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Thursday, March 5, 1987/The Battalion/Page 13 former basketball star Langston mow concentrating on A&M track dilate al* One 4 ^ far ai f° grind | l( >gment, ls ion thaiii 'rs imme, By Andria P. Goldwire I Reporter Few athletes can be successful in i! have .I B 0 collegiate events, but lasa Lan- Iton has managed it. “I’m proud to have contributed so Much to Texas A&M’s women’s ath- SSI lies,” Langston said. | avv | ike i Langston is the all-time leading mdless | orer * n women’s basketball. ler career point total is 1,615, and " ■'> |ie averaged 16.3 points per game I her senior season last year for the 10 i fedy Aggies. She also holds the school record (182 seconds) in the 60-meter hur- uston, out ■Sunders rs. 'y, a f'resk- f‘is, Tenn rr of tlit 987 Asso- west Con. M 6-5, 201 LregAn-l “My goal was to help establish a od, balanced foundation for wom- i’s athletics,” she said. “I’ve rep- sented A&M on the regional, na- mal and international levels and All-Xe* Bxomplished my goal.” The 1986 track season was the jrst time Langston had participated track events since high school. She da good season, but she wants this ar to be better. “I’m much more serious about ack this year,” she said. “Last year, iiston, Sr. I'ran to take my mind off of basket- iams, 6-2 ball. This year, I’m thinking compet- as; LamBively.” CU, Sr I Langston is confident in her abil- arrylMidBY to compete with the leading furdlers in the conference, espe- ally Karen Nelson of the University |f Texas. Langston placed second in the 60- eter hurdles at the Southwest Con- rence Indoor Championships be hind Nelson and has qualified for lie NCAA Track and Field Indoor lhampionships March 13-14 in Ok- homa City. Quem Her best time this year is 7.82 sec onds, and her goal is to become an All-American. “Competing against the best is the only way to see how good you really are,” she said. “Anyone can be de feated at any time. A person can only do the best that they can with the athletic ability that they have.” Langston demonstrated her team- oriented athletic ability in basketball, but she feels that track has given her a chance to really concentrate on herself. “Basketball is a team sport, and you are only as good as the people around you,” she said. “Track allows the selfish part of me to come out. The only person I can blame for anything is myself. “I’m not expecting as much of my self in track as I did in basketball. There’s not as much pressure, and no one is really depending on me.” The only weaknesses Langston feels she has are the lack of formal training in the hurdles and lack of form coming out of the starting blocks. “I’ve had very little formal train ing in hurdle technique,” she said. “Right now, it’s just me and the God- given talents that I have.” She said the mental aspect of track is also very different from basket ball. “Basketball is so mental,” she said. “Track is simpler for me because I concentrate on myself and not nec essarily on the team’s efforts.” However, the team’s performance is important to Langston. She said she is excited about its fifth-place finish at the SWC Indoor Cham pionships last month, and she is Lisa Langston looking forward to the outdoor track schedule. She will be competing in the 100- meter hurdles, long jump and possi bly the sprint relay. “Our performance at Indoors was a confidence booster,” she said. “No one thought we were going to do that well.” Langston is also concentrating on her education. She received her bachelor’s degree in physical educa tion, and she is taking graduate level courses. “I’m not officially in graduate school, but I will get my master’s,” she said. Meanwhile, Langston wants to go to Europe to play professional bas ketball with a club team or with Ath letes in Action, a religious-oriented athletic club. She may also look for a professional track club if this season goes well. Eventually, she wants a coaching and teaching job at the sec ondary level. A&M men's tennis team falls to Duke The Texas A&M men’s tennis team lost to Duke 5-2 in the first round of the Corpus Christi Team Tournament Wednesday. The Aggies play their second match of the tournament at 3:30 this afternoon against Oklahoma State. The Aggies will be looking forward to avenging a 5-4 loss to OSU in the Cowboys’ tournament earlier this year. The final two doubles matches were called off in yesterday’s match after Duke’s victory in the No. 3 doubles match clinched a win. Scott McTeer and Mark Mance defeated A&M’s Shaun O’Donovan and Steve Kennedy 6-2, 6-3. Aggie Coach David Kent said, “They just outplayed us. We have no excuses.” The only Aggie victories came in the No. 2 and No. 3 singles matches. Dean Goldfine beat Mc Teer 6-4, 6-4 in No. 2 action; and Marcel Vos won his No. 3 match with Ken Bourian 6-1,6-3. Duke’s Jeff Herst beat Dean Johnson 6-3, 6-4 in No. 1 singles. A&M’s No. 4 player Brent Hay- garth lost his match 7-6, 6-3. Ken nedy lost his No. 6 match to Ricky Peck 6-7, 7-5, 6-0. O’Donovan lost his first match as an Aggie in No. 5 singles, fall ing to Duke’s Mark Nance 1-6, 7- 5, 6-0. Kent said he was going to make a lineup change, moving O’Dono van up to the No. 4 spot instead of Haygarth. 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I Denver, 24-36, lost its fourth con- Icutive game. The Nuggets, who le 5-25 on the road, have lost 11 lut of their last 13. I The Mavericks trailed just once, 2fo at the start of the game. Dallas by 16 points, 72-56, midway through the third period, and by 13 points, 86-73, at the end of the pe riod. But Dallas had to hold off the Nuggets in the final quarter. Alex p< English, who scored 37 points, led h the Nuggets on a 16-8 run, which cut Dallas’ margin to five points, 94-89, with 7:35 remaining in the game. Aguirre and Sam Perkins led Dal las on a 10-5 run to build the lead back to 10, 104-94, with 5:01 left be fore the Nuggets cut it to four points, 105-101, at the 2:55 mark. Dallas then outscored Denver, 10-6, to wrap up the victory. Denver coach Doug Moe was ejected with six seconds left in the first period when he received back- to-back technical fouls from referee Earl Strom. Rolando Blackman scored 21 oints for Dallas and Mike Evans ad 19 for the Denver. Denver’s Wayne Cooper and Dallas’ James Donaldson each had 16 rebounds. The Mavericks, who won for the seventh time in eight games, in creased their Midwest Division lead to 6!/2 games over Utah, which lost in Boston. But they said the victory over the Nuggets didn’t come easy. “It felt more like a three or a four- point win,” said guard Derek Harper, who scored only nine points but handed out 13 assists. “They just wouldn’t die. The lead was never really safe because everytime we got up by 10 or more points, English and the rest of them would come back to make it close.” English said, “We really played hard the whole game. “We really worked from the be ginning,” he said. “A few less turn overs and a few more breaks and we could possibly have won. But I think the most important thing about to night is that we kept ourselves in it.” Moe said Aguirre was a big key in the game “We competed and did a good job, but we just couldn’t stop Aguirre. 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