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1 Page 8 • Wednesday, September 9, 1998 Sports Youth movement dominates Texas A&M T he Texas A&M Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Teams started their seasons on the right foot Saturday with a handful of strong performances. Youth is King Even if the runners can’t put it all together this year, most have a few more years to do so. On the men’s side, there are no runners slated to use their final year of eligibility after this fall. The women will lose only senior Marisa TUzzi, who led the track team last spring with a 4-minute, 35-second 1500-meter run. Of the 33 runners on the two teams, 15 are freshmen and nine are sophomores. The new comers are not only young, but also talented. On Saturday, freshmen Melissa Gulli, Sarah Doyle and Kristy Bonn finished with three of the seven fastest splits on the women’s team. Gulli had the fastest split of the day with an 11-minute, 33-sec ond two-mile time. On the men’s side, freshman Brandon Beasley led the team with the fastest two-man, four-mile relay with a time of 19:49. His first two-mile leg also was the fastest on the team at 9:43. Redshirting In a move expected to help the men put their best possible team together, seniors Scott Lengefeld and Stephen Erath have de cided to redshirt their se nior sea sons to run next year. Lenge feld was A&M’s top run ner the past two seasons; Erath also has been a con sistent scorer for the Aggies. Unlike other sports, distance runners can im prove significantly by redshirting late in their col legiate careers. The move will give both Lenge feld and Erath an extra year to develop as runners while the younger runners gain experience. Lengefeld and Erath competed as unattached runners at the Cougar Classic in Houston Satur day. Lengefeld, who posted a 9:27 two-mile split, came back ten minutes later to run his next two- mile leg in 9:26. Next year, Lengefeld and Erath will pair up with the runners who emerge from this year’s squad. Young Coach, Fast Coach Since graduating from college in 1996, new coach Dave Hartman has had tremendous sue- cross country roster cess. He coached the University of Texas-San Antonio’s men’s team to the Southland Confer ence Championship and a berth at the NCAA Cross Country Meet, where the team placed 20th. Hartman was named the 1997 Southland Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year for his work at UTSA. Hartman has several prior connections to his men’s team. Junior transfer Carl Stewart was coached by Hartman at UTSA last year. Perhaps the strangest connection, however, is the one with Scott Lengefeld. As a freshman in 1995, Lengefeld was running at his first home meet at the Texas A&M Univer sity golf course. Up ahead, already showing A&M runners how to run, was Hartman. Hartman fin ished the 5.1-mile loop in 23 minutes, 36 seconds, winning the race and setting a course record. Runners of the Week This week’s outstanding runners both com peted in their first collegiate race. Freshmen Melissa Gulli and Brandon Beasley take home the award for leading their respec tive teams at the University of Houston Cougar Classic Saturday. Tom Kennedy is a senior kinesiology major. Senior Stacy Sykora helped the Aggies to a 3-1 re on n AARON C The Battal ■A&M nie Wilsor x face in is one of tf xs in Divisi ad along th ne, but it fs on the a filson, a jun pn., plays s [stinct for g( her tallei Wilson has it were her s taught ai n though t< have to fir t of the net, ^/ilson, that -«dshe baffles g their shot: NFL chooses Lerner as Browns owner CHICAGO (AP) — NFL owners on TUesday picked Alfred Lerner to be the owner of the new Cleveland Browns, handing him the task of bringing one of the league’s signa ture franchises back to life. Lerner, who helped Art Modell move the original Browns to Balti more, paid $530 million for the new team with $54 million going to stadium costs. It is the most ex pensive pro sports team in U.S. his tory, surpassing the $350 million Rupert Murdoch paid for the Los Angeles Dodgers earlier this year. Owners met for nearly five hours TUesday and took four bal lots before Lerner, who teamed with former San Francisco 49ers president Carmen Policy, eliminat ed Larry and Charles Dolan, who were teamed with Hall of Fame coach Don Shula. Lerner, 65, becomes the fourth owner in Browns history. The NFL expansion committee met for about 90 minutes before all the owners met and considered of fers from Lerner, the Dolans and New York real estate magnate Howard Milstein. The committee unanimously endorsed the Lerner- Policy team, and the final vote among the 30 owners was unani mous with one abstention — Oak land’s Al Davis. The unanimous vote followed a motion by Modell to make the decision unanimous, commis sioner Paul Tagliabue said. Dolan’s bid was $500 million with the stadium money factored in, and Milstein’s was “substantially less,’’ Tagliabue said. Lerner’s price also surpassed the previous record of $140 million for an expansion team, set by Carolina and Jacksonville in 1993. The new Browns begin play next season in a $280 million, foot ball-only stadium on the same spot where the old Cleveland Stadium stood. The new owner gets mil lions in revenue from luxury boxes and club seats, plus the sale of 41,000 personal seat licenses. It has yet to be decided when the Browns get money from the league’s $18.6 billion TV contract. But some experts doubt the Browns can be a money-making venture at such a high price. Cleve land Indians owner Richard Jacobs and Cleveland toy manufacturer Thomas Murdough dropped out of the bidding, saying a profit could not be made if the price went above $450 million. Aggies garner ali-tournei T he No. 19 Texas A&M Volley ball Team competed in its first tournament of the young sea son, coming home with a 2-1 record. id not corm eeting with the A-L r- :oach G. G the--, a : f fate. lympic Deve And ’ional team >er. Wilson tie to meet i was go,ilk mal team. kills and 4! : >nandGuei ;.4 kills ^ orkin g rela Woolsey is se in kills with 36,: go with 1 biod . IER game is third, ——— hether uedfrom l All-Tournament Honors As expected, senior Stacy Syko ra and junior Amber Woolsey got off to strong starts this season. As healthy or not addition to der the load nsively and voiles hall , going to be s well. 1 thii eading this SEE H. en througl h the drills. Computing Toolbox Computing News at Texas A&M by Computing and Information Services Welcome back Aggies! There are lots of things to take care of during the first part of the semester. In the rush, don’t forget about the computing resources available through Computing and Information Services. Before accessing TAMU computing services, students need to CLAIM accounts at any open access lab. Help Desk staff can help students CLAIM accounts and set up e-mail addresses. You can also set up an e-mail alias via the Electronic Directory Service, at www.tamu.edu/ Phonebook. Computer labs are located throughout campus, and many, including the new Student Computing Facility, are open 24 hours a day during the week. The locations of the labs can be found at www.tamu.edu/map. To connect from off-campus, students need to obtain the TAMUNet software package. Available at open access labs, TAMUNet can be downloaded for free or purchased for $10. Computing help is available 24 hours a day by calling Help Desk Central at 845-8300. For more information, visit the Student Computing Information Page at www.tamu.edu/scip. We'ra laaklng far a law gaad Aggies. 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