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Friday, February^
A&M makes run at track titl
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The Battalion
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MSC Political Forum
presents
A. Whitney Brown:
The BIG Picture
You've seen him on
Saturday Night Live!
Now see him in person
here at Texas A&M!
The Texas A&M track and
field team, led by national hurdle
champion Greg Williams, will be
competing this weekend at the
Southwest Conference Indoor
Championships.
The meet will be held February
14 and 15 at the Will Rogers Coli
seum in Ft. Worth, Texas.
The SWC indoor meet began
in 1973 and features the best ath
letes from the conference's eight
universities.
The Aggies have won the SWC
meet four times in the last 19
years. The last time the A&M track
team took first place was 1981.
This year's competition should
gain a lot of attention with the loss
of Arkansas to the Southeast Con
ference. Arkansas has dominated
the SWC Indoor meet with out
standing distance runners and
jumpers, winning the meet
ten times since 1981.
"We are normally an outdoor
oriented team," A&M head track
coach Ted Nelson said. " We use
the indoors to prepare for the out
doors, even though we have won
a few indoor championships."
The Aggies have been a sprint
factory for the past 25 years, pro
ducing great athletes such as Cur
tis Dickey and Andre Cason.
Dickey is the only athlete to
have ever won the 60-meter dash
RICHARD BUCKNOR/TheB:
Greg Hill(left) and Dante Bolden (middle) listen to A&M trackcoa;
Ted Nelson explain the importance of a good start during practice
Anderson Track and Field Complex.
three times at a national indoor
meet. Cason is a national colle
giate 55-meter dash champion and
the current world record holder in
the 60-meter dash.
"To win this weekend we have
to do good in both the distance
races and the throws/'Nelson
said. "We have a young team
competing at a high level, so how
well they do will depend on how
well they adapt."
The athletes to watch this
weekend are the A&M hurdlers.
Greg Williams, a senior from
Kingston, Jamaica, leads a the hur
dle crew of Richard Murphy,
Ricky Barker, Nick Pollard and
fifth man Rick Smith should pro
vide an interesting race,
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A&M team in the distanceevt;;
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are also expected to score
points.
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Baylor University.
For the men's
Longhorns and Texas Christ
University will challenge A&M
the competition.
Aggies face Arizona in three-game series
February 14, 1992
Rudder Auditorium
7:00p.m.
Tickets: $3 person $5 couple
Tickets available at the MSC Box Office.
For information call 845-1234.
Meet A. Whitney Brown!
He will be signing his book The Bia Picture
at The Texas A&M Bookstore in the MSC.
2:00-4:00p.m. February 14.
By Doug Foster
The Battalion
A&M baseball coach Mark
Johnson and the Aggies are in
Tucson, Ariz., for a three-game
series with the Wildcats.
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the Memorial Student Center, the Texas A&M Bookstore, or Texas A&M University.
The Texas A&M baseball team
will open a three game series to
day at 3:30 p.m. against the Uni
versity of Arizona Wildcats. The
Aggies will continue the series to
morrow and Sunday at 1 p.m.
A&M head coach Mark John
son, who was an assistant coach
at Arizona under coach Jerry Kin-
dall from 1972-76, said he was
excited about going back and
playing against a school where he
once coached.
"That was one of the places I
got started, and 1 have a lot of
close friends there," Johnson said.
"It's going to be fun to go back
and see some people I haven't
seen in a while.
"I don't always cherish the
idea of playing against my close
friends, but I'm looking forward
to it."
During his time at Tucson,
Johnson helped the team to the
1976 National Championship,
The Aggies head to Arizona
after sweeping a doubleheadei
from Southwest Texas State
Wednesday, moving their record
to 3-2.
Johnson said it was important
for the A&M team to gefinfhedo-
ubleheader with the Bobcats be
fore going to Tucson to take on
the Wildcats.
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True freshman Trey Moore is
scheduled to start the opening
game of the series for the Aggies.
Johnson said he was going to let
sophomore Jeff Granger pitch on
Sunday give him some rest.
"We used this game (SWT) to
get Jeff some innings in, so we're
going to back him up to the Sun
day game. I think they are going
to use their ace on Sunday as
well, so the last game should be
an interesting match-up."
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Women's Issues Symposium
Tuesday, February 18:
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Get Smart
A lecture on how not to be a crime victim
Jim Kuboviak, Brazos County A tty.
7:00pm the new Student Activities Bldg, 111
Wednesday, February 19
Beauty and the Breast
Changing social attitudes of female anatomy
Dr. Katherine Dettwyler, Asst. Prof, of Anthropology
3:00pm Rudder 502
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Rethinking the Myths of America’s Dream Girl
Ann Simonton, former model and current
Director of Media Watch
8:00pm MSC 224, Wednesday, February 19
For Information Call 845-1515
Tomorrow, the Lady Aggie
basketball team will have a chance
to get out of their current slump
when they take on longtime rival,
Texas.
The game starts at 7:30 p.m. in
G. Rollie White Coliseum. A&M
enters the game with a 13-9
record, 5-5 in Southwest Confer
ence play. The Lady Longhorns
are 14-7, 6-3 in SWC play.
Wednesday, the Lady Aggies
were defeated by Southern
Methodist, 62-49. In the game, the
Lady Aggies committed a season-
high 27 turnovers and scored a
season-low 49 points.
The SMU game continued a re
cent trend for the Lady Aggies.
After starting conference play
with a 4-0 record, the best start in
team history, the Lady Aggies
have fallen on hard times.
A&M has lost four of its last
five SWC games, and coach Lynn
Hickey said the Texas game will
be crucial for the Lady Aggies.
""We look at Texas as an op
portunity to get our season back in
gear," Hickey said. "We need to
get our heads up and play with
more confidence. Our confidence
can be improved if we play well
and win and get our season back
where we wanted it.
"We need to start playing well
and more aggressively and prove
that our win over Texas earlier in
the season was not a fluke."
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Sheri Dillard and the rest of the Lady Aggies will try to upset Texas
for the second time this season Saturday at G. Roliie White Coliseum.
On Jan. 20, the Lady Aggies
defeated the Lady Longhorns for
only the third time in history.
A&M won 74-73 when Dena Rus
so made a layup as time expired.
It was the Lady Aggies only win
ever in Austin.
Since then, Texas has won sev-
straight games, so Hickey
en straignt games, so
knows Saturday's game will be
tough.
"It is an awesome challenge,"
she said. "They are playing well
and are on a roll. They are also
playing with a lot of confidence."
Senior forward Russo leads the
Aggies, averaging 14.2 points a
game and 7.2 rebounds a contest.
Junior forward Yolanda Brown
averages 11 points a game and
also contributes seven boards a
contest.
For the Longhorns, junior cen
ter Cinietra Henderson is the play
er to watch. Henderson averages
19 points a game and 10 rebounds
a game. Last week; Henderson
was named the SWC Player of the
Week for the second consecutive
week after averaging 25 points in
a two-game stretch.
The Lady Aggies' loss to SMU
dropped them out of a three-way
tie for second place and into a tie
for fourth place with the Lady
Mustangs. The Lady Longhorns
are tied for second in the SWC
with the Houston Cougars.
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