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Stop by roomlil lit. and 4:45 p.( (Please bring ID.) a fee option wlie I )urchase a copyf oe, room 230 Ree listings of student! as A&M. ?ECTORY ! 20 YEARS! Gig 'Em! 'weiser /VO OF BKRM Lady Aggies crush Houston Flight at G. Rollie Accurate shooting, three pointers instrumental in blowout win Navratilova brought life to womens tennis T uesday marked the end of an era in women’s tennis. Legend Martina Navratilova brought her career to an end at the Virginia Slims Championships with a first round loss to Gabriela Sabatini. Unfortunately she could not have gone out with a win but the loss to Sabatini did not deny the fact that Navratilova is the greatest women’s tennis player of all time. With her de parture, women’s tennis enters a new era where new blood is desperately needed and someone must step up and fill the void that Navratilova has left in the wake of her retirement. From the time that she began playing on the women’s ATP tour until this year, she always played at the top of her game and for a greater part of her 22 year career was one of the top women’s players. Throughout her career she was the no. 1 seeded player for over 300 weeks. Navratilova had 167 singles titles in cluding 9 Wimbledon titles. This feat is unmatched by any other player in the history of women’s tennis. What makes Navratilova unique is her spirit and enthusiasm that she brought to the game. Tennis never be came boring or repetitive for Navratilova. Every title win was spe cial and treasured. The most memo rable title was her defeat of a much younger Zina Garrison-Jackson to cap ture her 9th Wimbledon title in 1991. What made the Wimbledon title was that Martina defied the odds. Nobody thought that she had a chance because of her age, she was supposed to slow down not become even better. Navratilova leaves a women’s tour that is in transition. The competition is starting to become stale with the same two players, Steffi Graf and Arantxa Sanchez- I Vicaro dominating the majority of the tournaments. However, new faces are beginning to emerge. The most anticipated is 14 year old Venus Williams. Although she only played in one tournament this year, she did well before losing in the second round to Arantxa Sanchez-Vicaro. Williams will not be playing full-time on the tour un til she is eighteen but her presence adds new life to a tour that has been pretty dull until now. Although Jennifer Capriati left the tour last year in a scandal that re volved around her arrest for posses sion of drugs, Capriati is beginning her comeback at age eighteen. She may have lost to Anke Huber in her first tournament, but she said that she has regained her desire to play again. Navratilova may have left the tour but she has left her legacy for other young players to follow. With her defection and the subse quent American citizenship, Marti na sets an example for the younger generation that you can overcome any odds, no matter how big, and become extremely successful. No one can fill the void that Navratilova has left but her depar ture will allow another player to take the initiative and rise to the top to become the next legendary women’s tennis player. By Stewart Doreen The Battalion It was bombs away Wednesday night as the Texas A&M women’s basketball team the shot lights out from the three- point line to defeat Houston Flight 109- 84 in front of 299 people at G. Rollie White Coliseum. “The three pointer has been an em phasis from day one,” head coach Candi Harvey said. “It’s exciting and we have the ability to do it.” The Aggies shot 12-21 from the three point line with both sophomore Lana Tucker and freshman Carey Owens going 4-4. After a twenty minute delay in the start of the game due to the Houston Flight’s late arrival, the Aggies fell be hind early. The Flight’s Donna Roper, a former all-conference performer at A&M, had ten points in the opening five minutes to give the Flight a 19-12 lead. The Aggies came right back taking advantage of Owens’ hot hand. Midway through the first half, Owens scored 13 of her 15 first-half points in four min utes to bring A&M back into the game. The momentum stayed with the Aggies the rest of the half as they took a 55-43 lead into the half. “Establishing the outside game and putting in the element of fear when peo ple had to defend us,” Harvey said, “made our life in the paint much easier.” The second half started out like the first with Houston making a run to cut a 15 point lead to five. Roper’s back-to- back three pointers cut the lead to 62- 57 six minutes into the half. Roper’s 33 points on the night was not not enough to beat the Aggies but did leave an im pression on Harvey. “We won’t face a better player all year long,” Harvey said. “She did it off the dribble. She did it off the pass, and she’d post you up. That’s not a look we get everyday in practice.” The Aggies answered the Flight’s ral ly with three pointers by junior transfer Angel Spinks and two by Tucker to ex tend the lead to 91-71 with seven min utes left in the half. “In the second half, we took our inten sity up several notches,” Harvey said. “Then our defense fed off of it and devel oped a little bit of a killer instinct.” The Aggies would finish the Flight pushing the lead to the final 109-84 score. Tucker led the Aggies with 20 points. Owens scored 18 points de spite playing only sixteen minutes. Junior Lisa Branch had 18 and dished out 10 assists. Spinks also had a dou ble/double with eleven points and ten rebounds. The Aggies will play at 7 p.m. next Tuesday at the G. Rollie White coliseum against Russia’s Club Uralmash in the last exhibition of the season. TCUs road to Cotton Bowl travels through Texas A&M A&M seniors seek to end season with unbeaten SWC record; Horned Frogs want bowl appearance Blake Griggs/THE Batealign Running back Leeland McElroy (#34) eludes a tackier during the Texas game. A&M plays their last game of the season against TCU, Saturday. Stewart Doreen The Battalion The upcoming Texas A&M-Texas Christ ian University match up can be called slightly one-sided. The 9th-ranked Aggies have not lost to the Horned Frogs since 1972 winning by an average margin of 41 points. TCU, howev er, is ready to put the memories of past fail ures behind them and play for a shot the 1995 Mobil Cotton Bowl. “It’s time to forget the past and focus on the pre sent,” senior defensive tackle Royal West said. “It’s exciting to be playing in a meaningful game in November.” The Horned Frogs can go to the Cotton Bowl, their first trip since 1959, if they win out and Bay lor and Texas Tech get upset. Another win will assure the Frogs of their first bowl appear ance since 1984. “If we want to get our program where they (Texas A&M) are, we have to step up and play well,” head coach Pat Sullivan said. “What we want to do is get TCU where we’re involved in that situation.” The TCU Homed Frogs, 6-3 overall, 3-2 in conference, come into Saturday’s game with one of the conference’s more potent offenses Sullivan averaging a league leading 424 yards a game. Junior quarterback Max Knake is the confer ence leader in most statistical passing cate gories including yards, completion percent age, touchdowns, fewest interceptions and passing rating. Junior running back Andre Davis is the conference’s leading ground gainer with 136 yards per game this year. Last season, he gained 138 yards against the Aggie defense that gave up an average of 88 yards per game. Knake thinks the Horned Frogs’s well- rounded attack will be able to move the ball on the Aggies. “We can move the ball on anybody,” Knake said. “It’s a matter of putting the ball in the end zone.” Sullivan, who is 12-18-1 at TCU, said the Aggie defense has not changed much since he first arrived at A&M in 1992. “They don’t look a lot different than the other two A&M teams,” Sullivan said. “De fensively they may be quicker. The defense is a spot where the Horned Frogs are quite vulnerable. This season the Frogs have given up 25.6 points and over 210 yards per game on the ground. Going up against A&M’s duo of senior Rodney Thomas and sophomore Leeland McElroy, TCU knows that this could be a problem. “The key to A&M is stopping the run and forcing them into passing situations,” West said. “Rodney Thomas and Leeland McElroy are two of the best backs we will ever face.” Aggie swimmers, divers to compete in Nebraska invitationals By Drew Diener The Battalion Texas A&M’s swimming and diving teams will get a preview of future Big 12 competi tion this weekend at the Husker Sprint Clas sic and the Husker Shootout Invitational in Lincoln, Nebraska. The University of Nebraska, the University of Kansas, and the University of Missouri will be participating in the two meets. A&M head swimming coach Mel Nash said the meets will be beneficial in evaluating future competition in the new conference. “We don’t get to see them (future Big 12 ^schools, currently in the Big Eight) except at the NCAAs,” Nash said. “We want to get Big 12 exposure, get things going, and learn more about them.” The Husker Sprint Classic will take place Friday night followed by the Husker Shootout Invitational, which is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. Nash said the format for the Sprint Classic is unique, with swimmers competing in 25 and 50 yard sprints. Normally, swimmers race a minimum of 100 yards. “Hopefully that will make it exciting,” Nash said. “They are trying to market the match for TV.” Nash said changes will be made in the div ing competition as well. Teams will be limited to one diver, who can change his or her dive be fore an actual attempt. This enables the divers to play off the competition. This weekend’s events will also serve as a homecoming of sorts for four members of the A&M teams. Senior Rich Nolte and sophomore Robb Pantano are the two Nebraska natives on the mens’ squad. Senior Susie Geyer and fresh man Jodi Janssen from the women’s team also hail from Nebraska. Nash said the four are excited about getting a chance to swim in their home state. Blake Griggs/THE Battalion An Aggie swimmer practices in P.L. Natatorium. The swim and diving teams travel to Nebraska to compete with future Big 12 schools. > LIGHT/ $6« 12 pk. bo* PICK UPj YOUR COPY. | If you ordered a 1994-95 Campus Directory, stop ■ by room 230 Reed McDonald Building between 8:15 ! am and 4:45 p.m, Monday through Friday to pick ; up your copy. (Please bring ID.) 5 If you did not order a Campus Directory as a fee 5 option when you registered for Fall '94 classes, you 5 may purchase a copy for $3 plus tax in the Student • Publications office, room 230 B Reed McDonald. 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