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Spring Sweeping
A&M’s Kevin Murray, left, pitches the ball out to Keith Woodside (33)
Wednesday. A&M, considered to be among the nation’s Top 10 teams
Photo by Dean Saito
for ’86, will showcase some of its returning talent at the Annual
Spring Intra-squad scrimmage at Kyle Field Saturday at 1 p.m.
Lady Aggies sign
three prospects
Arkansas men win recruiting battle
Wilander rallies in last 3 sets to down Kriek at WCT Finals
■ DALLAS (AP) — Top-seeded
: Mats Wilander lost the first two sets,
f then came back to win the last thr ee
Bfcd defeat Johan Kriek 3-6, 4-6, 7-6
(l-SJG-S, 6-2 in a quarterfinal match
ol the $500,000 WCT Finals late
Wednesday.
[Wilander, ranked third in the
world, took charge of the match late
in the third set after he found his
first serve and his passing game. The,
2Tyear-old Swede was on the verge
of being eliminated when Kriek
served in the third set with a 5-3
lead.
At 40-40, Kriek hit two easy fore
hands into the net to let Wilander
out of the trap.
Wilander then evened the set at 5-
5 and eventually won it in the tie
breaker, 7-3. Kriek grabbed his
throat in a choking gesture in the
last game of the set.
In other play Wednesday, Jarryd,
who made the WCT Finals when de
fending champion Ivan Lendl with
drew with an injury, won his first-
round match when Thierry Tulasne
was forced to withdraw in the second
set with tendonitis in his right shoul
der.
From Staff and Wire Reports
The Texas A&M women’s basket
ball team received letters-of-intent
from three high school players
Wednesday.
On the first day of the late signing
period, the Lady Aggies signed
Traci Thomas, a 5-foot-10 guard
from Waco’s Jefferson-Moore, Lisa
Herner, a 5-6 point guard from Wil
ton, N.D., and Emily Shilhanek, a 6-
1 forward from Washburn, N.D.
Thomas, who turned down offers
from Houston, TCU and Stephen F.
Austin, averaged 20 points and 8.5
assists a game.
“She is a very good athlete,” A&M
Coach Lynn Hickey said, “and she
has good vision on the court. We feel
she can contribute next season be
cause she fills a position we needed
this past year — a guard with size.”
Herner, who averaged 27.8
points, 11 rebounds, five assists and
five steals a game and has a 33-inch
vertical jump, was nominated for the
Converse All-America team which
will be announced later this year.
“We thought Lisa was the best
high school point guard we saw all
year,” Hickey said. “She was re
cruited nation-wide, and we classify
her as a blue-chipper.”
Shilhanek, also a Converse All-
America nominee, won All-State
honors the past two seasons after av
eraging 23 points and 12 rebounds a
game.
“Emily will fill another position we
lacked this past season — a power
forward,” Hickey said.
While the A&M men’s basketball
team didn’t announce any signings
Wednesday, other Southwest Con
ference coaches were smiling about
their prospects.
Arkansas lured one of the most
sought-after players, nabbing Can
non Whitby of Obion County,
Tenn., on Wednesday after signing
Mario Credit of Kansas City, Kan.
and Ron Huery of Whitehaven,
Tenn. during the early inking pe
riod in November.
Whitby, a 6-foot guard, set state
scoring records for a single season
with 1,536 points and for a career
with 3,479 points.
Phillip McKellar, a 6-6 standout
from North Little Rock Northeast,
said he would sign with Arkansas on
Thursday.
Meanwhile, Texas Tech secured
the signature of 6-3 Lamesa guard
Jerry Mason, one of Texas’ top pros
pects.
Darrell McArthur, a 6-3 guard
from Silsbee High School, signed
with the University of Houston.
University of Texas officials an
nounced Wednesday the signing of
Russell Green, a 6-5‘/a player from
Florence, S.C., and community col
lege players David Cones, a 6-10
center from McLennan in Waco,
and Derrick Shelton, a 6-1 guard
from Ellsworth (Iowa).
During the early signing period,
the Longhorns signed George Mul
ler, a 7-1 center from Huber
Heights, Ohio, and Travis Mays, a 6-
1 guard from Ocala, Fla.
Baylor coach Gene Iba said sign
ing Flouston Clear Lake guard Mi
chael Hobbs will give the Bears
“quality” depth on a team returning
all five starters next season.
Hobbs, 6-3, who transferred from
Corpus Christi Carroll High School,
averaged 20 points this season for
Clear Lake.
SMU announced that Roderick
Hampton, a 6-3 Va point guard from
Dallas Kimball High School, and
Adrian Caldwell, a 6-8 center from
Navarro Junior College in Corsi
cana, signed letters-of-intent.
Caldwell, a graduate of West Oso
High School in Corpus Christi, aver
aged 10 points and 12 rebounds per
game for Navarro Junior College
this season.
Reginald Muhammad of Wilmer-
Hutchins, who missed his freshman
season because of illness, and 6-5
Carlton McKinney, ineligible last
season after transferring from the
University of Tulsa, will also play for
SMU next season.
Rice, which earlier signed Kevin
Ruffcorn of Stephen F. Austin High
School in Austin and Chuck Gentry
of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., an
nounced that D’Wayne Tanner, 5-9
guard from Dallas Lake Highlands,
signed Wednesday.
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THE •OLDEST
LIVING
by Preston Jones
I
Feisty, cantankerous, gregarious and slightly
senile Colonel J.C. Kinkaid is the oldest living
graduate of the 1901 class of Mirabeau B. Lamar
Military Academy. He has risked life and limb
through two world wars and survived the
rigors of countless Texas droughts. But can he
survive his “loving” family trying to sell his
beloved land and the special memories
(and secrets) it holds?
MSC Town Hall/Broadway and the Arts
Council of the Brazos Valley present
“The Oldest Living Graduate”
April 24 at 8 p.m. in Rudder Auditorium
at Texas A&M. Part of Preston Jones’
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people of Texas is made possible by the
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