Page 12 THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1981
Sports
by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds
IR
Tennis team hosts tourney
despite being hit with illness
Joel son defeats top seed
By RICK STOLLE
Battalion Staff
In what coach David Kent cal
led the best win of his career,
Texas A&M tennis player Brian
Joelson defeated top seed Tom
Leonard in San Diego
Wednesday.
Joelson is competing in a Na
tionals tournament in San Diego.
The United States is divided into
sections and the sectional cham
pion is sent to a national tourna
ment each year.
Joelson is the champion of the
Northwest Section of the country.
This section, which covers his
hometown of Portland, Ore., cov
ers the states of Oregon,
Washington and the
section of California.
Northern
In the first round Wednesday,
Joelson was paired with top seed
Leonard, who was representing
Southern California. Leonard had
reached the quarterfinals of
Wimbledon in 1979 before losing.
Joelson bet him 6-4, 6-1.
“The entire team is really happy
and proud of him,” said Kent.
“This is absolutely the biggest and
best win of his career. ”
He said when Joelson left, he
told him to just relax and play the
best tennis he could.
The win is a very pleasant sur
prise for the team, said Kent.
“We knew he could do well out
there, the coach said, “but we
also knew it would be tough with
the draw he got. ”
The team is waiting for the re
sults of the match that was sup
posed to have been played Thurs
day but at press time, results were
not available.
By RICK STOLLE
Battalion Staff
Despite most of the team laid
low with the flu bug, the Texas
A&M University tennis team will
host their third Three-Way tour
nament of the fall beginning
today.
The Ags will take on Southwest
Louisiana and Rice universities
beginning at 1 p. m.. But they will
have to overcome a number of ob
stacles to win this tournament.
Foremost of which is the fact that
many members of the A&M team
have had the flu.
Also the Aggies will play with
out the services of Brian Joelson,
last year’s number one player.
Joelson is competing in San Diego
in a Nationals tournament. The
United States is divided into 16
regions and each region sent a
champion to San Diego to com
pete in the tournament.
“We hope to do very well here
and hope Brian is doing great in
San Diego,” said Aggie tennis
coach David Kent. “But the oppo
sition is going to be very good and
we have been hurt by the flu bug. ”
Kent said this fall has been the
worst he has ever seen at A&M
with illeness forcing most of the
players to miss workouts.
Kimmo Alkio, Ron Kowal and
Arnold Kettnacker are the most
recent victims of the flu. Alkio and
Kowal worked out Thursday and
Kettnacker was still held out.
“I’m feeling a lot better,” said
Kowal, “but I’m real weak and
don’t have much stamina. ”
Kent said Alkio, who had been
out six days, is sluggish and has not
been hitting the ball well since
returning to practice.
“But we really need the work,”
he said. “We’ve got to have fall
play to get ready for the spring
season so there’s no way we will
hold anybody back unless they are
very ill. Everybody needs the
work.”
Kent said he is expecting a good
tournament. He said both Rice
and Southwest Louisiana have
very good talent and will come to
A&M wanting a win.
“This is the best competition we
have faced this season, with the
exception of Texas and Trinity,”
the coach said.
He said one of the more in
teresting matches of the day will
be Van Barry against Todd Trahan
of Southwest. Barry transfered to
Texas A&M from SWL last year
and knows most of Southwest’s
team.
“I am looking forward to it,”
said Barry. “I know almost all of
them and have played them be
fore. It’ll be fun."
Four singles players, including
two Aggies, have been seeded for
the tournament. Mike Pa»fi7 c
and Alkio have been seedeljf a 9 e ""
and two. Vaughn Bryan ofSi
west and Tres CushingofRiJ
seeded third and fourth, i
tively.
In doubles, the
Pazourek-Kowal is toprai
Bryan-Pat Hughesmaniss
in the tournament.
First round pairings
Aggies are: Kettnacker
Howard Park of Rice; Laurt
zalez against George Roder]
of Southwest; Genaro Fen
against John Albert of Rice; |
Hill against Mark DeriseofSo
west and Barry against Trala|
first round matches are sclied
to begin at 1 p.m.
,c
By
Brian Joelson
Joe Washington making
Redskins a contender
United Press International
WASHINGTON — At prac
tice, with his shirt hanging
outside his pants and nearly to his
knees, Joe Washington, nearly a
foot shorter than some of his team
mates, looks like a youngster who
sneaked under the fence.
Even though he’s only 5-9
(perhaps stretching a bit) and 185
pounds (the book says), it’s no
coincidence the Redskins are 3-2
with him in the lineup and 0-4
without him.
Washington stretched his achil-
les tendon on the first play of the
second game and sat out the next
two weeks as the Redskins went
0-5. He carried just seven times
for 33 yards in their fifth straight
loss.
Since then, the Oklahoma pro
duct, who played high school foot
ball for his father in Port Arthur,
has been off and running — and
catching.
"Joe’s a playmaker, ” said Red
skins Coach Joe Gibbs after
Washington had accounted for 144
yards and a touchdown in the Red
skins 24-22 victory over the New
England Patriots.
“It’s amazing the way he held
onto the ball in the rain. As small
as he is, and with all those big guys
out there, he’s amazing, Gibbs
said.
“That second-round choice we
gave up? I tell you, there s not a
guy Id rather have.”
The Redskins sent the Balti
more Colts that second-round
pick on draft day last spring for the
chance to talk to Washington.
With the return of John Riggins
and the addition of Terry Metcalf,
the Redskins’ backfield suddenly
became a strength, not a weak
ness.
One of Gibbs’ favorite plays he
calls “Washington, get open.’ It
has Washington working against
the opposing linebackers and cut
ting left, right or stopping, de
pending on the defensive reac
tion.
“We should just put the play in
the book with Joe’s name and a
line under it because that’s what it
is — his play,” said Gibbs. “He
can really put fear into linebackers
when he starts through their
11
IAOC7
iJHL
|$a.\
TEQUILA
1——
...stands
above
Mil
the rest |
GOLD OR SILVER
IMPORTED & BOTTLED BY TEQUILA JALISCO S.A.
ST LOUIS. MO. 80 PROOF
BUD WARD DID IT AGAIN
HE MADE A MISTAKE...
HIS MISTAKE IS YOUR GAIN!
Bud overbought and now has 52 1981 Volkswagens
that he has to move to
make room for 1982 models.
Bud has instructed
the sales force to sell
every unit by
Nov. 30! AT ANY PRICE!
1981 Volkswagen — the Economy
Car of the year. Now the BIG Sav
ings are for you. . . In both the price
and fuel costs! Don’t miss this
chance of a lifetime!
BUD WARD
Volkswagen-Porsche + Audi
Dennis Ivey's
Lakeview Club
The Very Best In Country-Western Music and Dancing
Saturday "
^j%V For
Hi-Ncrvations
Call
Doors Open 8 p.m.
Dancing 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
823-0660
Rescheduled!!!
JOE STAMPLEY SHOW
Coming November 14!
net ho
ps Quae
-masl
Frida\
lactor
n addii
lent of:
Igepeth
cr, said
iViley I
eagricu
igdocln
he ai
ig hit a
ing, rid
off and
Icle’s 1c:
Ktihnle
lafety.
'he trac
asopht
inajor fr
|he Old
miles
inle said
s north
mio Ro
le othei
iiior me
Sugarl
jjoplingw
where
it 7 p.n
ges hav
th the inc
ofjopli-
javage £
hed fm
?, head
[fire, sak
Tickets Now On Sale
3 Miles North of Bryan on Tabor Road
GoIIogo
Station
B ONE HOUR SERVICE AVAILABLE i
Gleanensk
Who's Doing
your wash?
Come by College Station Cleaners
in University Plaza for all your cleaning!
ONE DAY SERVICE
ONE HOUR DRY CLEANING
UPON REQUEST
WASH, DRY, FOLD
SANITONE DRY CLEANING
CoHogo
Station
m ONE HOUR SERVICE AVAILABLE i
Cleaners k
505 University East
846-4364
UP FROM INTERURBAN
CUERVO ESPECIAL ® TEQUILA. 80 PROOF! IMPORTED AND BOTTLED BYO 1961 HEUBLEIN, INC., HARTFORD, CONN.