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ennis team aiming to upset SMU
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randfiH Taking on No. 2: It’s been a
ude one successful season for the Texas A&M
igivetlijj men’s tennis team so far this spring,
arginofj -^RS' es have compiled an 18-4
t misseii record and have defeated three Top
i second 20 squads. But entering today’s match
tin Dn wijh the No. 2-ranked SMU Mus-
tip-i n taygs, Texas A&M hasn’t been rank-
. r ed u national polls. In the latest poll,
t has wi ! ,; hf 12-2 Mustangs dropped from first
toisecond after losing to Cal-Irvine,
but the Aggies are nowhere to be
fonrid in the rankings. Aggie
women’s coach Jan Cannon sums up
the situation: “We don’t get any re-
. VirginalJ Sprct. We’re just beating a lot of the
lichiganStt, teams that are in the Top 20. We’re
anderiiliti the Rodney Daingerfields of college
uihHondij tennis.” 1 he SMU squad features na-
* eslt ™' ijcjnally ranked players Rodney Har-
mpn (29-5 in singles last year), Erik
Van’t Hof (27-7 last season) and
Jerome Vanier (25-5 last season).
Mustang coach Dennis Ralston says
his squad, which lost to Trinity earlier
in the season, knows the Aggies will
antes, nod
T action J
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provide stiff competition: “I think
A&M’s very strong and it’ll be a tough
match. They’re always tough, they
compete real well and they have great
talent. We recognize that and we real
ize that we’ll have to play very well to
SWC baseball update: With the
Southwest Conference baseball sea-
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son barely underway, only the Hous
ton Cougars have been able to escape
building up numbers in the loss col
umn. As of this past weekend’s games,
the No. 4-ranked Cougars have a 3-0
league record after sweeping the Rice
Owls. It’s been a hard-to-figure sea
son so far, as Rice won two of three
games from Arkansas and Baylor
swept Texas Tech in Waco. Here’s the
way the standings look at this point in
the season (the Texas Longhorns, 29-
5 on the season, have yet to play a
conference game.
Houston (3-0, 24-2), 1.000
Baylor (4-2, 15-11), .667
Texas A&M (2-1, 18-5), .667
Arkansas (3-3, 22-6), .500
Rice (2-4, 20-6-1), .333
TCU (1-2, 18-8), .333
Texas Tech (0-3, 9-9), .000
Two crucial series take place this
weekend, as the Arkansas Razorbacks
host No. 1-ranked Texas for three
games Friday and Saturday and No. 4
Houston hosts the Aggies in a three-
game series. Friday’s Aggie-Cougar
game starts at 3 p.m. and the first
pitch of Saturday’s double-header will
be at noon.
Up and coming Roadrunners:
Although it hasn’t set the world on
fire yet, the University of Texas-San
Antonio men’s basketball team has
shown improvement during the first
two years of its existence. Coach Don
Eddy’s squad, which finished 8-19 two
years ago and 10-17 the past season,
lost 11 of 17 games by 10 points or less
and seven by six points or less. Eddy
says he’s anxious about the future:
“We will return 11 lettermen next
year, including three starters. If we
can get a good point guard and a
quick forward, we’ll be a.very good
team next season. This season seemed
to last years, rather than three
months.” Against SWC teams, the
Roadrunners were 2-3 this season, de
feating Textfs Tech 69-67 and Rice
58-51. UTSA lost to Baylor 61-60, to
Arkansas 78-59 and to TCU 65-56.
Arkansas is still alive in the NCAA
playoffs and the Horned Frogs played
Monday night in the second round of
the National Invitation Tournament.
Holtz likes intensity
in Monday workout
United Press International
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. —
After taking a week off for
spring break, the Arkansas
Razorbacks returned to spring
practice Monday despite cold
and windy weather in Fayette
ville.
Arkansas head coach Lou
Holtz was not pleased with the
passing attack Monday.
“We didn’t throw or catch the
ball well today,” he said. “You
usually expect to have a day
where the intensity is not very
good after taking a week off, but
at least it was intense today.”
Noting the cold, Holtz said:
“Winter practice has gone well.
Now I’m looking forward to
spring practice. I knew we were
going to have a green team but I
never thought we’d have a blue
one.”
Holtz singled out the play of
running hacks Nathan Jones
and Billy Warren, as well as de
fensive tackles Jim Kingsby and
Bobby King.
Defensive coordinator Don
Lindsey also praised Kingsby.
“One of these days, Kingsby is
going to he the best football
player in the line Arkansas has
ever had,” Lindsey predicted.
Fullback Eddie White re
turned to (hills after missing
several workouts.
ports briefs
H baseball squad sweeps Minnesota
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Maryland
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HJSTON— The U
f, Huccp
)ol|cn tic
t
.opi
over the Minnesota
Gophers, 7-4 and 3-1.
wQnsf Bill Piwnica’s two-run single
or third inning for the
ire pi' Bphers Monday broke Cougar
son. Heijltdier Doug Drabek’s run of
inder thews.
cutive shutout innings at
oiiMi. 5, (yinga 32-vear-old school re-
ree(lectrc on | Drabek gave up seven hits
ncl struck out five to get his
cs coveragjx® victory of the season,
willbes Riley Epps hit his fourth
s topsti' lo®e run ol the year for the
youyars in the third inning to
yve Houston a 5-2 lead.
In die second game. Corky
iwBdeH’s run-scoring single in
he third and back-to-back RBI
ingles by Kelly Cut brie and
Epps in the fourth supplied all
the offense needed by the
Cougars. Greg Brinkman, 4-0,
got the win.
Minnesota’s record fell to 1-4.
ATHLETES
HONORED
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Einar Vilhjalmsson of the
Texas Longhorns and Karen
Gorham of the Arkansas Razor-
backs have been named South
west Conference spring sports
athletes of the week.
Vilhjalmsson, a sophomore,
threw the javelin 2/9-3 last
weekend in a triangular meet at
Los Angeles. The throw is best
ever recorded by a Southwest
Conference athlete, bettering
the throw of 264-10 by Texas’
Siggi Busha in 1973.
Gorham, a diver for the
Razorbacks, placed seventh in
the 1-meter and sixth in the 3-
meter events in last weekend’s
NCAA swimming and diving
championships at Lincoln, Neb.
Her performance helped bring
her all-America status for the
fourth consecutive year.
ASTROS
TOP REDS
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TAMPA, Fla. — Rookie left
hander Bill Scherrer walked
pinch hitter Ray Knight with the
bases loaded in the ninth inning
to give the Houston Astros a 3-2
victory over Cincinnati in ex
hibition baseball.
The loss Monday ended a
four-game winning streak for
the Reds, who were limited to
eight hits by four Houston
pitchers.
A double by Dick Thon, an
infield hit by Tony Scott and»an
intentional walk to Bill Doran
preceded the walk to Knight in
the ninth.
Bruce Berenyi pitched the
first six innings for the Reds and
gave up two runs and seven hits,
walking two and striking out
seven.
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M State plans
ague change
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ncuonsffl CRUCES, N.M. — The commissioner of the Missouri Val-
•ords. Conference said he believes the 1984 defection of New Mexico
ehave (aft. University to die Pacific Coast Athletic Association will be
eayficial for all concerned.
LTTw Mexico State University President Gerald Thomas said
Ion day his school plans to leave the MVC on Dec. 31, 1983, to join
icliine-niemher PCAA.
; He said the school has had concerns about the 1-AA status of
nin of the 10 Missouri Valley Conference members, logistics
eeexpf p!( f ( l ) ^ erns anf * ** le continuing rise in transportation costs,
pus for lit HWe have announced our intentions for the nine months in
p dvance in order to make the transition easier for all concerned,
ndin recognition of the lead time built into scheduling for basket-
;ciuitniM;il|, Thomas said.
•ns bv MVC Commissioner Dick Martin said the Aggies’s withdrawal
stall ill not result in any immediate changes in the conference struc-
•ntact
r by 111 ' iMSU, which becomes the 10th member of the conference,'will
ts. oi|pete in basketball, swimming, golf, tennis and track and field
ththe j a (|ie winter and spring of 1984.
•tball c 0 *] fi nding the availability of scheduling, NMSU also will compete
cessai] oilhe 1984 football title and the conference berth in the Califor-
lie higMiaBowl, which annually pits the PCAA champ agaisnt the winner
lobileHl thr Mid-America Conference.
id lotW Members of the 14-year-old PCAA include California State-
ip in Fcolg Beach, Fresno State, California-Santa Barbara, San Jose
•tate and University of Pacific, all charter members of the league,
inf California State-Fullerton, California-Irvine, Utah State and
seyada-Las Vegas.
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