Sports THE BATTALION Page 15 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 my car ) tape of 0 yeans it. Myv r than v al improi! t was mi •acle. ,\1 jack. I'm I believe ar and d my m; r to bool: Music F; jening .Vm rooming!) oid, bull s with m /o bourse n stay in happy ai i, And In Pinpoint passing 000$ Texas A&M quarterback Gary Kubiak, with his team won 29-28. Kubiak and the Aggies Kent Adams (54) blocking, lets a pass fly dur- travel Saturday to Boston to take on the War ing the Aggies’ game with Cal-Berkeley two Eagles of first-year coach Jack Bicknell. Bos- weeks ago, which the junior signal-caller and ton College posted a fine 7-4 record in 1980. IE Amazing Ayala wins again United Press International LAS VEGAS, Nev. — There are those who consider 18-year- Tony Ayala the heir apparent to the junior middleweight title Sow held by Sugar Ray Leonard Jnd Wednesday night he showed why. Ayala, fighting shortly before eonard stopped Thomas Hearns in the 14th round to win the world welterweight championship, had : most impressive performance the evening. The youngster bom San Antonio needed just 69 seconds to knock out Jose Ba- quedano, the former Mexican welterweight champion. Ayala, who has not lost a fight since he was 8, reeled off his 14th consecutive victory without a loss when he dropped Baquedano with a left hook to the head. Baquedano was unable to rise for nearly 10 minutes after the fight, enabling Ayala to record his 12th knockout. “I knew after the first left hook that I was going to take him out, ” said Ayala. “But I give him a lot of credit because he came to fight. When you’ve knocked out the guys that he’s knocked out, why should you worry about a little kid from San Antonio.” Among Baquedano’s victories was a first-round knockout of Mar cos Geraldo, who went 10 rugged rounds with Leonard. In earlier preliminaries, un beaten Edwin Rosario of Puerto Rico scored his 20th consecutive victory with a unanimous 10- round decision over James Mar tinez, and fast-rising heavyweight Marvis Frazier ran off his sixth straight victory by stopping Guy Casale after four rounds. Appearing LIVE Thursday Night TOWAKS VAX ZAXDTr Cover g 3 00 441 © College Malta MSG TRAVEL PRESENTS STEAMBOAT SPRINGS SKI TRIP January 8-15, 1982 $ 360 AND WINTER PARK SKI TRIP January 9-16, 1982 $ 375- $ 395 * Sign-up now in Room 216 MSC for more Info, Contact: MSC Travel 845-1515 14th-round TKO worth $8 million Leonard tops feisty Hearns United Press International LAS VEGAS, Ney. — Even with the $8 million he’ll get for his 14th-round technical knockout over Thomas Hearns, Sugar JRay Leonard short-changed himself a bit. “I proved my point,” he said after the fight, wearing dark glas ses to cover a bulging purplish welt under his left eye. “I proved I’m the best welterweight in the world.” That he did. Plus a little more. He proved he could take it on the jaw from a fighter like the lanky, dangerous Hearns, and he also proved he has a good enough punch himself to dissipate the no tion that he’s basically a stylish boxer and little of anything else. The first words Leonard said to Mike Trainer, his longtime friend and adviser, after the fight was over, suggested that Leonard knew there was a question among some people about those two points. “We did it!” he said to Trainer. “We showed ‘em.” “I pulled this one out by reaching down into my guts, into my heart,” said the now undis puted world welterweight champ. “I knew I had to reach down and pull out the reserve and I did it. ” He did it at an enormous cost, however. Although he was clearly in com mand when referee Dave Pearl stopped the fight and waved him off Hearns in the loser’s comer at 1:45 of the 14th round, Leonard was in no condition to celebrate his victory by running around the block. He appeared at the post fight news conference along with Hearns, then immediately went up to his Caesars Palace hotel room and collapsed in exhaustion on his bed. Leonard and Hearns actually fought two fights in one. Heams, who received $5 million as his share of the purse, started out like the whirlwind he had been adver tised to be, winning the first five rounds on one judge’s scorecard and four of those five rounds on the cards of the other two. But the sixth round was altogether different. That was the round in which Leonard suddenly took the initiative. It was at this juncture much of the steam sud denly seemed to leave Hearns. Whether it was because he was tired or because he couldn’t for mulate an adequate defense, he allowed Sugar Ray to press his advantage in the seventh, eighth and ninth rounds. Hearns rallied momentarily in the 10th but still wasn’t the same fighter he had been in the early part of the contest. After Heams picked up the pace somewhat to take both the 11th and 12th, Leonard gave a foreshadowing of things to come in the 13th when he thundered into Hearns with such fury and force with both hands, he nearly drove him through the ropes. Hearns, who never had been knocked to the canvas before and actually still wasn’t, was so help less sitting on one of the rope strands that Pearl began counting. The referee reached the count of nine when the bell rang, which was just about the time Hearns moved off the ropes. Leonard was after Hearns like a flash to start the 14th, hammering away at him relentlessly with bpth ■for the student i who is a Racquetball Player •Shoes •Rackets •Tote Bags • Balls • Sweat Bands EKTALON “TRALER” Racket $ Reg. 29.95 25 95 TRI-STATE A&M SPORTING GOODS 846-3280 3600 Old College Rd. 846-3570 Dean Witter Reynolds is on the move in Bryan-College Station. 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Heams again sought re fuge in the ropes and by then the outcome was so clear in Leonard’s mind that he raised both hands in a victory gesture even before Pearl stopped the fight. Behaving perfectly at the end, Leonard didn’t rub it in on Hearns at the news conference. He said the loser was “not just a good fight er, but proved he was a market able commodity” and had given him the toughest fight he had ever had. He also apologized to Hearns for having said he had “no brains” before the fight. “I asked him if he was hurt at the end of the sixth round,” Leonard said, “but he didn’t re spond. ” Hearns said Leonard had hurt him but he still had his wits about him in the 14th and felt the referee shouldn’t have stopped the con test when he did. “I knew I was ahead,” Hearns said. “He’s a very good fighter and I would like to say there is no ani mosity between me and Ray. De- fintely. I’d like a rematch. I did the best I could but it just wasn’t good enough. 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