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CPORTS Tuesday • June 21, 1994 ' • June 21, . at iits ies of the borde ) the anencephalj Texas A&MUti. ing whether an ^een anencephaj; ameron Count/i been moretlii; S. rate, whickii per 10,000 lit) 5 percent Hispt e a higher risk: : U.S. populate to be a factor, Stioil streamlined iti igned up Russ:; that already it in and the Em i extremely crit on the space sti The House voli is next week, jars have passe led on the mot: >llo program alt f we had listeri gh, we wouldti s that have pi >f technology!; meates our do Jnited States: :ince the 1971 dlation of thee, nd the supera: r. ee Space/Page icism 5 converse t in Texas to c: tion to take ale urch officials!!! ,nanimity, itii Samuel Edward oiscopal Sypo:: les for rpost h ! diocese, not; not be attribute ion of womer. alls those “sym; nials of Scriptc ‘ where authorij al Episcopalias ! decisions bast hority. .fy with Rome,! lied among Ep Church/Pagei irposes gaily grown pef ne the first oflj ;st of the Miss gious use of ptf one-fourth Ini The Kents: Like father, like son One of A&M’s best kept secrets is its head tennis coach, David Kent. He’s not a tall man or extremely muscular. But he’s always smiling. His wide-brimmed hat and sun glasses are almost a trademark on his round smiling face. His entire demeanor reminds one a little of a grandfather-type figure. He knows his tennis and is willing to teach it to anyone willing to listen. You could call him A&M’s tennis guru. During the Texas A&M Tennis Camp he would walk around, talk ing with each camper, making sure each had some attention and were enjoying the work they were doing. Nothing you could ask him is too insignificant or unworthy of discussion. He always has time for you when you need to ask him questions, even if they’re about this seasons recruits or how the team played in last weekend’s tournament. One of the things that makes him special, is his ability to teach tennis. He just finished his 26th season as a head coach at the colle giate level and has amassed a record of 482-206. This past season the team fin ished 17th nationally with a 23-4 record and won the Southwest Con ference Championship for the first time in the school’s history. The 1985 team finished with a 21-10 record. Seems like the Aggies should have been ranked a little higher. Well, it wouldn’t be the first time A&M was looked over in the rank ings. Kent exemplifies the best that most of us could hope to be. He is extremely successful at his chosen profession, but he still manages to be a nice guy. He has gained the respect of his ' TTteek-s from M atrdsS'thte state and ? .country, but he’s still the sam,e old Tqxa'^ boy who grew up in Amarillo. But perhaps the best way to see Kent is through his children. Much like any father, you can see Kent’s ways in his son, Todd. Todd Kent maybe stands a lit tle taller than his father, but he looks like a younger version of the original. He moves through the tennis courts at the Omar Smith Tennis Complex, much the same way as his father. He stops and offers ad vice to the students gathered there. Both even listen to irrelevant questions with the same patience and attentive ear. Some say that professional ten nis has an image problem today. They say the players and coaches are rude and won’t talk to re porters. Luckily, here at A&M, that’s not a problem. Page 3 HHHEhHh! Mens tennis confident about new recruits By Mark Smith The Battalion After finishing ranked No. 17 in the nation by the Intercollegiate Tennis As sociation, the Texas A&M men’s tennis team is looking to continue its success on the court. To do that, A&M has signed some top-notch Texas recruits as well as a strong player from Peru. Jonathon Creath from Austin West- lake High School and Satyen Patel from Canyon High School signed letters of in tent to play at A&M during the spring signing period. Creath finished as runner-up in Class 4A singles play during his junior and se nior years at Westlake. In his senior year, he finished with over 30 wins. “Jonathon is a Texas boy who I think will help us in the future,” head coach David Kent said. “Like many freshman, he needs collegiate experience. Once he gets that, he’ll be a tough player.” Creath’s high school coach Elsa Hi nojosa thought he could bring a number of positive qualities to the Aggie team. “Jonathon’s most important quality is his leadership in team tennis and I think that will help him fit right in with Texas A&M and their emphasis on team play,” Hinojosa said. Patel is also a strong player, Kent said. Patel won the Class 3A Doubles competition as a freshman at Canyon H.S. and won the singles competition during his junior year. “Satyen is a great tennis player, and with his work ethic he could become an outstanding tennis player at Texas A&M,” Kent said. Kent was perhaps most impressed with Carlos Tori of Peru. Tori signed with A&M during the fall signing period. He came to A&M to visit a friend on the tennis team, senior business major Bernardo Martinez of Mexico City, and felt comfortable with A&M, Kent said. Kent was impressed with Tori’s repu tation. “From what I’ve heard of him, he’s an all-court player,” Kent said. “He can do everything. “The last I heard, he was in the semi finals of the French Open junior compe tition,” he said. Kent is hoping that the recruits can help fill the spot of the only departing senior, Mark Weaver. Weaver was the team’s top singles player and finished the 1994 season nationally ranked No. 30 in singles. Kent said losing Weaver was a big loss. “Mark Weaver has been a catalyst for our team for four years now,” Kent said. The three top prospects to replace Weaver are Martinez, Robbie Krause and Blake Arrant, Kent said. Despite the loss of Weaver, Kent is optimistic about the team’s chances for the upcoming 1994-95 season. “I’m excited,” Kent said. “This team has a knack for winning. The winning has become a habit. This team expects to win.” Top seeds advance at Wimbledon Navratilova enters Wimbledon for 22nd and last time; Becker, Sampras advance in straight sets WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Martina Navratilova patted her thumping heart, applause cascading down Mon day from the packed Wimbledon crowd standing in a long, sentimental and unprecedented tribute. She smiled, winked, seemed embarrassed by all the fuss. All she had done was walk onto Centre Court, the grass lush and unblemished on the cool, cloudy evening of the first day. No one ever got cheered like that before a match at Wimbledon. Rarely do players get that kind of warm, sustained ova tion even when they win the tournament. But this is Navratilova’s 22nd and final Wimbledon, her last chance to add a 10th silver salver to her record collec tion for singles titles. Every walk onto Centre Court could be her last, and the fans knew it. For a full minute, they stood and clapped. Navratilova, 37, had worried that the emotion might be too much for her, but she got down to business quickly and dispatched 19-year-old Briton Claire Taylor, 6-2, 6-3. ‘T’ve definitely been thinking about it,” Navratilova said. “This is what I thought about just before I went out. This is what I wanted a year ago when I walked off the court. I said, Til be back one more time.’ This is what I wanted, one more chance, while I’m healthy and playing well. So here’s my chance, go to it.” Pete Sampras, the defending men’s champ, followed tra dition by opening play on Centre Court at 2 p.m., moments after his boyhood idol, Rod Laver, was honored in the Royal Box on the 25th anniversary of his Grand Slam. Sampras lost his bid for a Grand Slam when he fell in the French Open, but he celebrated Laver’s No. 25 with 25 aces in a 7-6 (7-4), 7-5, 6-3 victory over Jared Palmer. “I think this is probahly tny highest qce totqj,’’ said, Sam pras, who made a fashion statement of sorts with his new baggy shorts, and a tennis declaration with his 128 mph serves. “I was really serving as well as I could. He didn’t have a clue where they were going,” he said. Sampras was in trouble only in the first set. Palmer had two set points at 15-40 with Sampras serving and down 5-6. Palmer thought he won the set with a forehand at 30-40, but the ball drifted barely wide. “I was two inches away from losing that first set,” said Sampras, who then closed out the set with an ace. Andre Agassi, 1992 champ, had a slightly tougher match against Andrea Gaudenzi before winning 6-2, 6-7 (7-3), 6-3, 6-2. “He picked up the serve in the second set, and I couldn’t really make clean contact with a lot of his second serves, and that’s where I tend to hurt people,” Agassi said. “That posed some difficulty, and I made a couple of dou ble faults in the tiebreaker that I’m disappointed about. But I felt like I served tremendous.” Three-time champion Boris Becker continued his domi nance of David Wheaton, beating him 6-2, 6-4, 6-3. AP Photo Boris Becker of Germany fires a backhand return to Stephane Simian of France during a singles match at the Japan Open in ApriT Stefan Edberg, two-time Wimbledon champion, beat Ellis Ferreira 6-2, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4. Fourth-seeded Goran Ivanisevic eased past Fernando Meligeni 6-1, 6-3, 6-4, while No. 6 Todd Martin needed five sets to get past Grant Stafford 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (8-6), 6-7 (7-5), 6-1. French Open champion and No. 8 seed Sergi Bruguera, beat British wild-card Barry Cowan 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. No. 10 Michael Chang beat Alberto Costa 7-6 (7-2), 6-4, 6-2, and No. 11 Petr Korda downed John Fitzgerald of Australia 6-2, 6-1, 6-4. In women’s matches, No. 6 Kimiko Date beat Ai Sugiya- ma 6-3, 7-6 (7-0); No. 11 Mary Joe Fernandez defeated Kari na Habsudova 6-4, 6-2; and No. 14 Amanda Coetzer posted a 6-4, 6-0 win over Yelena Likhovtseva. Lady Aggies continue search for new coach Constance Parten The Battalion The Lady Aggie basketball team is still without a head coach with less than two weeks until the player recruit ing process begins. The initial application deadline for the head coaching position was June 3. The reviewing committee extended the deadline indefinitely, hoping to obtain a more diversified field of applicants. “We were not satisfied with the ap plications we had by June 3,” Commit tee Chair and Associate Athletic Direc tor Penny King said Monday. “The ap plicants were very good, but we have to concern ourselves with a good affirma tive action field, and the applications we had just didn’t cut it.” The committee is currently review ing 36 applications. They are looking for someone with four or five years head coaching experience at a successful Di vision I program. “We are talking to other athletic ad ministrators around the country to see who they would consider, and we are doing background checks,” King said. The Lady Aggies will begin recruit ing new players for the 1994-95 season on July 1. King said the lack of a head coach will not hamper recruiting ef forts. Assistant coaches Eileen Feeney and Cathy McDonald will handle the recruiting process if a head coach is not found in time. “Eileen and Cathy are capable of handling all the recruiting,” King said. “And Lynn Hickey is still here if they need any assistance.” Feeney is among the applicants for head coach. She is a strong contender even though she has no head coaching experience. She said the coaches will spend a large amount of time recruit ing. “The evaluation process begins on July 1,” she said. “We’ll spend the month of July out recruiting.” Feeney’s responsibilities for the past eight seasons at A&M have included co ordinating recruiting efforts and coach ing during practices as well as games. The committee will review the appli cations and select the finalists. Athletic director Wally Groff and senior associ ate athletic director Lynn Hickey will then make the final selection. cnent of Pubi ale of peyoteli card-carryit! ive America! Peyote/Pagel sT >n editor >to editor editor , Agg/e/z/e editor >wi, Christine ms , Warren Mayberry. /ski, Elizabeth Els breaks tie to win U.S. Open with sudden-death play OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Ernie Els calmed his jangled nerves and got what he wanted sooner than he expected: A major championship. The lanky South African showed poise beyond his 24 years when he re grouped after a bogey, triple-bogey start to play the last 18 holes of Monday’s U.S. Open playoff at treacherous Oak- mont Country Club one under par and defeat Loren Roberts on the second sud den-death hole. Colin Montgomerie, the other mem ber of the first three-way playoff at the Open since 1963, was eliminated after shooting 78 to the 74s posted by Els and Roberts. “I’ve always wanted to win a major,” Els said. “It’s come pretty quick with me. I’m 24. People have to be patient with me. I have a long stretch ahead of me.” It could be a longer stretch for the golfers who will have to contend with him for the years to come. After a rocky round in which all three players saved their best for last, it ended with a two-putt par on No. 11 after Roberts found first the rough and then the sand, making bogey when a twisting 35-foot par putt spun out of the hole. Els, the first foreign player to win the Open since 1981 and only the fourth since 1927, was all over the course, missing the fairway on 10 of the 16 dri ving holes. But he scrambled brilliantly and showed the resourcefulness needed to win a major championship. “It’s just a dream come true for me,” Els said. “I started out kind of bad. I guess we were all kind of nervous.” It sure looked that way. For a while it seemed as if no one would win the tournament. If this had been a basket ball game, all three players would have been benched by the fifth hole. At that point, Els had two 5s and a 7 on his card. Roberts had two 5s and a 6. And Montgomerie had two 6s and a 5. Ugly golf. After the 21-minute second hole, on which Els made his 7, the six-stroke limit used at miniature golf courses looked like a good idea. “You’re gearing to play four rounds and then all of a sudden you have to play a fifth,” Roberts said. “You’re going to be tight. All three of us were too tight and we just didn’t get started too good.” Els fell a stroke behind right off the bat when he bogeyed the first hole after missing the fairway with a wild hook left, much like the drive on Sunday that led to the incorrect free drop. Then came No. 2. He made triple bo gey on the short 342-yard hole when his second shot flew the green and landed in a bush, costing him a one-stroke penalty. “I guess I was kind of nervous,” he said about the approach shot. “I took a wedge. The ball just went over the green. I couldn’t believe it.” Els was three strokes behind Roberts after the triple bogey. He cut it to two with a birdie on the next hole and they were deadlocked after Roberts made a double-bogey six on No. 5. From there on they were never sepa rated by more than one stroke. Montgomerie, who looked lost, scuff ing two chips and leaving several putts embarrassingly short, fell three strokes behind on the seventh hole and never got closer, turning the front nine in a fat 42. “Obviously I’m disappointed,” the Scotsman said. “I’m even more disap pointed” knowing that 74 was the best score of the playoff. Even he settled down, playing the last six holes one under par. y during the fall sessions (except id class postage maid Building, A&M Universityi* sm. Editorial is 845-3313. Fas: idorsement by Tht 1696. 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