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A&M men finish undefeated at home
Ag women
can tie for
1st in SWC
By Ken Sury
Assistant Sports Editor
The Texas A&M men’s tennis
[team kept its unbeaten home record
I intact Monday with a sound 7-2
[whipping of Houston.
“This will give us a lot of momen-
itum going into the (Southwest Con-
[ference) tournament,” A&M Coach
David Kent
Tennis
|said. “But the
big thing is that
this is the first time in nine years
we’ve had a team go undefeated at
home.”
A&M had to fight hard Friday
against Rice to keep its home win
ning streak alive. The Aggies won
the No. 1 doubles match to break a
tie and defeat the Owls 5-4.
While Monday’s UH match ended
A&M’s home season, it also was
Kimmo Alkio’s and Russ Simmons’
last home match as Aggies. Both se
niors finished on a winning note, as
Alkio defeated a frustrated Jeff Rol-
quinof UH 6-1,6-2, in the No. 1 sin
gles spot, and Simmons and fresh-
jman partner Brent Haygarth won at
No. 1 doubles with a 6-2, 6-4 deci-
jsion over Rolquin and Earl Zinn.
Kent praised the play of both se
niors.
Alkio and Simmons are quality
eniors,” he said, “and they went out
in style. Alkio is just a one-in-a-mil-
I lion type of player that a coach will
Shave, and Simmons is a fine doubles
Kilayer.”
I Alkio, the nation’s No. 28 singles
I gplayer, said he was satisfied with his
Ivin.
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A&M’s No. 1 singles player Kimmo Alkio slams a
backhand against Rice’s Scott Melville Friday.
Photo by Brad Whitten
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Simmons and then-partner Mark
Smith, who since has been forced to
quit the team due to a back injury,
vere out-served by Rolquin and
§Zinn in their second-round match.
“They beat us in straight sets
there, and we beat them in straight
sets here,” Simmons said, “but com
ing from indoors on a fast court to
the slower courts outdoors, there’s
such a huge dif ference.
“All they have is strong serves, so I
felt we could take them.”
A&M’s only loss to UH in singles
play came as Marcel Vos lost to Ger
ald Marzenell in a hard-fought 2-6,
7-6, 6-4 match. But Vos and partner
Alkio came back in No. 2 doubles for
a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Marzenell and
Brent Saigeon.
The A&M women’s tennis team still
must finish conference round-robin
play, but even so, this weekend’s
SWC tourney looks to be a dogfight
among A&M, SMU, Texas and
TCU.
Friday, the A&M had a chance to
put itself in the driver’s seat against
TCU, which had upset SMU earlier
in the week. But the No. 17 Aggies
found the Horned Frogs just as in
hospitable and dropped a 5-4 dual
match.
Saturday, A&M grabbed a 5-2
lead over Texas Tech before rain
stopped play. The only doubles
match completed was a 6-1, 6-2 win
by A&M’s Kim Labuschagne and
Karen Marshall over Lisa Roberts
and Paula Brigance. Labuschagne
and Marshall finished at the No. 2
doubles spot with an 8-0 conference
record.
The uncompleted doubles
matches will be played Thursday at
the HEB Tennis Center in Corpus
Christi prior to this weekend’s SWC
tournament.
A&M currently has 48 match-win
points in the conference, tied with
TCU and SMU. Texas leads the con
ference with 50 points.
One win Thursday will put the
Aggies into sole possession of second
place and, if they can win both
matches, head into the SWC tourney
tied for first.
Ags ‘execute’ Owls to earn postseason berth
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By Tom Tagliabue
Sports Writer
The catch word of the Southwest
Conference baseball series between
Rice and Texas A&M at Olsen Field
this weekend was “execute.”
) The Owls didn’t and the No. 9
Aggies did.
And with the 3-2, 5-1 and 5-4
sweep of Rice, A&M condemned the
bwls to the ' "
Southwest Con- Baseball
Terence cellar
id assured itself of a spot in the
conference postseason tournament.
The Aggies, who improved to 36-
18 overall and 13-2 in the SWC, also
stayed atop the SWC standings with
a gahie lead over No. 5 Texas. The
Owls fell to 30-25 and 3-15.
A&M Coach Mark Johnson said
the victories over Rice were tough
because the Owls, like the rest of the
SWC, were gunning for the Aggies.
“People don’t realize that in the
Southwest Conference — I know
there are a lot of sweeps and I know
people won’t believe me — it’s very,
very tough to sweep,” Johnson said.
“It’s phenomenal that we’ve been
able to do it (the last three series). It
really speaks a lot to our kids be
cause we’re not just blowing people
out, we’re having to scrap for every
thing we get and our guys just won’t
give in.
“I think we’re finally making be
lievers of some people. Everybody’s
been waiting for us to fold because
everybody feels like we’re not quite
good enough, but I think we’re start
ing to prove that we are.”
The Aggies made believers out of
the Owls.
A&M’s Darryl Fry started Satur
day and picked up where Dale Barry
left off Friday, pitching a two-hit
complete game and improving his
record to 9-4 overall and 3-1 in the
SWC.
Fry got a lot of help from the Ag
gie offense as it scored five runs on
three homers and a RBI single.
Jeff Schow led off the Aggie first
with his ninth round-tripper of the
year — the third time this season
Schow has led off the first with a
home run.
After A&M’s Ever Magallanes
grounded out, Scott Livingstone
blasted Rice pitcher Pat Combs’ first
pitch over the fence. It was Liv
ingstone’s sixth homer of the season.
The Aggies’ Don Wren singled
home Mike Scanlin, who had walked
and later moved to third on Fred
Gegen’s fielder’s choice.
Gegen would pick up A&M’s final
two runs in the third on his eighth
homer of the year, a shot off Combs
with Pat James aboard.
The only Owl run off Fry was un
earned as John Cegelski reached
base on Livingstone’s error and
scored on Eric Graffs deep double
to center field.
In the second game, A&M starter
Gary Geiger got into early trouble as
Rice connected for one run in each
of the first three innings.
Pat Wernig relieved Geiger with
one out in the third and with Owl
runners at the corners.
T he first hitter to face Wernig was
Rice’s Paul Dishman and Dishman’s
at-bat would change the momentum
of the ball game.
On Wernig’s first pitch, Dishman
attempted a squeeze bunt and
missed. Aggie catcher Maury Martin
looked at the Owl runner advancing
to second, but turned and saw Steve
Turner charging home.
Martin threw to Livingstone, who
applied the tag to Turner for the
second out of the inning. Dishman
grounded the next pitch to Gegen,
who stepped on first base to end the
inning.
In the fourth, A&M turned the ta
bles and executed what Rice could
not — a squeeze play.
After Wren’s RBI ground out,
Martin squared around and laid
down a sacrifice bunt to score Ge
gen, who had singled, to knot the
game at 3-3.
Both teams went scoreless until
the eighth, when Rice nearly pulled
off an upset. Dishman redeemed
himself with a solo homer off Wer
nig to put the Owls ahead 4-3.
A&M rebounded with good hustle
and clutch hitting to grab the victory
from Rice.
Scanlin, who struck out six times
during the series, led off the eighth
with a check-swing grounder and
beat the throw for a single.
Johnson signaled James to bunt.
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but on the first two attempts, James
missed badly. James evened the
count on Owl pitcher Ken Sorenson
and drilled Sorenson’s next pitch
down the first-base line for an RBI
triple, tying the game at 4-4.
Gegen’s sacrifice fly to left field
scored James and gave the Aggies
the 5-4 victory.
In the first game of the series Fri
day night, Rice got an excellent
pitching performance from Steve
Blackshear, who gave up six hits and
three runs in the complete-game
loss.
A&M’s Barry improved his per
fect record to 8-0 overall and 5-0 in
the SWG.
The Aggies picked up all three
runs in the second on RBI singles
from Fred Gegen and Jeff Schow.
Rice's only runs came in the fifth
as Jay Knoblauh nailed Barry’s high
changeup for a two-run home run.
For the Aggies, the biggest confer
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ahead of them. The second-place
Longhorns await the Aggies down in
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