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A w .‘J«c € Flash M YeURpyOiCE 99. * /A»w ♦ * **;*&$»* \f «Lf: • * •T ♦ 1 # 4 KARAT GOLD ♦ G I Z O’ S '/\n outdoor cafe brought indoors' Bistro-style cuisine • Daily Specials Fully Stocked Bar • Signature Dips HAPPY HOUR 4 - 8 p.m. Weekdays 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Saturday Page 10 The Battalion Friday, November 18,1)1 Aggies open season The Texas A&M men’s basketball team opens it’s 1988-89 season to night with an exhibition game against Simon Fraser of Canada at 7:30 p.m. at G. Rollie White Col iseum. The Aggies are coming off a 16- 15 season in which A&M went 8-8 in Southwest Conference play. A&M Head Coach Shelby Metcalf is beginning his 26th season at the helm of the Aggie basketball pro gram. Forwards Doug Dennis and Donald Thompson are the only re turning starters from last yen team. Metcalf is the nation’s 2( ningest coach in the nation and tli winningest coach in SouthwestCoi ference history with 413 wins. Itj Aggies, who finished 8-8 in theSV( last year, are picked by most] lions to finish near the bottomofik conf erence standings this year. Three junior college transfers!) expected to start for the A[ guards Tony Milton and David U] hams and forward Darren Rhea. 12th Man Scoreboard A&M Archers taking aim at regionals The TAMU Target Archers, A&M’s Archery Club, will com pete in the Indoor Regionals in Austin December 3-4 against the University of Texas, Austin Com munity College and the Univer sity of Houston. “Our main thrust is toward competition,” club member Kathy Craig said. The club consists of 20 mem bers and competes in collegiate tournaments in Austin, Houston and at A&M throughout the school year. Teams are made up of three top shooters from both male and female teams and a co-ed team of the two next best shooters from each team. “Everyone on the team, except for one guy who came down from Penn State, started here in the be ginning archery program at A&M,” Craig said. The Archers placed first across Archery the board in the Longhorn Invi tational last weekend in Austin. Billy Varos placed first in the men’s collegiate division and Sherrill Jarrell placed first in the women’s collegiate division. The regionals will determine who the team will send to the Las Vegas tournament, Craig.said, The top two shooters from both the men’s and women’s teams will g°- T he Archers will go to Dayton, Ohio, this year for the national collegiate competitions. A&M came in second behind Arizona State in last year’s nationals in Austin. “The main goal for the team is to be national collegiate cham pions,” Archer’s coach Frank Thomas said. Armstrong fights his way to New York Texas A&M Boxing Club member Scott Armstrong will participate in a tournament Mon day honoring former heavy weight champion, Joe Frazier. The Salute to Boxing Greats is sponsored by the New York City Downtown Athletic Club. For the past four years A&M students have traveled to the invi tation-only event, winning twice. Armstrong, who will be fight ing a boxer from the Virginia Military Institute, expects to win. “You can’t go into a fight with out believing you’ll win,” he said. In addition to this tournament, eight members of the club will at tend an Air Force Academy exhi bition in Colorado Springs on De cember 2. They will participate in fights and a boxing clinic. Boxing “Because of football, we doni have the opportunity to partici pate in many events during the Fall,” team member Tim Allen said. Most of the active boxing clubs are in the East and are ex pensive for us to attend." A&M, the only school in the Southwest Conference with a Boxing Club, won the regional competition last year and ad vanced five members to the na tionals. The Boxing Club, in associa tion with the National Collegiate Boxing Assoc iation, has been ac tive at A&M for seven years and is designed to improve skills for novice boxers. Ag Cycling team wraps up fall season The Texas A&M Cycling Club has had a busy fall and is looking forward to the spring season. Members participated in races in and around Texas nearly every weekend. Club representative Craig Tuttle said the team enjoyed its greatest successes at collegiate meets in Norman, Okla. and Lub bock. It placed in the top five at both events. While no rider has dominated the team, Tuttle said Mike Ash ton, Russell Kay and Scott Rost have been consistently strong performers in competition and training rides. Cycling Tuttle said Annette Wolf brought home a place in the top five from the recent collegiate na tionals on the velodrome in Colo rado Springs, Colo. Although the team’s season has concluded for the fall it will com pete in at least five collegiate meets in the spring highlighted by the national collegiate meet in May. Tuttle says the outlook for the spring is good, with several strong freshmen and sophomores who should improve. Women’s Soccer club falls to varsity T he A&M Women’s Socer Club won second place in the A&M Women’s Varsity Soccer Tournament last Saturday. The club team advanced to the finals of the tournament before falling to the A&M Varsity team by a 2-0 score, Club President Lindsey Craig said. Women's Soccer The club took part in four garnes in the event, winning two and tying another before losing in the championship match. The club began the day with a scoreless tie against the Univer sity of Texas and picked up wins over Rice (2-0) and Stephen F. Austin State (2-1). Craig, on defense, and Elena Olive, on offense, were named to the all-tournament team. Other club memebers receiving mention for outstanding play included halfbacks Nicole Ronquille, Michelle Kilpatrick and Robin Moore. Goalkeeper Jeana Chicosky, fullbacks Mary Gessner, Sally Nelan, and Kim Mac Cormack also played well for the A&M club team. Sailing team is a hit at Hate regatta sa ilors made a big splash last weekend by winning the Fro- ^ n u H i* te Re S atta at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. In last weekend’s action, the team finished ahead of Tulane University and Springhill College to take the title in the nine-team event. The A&M “A” team of David Hiebert and Chris Stewart tea- Rria AggiC “ B ” team of Brian Babbitt and Mark Zupeck to give A&M the title. P . Th c e victory qualified the Ag gies for the Timme Angsten Re gatta at the Chicago Yacht Club Sailing over the Thanksgiving weekend. Twenty-Six schools will compete in the regatta. A&M will send three skippers and three crews. This weekend the team will compete in the Douglas Cup Qualifiers Regatta at the Dallas Rush Creek Yacht Club. The Douglas Cup will have teams form Mexico, Japan and Canada competing against A&M and seven other college teams from the United States. Lacrosse team crushes Corpus Christi inf A £ gie Lacr °sse Club tore into the Corpus Christi club Sat urday to win 13-7K,»K^u.u /- at T vmnsti club Sat- “ rd f y V 0 J ln 13 - 7 behlnd the four goals of Nathan Douglas Tom Creeden also had an ex- o e L , „7S ch - r w,th tw ? He Lacrosse . “ vwo assists. He Iso won six of seven face-offs be- ore fracturing an ankle with less than a rmnuie tr. m.,.. s C.11 CU1 than a minute to play. A&M didn’t fare so well on Sunday as Sam Houston downed the Ags 8-6 in Huntsville. After the game, the club took a vote and decided not to play this weekend’s game in Austin against the Texas Longhorns because of academic reasons. 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