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Friday, February 14, 1986/The Battalion/Page 13 TANK MCNAMARA® by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds dp 1986 SHOW HIM THIS/ fwe'AI. car FIREO u WHE^ HE SEES THE sip! C'MON / . SWAP OUT OF IT ! YOU OOTTA GO TO AUSr/AV SATURDAY. AND BEAT THE syPS / 9 of Texas’ blue chips flee SWC problems Associated Press DALLAS — The Southwest Con ference’s troubles in the past year probably helped out-of-state schools recruit some of Texas’ best high school football talent, recruiters and coaches say. When signing day came and went on Wednesday, nine of the Texas’ top 25 players signed with schools outside the SWC. A&M recruiting coordinator Tim Cassidy said, “I think the out-of-state teams have seen all the ruckus going on and decided to concentrate harder here. I think they used that threat (of NCAA sanctions against Texas universities) to attract some of the kids.” LSU signed the state’s top run ning back prospect, Hempstead’s Harvey Williams, and UCLA signed three of the state’s top players, in cluding Parade All-America de fensive back Reggie Mobre of Hous ton Madison. Oklahoma State signed 12 Tex ans, including seven of the Dallas area’s top players. “This is the best we’ve ever done” in Texas, said Ok lahoma State head coach Pat Jones. OSU signed Dallas-area top run ning back prospect Terrance Miller of Lewisville and top wide-reciver prospect Curtis Mayfield of Spruce. The Cowboys also signed five others from the state’s top 25 prospects. UCLA signed all three Texas players it pursued. “We batted .1000 this year, but that doesn’t happen very often,” said co-defensive coor dinator Bob Field. &M women netters win down South By TRAVIS TINGLE Sports Editor poil MTON ROUGE, La. — The ,, It is A&M women’s tennis team * ■rted its swing through the South df] Jiwth a 8-1 match victory over Loui- ield iB na S tate Thursday. thirdlMThe Aggies, who bettered their ;i/ 2 , |jas<m record to 3-1 with the win, j Vt swept all six singles matches from iethITigers and two of the three dou- rs fo:» es ' ■“The two teams were a lot closer (talent-wise) than the score shows,” id A&M Women’s Tennis Coach bby Kleinecke. “We just played [eat singles today. We never gave in any of our matches. We did ex actly what we wanted (by winning ev ery singles match).” A&M’s only loss of the day came in No. 3 doubles where the duo of Helen Christiaanse and Laura Liong fell to LSU’s Patti Harrison and El- eoner Jonasson. “That’s really the First bad match they’ve played so far,” Kleinecke said. “(Christiaanse and Liong) looked great in practice together and I know if we needed the win (to take the entire match), they could have gotten it for us. I’m certain of that.” Kleinecke was especially pleased about the match’s outcome since the Aggies only squeezed by the Tigers, 5-4, last season in College Station. “(LSU) played us tough at home last year,” Kleinecke said. “And all six of their singles players returned. They Finished second last year in the Southeastern Conference behind Florida.” The A&M women netters con tinue their march across the South today in New Orleans against the Tulane Green Wave. From there, the Aggies travel to Mobile, Ala. for a match with South Alabama- “If we’re not ready, like we were today against LSU, (Tulane) will beat us,” Kleinecke said. Singles Results: A&M’s Vanne Akagi defeated LSU’s Patti Harrison, 6-1, 6-7, 6-3; A&M’s Kim Labuschagne def. LSU’s DeAnn Watlington, 6-1, 7-5; A&M’s Gaye Lynne Gensler def. LSU’s Dana Watlington, 6-4, 6-4; A&M’s Helen Christiaanse def. LSU’s Leticia Herrera, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3; A&M’s Laura Liong def. LSU’s El- eoner Jonasson, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; A&M’s Kim Marshall def. LSU’s Marta Homedes, 6-3, 6-3; A&M’s Kellie Dorman def. LSU’s Michelle Tabary 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. Doubles Results: Akagi-Gensler def. Watlington- Watlington, 6-2, 6-4; Labuschagne- Marshall def. Herrera-Laura Pro- domo, 6-2, 6-3; Harrison-Jonasson def. Christiaanse-Liong, 6-3, 6-3. purs defuse jlfloc/cete, end Hfosing streak m Associated Press sdored 25 points, including 10 in the nal quarter, to power the San An- ■nio Spurs to a 119-115 victory over ■e Houston Rockets Thursday night. ■ Alvin Robertson scored 23 and |es Matthews added 19 for the Sp urs, who snapped a two-game los- Ig streak and recorded their first ■ctory in Five tries against the Rock- fls this year. ■ Akeem Olajuwon, benched be- Buse of foul trouble in the third qi iter, led the Rockets with 36 pi nts, 26 of them in the First half, lewis Lloyd added 18 points to the ■sing effort. ■ The Spurs blew the game open Ith 10 unanswered points midway ■rough the fourth quarter, capped ty a Gilmore dunk that gave them 1)9-98 lead. The Rockets were held ■oreless for nearly Five minutes (tiring the run. ■ Houston pared the deficit to 117- |l2 on a Mitchell Wiggins layup with !|ss than one minute to go, but an of- Insive foul by Olajuwon gave the urs the opportunity to ice their [ctory. Other Thursday NBA Scores (home team in capitals) Philadelphia 95 NEW YORK 92 CLEVELAND 135 New Jersey 117 MILWAUKEE 113 Utah 106 Portland at' L.A. CLIPPERS (late) Washington at GOLDEN STATE (late) Atlanta at SACRAMENTO (late) Boston at SEATTLE (late) Connors fights bock for second-round win San Antonio, 28-26, assumed con trol of the game late in the first half and took a 71-68 halftime lead. Houston, in first place in the NBA’s Midwest Division, dropped to 34-17 with the loss. Associated Press BOCA RATON, Fla. — Third- seeded Jimmy Connors rallied from a 5-2 deficit in the third set to beat Italy’s Claudio Panatta 6-7, 6-3, 7-6 Thursday in a second round match at the Lipton International Players Championship. Chris Evert Lloyd, the women’s top seed, also advanced with a 6-4, 6- 0 triumph over Marie-Chrisdne Cal- leja of France that took only 68 min utes to complete. Facing the prospect of losing to the 91 st-ranked player in the world, Connors turned his three-hour match around by breaking Panatta’s serve in the eighth game of third set. He won the first six points of the decisive tie-breaker which he even tually won 7-3. “I don’t mind the pressure of matches like this,” Connors said. “I don’t like the way I played. I played wrong tennis for me. I just have to start out playing like I end up play ing.” Sweden’s Mats Wilander, seeded second, was also a winner — beating Broderick Dyke of Australia 6-4, 6-2 to set up a third-round rematch with Mike Leach, who eliminated Wi lander from this two-week, Grand Slam-size tournament a year ago. Lloyd was not particularly sharp in her match with Calleja. She said the hard courts here are slower than she is accustomed to and that pa tience will be a key to playing well the duration of the tournament. In other second-round matches Thursday, Fifth-seeded Stefan Ed- berg of Sweden defeated Ireland’s Matt Doyle 6-3, 6-4; Jimmy Arias swept past Jimmy Brown 6-0, 6-2; Sweden’s Joakim Nystrom ousted Vincent Van Patten 6-2, 6-0 and Leach beat Glenn Michibata 6-1, 6-3. Pablo Arraya of Peru eliminated Bud Cox 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-4 and Mark Dickson got by Spain’s Segio Casal 6-2, 6-1. In the women’s bracket, eighth- seeded Gabriela Sabatini of Argen tina nipped Belinda Cordwell 6-3, 7- 6 (7-5); No. 9 Kathy Rinaldi whipped Catherine Tanvier of France 6-3, 6-3 and Bulgaria’s Kate rina Maleeva downed Marcella Mesker of the Netherlands 6-7 (1-7), 6-1,6-2. Unseeded Kate Gompert, who upset No. 3 Pam Shriver in the first round, defeated Christine Jolissaint of Switzerland 6-2, 6-2. UH, oH . . • BETTER GET MAACO. 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