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By Brad Marquardt
Reporter
The 1988 Texas A&M men’s ten-
teams, hadsii is team hopes to blend the old with
[or Upshaw j ienew i n order to be a factor in this
otiator Jack DcJ ear ’ s Southwest Conference race.
fom all indications, this year’s
tjuad should be one of the best ever
ssembled at A&M.
The team will be led by senior
lean Johnson and holdovers Shaun
I’Donovan and Steve Kennedy. The
th^ 'steele J r?4 amw '^ bolstered by newcomers
nrartidmr \‘i '™g Whitteker, Mike Chambers
joined by jacksj f d , Ken ny R >' le f, Th ^ st l uad wil *
e around m ,s0 be im P roved h y the return o£
" ® (rent Haygarth in the spring.
A&.M Coach David Kent said, “We
ed in the 198o[ avequality and quantity. We are im-
were joined ini iroved over last year in that we have
aints by widei lore depth, and a much more de-
i and cornerbao landing schedule, so that’s a real
d Michael Adai
turn to St. Louiii
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am could win the conference.
“It’s always a challenge to win in
aeSWC,” Kent said. “Four or five
fthetop 20 teams are usually in the
onference. is probably the second-
est tennis conference in the na
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The Aggies will be challenged by a
Johnson is the Aggies’ top return-
ng player and team captain. The se-
liorwon three straight singles titles
in tournaments this summer, includ
ing the Texas A&M 4-Way Singles
and Doubles Tournament last week
end. Kent said Johnson played out
standing tennis during the tourna
ment, and beat quality players along
the way.
“Dean is one of the best athletes
I’ve ever coached, and he is an out
standing captain and leader,” Kent
said. “I feel we have the senior lead
ership in Dean that will take us a
long way.”
Another returnee is Brent Hay-
garth, who is the returning SWC No.
4 singles champion. Haygarth is a
very good doubles player and can
play with any college player in the
nation, Kent said.
“He will give us the punch we will
need at the top of the lineup,” Kent
said.
A player that Kent has high hopes
for is transfer Craig Whitteker, who
came to A&M by way of McLennan
Community College. He is a very
good doubles player and a national
junior-college doubles champion,
Kent said.
“Craig plays with a lot of enthu
siasm and is a “never-give-up” type
of player,” Kent said.
Another transfer is Mike Cham
bers, who came to A&M after the
University of Houston dropped its
tennis program. He has shown he
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lines at the ouis ST. LOUIS (AP) — With the St.
Duliban andw ouis Cardinals having trouble scor-
Lam” Jones, »i agruns, shortstop Ozzie Smith said
d reserve list,al ecently it was imperative that the
am get “dominating” pitching
lown the stretch in order to win the
Scab” for repoilational League East title.|
ute team.lt* Rookie Joe Magrane and Greg
: White wouldk lathews provided just that in a dou-
y if he didn'tpli leheader sweep of the Montreal Ex-
was glad tos osTuesday night.
The victories put the Cardinals on
be verge ofthe divisionj
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Mathews teamed with reliever
odd Worrell for a four-hit, 3-0 vic-
iryin the second game.
Magrane, a left-hander with a 9-7
icord, acknowledged that his sec-
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game of his brief major
ague career. He struggled through
much of July and August, but has al
lowed only four earned runs in his
last 30 innings.
“I don’t think there’s any better
time to get it than now,” Magrane
said.
The Cardinals haven’t been pro
ducing many runs, but Magrane said
the dry spell prepared him to win
Tuesday night with the one run the
Cardinals gave him.
“Knowing we’ve been scuffling
for runs has made me a better
pitcher,” Magrane said.
“I try to stay on every pitch and
throw it the best I can. I can’t allow a
big inning early in the game.
“You always let your defense have
a good chance by throwing strikes,”
Magrane said. “There’s nothing
magical about that. Nobody likes
people who work slow and throw a
lot of pitches.”
Magrane is known for his wit off
the field, but he didn’t allow himself
to get caught up in the jubilation as
the crowd enjoyed his pitching and
the news of the second-place New
York Mets’ 3-0 loss to the Philadel
phia Phillies.
“When I’m off the field, I like to
have a sarcastic point of view on
things,” he said. “But it’s very impor
tant for us to win now, and I’m glad
I was able to give us a lift.”
Mathews, along with Worrell,
made the most of the Cardinals’
three runs in the second game.
It was a welcome change for
Mathews, who had given up only two
earned runs in his last 22 innings yet
lost two games because the Cardinals
didn’t score.
The two consecutive shutouts
were the first by the Cardinals since
Joaquin Andujar and Danny Cox did
it May 30-31, 1985.
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can beat college players, Kent said.
“He has an unbelievable amount
of talent,” Kent said.
Sophomores Steve Kennedy and
Shaun O’Donovan combine to make
the squad’s top doubles team. They
have also proved this by winning the
A&M 4-Way Tournament doubles
title. Kennedy and O’Donovan also
have a victory over the Southern
Methodist doubles team that in
cluded Richey Reneberg, who is now
on the professional circuit.
“They can really play tennis and
are a tough twosome,” Kent said.
The biggest surprise is sopho
more Wayne Green, who was a
squadsman last season. Kent said
Green has improved 130 percent
over last year and really dedicated
himself to tennis.
“I think he’ll be in the top six this
year. It will be hard to keep him
out,” he said.
Adding to the depth of the squad
are Kenny Rylee, who transferred
from the University of Kentucky
and Jeff Livshitz, who is an out
standing player from South Africa.
“The squad will be very strong in
doubles, and we have tremendous
depth. We have as many good play
ers on our team as we have ever
had,” Kent said. “I’m looking for a
banner year.”
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Dean Johnson, A&M’s top returning men’s tennis player, prepares to return a serve during a tennis tournament
held last year at the Omar Smith Tennis Center on campus. Coach David Kent says the team should challenge
for the 1987-88 Southwest Conference championship with top players like Johnson and Brent Haygarth.
Mize is not comfortable playing
on familiar course in tournament
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Larry
Mize will be playing his home course
this week in the $400,000 Southern
Open golf tournament, but the Mas
ters champion doesn’t consider him
self a favorite, nor has he had much
success playing here.
“You would think I’d play well
here,” Mize said Wednesday of the
6,791-yard, par 70 Green Island
Country Club course, which lies
across the street from his condomi
nium.
“But, I don’t know what it is. I
think maybe I press too hard, put
too much pressure on myself,” said
Mize, who won the Masters in April
and has earned $440,316 in 1987,
eighth on the tour’s money list.
Mize, who finished 19th in this
tournamewnt a year ago, said he
plays 20-25 rounds on the course a
year and generally shoots in the “67-
68 range,” but “I’ve never gotten off
to a good start here. I hope I can get
off to a fast start.”
“My objective this week is to relax,
have a good time and not press like
in years past,” he said of the 72-hole
event which begins Thursday and is
worth $72,000 to the winner.
Mize, 29, who is in his seventh
year on the tour and has earned
more than $1.3 million, is tired after
playing last week on the U.S. Ryder
Cup team, which lost to the Euro
peans.
Mize, who finished fourth in the
U.S. Open and has eight top 10 fin
ishes in 20 events this year, said that
winning the Masters has given him
“more recognition.”
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