Thursday • March 23, 1995
Aggie spring
sports—There’s
no I in team.
By Shelly Hall
The Battalion
For the next six weeks, Aggie
sports fans can expect a different
approach to sports than they
found in the fall and early spring.
With the exception of baseball
and softball, individual efforts to
bring victory to “the team” have
passed with the closing of the
football season last fall and the fi
nale of the men’s and women’s
basketball teams before spring
break.
So, does the 12th Man get to
take a rest for the remainder of
the year?
The answer to that question
lies with the individuals who are
working hard to improve their
golf swing, decrease their times
on the track or perfect their back
hand in tennis.
The sports that are often over
looked but provide the fiercest
competition between two individ
uals battling for victory are the
“individual" sports.
Individual sports are not likely
to draw 50,000 sports fans, stu
dents and alumni alike, or 50 for
that matter.
But the 12th Man spirit is
kept alive as Aggie athletes in
volved in individual sports dedi
cate hours of their time to com
pete against other individuals
who are jockeying to be the num
ber one performer.
These athletes, while working
toward team victories, rely solely
on themselves to bring home the
championship.
No more Kyle Kessel assisting
See Hall, Page 8
The Battalion • Page 7
Lady Aggies to begin
NWIT versus ETSU
□ The top-seeded women's
basketball team uses NCAA
snub to fire up for the tourney.
By Robert Rodriguez
The Battalion
The Texas A&M women’s basketball
team will get their taste of March Mad
ness tonight when they play in the Na
tional Women’s Invitational Tourna
ment.
The top-seeded Lady Aggies will face
eighth-seeded East Tennessee State at
8 p.m. at the Amarillo Civic Center.
This will be the second consecutive
post-season appearance for the Lady
Aggies and for coach Candi Harvey. The
Lady Aggies advanced to the Sweet 16
in the NCAA tournament last year and
Harvey led Tulane to a fourth-place fin
ish in last year’s NWIT.
Harvey said the Lady Buccaneers are
a dangerous and explosive team.
“They are very quick and their inside
game is similar to Texas Tech,” Harvey
said. “They are a good basketball team
and I was impressed by them. They will
be a tough opponent,” she said.
Junior point guard Lisa Branch com
pared the Lady Buccaneers to another
Southwest Conference foe which gave
the Lady Aggies some trouble.
“They are a lot like Houston,” Branch
said. “They like to run and they like to
push the ball.”
East Tennessee State finished their
regular season with a 20-7 record. The
Lady Buccaneers were runners-up in
the Southern Conference tournament
and like the Lady Aggies, were by
passed by the NCAA Women’s Tourna
ment Selection Committee.
Even though the Lady Aggies still
believe they should have been in the
NCAA Women’s Tournament, guard
Lana Tucker said the Lady Aggies will
prove something to the committee in
the NWIT.
“Being snubbed by the selection com
mittee made us angry and we are going
to channel this onto the court,” Tucker
said. “We are going to prove in the
NWIT that we belong in the NCAA
tournament and carry that attitude into
next year in order to not let the Baylors
and SMUs beat us.”
Harvey said the key for A&M to beat
See Lady AgS, Page 8
Womens tennis
loses to tough
Sooner team
Staff and Wire Reports
The 31st-ranked Oklahoma women’s
tennis team routed their A&M counter
parts Wednesday at the Omar Smith
Tennis Center 8-1.
Texas A&M’s doubles team of Lonna
Logan and Anna Strakosova tallied a
three-set victory for A&M’s only win.
“We just didn’t come out ready to play
today, and it shows in the scores,” Lady
Aggie coach Bobby Kleinecke said. “We
didn’t have a good effort. I’m disappoint
ed and the team is disappointed in the
way we played.”
The Lady Aggies fall to 5-8 overall
while Oklahoma improves to 12-2 on the
season.
“This match can be a turning point for
us. We see what we’re doing wrong, and
now it’s a matter of correcting it.” Klei
necke said.
The Lady Aggies return to action this
weekend with a road swing through
Florida. A&M takes on South Florida in
Tampa on March 24 and Florida State in
Tallahassee on March 26.
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Senior community health major Cristin
DiNardo volleys with the Sooners.
Swimmers, divers to compete at NCAAs
Staff and Wire Reports
The Texas A&M men’s swimming
and diving team will have four partici
pants at the 1995 NCAA Division I
Men’s Swimming and Diving Champi
onships hosted by Indiana University-
Purdue University this weekend.
Sophomore Robb Pantano is the
only Aggie that has national champi
onship experience. At last years
championship Pantano finished 12th
and 14th in the 200-meter and 400
medley relay units. Pantano will com
pete in the 100 and 200-meter back-
stroke.
Senior Scott DeWolf will compete in
the 200-meter butterfly where he holds
the fastest A&M time this season.
Freshman Kyle Marden qualified for
both the 100-meter and 200 breaststroke
where he owns the A&M record in the
100-bre aststroke.
The diving team will be sending its
first ever diver, freshman Jarrod Flores.
Flores qualified for the championship by
finishing third at the Zone D NCAA Div
ing Championships on March 10.
“Jarrod’s well-prepared, and we’re not
going to hold back,” diving coach Kevin
Wright said. “We’re going to go all-out,
and when the smoke clears, we’ll see
how we do. Nationals are just another
meet, and we’ll approach it from that
perspective.”
Flores has had a standout freshman
season. He finished the conference dual
meet season undefeated on the one-me
ter and placed third at the Southwest
Conference Championships.
This meet will conclude the 1994-
1995 regular season.
Move over Dick Vitale....
The Batt's road to the Final Four
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Naming first child Exree Winder.
Nick Georgandis
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Kansas
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Oh me, oh my, O'Bannon!
Robert Rodriguez
Kansas
N. Carolina
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Naming first child Joe Rodriguez.
Jim Anderson
Kansas
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Connecticut
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Once dunked on by Jerry Stackhouse.
Mark Smith
Kansas
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1 love the Bruins. Hockey is the best.
Rob Clark
Kansas
N. Carolina
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Heard MJ was coming all the way back.
Stew Milne
Arkansas
Georgetown
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