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Lady Ag netters drill No. 24 Coogs
By Steve O'Brien
The Battalion
The 23rd-ranked Texas A&M
women’s tennis team defeated No.
24 Houston 6-3 in Southwest Con
ference tennis action Thursday af
ternoon at Omar Smith Tennis Cen
ter.
The Lady Ags move to 5-4 on the
season and are 2-0 in conference fol
lowing a win over Rice on Wednes
day.
The Lady Ags won 4-of-6 singles
matches and the top-seeded doubles
team of Lynn Staley and Janine Bur-
ton-Durham clinched the Aggies’
victory with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Julie
Cass and Jenny Mainz of Houston.
The win in doubles was no cake
walk, Staley said.
“They started dominating the net
a lot more (in the second set),” Staley
said. “We were holding up the net in
the first set, but then we let it slip
away from us.”
The Lady Ags’ No. 2 doubles
team of Tami Agassi and Cindy
Churchwell won in staight sets (6-
3,7-5) over Patricia Riddell and Cyn
thia Sanchez of Houston.
Staley, the No. 9 singles player in
the country, soundly defeated Hous
ton No. 1 seed Julie Cass in two sets,
6-1 and 6-2.
“It was real windy out today, so I
knew to just keep a lot of balls in
E lay,” Staley said. “I was a little apre-
ensive about playing her because
she’s a serve and volleyer and I knew
that she could keep me off-balance.”
A&M fifth seed Burton-Durham
and fourth seed Jenny Graf were the
only losers in singles action.
The victory over Houston is extra
nice after last year, Staley said.
“They beat us last year the same
score we beat them this year,” she
said. “We just have a big rivalry with
them. They got second in confer
ence last year, and we got third just
because we lost to them.”
The Lady Ags’ next match is Sun
day in Las Vegas against UNLV.
Spurs blow lead, fall to Knicks
NEW YORK (AP) — Even a 19-1 deficit against San
Antonio didn’t stop the New York Knicks from extend
ing their winning streak to four games.
The Knicks, despite missing their first eight shots
while the Spurs started 9-for-10, got 27 points and 15
rebounds from Patrick Ewing to overtake San Antonio
100-93 on Thursday night.
“We never felt we were out of it,” coach John Mac
Leod said. “The 19-1 start happened so quickly, we
knew we had plenty of time to come back.”
MacLeod called three timeouts in the first period to
calm his team, which came back to lead briefly in the
second quarter, then outplayed the Spurs in the second
half.
“We told ourselves during the timeouts, ‘Let’s try to
get as close as we can in the first quarter,”’ said reserve
guard Trent Tucker, who scored 10 points in 17 min
utes. “There aren’t any 18-point plays.”
“We knew it was dim in the beginning, but it was
early in the game, so we didn’t panic,” said Gerald Wil
kins, who scored 22 points, his fourth straight game
with more than 20. “When you’re down like that, you
have to keep fighting. We refused to lose, once we got
back in the game.”
It was the first time since Jan. 3-6 against Denver and
the Los Angeles Clippers that the Knicks have won two
straight games at Madison Square Garden, where they
are now 13-17 for the season.
The loss knocked the Spurs out of first place in the
Midwest Division after they briefly regained the top
spot from Utah by defeating Portland twice this week.
“We let them off the hook,” coach Larry Brown said.
“They called some great timeouts, which made them
settle down.”
David Robinson scored 23 points, but was outre-
bounded 15-5 by Ewing. Sean Elliott and Terry Cum
mings each had 19 points for San Antonio, now 5-1
against Atlantic Division teams this season.
“I wasn’t concerned with the matchup against Da
vid,” Ewing said. “I wanted to play well and win. The
statistical numbers against David mean nothing to me."
“Our defense plays well in cycles, but we have to do it
for the full 48 minutes,” Robinson said. “Getting a big
lead and losing it was a trait of this team last year. We
haven’t done that very much this season, but we did the
last two games.”
A jumper by Wilkins gave the Knicks the lead for
good at 89-87 with 2:42 left. San Antonio scored seven
straight points, the last three on a 23-footer by Elliott, to
tie the score 87-87 with 3:02 left.
Ewing scored 10 points in the third quarter as the
Knicks pulled ahead 74-68 going into the final 12 min
utes, then took their largest lead, 79-70, with 10 min
utes to go.
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control of the game.”
Young is in control of the game if
she has control of all four of her
pitches. She throws a rise pitch, a
curve, a drop ball, and a knuckle
ball.
A&M softball coach Bob Brock
said that Young has excellent com
mand of those pitches and moves the
ball around well.
“Missi throws hard enough,”
Brock said, “but the rise ball is her
pitch to get people out with.”
Strikeouts are often associated
with fast pitching, but Young gets
her share of strikeouts.
Last season. Young amassed 272
strikeouts in 254 innings, placing
her fifth on the A&M career strike
out list. So far this season, Young has
struck out 21 batters in 21 innings
pitched.
Brock describes the rise pitch as
one that comes in to the hitter as a
fastball, but jumps upward just be
fore it reaches the plate. This type of
movement is just enough to throw
the hitters off stride, he said.
Keeping the hitters off guard is an
important part of Young’s game.
“If you just throw speed, even
tually the hitters will catch up to the
pitch and hit it,” she said. “When
you move the ball around, all the hit
ters can do is second guess.”
Young, a sophomore English ma
jor, plans to get a teaching certificate
and use her degree for teaching.
Young said she chose to attend
A&M because of its prestigious aca
demics in addition to its positive,
winning softball program.
One of the integral parts of the
A&M program is the teaching of
coach Brock, she said.
said this is one of the things that
makes Young coachable.
“It is easy to communicate with
people who really know how to
pitch,” Brock said.
In addition to the physical aspects
of pitching, it is equally important to
be into the game mentally. Young
said that pitching doesn’t seem to
wear on her mentally.
But Brock disagreed. He said that
Young doesn’t notice the fatigue be
cause she is mentally tough.
“He takes the time to teach you
and show you what he wants you to
do on the field,” Young said.
One aspect of Brock’s teaching is
helping Young gain confidence in
her pitches. He has helped her with
her drop ball, which complements
her rise pitch.
Communication is often an im
portant part of coaching, and Brock
“Missi is a player who handles
pressure well and doesn’t settle for
second in anything,” Brock said.
“These traits have allowed her to win
some big games for the team.”
Young is respected by her team
mates because of her behavior on
the field, Brock said.
When she is not pitching, she
plays the role of cheerleader, yelling
encouragement to her teammates.
The Lady Aggies hope this artist
turned cheerleader can use the art
of pitching to mold the team into
winner this season.
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