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Friday, September 25,1992
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MICHAEL
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his week
end pre- '
sents a
unique oppor
tunity for
Texas A&M
football fans.
The highly
beloved Ag
gies are get
ting a much
deserved
break from the
battles and
wars that are
commonly as
sociated with
college foot
ball.
A&M fans now have the chance to
fully scout their upcoming Southwest
Conference opponents. Baylor plays
at Texas Tech. Texas Christian plays
at suddenly resurgent Southern
Methodist. Houston plays at Michi
gan.
Maybe the TCU-SMU game is not
a marquee matchup for the ages, but
it does involve SWC schools on Texas
A&M's schedule.
The key and suddenly very inter
esting matchup is between Houston
and Michigan. Talk about two
schools that are totally different.
The Wolverines are conservative.
The forward pass was introduced to
Ann Arbor just last year.
But when the Cougars were made,
the mold was shattered.
They are the antithesis of the
Wolverines. Cocky, brash, bold, and
overconfident. And that is just a de
scription of head coach John Jenkins.
Gambling and showboating at
every turn, the Coogs are a detestable
bunch. Their touchdown pass on the
last play of a game against Illinois
that was no longer in doubt is anoth
er example of Houston's swagger.
Some keys to the game will be how
See Plumer/ Page 8
Three Times The Talent
RANDY NICHOLS/The Battalion
The Sangaiang sisters (from left to right), Cecile, Belle and April, have brought
a spark to A&M’s cross country team even though it’s difficult to tell them apart.
Triplets take
cross country
team by storm
By DON NORWOOD
Sports Writer of THE BATTALION
If Texas A&M students find them
selves periodically doing triple takes as
they walk across campus this fall, they
should not be worried. Their eyes are
not playing tricks on them. They just
merely caught a glimpse of the future of
A&M track and cross country.
Few stories in college athletics are as
unique as the one of identical triplets
April, Belle and Cecile Sangaiang,
A&M's newest long distance runners.
Besides the obvious similarities in ap
pearance, the Sangalangs are mirror im
ages in several ways. All three are no
wallflowers, with enough outgoing per
sonality for an entire family.
They are taking many of the same
courses in their first semester in college,
which probably makes for a newfound
appreciation of roll sheets among their
respective professors.
But the most amazing quality that
permeates the Sangaiang siblings is not
the fact that they are all runners, but that
all three are so successful.
The sisters completed their illustrious
high school career on a high note last
spring, with Cecile capturing the Class
AAAAA cross country state champi
onship, and April ending up third. And
all three spent the first weekend in May
at the state meet in Austin's Memorial
Stadium, one of many trips they made to
the Texas track and field showcase.
With such an enormous amount of
talent in one household, many might
think that the Sangalangs had a story
book introduction to track and field. But
their beginning was a humble one, a
matter-of-fact April said.
"(We started) in seventh grade," she
said. "It was just out of fun. We were
doing pretty good, and we though, 'Hey,
this might work out.'"
Did it ever work out. Cypress Creek
High School track coach Dana Dean
must have salivated at the thought of
three diamonds in the rough coming in
and placing the Cougars' program
among the best in the state in one fell
swoop. Dean also must have cried like a
baby when all three graduated, a fate
undeserving of any high school coach.
See Triplets/ Page 6
A&M tennis
to host 5-way
tournament
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
The 20th-ranked Texas A&M men's
tennis team will open its 1992-93 season
this weekend when it hosts the Texas
A&M 5-way Invitational at the Omar
Smith Tennis Center.
Texas A&M, defending Big Eight
champion Oklahoma, 13th-ranked de
fending Southwest Conference champion
Texas Christian, Texas Tech and Baylor
make up the field that will compete for
championships in both singles and dou
bles.
The Aggies, who finished 17-6 a year
ago, reached as high as 14th in last sea
son's poll and finished 21st.
A&M head tennis coach David Kent
thinks this year's preseason ranking has
the Aggies off to a great start.
"No. 20 is a good place to start," Kent
said. "I also think it speaks very well to
have three teams ranked. This is a heck
of a tennis conference. Before the year is
over, we could have four or five teams
ranked in the top 25."
The only ranked SWC team not partici
pating in this weekend's tournament is
the 14th-ranked University of Texas.
This weekend's first-round singles
matches will start at 8:30 a.m. and sec
ond-round action will get started at 1:00
p.m. Saturday will see singles third-
round play start at 8:30 a.m. and second-
round doubles begin at 11:00 a.m. Cham
pionships in both brackets will be held on
Sunday and get started at 8:30 a.m.
Junior Mark Weaver is the highest-
ranked Aggie individual, starting the sea
son in at 31st in the nation.
Weaver will miss the A&M tourna
ment, but he has an immediate opportu
nity to prove his ranking as he and his
doubles partner, sophomore Bernardo
Martinez, represent Texas A&M at the
ITA National Collegiate Clay Court
Championships through Saturday in
Richmond, Va.
Yesterday, Weaver got off to a good
start as he defeated 18th-ranked All-
American Bobby Marienchek of Georgia,
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Thursday (9am-5pm)
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