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Page 10 THE BATTALION MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1981 Beal given top award at 1981 football dinner Conference race settled... maybe By RITCHIE PRIDDY Battalion Staff Senior quarterback David Beal walked away with the Fighting Heart Award Saturday night at the 1981 Texas A&M University Football Banquet. The award, given annually to the senior who pos sesses such qualities as courage, competitiveness, desire, determination and effort, was voted on by the entire 1980 football team. Beal, a three-year benchwarmer behind star quar terback Mike Mosley, replaced him in the fourth game of the 1980 season and never looked back. Billy Pickard, Coordinator for Training, Equip ment and Facilities, won the first annual Barlow (Bones) Irvin award for outstanding contributions, dedication and service to the Texas A&M football program. Most valuable player awards were given to center David Bandy (Offensive Player of the Year), line backer Mike Little (Defensive Player of the Year) and Kent Adams (Special Teams Player of the Year). Adams also received the Lifter of the Year Award, presented by Strength Coach Mike Flynt, for his weight training improvement over the year. The Southwest Conference/Southwest Airlines Player of the Week awards went to split end Mike Whitwell (Georgia and Penn State ballgames), quar terback David Beal (Texas Tech and Texas) and half back Johnny Hector (Arkansas, TCU). Hector also was presented with a plaque for being voted the ABC—TV Player of the Game for his play against SMU. Linebacker Jerry Bullitt was presented with the Southwest Conference Freshman Defensive Player of the Year award. Senior Jay Dale was honored with the Senior Academic Award for his 3.01 grade point average in accounting. Four seniors received their fourth varsity letters at Texas A&M: Beal, Leandrew Brown, Doug Carr and Zach Guthrie. Temple Aday, Dan Davis, Little and Whitwell received their third letter. Mandlikova beats Bunge United Press International HOUSTON — Hana Mandliko va of Czechoslovakia overcame both her “bridesmaid” image and a sore hand Sunday to defeat Betti- na Bunge, 6-4, 6-4, and win $22,000 in a women’s tennis tour nament. Third place was taken by Mima Jausovec of Yugoslavia with a 6-4 win over Kathy Jordan of King of Prussia, Pa. Mandlikova, whose hand has been numb lately, said it still bothered her Sunday but her serve gave her more concern. “I had problems with my first serve the whole match,” she said. “I just had two aces. I usually have more. I lost concentration. My second serve was too short and she was coming in too quick. I couldn’t do anything. Second-place finishes in De troit and Chicago, plus her second-place finish in the 1980 U.S. Open, had given her a “bridesmaid” image Sunday’s win should erase. “I’m very happy to win my first Avon championship,” said Man dlikova, who was seeded second in the tournament. “The winter cir cuit is so tough. I had chances in Detroit and Chicago and lost. ” “I had played her in the finals at Stockholm,” said Bunge. “This didn’t feel like the finals. I lost serve in the eighth game of the second set. I was leading 4-3 and saw a chance and tried to do too much. I lost three games in a row because I was thinking about that game.” coupon SPECIAL iHAM $1 39 ! SANDWICH JL Thin-sliced Cured Ham with mustard, mayon naise, American and mozzarello cheeses, let tuce, pickle, tomato and Italian oil. Special Good Through Sun., March I. People Book Coupon Not Valid With This Special. 329 University Northgate MSC Craft Shop msc tp */> CO Q CRAFT SHOP <0 Motive' The Spring Class Schedule is in!! 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Will it be Texas A&M, which fell to Arkansas last week in a brawling sort of game only to come back and hand the Texas Lon ghorns one of their worst beatings ever? Will it be the Baylor Bears, who have beaten Arkansas once this year and have regained some of the confidence they lost during the middle portion of the league race? Or might it be the Houston Cougars, who somewhere along the line have lost what it takes to dominate — or even win — bas ketball games? The business of the conference title came to a somewhat surpris ing halt last weekend with Arkan sas clinching a share of the crown. An Arkansas victory over Rice, combined with Houston’s third straight loss — an upset at home to Baylor — brought about that turn of events. An Arkansas win or a Houston loss during the final week of the season would give the Razorbacks the undisputed championship, and that is expected to come about Tuesday night when the Hogs host last-place SMU. it,” said Sutton. “It’s just unbe lievable. We were 2-3 at one time. Maybe that was a blessing in dis guise. It would have been easy for us to say, ‘hey, this isn’t going to be our year.’ But the kids came back. ” Houston coach Guy Lewis is wondering if his team’s three- game losing streak is going to turn out to be a blessing in disguise. First of all Houston fell to Arkan sas in Fayetteville, which was no particular disgrace. Then the Cougars lost in four overtimes at TCU and finally dropped the deci sion to Baylor. The Cougars fell to 9-5 and Baylor jumped to 9-6, pulling the Bears into position to grab second place in the final league standings. If Baylor should defeat TCU in its only remaining league game and Houston should drop a deci sion to Texas A&M next Saturday, the Bears would not only tie for second place but would earn a tiebreak advantage and a bye to the semifinals of the SWC’s post season tournament. Baylor owed its victory to 5-6 Ronnie Blake, seldom used earlier in the season but now often a cri tical member of the team. Blake penetrated the Houston zone de fense to produce 10 assists and seven key ponts. “I don’t think Baylor would have won without him,” said Lewis. “We’re happy we got some help from Baylor,” said Arkansas coach Eddie Sutton, “but we won’t be satisfied until we clinch the cham pionship outright. We’ve never clinched a title for our fans here in Barnhill Arena. We’re looking for ward to the opportunity.” Arkansas’ 75-51 decision over Rice was the 17th-ranked Razor- backs’ ninth straight win. That streak followed a three game los ing streak for the Hogs, a malady that has hit every team in the con ference at one time or another this Not only is the fight for second place at stake, but battles for home court advantages in the tourna ment’s first round take place dur ing the final week of the season. Tuesday’s game between TCU and Texas A&M (both 6-8 and tied for sixth place) will all but wrap up a home court berth for one of those teams, while Rice (7-7) could clinch a home spot if it can upset Houston Tuesday evening. year. “Every team has gone through Texas Tech, meanwhile, will travel to Texas on Tuesday night, still hoping for a third-place finish that would automatically send the Raiders to the San Antonio phase of the tournament without having to play a first-round game. (0 O 5< 2 N O N Q a LUNCH I SPECIAL I I Jock Shorts Men's lacrosse The men’s lacrosse team suffered its first loss of the season wfe| fell to the San Antonio Lacrosse Club over the weekend, 12-1 Hayes and Tony Scazzero both had three goals for the Aggies,C Grosgebauer had two goals and two assists. Goalie DaleKenni had 13 saves. The Aggies are now 3-1. Their next game will be against In University Saturday at 1 p.m. on the drill field. Men’s Gymnastics The men’s gymanstic team lost to Texas Tech at Lubbockoveil weekend despite setting a team record for points. Ray J first and Rich Zapata was third in the pommel horse. David Semon was fourth and Mark Hartwell fifth in floor cises. Three Aggies placed in the rings. Mark Hartwell was Jim Foght was fourth, and Jurgen Achtermann placed sixtli. Mark Hartwell won the vault event. In the parallel ban Dai Semon finished second, Jurgen Achtermann finished Mark Hartwell fifth. David Semen also finished fifth inthehiglk Semon was the Aggies’ gymnast of the meet. Tech had aii score of 174.95. The Aggies’ 161.35 was a team record. A&M is now 1-3. Its next meet is March 7 in San Marcos Pistol Team In a three-way match that took place over the last twoweekeii the A&M pistol team bested both the United States Air Academy and Sam Houston State. The International Standard Pistol Competition, fired at la A&M, saw the Aggies edge the Air Force Academy 2,111 toil Sam Houston was a distant third with a score of 1,980. Buck Sullivan, Edward Koester, Lee Alexander, andCbipI; comprised the A&M squad with Sullivan and Koester linishingt| and fourth as indiviuals, respectively. By RICH Spor It’s not whetl it’s how you pi Or so they si ending SWC I Dhampions Te: aying will just jion enough. Friday in Fo Wrestling team Led by seniors Bob Santini, John Sweatt and sophomotfi Shower, the Texas A&M University wrestling team placed secoii the State Wrestling Tournament this past weekend The three won first places in their weight divisions to wirii] vidual titles. Wrestler/coach Santini said he was pleased with Ags’ showinjiL . the tournament. The team was strong in individual weiah(clffiiif un ^ en and did well there, he said, but it was not good enough overa!r J ' ennant on a team to win the team title. Richland College won the title with Texas A&M second and University of Texas third Fourth place finishers for the Ags were freshman Ed Conwayi the 118-pound division, senior RicEdgemon in 126-pounddiviskU,. sophomore Damian Cook in the 177-division and freskifl e ° winning heavyweight Ricky Lanacheck. ',B Ve f .j re ’ Greg Lewallen, a freshman, finished second in the ISfpotitffP 0 e a st division. He was defeated in the last seconds of the matclilM )rman f es at . Anderson from North Texas State University. Boor champior Sweatt pinned Fulmer from UT in 56 seconds and beaf ral 6 ^ s ’ , Ranson from NTSU 10-4 to win his third state title in the 142podH . f Kazorba division. Hfomts to Ho Shower defeated Gerome Woods from Texas Tech 4-0 and Alt ith 74. Surp ined to have a ound. In 198 nged to th kansas. With more 8 Fry from Southwest Texas University 10-3 to win his first titleitu_ . , 150-pound division. ®8S ies weren t ye top four by Winfield, Frohman &M entered t icking in depl however, runn< Good Only 11:30 AM-4:30 PM 693-2335 $2.00 OFF ANY LARGE 2 OR MORE ITEM PIZZA OR $1.00 OFF ANY SMALL 2 OR MORE ITEM PIZZA. ONE COUPON PER PIZZA. FREE DELIVERY WITHIN LIMITED AREA. COLLEGE STATION STORE ONLY. 1504 H0LLEMAN — EXPIRES 3-31- 81. I I I I I make strange pair The reason w Wo I United Press International NEW YORK — Someone asked Dave Winfield if anything particu larly exciting happened to him lately and after giving it some thought, he said in that soft laid- back manner of his, well, yes, come to think of it, he had been caught in an earthquake the other day. “It happened last week while I was in Mexico,” laughed the Yank ees’ new multi-million dollar slug ger. “It wasn’t too much of a quake. Just some earth tremors, that’s all. In California, we get a lot of ‘em.” The committee that brings Fun & Games to AlM... NEEDS YOU! HALLENGING LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AVAILABLE Chairpeople Public Relations Tournament Planning ...and more! Applications/INFO MSC 216 Al Frohman, Winfield’s closest friend and adviser, was hearing this for the first time. He’s some thing of a second father to the big outfielder and worries about him constantly. “You know,” he said, “I don’t know if you’re covered in your contract if you’re ever hurt like that, God forbid.” has given me new life. He! close to me as my own sonandl By RIC1 relationship we have hasabsolt Batta ly nothing to do with mo« The Texas When he didn’t have anyth w omen s tenn gave him and when I didn’tk hvo tough road anything, he gave me." pig Stephen F. “That’s right,” Winfield Saturday, firms. | TheAgshav | Friday to go aga It was Frohman, withhispl of Houston ai picacity for figures and ideas,«| Beaumont Fru helped Winfield as a free apf University, obtain a recent five-year conte Coach Jan with the Yankees that couldkf matches will be reached $23 million, and UNElad the Ags we club owner George Steinbrenj °f people Satui later discovered some cost o(| We needei ing aspects of the contractJ said Cannon, wasn’t entirely aware of origins get some real cc it was Frohman who meticulocj we are going t worked out another restrucM one. Winfield’s new contract^ for a base pay of $15 million^ still could go up to $19 milto* They make an odd couple, the huge, 6-foot-6, 29-year-old Win- tough matches The Ags lost ties in the dua Cannon sail well. She e dimented the aliana Ferna: Frohman unabashedly a he loves Winfield and it si More than that, he seems tol Hooton. his life through him. Winfield “The gj r l s field from SI Paul, Minn and the twice as old, owlish-looking, 5- ing and his baseba n know ii> S Hooton and foot-7, one-time kosher caterer enough to call on him occasion to a 7-5 first and sweater manufacturer from when he ’ s having some proM swamped Ra, Brooklyn, who doesn t especially on the field f Kat} Bovell 6 care tor agents and doesn t consid- win u.„ matrb er himself one. The two of them are riding l n s j n gl es . “If not for him,” Frohman says, limousine up to t^e Cats( Bowe jj ^ looking at Winfield, “I would’ve Mountains where Winfield ate( jyy end y q ( been dead three years ago. 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