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Page 16 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1981 Sports Women’s tennis team has good first outing Expos fire manager William, By RICK STOLLE Battalion Staff Displaying some of the power ful tennis that will be played this year, the Texas A&M University women’s tennis team had a dou bles team win the championship and a member reach the singles finals at the Beaumont Labor Day Invitational over the weekend. The team of junior Liliana Fer nandez and transfer Teresa Land ry won the doubles championship by defeating the fourth seeded team of Legia Matt os and Natalie Morales 6-4, 7-5. Coach Jan Cannon said Fernan dez and Landry were not seeded because they were a new team. She said she was confident they would be seeded in later tourna ments. “Being a transfer student, no body knew much about her,” Can non said, “and Liliana has been out of the country competing in her native country of Columbia. ” Fernandez won the Columbian National championship over the summer and will return Sept. 23- 26 to compete in the South Amer ican National championships. She also was the Aggie player to reach the finals of the singles com petition. Fernandez was seeded second in the Beaumont tournament. She beat Carrol Core in the first round 6-0, 6-0. She then defeated two of her teammates. Fernandez beat Landry 6-2, 6-2 and Amy Gloss 6-4, 6-3 for wins in rounds two and three. “Both were tough matches,” the coach said, “Teresa was con tent to wait for Liliana to make a mistake and that’s Lili’s style. And both Amy and Teresa know Liliana’s style.” tiuic iPIECIPILIE IBOCP ■ U ■ Everything for Indoor or Outdoor Gardening...from Plants to Accessories. See our Large Selection of Gifts 15% OFF Hi Total purchase with coupon (Sale items & fertilome excluded) ARPENS 2004 Villa Marta 775-5557 Coupon must be presented before check-out One coupon per purchase CORRECTION void 12-31-si Gloss defeated Patty Been, 6-2, 6-1 and seventh-seed Debbie Ladig 6-3, 6-3 before losing to Fernandez. Fernandez defeated third- seeded Mattos, a Brazilian attend ing Lamar, 6-2, 6-0 in the semifin als. She lost to fourth seed Mar- gret Redfem of the University of Houston 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 in the finals. Redfern had defeated the top- seed in the second round, her own coach at Houston. The doubles team of Hill and Sonja Hutcherson were top seeds in the tournament but were beaten in the second round by Mattos and Morales, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. Fernandez and Landry fought their way to the championship by defeating three of the four top teams. “It was an excellent match,” said Cannon of the Fernandez- Redfern match. “Neither would give up even though both were dead-tired and zombies on their feet.” The Aggies also had other good showings in singles. Pam Hill, seeded sixth in the tournament, lost to third-seeded Mattos in the second round, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 after a default in the first round. Landry defeated Rita Garcia of East Texas State 6-2, 6-2 before losing to Fernandez. Maylyn Hooton defeated Joanie Bavgonier by default and Linda Lazell of LSU, 6-3, 6-3 be fore losing to Christina Ortega of Lamar 6-3, 6-4. The only team the two played that was not seeded was the team of Kim Gensler and Mary Sasser of North Texas State in the first round. Fernandez-Landry won 1- 6, 6-2, 6-4. They defeated third-seeded Ladig-Mauldin in the second 6-1, 2-6, 6-1. In the quarterfinals, Fer- nandez-Landry beat second- seeded Hagarman-Savant 6-3, 6- 1. “It was a great win for the girls, especially for the first time to play together competitively, ” said Cannon. The next competition for the team will be Sept. 19-21 as it will travel to Fort Worth for the Texas Sectional Tournament. United Press International PHILADELPHIA — It had been a long time since Jim Fan ning watched a baseball game from that special corner of the dugout reserved for the manager. But after 19 years in baseball as a scout, administrator, general manager and, most recently, vice president of player development. Fanning returned to the field Tuesday night to take over as man ager of the Montreal Expos in place of Dick Williams, who was fired earlier in the day. And since it has been so long since he’s been in the dugout — 1962 with the Milwaukee Braves’ Class C farm club at Eau Claire, Wis., to be exact — the 53-year- old Fanning isn’t quite sure what managerial style he’ll be bringing to the Expos for the final four weeks of the season. “I can’t tell you, I can’t go back to my five years as a manager,” he said before the Expos dropped a 10-5 decision to the Philadelphia Phillies. “I’ve changed an awful lot in that time. “I feel I know the guys on the bench very well. I signed a lot of them and I know what they can do. We have to give every effort to winning the rest of the season. If there are any changes, I would hope they would be done in a sub tle way.” COME - LIFT EVERY VOICE! Make a x joyful noise Honor & Praise University Lutheran Chapel 315 N. College Main Hubert Beck, Pastor 846-6687 WORSHIP SERVICES AT 9:15 A.M. AND 10:45 A.M. BIBLE CLASS 9:30 a.m. HAMBURGER FRY AND SOCIAL TOMORROW (THURDAY) 6:30 P.M. FELLOWSHIP SUPPER SUNDAY 5:30 P.M. /WORSHIP (FOLK SETTING) SUNDAY 7 P.M. CANDLELIGHT COMMUNION SERVICE TONIGHT 10 P.M. PLAN NOW TO ATTEND THE STATE RETREAT IN FT. WORTH SEPT. 18-20. Expos’ President John McHale unexpectedly thrust the job into Fanning’s hands after discharging Williams, who had one month re maining on his three-year con tract. Williams, 52, took over a second division club in 1976 and turned it into a pennant conten der. But McHale, apparently fear ing a near-miss similar to Mon treal’s second-place finishes in each of the last two years, felt a change was needed to spur his team in the second-half pennant race. “One of the reasons for my deci sion was that we didn’t feel we could win the way we were play ing, with the lack of direction and discipline and the questionable tactics,” McHale said. Expos’ center-fielder Andre Dawson, the club leader in hitting and home runs, said McHale may have felt some players were bend ing the rules. “What Mr. McHale was refer ring to was some players getting away with a few things,” Dawson said. “I felt personally Dick let us go out and play the game of base ball. He didn’t ask for anything out of the ordinary. If some abused these rules, then maybe Mr. McHale is right. “But we players have to go out and win the game. We have been making a lot of mental mistakes and beating ourselves. We just have to cut down on the mis takes.” Catcher Gary Carter said he didn’t feel as if there were prob lems with direction on the Expos. “I don’t think so,” he said. “Being professional ballplayers and adults, we know what we have to do. Rules are set and we I abide by them.” McHale also voiced dispb | with the way Williams ki the bullpen, especially Jeffl don, who was acquired frou New York Mets in theEllisVil tine deal. 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