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Wednesday, May 9, 1984AFhe Battalion/Page 15 i"(l that the, us three [j„ came into i We that, fi a team for|| Islander I J hard luesi of center Bn I'gJohn Ton, MVP candidj ’hat left Corn (four ovenic Nyslrom swt; jbone bruist iiii and resen ers Kallur, »| ole in the Wai| skating w us for a r ug Bob Botin lat, despite lij to his left km :d left shouldt .o return na THE *C,Crie C.H\W\ONSHlP V£AR STARTS IN SEPT£h\Q£R t I'LL MEET YOU HERE FOR ALL THE EYcITZHENT.. . HFYZ A NICE SUMMER ( THANK5 FOR EVERYTHMCr COACH CHANDLER AND OOOQ /-UC& TO The- BASeQAU. Acs IN THE SWC. ToU/lMAMEHr dp fve*/ Ags finish 13th in nation anny White’s trial set absence cod ton immeasi > the fastest Bourne led playoff poiJ oals, 20 ass (j n j( e( j p ress International !peed 'who! LA ^° - Dallas Cowboys ilionable. I r f back Danny White ac- Kpf punching a high school lent in a traffic incident, will wd June 18 by a county ,lis attorney said Friday, ttorney Pat Davis entered a of innocent on tbe charge White Thursday. If con- ■ White could get a maxi- Bpf one year in jail and a Vlurray, isaillO fine. always dr )n Michael Clark, 17, a tight lined on aprtrai the Plano High School iidStingle; tball team, said While For those dp that injune| lalional hat it the teena® punched him after a traffic inci dent on Feb. 25. White has den ied the charge. Clark said he has been get ting a number of telephone calls since he filed his complaint, in cluding some prank calls. The senior Clark said at least one Plano High School student has been contacted by a private investigator inquiring about the Clark family. Davis denied knowing any thing about a private investiga tor. “We don’t know what Mr. Clark is talking about,” said Da vis. The Clark family is con cerned the jury might show fa voritism to White but Davis dis counted that possibility. “I have never run into a jury that wasn’t fair-minded. I don’t under stand their attitude,” said Davis. The younger Clark said he wants to make sure White gets the same treatment as anyone else. Davis admitted a conviction could adversely affect White’s career. By Tony Cornett Sports Writer David Kent is an eternally op timistic tennis coach. “If you had told me when the season started,” Kent said, “that we’d be 24 and 10 on the sea son, four and four in the con ference, and ranked 13 th in the nation with these young people, I’d have said that you’d been hitting the juice too much.” The success of this year’s men’s tennis team was just not supposed to happen. Their team consisted of one senior, one junior, one sopho more, and five freshmen. Yet they posted the best overall re cord and finished higher in the conference than any previous Kent-coached Aggie squad. The old saying that goes “You’ve got to have seniors to win” just didn’t apply to this group. Playing in what is widely con sidered to be the toughest ten nis conference in the nation, the Aggies battled to a fourth place finish in the conference tourna ment behind perennial power houses Arkansas, Texas, and SMU. That finish is the highest for an Aggie squad in ten years. Arnold Kettenacker was the lone senior on the team this sea son and Coach Kent gives more credit to him for the success of the team than to anyone else. “Arnold was a heckuva se nior,” says Kent,“and kind of like a big brother to these guys. You have to give the credit to Arnold for this season because he has really kept this team in line and done a lot for us.” This season’s No. 1 player and only junior, Greg Hill, looks to be the heir to the lead ership position vacated by Ket- tenacker. Hill played No. 1 all season and posted a record of 21-13. Hill and freshman Grant Connell will represent the Ag gies in singles competition in the NCAA championships May 13-20. They are ranked No.30 and No.44 respectively in the nation. Hill and Connell will also team up to compete for the doubles title. Some good news for the team is that Kimmo Alkio will he re turning from his native Finland to rejoin the team. He had some required military duty to get out of the way and will be some wel come experience for the team in the coming season. “What more can you say about Kimmo?” asks Kent. “He can do it all. He’s very tough mentally and has done very well in European tournaments.” As far as next year’s schedule goes, the team will he playing the same group that Kent likes to call the “top 20 hunch”. Schools like LSU, Trinity, Ten nessee, and the tough schools of the Southwest Conference are in that group. Kent feels that the Aggies na tional ranking of 13th will help the team attract even more good competition by drawing them to College Station to try to wrestle the Aggies ranking away from them. This season may he over for the team, hut the team mem bers will he busy gelling ready for a summer of hard tennis . Dean Goldfine will compete in tournaments in Florida. Mark Smith will be partici pating in the Olympic trials thanks to tennis being a demon stration sport in the upcoming Olympic Games. He’ll also play on the National Amateur Cir cuit. Coach Kent emphasizes the importance of summer compe tition. “They’ve got to get out and play.” he says. “Everybody else is going to play. They all go their separate ways, hut they’ve got to get that experience and come back a better player in the fall.” The Aggies have never won the conference championship. But with the talent that they now have and the good talent expected to come in, they could be in position to make the tradi tional conference winners sweat it out. Coach David Kent is opti mistic. Get Your Xerox Copies at Northgate Above Farmer’s Market Inexpensive, High-Quality Copies We Specialize In REPORTS and DISSERTATIONS Also: Self-service copying, offset printing, typing, re ductions and enlargements, binding, resume writ ing, editing, business cards, wedding invitations, sta tionery and many other services. One-stop service for reports and dissertations. •M THE DOUBLE 331 University 846-3755 HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 7 aam.-10 p.m. Sat. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. stros’ Thon: I will be back h football i says that ail ■vel he has EWiked Press International the pyscholoBkie Thon has a message sed by an d like to gel across to every- iical ones. (®nd anyone who has the ugh he ha- jhtest doubt about him ever s players siting for Houston again, ic has hady«jl’|l be back, and I won’t have nor injuriesffear,” sa y S (he 25-year-old stover it. Bar shortstop who had be- is such asluye the key to the Astros’ suc- Greensaid,! virtually their heart and not going I, before he was hit above me again, left eye with a pitch and put ic had onel). of commission on April 8. o could ndBRosen is the conveyor of .le with his|message for Thon, who has that is im|K : |in working out again in neck seriousijiston where the vision in his Bd eye has improved from I to keep his |00 to 20/60. id, “so we i psen, the President and him playamferal Manager of the Astros, Bly aware of the club’s un- that at one[fnon proclivity for misfor- as a coach i i a rash of si the couninl that happei* ers he wouldl he realized Edited p ress International it way, then* , efore it a# 6 Houston Rockets plan to ■Houston Cougar center about if the* Olajuwon if they win a th it for all* % anc l select first in the h kids,” (Icollege draft, but a club ach 1 havel* man ^id Monday the the risk olA ets have broken no league int injurs 5 *n talks with the 7-fool Ni ls a coach." I; II players Commissioner David me way. AsW^onday announced a de- * Thursday’s coin flip so gue can determine if the v T 18 or Portland Trailblaz- 1 " 1 have violated league rules iting contact with under tune, its sad history unhappii, highlighted by a string of trage dies unequalled perhaps by any other team in the majors. Such former Houston play ers as Wall Bond, Jim Umbricht and Don Wilson all died prema turely, Roger Metzger acciden tally cut his fingers off working with an electric saw in his home and, more recently, J.R. Rich ard’s career was suddenly ended by a stroke. Now there have been rumors that Thon might not he able to play anymore because of a problem with his vision. He suf fered a fracture of the inferior orbital rim of the hone above his left eye a month ago when he was hit by Mike Torrez in a game with the Mets in the As trodome. Rosen has been in constant touch with Thon and his doc tors, so he knows as much about the situation as anyone. He puts no stock at all in the rumors. “I’m in touch with the doc tors and with Dickie con stantly,” Rosen said. “There has been steady improvement. Last week, the doctors were en thused by what was perceived to be a quantum leap. “I can tell you this: Dickie has been working out in Houston. He’s already in the batting cage and has begun to throw. You know how he is, very quiet. He never says very much, but he does say TH be back and I won’t have any fear.”’ Rosen says Thon doesn’t blame Torrez for what hap pened. “Dickie said they like to pitch him inside,” he said. He said the ball sailed and he didn’t pick it up until it was too late.” The Astros consider Thon the best shortstop in the Na tional League and no one gives them much argument on that. Thon hit .300 most of last year, then tailed off a little near the end but still finished at .286. He hit 20 home runs, drove in 79 and stole 34 bases. His play in the field was in a word — super lative. This year, he started off even better. He had played in only five games before being hurt and was hitting .353 with 6-for- 17. Craig Reynolds and A1 Ban nister have done good jobs filling in at shortstop,, but nei ther of them give Houston the same thing Thon did. The As tros miss him. KUBOTA TRACTOR SALE LAWN AND GARDEN EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES SPRING CLEAN UP 105% FINANCING Diesel Water Cooled Lawn Tractors 10-12-14 HP Plows, Cultivators Tillers & Post Hole Diggers EXPERT SERVICE •PARTS •! TWIN CITY FARM EQUIPMENT 4501 Hwy. 21 East, Bryan ckets want Olajuwon Com* by and So* Our Complate EUKUBBTfl* line MUST BE MOVED! BRYAN 779-6370 ootball yol graduate players. The players in question are Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing of Georgetown. Stern scheduled hearings on the matter for Thursday, May 17. Rockets spokesman Jim Foley said the Rockets had followed NBA rules in discussions with Olajuwon, and he said he had no idea what the NBA was in vestigating. 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