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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, March 11, 1971
Aggie net ters
make their move
By CLIFFORD BROYLES
After 10 dual matches, the Texas Aggie tennis team has won six
and lost four. The four losses have been to Brigham Young, Oklahoma
City, Corpus Christi and Trinity.
You’ll find the names of those teams listed in the top 12 teams in
the national rankings, and Trinity will be number two behind UCLA.
There is some debate over whether that should be number one.
“We’re just a fraction away from being a great team,” A&M
Coach Omar Smith said of his netters. “All we need is to win a few
more key points and key matches.”
Those key matches—such as against Corpus Christi last week and
Trinity Wednesday—showed in favor of the clutch championship
experience of the ranked teams and that’s why there ranked.
Among the Aggie’s six wins one was over ninth ranked Oral
Roberts, and Smith said he felt his team is to the point that on a given
day they can beat anybody.
The two main reasons for that statement are Dickie Pikes and Jon
Ragland. Pikes and Ragland have alternated between the number one
and two positions this year in singles play, a position they won by
winning challenge matches.
Ragland started the year as the number one man but Pikes took
over the spot with a trememdous show in the Corpus Christi
tournament, winning three of four singles matches. It wasn’t that
Ragland was playing bad it was a matter of Pikes playing extremely
well.
Ragland had a major upset just last Friday when he downed Jorge
Andrew of UCC, the top player in Venezuela.
“Jon and Dickie can play with anybody and Hickey (Mike) and
Connell (Tommy) aren’t far behind,” Smith said.
The Aggies have an extreme amount of depth and list 16 players
on their roster. Smith said that there wasn’t that much difference from
some of the players who are playing now and those who aren’t.
“Invariably Jon or Dickie always win despite playing against the
toughest competition every time,” Smith added.
Right now the Aggies have senior Mike Hickey and junior Tommy
Connell behind Pikes and Ragland and then another veteran,
sophomore Lawton Park, and freshman Dan Courson are listed in the
top six.
All except Courson, who was busy winning the Class 4A state
doubles championship last year, were main players on last year’s team.
Ragland missed last season due to an injury after winning the
SWC doubles crown two years ago.
Despite playing the top teams, the grind hasn’t gotten the team
down. Before its over, the Aggies will have faced six of the top ten
teams in the nation and several more that are listed in the top twenty.
One of their other wins came over 14th ranked Houston.
“They don’t acknowledge defeat. They stay in there real well,”
Smith said and proof of this is that in the matches with BYU and
Corpus four of the matches were decided in split sets. If the Aggies
had been able to take more of those it would have been extremely
close.
Even in the Trinity match Wednesday, Ragland and Pikes sent
Bob McKinley and Pancho Walthall to split sets before losing.
“We haven’t lost to anybody really bad,” Smith pointed out,
“and we’ve played the top teams well.”
The Southwest Conference race is still over two weeks away and
the Aggies will have defending champion Rice (number 3 in the
country) and SMU, rated number two in the league in most circles,
first off. Both will be at home and good showings in those could mean
a banner year for the Ag netters, who have already showed their year
will be an exciting one.
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The Texas Aggie junior varsity
baseball team grabbed a pair of
wins Tuesday afternoon on Kyle
Field over McLennon County Jun
ior College to extend their win
ning streak to three without a
loss.
Sam Camilli, younger brother
of former Aggie baseball star Lou
Camilli who is now with the Cleve
land Indians of the American
League, was the winning pitcher
in the opener, as A&M topped the
Waco school 9-3. In the second
game, Wayne Vivial, a freshman
from LaMarque hurled the JV
to 7-3 win.
TRY
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Ag swim entrants
Coach Dennis Fosdick has an
nounced a 19-man squad to repre
sent A&M in the SWC Swimming
Championship at Austin this
weekend.
Entrants by event are:
Thursday
500-yard freestyle—Eric Wolff,
Dan Sonnenberg r Mike Hicks,
Martin Litteken, John Allred. 200-
yard individual medley — Hicks,
Steve Prentice, Litteken, Steve
Sonnenberg, Doug Carson. 50-
yard freestyle—Tom Sparks, John
McCleary, Hicks, Bill Stewart,
Mike McLellan. One-meter diving
—Duncan Cooper, Greg Rippey.
400-yard medley relay—Prentice,
Carson, Sparks, Bob Willoughby.
Friday
200-yard butterfly—Willough
by, Wolff, Hicks, McLellan, Litte
ken, Allred. 200-yard freestyle—
Wolff, Sparks, Gordon Taylor, D,
Sonnenberg, Hicks, Allred. 101).
yard breaststroke—Carson, Mc
Cleary, Fred Meyers, S. Sonnen-
berg, Barry Streusand. 100-yari
backstroke — Prentice, Sparks,
Hicks, D. Sonnenberg, Taylor,
Sandy McPherson. 400-yard indi
vidual medley—Hicks, Prentice,
Carson, Litteken. 800-yard free
style relay—Hicks, D. Sonnen-
berg, Wolff, Taylor.
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in Saturday’s doubleheader with St. Edwards. The Aggies won both of those games and
split two with NAIA power Sam Houston Tuesday. They return to action Saturday when
they host Lamar Tech for a doubleheader. (Photo by Mike Rice)
Powerful Trinity
smashes Ags, 9-0
The nation’s number two rank
ed tennis team, Trinity, put its
mark on the Texas Aggies Wed
nesday, taking a 9-0 win and ex
tending their streak of unbeaten
dual matches to eight.
Trinity was runnerup to UCLA
in the national championships
last year and Bob Mckinley, Pan
cho Walthall and Bohn Smith,
three members of that team, were
here.
In the number one singles
match, Dickie Fikes had Mckinley
on the ropes for a time but the
younger brother of former Wim-
bleton champ Chuck Mckinley
came back for a split set victory.
Fikes nailed Mckinley 6-3 in the
first set but bowed 6-1 to send
the match to a decisive third set,
which Mckinley took 7-5. The sev
enth and decisive point didn’t go
up against Fikes until six match
points had been scored.
In the number two match, Jon
Ragland also sent Walthall into
split sets before losing.
Hepatitis fells
James; may miss
1971 grid season
Lex James, who quarterbacked
the Texas Aggies last year as a
sophomore, is confined to his
home in Houston with infectious
hepatitis and will not be able to
participate in spring training.
James became ill last week but
the hepatitis wasn’t confirmed un
til he visited a Houston hospital.
He will be confined to bed for
six to eight weeks and then will
have a long recuperative period.
James may not be available for
the 1971 season.
Athletic Director Gene Stall
ings said that precautionary shots
have been given to the other foot
ball players, coaches and others
who may have been in contact
with him.
Another sophomore of last sea
son, defensive lineman Bruce Best,
also will miss spring drills. He
recently was operated on for a
detached retina of the left eye
and will be in Hermann Hospital
in Houston for about a week.
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