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SPORTS
The Battalion • Page 13
Tim Moog/Tttr. Battai ion
Senior Beth Gerken rounds second base as the Lady Lumberjack
infielder awaits the throw from the outfield.
Softball: Beth Gerken
plays last home game
Continued from Page 11
The game was extra special for
Gerken. The senior from Rescue,
California was playing for the fi
nal time at home as a Lady Aggie
and was recognized in a ceremony
following the first game.
“I was very honored by the
ceremony and glad
that my friends
could be here tonight
to see me play in my
final home game,”
Gerken said. “The
fact that we went
out a winner tonight
made the occasion a
littie extra special.”
The sentiments
were acknowledged
by Brock, who has coached
Gerken over the last two sea
sons.
“Beth is one of those players
that is worthy of the title of team
captain,” Brock said. “She is a
hard worker and team leader who
doesn’t say very much but just
goes out night in and night out
and gets the job done.”
The Lady Aggies will close out
the season with road series
against McNeese State, Louisiana
Tech, Southwestern Louisiana,
and Southwest Texas. Success in
these games will be instrumental
to the team qualifying for the re
gional playoffs.
Two of the teams that we’re
playing this weekend (Louisiana
Tech and Southwestern
Louisiana) are ranked so this
road swing is very important to
us,” Brock said. “If we can sweep
these teams, I feel confident that
will be able to grab one of the
playoff spots in our region.”
"I was very honored by the cer
emony and glad that my friends
could be here tonight to see me
play in my final home game."
— senior Beth Gerken
Arrant: Losing does not sit well
with determined tennis player
Continued from Page 11
At the SWC tournament last
weekend Arrant and his doubles
partner Bernardo Martinez de
feated Texas Christian Universi
ty’s Paul Robinson and David
Roditi, the top dou
bles team in the
nation. Arrant and
Martinez had lost
to them earlier this
season but were
looking forward to
the chance to de
feat them at home.
“It was just
great,” Arrant said.
“When we get on
our courts we knew
we could get them.
We smoked them.
We killed them. We didn’t just
hang in there. We got them 8-4.
Coach has never had a team do
that before, but I’d rather be the
number one team in the nation.”
Determination is what drives
Arrant’s game. Arrant will re
member every point he loses and
think about it until he improves
that area of his game.
“I hate to lose,” Arrant said.
“I will never give up. I don’t like
leaving the court and thinking
that the other guy is a better
player than me.”
Kent said that Arrant’s in
ability to accept
defeat is what
makes him a
stronger player.
“All players
moan and groan
about the points
that they miss,”
Kent said. “It
spurs them on and
helps them reach
another plateau. It
is definitely an at
tribute. He hates
to lose and that’s
how he makes progress.”
Arrant has a powerful serve
and overhead which gives him
the strength to play the top
players that he faces as the No.
1 singles player.
“He has good timing, strength
and power,” Kent said. “You
have to have these otherwise
other players will just bulldoze
you. He also has mental
strength because everyone he
plays is good as well.”
Arrant said that if he wants
to become a better player he will
have to work on his volley.
“My volley has got to im
prove,” Arrant said. “It has cost
me crucial points. I keep think
ing back when we played Min
nesota and had match point. I
hit a backhand volley floater
and I hit it out. If I had some of
those type of points back I
would have five more wins. It
haunts you but it helps to work
harder. Determination is my
strongest point.”
After college, Arrant will see
if he can make it on the profes
sional tour.
“"I will try it for two to five
years to see how it goes,” Arrant
said. “I just want to get an idea
of how I would do. Some players
do well in college but not on the
tour and some do not do well in
college but do well on the tour.
I’ll try my hardest so I can say
that I at least tried.”
New Astros’
down Padres
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Tony
Gwynn passed out hats to fans,
the Famous Chicken beat up
Barney and baseball returned to
San Diego.
The paid crowd of 38,124,
however, saw the Padres lose
10-2 to Houston on Wednesday
night, spoiling the debut of new
manager Bruce Bochy and three
starters who came over in a 12-
player deal with the Astros on
Dec. 28.
There were scattered boos
when the Astros were an
nounced. The Padres, who drew
42,251 for last year’s opener,
were cheered when they were in
troduced, but booed during Hous
ton’s five-run eighth inning.
Jeff Bagwell, one of the few
Houston stars not included in the
blockbuster tracle, hit the first of
three Houston Rome runs, had
three RBIs and several nice de
fensive plays at first base.
Bagwell hit a two-run homer
on the first pitch he saw from
loser Andy Benes in the third.
Bagwell sustained a broken
bone in his left hand when hit
by a pitch from Benes two days
before the players’ strike began.
Connor and crew overcome overwhelming odds
□ Stars and Stripes will
now race against New
Zealand's Black Magic.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Dennis
Conner caught an incredible
break from his hometown’s fluky
wind on Wednesday, made up a
45-length deficit on the last leg
and sailed into the finals of the
America’s Cup for the sixth time.
America3’s mostly women’s
crew on Mighty Mary seemed to
have an insurmountable lead of
4 minutes, 8 seconds turning
onto the downwind spinnaker
run to the finish.
But while Mighty Mary sailed
into a wind hole, Conner took a
flyer out to the right side of the
course, caught a wind shift and
rolled into the lead about
halfway down the three-mile leg.
Stars & Stripes won by 52
seconds even though it blew out
its giant spinnaker on the last
third of the leg.
Conner eliminated both
Mighty Mary and PACT 95’s
Young America and will face
Team New Zealand’s Black Mag
ic 1 in the best-of-9 America’s
Cup match beginning May 6.
Conner is a four-time Ameri
ca’s Cup winner, the most re
cent being in 1988 when he
turned back New Zealand’s
rogue challenge.
In 1992, AmericaS’s male
crew eliminated Conner in the
defender finals.
Stars & Stripes’ crew, one of
the most experienced in the regat
ta, broke out in wild celebration.
On Mighty Mary, there were
tears followed by stunned silence.
It was a wild comeback for
Conner in more ways than one.
He was all but eliminated from
the semifinals, but his rivals let
him back in via a back-room deal
that made this a three-boat finals.
The deal was struck hours be
fore Conner lost what was sup
posed to have been a sudden-
death sailoff on April 4 against
Mighty Mary, whose crew wasn’t
told about the deal because
America3 officials thought they’d
lose their edge.
The big loser is Young Ameri
ca, which was the overwhelming
defender favorite with a 21-7
record after the semis. Its part of
the three-boat bargain was to
get two bonus points entering
the finals. But Young America
collapsed, going 3-5 in the finals.
While his opponents strug
gled, the veteran Conner got
Stars & Stripes up to speed by
winning five of six races in the
finals. He lost to Young America
on Monday, then had to beat
Mighty Mary on Wednesday.
AmericaS started the regatta
as the first women’s crew in
America’s Cup history. But with
only a 5-15 record after four
round-robins, AmericaS replaced
J.J. Isler with Dave Dellenbaugh
as tactician and starting helms
man. Dellenbaugh was a mem
ber of AmericaS’s Cup-winning
team in 1992.
Mighty Mary and Young
America shared weather infor
mation and helped each other
tune up the last four days in an
attempt to oust Conner.
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