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Thursday, September 10,1987/The Battalion/Page 15 hip 19| tank xamaha werage? 3 Scholars! ;ars at 0, kills, wider' by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds . soy won't sc auowep TO GOTO OA9£» OMuee^ Me GO£S> OUT FOR FOOTBALL!?' 1987 .^POCfcVMOppLE lj , -time champ Evert knocked off ises in U.S. Open quarterfinal action ids ds*Hydrocuri ENSES ED WEAR 01D 10 rsity Nl.W YORK (AP) — Chris Evert’s sweet 16” streak at the U.S. Open ennis championships encled ^^■nesday when she was upset by ipy LENSE' ■ ,or l * n the quarterfinals. ^ f; Esert, a six-time ()pen winner and ■'■W seeded this year, had reached 1 ^*)pen semifinals for the past 16 OFT LENSES ' eai r s — ^ ie first time at age 16. ! ^How 32, sfie thinks age may have ostjher the streak. “I didn’t have control over any of nyjhots,” Evert said after losing 3- i, 6 2, 6-4 at the National Tennis Center. “I guess that happens when Jget older. You have a few more d|aays. And today was a bad day. ining McNeil in the semifinals op-seeded Steffi Graf, who beat Pam Shriver 6-4, 6-3. men’s play, No. 2 Stefan Ed- No. 3 Mats Wilander, No. 5 slav Mecir and unseeded Ra- i Krishnan moved into the quar- erfirals. Jimmy Connors became the first nen s semifinalist with a 4-6, 6-3, 6- 30 victory over No. 13 Brad Gil bert. ■I It’s the 13th time Connors, seeded ixth has made it to the semifinals at le Open, a tournament he has won ive.times. “Getting to the semis is good, but :’s Biot satisfying,” said Connors, /ho hasn’t won a tournament in ** Vjhrer years. Mi W “I was in the semis at Wimbledon fl^wear and a couple of other tour- ■ larm nts. I need to get over that em|final hump.” Ill other men’s matches, No. 2 Ste- ^ High school flan must cancel new season WICl II I A FALLS (AP) — A local agh school’s football season was ■ q jn ana led after tfie team was forced JUl. y-lOo forfeit two games last week and ^number of players at practice T OlliCG w ' n( H e fi to fi ve - Administrators and coaches de- ided over the weekend to cancel the jason and told students of the deci- ionj Tuesday, Wichita Falls Notre liilie High School Principal Ronald taley said. fan Edberg, No. 3 Mats Wilander, No. 5 Miloslav Mecir and unseeded Ramesh Krishnan moved into the quarterfinals. Evert’s loss marked only the sec ond time in 50 Grand Slam events that she failed to make the semifi nals. She was beaten by Kathy Jor dan in the third round at Wimble don in 1983. The loss also ended Evert’s 13- year streak of winning at least one Grand Slam tournament. Evert, who lost all five of her serv ice games in the final set, wilted un der the pressure of McNeil’s net- rushing tactics. “I felt so flat out there. I just didn’t have my timing. I wasn’t smooth and flowing. I just didn’t play a good match at all,” she said. “She took me by surprise. She rushed me and came in off my first serve. I missed a lot of passing shots.” McNeil, a 24-year-old from Hous ton, said she felt Evert sank under the weight of her own accomplish ments. “I’m sure she felt a lot of pres sure,” she said. “She’s won this tour nament six times. I wasn’t supposed to win.” After losing the first set, McNeil became more aggressive and Evert committed 16 of her 23 unforced er rors. Graf took advantage of Shriver’s 23 unforced errors to end her oppo nent’s 18-match winning streak. “I played it right, but I missed on my opportunities,” Shriver said. “You have to put on a full-court press and make her hit so many passing shots. If I could take back four volleys and hit ’em right, I win the match.” Last year, Graf was the underdog when she lost a classic three-set semi final to Martina Navratilova. This year, she will be the heavy favorite when she meets McNeil on Friday. “I’m surprised it’s Lori,” Graf said. “I know I have to be ready for everybody and if Lori beats Chris, it means I nave to watch out for Lori even more.” Earlier in the day, Edberg and Wi- lander advanced to the quarterfinals by completing rain-interrupted vic tories over unseeded opponents. Edberg beat fellow Swede Jonas Svensson 6-2, 7-6 (10-8), 6-3 in a match that had been halted by rain Tuesday with the score tied 5-5 in the second set. “I was a litde bit frustrated today,” Edberg said. “It was very difficult because I had such a long day yester day.” Wilander downed American Ken Flach 6-3, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) in a match that was stopped Tuesday after Wi lander had won the first two sets. “Today felt like a completely new match,” Wilander said. “You had to forget about the two sets yesterday. I think he played better today than I did.” Mecir beat unseeded Australian Mark Woodforde 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. Krishnan beat unseeded Andrei Chesnokov 6-4, 6-1,6-2. SMU players, other transfers adjust to smaller program ipt. 18 lie E) Ipprhere’s just no sense in prolong- ig it any further,” Staley said. “The tudents have been concerned this raslcoming, and they can count as /ellas I can. They knew' we didn’t save the kids out. But we will con- nue our varsity program in the fit- are. ’ Last week, the parochial school trfeited its first two games of the tason because not enough athletes ere attending football practice. First-year head coach Greg Grady aidjthe cancellation is a great disap- ointment to him and team mem- ers who wanted to play, but said he opfes the program will return soon. “In a couple of years, we’re going have a strong varsity program, he administration wants a good rolram, and we’re going to give eni one.” Grady said. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — Four football players who wore Southern Methodist jerseys a year ago are learning to adjust to life at a smaller school in a smaller commu nity. The players transferred to West ern Kentucky University after the NCAA suspended SMU’s program last February for repeated viola tions, including under-the-table pay ments from boosters and coaches. “When you leave a big program like we did, you just want to play,” said Gerard Mark, a 230-pound sophomore fullback. He and his teammates, Tony Brown, Randy Garrett and Darryl Atwood, represent the highest con centration of SMU transfers at any one school. “A lot of guys cried when they made the (suspension) announce ment, but I didn’t,” Mark said. “The only thing I was sorry about was I didn’t get my degree from SMU. It’s a prestigious school and it would have meant a lot. I knew the suspen sion was coming because the NCAA had been picking on SMU for so many years.” Mark said that “every big school takes care of its players. I felt sorry for the coaches because they had been living good for a long time and now they were all without jobs. They were good people. No matter what happened to you — cops, girls, NCAA — they would stick behind you.” Mark declined to say whether he or any of his teammates now at Western were involved in the pay- for-play scandal. “People are always asking us what it was like getting paid by boosters,” he said. “You could tell, but you didn’t really know who was getting money on the team unless somebody was a close buddy and told you.” The SMU transfers and about a dozen other players from major col leges are trying to piece their careers back together at Western, an NCAA Division 1-AA program that is at tempting to rebuild its football pro gram. Dave Smith, a 220-pound tailback, selected Western after Wichita State decided it no longer was able to fi nance a football program. He said Western coach Dave Rob erts did a good job of convincing the transfers that smaller sometimes is better. “I’ve got one chance left and I have to make the best of it,” said Smith, who came off the bench in Western’s opener last Saturday and rushed 15 times for 128 yams, in cluding a 58-yard touchdown against Gardner-Webb. Like the SMU players, Smith said it’s been a big adjustment moving to 1-AA. “This is a comedown because you have second-hand (equipment),” Smith said. “You never had to clean up the locker room or clean up your helmets (at Wichita State).” Unlock! t sect, ^UnyOOOMNO 1 ^ tMSC ‘Pageant Committee Chairman CLpptications avaiCaBLe in ‘Kpom 216 CMSC Student (Programs Office Supplications due Monday, SeptemSer 14, by f> p.m. in %gom 216 MSC Interviezus to be field on ‘Wednesday, September 16. <¥ MSC TOWN HALL CLUB PRESENTS WITH JOE "KING” CARRASCO FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER 18TH 8:30 p.m. DeWare Fieldhouse Tickets $5.50 - TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE TAMU BOX OFFICE 845-1234 ALSO AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Calculator Demonstration Day Monday, Sept. 14 10:00 am till 4:00 pm At the Texas A&M Bookstore in the Memorial Student Center A Texas Instrument’s representative will be in our store to demonstrate the Texas Instruments line of Business, Financial, scientific, and programmable calculators dedicated to engineers, mathematicians and scientists. 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