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Sports Monday, March 28, 1994 The Battalion Page 7 Whiff! Rice sweeps weekend series, strikes out faltering Aggies By Nick Georgandis The Battalion HOUSTON — Heading into this weekend’s series with Rice University, the Texas A&M baseball team was looking to get back into the Southwest Confer ence race. But the Rice Owls had plans of their own, limit ing the Aggies to just three runs on 1 0 hits in three games as Rice swept A&M in the three-game series at Cameron Field in Houston. The sweep drops the Aggies to 0-6 in confer ence play(18-15 overall), the team’s worst start in conference history. Despite the sweep, A&M head coach Mark John son continued to remain optimistic Saturday on his team’s chances this season. “We came back, “Even at 0-6, I think they will make the (Southwest Confer ence) tournament.” - Wayne Graham, Rice head baseball coach g came and played well to day,” Johnson said. “We just didn’t hit well enough to win. “I think the (SWC) tournament teams will have eight or nine losses. Obvi ously, we have put ourselves in a bi hole.” A&M’s best chance came in the second game on Saturday when they rallied to tie the game at three in the eighth inning on sophomore David Minor’s pinch-hit single, a hit batsman and two Rice errors. A&M looked to have the game won in the top of the ninth when they loaded the bases, but junior Robert Harris’ drive to left was hauled in by Rice’s left fielder Chris Boni at the wall to end the inning. In the bottom of the inning, Rice’s Donald Aslaksen won the game with a RBI single into left- center field. The opening game on Saturday, a seven-inning affair, was a classic pitching duel between A&M ju nior right-hander Chris Clemons and Rice’s Tim Brydak. Clemons gave up only two hits in six innings, but allowed three unearned runs with the help of six walks, two hit batsmen and a wild pitch. Byrdak, meanwhile, breezed through the game allowing only two hits and one walk, while striking out six Aggies. At one point, Byrdak, a junior transfer from Illinois, retired 17 straight A&M batters. Rice’s head coach Wayne Gra ham was very high on Byrdak’s performance, and on his pitching staff in general at the end of the sweep. “We’ve hit our stride with pitch ing,” Graham Said. “Byrdak was just a marvelous college pitcher in the first game.” Despite Rice’s first sweep of A&M in 33 years, Graham was quick to point out that the Aggies cannot be counted out of the con ference race yet. “They’ve lost six in a row in the conference, but they’re capa ble of winning 1 0 in a row, Graham said. “Even at 0-6, I think they will make the tournament.” The Aggies will attempt to break their current slump tomorrow night in a 7 p.m. game against St. Texas tennis team hands A&M first loss From staff and wire reports AUSTIN — No. 6 Texas defeated the Texas A&M men’s tennis team, 6-1, Saturday, handing the No. 24 Aggies the first loss of the season. The Aggies fell to 15-1 on the season, and 1-1 in the Southwest Conference. The Aggies grabbed a 1-0 lead at Penick-Allison Ten nis Center, after the doubles teams of Bernardo Martinez and Mark Weaver, and Ricardo Rodarte and Chad Ray mond won their respective matches. But die Longhorns swept A&M in singles. “We started off right in doubles, but they were too strong,” A&M assistant coach Charles Emley said. “We played much better today than we did on Friday against Rice. "We had a lot of crowd support. It was almost like a home match for us , and that helped our cause.” The Aggies return to action this week with home matches against No. 22 Florida State on April 1 and No. 2 8 Arkansas on April 2. Lady Aggies scrap, scrape in 'tough' FSU tennis match By Kristine Ramirez The Battalion Mary Macmanus/ The Battalion Lee Fedora strikes out during Tuesday's game against Mary Hardin Baylor University . The Aggies were swept for the second time in conference play after losing the series against Rice. The 0-6 record is A&M's worst start in Southwest Conference play. Olaf College at Olsen Field. A&M will return to conference play on Friday when they host the University of Houston in a three-game series. The No. 27 Texas A&M women’s tennis team could not pull out another upset as No. 25 Florida State defeated the Lady Aggies, 5-4, on Saturday. The Lady Aggies fall to 10-6 overall and are coming off an upset of No. 14 Clemson Thurs day. After playing to a 3- 3 tie after the singles matches, the Lady Ag gies lost two of the three doubles matches. In singles, Junior Christine DiNardo de feated FSU’s Jen Hyde, 7-6, 6-3 and Sophomore Anna Strakosova won by default due to injuries on the Florida State squad. lio/ter Hsiehl The Battalion Anna Strakosova (bot tom) reacts after her 2-6, 1 -6 loss against FSU. Freshman Nancy Dingwall had a stellar performance defeating See Seminoles/ Page 8 tion Week 1994 Presents Resurrection Week Calendar v " L •• % ' % * i x \ ' A. ** , v. 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