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Monday, February 29, 1988/The Battalion/Page 11 &M women’s netters take control impressive 9-0 win over Baylor By Curtis L. Culberson Assistant Spoi ls Editor ie Texas A&M women’s tennis overpowered Baylor Saturday inaTecbiipl-noon 94) at t | ie Omar Smith iton.La. pinis Center without the efforts of ^ridays^heiLady Aggie No. 1 seed Ciaye pGensler in single’s play, jhe Lady Aggies improve their m record to 8-2 and go to 1-1 in iithwest conference play after a ustrating 5-4 loss to Texas last ed Bensler has a possible stress frac- ■ in her lower leg and the trainer aijU'd to her play just one match, Head Coach Bobby Kleinecke 1 n vo of its then >leheader,j and falling lakes line up for position SWC Classic draws near ne runs in ive more o;i second © 3-1, wasi ie first git the loss in 3 pping his it Bensler joined her partner Lisa those t. telle in double’s play. Johnsonal "I didn’t want to disrupt my dou- d, butincBteams,” Kleinecke said, httotheni pjeller slid into the No. 1 single’s st game Jpo and easily handled Baylor’s for five iJv Lou Castillo 6-1, b-4. Af ter be- second.ltujdown 3-1 in the second set, Cas- 1 Ross 1 with a gii'i i-fieldtrji ie run. faylor lit the sixtt:: in the > 2-run h: ame. impsor : .| By Ha , L Hammons Assistant Sports Editor tOlpfflt*) ver t | le p ast t[ iree years several [ors have emerged as constants at Southwest Conference Classic — :in particular, n e ; Texas A&M [pyct p do great. m Texas , otNDUTKx Bh will do iai rxt^'i Beat. ^ : A| - B»s will k. three aaih I those ;esoi j 0 0 1 d NSALE I'ge this T - , as once lin, the C has |/ATERf f|nd a new STRY. tillo came back to tie things up at 3-3. Keller committed two consecutive double faults in the seventh came, but took charge of the game and the match frustrating her opponent with agressive net play and good shots from the baseline. Freshman wonder Cindy Church- well continues to play excellent ten nis, beating Kelly Harrod 6-0, 6-4 in the No. 2 seed. Churchwell expands her winning streak to (ive and her overall record moves to 9-1. After dominating the first set, Churchwell had some probelms with Harrod in the second. At one point Churchwell was down 2-3 hut she prevailed with well-placed shots and some net play. Cindy Crawford moved up to the No. 3 seed and manhandled Baylor’s Tracie Williams 6-2, 6-0. No. 4 seeded Susan Williams oblit erated Kathy O’Toole 6-0, 6-1. “She played really well,” said assis tant coach and medical redshirt team member Jennifer Jones. “She didn’t lose a point the entire first set.” Traci Nix defeated Tamria Wil kinson 6-4, 6-1 in the No. 5 position and Derryn Haygarth, playing in the singles for the second time this sea son at Omar, controlled the Beats’ No. 6 seed Tracy Bailes 6-2, 6-0. The Lady Aggies also dominated in doubles play winning all three matches in two sets. \ “We played well,” Kleinecke said. “We needed to win the match 9-0 af ter that loss to Texas last week.” Kleinecke said he was impressed with the way his team was prepared for the Bears. “It would he easy to let down against Baylor,” he said. “But we took care of it and it puts us in great shape going in against Houston.” The Lady Aggies will face the Cougars in a match scheduled for next weekend in Houston. T he Mustangs have a half-game lead over Arkansas with only a home game with Texas Christian and a non-conference showdown with Chi cago State (Who?) left. Needless to say, they ought to survive both of those and claim the No. 1 seed in the tournament. The Hogs are another flaky team. I hey have far too much talent to ull their yearly choke job in Dallas, }ut then that’s getting to be a peren nial observation that has no correla tion with eventual reality. t Hal L. Hammons Sports viewpoint innovative way to focus extreme ty between teams into a dead it for about six of the eight spots, tit you never know about this Iference. Consider the cast of peters: erratic players like Kato wrong, Darryl McDonald, Dar- iMiddleton, Andrew Lang, and ntless others of their ilk, playing teams like Southern Methodist, as A&M, Arkansas and about six fcrs with equal consistency short- his conference is flakier than a |co/Loretta Lynn pie crust. Ami Je’s no telling what flake is going Becide to play up to hi.s/its poten- imiagiven day. his year’s top seed ought to he U. They’ve proved unstoppable year when they have decided to hv well. The trouble is, they have ■nplagued with games like Satur days fiasco in Austin where they ’ajtii seem to get off the bus without ci'ing their collective shooting tolch in their collective duf fel bag. Previous upchuckings have been attributed to lack of talent or lack of experience. This year’s team has both. It’s even managed to win a few games on the road this year — an es pecially rare treat. They may not hold on, however. They have road games with Houston and Tech left, and neither is a lock. T ech is notoriously tough at home, while Houston is actually good. Chances are, says me, they’ll lose to the Coogs and beat the Raiders, giving them a 11-5 SWC] record — , enough for a piece of second place. Whether they’d get the nod for the higher seeding, I must confess, I know not. Tie-breaking measures, along with integral calculus, are be yond this humble Journalism major. Baylor, a pre-season conference favorite that seems to have remem bered how to play this game after an atrocious start, looks strong for a piece of No. 2 as well. The Bears have Tech and Texas at home to close out the season. They should beat Tech without much trouble, but the Horns are a dif ferent story. TT>e BV-UT game Saturday looks like it will be critical to three or four teams’ seedings in the Classic. I’m tending toward the opinion that Baylor will be more than ready to avenge the trouncing they took at UT’s hands earlier this year in Aus tin. That leaves Texas 10-6 and tied for slot 4 with Houston, another team that appears to have finally fig ured out how to play up to its poten tial. The Cougars should add a light Rice dessert to their dinner of pork barbecue. Texas (sorry, Ags) probably will beat A&M Wednesday in its sud denly friendly Frank Erwin Center confines. Austin folks seem to be coming, slowly but surely, to the re alization that they actually have a quality basketball team there besides the Horns’ more lauded female counterparts. That leaves A&M limping in after its spectacular start. Limping ought to be enough to get over TCU, and that will even out the Aggies’ record at a truly average 8-8 mark and alone in sixth. Their strong tourna ment history may not continue in ’88, however, now that post-season whiz kid Winston Crite has left. Tech will follow Saturday’s im pressive (chortle, chortle) outing at Jolly Rollie with losses to Baylor and Arkansas, leaving them with a 4-12 record and small consolation in not being the lowest-seeded team. That’s reserved for the mighty Frogs/Owls — they’re 3-13, deplora ble, and basically interchangeable. Certainly neither of them should be able to knock off SMU. But then, stranger things have been rumored to have happened. T hey just haven’t been reported by reliable witnesses. 4 P ^1 Kickoff team meeting set for 6 today An organizational meeting for text fall’s edition of tlie 12th Man lick-off Team will be held today t Kyle Field. The meeting, scheduled to [tart at 6 p.m., is open to all inter red Texas A&M students. This will be the sixth consec- itive year for die special non- cholarship unit, which was tailed when A&M Head Coach ackie Sherrill saw' students work- HU tag on bonfire and decided to Channel the spirit he saw there into an actual part of the team. The team has become famous ationwide with the exposure l&M has received from three [onsecutive trips to the Cotton Jowl. I he 12th Man has never al- owed a return for a touchdown nd only one past the 50-yard me. Anyone who needs more infor- nation about the meeting or the earn should call 845-1242 or the A&M Sports Information De partment at 845-5725. Witt defeats Thomas in duel of ‘Carmens’ CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — From dueling Carmens to dueling coaches. After Katarina Witt became the first woman in 52 years to win suc cessive Olympic figure skating gold medals, Jutta Mueller, her coach, criticized American Debi Thomas for skating to Bizet’s tragic opera. After silver medalist Idz Manley handed Witt her first f reestyle loss in six years, Manley’s coach scolded the media for forgetting about the Ca nadian champion. After Debi Thomas lost the battle of Carmens by turning what could have been a triumphant routine into one that plummeted her to third, Alex McGowan, her coach, weakly defended the two-time U.S. cham pion. All three will meet next month at the world championships in Buda pest, Hungary. The confrontation among their coaches could be as in teresting as the Final encounter for the skaters. Although Manley was the surprise of the long program, she was too far compulsories, move up to a back — fourth in third in short — to gold. That, said Mueller, was a big edge for Witt, who skated four places ahead of Thomas, the final skater. “Katarina portrays Carmen from the beginning to the end, as it should be,” Mueller said. “Don’t misunder stand me now, but, for Debi, she does not have the good feeling for Carmen and it was not the tight choice for Debi. “In the beginning, she was strong and OK. In the slow part, it was not Carmen. It looked like she was inter preting Swan Lake. “On the end of the program, she was not Carmen at all.” Nor was she a threat to Witt, the first woman’s double gold winner in singles since Sonja Henie’s third straight crown in 1932. Thomas, the 1986 world titlist, botched three triple jumps and slipped to fourth in the long (worth 50 percent of the total score) and third overall. GOLF TOURNAMENT The perfect Activity For Your Organization Available Dates Going Fast-Call Today 823-0126 Bryan ★ ;Golf Course 206 W. Villa Maria Bryan Let us help you plan your tournament. 823-0126 Managed by American Golf Corporation 4« 4. «+* d* •+» «*’ 4* ^ d «L«!- • Direct, from Lynchburg, Tennessee il.’s the Hometown Homecoming featuring MR. JACK DANIEL’S ORIGINAL SILVER CORNET BAND A delightful afternoon of music and theatre under the gazebo with “The Perfcssor” and his thirteen piece band. Tickets can he purchased at the MSC Box Office, 845 1234 and Dillards Ticketron. Sunday, March 6 at 4:00 p.m. Rudder Auditorium MSC Opera and Performing Arts Society 'Memorial Student Center • Texas A&M LniverMty • fto\ .11 • College Station -1844 9081 * 0 ' e CL sr'-<»xp'X • February 29, March 1,2,3,4 Commons: 10 am to 8 pm MSC: 10 am to 6 pm SBISA: 10 am to 6 pm Zachry: 10 am to 5 pm THE f 9TCJ BLOOD CENTER at Wadley Another service of Alpha Phi Omega, Student Government & Omega Phi Alpha - ■ " ... - Battalion Classified 845-2611