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DOUG
FOSTER
Sportswriter
Golfer Couples
quickly making
name for himself
R un for your lives, the Fred Cou
ples locomotive is coming
through!
If the sixties belonged to Arnold
Palmer, the seventies to the Golden
Bear and the eighties to Ben Crenshaw
and Greg Norman, then the nineties
will one day be remembered as the
"Boom-Boom Years."
For the past few years, Freddy
"Boom-Boom" Couples has been one
of the most quietly dominant players
on the tour. Most of his awesome abil
ity was known only to those who are
directly involved with the tour. He
was not as well know for his explosive
ability as, say, Norman, but a few
things are starting to change.
Since entering the tour. Couples
has been known for his ability to
crank out vicious drives. But his talent
goes far past the tee box. He has
proven that when he is playing well,
he can compete with just about any
one. And tnis year, not only is he
playing well, he is on fire. 1992 could
be the year that Fred separates himself
from the rest of the tour members, and
earning a spot among the elite golfers
in history.
Lately, it seems every time the
sports page is opened to the golf sec
tion, Couples' name is in the headlines
leading a tournament. In the last four
weeks, he has finished first, second,
tied for first and lost in a playoff, and
first again this past week in the Nestle
Invitational. He won the Nestle with
an overall score of 19 under par, a
L.
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RICHARD BUCKNOR/The Battalion
A&M sprinter Aaron Hargrove heads toward the finish line in the 100-meter
dash. Hargrove finished fourth out of seven in the race held Wednesday at the
Texas Quadrangular Track and Field Meet in Austin’s Memorial Stadium.
A&M track team runs
into UT in Quadrangle
From Staff Reports
Texas A&M's track team, despite
many first-place performances, was no
match for the Texas Longhorns in the
Texas Quadrangular Track and Field
Meet last night at Memorial Stadium in
Austin.
The Longhorns won going away with
223 points while A&M finished in second
with 165 points. Minnesota's 127 points
was good enough for third, and Indiana
State rounded out the scoring with 123
points.
The Aggies had six first-place finishes
overall including a victory in the sprint
relay. The team of Aaron Hargrove, Nic
Pollard, Kevin Dozier, and Tracy Bryant
had a time of 40.85 to edge out the Texas'
second-place time of 41.23.
Pollard and Bryant went on to score
victories of their own. Pollard won in the
110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.38,
one-hundredth of a second over the sec
ond-place time. Bryant also picked up a
win in the 200-meter dash with a time of
21.55.
George Vendolia led an A&M one-two
punch in the 400-meter hurdles. He won
the event while Richard Murphy placed
second..
Scott Garvin won the 1500-meter dash
for A&M by less than two-tenth of a sec
ond with a time of 3:49.45. Larry Taylor
scored a first in the discus throw with a
toss of 170 feet, four inches.
Texas had ten first-place finishes in
the meet and six second-place finishes.
Indiana State had wins in the high jump
and the shot put. Minnesota failed to win
an event.
The mile relay team was less than a
third of a second away from victory.
Texas' team timed a 3:10.94 while A&M
had a 3:11.26.
'A Coach's Dream'
By Steve O'Brien
The Battalion
A &M tennis player Mark
Weaver has a bit of an iden
tity crisis.
As a sophomore. Weaver is the
the Aggies No. 1 seed and has beat
en five players ranked among the
nations top 30. But as the No. 46
player in the country. Weaver re
mains somewhat forgotten.
"I'm disappointed with the
rankings," Weaver said. "I've
beaten some really good players,
and the two matches I've lost, I
should have won. I had three match points against one of the
guys."
But regardless of how Weaver is viewed by pollsters,
A&M head coach David Kent is more than happy with his
young star.
"Mark is just an exceptional player," Kent said. "Besides
(former A&M All-America) Grant Connell, he's probably one
of the best players I've ever had here. What's good is that he
keeps getting better and better.
"He has the ability to hit great shots at the right time."
Weaver is off to a 21-7 start and hopes to be one of the
Southwest Conference's top players this season.
But what he brought to the A&M tennis team was, in a
way, luck.
Weaver was with a friend, who was visiting A&M, and de
cided to walk over to the Omar Smith Tennis Center for a
minute to watch the Aggies practice.
"My girlfriend was coming to look at A&M," Weaver
said. "Coach Kent hadn't even recruited me."
Actually, Kent hardly knew who Weaver was.
"I had heard of him, but I didn't knovy much about him. I
wasn't recruiting him at the time," Kent said. "I didn't realize
he'd be this good. He's beaten some of the top players in the
nation as a sophomore.
"He's very talented. He has a tremendous serve and a
power game. He can do spectacular things at the right time.
He's a coach's dream."
Women's tennis
set for Mustangs
The Battalion News Services
The Texas A&M women's tennis team
will try to get back on the winning track
in Southwest Conference play with a dual
match against Southern Methodist today
at 5 p.m. at Omar Smith Tennis Center.
The Lady Aggies, who own a 7-8
record overall and 2-1 record in SWC ac
tion, lost their last conference match to
Baylor last week. A&M head coach Bob
by Kleinecke said a win over SMU would
be the boost the team needs.
"We need to start playing better and
beating some people, and against SMU
would be a good place to start," Kleinecke
said. "We've been getting good play from
parts of the lineup, but we have to put it
all together to be successful.
"SMU has a talented team, and we'll
have to play well to get a victory."
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International affairs. The author of severai books and journal
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processess of institutional building in the USSR and East
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institutions, and internal and external determinant of
regional security in E^t Centfki Europe.
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