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We will fax each afternoon and your friends/relatives will receive letters in 48 hours. Operation Desert Fax is brought to you by: m Page 8 The Battalion Monday, January 27,1991 SMU surprises Coogs, Hogs first to win 20 as SWC play heats up for stretch drive v\on ( DALLAS (AP) — If Southern Methodist coach John Shumate is looking for respect, he’s made a be liever out of Houston Cougars coach Pat Foster. “SMU just lined up and whipped us,” Foster said after the Mustangs won for the sixth time in seven games, upsetting Houston 81-75 Sat urday night. “They played extremely hard and deserved to win. If they aren’t a good basketball team, then I must be missing something. They ran their offense well and screened us all over the floor.” In other Southwest Conference games Saturday, Arkansas became the first Division I team to post 20 victories this season by holding off Baylor 73-68; Texas whipped Texas Christian 90-49 in Austin; and Rice handled visiting Texas A&M 98-76. Texas Tech ended a five-game losing skid by beating Southern Illi- nois-Edwardsville 94-66. Southern Methodist improved to 9-9 overall and 4-3 in league play, thanks to substitute center Greg Kinzer, who scored 7 points during a pivotal 17-6 second-half run. Tim Mason led the Mustangs with 21 points. “There’s no question that Hous ton is a national basketball team,” Shumate said. “Anytime that you beat a national team, it gives you some credibility.” The Cougars (12-6, 4-3) hit only one of 12 shots during the fateful run that saw SMU turn a 47-46 defi cit to a 63-53 lead with eight minutes left. Byron Smith led the Cougars with 20 points. Alvaro Teheran scored 17 points, but only two in the last 15 minutes while Kinzer and Bobby Holkan were guarding him. Kinzer finished with 13 points. The Mustangs were down 11-2 and 36-27 in the first half, but fresh man Chad Allen’s pair of 3-pointers tied the game at 37 at halftime. Baylor (9-7, 2-5) scared Arkansas with flashbacks of last year’s upset. The Bears put together a 15-6 run, ending on David Wesley’s 3- pointer, to close to withing 68-66 with 34 seconds left. But Arkansas th f hit 5 of 6 foul shots to preserve victory. Oliver Miller led Arkansas (201 8-0) with 22 points. “We will be a better team forhav ing to overcome the adversity we had to overcome tonight,” Razor backs coach Nolan Richardson said. Arlyn Bowers and Lee Mayhem scorea 11 points each for Arkansas Todd Day, the SWC’s leading scorer was held to a career-low five points. K< lapse from the b ment thro i I Senic ‘B I dor I said I him £ “A “I didn’t expect it to be this along tough,” Mayberry said. “I though ingtr we weould win by 10 or 12 points “T We didn’t play like the No.2wouldiii didn’ the nation. We were having flash Ni' backs to last year — that was in the on th back of our minds.” ji p U tt A year ago, Arkansas was ranked j j, third in the nation when it cametc L e . Baylor, and the Bears pulled off an KcS< 82-77 upset. Becker smashes Lendl, leaves stadium to celebrate MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) —In their mo ments of triumph, champions sometimes cry or shout or hug their loved ones. Boris Becker ran away. Introspective, sensitive, an artist in his own way, Becker fled the stadium and crowd and a defeated Ivan Lendl seconds after the final shot at the Australian Open on Sunday to be alone with his thoughts. This was not just another victory and paycheck for Becker, even if his 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win gave him a fifth Grand Slam title and $250,000. This was about becoming No. 1 in the world rankings, displacing Stefan Edberg, achieving at age 23 the most important goal of his seven-year career, and perhaps moving on with his life away from tennis. He jogged through a tunnel in the stadium, past bewildered officials, to the grassy park out side, pumping his arms in the air and exulting among the Chinese elm trees under a canopy of fluffy white clouds. “He was on top of the world. He was ecstatic,” said Glen Sharam, head groundsman at the Na tional Tennis Center, who was told by the tour nament referee to follow that redhead. “Keep away,” Becker shouted, and Sharam, a professional sprinter when not tending the cen ter, stayed a respectful 70 yards behind. Becker loped up the jogging path on Batman Avenue, then picked up speed, running hard, clearing out his lungs and his mind. He ran back just as hard before slowing down in the park on the way back into the stadium. A half-dozen people in the park watched him go by and applauded him, then he disappeared again into the tunnel. “I just couldn’t sit down and relax, I had to move,” Becker said. “There was so much going on inside me. I just had to get out there to be by myself. I was thinking back about the past, how many years I have been (playing), that I am fi nally on the top. I was thinking backwards what I had to go through.” It seemed so long ago that he startled the sports world by winning the first of his three Wimbledon titles at 17 in 1985. He reached the No. 2 ranking the next year, but then slipped to No. 4 in 1987 and 1988. He rededicated himself to his goal, working harder than ever under the guidance of manager Ion Tiriac and coach Bob Brett, and captured the U.S. Open in 1989. But still the No. 1 spot eluded him. “I would like to be a quiet, private man with my little kids, a wife, and have a quiet life, not all the time being in the front line,” said Becker, who is still a bachelor. s< (A Dalla eral coacl fluer the F Sc alonj and Earl meet They JanS T1 Cant Scl ffe wL Seles sharpens game in second Grand Slam victory MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Monica Seles has Grand Slam title No. 2. What she’s aiming for is No. 1. Demonstrating one of the charac teristics of a true champion, Seles adapted her game to the needs of the moment Saturday to beat Jana Novotna for the Australian Open women’s title. The 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 victory on a bak ing center court at the National Ten- that reign this week, in the Pan Pa cific Open in Tokyo, but a change is more likely in April or May. If that’s the case, there is one re cord for youthful success Seles won’t break. The youngest French Open champion at 16 and the youngest Australian Open champion at 17, Seles would have to overtake Graf quickly to be the youngest No. 1. Tracy Austin holds that mark, at 17 years, 2 months, a milestone Seles will pass on Feb. 2. Does all this matter to Seles, who was No. 86 just three years ago? Not one bit. “To me, it’s just another tourna ment. I won it and it’s great,” Seles said. “I can move on next week and play another tournament. To me, it’s just win a tournament and play as perfectly as possible.” Novotna has reached her first Grand Slam singles final with a string of upsets —over eighth- seeded Zina Garrison in the fourth round, Graf in the quarters and sixth-seeded Arabtxa Sanchez-Vi- cario in the semis. The lOth-seeded Czechoslovakian started strongly and took Seles out of her game. The second-seeded left-hander with the two-fisted groundstro<kes and world-class grunts was unable to dictate the pace from the baseline. She made error after error and Novotna, a serve- and-volley wonder against Graf, sim ply laid back and waited for the mis takes. After losing serve in the 11th game of the first set and watching Novotna hold on her second set point point for 7-5, Seles got angry. Seles argued several line calls and was aggitated by Novotna taking her time between points. Novotna tied it 3-3 but that was her last gasp. ms Center gave Seles her second Grand Slam championship, to go with the French Open crown she’ll defend on the clay courts of Paris in May. “It’s great to win a second Grand Slam and not be labeled a clay-court player,” Seles said. Seles is just 38 points adrift of Steffi Graf at the top of the women’s rankings. Graf has been there for a record 180 weeks. Seles could end The Areas Most Comprehensive Athletic Facility 1900 W. Villa Maria 823-0971 Cardiovascular Center ★ Reclining Turbo Bike ★ Concept 2 Rowers ★ Lifecycles ★ Mile Indoor Track ★ StarMaster Fitness Center ★ Eagle/Cybex Circuit ★ Free Weights Aerobics ★ Cerified Instructors ★ Over 60 Classes Weekly ★ Three Studios over 3,200 sq. ft. ★ Reebok STEP Class Aquatics ★ 8 Lane, 25 yd. 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