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University Press • Friday, October 20,1995 • Page 4
URSports
Lamar Tennis
Teams serve up victories at UNO Fall Tennis Festival
Bryce Darby
UP sports writer
The Lamar tennis teams
continued their fall seasons
last weekend by competing
in the University of New
Orleans Fall Tennis Festival
on the UNO campus.
The first day of play
brought a first-round victory
for Kimberly Grimes on the
women’s team, while Lamar’s
top four women players all
fell to defeat in their match-
es. The men’s team had wins
by Alan Shearer and Grant
Hough on the first day of
competition, while Mike
Ferraro, Frederick Lalonde
and Eric Bertrand took
straight set losses.
On the second day, Ewa
Jakubowska won 7-6, 6-3;
Jennifer Bensky claimed a 6-
4, 6-4 victory; and Jennifer
Hilton split a pair of match-
es. Stephanie Greenwood
also won her match, 6-3, 6-0,
for the Lady Cards. In dou-
bles competition, Linda
Jones and Bensky teamed up
for a 6-0, 6-0 in their first
match. Jones and Bensky lost
their second match 6-2, 7-6.
Lamar’s other doubles team
of Hilton and Greenwood
won 6-4, 6-2.
The men’s team saw victo-
ries by Mike Ferraro, Alan
Shearer, and Frederick
Lalonde highlight their sec-
ond day of competition.
Grant Hough, Josh
Gregory, Keith Tennison,
and Anthony Weber came up
a little short in their match-
es. The men’s doubles team
split their two matches, win-
ning 8-4 and losing 9-8.
On the final day of the
tournament, Hilton and
Greenwood won a three-set
match 2-6, 6-3 and 7-6. On
the men’s team, Shearer lost
6-3, 6-0 in his last match.
The Lamar women’s team
is in San Antonio for a tour-
nament today through
Sunday, while the men’s
team has the weekend off
before returning to competi-
tion next weekend.
Cowboy trio bides time
until Super Bowl Sunday
IRVING (AP) — Emmitt Smith is on a mission
to prove his detractors wrong. Michael Irvin des-
perately wants to get back to the Super Bowl. Troy
Aikman can’t stand anything less than perfection.
Through seven games, each is on target. And
because Dallas’ Big Three are clicking as well as
they ever have, the Cowboys can spend their bye
week savoring a 6-1 record.
Things are going so smoothly that after review-
ing Sunday’s 23-9 victory against San Diego, Coach
Barry Switzer decided not to award any offensive
game balls despite strong performances by all
three.
Dallas has long been considered a multiple-
threat offense because if teams stopped Smith,
they’d have to contend with Irvin and vice-versa.
Yet the Cowboys have not led the NFL in total
offense in 18 years.
This could be the year.
The Cowboys are tops as a team because their
trio are among the top individuals. Smith leads the
NFL in rushing yards by 190 more than Ricky
Watters, and his 13 touchdowns are several more
touchdowns than anyone else. Irvin has a 113-yard
lead in receiving, ahead of Isaac Bruce, and
Aikman is among the NFL’s top-ranked quarter-
backs.
Smith began the season with five straight 100-
yard games, and he appears ready to unseat Barry
Sanders for the NFL rushing title with 812 yards.
Irvin thought he was cheated last season
because not only did he expect to make it back to
the Super Bowl, he was sure he would have been
the game’s MVP.
Aikman, who has long demanded perfection
from himself and everyone around him, almost
sounds like a whiner. Listen to him after a victory,
and you’d think Dallas lost.
Indians, Braves make reservations for World Series confrontation
My eyes and ears must be deceiving
me. After 40 years of being kept away
from the pinnacle of success in base-
ball, the Cleveland Indians are return-
ing to the World Series.
The Indians had already shown how
destructive they could be on the
mound as they defeated the Boston
Red Sox in a three-game sweep of the
division series. Tuesday night, the only
obstacle that stood in the way of the
Indians returning to the World Series
was a highly talented Seattle Mariner
team.
Early on in the season, baseball
seemed to have lost most of its appeal
for many fans. After the fiasco of last
season’s strike, it wasn’t evident that
baseball could once again hold its spot
among the elite in sports entertain-
ment. Opinions changed, however, as
the season progressed. Many of the
players took it upon themselves to
revive the sport of baseball.
From the sensational Japanese
import, Hideo Nomo, to the towering
Mariner pitcher, Randy Johnson, the
“Boys of Summer,” were back.
Nomo was an instant sensation with
the L.A. Dodgers. His pliable move-
ments on the mound had everyone talk-
ing. I, for one, never thought anyone
could twist like that and still be breath-
ing. The funniest thing happened the
other day. I happened to go into a
record store and see a song about
Nomo. If that isn’t stardom, then I don’t
know what is.
Another popular pitcher is Randy
Johnson. “The Big Unit,” as Johnson is
known, can cause quite a disturbance to
the common player at bat. The 6’10”
Johnson has shown pitching spells remi-
niscent of Oral Hershiser in the 1988
National League Championship — sen-
sational. Johnson has provided the
Mariners with a method to their mad-
ness. Whether he’s pitching a straight
fast-ball or a slider, Johnson takes the
game to another level when he comes
to the mound.
Certainly when you mention names
such as Nomo and Johnson, you can’t
leave out the Atlanta Braves’ rookie
third baseman Chipper Jones. A lot of
people feel that Jones is a shoe-in for
the Rookie-of-the-Year Award in
major league baseball, and after
watching him play, I can’t disagree.
Jones plays with the kind of passion
that made baseball such a popular
sport. I must admit, Jones plays as if he
were an old veteran instead of a young
rookie.
The young players aren’t the only
major leaguers determined to repopu-
larize the sport of baseball. The more
seasoned players are also adding a little
flavor to the league.
Recently, Gal Ripken passed a mile-
stone in baseball history. He put his
name into the spotlight and succeeded
in putting baseball in the spotlight as
well. Meanwhile, other veterans like
Jeff Bagwell and Oral Hershiser were
still at the top of their game.
Not only is the return of the
Cleveland Indians a big story, but the
Atlanta Braves are making a return to
the World Series as well.
This may finally be the year that the
Indians take home the championship.
On the same note, it may also be the
year that the Braves take home respect.
What more could a sports journalist
ask for?
It’s great to get two teams that are
hungry for the championship and also
have similar signifying names. This
could have easily been the Braves vs.
the Mariners, but that didn’t happen.
Instead, the sports world is treated to
an epic match between Braves and
Indians.
The World Series has always offered
the best in baseball excitement. The
only problem last season was that the
World Series was cancelled. This sea-
son is very different. Not only will
there be a World Series, there will be a
World Series full of great players and
even greater fans. The much awaited
return of the World Series is bound to
make every sports enthusiast shiver
with excitement.
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Harbin, Tracy. University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, October 20, 1995, newspaper, October 20, 1995; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth500589/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.