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By Loyd Brumfield
Assistant Sports Editor
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\fter three weeks of intense
workouts and intrasquad
■tches, the Texas A&M wom
ens tennis team is ready to face
competition from other schools,
■t begins today at 1 p.m. when
(Sat & Sun) Bond-seeded Gaye Lynne Gen-
sler of A&M takes on unseeded
Bn Krieg of Southwest Texas
State University in the second
Texas A&M Four-Way Tennis
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Coach Bobby Kleinecke
satB his team is well-prepared and
ready to play.
■The players are ready and
Bcious,” he says. “We’ve been at
it for three weeks and, we haven’t
Bl a chance to play other
schools.”
■Three other schools — South-
'.Bt Texas State, the University
of sSouthwestern Louisiana and
North Texas State University —
B participate in the tourna-
Bnt, although it will be based on
Bividual, not team, competi
tion.
^^■wo players from Sam Hous
ton State University, Houng La-
Band Jeana Burton, will make
B trip and replace two USL
Byers who could not make it.
Bixteen singles and eight dou
bles matches will be played in the
Friday’s opening round.
■We ought to have a lot of suc
cess,’ Kleinecke says. “There’s a
lot of team unity on this squad.”
Bleinecke says this year’s team
should have more depth than last
jMr's team, which won the
jSjBthwest Conference title and
finished 15th in the nation.
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■The level of the players is the
i i i , same all the way down,” he says.
“Ejery position is open and no
ontislocked into one.”
Blie top three seeds for the
toiimament are all from A&M.
n.-b a.m. Slphomore Karen Marshall, who
Be it to the finals of the SWC
A&M’s Karen Marshall
No. 1 seed for tourney
tournament, enters as the No. 1
seed, followed by Gensler, and ju
nior Kim Labuschagne.
Marshall and Labuschagne also
come into the tournament as the
top-seeded doubles team, while
Gensler and freshman Jennifer
Jones are third-seeded.
Other seeded players from
A&M include freshman Cindy
Crawford at No. 7 and senior
Laura Liong at No. 8.
Labuschagne, who upset sec
ond-seeded Heliane Steden at the
NCAA tournament last year, says
the players will back up each
other even though they might
end up playing one another.
“We’re still a team,” she says.
“We’re still going to support each
other."
Gensler says the team hopes to
get more support from students
this year.
“We hope the fans get behind
us,” she says, “especially because
we won the conference last year.”
The tournament will continue
through Saturday and conclude
Sunday at 1 p.m. Admission is
free to the public.
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Aggies wish for favorable script
Photo by Greg Bailey
A&M linebacker Aaron Wallace gets ready to Saturday’s 35-17 loss to the Tigers. A&M takes on
sack LSU quarterback Mickey Guidry during last North Texas State here Saturday at 6 p.m.
By Ken Sury
Sports Editor
Imagine this: A small Division 1-
AA football team walks into the den
of a national powerhouse that is
hungry to win after being humil
iated in an important game.
The little school’s plan: Merely to
escape alive.
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t hro ugh . a .
sheer blood- Analysis
and-guts de- mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
termination, this team of scrappy
players knocks off the highly touted
powerhouse for a major upset.
The Aggies hope that’s not in the
script this Saturday when they face
North Texas State in their 1986
home opener at 6 p.m. in Kyle Field.
Texas A&M is hungry to win and
prove it belongs among the nation’s
elite football teams after suffering
an embarrassing 35-17 loss at the
hands of Louisiana State University.
The defeat dropped A&M from sev
enth to 16th in The Associated Press
poll.
But unless the entire team suc
cumbs to some rare tropical disease
before Saturday, the Aggies should
find little trouble with North Texas
Slate.
The Eagles, or the Mean Green —
whichever you prefer — seem to be
the type of team that could give a Di
vision 1 team fits, however. Twenty-
eight starters return from last year,
including seven senior defensive
players. The defense was strong in
NTSU’s 7-0 season opening win over
Southwest Texas State because the
Eagles held SWTSU to 255 total
yards.
The Eagles use a wishbone of
fense, something seen seldom by
Southwest Conference teams, which
are opting for more pro-style, pass-
oriented offenses. Both quar
terbacks, Bron Beal and Gene Pool,
are sophomores who alternated at
the position in the opener until Pool
was sidelined with an ankle injury in
the second quarter. He is probable
for the game.
Experienced defense and youth at
quarterback. Hmmm, sounds like
LSU.
But NTSU Head Coach Corky
Nelson already seems to concede the
game to A&M, at least he did that
orally in an interview at the begin
ning of the week.
Sounding just as humble as Ozzie
and Harriet always did, Nelson said
he compared the game to a David
and Goliath confrontation — minus
the slingshot.
Of course, Nelson may just be try
ing to get the Aggies overconfident
in the hope of pulling an upset.
But A&M Head Coach Jackie
Sherrill, who has been stressing a
one-game-at-a-time approach, is
staying low-key about the game.
Sherrill said the team was embar
rassed about the loss to the Tigers,
but would be able to correct the mis
takes which cost it the opener —
namely the weak play of the defense.
Outside linebacker John Roper
will not start, Sherrill said, because
of a sprained ankle suffered in the
LSU game. He said senior Steve Bul
litt will fill in at the spot, although
Roper was participating in running
drills.
Nelson said he expected A&M to
be “mad as hell” about losing to LSU
and take it out on the Eagles.
That’s definitely in A&M’s script.
Aggie Notes . . . Roger Vick’s 63
yards rushing against LSU moved *
him into eighth place past Earnest $
Jackson on the A&M all-time run- ^
ning list. Vick now has 1,574 yards, £
162 behind Larry Stegent (1967-69) >
who holds seventh place.
Wide receiver Shea Walker’s five *
catches put him into 10th place on £
the A&M career reception list with
63. Another five would move him d
past Tommy Maxwell (65) and £
Johnny Hector (67).
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