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Photo by DEAN SAITO
So Far, So Good
A&M Head Coach Mark Johnson watches Fred Gegan take
batting practice before Sunday’s game with Northeast Loui
siana. Johnson picked up his first two career wins when the
Ags beat the Indians 10-1 and 12-11. A&M plays a double-
header with Oklahoma City today at 1 p.m. at Olsen Field.
Tomorrow, the two teams play a single game at 3 p.m.
A8cM men's tennis 'Goliath' challenges WTSU
By JIM HINEY
Reporter
Ala David and Goliath, the Texas
A&M men’s tennis team will take on
West Texas State University Thurs
day at the Omar Smith Tennis Cen
ter.
(ioliath’s coach, A&M’s David
Kent, is confident the Bible scenario
won’t repeat itself against what he
calls the Missouri Valley Confer
ence’s second best team — WTSU,
alias David.
For Kent’s Aggies, currently
ranked No. 9 in the national colle
giate poll, Thursday’s dual-meet car
ries a special significance.
WTSU is not only Kent’s alma
mater, but the college he coached at
for nine years before coming to
AKM in 1979.
Kent led the Buffaloes to a record
of 200-62 and six MVC titles during
his stint at WTSU from 1970-78.
Kent knows how dangerous a small
college can be.
“When I was at West Texas
(State), we snuck up on the Texases
and the Texas A&Ms,’’ Kent said.
H owever, Kent said he doesn’t
think the Buffaloes will surprise the
Aggies this year, largely because of
A&M players like Kimmo Alkio and
1983 consensus All-American, Grant
Connell.
Kent says Alkio has been playing
well all season and Connell lias the
potential to be turn any match into a
one-man show.
Connell, a native of Canada, is
currently ranked as the No. 19 sin
gles player in the nation. After victo
ries last week against the No. 8 and
No. 10 players, in matches against
Trinity and Northeast Louisiana,
Kent said Connell should move up
in the rankings.
But for Thursday’s match against
W TSU, Kent said the whole team
needs to play well, not just Connell.
“We just have to have six guys
play good,” Kent said. “They
(WTSU) played us pretty good last
year.”
The match will begin at 1:30 p.m.
and Kent said that partisan crowd
would give the Aggies an even big
ger advantage.
St. John’s and Georgetown — who
have a confrontation this week — re
mained Nos. 1 and 2 in The Asso
ciated Press college basketball poll
Monday, and for the first time this
season the Redmen are a unanimous
choice.
St. John’s, which holds the na
tion’s longest current winning streak
at 19 games, received all 64 first-
place votes from the nationwide
panel of sports writers and broad
casters. The Redmen, 24-1 aijd un
defeated in 14 Big Fast Conference
games, face Georgetown, 25-2 and
12-2, which was named second on
every ballot, Wednesday night at
Madison Souare Garden. St. John’s
took the No. 1 ranking from the
Hoyas last month when the Redmen
won the first meeting in Capital
Centre, 66-65.
There are two newcomers and
one returnee to the Top Twenty this
week. Arizona, 20-7 and tied for the
Pac-10 Conference lead with USC,
and Loyola of Illinois, which already
has clinched the Midwestern City
Conference regular-season title with
a 20-5 mark, are I9th and 20th in
this poll. North Carolina State, 18-7
and currently lied for the Atlantic
Coast Conference lead, returns as
the No. 16 team af ter missing seven
weeks in the Top Twenty.
Michigan, which beat Michigan
State to improve to 21-3, and Mem
phis State, 22-2 after winning three
games last week, remained third and
fourth, respectively, with 1,127 and
1,105 points.
Duke and Oklahoma switched
places from last week, as the Blue
Devils, 20-5, garnered 934 points af
ter rallying from a loss to North Car
olina State with a 67-62 victory over
Georgia Tech. Oklahoma, 22-5, fell
to sixth with 901 points as the
Sooners lost to Kansas 82-76.
Louisiana Tech, 24-2, made the
jump from 10th to seventh as they
clinched the Southland Conference
regular-season title. North Carolina
made an even larger leap as the Tar
Heels, 21-6, climbed from 13th to
eighth with convincing victories over
Atlantic Coast Conference rivals
Wake Forest and Clemson.
Nevada-I^ts Vegas, 22-3, and cur
rently on top in the Pacific Coast
AP Top 20
The Top Twenty teamsint
Associated Press’ college basket
ball poll, with first-place votesii
parentheses, total points based
on 20-19-18-17-16-15-14-134
1 1-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, record
through Sunday, Feb. 24 andlatt
week’s ranking:
1. St. John’s (64) 24-1 1280#]
2. Georgetown 25-2 1216 #2
3. Michigan 21-3 1127 #3
4. Memphis St. 22-2 1105#4
5. Duke 20-5 934 #6
6. Oklahoma 22-5 901 #5
7. Louisiana l ec h 24-2 77! #11
8. North Carolina 21-6 704113
9. Nev.-Las Vegas 22-3 678 #11
10. Georgia Tech 19-6 666 #8
11. Kansas 22-6 647 #15
12. Syracuse 19-6 645 #7
13. SMU 21-6 587 #9
14. Georgia 19-6 443 #18
15. Tulsa 20-5 414 #12
16. N. Carolina St. 18-7245
17. Va. C.wealth 21-5 219#1)
18. Illinois 21-8 155#16
19. Arizona 20-7 124
20. Loyola, Ill. 20-5 98
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19-6, rounded out this week’s
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week.
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of Illinois.
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of ranked teams after sufferingcon
ference losses to the last two teams in
the Big Fen. Oregon State, 19-6,los
to Arizona, the team that passed
them in the Pac-10 standings, whit
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