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Page 8 • Monday, March 8, 1999
Sports
Men’s Swimming and Divin
places third in Big 12 final
BY JASON LINCOLN
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Eight and a half points was all
that separated Texas A&M Universi
ty from their best finish ever in the
Men’s Big 12 Swimming and Diving
Championships. The Aggies scored
625.5 points this weekend to place
third behind the second-ranked Uni
versity of Texas.
Texas’ win gives the school a 19-
year streak at conference dominance
as they go into the NCAA meet with
a bid for first. Nebraska has been
third for three years running in the
Big 12, but A&M has closed the gap
from more than 240 points in ’97 to
under 10 in ’99.
“I was really pleased with our
performance,” A&M coach Mel
Nash said. “The Big 12 is one of the
best conferences in the country.
Texas, Nebraska and A&M are all top
20 teams and Iowa State, Missouri
and Kansas State all have real strong
individual swimmers. It was an ex
tremely fast meet.
“We wanted to take a run at
Nebraska, and we did. The first
day we were ahead and the sec
ond we fell by 57, making it to
close the gap to 8.5 like we did.
We always want to finish as high
as we can in conference, but our
No. 1 goal is NCAAs.”
Leading the Aggies to their clos
est run ever at the Cornhuskers were
nine players who will qualify for the
NCAA championships on Thurs
day’s announcement. The men were
led by senior diver Mark Naftanel
and senior freestyler Jerrod Kappler.
Naftanel concluded his confer-
QUALITY TIME
A&M men's swimmers who have set consideratiot
times for the NCAA championships March 25-2":
Jerrod Kappler
David Morrow
Michael Kolligan
Riley Janes
Nick Tate
Keven Kehlenbach
Alfred Mansour
All of the swimmers will be
competing on an A&M relay
team, and seven of the eight:
in consideration for multiple
events. The NCAA will official
announce final qualifying tirr
for all events Thursday.
ence reign in true grace as he aced
his final dive, a forward three and a
half pike with three perfect 10s. The
dive gave Naftanel his fourth straight
conference platform championship
to enter him in the record books with
the most individual conference
championships by an Aggie with
eight.
“I was shocked, especially to tie
that record in the one-meter to give
me the opportunity to break it on the
tower during this meet,” he said. “It
is an amazing honor because I grew
up watching Aggie athletics. It
makes me real proud to be in that
same category as some of the former
great Aggies.”
Kappler continued the seniors'
strong conclusions by being one of
three swimmers in the entire con
ference to have double wins. Kap
pler touched the wall first in both the
50 and 100-freestyle events with
;pot in the!
times to secui
charnpionshij
Eight Aggies managed b
times that will allow themia
in the national meei at Indii
on March 25-27. In additiorI
eight swimmers individual
mances, three of A&M’srela
will automatically qualify:
more are in consideration.
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The Golden Gophers, on the
other hand, would not be nearly as
fortunate. The Minnesota defense
crumbled under the barrage of Ag
gie hits, committing five errors for
the game.
The women also beat Dayton
University and Butler University,
going 4-0 against the two teams. It
was Butler’s Stephanie Burlien
who cost the Aggie’s the first-place
finish by hitting a two-run homer
off A&M pitcher Jordana Barrack.
The home run gave the Aggies sev-
en runs t
scored
against, whikl
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with six.
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