Wednesday • March 29, 1995 Thf Battalion • Page 7 SPORTS Lady Aggie softball team to face UTSA The No. 22 Texas A&M Lady Aggies softball team (15-15) returns home to face the Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners in a doubleheader today at the Lady Aggie Softball Complex. The first game will begin at 5 p.m. and the second game will start at approximately 7 p.m. A&M is 8-1 overall against UTSA but is coming off an 0-3 swing in the Pony Tournament in Fullerton, California last weekend. The last time UTSA played A&M in College Station was almost a year ago at the grand opening of the Lady Aggie Softball Complex. A&M diver, swimmer take honors in NCAA Texas A&M freshmen diver Jarrod Flores and swimmer Kyle Marden earned honorable mention All- American honors at the 1995 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming and Diving Championships held last weekend. The tandem’s performance helped the team to a 33rd-place tie in the final team standings at the meet held at the Indiana Natatorium. Flores was A&M’s first-ever diver to reach the NCAA Championships and finished as the third-highest freshman point scorer in the nation. The Aggies will make their debut next season in a new home facility, the 1,300-seat Student Recreational Center Natatorium, which feautres a 17-foot deep dive pool containing one, three, five, seven-and-one-half and 10-meter diving platforms along with permanent and portbale springboards, a bubbler and agitators. Recreational Sports to sponsor fun run Texas A&M’s Department of Recreational Sports is sponsoring the fifth annual Kyle Field Ramp Romp on Saturday, April 1 at 9 a.m. The event includes a 5K course that will begin at Kyle Field, wind its way through the Texas A&M campus, and return to the stadium. Runners will tackle two miles on the flat course and 1.1 miles on the ramps. The fastest male and female contest participants will receive a $200 travel voucher from Continental Airlines. For more information, call Drew McMillen at 845-1887. Ready to run on all four cylinders A&M’s mens 1600m relay team (from left) Larry Wade, Curt Young, Dante Bolden and Michael McKinney practice Tuesday afternoon at Anderson Track Complex. □ A&M's 1600-m squad looks to match last year's inside success. By Shelly Hall The Battalion The Texas A&M men’s out door 1600-meter relay team is running fast to capture the same success of last year’s in door team. With the season well under way, senior All-American Dante Bolden, the lone member from the 1600-meter indoor relay squad that took the national championship, said he expects this team to contend. “I think we can be one of the top five(teams) in the nation,†Bolden said. “Our goal is to run a 3-minute, 5 second relay and make it to nationals.†All-American sophomore hurdler Larry Wade, the team’s anchor leg, has the fastest split on the team this season at 46.8 seconds. Wade said he thinks that this team’s success will depend on the conference and the youth of the team. “There’s a lot of pressure in this tight conference, especially since the three legs are new,†Wade said. “We are all young.†Wade also said that while competition will make for a tight conference, tough work outs will be in order to obtain the team’s high goals. “Baylor, Rice and Texas are all good,†Wade said. “It will be a tight conference.We do a lot of strength workouts and we do quarter miles. At the begin ning of the season, we did more endurance.†The man behind those work outs, Texas A&M track coach Ted Nelson, said he is disappointed so far with his team’s results. “I’m a little disappointed with the way we’ve run so far,†Nel son said. “They’re not running up to their potential.†’ Nelson cites the loss of two members from last year’s na tional championship team as the reason for the team’s slow start this season. “We lost two national cham pions from last year’s indoor team,†Nelson said. “Stacy Za- mzow and Mike Miller were on last year’s team. This team hasn’t run up to their capabili ties yet.†See Relay team. Page 1 0 Jordan up to old tricks, 55 points routs Knicks □ The Bulls' superstar leads Chicago past New York 11 3-111. NEW YORK (AP) — Forget that stuff about Michael Jordan needing eight or nine games to be what he once was: The past is now. Jordan scored 55 points Tuesday night in Chicago’s 113-111 victory, the highest point total in the NBA this season and the most against New York in the current Madison Square Garden, a place where Jordan has tor tured the Knicks plenty of times in years past. In an atmosphere as hyped as a playoff game, the two teams currently slotted to meet each other in the first round went down to the last seconds. Jordan scored his 54th and 55th points on a 12-footer with 25.8 seconds to play, giving the Bulls a 111-109 lead. After John Starks tied the game with two free throws, Jordan, facing a double-team, threaded a pass to Bill Wennington under the basket. Wennington dunked it, and Chicago had the lead with 3.1 seconds left. After a timeout, Starks fell down at mid court after taking the inbounds pass with Jordan guarding him. He was called for a backcourt violation that cost the Knicks their last chance. In his fifth game back from retirement, Jor dan was magnificent, hitting 21 of 37 field goals and 10 of 11 free throws in 39 minutes. Raining jumpers over the head of Starks, Jor dan started off hot and stayed that way until the fourth quarter, when-he scored 6 points af ter starting the period 0-for-4. Despite Jordan’s 35-point, 14-for-l9 first half, the Bulls didn’t take their first lead un til the 1:47 mark of the third quarter, when Jordan hit two free throws. In the fourth quarter, Jordan’s supporting cast finally started supporting him, building a 99-90 lead after Steve Kerr, Scottie Pippen and B.J. Armstrong hit 3-pointers. The Knicks came back to tie it on a fast- break layup by Starks with 1:14 left. But Jordan then got his first assist of the game on a pass to Pippen for an 18-footer, and af ter Patrick Ewing tied it again with two free throws, Jordan dribbled around with Starks glued to him, but still hit the 12-footer. Mature Agassi set for Sampras A year ago, he was drift ing aimlessly, his pri orities out of order. Since his image meant every thing to him and playing ten nis was secondary, his career was spiraling downward. The player who worried so much about how he looked off the court was getting beaten on it. Overweight and sitting with a disgustingly high No. 24 world ranking considering his talents and capabilities, Andre Agassi had fallen on hard times. But that was then, and this is now. Rejuvenated, Agassi has re-molded himself into the world’s no. 2 ranked men’s professional tennis player. In the space of nine months in 1994, he beat every player in the top ten and won his first U.S. Open title. In the past, Agassi gained more recognition for his long hair, flashiness and rebel lious attitude than for his play on the court. With the exception of his 1992 Wim bledon victory, this was de servedly so, as Agassi had never quite played up to his potential until recently. Agassi entered play this year on fire with the same intensity he left with in 1994. He promptly won the Australian Open with a toned-down act, focused mind and a new look. See Day, Page 1 0 SENIORS •YOU CAN STILL MAKE A VOTE FOR CLASS OF 95 GIFT SELECT FROM: 1. CLASS OF 1995 SCHOLARSHIPS Establish four one-year $1000 scholarships. The scholarships will be available by application to any new incoming student with a letter of recommendation fpom a memberoLtbe Class of’95. 2. 1910 MODEL OF CAMP A museum quality 1910 model of the two remaining buildings - Nagle ether historical buildings that w Location: To be determined, possibly 3. ENDOWMENT PACKAGE Endowed Diamond for student organizations in sup * Muster Endowmen supporting. mpus which wil alytical Sei be on display as part of the history of Texas AflrMl Will include the only ces, the seed] Century Club Members student organizations and life. <Jobn JL Koldus Endowment - For the quality of student t - Used to aid Muster in e a part of c orps Center. Sterling C. Evans Library Endo hip - Through the Association of Former Students, it will be used to directly benefit port of Texas; A&M traditi 4. MUSTER MONUMENT 2^ND ENDOWMENT that have gone before u^k The endowment committee become self-supporting. Location: To be determined, possibly near tl momument ill be used to Silver Tap ipus. life, it will be ons d maintanenbe nd Bonfire, t he Interurban Trolley, Old Main, and many used to provide loans or grants to students and assistance cos ts in ordertn help the committee become self operation an sed to purchase new books and journals with the Class of ‘95 nakne on them depicting the symbolic lighting of can aid Muster in operation and main tan (p monument. dies to comm nee costs in 5. STERLING C. EVANS LIBRARY ENDOWMENT Establish an endowment for the renovation of a West Chmpus Library (group Istudy room which Will bear the The Library will match the endowment. Tn the Evans/Library, a Book range/Book plate endownment will b purchase of books and journals. / \ emorate those Aggies order to help the Class of 1995 name, established for the 6. STUDENT LEADER RETREAT CENTER Would provide partial funding for a 4000 sq^fbot multipurpose enclosed building that will accomodajpThe numerous leadership initiatives of students and studcnt-orgamzations. This activity center will be known as the Class-oT^OS building and would be the first structure implemented on the retreat site. Location: University property adjacent to Easterwood Airport. REMEMBER TO VOTE ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY IN THE GENERAL ELECTIONS! UPCOMING CLASS OF '95 EVENTS: Senior‘Wediend (Bash, Banquet, Ring Dance, and Picnic) April 20-23. Tickets go on sale April 5 at Rudder Box Office. Call 845-1515 for details. Senior Weekend t-shirts go on sale April 10 in the MSC Hallway.