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.”
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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.
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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.”
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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.
Reliever Stan Bahnsensail
felt Williams didn’t knowy
handle the Montreal pit
staff.
“He put unneeded pressuij
the pitching staff," Bahnseni
“He attacked us all the I
never defended us. He waa|
pitcher’s manager.”
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and were 14-12 and in
place entering Tuesday
game.
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