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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Cards had an 80-game tioi
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the last game. That, my friends,*
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tion at the time.
Few teams could accomplish e
a feat and still get no respect.
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