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Golfers
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has won five of six tournaments this spring, placed sixth in the
national competition.
Jim Clayton, the Longhorns’ coach, agreed that this week’s
tournament should be strong.
“Just by looking at the rankings,” he said, “you can see that it
should be one of the strongest tournaments of the year. A&M’s
got a very good team, as do Houston, Oklahoma State and
Oklahoma.”
Clayton said the performances of junior Brandel Chamblee
and senior Mark Brooks have been the strong point of his team.
“They’ve won five tournaments between them, but the other
players have to play well this weekend, too,” he said. “We’ve
been having six or seven people play during the year, and
certainly they’ve all played well all year long.”
Even though UT lost four players from last year’s team, it still
has managed to grab the No. 1 spot in the rankings.
“We’re real pleased with our young players, because they’ve
come on real strong and made a difference in the team,”
Clayton said. “We’re used to this field (of teams) because we’ve
basically played in the same one all year long ... week after week
after week. So we’re very positive about the tournament.
“We’re as confident as a golfer dare get, knowing the unpre
dictability of the sport of golf.”
Here are each of the nation’s top four teams’ results and
individual stroke averages entering the A All competition:
1. Texas — UT has won five of six tournaments this spring; placed
fifth in Alacorn Intercollegiate in Guadalajara, Mexico during March.
Brandel Chamblee: 71.6; medalist at Pan American and Alacorn Inter
collegiate
Paul Thomas: 72.5; tied for second at Morris Williams Intercollegiate
last week
Mark Brooks: 72.8; won Henry Homberg Intercollegiate this semester,
LSU Invitational and Harvey Penick Intercollegiate during fall
Ronnie McDougal: 74.7; best finish eighth in Border Olympics
Steen Tinning: 75.8; best finish tie for fourth Columbia Lakes Intercol
legiate in February
2. Oklahoma State — Won Alacorn during March, placed second
in Pan American, sixth in Henry Homberg, fourth in Morris Williams.
Tommy Moore: 72.5
Scott Verplank: 72.7
Tracy Phillips: 74.0
Willie Wood: 74.5
Andy Dillard: 74.6
3. Houston — Cougars, the defending national champions, have
placed second in every tournament they’ve played in this spring. They
were ranked No. 1 in the nation after three events, but dropped to
third.
John Slaughter: 73.0, five tourneys
Steve Elkington: 73.6, five tourneys
Billy Tuten: 73.8, four tourneys
| Billy Ray Brown: 74.2, five tourneys
Mike JVeece; competing in first event of season
4. Texas A&M — Aggies, who finished fourth in last year’s NCAA
tournament, have been up and down this season but are still ranked No.
4 in the nation. Texas A&M, paced by medalist Danny Briggs, won last
year'sSWC tournament. The Aggies’ stroke averages were unavailable,
but these five team members will compete in the tournament: Gary
Krueger, Paul Oglesby, Danny Briggs, Jacky Lee and David Jones.
Minister Nigeria-bound to spread
word of Akeem’s ‘Phi Slama’ fame
United Press International
NASHVILLE, Tenn, — A
Nashville minister has sche
duled a meeting in Nigeria with
the parents of Houston dunk-
master Akeem Abdul Olajuwon
to talk basketball.
Dwight Marable, pastor of
the local House of Blessings in
ter-denominational church, said
he read a story in the Tennes
sean Tuesday that said Ola-
juwon’s parents don’t under
stand the game their son plays or
comprehend the national atten
tion he has attracted as a mem
ber of Houston’s Phi Slama
Jama Fraternity.
“I called my mother after we
beat Louisville and told her we
won, but she didn’t know what
we won,” Olajuwon said in the
newspaper story. “She wants to
know about class. They want me
to come back with a business law
degree.”
Marable was ready to help
Olajuwon, who was named the
NCAA tournament’s outstand
ing player despite a 54-52 last-
second loss to North Carolina
State.
“I talked to Akeem by phone
this morning in Albuquerque,”
Marable said Monday, “and ex
plained that I would be in Niger
ia this week on a missionary cru
sade. I told him I had read that
his parents were having difficul
ty understanding exactly what
he was doing and I’d be happy to
take some press clippings to
them and explain what a prom
inent sports figure he has be
come in this country.
“At first he had a little trouble
understanding what I meant,”
said Marable. “But after I made
myself clear — that I was going
to pay a visit to his parents — he
became really excited and en
thusiastic. He gave me their tele- ^' s mother, concerning his
phone number in Lagos and also younger brother who is also in
a personal message to deliver to ^ ie ^Everything is all set up
for the visit.”
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Walker said.
The schedule of events for
the Aggies this weekend is as fol
lows:
• 100-yd freestyle — Eileen
Doull, Jody Tanner, Melanie
Schmauch, Kevin Londrigan
• 200-yard breaststroke —Jeff
Marx, Mark Viminitz
• 200-yard butterfly — John
Heldenfels, Chris O’Neil
• 50-yard freestyle — Melanie
Schmauch, Jody Tanner, Craig
Buchmann, Clark McDonald
• 100-yard breaststroke —Jeff
Marx, Mark Viminitz
• 100-yard butterfly — John
Heldenfels, Chris O’Neil
• 1000-yard freestyle — Rick
Walker
• 200-yard freestyle — Rick
Walker
• 500-yard freestyle — Rick
Walker
• 400-yard individual medley
— Rick Walker
Pliilis Burns, Vicki Moir, and
Edlyn Bell, Chris Londrigan,
Peter Gatchell and Jack Fink will
help to add depth by swimming
in relay events for the Aggies.
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REALLY ALIVE — AND IN
YOU. . . WHAT WOULD
HAPPEN? DON’T
FORGET EASTER NOW
THAT IT’S OVER! IN
FACT, ACT LIKE EASTER
HAS JUST BEGUN!
Dr. Rod O’Connor of the
Chemistry Department will be
our guest speaker Sunday at our
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United Press International
HOUSTON — Many think
(\ie Los Angeles Dodgers will
provide the National League
rookie of the year for the fifth
consecutive season, but if one
rame is any indication the race
:or player of the year seems
more likely to be the attention
getter.
Dodger old hands Ken Land-
reaux and Pedro Guerrero
knocked in 11 runs between
them and each went 3-for-5 to
power a club record setting 16-7
win over the Houston Astros.
Meanwhile, rookies Greg
Brock and Mike Marshall man
aged only one hit between them
in nine at-bats despite manager
Tommy Lasorda’s advice.
“I told Marshall and Brock
just to go out and relax and play
the game like they know how, to
do what you did to get here.
They had to be nervous walking
out there tonight,” Lasorda said.
Brock, who replaces Steve
Garvey at first base, did not hit a
ball out of the infield until the
eighth inning when his liner
skipped inside the first base bag
for a triple. Marshall was 0-for-4
with two strike outs.
[ Unknown to Lasorda was the
reaction of Landreaux starting
his third season with the Dod
gers and his sixth in the Major
Leagues.
“I definitely had butterflies,”
Landreaux said. “It was one of
those situations where you are
waiting for something to come
around for so long. I was ex
cited.”
The Astros pitching, the
[heart of the ballclub, was not
sharp. Starter Joe Niekro was
rocked for eight hits and six
runs in three innings and reliev
er Frank Lacorte after pitching
two solid innings gave up the
two big blows of the game in the
sixth inning.
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