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Friday, February 15, 1985/The Battalion/Page 11 I PORTS i aeli mi 'rrillas» ed near is the mi 'em om !i troop rierrila, trossed mngton miles nor ) a tmo les fartli rovedbi nontli, li Irawal fra red In to (S QS :r yean ■ body has vott merabb repottfi ill be vas it®l Gymnasts to sponsor IGA meet By MARCY BASILE Sports Writer f They fly through the air with the greatest of ease. Only they fly without the usual trapeze, i The Texas A&M Gymnastic Club, the proverbial “they,” are sponsoring a men’s gymnastic meet tomorrow starting at 2 p.m. at Aerofit. Along with the Aggies are teams from Texas, Texas Tech and Texas-Arlington, along with several recent local high school graduates. I Competing teams are all mem bers of the Texas Gymnastics As sociation (TGA), which is com posed of 15 teams. Members of the association are from schools across Texas which have club teams instead of NCAA teams. Although A&M practices in ast Kyle, the meet is being held at Aerofit, located at the corner of FM 2818 and Villa Maria. I The A&M gymnastics team is open for both men and women. UThe workout room boasts men’s and women’s event apparatus, but there are more men involved than women. I “Our club is open to anyone that goes to school here.” said Grant Lauderdale, president of the team. “It doesn’t matter whether they’ve .never seen a gymnastics meet, or even a mat, before. They can come up and try something.” I Dues for the club are $10 for non-competing members and $12 for competers. Snyder and Lauderdale don’t mind paying the extra bucks though since tfiey work almost 20 hours every week. 1 Lauderdale’s specialty is the men’s all-around competition. Men’s all-around competitors must be well versed on all six of the men’s events — rings, pom mel horse, parallel bars, high bar, floor exercise and vault. H “The pommel horse is the most difficult of the six events,” said Lauderdale as he shot the horse dirty looks. “All the other events use • natural movements, like swings. T he whole idea be hind the pommel horse (another dirty look) is unnatural.” f*; If you get a chance, mosey out to Aerofit and watch the men tackle the pommel horse and the other events. jnferent Rabbis iiiwei men prof the fi® me me Assent' emberso ■ales tl* : al al d in if anef each Ilf ii Al® 5 mi JtOf BALDNESS Rx with MINOXIDIL Physician Supervised CALL APOLLO HAIR RESTORATION CUNIC 846-4080 1842 Greenfield Plaxa Bryan, Texas COLLEGE STATION SUftVlVAl HAME THE GROWN UP VERSION OF CAPTURE THE FLAG For information call 764-1066 PFI Inc.. P.O. Bo* 9417. C.S.. TX 77840 Ad Sponsored by ENVE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER of HOUSTON DAY CAMPS OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE SUMMER STAFF POSITIONS (ACA Accredited Camp) ciallsts $1300+ OUture, Arcs 6 Crafts, Canoalng, Music/Drams. Sporta/Archery, Horseback Riding, Computer) fleeir: Unit Supervisors gfli Senior Counselors ♦Salary Based On Education And Exparlence. June 10th through AuRust ,16th S120O+ $1300+ S 850+ Ags wearing heart on Frogs’ sleeve By CHAREAN WILLIAMS Assistant Sports Editor Heartbreak, disappointment and despair are all good words to de scribe the Texas A&M basketball team’s feelings Thursday afternoon. “Disappointment would be a good word,” said Aggie coach Shelby Met calf. Heartbreak on Valentine’s Day? For the Aggies, Cupid arrived a day late. A&M fell two points short of taking sole possession of first place in the Southwest Conference. Behind by 17 points at halftime, the Ags rallied and with only 29 sec onds remaining had the ball and a chance to tie. However, Todd Holloway’s off- balance 20-foot jumper bounced off the rim and the Ags went home where they started — second place. “Don (Marbury) had fouled out, so we wanted to get the ball to Kenny (Brown),” Metcalf said. “I think they knew we wanted Kenny to shoot the ball. “I tell you what, Kenny Brown is a great money player. He’s good all the time, but he is great at money time.” The Aggies must quickly recover from the heartbreak and try to re bound against TCU at 7:35 p.m. Sat urday in G. Rollie White Coliseum. “TCU’s won six out of their last seven,” Metcalf said. “They’re the hottest team in the SWC right now.” A&M can’t afford to wear its heart on its sleeve against TCU. If the Ags want to stay in the chase after the first-place Stangs, they must contain the Horned Frogs’ outside shooters, especially All-SWC guard Dermis Nutt. “They have the best perimeter shooting team in the conference, al though you had to be impressed with SMU’s perimeter shooting in the first half (when the Mustangs made 75 percent of their shots),” Metcalf said. Metcalf said if the opportunity arises, the Aggies will look inside for more scoring. “We always like to go inside,” Met calf said. “Winston (Crite) is really coming on. He is getting better all the time. “They’ve been playing a lot of man def ense. They used to only play zone. It really depends on what de fense they use and what they will give us.” Metcalf said the Ags still have a shot at not only the SWC championship, hut an NCAA or NIT postseason bid. “They have got to be disappoin ted,” Metcalf said of his players. “They have bounced back all year. It’s out of our hands now though. “We were in a position going into Dallas where if we won the rest of our games, we would be the cham pions. We don’t know what’s going to happen. There are still seeds in the (SWC) tournament at stake and we need to win as many as possible to get an NCAA or NIT bid.” If the Ags don’t lose again, a NCAA bid is theirs for the asking. The asking begins Saturday against TCU win puts Ag Ladies in tournament picture By CHAREAN WILLIAMS Assistant Sports Editor The biggest win in Lynn Hickey’s first year at Texas A&M arrived Wednesday night when the Aggies left Dallas with a 77-69 win over SMU. The win moved the Ags ahead of the Mustangs into sixth place in the Southwest Conference and into the driver’s seat for a SWC post-season bid. For Hickey, the win was an espe cially sweet one. “It was a big, big win,” Hickey said. “It proves we have a good team and we haven’t given up.” A&M forward Lisa Langston, who led the Ags with 33 points, said she knew they could and would defeat the Mustangs. “We needed it and we got it,” Lan gston said. “We knew all along we could beat SMU. We had a real posi tive attitude going in. We really knew from the start we had the game.” Langston said she had something to prove against the Mustangs. “The last time we played SMU, their coach told the players not to guard me because I couldn’t shoot iii Lisa Langston (right) is A&M’s leading scorer and rebounder going in to Saturday’s TCU game. Above, Langston tries to keep a Baylor defender from tying up the ball. from the outside. I guess I had scored all my points against them from the inside before. I felt like I had something to prove against them. “When I went out to warm-up, I had a good feeling. It was just one of those nights.” The Aggies get another big test Saturday at 5:15 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum against the TCU Horned Frogs. The Aggies must get the expected wins against TCU and Rice in order to keep the No. 6 spot and the SWC bid that goes with that territory. “The big key for us now is that we have to beat TCU and Rice,” Hickey said. “And it would be nice to get some insurance by beating either Houston or Tech.” Langston agreed with Hickey say ing A&M’s victory over SMU would be all for naught if it loses to either TCU or Rice. “Right now those are games we have to win,” Langston said. “If we pick up a Houston or Tech it would be nice. We aren’t going to blow off the other teams, but we won’t over look those two teams. We’re just going to take them one at a time.” If the Aggies hope to advance past the regular season, they must play as well as they did against the Mus tangs. “I think the SMU game was one game we really played as a team,” Langston said. “We never did give up on each other. Our scoring was really balanced and the guaYds did a good job of passing the ball. It was an all around team effort.” A team effort is what it will take to hang onto the No. 6 spot in the SWC, a goal that has the Aggies thinking post-season play. Get cash anytime. Use any card. Banking is automatic at 7-Eleven. All PULSE® cards are accepted, including Anytime, Boss, Quick Silver, First Net (Teller2), Dough Boy, Ready Bank and Money Card at participating 7-Eleven stores. If you don’t see your activated banking card listed, try it! If the transaction is not completed, the ATM will simply return your card to you.