Improving team effort and morale aids tennis team to keep looking upwards. LOOKING UPWARDS "Even though Tech was expected .to win the AIC C~ampwnship, I feel we did ~t because we finishe~ m a three-way tie for first with SAU and Arkansas Tech ." - Donnie Wallis 60 Tennis With all-conference performances from three netters, the Biso t . t n enms earn came awa f its 1986 Y rom season with second-place f. . h · h mis es m t e .Arkansas Intercollegiate Conf and N . erence ~IA District 17 Seniors Don . . Wallis and Jon W~~~ were named All-AIC for their parts · . · mgmdmg Harding through an~ther successful ~pn~g season, as was J~~wr Boontham J1thmaporn. Travelling to C way for th . on- Tc e District 17 ournament, Hardin took the numbe~ three singles and / ~tet~ng style. Boontham i imaporn . B ' a1unior from angkok, Thailand show off his own ti ' s a little sy ea~ he puts oomph into h. serve is · - photo by Pu . Relations Qf.h blic 11•Ce. number two doubles matches, but fell short once again to A k sas Tech. r an- . W~llis became the d1stnct cham . the number thp1on . at le ree smg s spot by defeatin Southern Ark g u · ansas mversity's John Balderree 6-4, 6_0. "I'd say we d'd ty 11 . 1 pretwe m th d. t e istrict ournament needed Southern :r~ kansas to pull ff some 0 1i h upsets over ec ' but Tech w every match th~n played against the~ (SAU);'Elliott said Harding's · on . number ime singles netter, Jittaporn, won his ~f1Y to the final s, but e to Tech's J Smith 6-4 ohn onl ' 6-0. The y other Bison . ~e finals was Jor~~ Hoog, who lost to Ki umphrey of S p ther A ou6-4 n rkansas 6-7, , 6-2 at numb four. er Harding's numb ~~~doubles combin:~ im of Wallis and Jitt- . aporn reached the fmals before fall . . mg to a pair from Ark ~ h ansas iec 4-6, 7-6, 6-3. Facial PYn • home ~rress1ons. At a match against H derson St en- i ate, sophomore ,orge Wooo fro City, M ~' m Mexico ba ' exico, returns the 11 to win the match - photo by i · Jerry Traughber.
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