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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1981
Tennis team wins again
By RICK STOLLE
Battalion Staff
Despite having a tough match
with five of the nine games going
to three sets, the nationally rank
ed Texas A&M University men’s
tennis team held off a furious rally
by the University of Oklahoma to
beat the Sooners, 6-3,
Wednesday.
The win brings the Ags season
record to a fine 13-3 but the team
has to go to Houston for two tough
matches over the weekend.
Kent said the win was a very
good one for the Ags.
“OU has a very good team and
we were lucky to have a few play
ers who were ready to assume the
leadership role,” he said.
Kent especially complimented
senior captain Reid Freeman for
his fine efforts on and off the court.
“Reid held everybody together
with his encouragment when he
wasn’t in there,” said Kent. “I be
lieve he played one of his best
matches of his career here.”
Kent said Freeman’s style is
better suited to the faster courts at
the Royal Oaks Raquet club where
the match was held.
In singles: Brian Joelson lost to
Ron Kowal
Dennis Wall 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Free
man beat Rob Braver 6-1, 6-2;
Trey Schutz defeated Mark Justus
4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Tom Judson lost to
Joey Braver 1-6, 6-2, 6-0; Max
King beat Peter Smythe 4-6, 6-1,
6-3 and Ron Kowal defeated Billy
Cannon 6-3, 6-3.
“Max and Ron are playing ex-
Reid Freeman
ceptional tennis,” said Kent.
“Kowal has come on like gangbus-
ters. I think he has won seven out
of his last eight matches.”
In doubles: Freeman-King de
feated Wall-Smythe 6-4, 7-5;
Kowal-Judson beat Braver-Justus
and Schutz-Leonard Smith lost to
R. Braver-Cannon 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
He said he took Joelson out of
the doubles because he seemed
“mentally down” about something
and could not concentrate on the
game.
“That’s where it is nice to have
somebody like Max around,” Kent
said. “Max picked up the slack
well.”
The Houston and Rice matches
will be tough ones, said Kent. The
Cougers won the Corpus Christi
H.E.B. College Tennis Team
tournament by defeating Trinity
and Clemson. Trinity is ranked
ninth in the nation (and is the only
team to beat the Ags 9-0 this year)
and Clemson is rated sixth.
“Houston looks like the favo
rite in the SWC,” said Kent.
“And to make matters worse, they
will want to avenge the 7-2 loss we
handed them last year.”
He went on to say that Rice will
also be tough. The Ags squeaked
by last year, 5-4.
“We have to go into Houston
relaxed and play our best tennis,”
he said.
Kent said he thinks the team is
ready but they will have to play
each match one at a time.
TANK MCNAMARA
NATIONAL
LETTER
OF INTENT
SIGNING
DAY
Tracksters divide for meet
McReynolds leads Hogs
Arkansas baseball looks good
Even with the loss of pitcher
Steve Krueger and catcher Ronn
Reynolds, both All-Americans,
the Arkansas Razorbacks will
bring back enough big hitters and
improved pitching to again rate as
one of the top teams in the South
west Conference baseball race.
The biggest plus for the Hogs in
the 1981 race will be the trio of
outfielder Kevin McReynolds,
first baseman John Hennell and
third baseman Kenny Rogers.
The three combined for 152
runs scored, 41 doubles, 34 home
runs, 145 runs batted in and a re
markable .347 batting average.
The Hogs from the hills are also
bringing back pitchers Scott
Tabor, Stuart Huchingson with
newcomer Darrel Akerfelds.
Pitching will be a question
mark for the Hogs this year as they
have an untested staff. The staff is
young with only one senior.
“We have more control as a
staff,” said pitching coach Tom
Hilton, “but that was our number
one emphasis in the fall. We have
a lot of quality arms but we ll have
to make up for a lot with competi
tiveness.”
Tabor was 7-4 last year with a
2.89 ERA. He is a hard-throwing
right-handed junior who has an
impressive array of pitches. He
has a fastball that travels at 83
mph, a good curve, a slurve or
slow curve, change-up and a
knuckle-drop ball.
Hilton calls Tabor the “ace of
the Razorback staff.”
At 6-7, junior Stuart Huchihg-
son can get a lot of power behind
one of his fastballs. He transfered
to Arkansas from Crowder (Mo.)
Correction
In Tuesday’s Battalion, two
baseball players pictured under
the headline — Aggies sweep pair
from Cowboys — were misidenti-
fied. David Flores and Steve
Davis, two pitchers who posted
wins in that doubleheader, had
the names switched underneath
the photos. The Battalion regrets
the error.
Junior College where he had a 3-2
record.
Hilton said Huchingson throws
consistently at 86-87 miles per
hour. “He also has a nasty slider
that comes to the plate at about 84
or 85 mph.”
Huchingson had his problems
last year going only 4-5 with a 5.84
earned run average. But the tall
righthander had 50 strikeouts to
his credit.
He was drafted by the Houston
Astros in the sixth round out of
high school. Huchingson figures
prominantly in the Hogs plan.
Akerfelds is a freshman football
signee who has impressed the
Arkansas coaching staff.
“Darrel is a hard-working kid
who could help us right now, ” said
Hilton. Akerfelds is battling for
the third spot on the pitching rota
tion.
But the biggest asset the Hogs
have is not their pitching staff
which has yet to prove itself, but
the hitting. Highlighting the pow
er-hitting Hogs is junior Kevin
McReynolds.
McReynolds is not expected to
be around after the baseball draft
this year and the Arkansas
coaching staff predicts they will
use him all they can.
“This is likely his last season of
baseball at Arkansas,” said head
coach Norm DeBriyn. “He should
go in the first round of the major
league draft later this year; who
knows how high.”
McReynolds hit .386 last year
with 17 home runs and 57 runs
batted in.
His average is the third highest
in Arkansas baseball history.
DeBriyn said the right-handed
power hitter reminds him of Mick
ey Mantle.
“He has quick hands and a lot of
power behind his swing,” he said.
McReynolds earned second-
team all-America honors last year.
He was a unanimous selection for
Most Valuable Player in the SWC
tournament last year.
“We re not counting on having
him back next year,” DeBriyn
said.
John Hennell, senior firstbase-
man, is the man with the eye on
the Arkansas team. The lefthander
struckout only 14 times in 214 at
bats last year while compiling a
.336 batting average. He also
made only four errors fielding all
year.
Hennell also had a school re
cord 21 doubles and is the all-time
doubles leader with 37. He has
another record in walks with 35
last year and 61 over his career.
“He has outstanding bat quick
ness,” said DeBriyn. “We like to
bat him in front of McReynolds
and Rogers to give us a good 3-4-5
batting order.”
Kenny Rogers, no relation to
the singer, is the third man in the
tremendous threesome in the bat
ting order.
Rogers hit .316 in his first year
for the Hogs. He transfered in
from Mt. San Antonio Junior Col
lege in Walnut, Calif. The right-
handed third baseman had 10
home runs to come in second in
that category behind McRey
nolds.
DeBriyn said, “Rogers is the
smartest player we’ve got. He is
fundamentally sound with a great
approach. ”
He said Rogers’ only drawback
is that he cannot run very well.
“He has short legs and has a defi
nite lack of speed,” said DeBriyn.
Rogers will bat in the fifth spot
to make the middle third of the
Arkansas batting order the SWC,
what the Arkansas media guide
calls, “Murderers’ Row.”
— Rick Stolle
Texas A&M’s men’s track squad
will be divided this weekend, with
six athletes competing in the
NCAA Indoor Championships in
Detroit and another 28 represent
ing the school in the two-day Rice
Invitational in Houston.
Coach Charlie Thomas has the
indoor group, which includes high
jumper James Howard, pole vaul-
ters Randy Hall and Rob Mont
gomery, 60-yard hurdler Mike
Glaspie, 440-yard star Leslie Kerr
and 60-yard sprinter Rod
Richardson.
The Aggie entrants, by events:
1,500-meter run —John Bleyl,
Andy Elliott, David Nelsen.
110-meter hurdles — Billy
Busch, Rick Thomas, Craig
Moody, Kevin Stevenson.
400-meter dash — Floyd Fur-
low, Ed Guillen.
100-meter dash — Larry Kerr,
James Washington.
800-meter run — Darryl
Shoemake, John Sexton, Kyle
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today to play the Sam Houston
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Beall, Bill Roberts.
400-meter hurdles — Thomas,
Bart Daniel, Busch, Moody.
200-meter dash — James
Washington, Larry Kerr.
5,000-meter run — Jim Bolle-
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Muenich.
Shot put — Kevin McGinn
Robert Windsor, Marklsenmari:
Discus — McGinnis, Winds
Isenmann.
Pole vault — Mike Mulli'
Rick Hayley, Brad McFarling i
High jump — Scott Robemr
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