Monday ‘June 23,
A&M alumnus Maggert finishes behind Els ag
HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) — Another
Buick Classic, another PGA Tour title for
Ernie Els.
Els became the first golfer since Hale
Irwin in 1990 to win on tour the week after
winning the U.S. Open. He did that
Sunday by surviving the distraction of a
two-hour rain delay and some shaky
putting to beat Jeff Maggert by two strokes.
It was the second straight year that Els
went wire-to-wire at the Westchester
Country Club and the 27-year-old South
African’s fifth U.S. tour victory.
Els shot a 2-under-par 69 for a 72-hole
total of 16-under 268, tying the tournament
record for the best four-round score held by
David Frost (1992) and Lee Janzen (1994).
Els won $270,000 and continued an
extraordinary run of success in this event.
He has finished second, tied for fourth
and won twice since he started playing
here in 1994.
But this was hardly the eight-stroke
waltz that Els enjoyed last year. From the
moment Els took an eight-shot lead with
six holes to play Saturday, Maggert
pushed him by doing something Els
mostly stopped doing — making putts.
It wasn’t until Els made a birdie on No.
8 and Maggert bogeyed on 11 that Els
opened a three-shot lead and had a com
fortable enough margin to survive.
For Maggert, who tied for second last
year at the Buick Classic, it continued a
lucrative but frustrating 6 1/2-year career
in which he has won just under $4 mil
lion, but only one tournament. He had a
final-round 68.
Maggert was also among the group of
Colin Montgomerie, Tom Lehman and
Els who battled over the final nine
of the U.S. Open last weekend
Congressional before Els emerged ii
his second Open championship,
finished fourth at the Open.
Maggert, trailing Els by three
the final round began, edged closerto
playing partner by saving par from 101
on Nos. 1 and 2 while Els missed an8t
birdie putt on 2 and bogeyed 3.
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A s July nears, sports junkies
all over the Texas A&M
campus begin to get foot
ball fever. The preseason foot
ball magazines cover the racks at
your local grocery store, the NBA
Finals have just ended and the
dog days of summer in baseball
are here. So what else is there to
do in Aggieland but talk football?
The upcoming 1997-98 athletic
year may be an exception to this
rule. The Texas A&M Basketball
Team will make its first serious
run at the NCAA Tournament
since the 1994 season.
The basketball team has expe
rienced the definition of frustra
tion throughout the past two
seasons as the team has been
unable to get over the hump in
tight games. The frustration that
comes with these losses will only
make the 1997-98 version of the
basketball team that much
tougher as their desire to get a
tough victory under their belt
that much greater.
The Aggies will be a tough
team to beat after they do get
that victory, as they will know
how to win the close game and
their confidence will be soaring.
The team will get several
chances to win a big game early
next year as they open the sea
son with Arizona State, Colorado
State, Washington State and
Alabama. A victory in at least
two of these games is essential
to the Aggies tournament hopes
as all these games will effect
their RPI rating.
The expectations for next sea
son are as high as they have
been here in several seasons,
and there are plenty of reasons
for this. The Aggies had several
players step up last year and
prove they were worthy of play
ing in the Big 12, which was the
third highest rated conference in
college basketball last year.
TRAVIS DABNEY
Sportswriter,
Senior history
major
The tandem of Calvin Davis,
Brian Barone, Jerald Brown and
Shanne Jones will again lead the
the Aggies on the court as they
will likely make up four of the
five starters. The remaining
players from last year that will
also see extensive playing are
If for no other
reason, you have
to respect Barone
for his willingness
to accept his situ
ation and make
the best of it.
Steve Houston and Larry
Thompson, who both played
well last year, and will be
depended upon heavily for
offensive and defensive support.
Another major factor in the
upcoming season will be the
play or lack of play by the
incoming freshman. Micliael
Schmidt and T.J. Brown will
need to provide some spark off
the bench and could have to
mature very quickly if the injury
bug were to rear its ugly head.
The Aggies also have three
transfers that will likely play a
role on this team. Chris Richards
could be a starter and an offen
sive presence. Chris Clayton is a
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three point shooter and Aaron
Jack can provide some quality
inside help. For the Aggies to
make a serious run at the tour
nament, all these players must
come together as a group and
make up their mind that any
thing less is just not acceptable,
Coach Barone has had to deal .2
with some serious problems
with this program from day one
anci has come out looking likea
real quality coach. When he got
here, he inherited a program
that was in the process of receiv
ing a stiff NCAA penalty' and a
real serious image problem.
On top of these problems,
Reed Arena was delayed a con
pie of years, and this has made
recruiting a virtual nightmare,
The program has come through
all these problems and appears
to be on the edge of becominga
top 50 program all under the
guidance of Barone. If for no
other reason, you have to
respect Barone for his willing
ness to accept his situation and
make the best of it. This is defi
nitely a sign of a winner and
someone who has his players
best interests in mind.
The one thing that would
help tremendously would be fan
support from the students and
community. Attendance has
been been up to what it should
he whether the team is winning
or not. This is a vital part of any
program and if you don’t think
so, you need only look at the
home records of Big 12 teams
last year.
For those of you who think
football and baseball are the
only games in town, you don)
know what you are missing as
this team will be a contender
next year. Don’t wait for this
team to start winning: go to
every game you can and help
this program become everything
that it can be.
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If it's Wimbledon, it must be raining
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — A year after one of
the rainiest Wimbledons in history, it’s still raining.
It’s the same kind of weird weather that skewered
the schedule last year — moments of brilliant sun
shine briefly interrupting spitting showers — and no
break in the pattern is in sight. The bleak forecast for
Monday is an opening day washout.
The odds of rain disrupting play on Centre Court
every day of the two-week tournament dropped from
33-1 to 12-1, while the odds on a totally dry
Wimbledon were 14-1.
Players retreated to Wimbledon’s indoor courts
Sunday for the last day of practice and a little good-
natured needling.
“Tim Henman! Tim Henman! Tim Henman!” Jim
Courier shouted in a falsetto voice.
“He’s the man,” Pete Sampras chimed in, grin
ning as he pointed at the British player, who bowed
his head trying to ignore the two Americans at the
entrance to the indoor courts.
The opportunity to kid Henman was too irre
sistible for Sampras and Courier, who know how
much beleaguered British tennis fans are counting
on him to become their first men’s champion since
Fred Perry in 1936.
Henman’s face is everywhere, along with
Canadian-turned-Brit Greg Rusedski, and the
newspapers are filled with hopeful stories about
them having realistic chances of winning. One of
the papers even got John McEnroe to write a story
headlined, “Henman can conquer All England.”
Never mind that McEnroe went on to say that the
14th-seeded Henman has “struggled to find hi * ee l
form since his elbow operation in March, and eve See |
in the past few days he has been battling to gi
through his matches.”
Or that McEnroe noted “he sure didn’t lookai
stronger in the legs the last time I saw him.” Ortli
McEnroe added, “Mentally he doesn’t seem alltli ®']
confident, either.”
McEnroe long ago perfected the art of speakii
out of both sides of his mouth, so he flatten
Henman and soothed the British by writing
Henman has a “real shot at the title. If he is phj!
cally fit and the crowd gets behind him ... he hai
great chance.”
A fat chance is more like it. Henman, who reach
the quarterfinals last year, hasn’t played well sitf
capturing the Sydney tuneup tournament beforetl
Australian Open in January. He’s seeded to
defending champion and No. 4 seed Richard Krajit
in the fourth round.
Henman’s greatest honor at Wimbledon fl
come Monday when he’s scheduled to play thefii
match in the new No. 1 Court stadium agair
Canadian Daniel Nestor.
Eleven former men’s and women’s champid
who have won three or more titles will be part oftl
court’s opening ceremony. Among those expect
are Rod Laver, John Newcombe, Boris Beckf
Sampras, McEnroe, Louise Brough, Maria Biieo
Margeret Court, Billie Jean King, Chris Evert ai
Martina Navratilova.
NHL draft resemblesw family
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Will pay well.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — At the
NFL draft, jersey-wearing fans sit
nervously in the stands, zealously
debating each selection, awaiting
the next pick so they and their
buddies can groan or cheer.
At the NHL draft, all of that is
left to the players.
While the NFL and NBA drafts
are more a showcase for high tech
nology than high drama, with
teams and players united mostly
through conference calls and satel
lite hookups, Saturday’s NHL draft
was more like a family reunion.
Teams didn’t send anony
mous assistant equipment man
agers to sit behind $250 helmet
phones, they dispatched the
well-known faces of the game:
Bobby Clarke, Scotty Bowman,
Harry Sinden. There was about
one Hall of Earner for every 50
square feet of table space on the
Civic Arena floor.
At one point, Tampa Bay gen
eral manager Phil Esposito,
engaged in trade talks with the
Islanders’ Mike Milbury, cov
ered his mouth so fans couldn’t
read his lips on the huge over
heard TV screen.
Up in the stands, players such
as Bryan Trottier, Ron Francis and
Ken Wregget mingled with about a
hundred soon-to-be NHLers,
handing out advice and encour
agement to players so fresh-faced
that some don’t yet shave.
With so many movers and
shakers of the game gathered
such close proximity, gossip a
players were swapped with eq» !
rapidity. Some hopefuls broujf 1
entire fan clubs with them; No.
pick Jason Ward of Montreal" 1
accompanied by nearly 100 s$
waving rooters.
The well-groomed draft pic^
including No. 1 selection
Thornton, waited apprehensive 1
with their families and girlfriend
eager to shed their new suit (#
and take part in the ritual of do 11
ning their new sweater.
Or, in the case of Caroline
Nikos Tselios, a generic NHLlef
sweater, as the relocated teac 1 '
new swirling Hurricanes
isn’t ready yet.
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