including liversity of Sports Friday, March 23, 1984/The Battalion/Page 13 Baseball Aggies vs. TCU at Olsen Field Friday at 3 p.m. Sat. at 1 p.m, doubleheader Aggies to host Frogs ered duct a de- he Ramada p.m. today nust attend he Ramada •8178. Cost iany rmany this e invited to p.m. in 342 ost $1,000. mation cal TOSS n autocross begins at 10 fimed runs attend and test iponsor the rday in tht st, formerly throughoni pi!' No By TRAVIS TINGLE Sports Writer If the TCU Horned Frogs re even half as good as their 4-5 record says they are, then te Texas A&M baseball team an look forward to their first sal test against a true South- est Conference contender. TCU, considered one of the ams to challenge for the SWC rown, brings a 10 game win ing streak into College Station >ra three game series with the ggies this weekend. The first game of the series is riday at 3 p.m. in Olsen Field. Sherman Corbett will be on the ound for the Aggies. Corbett, junior from Schert/, will take 2 record into the game, laturday, beginning at 1 j.m., Texas A&M will host the orned Frogs in a double- leader. Kelly Keahey, who itched a one-hitter aganist orth Texas State earlier this tar, will start in the first game. |om Arrington, who hasn’t lost I five starts, will he on the lound in the second game. Ar- ington helped the Aggie cause ■ainst Minnesota on Tuesday B throwing a three hitter. ■ The Horned Frogs swept a Bree game series from Texas |ech last weekend to put them top of the SWC standings. U had no problems defeat- Ig their previous opponent on ednesday. They blasted Okla homa City University 10-1. [After the TCU series, the Ag- s will try their luck against 1U in three games at Olsen Jeld |The Aggies are coming off a lur game sweep of Minnesota, irrying an overall record of o operaton If* 1 ’. Coach Tom Chandler said eminarsoj ge Horned Frogs can’t be taken lightly. Chandler believes HU is for real. “TCU’s got a great pitching Bff,” he said. “They’re going lot be tough.” dp !9Sd Women’s athletics in turmoil at A&M By DONN FRIEDMAN Sports Editor With the recent resignation of women’s basketball coach Cherri Rapp and the rumors circulating about the fate of the position of assistant athletic di rector for women, one begins to wonder about the fate of wom en’s athletics at Texas A&M University. Where is the women’s pro gram headed? Is it moving back to the pre-Title IX age when women in athletics meant women in tight skirts cheering on the sidelines of football games? Or will the entire pro gram reach forward to the level of excellence that the softball program has achieved here? Assistant Athletic Director John David Crow was asked Thursday if the recent Title IX Supreme Court decision — that a school may discriminate in a program that receives no fed eral funds without losing fund ing in other areas — had af fected the direction of the women’s program. The former Heisman trophy winner and A&M football star laughed. A link between the court rul ing and the direction the wom en’s athletic program was head ing seemed somewhat absurd to him. What Crow and Athletic Director Jackie Sherrill both say they want for all of Texas A&M athletics is excellence. SWC baseball packed with talent >ven I present ai; mtury Sinjf antasy” and iday at are $5 fa □ck [Hity Mission The project] >ers Sunday rom 10 a.m. 1 to 4 p.®' ■ Kyle Field The University of Texas fielded its first base ball team in 1895. Since that time the Longhorns have won al most 2,000 games — capturing the NCAA championship four times and winning 56 of 68 Southwest Conference titles. Without a doubt the dynasty the Longhorns have built is one of the greatest in the history of the game. But as the SWC season gets rolling this week end, the odds of Texas winning another crown are not nearly as great as they have been in the past. Four other conference teams are packed with talent this season and any of them are capable of knocking the defending NCAA champions off of their pedestal. One of the strongest challenges for the crown will surely come from the Rice Owls, who have never won a conference title. Rice is off to the best start in its history, 22-2 overall and 2-1 in conference. The Owls led the SWC in hitting in 1983 with a .320 team batting average and they led the nation with a .971 field ing percentage. The Owls lost three games to the Longhorns by a one-run margin in Austin and get to face Texas at home in Houston this season. Arkansas also looks strong in 1984. Like the Owls, the Razorbacks have never won a conference title but have played strong almost every season since they added baseball to their SWC program in 1974. Things are looking bright for the Arkansas program, with the Hogs off to 20-4, 2-1, start this season. Arkansas is batting .381 as a team this season. Closer to home, T exas A&M is off to one of its best starts in the past few seasons. Coach Tom Chandler enters his 25th year at the Aggie helm with five returning starters and six returning pitchers from a squad that went 4- 17 in conference last season. The Aggies are 20-6 as they enter their SWC opener with Texas Christian this afternoon. TCU is another team that appears to be play ing with a mission. With a 3-0 conference record and a .341 team batting average, the Horned Frogs appear to be gunning for higher than last year’s seventh place finish. But the important factor is desire, and no team has as much desire as Rice. That’s why the Owls will fly away with the crown, leaving the Aggies nipping close at their heels. Texas will fall back to third followed by Arkansas, TCU, Houston, Tech and Baylor in that order. “We are in no way,” Crow said, “going to de-emphasize women’s sports at Texas A&M University.” Sherrill emphatically agreed: “I’m committed to everything in the A&M program. Like I told the track coach, I want to see them at the NCAA’s as partici pants rather than spectators. I want to see every team from A&M make the NCAA’s.” This may seem a bit hypocrit ical coming from a man who has been rarely seen at women’s sporting events and who, according to sources in the women’s athletic program, has never even met the outgoing basketball coach. But Sherrill is See Resign (page 14) Texas A&M football practicing It’s spring, so that means it’s time for football once again. The Aggies had their first full- scale scrimmage of the spring season Thursday at Kyle Field. The first team offense lead by quarterback Kevin Murray started off quick, with running backs Roger Vick and Rod Bernstein running over the sec ond team for a touchdown in seven plays. Head Coach Jackie Sherrill said he wanted to give the run ning game a test. “We weren’t going to throw the ball until we scored run ning,” Sherrill said. Sherrill said he was im pressed with the play of An thony Toney who had 50- and 62-yard pass receptions. .ewis: Akeem is Midwest key earch jgional D?’ at Ruddeij M’s biolog! [ al Biol ed the forj chers Iron 1 ! ing the Ian jarticipanJ ill be grad United Press International IT. LOUIS — Houston Coach ly Lewis says he has told 7- foot center Akeem Olajuwon t to let a recent fouling prob- jn haunt him in tonight’s NCAA Midwest regional semifi- jls match with Memphis Slate. |“I told him, ‘Don’t turn into a ^sive ballplayer by worrying Joutthe officials,’” Lewis said. Because if he turns into a pas- e player, we’ve lost anyway.” lajuwon of Lagos, Nigeria, the nation’s leading re nder and shot blocker. He a team record by turning k 189 shots, and averaged 16.3 points and 13.7 rebounds, he Cougars take on Mem- is State in the first round of NCAA midwest Regional ight. DePaul plays Wake rest in the second game, emphis State’s answer to Olajuwon is 6-foot-10 forward Keith Lee. Coach Dana Kirk says the injuries that have hit the Tigers’ three seniors have brought out Lee’s leadership abilities. “He’s actually talking more than he did before,” Kirk said of his soft-spoken star. Injuries have waylaid for ward Bobby Parks and senior Derrick Phillips. Guard Phillip Haynes, who sprained an ankle Saturday, is “60 to 65 percent right now,” Kirk said. “I asked him if we played right now could he play,” Kirk said. “Doom Haynes is an awful worked-up player and he said he didn’t think so.” Kirk said recent criticism about Lee — who has been tagged as a hot-and-cold player — is the result of the junior’s reputation as a prolific scorer and leaping rebounder. Lee leads the team with an average of 18.5 points and 10.8 re bounds a game. “Now every place he goes there’s a crowd,” Kirk said. “It’s like the gunfighter image. When you walk on the street, people try to get you.” Kirk said Memphis State can’t afford to concentrate too much on Olajuwon, although he said there is no one “better in the country.” Lewis had similar ideas about Houston and Lee. “I don’t think we will check Keith Lee,” he said. “I think they’re too balanced just to con centrate on Keith Lee. 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