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THE BATTALION Tuesday, May 4, 1971 College Station, Texas Page 5 Longhorns win SWC crown with double win over Ags v ; Gardner,! rC HEC.I ■7, Petti Waco),! 14:16,11 s A41I, I er, Rice,! tlh, Ted DAVE ELMENDORF scrambles back to the safety of first base, while Texas’ first base- man John Langerhans waits for the ball from the pitcher of the second game, Mike Beard. (Photo by Mike Rice) ce (Liiil Rice wins tennis title; Ragland and Fikes second > Stevel , 3:09,3. ew, Dot Willi, Texas, i, SMI' iS: Sit, as 52!i 'CU 13,1 is 3. Kockitl 11011:1 4. 92t!' I 16, ml 69t(i | ■, BiilT ‘23-3!!r | By CLIFFORD BROYLES Outstanding Rice freshman Harold Solomon and three-time All-American senior Zan Guerry defeated the number-one-seeded doubles team, Texas A&M’s Jon Ragland and Dickie Fikes, in a split set tennis match for the doubles championship of the Southwest Conference on varsity courts Saturday afternoon. The Owls made it a clean sweep when Solomon defeated Guerry in the singles finals Saturday morning after all four Rice sin gles entries gained semifinal berths in play Friday. Solomon and Guerry took the first set 6-3 after breaking from a 3-3 deadlock in the match and then the twosome battled the sec ond set down to the wire. Playing by the tie breaker rule that says when the score is tied 6-6, you play a tie breaker. That’s one game with the winner to be the first team to score five points. The Aggies jumped to g 3-1 lead in the tie breaker game with Solomon serving twice, but the Owls scored twice to tie it 3-3. The Aggies then got to serve and the teams split the points to send it to a 4-4 tie and the deciding serve with a Rice point giving them the set 7-6 and the match, but an Aggie win putting them into a third set. But the return shot on an Aggie serve by Solomon slipped off the edge of his racket and the Aggies were still alive. Then in the third set Solomon and Guerry twice broke the Ag gies’ serves as they battled to a 5-2 lead and a seemingly easy win the third set. But Fikes and Ragland came back winning a game while Solomon was serving to cut the margin to 5-4 but the Owl duo held on to win 6-4. Solomon took the singles ti tle with a 6-3 4-6 6-3 win the single final and showed his su periority in the doubles finale when he contributed an abundance of crucial points with his unusual doublehanded style that enables him to get tremendous velocity on his shots. Solomon reached the final with Friday win over teammate Jorge Berman and Guerry defeat ed another Owl Gus Pellizzi. De spite the Owls success they left three time All-American Mike Estep in Houston where he is finishing up some work, as he is graduating this spring. Fikes and Ragland advanced to the doubles finals with the aid of the breaker when they defeat ed Tim Vann and Jay Paulson of Southern Methodist. The Mus tang duo won the first 6-4 and Ragland and Fikes battled back to tie the match and then won the tiebreaker 5-1 in the third set. All Aggie singles players were eliminated in the first day of the three day event. 1321ft I ; CEN'I icensedl 99tfr| UH now in conference after unanimous vote Of(i«. line if I icatiot; I ■re wil I d Col' I aureate I ■ailewt I nfertfi 1 , urpd statu 1 The Southwest Conference vot ed the University of Houston into the league Monday the first change in the membership since Texas Tech was admitted 15 years ago. The vote was unanimous. Texa-' ■aduati I adeaii: ty-fin sed d od «a I sfyinU udcnli I v no* clcrl-1 She, rmiM rinpi artin! rough •urnef ivereil ring 12# fa(h The Cougars needed only six votes from the eight conference members. Houston, a long-time indepen dent, will not compete for the conference football championship until 1976, although it already has games scheduled with mem bers such as a Sept. 11 contest with Rice. Alan Chapman, Rice faculty representative to the conference, made the motion for Houston to be admitted and this was second ed by J. Neils Thompson, faculty representative of Texas, who was the prime supporter of Houston’s bid to become a league member. Southwest Conference faculty representatives and athletic di rectors had resumed their dis cussion of the Houston question at 8:30 a.m. Monday after a nine- hour session Sunday. The Houston situation appar ently hit a last-minute snag Sun day. Newsmen had been told to stand by for a news conference at 1 p.m. but no announcement was made. The Cougars also have made such great strides in football re cently that major powers such as Mississippi and Mississippi State have dropped them from their schedules because Houston no longer is an easy early season contestant. Houston has about 25,000 stu dents and is a noted golf and basketball power. BUSIER - JONES AGENCY REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE F.H.A.—Veterans and Conventional Loans ARM & HOME SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Home Office: Nevada, Mo. 3523 Texas Ave. (in Ridgecrest) 846-3708 “HONEST ABE” Would Have Been Proud. Lincoln Union (the new & exciting Texas A&M Debat ing Society) Announces an organizational meeting Tues day, May 4, 8:00 p. m. in the Birch Room, MSC. An audio tape of the famous Buckley-Galbraith Cambridge Union Debate will be played. CORBUSIER CHEVROLET CO. Serving for 32 'Ifears 500 South Texas Ave. Phone: 823-0061 Bryan The school is one of the few major schools in the country mak ing money off its athletic pro gram. The Cougars have an at tractive football arena in the spa cious Astrodome—the only such stadium in the world with a roof. It is the fourth time that Hous ton has been a member of an ath letic conference. The Cougars were in the Lone Star Conference 1946-48, Gulf Coast Conference 1949-50, and in the Missouri Val ley Conference 1951-50. Houston became athletically a major college in 1951 by NCAA designation. In basketball, Houston owns a 163-44 record for the last six years and has played in six of the last seven NCAA tourna ments. Houston holds a 179-51 record against Texas schools in basketball. In the last five years, the foot ball team has compiled a 38-12-2 mark and finished in the top 20 in The Associated Press polls in the last five years. The Cougars, current NCAA golf champions, have won the title 12 out of the last 15 tries. By CLIFFORD BROYLES It wasn’t too long ago that the Texas-Austin Longhorns were playing the Texas Christian Uni versity Horned Frogs in Austin. Before the series the Frogs had a 4-2 record and the Longhorns a 3-3 record. The Aggies were 6-0 and the conversation piece was who to root for in the series. One Aggie, who is a veteran of conference play, came up with the answer. “I want TCU to win three. I’ve seen Texas down by three this way before and yet when the smoke cleared they went to Omaha. I want them out of there.” Now it’s over except for a final game between the Aggies and Longhorns today at 3 p.m. on Kyle Field, and the Longhorns, although not officially entitled to a trip to Omaha and the College World Series, won the right to advance in that direction with a doubleheader sweep of the Texas Aggies 9-6 and 3-0 Monday on Kyle Field. Texas has not lost since they were 3-3 and now own a 14-3 record while the Aggies are mired in the mud with a 12-5 record and five consecutive conference losses. But the downfall came in a dif ferent manner than expected as the Aggies knocked Burt Hooton, the Longhorns’ strong-armed jun ior, around like a drum, while jun ior lefthander Mike Beard, twirled a nifty gem in the nightcap. Texas jumped to a 9-2 lead in the first game, rapping Aggie starter Bruce Katt for 13 hits and nine runs before he departed in the top of the fourth. That was the inning that Texas scored eight runs, overcoming a 2-1 Aggie lead. A&M took the lead in the bot tom of the third on a rbi single by R. J. Englert and a bases loaded walk to Chris Sans. Hooton was in constant trouble after staked to the big lead with David ChalR rapping a bases load ed triple and Walt Rothe driving home two with a double. The Longhorn righthander from Corpus Christi was touched for 11 hits and six runs, while walk ing five in the opener. He threw an unbelievable 148 pitches in the seven inning opener and only a pitcher of his capability could do the job he did. It seemed near the end that he was about to give out but seemed always to get the curve ball over the plate at the right time. Aggie reliever Norm Montgom ery took over for Katt and turned in a sterling performance allowing the Longhorns only two hits over the final three and two-thirds innings. The Aggies’ biggest threat late in the game came in the sixth when they loaded the bases with one out with a 9-5 deficit. Sans was up and he rattled a hard shot to Rothe in right but the ball was caught and there was no chance for the runner to try to score. Carroll Lilly followed with a clutch hit to cut the lead to 9-6 but the rally ended shortly there after. The second game was a Beard masterpiece. It was a turn of events for the lefty, who in his last Southwest Conference out ing, was bombed by weak-hitting Rice, allowing them five hits and runs and walking seven before he left in the sixth. Monday, though, you had to wonder where he got a 4.80 era as he stifled the Ags on three hits before giving way to the seemingly untireable Hoot on in the eighth with a 3-0 lead. The Aggies managed few hard hit balls off Beard and not until Sans beat out a roller down the first base line in the fourth did the Aggies manage a hit. Then Dave Elmendorf punched a sloop- ing single to center in the sixth and -R. J. Englert ripped a hard liner to right, in the eighth. Eng- lert’s blow, plus an error put him on third, ending Beard’s stay as Gustavson went to Hooton for the final four outs. Chalk at third handled five chances and Mike Markl at second eight in the nightcap as the Long horns played flawless defense. Two Aggie errors, however, TENNIS COACH Omar Smith congratulates A&M’s top tennis aces, Jon Ragland and Dickie Fikes, on a job well done after Saturday’s championship round in the SWC Tennis Championships. Ragland and Fikes finished second in doubles behind the Rice team of Harold Solomon and Zan Guerry. Officials vote to change golf championship format during weekend business conclave here The Southwest Conference dras tically changed its format for determining the golf champion ship Monday in an apparent move to get Texas back into league competition in the sport. Howard Grubbs, executive sec retary of the conference, said “We will decide the golf championships possibly with two tournaments.” Grubbs said one tournament may be held in the fall and an other in the spring. “I will go to work immediately with the golf coaches in the con ference to determine a course of action,” Grubbs said. “There will be no more round-robin golf championships.” The round robin procedure prompted Texas to withdraw from conference championship play this year because the Longhorns felt a medal play format would be much more suitable. Grubbs said, however, that un der the new formula, the athletes will be limited to 12 days per semester in which they can miss classes to play. Only five players will be allowed to go on a trip to a tournament site. Grubbs announced these other actions: —The SWC business meetings no longer will be held in conjunc tion with the track champion ships. —The track schedule was changed back to the old formula whereby each school determines its own schedule. The only manda tory requirement is that a school can compete only on 10 dates. Also, it was suggested that each school schedule at least two home meets per year. —Limited tennis and cross country travel squads to five men. —Passed a resolution thanking Dr. Davis and welcoming new conference President Harold Jes- key of Southern Methodist and Vice President Thompson of Tex as into their offices. FOR BEST RESULTS TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED opened the Texas scoring in the nightcap with Langerhans driving home the first run in the fifth with a single and then the third run of the contest with a double high off the centerfield screen in the seventh. Rothe had the other rbi and the former pitcher finis: ed his day with five hits in seve; times at the plate, raising his average to .492 in conference play. Last year he was a pitcher. The combined effort of Beard and Hooton in the second game marked off pitching pitching per formance by Paul Czerkinski before the beyond capacity crowd estimated at 5,000 persons in the game. Czerwinski, victim of the two unearned runs in the fifth, allowed only six hits and remark ably in the clutch early early in the game. The Longhorns will now ad vance to the next round of the NCAA playoffs with the confron tation to be either a three or four team tournament, that could in clude possibly number one ranked Pan American, the University of Houston or the Southland Confer ence champion. FUTURE CPA S LEARN NOW ABOUT THE NEXT CPA EXAM APRIL 30, MAY 4 THE BECKER CPA REVIEW COURSE Houston: (713) 223-6902 Our Successful Students Represent 1/5 OF USA [Next Course Begins June 5,197l| ALLEN OLDS. - CAD. 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