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THE SWC TE-AtAS G-O WEST
TO START THE N./.T. TOURNEY
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n’s tennis team overcame separate
bstacles on their way to Wednesday
inatch victories.
The A&M women crushed Ar
ansas 9-0 at Omar Smith Tennis
detiter.
In singles play, the Aggies (12-3)
lost the first set in four of the six
latches, but " — ■ ■
ebounded in Tennis
|he last two sets
‘all six times.
I “We did expect to win all nine
latches,’’ A&M Coach Bobby Klei-
lecke said. “But when we lost those
lour first sets in singles, 1 became a
little skeptical. We fought back well
h gave us some confi-
i" ■line pi n
H Ihough whi( 1
i'»ence."
No. 1 seeded Vanne Akagi and
ifth seeded Helen Christiaanse
were the only Ags that didn’t run
nto any trouble. Akagi cruised to a
7-5, b-3 win over Betsey Meacham
Iwhile Christiaanse whipped Sandy
Bchwan 6-2, 6-1.
Meanwhile, the A&M men had to
bvercome the abscence of t heir No. 1
ilayer in a 6-3 win over North Caro-
inaat Royal Oaks Racquet Club.
While Kimmo Alkio was sitting on
|he sidelines with an ankle injury,
Mark Smith moved into the No. 1
Spot and upset UNC’s Jef f Cham
bers, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.
! “Mark Smith did a great job,”
A&M Coach David Kent said. “1
J think that’s the first time we’ve evei
I beaten Jeff.”
The Ags (11-6) won three of four
; three-set matches in singles play.
Photo by PA ULA SA YRE
A&M’s Vanne Akagi, the Aggies’ No. 1 singles player, slams a back
hand across the net during Wednesday’s-match with Arkansas.
Ranger
perfects
‘knuckler’
Associated Press
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. —
Texas Rangers pitcher Charlie
Hough has been winning games with
60 mph pitches for 16 years and he
can’t understand why the knuckle-
ball gets no respect.
“If you’re getting hit, it doesn’t
make any difference how hard
you’re throwing,” Hough said. “I’ve
sat back there with the gun (a device
to clock the speed of pitches) on
Dave Stewart. He was throwing ev
ery pitch 92-93 miles per hour and
they were hitting them out 103-104
miles per hour.”
Stewart, a hard-throwing Ranger
reliever last season, is. gone and
Hough, 38, is still around, throwing
up an assortment of diving, dipping
lluttet balls that have made him the
ace of the staff.
“A guy throws 90 miles per hour
and he’s getting killed anti the first
thing they say is ‘Wow, how'are they
hitting that good stuff,”’ Hough
said. “I get hit and they say, ‘This
guy stinks.’”
Hough actually has learned to ac
cept the pitch’s lack of respect just as
he’s learned to remain placid when
the knuckler isn’t working.
That’s why they call him “Happy.”
“Sitting on the sidelines and see
ing some guy out there without
much talent getting killed throwing
60 miles per hour, you don’t think
much of it,” Hough said.
Hough started throwing the
knuckler in 1970, when he was with
the Los Angeles Dodgers. It’s been
the salvation of his major league ca
reer.
A shoulder injury forced Hough,
in desperation, to attempt to master
the knuckleball.
“I went to (Tommy) Lasorda and
told him I wanted to try it and he
said I’d better learn it quick because
I’d be gone otherwise,” Hough re
called.
Even after he came to the Rangers
in 1980, his position wasn’t solid
ified.
“T hey could have cut me based on
my performance that spring,” he
said. “Heck, they could almost do
that any spring.”
But (he Rangers have allowed
Hough to prepare for the season his
way, giving him the amount of time
to pitch, whether it be in B games or
simulated games.
“The thing about a knuckle ball is
you have to throw it a lot in the
spring.” he said. “You have to get
more work than the normal
pitcher.”
Hough led the American League
with 17 complete games in 1984 and
he finished 14 more games last sea
son. He had a 14-16 record on the
last-place team in the Western Divi
sion.
“I don’t think of it as a trick
pitch,” he said. “For me, it’s Nolan
Ryan’s fast ball, Don Sutton’s curve,
Goose Gossage’s fast ball or some
body else’s forkball.
“It’s my best pitch, so I throw it.”
UCLA tries to establish new tradition
Associated Press
UCLA, which established an awe-
jsome tradition under Goach John
I Wooden in the NCAA basketball
[tournament, hopes to begin another
|one — on a smaller scale.in the Na-
[tional Invitation T ournament.
During 1964-75, the Bruins were
'the NCAA tournament, winning it
in lOof those 12 years.
More often than not, as the de-
ifending champion with players like
Walt Hazzard (a senior on that first
championship team), Gail Goodrich,
Lew Alcindor, Bill Walton, Larry
Farmer and Marques Johnson,
UCLA was all but conceded the title
as the tournament began.
Now the Bruins, with Hazzard as
their coach instead of their play-
maker and 1964 NCAA Player of
the Year, are the NTT defending
champions — and hoping to become
only the second team in the 49-year
NIT Roundup
history of the tournament to win the
title twice in a row. .
St.'John’s, now more preoccupied
with trying to return for the second
consecutive year to the NCAA’s Fi
nal Four, won the NIT in 1943 and
1944. Nobody before or since has
achieved that feat.
The Bruins begin the pursuit of
that quest Thursday night at home
in Pauley Pavilion against Gal-Irvine.
The Anteaters are 16-12, the Bruins
15-13. No UCLA team has lost that
many games since the 1947-48 squad
went 12-13.
Upstarts McNeese State and
Southwest Missouri State used their
home courts to good advantage
Wednesday night and beat a pair of
big-time programs in first-round
National Invitation Tournament
games while Boston University fell
just short of duplicating that feat.
At Lake Charles, La., Jerome Ba
tiste and Kenny Jimerson combined
for 45 points as McNeese’s South
land Conference champions re
corded its 21st consecutive home vic
tory with an 86-75 triumph over
Dayton.
And at Springfield, Mo., Winston
Garland scored 15 points and had
eight steals to lead Southwest Mis
souri over Pittsburgh 59-52.
However, Providence, playing at
home, sank 12 of 13 free throws in
the last 3V-2 minutes and withstood a
last-minute scoring binge by Jeff
Timberlake to edge Boston Univer-
sity 72-69.
Batiste, an honorable mention
All-American, scored 24 points and
led McNeese with 12 rebounds. Ji
merson scored 21 points and Mike
Marshall had 15.
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Aprff 3-6, 1986
The LARGEST Science Fiction Conven-
lion in (he Southwest includes ALL this
and more:
8 Blockbuster Movies
The Black Cauldron
Wizards
Ladyhawke
Cocoon
E.T.
3 Dances
Art Show
Star Trek Trivia
Amateur Video Contest
SCA fighting demos
Lots of Parties
Gaming
Banquet
Masquerade
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max
The Road Warrior
Panels and Readings
Name That Sound Effect
TIO table Dealers' Room
Live Lovecraftian Quest
Secular Humanism Revival
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