Sports
[arriers have solid weekend
i Coach Hartman’s debut
BY TOM KENNEDY
The Battalion
> Texas A&M Men’s and Women’s Cross Country
■ starte( -i off dieir season with a strong performance
ROOMMA'c ol * ar Classic in Houston Saturday morning.
? flat course at McGregor Park did not prove to
ch of a challenge to either squad.
; men covered a 4-by-2 mile course in teams
i, with each man running two separate legs on
lay.
? highest placing from the men came from the
‘ sophomore Jim Pat Darcey and freshman Chris
ho placed fifth with a combined time of 40 min-
nd 23 seconds.
e Aggies also took sixth with true freshmen
on Beasley and Mike Sovinsky covering the
? in 40:34.
2 team of junior transfer student Carl Stewart
•dshirt freshman Bryan Oubre came in one sec-
ter for a seventh place finish,
erall, first year coach Dave Hartman was
'd with how the men ran, adding that their best
ag is yet to come.
SERVIKbe a developmental year because we have
Die of freshmen and a transfer (from University
as-San Antonio),” Hartman said.
2 fastest individual split by an Aggie was run by
on Beasley in 19:49.
lers breaking the 20-minute barrier for their 2-
nile split were Stewart in 19:50 and Darcey in
2 women, covering a 2-by-2 mile course, fared
aely well.
iding the way for the Aggies was the team of ju-
Ann Dwyer and Sandie Ramsey, who placed
WANT!;
fourth with a time of 23:50.
Freshmen Kristy Bonn and Lauren Crawford fin
ished in seventh place with a time of 24:01.
Sophomore Brooke Edwards and freshman Katy
Gilstrap teamed up for an eighth place finish with a
time of 24:16.
“On the girls’ side, we did really well; we were re
ally strong,” Hartman said. “As we gain experience,
the women’s team ... will move up.”
Tfue freshman Melissa Gulli led the way for the
women with an 11:33 two-mile leg.
Dwyer and freshman Sarah Doyle finished in 11:40
and 11:45, respectively.
Others finishing in twelve minutes or under were
Edwards in 11:53, sophomore Debbie Villarreal in
11:55, Bonn in 11:57, and senior Marisa Tbzzi in 12:00.
Gulli, who had the lead after running her two mile
leg, felt that the race was a good starting point.
“It was pretty good for the start of the season,” Gul
li said. “We’ll have a really good team this year and
we’ll go far. ”
The race, which the teams ran in a controlled
manner, was used to determine a starting point for
all of the runners.
Darcey said he felt the meet would show the team
what it needs to work on.
“We’re trying to see where everybody is at and
where our fitness level is at,” Darcey said.
The men and women look ahead to their first team
scoring of the season at the University of Miami-Ohio
next Saturday.
Hartman is excited to see how his teams will fare
in team competition.
“It’ll be interesting to see how they all run at once,”
Hartman said. “I think we’ll improve on our finish in
the Big 12.”
i. FOOTBALL TOT
WEIGHT 11 reak up the Saints
ce Ditka and Co. avenge opening 1997 loss
LOUIS (AP) — Mike Ditka’s
d season started out a lot bet-
^^J^an the first, despite losing
^rback Billy Joe Hobert.
New Orleans Saints turned
rst-half turnovers into touch-
s and had only one turnover,
sting with a mistake-laden
mance from the St. Louis
in a 24-17 opening victory
, . L «^ay. Lamar Smith caught one
-™ju^"£down pass and threw for an-
• T | T v} ji on an option play.
Saints opened at St. Louis
second straight year. Ditka
lost 38-24 to Dick Vermeil last
year in the coaching comeback
game for both men.
Hobert ruptured his right
Achilles tendon dropping back to
pass on the artificial turf with
14:20 remaining. Hobert, who is
likely out for the season, was 11-
for-23 for 170 yards and one
touchdown before being replaced
by Danny Wuerffel.
New Orleans also won despite
rushing for only 35 yards on 24
carries and getting shut out in the
second half.
to Dick VermeiVs Rams
The Rams fumbled five times,
losing one of them, and had one
interception of Tony Banks’ de
flected pass that led to a Saints
touchdown on the following play.
Four Rams missed a chance to
tackle Smith on a 35-yard pass
pass play from Hobert that put
New Orleans ahead 24-0.
Banks had an effective game
statistically. He was 29-for-44 for
298 yards and one touchdown and
hit Eddie Kennison for a 15-yard
score that cut the gap to 24-14 with
7:14 left in the third.
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Sept 21-24
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Page 9 • Monday, September 7, 1998
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Soccer club team
conducts tryouts
The Texas A&M Women’s Soccer
Club Team will conduct tryouts this
week at Simpson Drill Field.
The tryouts will be Monday,
Wednesday and Thursday from 5
p.m. to 7 p.m. each day.
No. 19 Ags win 2,
lose one to Pacific
The No. 19 Texas A&M Volleyball
Team finished with a 2-1 record
over the weekend at the Pacific
Tournament.
The Aggies won their first two
games before falling to No. 11 Pa
cific in the final game.
In the first game, the Aggies
defeated Creighton 15-2, 15-8
and 15-1.
Senior Stacy Sykora had a
match-high 15 kills and 11 digs,
and junior Amber Woolsey added
12 kills in the win.
A&M improved to 2-0 the follow
ing day with a 3-1 (9-15,15-12,15-
9, 15-5) victory over Georgia Tech.
The Aggies were led again by
Sykora, who had 20 kills, and Jen
na Moscovic, who had a team-high
48 assists and 10 digs.
The Aggies fell in their third
match to Pacific 15-6,15-11,15-11
despite a team-high 19 kills and 10
digs from Sykora.
Both Sykora and Woolsey were
named to the All-Tournament Team.
Pacific placed four on the team and
Georgia Tech placed one.
Slocum to speak at
12th Man meeting
Texas A&M Football Coach R.C.
Slocum will be the guest speaker at
the 12th Man Student Foundation
tonight at 7 p.m.in Rudder 601.
Slocum is the school’s all-time
winningest coach, passing Homer
Norton in last year’s win over Texas.
Delta Sigma Pi
International Professional Business Fraternity
Fall Bush 1998
Monday, Sept. 7
Tuesday, Sept. 8
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Wednesday, Sept. 16
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We hope you have a spectacular year!
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and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions
run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. ”
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