Battalion
Sports
Page 7 • Tuesday, September 29, 1998
Victor Wunderle is dead-on at the art of archery
BY JASON LINCOLN
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pie dor;# T'ictor Wunderle first picked up a
h arasr 1\|/ bow and arrow at the age of
a perse W five, and one year later he en-
er somee-Hd his first archery competition,
'cable-Mince then, his list of accomplish-
'^'t,"sbhents has grown to establish him as
1!1 >s,ap|ni of the best archers in the world.
erencerMhe senior wildlife and fisheries
it the N.-;Bor from Mason City, Ill., came to
> Cente feXiis A&M as a two-time Junior
item is Vor Id Champion,
iminatic Ble has been a member of the
exual: fexes A&M Archery Team for the
when roast three years and he won the Na-
lorofsi iolal Collegiate championship in
anindkiotli. outdoor and indoor divisions
plete a tael year.
cation. BThere’s just something with little
lostiler >o|s and anything that shoots,”
one in rHnderle said. “My dad shot
v’ely c ircl ery some, which was an influ-
meonee.'tnce, but it started out as just a form
;andp iflntertainment.”
iplist,RiJ)n Sept. 4, he took his achieve-
y.said Itfids one step further when he
policy v oi the 114th National Target
x harasclc ier y Championships in Canton,
nand'.r*l|h., against an international field
tt thereof 64 archers,
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The win completed a long season in
which Wunderle also competed in the
indoor and field championships. He
placed in the top ten in both events.
Right after the target champi
onships, Wunderle competed in the
second annual U.S. Open with the
same field of competition.
He was in third place heading into
the finals of the competition, edging
past Barry Weinperl from Easton,
Penn., by a score of 112-109.
The win led to one of the most cov
eted awards in the nation, the Shenk
Award for the best all-around archer
out of the three national competitions.
With 4,390 points accumulated
over three days of competition, Wun
derle edged past former Purdue Uni
versity archer Jason McKrittick in the
finals of his last competition.
Coached by Frank Thomas and
Kathy Eissinger, Wunderle competes the
Aggies’ 16-member squad that has won
the national championship four times.
Wunderle credits his improvement
in the past several years to the two Ag
gie coaches for their motivational and
technical advice, an assessment with
which Thomas said he agrees.
see Wunderle on Page 8.
A&M faces tough tilt
T he No. 10 Texas A&M Soccer
Team finished 1-1 last week
with a 1-0 win over SMU
and a 2-1 defeat to the 11th-
ranked University of Hartford.
Photo courtesy of Victor Wunderle
Texas A&M senior Victor Wunderle took home the Shenk Award,
given to the top finisher in three national championship events.
The Aggies go on the road this
week to play the No. 13 Nebraska
Cornhuskers Friday and the Iowa
State Cyclones Sunday. The Ag
gies are 5-3 this season.
Children of the Corn
Along with Baylor, Nebraska
should be the Aggies’ toughest
competition this year as they at
tempt to defend their Big 12 title.
The Huskers are 5-2 with
losses to the University of Wis-
consin-Milwaukee and No. 9
UCLA. A&M leads the all-time
series with Nebraska 3-2. Both
losses came in 1996 when the
Cornhuskers won the Big 12
Soccer Championship.
Record Crowd
A record crowd of 1,649 people
watched the Aggies defeat South
ern Methodist University on Friday.
Coach G. Guerrieri said al
though the crowd was large, they
seemed wary of the outcome.
“The crowd was big for this
game,” Guerrieri said. “They were
kind of quiet, but I think that was
because they were kind of scared
that this game would end up like
our last game against SMU.”
The Aggies lost to SMU 1-0 in
the first round of the NCAA play
offs last year.
The Aggies dominated the
game, outshooting the Mustangs
18-5 but failed to put the ball in
the back of the net. A&M outshot
the Mustangs on Friday 19-11 in
its 1-0 victory.
P.O.W.
The Player of the Week goes to
sophomore forward Nicky
Thrasher. Thrasher scored the
winning goal in the overtime vic
tory over SMU.
The goal was Thrasher’s team
leading fifth of the season.
Thrasher leads the Aggies with 11
points on the season.
see Soccer on Page 8.
gS make strong Start a volleyball tradition Williams, Kelsay named Big 12 award recipients
jhe No. 16 Texas A&M Volleyball
lleam got off to a great start in the
112 Conference with two victories
over No. 25 Texas Tech and Baylor.
The Aggies defeated both teams in
three-game sweeps. A&M is 9-1 on
the year and 2-0 in the conference.
Starting Strong
The Aggies’ 9-1 record ties the
best start in school history after 10
matches. In 1984, the team went
10-1 before it lost its second match,
and the 1995 team, under current
coach Laurie Corbelli, went 12-1
before losing its second match.
With victories over Tech and
Baylor, the Aggies extended their
winning streak to seven. The Aggies
can increase it to eight when they
host No. 13 Texas Wednesday.
Home Sweet Home
The Aggies have played three
games at home and have won all of
them, defeating Houston, Texas
Tech and Baylor.
see Volleyball on Page 8.
DALLAS (AP) — Texas run
ning back Ricky Williams, Ne
braska rush end Chad Kelsay
and Kansas return man-wide re
ceiver Harrison Hill have been
named the Big 12’s players of
the week.
Williams, a senior, ran for a
career-high 318 yards on 30
carries and six touchdowns in
the Longhorns’ 59-21 victory
over Rice.
It was the second-most
yards in school history. By also
catching four passes for 32
yards, he set a school record
with 350 all-purpose yards.
Kelsay spearheaded the
Cornhuskers’ 55-7 victory over
Washington with four total tack
les, two solos, three quarterback
hurries, a sack, a forced fumble
and an interception.
Kelsay set the defensive tone
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for the afternoon by knocking
down Washington quarterback
Brock Huard’s first pass attempt
and then forcing a fumble on
the opening play from scrim
mage in the second half.
Hill, a redshirt freshman,
had an 81-yard punt return, the
fifth-longest in school history,
in the Jayhawks’ 39-37 victory
over Alabama-Birmingham in
four overtimes.
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