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Texas A&M The Battalion Spo )JEC1 April 28, 1982/Page 15 pazourek, Alkio end :: . by Denise S. Sechelski Battalion Staff Tot tennis coach David Kent, a podldoubles team is like a good like Carwarriage — it goes right along nd hopefully works out for the The Texas A&M tennis team lasjpst such a union in its fresh- nan doubles pair, Kinnno Alkio variety .nd Mike Pazourek. Alkio and p . m j 'azourek lost only one match in he No. 3 bracket during the ear and went on to win the hampionship in that category t the Southwest Conference Small tournament over the weekend. Kent says the decision to pair he two in doubles came by mere T1 Of vidfhance. small W’ ^ was a mat ter of despera- 5 ion,” Kent explained. “Our loubles were really poor, and /e weren’t winning anywhere. I m trying everything. “1 wish I could take more cre- lit for getting them together, iut I can’t. Sometimes it works, (jtP'did sometimes it doesn’t. They astClicked right from the start.” Pa/ourek agreed that the - SpOnS;«am's previous lack of success in loubles allowed Kent more Kimmo Alkio freedom to try various player combinations. “We didn’t really have any doubles teams that were doing an effective job in the lineup,” Pazourek said. “So we just switched around and by luck we got to play the No. 3 spot during the Corpus Christi tournament. We kept winning at No. 3, so Mike Pazourek Coach decided to keep us there.” Although they didn’t begin playing together until after the spring season started, Alkio said he and his partner didn’t think much about how they’d finish the year in the SWC. “But once we started play ing,” Alkio said, “and we’d play Browns" property successful year ed SMU and some of the other tough teams, we thought we would do well in the conference tournament. We knew we could do it, but it probably turned out to be a little easier than we first thought. We only lost 1 1 games in the whole SWC tournament.” Alkio and Pazourek won three matches in the tourna ment to take the championship in the No. 3 bracket. They beat Alan Smith and Brian Year- wood of Texas Tech 6-1, 6-2 in the first round, and Texas’ Paul Crawford and Gavin Forbes in the finals 6-2, 6-1. But Pazourek cited the semi final victory over Arkansas’Jose Lambert and Jean Van Re- nsburg (6-3, 6-2) as one of the pair’s best victories of the year. The Razorbacks were the only team all year to beat the Aggie freshmen at the No. 3 position. “The first match against them during the regular season was probably the toughest match we had,” Pazourek said. “We didn’t feel we’d played the best we could have. That made us more fired up to play them in the con ference tournament, though, and we really took it to them in that one.” The key to success through out the year, Pazourek said, was “We knew we could do it, but it probably turned out to be a little easier than we first thought.” — Texas A&M tennis team mem ber Kimmo Alkio. the way Alkio’s style of play com plemented his own. “He’d set all the plays up,” Pazourek said, “because he has a really good return of service. Then I could dominate at the net after we’d gotten a weak re turn from our opponents off his good shots.” But although the pair was winning matches consistently, Alkio and Pazourek agreed that in doubles playing singles and doubles in the same meet was sometimes hard to do. “For me,” Pazourek said, “playing the singles and doubles in one day was a little tiring. Sometimes after I’d played a long singles match I’d be a little drained for the doubles. You have to get motivated all over again if it’s an important match.” Alkio said: “It’s pretty hard to stay motivated for three and four matches a week if some times we play schools that are ranked below us. It’s really hard to do your best every time. You usually just have to do it for the team.” The extra effort was un doubtedly appreciated, because a team’s finish in the conference is determined by individual match victories. The Aggies' tie with Texas for fourth place was the highest finish ever by Texas A&M. “It felt pretty good to win the conference,” Pazourek said. “I think this gives us a lot of momentum going into next year when we cati shoot for some thing higher.” Kent agreed that the future looks good for his freshmen. “They’re improving with ev ery match they play,” Kent said. “It felt pretty good to win the conference. I think this gives us a lot of momentum going into next year when we can shoot for something higher. ” — Mike Pazourek of the Texas A&M tennis team. “and they should be able to move up some from the bracket they’re in. They gained a lot of confidence from the conference victory, and right now thev feel they can play anybody.” ■level 1 or to Baldwin, Whitwell selected by Frank L. Christlieb andpli J , Sports Editor Much like a father awaiting le birth of a new child, Keith f the M<' a ^ w ' n watched and waited uesdav afternoon. He wasn’t ure what to expect, but he knew iat someone in New York 'Quid make a decision about his )0rS C ootball future during the day. And at one point, the 6-4, /anpn7a :42 ' pound A SS le defensive end aydiic )e g an to worry about his status n the NFL’s college draft, the , ,,Bsix rounds of which were .end oil held Tuesday in New York. But a phone call cleared the situation up for Baldwin. “I had been watching the draft on television most of the day, so I knew exactly when they picked me,” Baldwin said Tues day night after being selected by the Cleveland Browns as the fourth pick in the second round of the draft. “They picked me at about 1:24 (p.m.) or so, but it took them so long to call that I thought they’d made a mistake or something. Then they called about 10 minutes later to con firm it.” Baldwin, who led the Aggie defense with 91 tackles during 1981, said he has no complaints about the outcome of the draft. “It’s a little higher than I ex pected to be drafted,” he said. “1 had thought that I’d go between the second and fourth rounds somewhere. Overall, I’m very pleased.” Baldwin didn’t stay in the dark quite as long as the Aggies’ Mike Whitwell. T he senior wide by Cleveland in NFL’s college draft receiver from Cotulla didn’t re ceive his confirmation call until after 8 p.m. But Whitwell said he finds it a comfort to have been drafted by the same Cleveland Browns who selected his teammate Baldwin. “I figured I’d go somewhere in the middle rounds,” Whitwell said. “I was happy I went to the Cleveland Browns, because I feel I’ll have a good chance to play up there. “I think I was the first receiver drafted from the Southwest Conference, and that makes me feel good. I’d have been dis appointed if I’d been picked much later, but I can’t really say that because I’m happy to have been drafted by a team that didn’t draft too many receivers. I’m looking forward to playing for the Browns and getting a chance to play.” Baldwin, who still lacks about two semesters of classes before he can receive his industrial dis tribution degree, will attend a Browns mini-camp in Cleveland May 5. 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