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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.
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expected to start for the A[
guards Tony Milton and David U]
hams and forward Darren Rhea.
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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
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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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