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dp 1988
A&M skiers
must cope
without water
By Dianne Normand
Reporter
The Texas A&M Water Ski
Club is missing one important
factor that could greatly affect its
skiing performance this spring:
water.
The club’s practice lake was
drained to improve skiing condi
tions and will not be skiable until
after the collegiate season begins,
club president David Meyer says.
The club’s lake was drained
late October to remove stumps,
dig parts deeper and to reinforce
the turn-around island with con
crete.
The objective was to have the
remodeling completed before the
weather got warm enough to ski,
Meyer said.
With less than a month before
A&M is to sponsor the first colle
giate tournament of the season,
the 13th Annual Polar Bear, the
team is coming up dry.
More rain was expected this
winter to fill the competition lake
says Richard Ameen, the lake
owner.
Wells are being dug to help
Mother Nature’s slow process,
Ameen says.
The lake may be skiable in a
couple of months, team captain
Mark Berry says.
“1 have begun to save milk car
tons to fill with water and bring
out to the lake,” Berry says.
“A skier without water is like
an oxygen without two hydro
gens.”
Berry says skiers will now have
to travel over an hour to practice
on a competition lake north of
College Station.
Veteran skier Joanie Pate says
Upsets come to halt
for A&M men’s tennis
CORPUS CHRISTI ■
sets finally ended for
- The up-
the Texas
A&M men’s tennis team as it lost 6-2
to 20th-ranked Northeast Louisiana
Thursday in the second round of the
HEB College Tennis Team
Championship.
The Aggies, 7-3 on the year, will
now play Arkansas in the tourney
Saturday at 8:30 a.m.
In singles action, A&M’s Dean
Johnson lost to Ville Jansson 7-5, 6-
2; NLU’s Piero La Gioia defeated
Shaun O’Donovan 6-4, 6-2, and
A&M’s Steve Kennedy beat Steve
Barley 7-5, 6-4.
Mike May stopped A&M’s Mike
Chambers 6-3, 6-3; NLU’s Mike
Bryan defeated Craig Whitteker 7-5,
6-4; A&M’s Wayne Green defeated
Bryan Miltz 6-4, 6-4.
In doubles play, A&M’s No. 1
team of Kennedy and O’Donovan
lost to Jansson and La Gioia 6-2, 6-1,
and Miltz and May beat A&M’s
Chambers and Scott Campbell 6-3,
the two-hour round trip may dis
courage some skiers.
“Looks like only the most com
petitive skiers will get to ski on a
competition lake,” Pate says. “It
may really hurt the others’ chance
of making All-Stars.” Most mem
bers have not skied since region
al last October, Berry says.
A big part of water skiing is
staying in shape during the off
season. Many members lift
weights, attend aerobic classes,
jog and practice on land, but
nothing can replace time on the
water, the team captain says.
The skiers hope the temporary
loss of their lake will not hurt the
team’s performance in next
month’s tournament.
The team is young but placed
second in several tournaments
last fall behind Northeastern
Louisiana University, which is
ranked No. 1 in the country. The
Polar Bear Tournament is March
19 and 20 at Aqua Gardens, the
team’s alternate practice site. The
tournament is called Polar Bear,
Pate says, because the air is
usually cold and the water gener
ally 10 to 15 degrees colder.
“Last year the jumping event
was snowed out,” Pate said.
The team hopes the weather is
more cooperative this year, but so
far the team has not had the
weather on its side.
Fifteen schools from Okla
homa, Louisiana, Mississippi and
Texas are expected to attend the
tournament, including North
eastern Louisiana and Louisiana
State University, which are
ranked first and fifth in the na
tion, respectively.
In the meantime, the Water Ski
Club continues its rain dance.
A&M softballers play host to 3 top 20 teams
The Texas A&M softball team will
spen its home season today when it
competes in the Aggie Invitational, a
seven-team tournament featuring
four top 20 teams, at Bee Creek Park
in College Station.
The tournament will conclude
Sunday at 4 p.m. with a game be
tween Louisiana Tech and A&M.
Teams participating in the tour
ney are ninth-ranked South Caro
lina, 17th-ranked Oklahoma State,
18th-ranked Tech, Illinois State,
Sam Houston State, McNeese State
and fourth-ranked A&M.
The Lady Aggies will play today at
11 a.m. against McNeese State and
again at 6 against OSU.
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