Page 12 THE BATTALION — THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1979 ^ ^ ^ Franklin expected to go high in dratt ^ . 1. to be Lawrence lohn>;nr United Press International NEW YORK — Tom Cousineau appears set for Buffalo and Mike Bell for Kansas City but then the mystery begins today when the National Football League stages its annual college player draft. The Bills were expected to make Cousineau, the outstanding linebacker from Ohio State, the first selection when the draft began at 10 a. m. EDT today and Kansas City is expected to follow by selecting Bell, a defensive tackle from Colorado State. But how the draft will go from there on is anyone’s guess. This year’s crop of talent is one of the most well-balanced in recent years and there are as many as a dozen running backs who have been classifed as first round material. There are no Earl Campbells around to overshadow the competi tion this year and clubs with high picks will be extra careful to avoid making errors. Buffalo earned the right to choose first when the Bills traded star run ning back O.J. Simpson to San Fran cisco in 1978 for several draft choices, including the 49ers’ top pick this year, and the 49ers finished with the NFL’s worst record (2-14) to earn the No. 1 spot. Kansas City will be followed by Cincinnati and Chicago, which owns Tampa Bay’s first pick. Buffalo is fifth, followed by Baltimore, the New York Giants, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit and New Orleans. Cincinnati, using Washington’s pick, is 12th, followed by Cleveland, the New York Jets, Green Bay, Min nesota, Atlanta and Seattle. Los Angeles, with Oakland’s pick, is 19th, followed by San Diego, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, New England and Los Angeles. Dallas and Pittsburgh, the Super Bowl clubs, complete the first round in the 27th and 28th positions. Four clubs — Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati and Los Angeles — each have two picks in the first round. San Francisco, Tampa Bay, Washington and Oakland do not have first round choices. The draft will consist of 12 rounds and 330 players will be selected. Four teams — Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and New England — forfeited choices because of competitive violations while two others — Houston and San Francisco — used choices in the 1978 supple mental draft. Minnesota and Pittsburgh will be without third round choices, Los Angeles has lost its fifth round pick and New England its seventh round choice. The Jets lead all teams with 17 picks and Miami has 16. Buffalo, Dal las and Pittsburgh have 15 each. Washington has the fewest choices — five. There is a 15-minute time limit for each selection in the first two rounds and a five-minute limit for the re maining 10 rounds. The draft is ex pected to end early Friday night. There are a number of top running backs but none in the class of Campbell or Terry Miller, high picks last year. They include Charles Ale xander of Louisiana State, Ted Brown of North Carolina State, Eddie Lee Ivery of Georgia Tech, Ottis Anderson of Miami (Fla.), Steve Atkins of Maryland, Theotis Brown of UCLA, Kenny King of Oklahoma and Tony Nathan of Alabama. Only two quarterbacks — Jack Thompson of Washington State and Steve Fuller of Clemson — are con sidered possible NFL starters next season but several others should go early. They are Steve Dils of Stan ford, Joe Montana of Notre Dame and Jeff Rutledge of Alabama. The top wide receivers are Jerry Butler of Clemson, Gordon Jones of Pittsburgh, Robert “Spider’’ Gaines of Washington and Ernest Gray of Memphis State. The leading tight ends are Kellen Winslow of Missouri, Mark E. Bell of Colorado State and Ronnie Lee of Baylor. The leading offensive linemen are tackles Kelvin Clark of Nebraska, Keith Dorney of Penn State, Bill Dufek of Michigan and Matt Miller of Colorado, guards Pat Howell of Southern California and Greg Roberts of Oklahoma and center Dave Huffman of Notre Dame. Defensive linemen exacted to be drafted quickly include Bell, V\ ilhe Jones of Florida State, Marty Lyons of Alabama, Al Harris of Arizona State, Rich Dimler o( Southern California and Don Smith of Miami (Fla.). The leading linebackers be hind Cousineau are Jerry Robinson of UCLA, Barry Krauss of Alabama and Bob Colic of Notre Dame. Among the top defensive backs are Lawrence Johnson 0 f| Don Bessillieu of GeJ Henry Williams of San [ and Ricky Sanford of So U | Several kickers ^ ^ sibihties. I hey include 0 '- ^ leben of Texas, Tony 6 P a 9 es Texas A&M, Matt BakF State, Dave Jacobs of Syr-I von Schamann of Oklay Shea of St. Mary’s (Calif! Y**r\r**roi‘jr» r\f Ags battle Wolverines to the end BY KURT ABRAHAM Battalion Sports Staff Outmanned and outgunned once again, the Texas A&M tennis team refused to surrender Wednesday, as it lost its final season match at home to the University of Michigan Wol verines, 5-4. Facing a nationally ranked team for the 12th time in 22 matches this season, the Aggies fell behind early, losing four of the first six sets in sing les action and it looked like No. 14 Michigan would add another deci sive loss to Texas A&M’s record. However, the Aggies tightened up in the next sets, and by the time singles play ended, A&M found itself tied with Michigan at three matches apiece. The outstanding Aggie singles win came in the No. 1 match where Reid Freeman came from behind to defeat Jeff Etterbeck, 1-6, 6-2, 6-4. Freeman’s win snapped a six-match personal losing streak in dual match competition and was his first since March 27. “The way Reid came back really impressed me,” said Texas A&M Coach David Kent. ‘‘He beat one of the top ranked collegiate players in the country in Etterbeck. Watching the way he played today, I think this was easily the biggest win of Reid’s career.” Other Aggie singles wins came in the No. 4 match where Max King beat Jud Shaufler, 7-5, 5-7, 6-4, and in the No. 5 match as Trey Schutz defeated Pete Osier, 7-5, 6-4. Texas A&M managed to follow up its surprising play in the singles with an equally unexpected win in the No. 1 doubles match, as Freeman and Alberto Jimenez teamed up to defeat Michigan’s Etterbeck and Matt Horwitch, 6-3, 6-3. The team of Etterbeck and Hor witch had ranked as the runnerup for top honors in No. 1 NCAA doubles competition. The win was the second upset of nationally ranked doubles team for Freeman and Jimenez who had earlier beaten Southern Illinois’ Juan Farrow and Arjun Fernando. Before losing to Texas A&M, Farrow and Fernando had been the No. 1 doubles team in the country. That win caused considerable ex citement in the stands as the Aggies pulled ahead of Michigan for the first time with the score standing at 4-3. However, the fans’ enthusiasm proved premature as Wolverines Shaufler and Mike Leach disposed of Schutz and Mike Moss in two sets, 6-4, 6-4. That left the outcome of the day’s action to be decided by the No. 3 doubles match between Aggies King and Jim Grubert and Michigan’s Osier and Neinken. After dropping the first set, 6-4, King and Grubert fought back to win the next set, 7-5, but they weren’t able to keep up the pace and lost the final set and match, 6-0. ‘‘I think Max just ran out of gas in that last set,” said Kent. “It hasn’t been that long since he came back from being ill and he really isn’t at top form yet. After playing that long singles match. Max just didn’t have enough energy left to go a full three sets in the doubles.” In finishing its season, Texas A&M chalked up a final 6-5 record at home, while going 57-42 in total home matches. On the road, the Ag gies were not quite as successful, as they compiled a 5-6 record and won only 45 of 98 matches. Kent said he can see the Aggie tennis program turning the corner towards becoming a winner. “The way we played today was very encouraging, and the players we have returning next year along with the nationally ranked junior people we’ve signed should make for a much better team next year.” SELL YOUR BOOKS FOR MORE! 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