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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preview of the Indianapolis 500
s into town this weekend, with
I show being held at the Texas
|rld Speedway outside of town.
of the final
cars before
race, will be run
u ilB^day race bine scheduled
has slA.go p.rn. Practice will being at
1:0 a.m. with qualifications to
Hgn, at 12:30.
petingB/jth t] le incly date closing in,
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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.
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io Andretti, Bobby and Al Un-
Johnny Rutherford and Gordon
icack will fire up their engines
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he drivers Saturday will attack
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mpt to break Mario Andretti’s
bd record of 214.15 m.p.h. set in
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mile oval. The record for a
-mile race is held by Gary Bet-
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[ory home his last start at the
Iway, the Aggieland 250 this
It March 12th. With his experi-
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ed record held by Andretti
jit be broken this weekend.
His (Andretti) record is well
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