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Monday, February 2, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9 Sports Ok Ag women sweep dual tennis action By Hal L. Hammons Sports Writer n inexperienced A&M women’s tennis team started the season in im pressive fashion this weekend as it Hly disposed of Southwest Texas Stair at the Omar Smith Tennis Hiter. "idn the 9-0 victory, the Aggies lost In anh two sets, both in doubles play. Inlsix singles matches, A&M lost anh 20 games. •tjctjHkiin Labuschagne, the Aggies’ top 1 | et player, played her singles match f 0| with the flu but did not compete in the doubles action. ll( j TSaturday, the Aggies had similar IU results in their first dual match of the vear, beating Sam Houston State 8-1. 111 “•&M Coach Bobby Kleinecke said e,t - his i(layers, five of whom had no ex perience on the college level, were nenous at first, but after winning ' k five out of six singles matches 111 jgainst Sam Houston, the team i ona Bied more confidence. DlgfH 5 ent -l Kleinecke said he was pleased r vith his team’s performance Sun- lay. He said he was happy it encoun- 1 Md a bit of difficulty in doubles ac- H since tight matches are better t i^trience than easy victories. She Aggies host North Texas U, He Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. Klei- said the match, like this week- tnd’s matches, will help the team get geJ 'each for the ITCA National Indoor ■hJ ha,: ipionships that start Thursday iflic hmond, Va. riu:. ook kffilooking forward to the confer- on :nce season, Kleinecke said his team jand'vas not being predicted to contend pe . of the championship. However, he ime: minded, the same was said of last ear’s conference championship d p:r| He said this team was much more nexperienced than that team. With I'ood: enior Gaye Lynne Gensler out for urerhe season with an injury, junior La den;‘(Bhagne and senior Laura Liong ■the only returning players this two'ease m. rice Dm/, American crew grabs 2-0 lead in FREMANTLE, Australia (AP) — Stars & Stripes, proving it can win in all winds, blew away Kookaburra III in stiff breezes Sunday for a one- minute, 10-second victory that brought the America’s Cup halfway back to its home of 132 years. The U.S. yacht took a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven finals and carried skipper Dennis Conner to within two victories of redemption for his 1983 loss of the prize. Calmer conditions were forecast for Monday’s third race. Kooka burra III skipper Iain Murray, feel ing his boat is better suited to light winds, decided not to call an off day. On Sunday, consistent southwest winds with a punch ranging from 22 to 26 knots churned up big waves that the blue-hulled Stars & Stripes handled better than its opponent. Kookaburra III won the start by three seconds, but Stars & Stripes was on the left side of the starting line, just as its braintrust had wished. Both boats were on starboard tack heading toward the left side. Nearly halfway up the first leg, into the wind, Kookaburra III went to the right on port tack 14 minutes into the race. Conner followed about 20 seconds later and appeared to gain the lead as his boat’s upwind superi ority became evident. “They did maybe a slightly better job” than Stars & Stripes at the start, the Americans’ tactician Tom Whid- den said of the Kookaburra III crew. “But we had the side of the course we wanted.” Kookaburra III flew a protest flag Cup race during pre-start maneuvers. After talks between Murray and syndicate head Kevin Parry, a decision was made not to file a protest, which could have cost the Americans the race. The 3.25-mile beat to windward that began the race ended with Stars & Stripes in front by 12 seconds. Conner boosted his lead to 29 sec onds after the second leg, a down wind run. “The downwind speed of Stars & Stripes is a little more than we ex pected,” Murray said. “I think we do have an advantage, but it’s not as much as we were anticipating.” Both skippers had said the boat leading after the second leg proba bly would win and Conner made sure of that on the windward beat that followed. That third leg had been Kooka burra Ill’s best leg Saturday when it cut Stars & Stripes’ lead from 1:20 to 41 seconds. On Sunday, it was Stars & Stripes’ best leg. Conner’s boat covered the dis tance 45 seconds faster than Kooka- burfa III to open a huge advantage of 1:14. From that point on, a gear failure aboard Stars & Stripes in the strong winds seemed to be Murray’s best hope. It faded as the afternoon sun set and Conner became conservative to protect his lead and his boat. After the sixth leg on the 24.1- mile Indian Ocean course, Conner had his spinnaker taken down 20 seconds before ending the next leg. Top-ranked running back pledges to play for A&M Texas A&M’s football program got a big boost Friday when bluechip running back Darren Lewis of Dallas Carter pledged to sign with the Ag gies Feb. 11, which is national sign ing day for high school seniors. Bluechip offensive lineman Greg Larkin of Cypress-Fairbanks earlier had pledged to play for the Maroon and White. Three other recruits who have pledged — Crane running back Ger ald Mitchell, Alto defensive back Steve Lofton and Deer Park offen sive lineman Jeff Huff — have ap peared on many newspapers’ Top 30 list of Texas recruits. Lewis rushed for 1,658 yards last year as a senior, scoring 22 touch downs. The Dallas Morning News rated Lewis as the top recruit in the state and the No. 2 prospect in the nation. Photo by Bill Hughes A&M’s Evelyn Sanders (center) goes for a re- ^ (32), Tori Harrison (13) and Tatia Brown (23) bound against Louisiana Tech’s Stacey Davis ' during A&M’s loss to the Lady Techsters Friday. Louisiana Tech blasts Lady Ags A&M suffers 51-point shellacking 95-44 By Loyd Brumfield Assistant Sports Editor Lynn Hickey, Coach of the Texas A&M women’s basketball team, had never lost a game by over 50 points in her life before last Fri day night. That was when Hickey’s Lady Aggies took on 7th-ranked Loui siana Tech and suffered a dev astating 95-44 loss in G. Rollie White Coliseum. “If I had known it was going to be like this, I never would have scheduled this game right in the middle of conference play,” Hickey said. A fast-breaking Lady Techster offense and a suffocating de fense, coupled with 24 A&M turnovers, led to the 51-point blowout. Even though Louisiana Tech got off to a quick 8-0 lead, the Lady Aggies had their best chance of catching the Lady Techsters by closing the gap to 8- 4 on jump shots by guard Traci Thomas and forward Lisa Jor don. The Lady Techsters then out- scored the Lady Aggies 20-6 in just under eight minutes to estab lish the tempo of the game. A&M (7-1 1) played hard, but it seemed confused by the quicker Lady Techsters. Sometimes it seemed a game of “Make it, take it” was going on, with Louisiana Tech forcing steals as soon as the Lady Aggies threw it in-bounds. Thomas led the Lady Aggies with 10 points and forward Eve lyn Sanders and Jordon followed with six each. Louisiana Tech was paced by forward Erica West brooks with 16 points. “Louisiana Tech is in the same situation as Texas,” Hickey said. “They have two or three teams that can compete with most other teams’ first squads.” The Lady Aggies return to conference play Thursay at 5 p.m. with a game against SMU in Moody Coliseum in Dallas. 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