Wednesday, October, 16,1985/The Battalion/Page 9
Texas A&M’s Vanne Akagi tries to concentrate played a Houston Fall Festival Tournament dou-
on hitting a backhand Tuesday, even though she hies final match against her Aggie teammates.
Ag net set
completes
tourney
Three A&M tandems
in semifinal matches
By KEN SURY
Sports Writer
The rain threatened to fall on a
cool and overcast Tuesday af
ternoon — but it didn’t — and the
A&M women’s doubles teams were
finally able to finish the Houston
Fall Festival Tennis Tournament
here at the Omar Smith Tennis Cen
ter.
The Aggies were allowed to com
plete the tourney at home since they
were the only doubles teams left to
play for the championship, after
rain stopped the tourney in Houston
over the weekend.
- Kim Labuschagne and Karen
Marshall, who entered the tourney
as the No. 4 seeded doubles tandem,
defeated fellow Aggies Vanne Akagi
and Gaye Lynne Gensler, the No. 1
seeds, in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2.
Akagi and Gensler beat team
mates Kellie Dorman and Helen
Christiaanse in their semifinal match
6-1, 6-7, 6-2, earlier in the afternoon
to face Labuschagne and Marshall in
the final.
Akagi and Gensler had praise for
Labuschagne and Marshall.
“They played well,” Gensler said.
“They were on top of their game.”
Labuschagne said their aggressive
play was the reason for their win, but
adaed that it was hard to stay aggres
sive against their teammates and
even harder to concentrate.
She said it was difficult to concen
trate on their home courts, especially
since they were playing a tourna
ment match against people they
played in practice nearly every day.
“We felt like we knew what every
one was going to do,” Labuschagne
said.
“We tried to play away from each
other’s strong points. But you have
to play the tennis ball, and not your
opponent.”
A&M Coach Bobby Kleinecke said
he was pleased that three of his dou
bles teams made the semifinals in the
tournament. Kleinecke said it’s a
good indication of the depth he ex
pects the Aggies to have when they
start their spring matches.
Royals juke Jays in Game 6
Associated Press
TORONTO — George Brett’s re
cord ninth playoff home run broke a
fifth-inning tic Tuesday night, trig-
ering the Kansas City Royals to a 5-
triumph over the Toronto Blue
Jays and forcing the American
League playoffs to a decisive seventh
game.
The Royals, who trailed the series
3-1 at one point, will start 20-game
winner Bret Saberhagen in Wednes
day night’s seventh game. Toronto
will answer with its own ace, right
hander Dave Stieb, who won the
opener.
Brett again gave Kansas City the
spark it needed, and once again his
victim was Blue Jays starter Doyle
Alexander. In Game 3, Brett hom-
ered twice and doubled off Alexan
der during a 4-for-4 night that en
abled the Royals to win their first
game of this series and end a 10-
game postseason losing streak.
This time, Brett homered far over
the right-center field fence with one
out in the fifth to break a 2-2 tie.
The homer, which moved him past
Steve Garvey for the most home
runs in major league playoff history,
came one pitch after he swung and
awkwardly missed a 2-1 delivery
from Alexander.
Unlike his one-man performance
in Game 3, Brett had plenty of help
from his teammates on the clear, 54-
degree night as Kansas City again
frustrated the Toronto’s attempt to
bring the first World Series to Can
ada.
Dan Quisenberry, who gave up
two game-winning hits earlier in the
series, came on with two outs and
two on in the ninth. Once again fac
ing the winning run, Quisenberry
struck out Garth lorg to end the
game. lorg threw his bat towards the
backstop in disgust as he walked
away from the plate.
Veteran Hal McRae, playing in his
44th postseason game, singled home
Kansas City’s first run in the first in
ning, and doubled home the second
run in the third. McRae followed
Brett’s homer with a single for his
third hit of the game, but was left
stranded.
Buddy Biancalana and Lonnie
Smith delivered RBI doubles in the
sixth that increased the lead to 5-2.
Hershiser a Dodger pitching ace in hole against Cards
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Orel Leonard Hershiser is the fourth in a line of five
Orel Leonard Hershisers. That also includes his son, Orel Leonard
Hershiser the Fifth.
Today, though, he’s the only Orel Leonard Hershiser with whom Los
Angeles Dodgers Manager Tom Lasorda will be concerned.
With the Dodgers facing elimination, Hershiser will oppose 20-game
winner Joaquin Andujar of the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6 of the Na
tional League playoffs. The Dodgers trail the best-of-seven series, 3-2, after
losing three straight in St. Louis.
Born in Buffalo, N.Y., and reared in Cherry Hill, N.J., this 27-year-old
Huck Finn lookalike won 19 games for the Dodgers this year, including his
last 11 in a row, while losing just three times.
Perhaps more importantly in Lasorda’s scheme of things, Hershiser was
11-0 with a 1.08 ERA at Dodger Stadium.
“I think it’s very fortunate that we’re returning home for me to pitch,”
Hershiser says. “But I don’t think it was entirely by accident. I think it was
by plan.”
Hershiser was the winner of Game 2 last Thursday night in Los Angeles,
when he opposed Andujar. The right-handed sinkerball pitcher struggled
early but pitched an eight-hit complete game to beat the Cardinals 8-2. An
dujar, who was 21-12 during the season, lasted only 4 1/3 innings, giving up
six runs on eight hits, a pair of walks and his own throwing error.
One of the hits was to Hershiser, who drove in the Dodgers’ first run of
the game with a bouncing single over the head of third baseman Terry Pen
dleton.
“A pitcher never really likes to give up a hit to another pitcher,”
Hershiser says, flashing a toothy grin to break up the pattern of freckles on
his face. “Especially when it drives in a run.”
Hershiser’s transformation has been unusual. He was a reliever
throughout most of his five-year minor league career but never really
posted any significant numbers until he was promoted to the majors, where
Dodgers pitching coach Ron Perranoski took over his tutelage. Moved into
the starting rotation last year, he went 11-8 with a 2.66 ERA.
This year, he finished with a 2.03 ERA, third best in the league, nine
complete games and five shutouts.
Both the Dodgers and the Cardinals have had injury problems during
the playoffs. Dodgers shortstop Mariano Duncan banged up his left knee in
Game 2, missed Game 3, then returned to the lineup.
Cardinals left fielder Vince Coleman also hurt his left leg, before Sun
day’s game when the leg got caught under the metal cylinder that automat
ically rolls the tarp onto the infield at Busch Stadium. Coleman missed the
Sunday game and again was out of the lineup Monday.
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