Friday, September 30, 1988/The Battalion/Page 15
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SPORTS EDITOR:
Well Aggies, here we are already three
games into the season and things just aren’t
turning out the way we expected. I guess since
the second half of the Nebraska game, things
have been on a down swing for our Aggies.
Whether it is the NCAA, a tough schedule or
Hurricane Gilbert, something has sapped the
luck so far from a season that had so many high
expectations. (I can hardly remember A&M
getting outscorecl three in a row.)
So what do we do? I’ve heard quite a few
people complain about our defense not rising
to the test, our coach causing us not to be able
to let us return to the Cotton Bowl. I guess this
is the time to cry and complain about this
season’s misfortunes and feel sorry for
ourselves. Right? Wrong!
These may be tough days, but these are the
times that Aggies must rise up and show what
type of a student body we know and boast we
are. People in the state of Texas and around
the nation know the type of backing A&M is
famous for, and the way we love our teams;
however our responsibilities as Aggies go far
further than just mere fan support. We are the
12th Man, and that in itself says a lot about the
character of Aggies. On the field we aren’t
spectators; we are participants in that sporting
event. We can and do make a difference. . . .
Wearing our Southwest Conference
Champion T-shirts and throwing cotton at
football games are nice extras, but we should
also receive satisfaction from the fact that we
are the best student body in the nation.
Steve Keathley ’89
Yell leader
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crimmage kicks off women’s rugby season
The rugby season kicks off this
unday for the Texas A&M wom-
n’s rugby team with a scrimmage
[Dallas.
y The season opener will be fol-
I nved by a pair of scrimmages on
M IctoberD at the Ormond Simp-
I son Drill Field on the A&M cam-
us. The scrimmages are meant
help prepare the team for reg-
lar season and tournament ac-
|on.
“We have to get a lot out of
ese scrimmages since we don’t
let to play very often,” Head
WhShari Coleman says.
Tickling, traveling and team-
12th Man Sports
“We have to travel to find good
competition, good teams to play,”
she said.
Women’s rugby is not an inter
collegiate sport, so teams are
usually organized by areas in
stead of by universities.
The team will travel to four
tournaments during the fall and
spring starting with the first in
Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 12. The
tournaments are particularly
strenuous because teams play as
many as three games each day.
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By kicking off the season with
Jvo victories the Texas A&M
len’s rugby team is well pre-
Jared for its upcoming home
pener against Texas on October
Matches over Sam Houston
ate and the Bay Area Club of
fouston have yielded victories
rthe club’s ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams.
The club is competing in the
’exas Rugby Union and hopes to
Jvance to the national in club
lay and collegiate competition.
“Teams are representing the
ubjn an ‘A’ side and a ‘B’ side,”
team member John Beard said.
“We won in both sides in our
opening two matches with the ‘A’
side winning 22-0 over Bay
Area.”
Club president Rick Roda said
rugby is an aggressive sport.
“It looks familiar to the child
hood game ‘tackle the man with
the ball’,” he said.
The rugby club practices Tues
day through Thursday at 6 p.m.
behind Zachry Engineering Cen
ter parking lot.
: ield hockey face-offs end In two losses
Tulane and the University of
)allas handed a pair of one-point
osses to the Texas A&M field
lockey team last weekend.
Field hockey is an Olympic
port, but not one that has gar-
lered much media attention dur-
ng the current Olympics. How-
:ver, the club has been at A&M
or over eight years now and has
ielded a team all during that
ime.
“Field hockey is the second
Host played game in the world
tehind soccer,” club president
IsifQureshy said.
“Some of the top teams in the
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world come from such countries
as West Germany, Australia, En
gland and Pakistan, which is the
defending Olympic champion.”
“The game originated in Eng
land,” Qureshy said. “It has the
same basic strategies of soccer in
moving the ball, but it is much
faster.”
Currently the A&M field
hockey club has 20 members, six
of whom are women. Qureshy
said he is expecting a full wom
en’s team later in the semester.
Cyclist rolls to bronze in Colorado Springs
Texas A&M cycling team
ember Annette Wolfe roared to
j a bronze medal in the Women’s
print competition to highlight
ler participation in the National
ollegiate Cycling Track Cham-
ionships in Colorado Springs,
-olo., earlier this week.
Wolfe’s third-place finish com
ined with a seventh place in the
loints race to earn her seventh
ilace in the overall national wom-
ns rankings. Her performance
Iso enabled the A&M team to
tiove to 15th in the national
ankings for track racing.
12th Man Sports
Recently the team competed in
a meet at the University of Okla
homa and placed among the lead
ers in 4-man team competition.
In the ‘A’ division, the team of
Mike Ashton, Todd Jones, Tom
Aimes and Russell Kay blazed
their way to a third place finish.
The ‘B’ division saw A&M collect
another third-place finish as
Bobby Benavides, Patrick
McGrath, Steve Corsano and
Larry Boyd raced for the Aggies.
ies drift to third place in Austin regatta
The Texas A&M sailing team
ruised to a third place finish in
he McCarthy Cup regatta in
lustin last weekend.
Teams representing Spring
lillCollege (Ala.), Tulane, Hous-
on, Rice, Texas (the host school),
outhern Methodist and Baylor
titled the Aggies in the largest
earn sailing racing event of any
ypein Texas.
Sailing
Spring Hill won the event
ahead of Tulane and A&M,
which placed third, instead of
first because of a protest, team
member Jeff Wheless said.
The regatta was conducted as a
team race emphasizing strategy
over speed.
SWC starts
for Lady Ags
against Tech
The Texas A&M football team
isn’t the first team to open its South
west Conference season. The Lady
Aggie volleyball team beats it by a
day.
The Lady Aggies play host to
Texas Tech tonight at G. Rollie
White Coliseum in both teams’ SWC
openers.
A&M is 7-5 on the season and is
coming off a three-set win over Sam
Houston State Wednesday night.
McDonalds is sponsoring Shout
Night Friday. The first 250 people
through the gate will receive mini
microphones and coupons. A spirit
and yelling competition will also
highlight the evening.
Class of ’88
dedicates
stadium gift
The halftime of Saturday’s foot
ball game between Texas A&M and
Texas Tech will feature the dedica
tion of one of the class gifts of the
A&M senior class of 1988.
A sign reading, “Welcome to Ag-
gieland — Home of the 12th Man”
will be officially dedicated at half
time of the game by the Gift Com
mittee of the Senior Class Council.
The sign cost $9,400 and was
funded by money raised from seve
ral events including the Freshman
Ball, Boot Dance, Howdy Dance and
Ring Dance. The sign is perma
nently anchored to the stadium deck
walls of the second and third decks
of the east grandstand of the sta
dium.
Stabler Sign Co., of Bryan, assem
bled, designed and painted the sign.
The Class of ’88 raised a total of
approximately $40,000 and is using
the remainder of the money for va
rious projects around the campus.
Scott snaps
losing streak,
Astros nip Braves
ATLANTA (AP) — Mike Scott
allowed four hits in seven innings
to break a personal five-game los
ing streak and Kevin Bass had
three RBI as the Houston Astros
beat the Atlanta Braves 5-4
Thursday night.
The Braves lost for the eighth
time in nine games.
Scott, 14-8, struck out five and
walked none. He broke another
personal five-game losing streak,
winning for the first time in six
career decisions at Atlanta. Dave
Smith worked two innings to earn
his 27th save.
The Astros trailed 3-1 after
three innings, but tied the game
against Tom Smoltz, 2-7, in the
fifth. Hatcher singled and took
third on Gerald Young’s single.
After Young stole second, Bass
hit a two-run single.
Billy Hatcher’s seventh homer
made it 4-3 in the seventh and
Young added an RBI single in
the eighth.
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