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SPORTS 9
Friday, February 24,1989
Aggie men’s tennis
team blasts Eagles
The Texas A&M men’s tennis
team improved its season record to
2-4 Thursday with a 7-2 home vic
tory over the University of North
Texas Eagles.
The Aggies experienced both
high and low points during the
match, as A&M walk-on Gregg Dyer
turned in an outstanding perfor
mance while junior captain Steve
Kennedy was lost for the season to a
knee injury.
A&M top seed Gustavo Espinosa
was defeated 6-4, 6-3 by UNT’s Jim
Kohr while second-seeded Shaun
O’Donovan had no problem with
UNT’s Keith McKay, posting a 6-3,
6-3 victory.
Matt Zisette defeated UNT’s
Mark Clifton 6-2, 6-4, in third-
seeded action while Doug Brown de
stroyed UNT’s Chris Tibbetts 6-1,6-
1, in a fourth-seed match.
Kennedy was knotted at 3-3 in the
first set of his fifth-seeded match
with UNT’s Sandeet Chhabra before
the contest was forfeited because of
Kennedy’s knee injury.
Thursday’s match was Kennedy’s
second after returning to the team
from a previous knee injury.
Senior Craig Whitteker is ex
pected to return to the lineup in 2-6
weeks after recovery from arthros
copic knee surgery.
Dyer, a walk-on from Bryan, de
feated UNT’s Tor Krosby 4-6, 6-4,
6-2 in the sixth-seed match.
The Aggies dominated the dou
bles contests, as the top-seeded team
of O’Donovan and Zisette rallied af
ter a first set loss to win their match
over UNT’s Kohr and McKay 6-7, 6-
0, 6-3.
A&M’s second-seeded pairing of
Blake Barsalou and Espinosa wasted
no time in defeating UNT’s Tibbett
and Chhabra 6-1, 6-3, while the
third-seeded team of Brown and
Dyer coasted by UNT’s Clifton and
Scott Hope 6-1,6-2.
A&M Head Coach David Kent
said the team was hurting, but had
no plans of giving up.
“Gregg (Dyer) fought hard and
really made the difference, espe
cially with the loss of Steve (Kenne
dy),” Kent said. “Gregg’s win gives
us a lot of momentum. We have to
do a lot of improving and take each
match head-on.”
The Aggies will have a week to re
group before they travel to Corpus
Christi to participate in the Corpus
Team Tournament which begins
March 2.
A&M’s Shaun O’Donovan serves during his singles victory.
Aggie teams ready
for crucial weekend
Texas A&M’s baseball and basket
ball teams will try to keep winning
streaks alive while the Lady Aggie
basketball team will attempt to get
back on the winning track this week
end.
Shelby Metcalf Aggie basketball
team (13-12; 6-7 in the SWC), riding
a five-game winning streak, will try
to avenge an earlier home loss when
they travel to Houston to take on the
Houston Cougars. The regionally
televised (Raycom) Southwest Con
ference basketball game is scheduled
to tipoff tomorrow at 1 p.m. in
Hofheinz Pavilion.
A&M will be trying to win its sixth
in a row for the first time since 1980
when A&M opened SWC play by
winning nine consecutive games
without a loss.
A&M will have to stop the Cou
gars’ Craig Upchurch who burned
them for 34 points in the first meet
ing between the two teams. Houston
(15-12; 6-7) won the first game by a
71-67 score.
Metcalf says the Aggies need to
remain focused and cannot afford a
letdown if they want to extend their
winning streak.
“Our players are playing with a lot
more confidence,” Metcalf said. “I
think they realize that the hard work
is paying off.
“We started off a little slow
Wednesday (against Rice) and the
players realize they have to go all out
every time they step on the court. If
we don’t play hard, we don’t play
well.”
Lynn Hickey’s Lady Aggie
hoopsters (15-9; 7-6 in the SWC) will
be trying to right the ship and qual
ify for the SWC women’s tourna
ment. The Lady Aggies are in a
three-way battle for fourth place in
the SWC and a win over Houston
(15-9; 8-5) would be crucial. The top
four teams qualify for the women’s
tourney.
Hickey’s squad has lost five of its
last seven games after getting out to
a good start.
The sixth-ranked A&M baseball
team will be hosting Louisiana Tech
for a three-game series as the Aggies
try to extend their season-opening
winning streak to 13 games.
A&M (10-0) will begin the series-
with a doubleheader starting tomor
row at 1 p.m.
Aggie basketball fans need an education in hoops etiquette
When 1 moved to Texas nine years ago
one thing became readily apparent to me.
Football is King.
There was no questioning it. It was
bigger than — bow your heads and
genuflect true Texans — rodeo.
And at the time that was cool with me. I
mean, I played football. I watched football.
I really liked football. And today, two of
those three statemants remain true.
But as my life in the Lone Star State
rolled on, the fact of football’s despotic rule
on my new home began to alarm me.
It was now basketball season and football
recruiting news dominated the sports
pages. Then the boys of summer began to
play and football was still getting press with
news of spring football and training camps.
And then it was back to football season
again.
What is this leading up to?
I’m tired of living in the iron grip of the
pigskin despot and his blind subjects. There
Tom
Kehoe
Sports Writer
are other sports to attend here at A&M.
No, you’re probably not going to be able
to get a date for every basketball game like
you’re used to, you football season studs.
And even if you do you’re probably not
going to score every time the Aggies do.
But you should go to the basketball
games! After 11 home games the average
attendance is a pathetic 2,493.
Shelby Metcalfs team is playing some of
the best roundball this campus had seen
since Rynn Wright packed his bags and left
the fiendly confines of G. Rollie White.
They’ve won five games in row.
Go to the basketball games!
And the Aggies’ game is now exciting
with a tough pressing defense and new up
tempo offense. It’s not a dull team that puts
up 15 three-point shots in the first half of a
game.
So that briefly covers why you should be
going.
Now let’s talk about the 2,493 that are
showing up.
Let me preface the forthcoming tirade
with this: This doesn’t appply to all of you.
But as they say, a few bad apples spoil the
whole barrel. So that few need to be
admonished.
First, not every call made against the
Aggies is a bad one. You shouldn’t come
unglued when Freddie Ricks and Tony
Milton get those charging calls. It happens
sometimes; deal with it.
Second, when said bad call is made, don’t
assume the official in error is on the take.
The routine of holding up your grungy
dollar bills is losing its novelty and it looks
more like you’re soliciting for some
halftime entertainment.
Third, please control the language
you’re berating the officials with. Voicing
your opinion is one thing, but when you do
it with a vocabulary that indicates you have
done a stretch in the merchant marine,
that’s another. Besides it’s really is a poor
representation for our university when a
TV camera catches one of the Aggie
faithful overtly screaming obscenities.
Fourth: (And when you write in it’s
spelled K-E-H-O-E.) The band is
inappropriate. Initially, it’s just too loud.
Spirit and effort are appreciated but
rendering the seniors and the press corps
tone deaf is just sort of overdoing it.
A smaller, jazz-oriented band is a better
idea. But a point in favor of the band (yes
we Batt-commies can say something nice) is
the change in format of their music.
Popular music is much more appealing to
fans than the militaristic dirges that were
exclusively played before.
And finally, (remember: get the spelling
right) somebody muzzle Reveille after her
opening 30 seconds of barking. It’s mildly
cute when it starts but after a good five
minutes it inspires thoughts in your mind
that wouldn’t sit too well with the S.P.C.A.
Besides, I don’t think a barking Collie is all
that intimidating to a 6-8 forward who has
Doug Dennis pushing him around like a
blocking dummy.
So there you have it.
If you haven’t been going — go.
If you have been going, thanks, but get
smart.
See y’all at the next home game. It’s
March 4 against Texas. I mean, gosh, it’s
against t.u. Do it for Old Army and good
bull. Whoop.
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Hugo Award winner in 1984 and 1985
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writer for the X-Men
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