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I Sports Texas’ Akers upset with referees’ calls Tuesday, October 16, 1984AThe Battalion/Page 9 See page 11 Aggie rifle team sets SWC record By TONY CORNETT Sports Writer Another Southwest Confer ence shooting record fell to the Texas A&M Rifle Team last weekend. Breaking the record of 4,476 points the team set the previous weekend, the Ags shot their way past 13 other teams from Texas and Louisiana to set the new re cord and take the Aggie Invita tional title with a total of 4,476 points out of a possible 4,800. The University of Texas at El Paso placed second with 4,374 points and The University of Texas at Arlington placed third with 4,252 points. The members of the winning Aggie squad were David Ed mondson, Kevin Schabacker, Chris Fedun and Eric Abbott. Edmondson, a freshman, is the Aggies’ All-America candidate. “Edmondson has brought a new spark to the team,” said A&M Rifle Team Coach Rick Pitts, “He’s causing the upper classmen on the team to try to match his performances. He’s al ways striving for perfection.” Schabacker is a senior All- Southwest Conference shooter and captains the team. Abbott and Fedun are sophomores. All four shooters participated in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Tri als. In fact, Edmondson’s father is an U.S. Olympic Rifle Team coach. “We should place four shoot ers on the six man SWC team,” said Pitts, “We’re looking at na tionals this season.” The Aggies are taking advan tage of every path to im provement. A&M Assistant Coach Glenn Park is at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Col orado Springs, Colorado this week, picking up the latest infor mation on riflery training. This weekend, the Aggies head to San Antonio to compete in the High-Power Rifle Cham pionships. Umpire dispute settled United Press International NEW YORK — Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, saying umpires are an “integral part” of baseball, Monday ruled in their favor over a contract dispute that sidelined them most of the playoffs. Ueberroth, in his first signifi cant ruling since he assumed the commissioner’s post Oct. 1, lis tened to the final offers of both sides in the binding arbitration before ruling. “The umpires are an integral part of major league baseball,” the commissioner said in a statement. “They are important to the fans, players and all of or ganized baseball.” The commissioner agreed to arbitrate Oct. 7 at the request of the two parties to resolve the dis pute and return the umpires to the field. The American League umpires missed the entire play offs and the National League umpires missed all but the last game of the Chicago-San Diego series. Crews made up of mostly ama teur umpires worked the games. The World Series between De troit and San Diego was officiated by a Major League crew. The umpires wanted an in crease in postseason compensa tion that would be divided among all umpires and not just those se lected to work the playoffs and World Series. 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We’re glad to see the crowd enjoyed it too.” The Aggies,. still stinging from their loss to Texas last Wednesday, didn’t take long to dispose of the Cardinals, winning convincingly 15- 1, 15-12 and 15-0. “I think we were taking out Wednesday night on Lamar,” A&M Head Coach Terry Condon said. “I think we needed to play well to boost our confidence back up. I was pleased with the way we played. We played good defense and had good movement.” The Aggies, who improved their record to 19-3 on the year, made some starting lineup changes to try and strengthen the team. “We switched up Chemine (Doty) and Sherri (Brinkman),” Condon said. “We also started Stacey (Gildner). Stacey puts the ball away and that’s what we’re looking for. “The hitters have different setters now. They were nervous about that before the game, but they did well. We just want to create a stronger team.” Brinkman said the lineup changes didn’t affect the Ags’ play. “We adjusted well,” Brinkman said. “You can’t really tell how it will work out, but I’m happy with it now.” After getting blown away in the first game, Lamar hitter Veronica Carter, who had 14 kills for the match, kept the Cards close in the second game. “Veronica’s the only one who played well,” Lamar Head Coach Katrinka Jo Crawford said. “She hasn’t had a bad game yet. The sec ond game we found out we could play this team. Then in the third game we made mental errors. We A&M’s Terry Condon just didn’t go for balls.” Ag hitter Margaret Spence, who had seven kills in the second game and five in the third said the team recovered well from the loss to Texas. “We were down after the Texas game,” Spence said. “We knew we had to pick it up. We’re still shooting for conference. We’ve never stopped thinking about that.” Against the Horns, the Ags learned some things about them selves. “Next time we know exactly what we’re up against,” Brinkman said. “We weren’t consistent, but we never gave up. That’s a big step for us. We have tne capability to beat anyone. It’s the upstairs part (mental prepa ration) that we must work on.” “We had our chances against Texas and we blew it,” Condon said. “We just lacked someone to put the ball away.” Putting the tough Texas loss and the easy Lamar victory out of their mind, the Ags now look ahead to their next opponent — a Wednesday night rendevous with Rice at Autry Court in Houston. “They’re a tenacious team,” Con don said. “They have real good servers. I expect to win, but you know how that goes.” If it goes as well as it did Monday night, the Aggies will be playing in Austin on Nov. 14 for the Southwest Conference championship. N W |JEI€HTC 50 Years Of Opportunity With HUGHES HELICOPTERS, INC. 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