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AM[7 WdlLG AU-TUg: KJeTWOf?K£> CARRY IT UVE.-fUE helicopter CAPRYlSJe TH& KJUM0ER ITRAFf CHOICE LAK1R5» IK) PROMT-“ WIU-THE AUhf-lORlTiG^ ^ UJUATYaYA MGAM 7 GO FOR A CHOPPER LAWRlKJO ) THl* IS GOlMSTO OM EU.IS- H5.1AMC7 7 / MAKE TMC / STATUE OP Ll££l?lY Ag women eye SWC title at conference tourney By Ken Sury Assistant Sports Editor The Texas A&M women’s tennis leant will seek its first Southwest Conference title starting today in the SWC tennis championships at the H.E.B. Tennis . i i— i - Center in Cor- Tennis pus Christi. The No. 17 Aggies completed two tain-delayed doubles matches with 1 exas Tech Thursday and enter the three-dav tournament one match be hind Texas in the SWC point race. In the No. 1 doubles spot, A&M’s Vanne Akagi and Gave Lynne Gen- sler defeated Tech’s Julie Hrebec and Cathy Carlson, 6-2, 7-5, while Aggies Laura Liong and Julie Vaug han lost to Petra Pennekamp and Annemarie Walson, 2-6, 6-4. 6-2 to finish regular season play. A&M finished SWC round robin play at 49-2T behind UT’s 50-22 mark. Texas has won the SWC championship all three years since a champion was determined. But A&M Coach Bobby Kleinecke said he expects the tournament to be a dogfight because TCU. SMU and Houston are within four points of Texas. Both the Horned Frogs and Mustangs have 48-24 marks and Houston stands at 46-26. Each match win in the postseason tourney counts one point toward the final standings. In the tourney, each player or doubles team is seeded based upon their SWC’ record. Afk-M’s No. 2 tan dem of’ Kim Labuschagne and Ka ren Marshall, with an 8-0 SWC mark, is seeded No. 1 and have a 14- match winning streak on the line. Labuschagne also will he gunning for a second singles championship as she won the No. 3 position last year. The No. 23 A&M men also com pleted two rain-delayed matches against SMU Thursday, but lost both to the No. 1-ranked Mustangs. At the No. 2 doubles spot, A&M’t bles spoi Kiinmo Alkio and Marcel Vos lost to Den Bishop and Stefan Kruger, 7-6, 6-3 and Aggies Dean Johnson and Dean Colfine dropped to John Ross and Ric hes Renel>erg, 6-7, 7-5,6-2. SMU is the odds-on favorite to clinch the championship as it has onl\ lost eight SWC matches during the season and is seven points ahead ol second-place Texas. Yos also had to play a singles match T hursday and qualified for the No. 3 singles bracket of the tour- nev. He defeated Texas Tech's Diet Bosse. 6-3. 6-3 to grab the No. 8 seed. Vos will play SMU’s Stefan Kiugei. who is ranked 16th in the nation, lodav in the first round. Soto, Reds shut down Astros, 3-0 HOUSTON (AP) — Cincinnati’s Mario Soto is pitching his best baseball in two years, according to Phil Garner of the Houston Astros. “I haven’t seen him throw like that in two years,” Garner said after Soto pitched a three-hitter and led the Reds past Houston 3-0 Thursday night. “He was in total control,” Cincinnati Manager Pete Rose said. “He’s a stopper.” Soto, who was a disappointing 12-15 last season, struck out fiv e and walked three as the Reds snapped a four-game losing streak. Soto, 2- 1. allowed singles to Craig Rev- NdtiOflCll nolds in the third and eighth in- iis first 12 games, and lef t the Reds one short of tht 1 major-league team record for home runs in conset ' utive games at the start of a season. The ChicagoCul* set that mark in 1984. T he Reds took a 1-0 lead in the third. Eric Dare doubled with one out, stole second and scored whta second baseman Bill Doran threw away DaveParkeri two-out grounder for an error. Ron Oestei delivered an RBI single in theeii driving home Dave Concepcion, who had singledaml stolen second. nings, and an infield hit to Garner in the ninth. “You don’t need to strike out that many men to be effective," Rose said. “I know Mario would rather throw a game like tonight than strike out 10 and give up three runs.” Houston Manager Hal Lanier was equally im- pressed with Soto. “You’ve got to take your hat off when someone pitches a game like that,” Lanier said. “You just can’t score many runs when you get three hits. He kept the hall clown and he had a great changeup.” Cubs 7, Expos 5 CHICAGO (AP) — Pitcher Rick Sutcliffe hiti three-run homer and Jerry Mumphrey hitonewiii the bases empty as the Chicago Cubs defeated tht Montreal Expos 7-5 Thursday. Sutcliffe. 1-3, capped a four-run sixth inning that broke open a 3-2 game with his home run. Mumphrt), a late insert in the lineup, had a pair of singles as wd as his first homer. Nick Esasky hit a solo home run, his third of the vear. in the fourth inning off Mike Madden, 1-1. The homer was Cincinnati’s 12th of the year, one in each of It was the third straight victory for the Cubs,who had dropped seven of their first nine games. Thete See National, page 9 Error allows Yankees to trip Indians, 2-1 NEW YORK (AP) — Bobby Mea- cham scored the tie-breaking run on a two-out error by Cleveland first baseman Pat Tablet' in the fifth in ning and the New York Yankees heat the Indians 2-1 Thursday night. With the vie- i tory the Yan- American kees secured an 11-4 start for the first time in 28 struck out four to move into second place on the Yankees’ all-time list with 1,529, three more than Red Ruffing. Whitey Ford is the leader with 1.956. The Yankees managed only five singles off Neal Heaton, 0-1, and re liever Ernie Camacho. Ron Guidry, 3-0, scattered 10 hits, all singles, and stolen bases by Rickey Henderson and Meacham set up both runs for the Yankees. Guidrv did not walk a batter and Mariners 3, A’s 1 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Alvin Davis and Ken Phelps hit home tuns, the only two hits allowed by Oakland’s Jose Rijo in 8‘/t innings, leading the Seattle Mariners over the A’s 3-1 T hursday night. Rijo struck out 14 and came within two of the major-league re cord for strikeouts in two conset- utive games, with a total of 30. Rijo, a 20-year-old right-hander, fanned 16 in eight-plus innings last Satur day night when he beat theMarinets in Seattle. Nolan Ryan, with the 1974 Cali fornia Angels, and Dwight Gooden of the 1984 New York Mets totaled 32 strikeouts over two games. Winner Mark Langston, 1-2, and Karl Best gave up nine Oakland hits The Body Shop U We Tackle Tough Jobs Small cars to large rigs Custom Paint and Body Work INSURANCE CLAIMS WELCOME FREE estimate 8 846-4177