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LOUPOT’S BOOKSTORE Northgate - Across from the Post Office By KURT ABRAHAM Battalion Sports Staff In the bizarre position of having to defend a record it already earned in regular season play, the Texas A&M Tennis team travels to Corpus Christi to play in post-season com petition at the Southwest Confer ence Tournament being held this Friday through Sunday. Whereas the basketball and baseball tournaments mainly exist to give teams other than the confer ence champion a chance to qualify for the NCAA playoffs, this does not necessarily hold for tennis. The big <3ibson’s VISA DISCOUNT CENTER 9 A.M.-9 P.M. MON.-SAT. 10 A.M.-6 P.M. SUNDAY 1420 TEXAS AVE. SALE RUNS THRU WED. MAY 2 LONE STAR LONGNECKS 4^^ case + dep. OLD MILWAUKEE 6 pack bottles $ 1 19 COOKS 6 pack cans PEPSI + deposit SUPER PRO FRISREE reg. 3.69 SALE 2.99 BORDENS GOLDEN VANILLA Vz gal round 99c difference is the fact that the per formance of a team in the tennis tournament is directly figured into its conference record for the season. For example, look at the situation the Aggies find themselves in. With conference standings figured on the basis of all individual matches, the Ags currently are 29-43 with a .403 winning percentage. That puts them in sixth place, seven points behind TCU at 36-36, and four points ahead of Rice at 25-47. Those numbers have a lot of meaning for Texas A&M Coach David Kent. “Let’s face it, we’re by no means safe where we are,” Kent said. “While we certainly have a chance to catch TCU, we also find ourselves in danger of sliding even farther down in the final conference standings if we allow Rice to catch us by not playing up to our poten tial. What makes it all the more im portant is the fact that how our players do in this tournament will determine whether or not some of them get to go on to the NCAA playoffs.” There are at least two Aggies who have a good chance to go to the NCAA competition. Although number one and number two seeds, Reid Freeman and Alberto Jimenez have suffered poor matches lately that saw both their records fall to 9-12, they still can make up for it by playing strongly during the tourna ment. But that may not be as easy as it sounds when one looks at the com petition Texas A&M will play. “We really have a tough time of it because so many of the conference schools have strong tennis pro grams,” said Kent. “For instance, look at the five teams above us in the conference standings. SMU, Arkansas, Texas and Houston rank second, fourth, eighth and ninth re spectively in the nation. To top it off, TCU is currently 16th in the country. That’s some kind of compe tition to go up against.” What makes it worse for the Ag gies is that they have no way of knowing who each player will face until the tournament begins. With all matches determined by random draw, the choices range from some one on the SMU team to a survivor from Baylor’s 4-59 outfit. But Kent has several reasons to be optimistic about the tournament. “After the 8-1 win against Texas Tech, we really bottomed out when we played Arkansas and lost 9-0,” said Kent. “However, I thought we played a better, more consistent game against Houston. Our two wins were fairly impressive. Trey Schutz may have played his best tennis of the year when he won the number five singles match and Max King and Jim Grubert did well to gether as a pair in the number three doubles.” Kent’s decision to use King and Grubert together was an experi mental one, as Grubert had been playing alongside Hendrick Roller in the doubles competition for most of the season. Although King had just returned to playing after a lengthy illness, the experiment proved so successful that Kent has decided to go with that pairing for the tournament. “It’s just a fact that when he’s healthy. Max is really one of the key players we need to win,” said Kent. “Even though he hadn’t played in competition for almost two months, I was impressed with his perform ance. I think now that he has the chance to play regularly again, he’ll improve even more. While many teams will finish their seasons with the tournament in Corpus Christi, the Aggies will return home to host one final match for the year when they play Michi gan on May 2 at 1:30 p.m. In keep ing with the large number of na tionally ranked teams on its schedule this year, Texas A&M will face a Wolverine team that is ranked somewhere between tenth and 15th, depending on which poll one wants to look at. On the other side of the coin, the Aggies have a powerful weapon on their side in the homecourt advan tage. At home, Texas A&M is 32-22 in singles and 19-9 in doubles for a combined home record of 53-37. This includes the 8-1 and 7-2 wins against Baylor and Southern Illinois as well as the 9-0 loss to Arkansas. Trave.i_TooL=> Fra/ael WAUUMCi Soft R\c.vc^> CJXRCkO Tote. Gbjav/vb Luo*o*AaE- OUR. EXPERIEWCED STAFF WILL ANSWEFL VOUR OUESTIOMS* AWD WEL.P VOU TO C.MOO&E1 TWFL RIGHT BAG FO«. VOUR MEE-D3. ASWC FOP- OUR- FRPIEL AMD FORE.I TRAVELERS CWECkLUlST. WHOLE EARTH PROVISION COMPANY 2410 3AN ANTONIO ST-AUSTIN ~47S-1577 PLENTY 9F PARKING THURSDAY NIGHTS 4 SATURDAY Petal Patch i "YOUR COMPLETE FLORIST" 696-6713 SENIOR RING DANCE Corsages Nosegays Boutonnieres SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEKEND "TUZZY MUZZY" (A SPECIAL NOSEGAY) Ask us About It 707 Shopping Village 707 Texas Ave. Rangers win hut Astros Id. United Press International Al Oliver, who had three RBIs, scored the winning run from third base on Johnny Grubb’s two-out single in the bottom of the 10th inning Wed nesday night, lifting the Texas Rangers to a 4-3 triumph over the Toronto Blue Jays. Consecutive two-out singles by Oliver, Oscar Gamble and Grubb helped Sparky Lyle, who pitched one and two-thirds hit less relief innings, to his second win in three decisions. Jesse Jef ferson, 0-1, who relieved Mark Lemongello beginning the 10th, took the loss. The Blue Jays tied the score 3-3 in the top of the ninth, pre venting Texas starter Ferguson Jenkins from becoming the major-league’s first five-game winner. Roy Howell hit a leadoff double off reliever Jim Kern, but was tagged out at third on Dave McKay’s bouncer to short. Rick Cerone doubled McKay to third and pinch-hitter Otto Velez walked to load the bases, bring ing in Lyle. Bob Bailor then hit a slow roller to short as McKay crossed the plate with the tying run. Oliver drove in thei Texas runs with a The Blue Jays’ secondn I in the fourth when“ doubled and scoredj, Mayberry’s single. The Houston AstrosnH as lucky as Bobby Man l n Dave Kingman hit Ibj lin L Dennis Lamp pitched Sa hitter Wednesday to It And Chicago Cubs to tlJ It straight victory—awdkicki the Astros. day, M urcer hit a two-runli next the fifth inning for jiisStj [ Ni of the year after SteveOi y ou led off with a single, g ther added his solo shot, hirjj Je the year, leading offthes The Cubs added anodj l e ‘ sl in the seventh whenO as 11 singled an cl was I Hyn Murcer who scored Sizemore’s two-out sin^ with Lamp struck outfouij an d helped by three Chicagi plays. Houston, whose! 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