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What you may have missed
Editor’s note: While Texas A&M
students have been on spring break,
the Aggie sports teams have been
hard at play. Charean Williams and
Ken Sury, assistant sports editors,
and Tom Tagliabue, sports writer,
compiled a few Aggie Notes to catch
you up.
Baseball
Women’s Tennis
Texas A&M women’s tennis team
was astounding everyone, including
themselves, as they knocked off
lOth-ranked Texas and No. 6
Northwestern over spring break be
fore losing to No. 18 Kentucky
Wednesday.
“It’s almost like we needed (the
loss to Kentucky),” A&M women’s
tennis coach Bobby Kleinecke said.
“We’re not a Top 10 team even
though we defeated two Top 10
teams. It brought us back to reality.”
The 5-4 win against Texas upped
the Aggies’ Southwest Conference
record to 4-0. It also marked the first
time the Aggie women have ever de
feated the Longhorns, who came
into A&M’s Omar Smith Tennis
Center with a 27-match SWC win
streak.
The Texas A&M baseball team
went to bask in the Hawaiian sun
over spring break, but came away a
little burned.
The Aggies could only muster a 1-
4 record on the islands.
The nationally-ranked Hawaii
Rainbows handed the Aggies their
third loss in a row with a 14-4 beat
ing. Russ Swan (1-3) took the loss.
The Aggies and Dale Barry ended
the losing streak by beating the Rain
bows 4-3. But Hawaii rebounded
and handed the Ags another loss,
this time 7-6 as Darryl Fry fell to 5-3.
The Aggies took on Hawaii-Hilo
and got swept in a two-game series,
3-1 and 1-0. Kyle Atkinson and Gary
Geiger took the losses.
Austin, but had to settle for its famil
iar fourth-place Finish.
The Aggies were only behind Ar
kansas by one and a half points after
the second day of competition, but
the Razorbacks pulled away with 17
more points than the Aggies on the
Final day of the meet.
Texas won the meet for the sev
enth straight year, with 973 points to
Arkansas’ 702. Arkansas scored
428.5, while A&M Finished at 410
points.
A&M’s Chris O’Neil won the 100-
yard butterfly for the second year in
a row. His time of 47.59 seconds was
.01 off his SWC record. O’Neil also
Finshed sixth in the 50-yard free
style.
Softball
Behind O’Neil, the Aggies’ next
best Finish in the meet was Ranee Bo
ren’s third place in the 1,650-yard
freestyle with a personal best of
15:34.51.
The No. 6 Texas A&M softball
team went on a West Coast swing
this past week.
Highlight of the trip came when
Scott McDonald set two A&M re
cords in the individual medley (IM)
swims. His time of 3:59.15 in the
400-yard IM earned him a Fifth-
place Finish and his 1:51.69 in the
200-yard IM netted seventh.
That confidence-building win car
ried into the Aggies 6-3 match vic
tory over Northwestern.
Paced by Gaye Lynne Gensler’s
win over Stephanie Lighvoet, the
No. 44 singles player, the Aggies
were ahead 4-2 after the end of sin
gles play.
Gensler and Vanne Akagi, A&M’s
18th-ranked doubles team, lost to
the third-ranked duo of Katrina Ad
ams and Diane Donnelly. However,
the Aggies’ No. 2 tandem of Kim La-
buschagne and Karen Marshall and
the No. 3 team of Laura Liong and
Julie Vaughan sewed up the victory.
But the giant-slaying didn’t last as
too many Aggie mistakes enabled
Kentucky to beat the Aggies, 6-3.
Kleinecke said the loss will proba
bly help the team as it heads into the
second half of SWC play.
“There’s a long road ahead of us,”
Kleinecke said. “But so far we’ve im
proved as a team after losing — we
learn from our mistakes.”
The Aggies play No. 15 Brigham
Young Thursday in the Brigham
Young Invitatinal at Provo, Utah.
Men’s Tennis
Despite dropping a 7-2 decision to
seventh-ranked Texas in Austin
March 15, the Texas A&M men’s
tennis team rebounded at home last
Tuesday to defeat 19th-ranked
Michigan 6-3.
Against Texas, only Dean Gold-
Fine and Chris Stanich posted victo
ries in the singles competition. Even
more disappointing for the No. 21
Aggies was the loss of No. 2 singles
player Mark Smith who aggravated
his back during the singles play and
may be lost for the entire year.
“It’s really a crushing blow,” A&M
men’s tennis coach David Kent said.
“He’s had a problem with a shifting
in his back and it was just too painful
for him to play. He’s played in pain
all year.
Holt, Wesley, Pervis and Dunn
picked up a third-place finish with a
time of 7:26.46.
A&M landed another third-place
Finish as Craig Calkran a 51.82 in the
400 meter hurdles.
The Aggies 4x100 meter relay
team qualified for the NCAA na
tional meet when they sprinted to a
39.84 in the pre-lims, but the team
of Laurence Felton, Heard, Archie
Roberts and Kerr failed to place
when they dropped the baton in the
finals.
Fransisco Oliveras placed Fifth in
the triple jump.
The Aggie women’s team placed
in five different events.
Cassandra Perkins claimed second
in the discus with a throw of 143
feet. Teammate Kay McMurray
placed sixth in the discus with a
throw of 138 feet.
Vernell Dunn placed fourth in the
shot with a put of 45 feet, 5 inches.
Beth Drees earned a third place
finish in the 5,000 meters, while
Michelle Rosynek placed Fifth in the
10,000 meters.
A&M Assistant Coach Ted Nelson
was pleased with the team effort.
“We’re very pleased with all the
relays we ran,” Nelson said. “We felt
like we really competed well in those
events — we were within three or
four yards of winning those relays.
We were very pleased that our
young kids did a good job for us
competing for the first time we had
gone outdoors.”
Men’s Golf
The Texas A&M men golfers fin
ished third in the Rafael Alarcon/In
tercollegiate Golf Tournanjent
March 14-16 in Guadalajara, Mex
ico, with a three-day 846 total.
The Aggies’ top finisher was Jeff
Marget who came in fourth with a
79-71-69 — 209, three strokes be
hind individual champion Chris Kite
of Wake Forest.
No. 1-ranked Oklahoma Stare
won the tourney with a 839 while
Texas Finished second with a 842.
A&M played the first round of the
Louisiana Classic in Lafayette, La.,
Sunday and will close out the two-
day tourney today.
Women’s Golf
the Aggies battled No. 1 Cal-State
Fullerton last Monday, coming away
with a split of the double-header.
Track
The first game was a TO win for
the Titans, but the second game be
longed to the Ags and pitcher Shawn
Andaya.
“We’ll really miss him, especially
in doubles, but we’ve got good re
placements in Brent Haygarth and
Chris Stanich.”
In A&M’s win over Michigan, the
Aggies swept the singles matches,
but dropped all three of the doubles
matches.
Andaya tossed a two-hitter, struck
out 12 and didn’t issue a walk. And
with the game scoreless in the top of
the 12th, Andaya got things rolling
with a lead-off single and then
scored the only run of the game on a
passed ball.
Bob Brock’s Ags play at home for
the first time this season when they
take on Minnesota in a double-
header beginning at 5 p.m. Wednes
day.
“We were a little flat after going 6-
0 in singles,” Kent said, “but it was
still a good win against Michigan.”
The men travel to Montgomery,
Ala., this week for the Blue-Gray
Team Tennis Tournament. They
open play against No. 16 Georgia
Thursday.
Men’s Swimming
The Texas A&M men’s swimming
team hoped to claim its highest plac
ing ever in the Southwest Confer
ence Swimming Championships in
The Texas A&M track team was
named the outstanding team at the
Texas Southern Relays this past
weekend on the strength of two first-
place Finishes, two seconds and three
thirds.
Randy Barnes, fresh off an All-
America performance at the NCAA
Indoor Track and Field Champion
ships last weekend, won the shot put
with a put of 61 feet, 914 inches and
picked up a third place Finish in the
discus with a throw of 173 feet.
The A&M 4x400 meter relay
team of Kendrick Wesley, Maurice
Holt, Gary Pervis and Matt Wash
ington picked up the other First-
place Finish with a time of 3:05.9.
The Aggies’ picked up the first of
their two second-place finishes when
Pervis ran a 46.6 second 400 meters.
The sprint medley relay (two
200s, one 400 and one 800) team of
Floyd Heard, Stanley Kerr, Pervis
and Matt Dunn took second with a
time of 3:18.4.
The 4x800 meter relay team of
The Texas A&M women golfers
finished 17th in the McDonalds-
Betsy Rawls Classic March 14-16 in
Austin, Finishing with a three-day to
tal of 896.
Angela Atkins was the Aggies’ top
Finisher, coming in ninth with a 226.
Fiona Connor Fired a 235, Hollie
Frizzell a 242, Ann Thompson a
252, and Adriana Penuela a 265 for
the defending Southwest Confer
ence Champions.
Tulsa won the event for the fifth
straight year.
The Aggies next play in the Lady
Mustang Roundup at Dallas’ Lake-
wood Country Club Wednesday.
Rifle Team
Texas A&M freshman Annette
Tyler and sophomore Eric Upta-
grafft were named small-bore All-
Americas and Maj. Richard Pitts was
named coach of the year at the
NCAA Championships at the U.S.
Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.,
March 14-16.
The A&M rifle team, which had
the only non-scholarship squad in
the eight-team competition, took
eighth in the championships.
“They worked really hard to get
(to the championships),” Pitts said.
“It’s quite an honor just to be al
lowed to go.”
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