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How about the demands for a full-time supervisor of officials for basketball, for example? There will be an SWC officiating committee meeting in May to discuss the matter. Texas coach Tom Penders has criticized part-time supervisor Paul Galvan, who also supervises ihe Southland Conference when he isn’t busy as a principal for a Fort Worth junior high school. “I don’t have anything against Paul,” Penders said. “I just think you can’t be a big-time basketball league until you have a full-time supervisor of officials. I tried to call him three times and he never got back to me.” Jacoby is doing his homework. He said that of the 30 automatic qualifiers in the NCAA tournament, only five leagues have full-time offi cials. They are the Atlantic Coast Conference (which has two Final Four teams), the Southeast Confer ence, the Big 10, the Big Eight, and a fifth that Jacoby wasn’t sure of. The Big 10 and Big Eight just went to a full-time official this last season. Jacoby said he wants to present the total picture at the May meeting and ‘‘if the conference wants to hire one, we’ll hire one.” Jacoby wants to make three points Ag tracksters tiy to qualify for NCAA about officiating: — “As long as you’ve gota and a loser you will haveoflia problems.” — “You can’t remove emotn ism from a coach’s evaluation.' — “ I he officiating problem more than an official. Its cos players, game administrators all have to work with theproWc He added, ‘‘There’s no pm hiring somebody. The proU getting somebody who is t® who wants to give up a good jot Jacoby is looking into a that would provide a regional where officials could be drawn the Big Eight, SEC, etc. He of the problems is familiarin tween coaches and officials.]: SWC, the league has a 2-plus-!! “We try to prevent overexpo between an official and a school coby said. “We try to see toil referees no more than two g home and two on the road.A shouldn’t see an official fourtii a 28-game season.” Jacoby said he doesn’t bel SWC officiating is any betterorl worse than any other conferenu! Speaking of Penders,Jaccfcj he will wait until after the Finall “to have something to sav" Penders’ outbursts againstSW(1 ciating during the recent ItJ tout n.imrnt I he once-reprimaij Penders could be taken outcl coach’s box f or a game nextsosl “Anything we do will haven I until next season,” Jacoby said Such are the problems nowd rninistrating a “basketball cot ence.” Grubbs and Speegle never! what they were going to miss, By NADJA SABAWALA Of The Battalion Staff The Texas A&M track and field squad will try to qualify more athletes for the NCAA Outdoor Championship this weekend when they travel to Dallas to compete in Saturday’s SMU Relay Festival. Morrison-Bell Track Stadium will play host to a field of 10 teams, in cluding Southwest Conference rivals A&M, Texas Christian, Baylor and Texas. “This should be a good meet for us since we’ll be going against some of the better teams in our conferen ce,” head coach Charlie Thomas said. Some Aggies already have qual ified for the NCAA Outdoor Cham pionships including pole vaulter Greg West, decathlete Steve Pere- gory and high hurdler Richard Bucknor. NCAA indoor champion shotput- ter Mike Stulce, who holds the re cord 70-6 1/4 throw which is a per sonal best as well as the longest recorded throw in the world so far this year, will sit out this weekend be cause of an elbow injury sustained in the indoor championship meet. Junior College All-American shot- putter Steve Collier, discus thrower Henrik Ramstad, high hurdler Greg Williams and high jumper Wally Reid hope to qualify this weekend. The 400-meter relay team of se niors Richard Bucknor and Derrick Florence, and juniors Andre Cason and Steve Lofton missed qualifying last weekend by a .02 margin at the College Station Relays with a time of 39.67 and look forward to improv ing their time. “We’ll really concentrate on our relays and hopefully we’ll be able to qualify some people,” Thomas said. The 400-meter team also must concentrate on defeating the NCAA title-holding TCU Horned Frog re lay team who the beat Aggies by .3 a year ago. A&M’s 1600-meter relay team of junior Brandon Williams, sopho more Ray Griffiths, Florence and Lofton will be defending their NCAA title against the Baylor Bears who posted a world-leading time last spring. This year’s team set a school Lady Ags I< for sunny By VINCE SNYDER Of The Battalion Staff Despite a little rain, Its A&M Lady Aggies' softballte is hoping to play their {jit against Sam Houston State!: versity today. , ■fl A&M will travel to SHSl. rain allows, with the pirstpitcli the doubleheader set for 3 p.tn. The Lady Aggies’ dor header against Kent State Wednesday was canceled beta of rain, and will not be madeuf The rain could be a blessitif disguise for A&M, espert coining off back-to-back tour ments the past two weeketK I he Lady Aggies are on a I streak winning 22 of their Iasi■ games, with a 29-8 overallreco: Sam Houston State is curve: 10-22. The Lady Kats w: forced to forfeit nine games season when junior AIl-Amen outfielder Shonta Gan vvasrus academically ineligible. A&M cttach Bob Brock, SHSU graduate, feels that squad is way ahead of where thought they would be for f- time of the year. “I’m really excited about is team," Brock said, “l couldn't * happier with the way our defer, is playing right now, along"* the good pitching from Mr Young and Dana Mitchell.” Young’s record for the yea; 17-5 with a 0.47 Earned Run! erage. Mitchell is 12-2 and sporting a 0.95 ERA. record with a time of 3:08.57. Texas A&M, which finished in door season with a second place ish at the NCAA Indoor Champ ships in early March, is predicted; Track & Field News magazine to" ish in the top two of the NCAA! door Championships, May 311 3 in Durham, N.C. In the 1989 Outdoor Champ ships, the Aggies narrowly mi 1 - first place, finishing two points hind Lousiana State. High schools, Special Olymp 1 masters and wheelchairs will have visions as well. Events in the university divi* 1 begin at 9:30 a.m. and will coni until approximately 6:10 p.m. K Thomas (Continued from page 7) in high school,” Thomas said- “I’d never seen a real good slider until I came here. “It’s definitely a big step up. Col lege pitchers know where to pitch it, and they can usually put it where they want it.” Thomas has been where he wants to be lately — in the outfield. But taking over for the injured Dan Rob inson wasn’t the way that Thomas wanted to break into the outfield. “Everybody wants to get in and play, but not in that circumstat> ( Thomas said. When Thomas isn’t playing l* ball, lie likes to be outdoors. Hf he likes skiing and hunting. “Being out walking around in snow lias to be the best thing in world ... besides baseball and(k 1 he said. In one month, Thomas hasf from bench warmer to herofot Aggies. “I’m happy and I thank God giving me a chance to play this"'* 1 Thomas said. And Aggie fans are glad ' Thomas calls Olsen Field home