Wednesday • March 29, 1995
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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.”
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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.
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Establish four one-year $1000 scholarships. The scholarships will be available by application to any new incoming student with
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2. 1910 MODEL OF CAMP
A museum quality 1910 model of the
two remaining buildings - Nagle
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3. ENDOWMENT PACKAGE
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port of Texas; A&M traditi
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