Tuesday, July 1, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5
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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 ... If
they have drugs in their system, they
run the risk of injuring themselves
as well as causing other players to be
at risk because of their lack of per
formance.”
• I he solution, Murphy said, is
drug testing as a deterrent, not as a
way of punishment.
Maradona, team lauded for World Cup win
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — He is the brightest
star in the soccer galaxy. And he now has com
pany on his own team.
Diego Maradona certified his status as the
world’s best player as he led Argentina to its sec
ond World (Tip title in eight years. Maradona’s
marvelous skills were the centerpiece of Argenti
na’s championship.
He scored five goals, set up six others and
dominated the field. 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.
But he had faith that the players would mesh.
“ l ime has proven me right,” he said.
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