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Texas A&M Men’s Tennis Team hosts Southwest,
then travels to Lubbock for conference opener
By Al Lazarus
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Men’s Tennis
Team will take on Southwest
Texas State today at 2 p.m. at the
Omar Smith Tennis Center, and
will travel to Lubbock on Sunday
to play Texas Tech.
The Aggies lost to Tech last
year, 4-2, and did not play
Southwest Texas.
The 33rd-ranked Aggies (2-1)
played a close match against No. 6
LSU last Friday
in Baton Rouge,
losing 4-3. After
winning the
doubles point,
they needed
only three sin
gles victories to
win the match,
but could only
manage two.
Coach Tim
Cass said despite
the Aggies near
victory against a
top-ten team on
the road, he still
considers the
LSU match a loss
like any other.
“There’s really
no such thing as
a moral victory, we had talked
about going out there (to LSU) and
winning,” he said. “But the match
gave me some ideas of what we
need to work on.”
Although it would be easy for
the Aggies to look back on die LSU
match and think about how close
they came to victory, Cass said he
does not expect this to happen.
“We really don’t have enough
time to look back,” he said. “If we
do, it could get us in trouble.”
Freshman Rafael de Mesa, cur
rently ranked No. 37 in the nation,
said dwelling on LSU should not be
a problem for the men’s team.
“We are looking forward to
playing Tech and Southwest
Texas. They are good teams,” de
Mesa said.
Cass said that while he does not
want to look past the Southwest
Texas State match on Friday, he is
excited about playing Tech.
“TexasTech will be our first con
ference match,” he said. “And win
ning the conference is a serious
goal for us this year.”
RYAN ROGERS/The Battalion
Freshman Rafael de Mesa will face a double-dip
against Southwest Texas and Texas Tech this weekend.
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Aggie
Sports
Briefs m
from staff and wire i
Ags try to avui
record streak
The Texas A&M Men's Ba;*
Team (6-17,0-13) will attempt
their first Big 12 Conference!
when they host Texas Tech(D
7) at 12:45 p.m.
Saturday.
The Aggies tied their longti
ing streak in school historyvt
74 loss to Texas in Aus:
Wednesday night.
With a win, Texas A&Mc
setting the all-time school re:®' 11 '
consecutive losses at 15 nr 8
The Aggies have lost 16 core
games in a row going back:
season and includingtheirfirs:
Big 12 Tournament loss to
homa. The school record foro
utive conference losses in 18
Tech is coming off a home:
overtime to Oklahoma State -
Red Raider senior guard Coo
scored 33 points.
When the two teams meU
bock on Feb. 7, Carr and sopta
guard Rayford Young combir* t
50 points and Carr led the tee - C
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Swim team enji
Big 12 success!
The Texas A&M Women's
ming Team had a productiveli!
in the Big 12 Championsb
Austin on Thursday. M
Senior all-American StacieKw x c
sophomore Tracy Evans and
man Katie Ramos qualified
500-freestyle. Karnes is thedf
ing Big 12 champion intheever
year. The times of the athletess
them all consideration forthe'
Division I Women’s Swimmir|
Diving Championships March!!
Monica Stroman also earned 1
consideration for her 2:03.16i
the 200-yard individual medley.
The Aggies will return
uals to competition withtheoi
nities to score points for them
and white in later competition.
The Philips 66/Big 12 W
Swimming and Diving Champii
will continue through SaturdejM
preliminaries beginning each da
a.m. and finals at 7 p.m.
Softball
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the wins.
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posure and our
ability to come
from behind
impresses the
most,” Evans
said. “We don’t
panic. We settle
in and come to
gether as a Evan5
team and we
get the job done.”
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said the team’s ability to cut 1 tv
from behind creates an intin'®
tion factor. Pi
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though you scored some runs*
we didn’t play our best, vve
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timidation. It makes a staten/ rv
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each other for starting positio 11
Evans said she is pleased"
her pitchers’ performances
well. The Aggies have an allf^ s|
men pitching staff which cai> f:
concerns earlier this season,
they have responded well.
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gled some this season, but so" 1
how they still come through"!'
end when we need them the"' n|
and get the win,” Evans said.
Next weekend, the Aggies
travel to Columbus, Ga., to pa""
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