The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1982 Page: 18 of 24
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Rice bruises Huskies 6-3, heads for Miami matches
by Jeanne Cooper
The Rice men's tennis team
brought its season record to 2-2
with a 6-3 defeat of Houston
Baptist on Wednesday.
Number one singles player John
Albert took his first win of the
season, fending off Frank
Guengerich 6-1, 3-6, 6-3. "It was a
good win," commented Rice coach
Larry Turville. "It was his
first victory, which we needed."
Turville observed that Guengerich
beat the number one player at
Texas A&M, a nationally-ranked
school, earlier this year, as well as
prevailing over Albert in a match
this fall.
Number two and four singles
men Don Tomasco and Tret
Cushing continued to play well,
according to Turville. Tomasco
subdued Jim Tasker 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
while Cushing defeated Henry
Temkin 6-1, 6-1.
Owls Fred Gradin and Marlis
SWIMMING
John Albert
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Smith, in the number two and five
slots, didn't fare as well. "They're
getting better, but they've got some
work left to do," admitted Turville.
Gradin lost to Kevin Kelley 6-1,7-
5, while Smith fell to David Taylor
6-2, 6-2.
Bob Anderson picked up his
first victory of the year, rising
above Eric Kinsman 6-3, 7-5.
"He's playing more aggressively,"
said Turville. "I think he's
understanding the team ethic
better, and getting used to playing
college iennis."
The doubles team of Tomasco
and Cushing easily handled Kelley
and Temkin 6-3, 6-1, while HBlPs
Taylor and Guengerich mastered
Albert and Gradin 4-6. 6-3. 6-2.
Turville feels his team has
picked up since their 0-9 loss to
tennis power Trinity University
last week. "I expected to win some
matches (in the Trinity contest),
but they (the Owls) didn't play
their best tennis. We weren't ready
yet. By the time we go to Florida,
we're going to be looking tough.
Tres Cushing and Den Tomosco
We'll do some damage." The Owls
will face major intersectional foe
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University of Miami Sunday in
Miami, Florida.
Owls terrorize in Sherman, thwarted by rival TCU Frogs
by Joseph Halcyon
In swimming action this past
weekend, the Rice men's and
women's swim teams convincingly
won the Austin College
Invitational in Sherman after
having lost at Texas Christian
University Friday afternoon.
At Austin College, the men's
squad came away with its most
impressive victory of the season,
winning 13 out of the meet's 15
swimming events. Notable
individual swims among those
firsts were Greg Holies' 1:00.7 100-
yard backstroke, Ray Torp's
personal best of 1:06.0 in the 100-
yard breaststroke, Chris Gerkin's
49.5 100-yard freestyle and Rick
Hunt's come-from-behind 2:28.9
in the 200-yard breaststroke.
Other Owl men winners at
Sherman included Cal Calhoun in
the 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard
butterfly and 400-yard individual
medley; Chris Gerkin in the 50-
and 200-yard freestyles; and Greg
Holies in his first 1650-yard
freestyle swim of the year.
All three Rice men's relays were
victorious at Austin College. The
800-yard free relay of Holies,
Calhoun, Jenkins and Gerkin
touched first in 7:45.9. More
impressive, though, were the wins
by the 400-yard medley squad of
Holies, Torp, Calhoun and Gerkin
in /"ar's best of 3:49.4, an Jby the
400-yard freestyle team of Jenkins,
Calhoun, Gardell and Gerkin in
3:26.6
The Owl women were equally, if
not more, outstanding at Austin
College, taking all swimming
events except the 200-yard
freestyle. Rice All-America
swimmers Kay Snell and Kathy
Batho had three wins apiece. Snell
captured the 50- and 100-yard
backstroke races as well as the 100-
yard individual medley in
respective times of 29.1, 1:04.0 and
1:02.0. Batho won the 50- and 100-
yard butterfly in 27.8 and 1:00.5,
and seized the 50-yard free with a
25.9.
Jane Picker, Karen Hight and
Kathy Anderson provided the
women with their other individual
wins. Picker placed first in the 500-
yard free with a 5:20.0, and in the
1000-yard free in 11:28.6. Hight
pulled out the 50-and 100-yard
breaststrokes in respective times of
33.2 and 1:12.5. Anderson
triumphed with a 55.4 in the 100-
yard freestyle.
As with the men, the Owl
women's relays also won at Austin
College. The 200-yard medley
relay of Batho, Snell, Gina Gaskin
and Hight touched first in 2:00.0.
The squad of Anderson, Suzy
Deetz, Wendy Young and Terrie
Clark provided the other relay win
in a 200-yard freestyle race.
To top off the swimming teams'
tremendous victories at Austin
College, Kristy Cadenhead won
the one-meter diving event, while
Stephanie Nelson came in third.
The TCU meet wasn't quite as
memorable as the Austin College
Invitational for either the women's
or men's teams. As expected, the
men were crushed by the
Southwest Conference heavy-
weight Frogs by a score of 64-35.
More disappointing was the
MEN'S TRACK
women's 79-57 loss to TCU,
considering the women Frogs
measure up to be Rice's top
competitors at the Texas State
Championships next month.
Rice's best performer by far at
TCU was Hight, who won the 100-
yard breaststroke, 50-yard
breaststroke, and 100-yard
individual medley in respective
times of 1:10.0, 33.1 and 1:02.8.
Owl swimmers Snell, Anderson
and Batho came up with Rice's
other victories respectively in the
200-yard individual medley, 100-
yard freestyle and 100-yard
butterfly. The only men's win
against the Frogs came from Cal
Calhoun in the 500-yard free in
5:07.8 and from Ray Torp in the
100-yard breaststroke in 1:07.0.
The Rice men will compete
today at Lee College in Baytown
for their final tune up before next
month's Southwest Conference
Championship.
Rice girds up for SWC meet with wins
by Jeanne Cooper
The Rice men's track team had a
busy but successful weekend,
competing in both the Oklahoma
Invitational Indoor and the
smaller Houston Baptist
University Invitational Relays.
In the Oklahoma meet,
freshman Gawain Guy and
sophomore Sico Melendez once
again took first-place honors for
Rice in the track division. Guy ran
a 2:13.4 1000-yard race for his first
place, while Melendez excelled in
the 880-yard run with a time of
1:55.5.
Junior All-America pole vaulter
Paul Brattlof also performed up to
expectations at the meet, with a
first-place vault of 17-0.
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Next highest honors for the
Owls went to the two-mile relay
team of Sherman Hall, Elliston
Stinson, John Bell and Vince
Courville. The team took second
with a time of 3:21.2. The
individual members of the team
also ran well, with Bell faring the
best with a third place 7.3 in the 60-
yard hurdles. Courville came in
fourth in the 60-yard dash with a
time of 6.2. Sherman Hall ran a 6.5
in the preliminary race of that
event, and Stinson made a debut
jump of 6.1 meters in the long
jump.
Charles House and Steve
Baldwin each garnered a
respectable fourth place at the
meet in Oklahoma City. House
won his in the 1000-yard run with a
time of 2:16.5, while Baldwin
captured his in the 600-yard run
with a time of 1:16.2.
Guy and Melendez ran
"lethargically" in the mile,
according to head coach Steve
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place in the event with a 4:14.0 run
while Guy trailed with a 4:15.2.
In the less prestigious HBU
meet, the rest of the team took
advantage of the last chance to
prepare for the Southwest
Conference meet tomorrow.
Sophomore William Moore had
an outstanding day, winning first
in the 1500-meter run and second
in the 5000-meter run with
respective times of 3:59.1 and
15:26.1.
The dynamic duo of roommates
Craig Hughes and Greg Johnson
also performed well. Hughes took
third in the 1500-meter event with
his time of 4:00.5, while Johnson
also won third-place honors with
his time of 15:31.1 in the 5000-
meter race. Johnson also earned a
fifth place in the 1500-meter run
with a time of 4:01.9
Lawrence Hicks ran the 1000-
meter event in 2:35.9, good for
second place, while Craig Herman
trailed him for fourth plac£ with a
time of 2:37.7. Doug Jones also
made a fair showing with his
fourth-place time of 54.7 in the
400-meter hurdles.
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Grob, Jay. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1982, newspaper, February 19, 1982; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245494/m1/18/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.