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sports Battalion/Page 14 April TANK MCNAMARA by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds ...THE MEAJ?INJ&0N1Vt PRDPD5-EC? OKPIWANCC CL05HN© TOE VIPEO GAME PARLOR AT <o f?M OM $CMOOL MeWTS-WILL 0E MEU7IM me 'VIPEOTERIA' ITS-eLe.. Oklahoma State women golfers win in Arizona United Press International PARADISE VALLEY, Am. — Oklahoma State’s Val Skinner shot a par 213 to lead the Cow- f irls to victory Wednesday in the Oth Annual Lady Sun Devil Classic. It was Skinner’s third major collegiate golf tournament vic tory this spring. Earlier this year she won the Lady Spartan at San Jose, Calif., and the Betsy Rawls at Austin. Seventeen teams competed in the 54-hole tournament held at Mummmy Mountain Golf Course. Oklahoma State and Tulsa finished the three-day tourna ment at 891. The Cowgirls were awarded the team champion ship on the basis of a fifth player tie-breaker. Congressman Phi! Gramm Grand Prix qualifiers now a phase of game for Borg The world of professional tennis has been in quiet controversy for the past five months and the focus of all the debate and rhetoric walked on a tennis court in Monte Carlo Friday to get on with the business of making a living. After a five-month absence from the hec tic life that comes with beig the greatest ten nis player in the world, Bjorn Borg played the first match in the qualifying rounds for the $300,000 Monte Carlo Grand Prix Ten nis Tournament. Note the name of the event — the Monte Carlo Grand Prix Tennis Tournament — and realize the root of all the trouble. In professional tennis, there are different circuits that include different tournaments. The Volvo Grand Prix Circuit is one of the most important because the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open are among the tournaments on this circuit. Before every Grand Prix event, a three- round qualifying tournament is held, and it includes the same number of players as the main tournament. Anyone can enter the qualifying rounds and must win all three matches before being eligible to play in the main draw. Usually, the top-ranked players in the world don’t have to bother with these pre liminary matches. According to Grand Prix E olicy, if a ranked player agrees to play at •i ~ denise sechelski least 10 Grand Prix events during the year, he is placed in the main draw of any Grand Prix tournament he enters. So why is the man who probably someday will be considered the greatest tennis player of all time playing with no-name athletes in the Monte Carlo tournament he’s won four times? Because last November, Borg decided enough was enough. After an exhausting loss at Wimbledon and an even more frustrating U.S. Open, the 25-year-old Borg took a break from pro tennis. He’s been on the tour since he clin ched the Davis Cup for his native Sweden at the age of 15. The man was obviously tired. So Borg took a vacation and opted not to play the required 10 Grand Prix tourna ments that would exempt him from going through the paces of qualifying. It was just a simple choice by a man who knew the rules before he made his decision. He’ll take the consequences of having to win three qualifying rounds to maketkii draw of a tournament, and he’ll pli usual superb game — withoutalusH it. So why can’t his critics, and his fan for that matter, accept the rules nil same grace of the silent Swede? Granted, the circumstances seemi comical. Borg has won the FrenchOpt unprecedented six times, and hisfnti] secutive Wimbledon championshipsi as pos ibly the most impressive ra modern tennis history. Yet, he must qualify fora place tournaments with players barely rani the world. But rules are rules. Even though Borg personifies athlete should be — talented in his; able to calmly withstand tremendous; ure and win, capable of being fair and bad situations — he is not a!: rules and regulations that govern lns| On the contrary, it’s his sportst attitude that sets him apart from tit. ing masses in professional sports intl place. Borg’s submittancetothetash Tying illustrates that following the always part of the game. And whether he’squalifyingorac the Wimbledon cup, the qualityofthtj of tennis is always improved when Borg goes out to make his living. invites you to his Cards knuckle under Aggie cent to begin £ stretching "Houston C Campaign Kickoff Niekro earns Astros' first victory of season \ange\ Saturday, April 10 2 p.m. Headquarters I 123 Villa Maria (formerly the DPS Office) Come meet your Congressman United Press International HOUSTON — Joe Niekro is still finding it an unbeatable combination to toss his unpre dictable knuckleball against the St. Louis Cardinals in the Astro dome, no matter how bleak things may seem for him. Niekro, 37, put aside a shaky spring in his first regular season appearance when held the freeswinging Cardinals in check to earn a 3-2 win. Astros catcher Luis Pujols, the Houston hitting star of the game with a two-run double in the sixth inning, said he never saw the Niekro knuckler any better than Wednesday. “He had as good a knuckle ball today as I’ve seen him throw. He must have thrown 85 or 90 knuckleballs out of 115 pitches. He had everything under control,” Pujols said of Niekro’s 8 1-3 innings. The difference between pitching at the Astros’ spring training site in Cocoa, Fla., where Nieko compiled most of a poor 5.85 earned run average in 20 innings, and pitching in Houston is the stadium, Pujols said. and Join the “Aggie for Gramm” DO YOU... PAID POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT la N S s i s s V ? s s 'S s s :S s s Si s si OCd SocetA EAT COMPULSIVELY? FEEL OUT OF CONTROL? PERIODICALLY PURGE YOUR BODY BY VOMITING, USING LAXATIVES, OR FASTING? “Here in the Astrodome he can control the knuckleball bet ter than when he’s outdoors. And the Astrodome gives me a chance to catch the son of a gun,” he said. The victory for him was Niek- ro’s seventh straight over the Cards in a streak that dates to the 1978 season. "Maybe I get a little edge be cause they are not as patient as sdme teams,” Niekro said. “But I had a pretty fair knuckleball tonight. They were swinging at it early and that helped.” The Astros’ Tony Scott, moved from second place in the batting order to seventh Wednesday, keyed the winning offense by slamming a double off the left field wall in the second inning to drive in Jose Cruz, who had walked off star ter John Martin. Niekro worked with that 1-0 lead through five innings until Pujols hit his double into the left field corner off Martin to plate two runs. Then Niekro tired, he said, and was touched for single runs in the eighth and ninth. After Darrell Porter slam med his second home run in two nights over the right field wall in the ninth for one run and a one- run deficit, Astros Manager Bill Virdon replaced Niekro with T United Pres RLINGTC ngers-New game schedule titjon was pos dav and the R; pde a trip to I Joe Sambito and thelefiv er got the final two ouli The Cards got a 3-ToH from Porter and two mottj les from eighth-place Ozzie Smith, who in two hatting .500. But brought the good knot when he needed it. “He was pitching s Cards Manager Whiteyl said. “He got tired lateb didn’t take away fiomtlir thing — heade did.” ■ Texas’seas< Sambito, who earned J 5 now set for . said he just knew if hed® I in Clevel retire pinch hitters Tite permitting, rum and Mike RamsevW New York at ninth he would face g>i;ally been scl Hendrick pinch hitting few) 1 'seasons oi next man up. But Herzo;: blizzard wouldn’t have happen 8* me along wit cause Hendrick had “anirB 11 had hi med elbow and couldn't the hat.” The injury keptupa games in which Hendricl play against Niekro. PoneB he wouldn’t mind missi com IT next chance to pass whenlF Niekro. 1 “That’s what amazes emu out Joe and his brother (H® FAYETTT V Atlanta Braves pitcher)^ Elic p oersch k said. “What t hey do is like p ounc i forwarc ing. If they would jui! Memoria! Hig somebody every now an» ade a ver b a l we’d get a fair shake." | a y basketball RESTAURANT Grand Opening This Monday April 12 If so, I would like to interview you confi- dentally for an important study on eating disorders. Prudential cancels marathon sponsorship of Arkansas, 1 coach says. Poerschke’' firmed his comr her son would lazorbacks Apr Please call: Chris Hazard Dept, of Educational Psychology 845-1834 Old South restaurant will be opening their doors on Monday April 12!! 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