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Ags trek to Lubbock
for 1985 SWC Indoors
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Texas A&M’s Kimmo Alkio (above) and the Aggie men’s tennis
team will compete in the Southwest Conference Indoor Tournament
this Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Lubbock. A&M has tied with
Texas for first-place in this tourney for the last two years.
By KEN SURY
Sports Writer
Leo Durocher, one of Major
League Baseball’s legendary
managers, once said, “Nice guys
finish last.”
That statement doesn’t apply
to the Texas A&M men’s tennis
team.
Especially when it competes at
the Southwest Conference In
door Tennis’ Tournament. The
Aggies will be in Lubbock this
weekend for the three-day tour
ney.
This is the only the third year
of the SWC Indoors, A&M Men's
Tennis Coach David Kent said.
And the last two tourneys have
been successful for the Aggies.
“We’ve tied (the University of)
Texas for first-place those two
years,” Kent said.
Kent said this year he’s looking
for his A&M team, led by junior
Kimmo Alkio, to break that tie.
The difference in this year’s
tourney from the previous tour
naments, Kent said, is that the
teams will not be playing for
points based on tourney wins.
The points earned at tourna
ments and SWC matches are used
to determine the tennis cham
pions after the season is over.
The team with the most points is
the SWC Champion.
The problem with playing for
points, Kent said, is that each day
of the tournament counts as a
playing date. The NCAA has set a
limit of 35 playing dates for colle
giate tennis teams. When teams
don’t play for points the tourney
only counts as one playing date.
Besides, fall tournaments are
really just preparation for A&M’s
spring schedule, when the team
should be ready to roll up the
points.
Michigan
will test
No. 11owa
No. 1 meets No. 2
in Big 10 showdown
Associated Press
IOWA CITY, Iowa — That Bo
Schembechler is one crafty fellow.
All the preseason talk about the
Big Ten Conference football race
centered on Ohio State, Iowa and Il
linois. Schembechler’s Michigan
team, which slumped to 6-6 last sea
son, was relegated to no better than
fourth.
But Schembechler knew better.
And now, so does the rest of the
country. The Wolverines are 5-0,
ranked second nationally and ap
pear to be victory away from becom
ing the No. 1 team.
Schembechler sends his team
against top-ranked Iowa at Iowa’s
Kinnick Stadium on Saturday in
only the 19th matchup between the
Nos. 1 and 2 teams since the Asso
ciated Press poll started in 1936.
“We’re excited about the position
we’re in, but we’re not quite as sur
prised as other people,” said Schem
bechler, whose team is a 2 1 /.!-point
favorite in Saturday’s Big Ten Con
ference game.
“I don’t think the experts figured
we would be in this position nor do I
think that any of the coaches in the
Big Ten thought we would. In my
opinion, they miscalculated.
“I said going into the season that I
thought we’d be a better team than
we were a year ago,” he added, “and
I think we proved that.”
Indeed they have. The Wolver
ines own victories over Notre Dame,
Maryland and South Carolina — all
were in the Top 20 when those
games were played — and they have
given up only one touchdown all sea
son.
Michigan’s latest victory was a 31-
0 thumping of Big Ten foe Michigan
State, a team that Iowa had to come
from behind to beat 35-31 the week
before.
Quarterback Jim HarbaUgh has
made a big difference in the Wolver
ines. Harbaugh, a 6-foot-3, 200-
pound senior, broke his arm in the
fifth game of 1984‘and was out of ac
tion when Iowa whipped Michigan
26-0 two weeks later.
Harbaugh doesn’t get much atten-
ti'6n in a league that has quar
terbacks like Iowa’s Chuck Long, Il
linois’ Jack Trudeau and Purdue’s
Jim Everett, but he has been effec
tive nonetheless in completing 63 of
104 passes for 727 yards and seven
touchdowns.
“Our offense has been good from
the standpoint of controlling the ball
and keeping the defense off the
field,” Schembechler said. “Last
year, our offense could not move the
ball and the defense was on the field
all afternoon.”
Michigan has stopped its oppo
nents in their tracks this year. The
Wolverines are the stingiest team in
the country, giving up only 4.2
points a game, and they’re fourth
nationally in yards allowed at 220
per game.
“It will be the best overall total de
fense that we’ve seen — the best one
we’ve seen since we’ve been in the
Big Ten,” Iowa Coach Hayden Fry
said. “They have it all. They have
tremendous speed, they’ve got tre
mendous quickness.
“We’ll really be fighting the quick
ness and the toughness and the ag
gressiveness all rolled into one.”
By MARCY BASILE
Sports Writer
Racquetball, one of the most mis-
pelled games, is alive and well at
^exas A&M despite the spelling er
rors.
The Texas A&M Racquetball
Club, an extramural club sponsored
Iby the intramural department, is
open to students and faculty of
A&M interested in racquetball.
Potential club members need not
worry about their playihg ability says
Jean Pavelka, public relations officer
of the club.
“The club operates on a chal
lenge-ladder system,” Pavelka said.
“It’s easy. You move up as you win.
If you lose, often you move down.”
The major problem facing the
club right now is female mem
bership.
, “Last spring we sent a team to na
tionals in Memphis (Tenn.),” Pa
velka said. “We didn’t do too bad
there. We came in fifth — without a
women’s team. Imagine what we
could have done if we had had some
women.”
As with the majority of clubs on
campus, the racquetball club charges
its members dues.
This weekend the club is sponsor
ing the 1985 Fall Aggie Open. Divi :
sions include men’s, women’s and
doubles. The tournament will be
held in the Read Building racquet
ball courts.
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