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Page 12/The Battalion/Friday, February 15, 1985 vvAif • wmT ! R£f«VEMS£ft M£, v'M fROC- -tHAT B£KT THE Y£fi,Y\,\>JE RE MEM B£fl ... BUT YOU V/ON'T REf^erABER AHVTWHGr AFTER WE GET THROUGH W/TH YOU / SWC indoor track meet becoming Hog heaven Northerners rule Ag hockey By AMY BOWMAN Reporter As a rule, you won’t find ice hockey at most colleges in the South, but Texas A&M is an exception to the rule. The A&M hockey team is out to prove it. Two northerners, Steve Mathia- son and Tom Dobrez, started the team four years ago. Mathiason and Dobrez both played hockey and fig ured that maybe some of the 36,000 students at A&M might be interested too. So the two put up flyers and ad vertisements in an effort to recruit players. Gordi Anderson, a member of 1985 squad, said the team’s first year was mainly used to organize and that actual games weren’t played until its second year. The team gets most of its money from,the University. Ice time, in ei ther the Dallas or Houston rinks, is $150 per game. The University also pays for the team’s gas expenses in driving to. and from games. Players pay $50 to cover the cost of jerseys and team equipment. Almost all the team’s games are played in either Houston or Dallas and usually on the weekends. The team uses the facilities at Sharps- town Ice Arena in Houston during the season for a few practice ses sions. But because ice time is so ex pensive,. the team also practices in DeWare Field House, incorporating “dry land” drills. All but one of the team’s 17 play ers doesn’t hail from either the North or Canada. Anderson, a native of Ottawa, Canada, said only one player is a na tive Texan and five are from Can ada. Because of the lack of hockey’s popularity in Texas, Anderson said the team relies heavily on the experi ence of the northern players to keep the team on track. A&M Hockey Team Coach Mike Silvaggio is from Las Vegas, Nev. and nas played a lot of hockey in Cleveland, Ohio. Anderson said Sil vaggio is a better coach than the one the team had last year. “(Silvaggio) is much better,” An derson said. “He is very organized and that has helped the team out a lot. He lives in College Station and that’s a lot easier than going to Houston. We’re really in for a good year, I think.” A&M plays other hockey teams from the University of Texas, South ern Methodist University, Tulane University and an All-Star out of Houston. A&M (2-2) has lost to Texas twice already this season, but has defeated the Houston team twice. The team plans to enter a tournament after spring break w'ith Texas, SMU and Tulane all entered in the tourna ment. Crowds average about 200 peo ple, Anderson said. The team publi cizes the games by putting up flyers in the athletic buildings on campus and by word of mouth. Posters in the ice arena in Houston also give a schedule of games. “We play (the) Houston (All-Stars) tonight in Houston,” Anderson said. “I’m pretty sure we’ll win. We really have had a great year and we’re fairly confident of a victory tonight.” From staff and wire reports Arkansas is highly favored to earn its fifth consecutive Southwest Con ference Men’s Indoor Track and Field title Friday night at the Tar rant County Convetnion Center in Fort Worth. The Razorbacks are the defend ing national indoor track kings and they haven’t been away from the SWC throne since 1980, when Texas A&M claimed the crown. “No one will come close to chasing Arkansas for the team title,” saitl A&M Assistant Coach Ted Nelson. Sprinters Rod Richardson and Tony Crier will spearhead the Ag gies’ fourth indoor meet effort of the season. Richardson will be seeking his third consecutive SWC indoor sprint title in the 60-yard dash. He was scheduled to run in the Los Angeles limes Invitational last week, but a hamstring injury kept him out of competition. Nelson said he expects Richardson to be 100 percent for to night’s meet. Crier is coming off a second-place 500-meter finish behind world-class sprinter Walter McCoy during the L.A. Times meet. Crier is out to re peat as the SWC 400-meter champ in Fort Worth. The long jump is where the Ags will face their stillest competition from the defending champion Ra zorbacks. The Hogs are led by Mike Conley, a three-time All-American and L.A. Olympic silver medalist, and Joey Wells. A&M counters with senior Kurt Thome and Chris W alkev. Nelson said that Tony Tolson, TANK MCNAMARA who is trying to recapture the 600- meter title he earned two years ago at the SWC Indoor meet, and high jumper Ethan Class need to have solid performances for A&M to ex pect to place in the top three. “Ethan has a tendency to peak at this meet,” Nelson said. “He’s fourth in the conference going in and can go as high as 7-foot-3 or 7-4.” A&M triple jumper Francisco Oli- veras, a junior college transfer, is one of the top three jumpers in the SWC going into the meet and Nes- lon expects him to place high. Oli- veras nas had a successful season from its outset, qualifying for the NCAA indoor meet with a leap of 52-8'/s during the Oklahoma City Invitational just two weeks ago. Mark Rutledge, Desmond Kidd, Mark Bruce and Britt Gilbreath make up the Aggies’ pole vaulting contigent. Rutledge has posted a sea sonal best of 15-6 and Bruce has topped 15 feet. Again, Nelson said the Ags must get strong showings from the pole vaulters to place well in the team standings. A&M’s Todd Howard will com pete in both the shot put and the high hurdles. Howard, a 230 (>ound sophomore from Bryan, placed sixth in the shot in last year’s SWC out door meet. The mile and two-mile runs ina\ lie the only events the Ags steal from the I logs at this year’s SWC Indoor. A&M’s Arturio Barrios owns the SWC’s fastest time in the two-mile run and is the favorite tonight Bar- vwvs TuusVwd vvVveavi AvVansas’ Paul Donovan and Henry Maish at A&M’s Rod Richardsot KJO, TWie? HOT " TdC UOUC? FLOTiG RULE HEV, ITS YOO MEC7IA GUYS* tU40 SAY 'TOO SMAORT TO BG A PRO GXJt&TERBACK, HOT US’. A&M’s Tony Crier \\w UaW.vn \ writs Yitv'aVWiOii t wo w et ks ago. by Jeff Millar & BillHI f jJC M6J3EL-Y THINK Tel AT lAFEEjNSWE UNGNyt-N TO P&SS-RL oh tMEitf KNG&S WIU YlAgfc. 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