fhursday, March 1, 1990
The Battalion
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ady Ag netters compete in tourney
By VINCE SNYDER
Of The Battalion Staff
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Photo by Scott D. Wea ver
^&M’s Susan Williams returns a Lady Long- Feb. 25 at Omar Smith Tennis Center. The Lady
Corns’ shot with a powerful backhand Sunday, Aggies compete in Wisconsin today.
The Texas A&M women’s tennis
team will compete in the United
States Tennis Association/Intercolle
giate Tennis Coaches Association’s
National Indoor Team Tennis
Championships starting Thursday
and continuing through Sunday.
The tournament will be held at
the Nielsen Tennis Stadium on the
University of Wisconsin campus in
Madison, WI.
The Lady Aggies will face Okla
homa State at 9 a.m. Thursday, in
the first round of the 16-team field.
A&M is ranked I9th in the Volvo
Tennis/Collegiate Rankings, while
OSU is 9th.
“This is a great opportunity for
our team,” A&M Coach Bobby Klei-
necke said. “We need to go all out
and we need to upset some teams.
That would make up for our slow
start in Utah.”
This will mark the Lady Aggies
first appearance in the event’s three-
year history. Top-ranked and top-
seeded Standford University won
the title last year.
The 16 teams involved in the
tournament include 13 of the top 14
teams in the Volvo rankings. Each
team is quaranteed to play at least
three matches during the four day
event. The championship match is
scheduled to begin at noon on Sun
day.
,ady Ags at home
ioftball team opens home season
today as it plays host Nebraska
O’Donovan leads Ags to
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tiam will open the home portion of
eir 1990 schedule today as the)
fttthe Nebraska Huskers in a dou-
leheader at Lady Aggie Softball
field in College Station. First pitch is
■heduled for 5 p.m.
■ The Lady Aggies will carry a 5-2
record into today’s game with all
fitven of those games being played
on the road. A&M beat Texas-Ar-
Bngton, Tuesday, by 3-1 and 7-0
■Hints in Arlington. 1 he Lady Ag-
■es went 3-2 last weekend .to finish
■cond in the Louisiana Classics
■ournament in Lafayette, La.
I “I’m excited about this team.
Were doing real well right now,”
A&M Coach Bob Brock said. “But
Nebraska is always one of the top
teams in the country, and I’m sure
they’ll come here ready to play.”
The Huskers will be seeing their
first action of the 1990 season when
they square off against the Lady Ag
gies today. Nebraska went 32-28 last
year and posted a 7-3 conference re
cord to finish second behind Okla
homa State in the Big Eight.
A&M holds an 1 1-2 edge in the se
ries with Nebraska. Last year, the
Lady Aggies split the last two games
of the season with the Huskers, win
ning 3-2 and losing 4-2 in the final
contest of the 1989 campaign.
swimming team visits
Austin for SWC tourney
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■ The Texas A&M men’s swim team
fwill be hoping for the chance to hold
‘on to their postion as the No. 3 team
■ the Southwest Conference stand
ings when they compete in the SWC
[Swimming and Diving Champion
ships this weekend in Austin.
■ The three-day meet is scheduled
■ start today and continue through
Stnurday at the Texas Swimming
“Center on the Universitv of Texas
Campus.
The Aggies will be hoping to re
peal their third place finish from
1988 and 1989 while also qualifying'
several individuals and relays for the
NCAA Swimming and Diving
Championships, scheduled for
March 22-24 in Indianapolis. The
Texas Longhorns are favored to win
their 11th straight SWC crown while
SMU is expected to finish second.
By NADJA SABAWALA
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M men’s tennis
team travels to Corpus Christi this
week to participate in the 22nd An
nual H.E.B. College Tennis Team
Championships, Thursday through
Sunday.
Twenty-four teams, including five
from the Southwest Conference, will
compete in the four-day event in the
H.E.B. Tennis Center.
The Aggies start off the tourna
ment against 4-1 Harvard at 2 p.m.
The winner will go on to face No. 13
Clemson while the loser will play the
loser of the Southern Methodist ver
sus Southwestern Lousiana game.
“Harvard is always tough,” A&M
coach David Kent said. “They’re the
best team in the East, but we’ve got a
pretty good team.
“I feel like we’ll do well.”
A&M’s No. 1 singles player, senior
Shaun O’Donovan (14-6), will at
tempt to keep his 1990 year his hot
test. O’Donovan is 7-0 in dual match
and 7-6 in tournament play.
The Aggies’ dual match record is
6-1, including an impressive win
over 25th-ranked Trinity.
“We need to beat some people in
the Top 20 to get into the poll,” Kent
said.“This will be a good chance to
do that.”
A&M’s top three singles players
are O’Donovan, senior Gustavo Es
pinosa and junior Matt Zisette.
Shaun O’Donovan
The Aggies’ doubles lineup is Es-
pinosa/Zisette, O’Donovan and
sophomore Doug Brown/and junior
Steve Kennedy/junior Mike Castillo.
“This is a big weekend for us,”
Kent said. “There are 24 teams and
they’re all tough.”
Other teams in the tournament
include top-seeded South Carolina,
eighth-ranked Texas Christian, No.
10 Mississippi and No. 20 Arizona.
The Aggies return to College Sta
tion to meet Wake Forest March 6 at
1:30 p.m. at the Omar Smith Tennis
Center.
&M rugby squad competing for kicks
y CLAY RASMUSSEN
(The Battalion Staff
If you’re missing football, and
iseball just isn’t providing you with
e rush of excitement that comes
om a contact sport, then the Texas
&M rugby team has just what you
leed.
Students can get a dose of A&M
gby this Saturday at the Rugby
unalSyS'Rields, as Texas A&M hosts the
to thoseT exas Collegiate Rugby Champion-
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lollegiate Championship in April.
“Rugby is 80 minutes of running,
lassing and hitting,” junior winger
pies Goodman said.
I Goodman, an animal science ma
jor, graduated from A&M Consol
idated after transferring from Aus
tralia in 1983. He brought with him
a burning desire to continue his
rugby carrer.
Not many people on campus are
aware of the rugby team, or its win
ning tradition. Formed in 1975 as an
extramural sport, the rugby team
dominated Texas, winning 12 con
secutive titles.
However, times have been hard
on the team since winning its last
Texas Collegiate Tournament in
1986. Goodman, the Aggies’ team
representative, said the 1986 team
was one of the strongest until it lost
most of its starters to graduation.
But Goodman said 1990 looks
promising for the Aggies.
“In 1987, the team that had won
the ’86 tournament graduated, leav
ing us with a serious shortage of
quality players,” Goodman said. “We
lost the title in 1987 to Southwest
Texas State University.
“We’ve been rebuilding since then
and I think the 1990 team is the
most promising team since 1986.”
If their records any indication, the
Aggies are well on their way to estab
lishing a dominance in the Texas
Collegiate Organization.
A&M is 4-0 this spring, with one
sided wins against the University of
St. Thomas (58-3), Rice (1 1-7), Sam
Houston State (11-0) and Houston
(16-9).
“This years crop of players is a
good one,” Goodman said. “The
depth we’ve aquired should provide
us with good years to come.”
The bulk of A&M’s rugby team
comes from students that have be
come interested in the game and
showed up to give it a shot.
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Goodman said that anyone inter
ested in rugby, with a willingness to
run and drink beer is a candidate for
the team.
“We get a lot of people who don’t
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“We get all types, from the high
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Rugby has it all for the sports fan.
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’ “It’s an exciting, fast-paced spec
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