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t Page 10/The Battalion/Tuesday, March 19, 1985 Ag netters can’t pull off upset Close losses prevent A&M from ousting Trinity By CHAREAN WILLIAMS Assistant Sports Editor The Texas A&M women’s tennis team came close to defeating nation ally-ranked Trinity Monday, but the Aggies just couldn’t quite pull off the upset. The 6-3 loss to the Tigers at Omar Smith Tennis Center drops the Ag gies to 8-5 in match play. A&M Head Coach Jan Baldwin said she was pleased with the Aggies’ play. “I thought we played well,” said Baldwin. “We played hard and fought a good fight. They’re were some real close matches that could have gone either way.” Baldwin seemed most pleased with the play of Kim Labuschagne. Labuschagne won her No. 3 singles match and teamed with Helen Christiaanse to keep the two unde feated in doubles play at the No. 3 position. MO M AGOIES VS. 5AM HOUSTON SJ TUESDAY S-OOP OLSEN FIELD dp 1985 Photo by DEAN SAW The Aggies will battle No. 3 Texas in Austin on Thursday and then re turn home to play LSU on Saturday. Texas A&M’s Vanne Akagi stretches out to run down a fore hand shot during a No. 1 doubles match against Trinity Uni versity at the Omar Smith Tennis Center Monday afternoon. Akagi and her partner Gaye Lynne Gensler lost their match, 6-3, 6-3. The Aggies, now 8-5 in match play this season, lost to the nationally-ranked Tigers from San Antonio, 6-3. Sombil Assoc Singles results: No. 1 singles— TU’s Gretchen Rush defeated A&M’s Vanne Akagi 6- 4,6-3; No. 2 singles — TU’s Lisa Sas- sano def. A&M’s Nandini Rangara- jan 6-1, 6-0; No. 3 singles — A&M’s Kim Labuschagne def. TU’s Elvyn Barrable 6-7, 6-4, 6-3; No. 4 singles — A&M’s Gaye Lynne Gensler def. TU’s Jana Klepac 6-1, 3-6, 7-5; No. 5 singles — TU’s Dabney Langhorne def. A&M’s Helen Christiaanse 6-4, 6-3; No. 6 singles — TU’s Mary Graber def. A&M’s Laura Liong 7- 6, 5-7, 6-3. Lamar's exotic birds took for cage respeci KISSIMMEE : tros pitcher Jot pleased Manage ering pitching 1 Doubles results: No. 1 doubles — TU’s Rush-Sassano def. A&M’s Akagi-Gensler 6-4, 6-3; No. 2 doubles— TU’s Barrable-Kle- pac def. A&M’s Rangarajan-Liong 7-5, 6-3; No. 3 doubles — A&M’s Christiaanse-Labuschagne def. Graber-Jennifer Potter 6-3, 6-4. Now that the Houston Cougar dy nasty is dead (at least for one year), Texas has a new basketball king. The crown was passed by the Cou gars to the Lamar Cardinals. Lamar, you say. Who’s that? Where’s that? The Cardinals play their basket ball in Beaumont under Coach Pat Foster in the Southland Conference. Foster earned his wings under flying ace Eddie Sutton at Arkansas. Foster is now the most-wanted basketball coach in America. He has turned down numerous jobs to stay at Lamar. The latest was a $200,000 per year offer from Auburn. And it’s no wonder he’s the coach everyone wants. Foster has a phe nomenal .763 winning percentage — CHAREAN WILLIAMS Assist. Sports Editor 116 wins and only 36 losses in five years at LU. Don’t think that he played a weak schedule. The Cardinals played such NCAA powerhouses as Louisiana Tech, Syracuse, Washington and UTEP — all on the road this year. In all, Lamar played seven teams that were in the NCAA tournament, not counting the other two times the Cardinals had to play No. 7 Loui siana Tech in conference play. What, you say, was their record after that? Only 20-11. The Redbirds received a bid to the NIT’s first round against South west Conference past powerhouse, Houston. Since LU plays in the new $12.1 million Montague Center, the Cards were selected to host the game. Beaumonters love their Cards as much as East Coast fans love Georgetown and St. John’s. Ticket lines were long and soon all 10,000 diner-rc seats and standing-room-only tickets were gone. The partisan crowd led the Cards to a convincing 78-71 win. Ho. Hum. Just another day at the office. You see, the Cardinals are used to success. So much so that they proba bly wouldn’t know how to react if they had a losing season. Jack Martin was the school’s first coach and kept the job for 25 years, compiling a 334-283 record. His reign ended in 1975 when Billy Tubbs took over the job, outdoing his mentor with a 75-46 record over four years. The vintage year was 1980. LU whipped No. 16 W’eber State and upset No. 5 Oregon State. That put the Cards into the Final 16 where they fell to Larry Nance and the Clemson Tigers. When Tubbs decided Oklahoma was too good an offer to pass up, Foster went from the O/arks to the piney woods of East Texas. He has led the Cards to two NCAA berths and three NIT berths. Last season, S m< hiding NCAA ipsets of MitsoMjused him to g in 1981 .mil \lubuma in 11)83. £ lose two days of The Cards had an 80-game tioi winning sireak alive last seasonc |p| ay a dominan the last game. That, my friends,* the longest winning streak in thei irom elbow pro tion at the time. Few teams could accomplish e a feat and still get no respect. In their history, they have yd lx* ranked in the Top 20. In even with a 26-5 record last seas they were overlooked bv theNCAl Sambito thou en last seaso surgeries and much of the 19 the 1983 season Lillis thoughl ® I at a slower pace tempt last seaso bitoto pitch on I A second round rendezvmMgames when tin Wednesday with Tennessee-CharJ: the line. nooga in Beaumont is next. Bofe “The only t inontei s were hoping to get ToMagree with is th< A&M ringing the doorbell, bull* little bit more I Aggies left N ew Mexico with tlw have progresse heads ringing instead. ■ ■ II ICT FOR FR Sambito said. "For every INTRODUCES THE FRESH MEAL JUST FOR FRESHMEN! 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