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Tuesday, July 1, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5 Sports Ags’ Kerr grabs firsts in 100,200 A&M signee Florence follows with second-place finishes Stanley Kerr By HOMER JACOBS Spoils W riter Texas A&M freshman sprinter Stanley Kerr is keeping with the lat est Aggie tradition — winning 100 and 200-meter dashes in record- breaking fashion. The latest victories for an A&M sprinter came at The Athletic Con gress National Junior Track and Field Championships at Maryland’s Towson State University this past weekend. Kerr won the 100 in 10.10 sec onds, smashing the meet record of 10.21 established by Carl Lewis in 1080. Me also took the 200 with a time of 20.39. Kerr’s clocking in the 200 was just .04 off the NCAA first-place time run by Kerr’s roommate Floyd Heard, who is currently preparing for the Goodwill Games in Moscow that begin July 5. Perhaps even more pleasing to A&M coaches was the performance turned in by A&M signee Derrick Florence. The Galveston Ball grad uate placed second in both the 100 and 200 and established a new na tional high school record in the 100 with a time of 10.13, breaking the old mark of 10.18 by Roy “Robot” Martin, now with SMU. “1 was a little hesitant to see if (Florence) could run with Kerr,” A&M assistant coach Ted Nelson said. Proving he could run with Kerr, Florence will join him on the U.S. team that will compete in the Pan American Junior Championships at Orlando, Fla., July 4-6; the U.S.-Ro mania dual meet in Bucharest, July 12-13, and the inaugural World Ju nior Championships in Athens, Greece, July 16-20. Cash knocks out No. 2 seed Wi lander WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Pat Cash of Australia, dominating at the net, upset second-seeded Mats Wilander of Sweden 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6- !! Monday to join defending cham pions Boris Becker of West Ger many and Martina Navratilova of the United States in the quarterfi nals at Wimbledon. “Obviously I’m very happy,” said Cash, who underwent an emergency appendectomy two weeks before the world’s most prestigious grass courts tournament began. “I suppose I’m a bit surprised too. I really didn’t ex pect it. “Under the circumstances, I’d say it was the best tennis I’ve ever played.” It was the I 1th time in the tourna ment’s first four rounds that an un seeded player had upset one of the men’s seeds, and the second time for Wimbledon Cash. He ousted No. 15 Guillermo V’ilas in the first round. Becker rode his powerful serve to a 6-3, 7-6, 6-2 victory over 13th- seeded Mikael Pernfors of Sweden, while Navratilova, who has yet to drop a set, brushed back a deter mined bid by Isabelle Demongeot of France 6-3, 6-3. Joining the American left-hander in the women’s quarterfinals were second-seeded American Chris Ev ert Lloyd, No. 3 Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia, No. 7 Helena Su- kova of Czechoslovakia, No. 10 Ga- briela Sabatini of Argentina, No. 13 Catarina Lindqvist of Sweden and two non-seeded players, West Ger many’s Bettina Bunge and American Lori McNeil. Besides Cash and Becker, the men’s quarterfinalists include No. 7 Henri Leconte of France, No. 10 Tim Mayotte of the United States, Slobodan Zivojinovic of Yugoslavia, India’s Ramesh Krishnan and Czechoslovakia’s Miloslav Mecir. Top-seeded Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia and American Matt Anger had their fourth-round match on Centre Court suspended by darkness with the score tied 6-7, 7-6, 2-2. Anger captured the first-set tiebreak 9-7, while Lendl won the second-set tiebreak 7-2. Mecir advanced by knocking out 12th-seeded Brad Gilbert of the United States 3-6, 7-6, 6-1,6-2, while Bunge stopped No. 8 Manuela Ma leeva of Bulgaria, a clay-court spe cialist, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. Becker’s victory on grass at the All England Club was sweet revenge for the 18-year-old West German. On the red clay courts of the French Open, Pernfors upset Becker en route to the Final. “You can’t see his serve, so you can’t really do anything about that,” Pernfors said of Becker. “If he can play like this and serve like this, there’s no way you can beat him.” NCAA official: Drug abuse everywhere COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The chairman of the NCAA committee on drug education says every college in the country has a drug problem, and that an effective testing pro gram deters abuse by athletes. Dr. Robert J. Murphy, an asso ciate clinical professor of preventive medicine and the head team physi cian at Ohio State University, says data shows that in the last five years 20 percent to 25 percent of college athletes have used marijuana or co caine — some use both — on an av erage of once a week. Murphy, also the chairman of the NCAA’s committee on drug educa tion, provided information pre sented to the Big Ten Conference Awareness Committee on Alcohol and Drug Abuse that found 36 per cent of 2,039 athletes in a 1984 NCAA survey had used marijuana within the previous 12 months, 17 percent cocaine, 8 percent ampheta mines and 6.5 percent anabolic ster oids. A 1984 multi-college survey com piled by Heitzinger & Associates of Madison, Wis., found that of 2,100 athletes at 12 colleges. 27 percent used marijuana and 14 percent used cocaine. “Every college in America has a drug problem because it’s a reflec tion of our society and of the student body,” Murphy said during an inter view. “Drug use among athletes is approximatelv 50 percent that of the general student population.” Cocaine was cited as the cause of deaths this month of Maryland bas ketball player Len Bias and Cleve land Browns football player Don Rogers. Bias died June 19 and Rog ers Friday. Murphy said that seldom does anyone use just one substance, in stead mixing marijuana with alcohol or cocaine with alcohol. Murphy said that when an Ohio Stale athlete is detected using drugs, “We feel they should not play ... 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He was praised by every one, from Argentine Coach Carlos Bilardo to his teammates and his opponents. “Maradona is the great player every team wants to have," West Germany Coach Franz Beckenbauer said. "He lias made this tournament his own and showed that he is the greatest player in soccer,” added Bilardo. “We asked of him just to give us the 30 days we would need, and he has sacrificed for the team like everyone else.” “If Maradona was in my team, Belgium would have been in the final,” said Belgian Coach Guy Fli vs. But, just as Maradona insisted after Argentina beat West Germany 3-2 Sunday to win the World Cup, there is more to Bilardo’s squad than just his own magic. “Today you saw clearly that Argentina is not Maradona. It is instead a great team,” the 25- year-old striker said after he set up two goals, in cluding the game-winner by Jorge Burruchaga with six minutes to go. Maradona’s main helpers were forward Jorge Valdano, midfielders Jorge Burruchaga and Os car Ruggeri, and defender Jose Cuciuffo. Valdano plays for Real Madrid and teams on a front line with Mexico’s Hugo Sanchez and Spain’s Emilio Butragueno, two well-touted scor ing sensations. He had four goals here, one less than Maradona, though he scored in a much more workmanlike fashion. Beckenbauer said Burruchaga, who plays for Nantes in Erance, “possesses great creativity — he fits in perfectly with Maradona.” He showed that throughout the later rounds, particularly against Belgium, when Burruchaga instigated several threatening rushes with Mar- adona. One of the problems Bilardo faced in putting together the Argentine team was that so many of the stars, including Maradona, play club soccer outside of Argentina. Maradona is with Napoli of the Italian league. Bilardo faced severe criticism back home when the team looked weak in warmup games. Some of his players even blasted him. 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