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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1978 Page 11 freshman tennis player helps Ags |Wth the help of Reid Freeman, Texas A&M University tennis « hopes to do well in the upcom- conference tournament and [e players qualifying for the AA Tournament. eeman, a freshman electrical .Mneering major played high an( * Si'tfcol tennis at Highland Park in 'nue riiM] as He received the following to Agjf*ors in high school: number one as oven |h e s tate his sophomore year in J u ‘dli® i, is and under age bracket; hapetei filler one his junior year in the 18 eok, l«, n( | unc l er age bracket; and number ntbettay, his senior year in the same threeFreeman also won the Kohrs Mparlin Award, a sportsmanship num, HtRrd which is the highest award a th and i under 18 years of age can re ive. ' cross; I rs hadt freeman has also done well in his Form It college season. Recently, he de- rence | led Gary Plock, an all-American tition !• Inis player from the University of showing | et and ick Texas and Nduka Odizar, a freshman rated number one at the University of Houston. Freeman likes to travel and has been in such places as Ohio, Michi gan, California, Kansas, Oklahoma and all over Texas competing in tournaments. The conference tournament is next week in Corpus Christi. The nine conference teams will play their number one players against each other. The number two players will play against each other and so on. Whoever wins the tournament will qualify for the NCAA Tourna ment, held later this spring. The A&M team is currently in sixth place in the conference. The top five teams in the Southwest Conference are among the top 20 teams in the nation. Those teams are Southern Methodist University, the University of Texas, the Univer sity of Arkansas, the University of Houston, and Texas Christian Uni versity. Other top rated Texas teams in the nationals are Trinity Univer sity and Pan American University. Freeman said he practices three hours a day, six days a week, and his strategy basically consists of ground strokes. “I almost always let the ball bounce on the court before I hit it,” he said. “I like playing in the backcourt and making my opponent run for his shots.” Fr eeman said he admires the top-ranked Swede, Bjorn Borg, whom he feels is everything a tennis player should be. “He’s got a good attitude, dedication, the desire and has the best overall game of any player I know,” he said. Freeman said he likes playing both singles and doubles and that each has their advantages. “Doubles are a lot more fun,” he said, “but in singles you get a lot more recogni tion.” Crowd attendence is important in any college sport, tennis included. Because of the new tennis court construction going on, the team has been playing at the Oak Village Raquet Club in Bryan. The atten dance at the matches has been low but Freeman said the matches are not publicized enough. “They just do not know about the matches,” he said. According to Freeman, college crowds are rowdier than crowds at professional matches. “The more rowdy the home crowd is, the more home court advantage the home team player has,” Freeman said. “That’s what helped the top five teams in the conference get to the national top 20. They had such great crowd participation.” The new Texas A&M tennis courts will be located between the KAMU-TV station and the police station. This summer. Freeman said he wants to travel to California to perhaps qualify for some of the pro fessional tournaments and gain some recognition. He hopes to turn professional someday. 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(X) -*fhe .Coors 200 Austll |s for the Indy-typt I May 28th or 20 times during this race.” Thirty drivers are entered in the qualifying rounds in hope of making one of the 22 starting spots availa ble. Each car is alloted 360 gallons of gas to complete the race. Broken down, each car must average more than 1.8 miles per gallon over the two-hundred mile course. The Coors 200 will be carried live nationally on the CBS Sports Spec- taculuar, but will be blacked out in most parts of Texas. The racing weekend will continue into Sunday with a “Battle of the Bands” scheduled for Saturday night following the race. Local bands will compete against each other for a chance to go head to head with last year’s winner, Hidden Im age, on Sunday afternoon. Motorcycle races are scheduled for Sunday at the speedway with a 2:30 starting time. MUFFLER CUSTOM EXHAUST SHOCK ABSORBERS • AMERICAN OR FOREIGN CARS • TRAILER HITCHES BRYAN MUFFLER SHOP 1309 S. COLLEGE 822-2612 CHARLES S. 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