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UNIVERSITY PRESS February 5,1986*6
Depth concerns Wesbrooks
By RICHARD YANCEY
UP sports editor
Depth is a major concern for ten-
nis head coach Ron Wesbrooks,
whose team opens its season at Sam
Houston State University Sunday.
“The team is well balanced,’’
Wesbrooks said. “With my top seven
players I feel pretty confident, but
below that we are inexperienced.”
Bridge City senior Wes Munlin will
probably lead the netters at the first
seed, according to Wesbrooks. “He
is a good leader. He’s solid, depen-
dable and he’s ready to play,”
Wesbrooks said.
“Wes is quite a competitor. He’s
played high in the line-up for about
three years, so he has got plenty of
experience. He plays with great
tenacity and he has the most ver-
satility of any of the players on the
team.”
Santiago, Chili, junior Jorge Lopez
is slated at the No. 2 seed. Lopez won
two of the six major zone tour-
naments last summer and has
played at the No. 1 and 2 positions
for Lamar since he has been a
freshman.
“Jorge is tough when the chips are
down,” Wesbrooks said. “If you
really need something, he can rise to
the occasion.”
Hillary Mack, a sophomore from
Houston, was temporarily illegible
to play on the team in the fall. Mack
came from Temple, Texas, last year
and has risen to the No. 3 spot on the
team.
“Hillary is very talented, but he
also has had some stroke
weaknesses that he has worked hard
on to correct,” Wesbrooks said. “In-
consistency was his problem last
year. He was capable of winning big,
but he was also capable of loosing
big.
“Despite some of his playing pro-
blems, I feel he has improved in
every area mentally and
physically.”
Mexico City junior Carlos Castilla
is looking to land a starting job at the
No. 5 position. “He played at the end
of last fall,” Wesbrooks said. “He
has got a lot of potential that has yet
to be fulfilled. He’s attacking the
ball better, but to reach his potential
he is going to have to be more ag-
gressive on the court.”
Houston sophomore George Kin-
nard, a former transfer from Texas
Southern University, was red-
shirted on the team last season.
“George is a real fluid-type
player,” Wesbrooks said. “He’s in-
tense, but he still a little inconsis-
tent. However, I fell he has got the
potential to be a very good player on
this team.”
Port Neches senior Greg Bowen is
looking to play at the No. 6 seed.
Wesbrooks said he has also improv-
ed, and he compares Bowen to
Castilla.
“He was primarily a defensive
player, but he is now doing much
better at attacking and forcing the
other players to make the mistakes.
He is winning more points in his
matches, so he is much improved.”
The final man on the coach’s top-
seven list is Mexico City senior
Nicholas Paramo, whom Wesbrooks
describes as being small, with quick
hands. “Nico has extremely quick
reflexes. He’s quick to react, and he
has one of the best service returns on
the team.”
In doubles, the coach has matched
Castilla and Lopez for the first-
seeded tandem. “We originally had
Munlin and Lopez together, which
should have been quite a pair; but it
just did not click.
Castilla and Lopez won the the No.
1 doubles at the Southland Con-
ference Championship last year, and
they are the only defending con-
ference champions on the team. The
two also reached the finals of the
Pinewood Invitational last fall.
The second doubles team consists
of Munlin and Bowen. “These two
played together in junior tennis
(18-under in the United States Ten-
nis Association leagues), and they
have played as a tandem for us since
we matched them the last half of last
spring,” Wesbrooks said.
Mack and Kinnard are presently
the pair at the third doubles team.
The two were finalists in the Beau-
mont Labor Day Tournament this
fall in which they finished in second
place.
Wesbrooks said that Paramo is
also an excellent doubles player.
“He can play with anybody and I
have great confidence in his abilities
at doubles. He can hold his'own well,
so he will probably be playing a lot.”
Wesbrooks said that the team to
beat this season in the SLC is the
Northeast Louisiana Indians, who
not only are favored to win the con-
ference, but they also are nationally
ranked 13th in pre-season polls.
“Northeast is strong and they are
maybe even stronger than they were
last year when they won the SLC.
They are a solidtfavorite, and oppos-
ing teams are going to have to gang-
up on them in order to beat them,”
he said.
Wesbrooks said that he would hope
the team would be able to win the
SLC (LU finished third last year),
but realistically he sees them in the
race with McNeese State for second
place.
Wes Munlin, the top seed, makes a return shot.
Staff file photo
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Lamar netter Schalk
ready for the season
By LYRA KATENA
UP sports assistant
Soon after moving to a large con-
dominium with over 20 tennis courts,
Jean Schalk picked up a tennis
racket for the first time.
Schalk, a senior from Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., was influenced by
the tennis facility. “There was
nothing else to do so I picked up a
racket and started hitting,” she
said. “I became very interested.”
Although Schalk played tennis and
took lessons, she did not consider
playing competitively until she was
a teenager. “When I was 14,1 star-
ted to play in tournaments. I
traveled a lot and in my junior year
of high school, I acquired a national
ranking.
“I was chosen to go to Rio de
Janiero for the United States,” she
said. “It was a worthwhile ex-
perience and I wouldn’t trade it for
anything.”
Schalk attended Fort Lauderdale
High School where she played in the
first seeding for the tennis team. “In
high school, I was basically only in
tennis,” she said. “I wasn’t in any
clubs or anything.”
Schalk lettered for four-years, and
she was also nominated to Who’s
Who Among American Athletes.
After graduating, Schalk chose to
play for Lamar. “I sent our resumes
to different schools and I looked for
scholarships,” she said. “Coach
Ghezzi wrote to me; and after
looking at a couple of schools, I
decided to come here.”
During the first few months,
Schalk had trouble gearing up. “I
had my ups and downs when I got
here,” she said. “I’ve adjusted and
I’m having a lot of fun.”
Schalk finds the tennis team en-
joyable. “We travel a lot, and we
have fun,” she said. “Coach Ghezzi
recruits all the fun people. She picks
the right people. We all work hard
and we fit in right together.”
As a player, Schalk feels she has
learned much since joining the
Lamar team. “I became a smarter
player,” she said.
“I’m more mature on the court
and I have a lot more match ex-
perience in my head. I’ve learned to
utilize that in my matches. I have
moved up a couple of plateaus since
I was in high school.”
As a senior, Schalk is one of the
leaders on the team to guide the
younger players. “I almost have to
be a leader. It’s automatic,” she
said. “I know the ups and downs and
the coach’s reactions. The young
players need me to help them with
the competition.”
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