The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1984 Page: 16 of 20
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RUGBY
Ruggers fall in Houston Invitational Rugby Tournament
decimated the squad.
In a consolation game on
Sunday, Chip Boiand scored
Rice's only try off of a bold run by
Mark Morehouse in an 8-4 loss to
Galveston.
Much credit is deserved by the
brawny Rice scrum, particular}'
props Chuck Naudet and Mike
Clark. Second-row scrummies
Larry Wald and Mark McArthur
lent muscle, while hooker Jeff
Marinacki^ brought many balls
under Rice's possession, and wing
forward Steve Natims was another
definite asset.
Disappointed by a season of
glory and frustration, the Club can
only look back on great victories
over TCC, Keystone, and the
Woodlands to remove the bad
memories of the recent
tournament. Early February
signals the beginning of a new
season, however, and a healthy,
young Rice Club promises to
challenge even the best of teams in
its drive for the Collegiate
Championship in late March.
SWIMMING
Swimmers lackluster in Lubbock
Mark Morehouse and Mark MacArthur in pursuit.
by Ted Anders
In the generally festive
atmosphere of the seventh annual
Houston Invitational Rugby
Tournament held the weekend of
November 17-18, the Rice Rugby
Club fell frustrated to defeat at the
hands of sloppy weather and bad
luck — if not superior opponents
in the lower open division.
As 32 teams, mostly from Texas
but some with international
origins gathered on the Rice
campus for a weekend of rugby
and beer, the national champion
Harlequins of Dallas outplayed
the world-travelling Quinn's
Pleasure Side in the Tournament's
finale, the club division
championship.
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opening game on Saturday'
morning. Amid a steady drizzle, a
wet ball muffed by Rice led to
Texas A&M's game-tying try.
Despite expert kicking by player-
coach Dave Schaefer and an
excellent run by speedster Dallas
Bland, the Aggies prevailed in an
arbitrary kicking contest after a
scoreless overtime period.
Deprived of a shot at
championship competition, the
hearty ruggers rebounded to defeat
the Houston Police, 7-0, though
still performing below average.
Steve Vobach accounted for Rice's
only try while Mark Leising added
a penalty. Good play came from
the backs, especially fullbacks
Byrne, Mike Glass, Rob
Palenchar, and Jim Humes,
despite conditions that hindered
movement. Injuries to Dave
Schaefer (knee), Mark Tucker
(bruised thighs), Ted Anders
(broken nose) and Robert Lain
(lacerated eye) accumulated
during the tournament and
by Jim Colton
Finalitis. About this time of
year there are so-many things more
important than sleep, especially
for athletes. So when the swim
team went to Lubbock last
Thursday for a meet with Texas
Tech, they were not in top shape.
Coach Kris Wingenroth said,
"The swimmers seemed very tired",
and despite wins in the middle and
distance freestyle events by Carol
Snell and Jill Pritchard, both the
men and women lost to the
Raiders.
The weekend continued,
however, with better performances
at the Texas Tech Invitational
against Air Force, Lamar, New
Mexico State, Oklahoma, and
TCU. The Owls had three
national-qualifying times and
many season's bests for a good end
to the semester.
Jill Pritchard swam the mile
freestyle in 17:49.92 and Carol
Snell had a school record 5:08.00
in the 500 yard free, qualifying
both of them for the national
tournament in March. The
Women's 400 free relay team of
Carol Snell, Jill Pritchard, Regina
Traux, and Stacy Jones, with "an
oustanding anchor leg" of 53.8 by
Jones, bettered their earlier
qualifying time by 1.43 seconds to
3:40.46. Pritchard also set a new
school record of 10:41 in the 1000
free; good performances by
Barbara Snell and Heather Fitch
in swimming and a sixth place in
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the one-meter diving competition
by Susan Berry also helped lead
the women to a second season
victory over Lamar, 452-387, and a
452-290 win over NMSU.
For the men, freshman Rob
Koger had a school record 53.45 in
the 100 butterfly. Points were also
scored by David Gregory in the
200 back, Joe Zameski in the 100
breast and 50 free, Paul Nealy in
the 100 breast and fly, Jim
Brigman in the 200 meter fly and
500 free, and Ron Jacobs and
Chris Ehlers in the 400 IM.
Afterwards Coach Wingenroth
commented that "It was a fairlv
good meet. The team was tired on
Thursday and swam better each
day as they got more sleep. I feel
that the swimmers did very well for
this time of year and nearly
everyone ended the semester with
season's best times, which is what
we were looking for. I look
forward to very strong
performances next semester."
The team will spend the first
week of January in Monroe,
Louisiana preparing for the
January 10 Ail-American
invitational meet, and then at 1:00
p.m. January 14 the Owls will face
LSI! at the Rice pool. The women
are now 3-4, and the men are 2-5.
SOCCER
Lads win against Ags
by Mark Matteson
The Rice Club Soccer team
ended a successful season with a
12-3-2 record, a second place finish
in the Southwest Conference, and
successive victories against Texas
A&M and Stephen F. Austin a few
weeks ago.
Rebounding from a tough 2-0
defeat to TCU the previous week,
the club team returned home and
crushed Texas A&M, 7-1, on
November 10. The Lads started
quickly, scoring three times in the
first fifteen minutes on goals by
Tom Bogart, Tony Mason, and
Russell Kirsch. The Aggies
managed to regroup and hold Rice
scoreless for the rest of the first
half. They scored their lone goal
with twenty minutes left.
At halftime, coach Mike
Henshaw told the players, "I want
at least six goals today," and in the
second half, Rice complied.
Exploding for four more goals, the
Lads made the offensive output for
the day twice as much as the next
highest point total in any
conference game. Scoring goals
were Tito Gonzalez, Jamie
Daruwala, Kirsch, and Gregg
Sholeen in the final conference
game of the season. Rice improved
its conference record to 4-2.
The following weekend, Rice
played its final game against
Stephen F. Austin College. In a
contest marred by an unusual
number of penalties, the Lads
fought their way to a 2-0 victory. In
the first half, Tony Mason broke
the ice for Rice on a header off a
cross that went into the left corner
of the goal. The score remained 1-0
until halfway through the second
half, when Gonzalez took a long
throw in from the sidelines, which
he kicked off the goalie's fingers
into the net. Late in the game, a
player from each team was ejected
from the game in separate
incidents, which marred an
otherwise reasonable contest.
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