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er sdnesday • March 25, 1998 loftbaUTeam faces last foe before Bigl2 play starts v > ’ - •: ^ : ■■ \ - • : I,-** ** : RYAN ROGERS/The Battalion □ more Jamie Smith and the Aggie Softball Team will play its last before opening conference competition at Iowa State Saturday. By Katie Mish Staff writer The Texas A&M Softball Team (20-14-1) plays a doubleheader tonight against Sam Houston State University (11-18) at the Ag gie Softball Field starting at 5 p.m. The Ag gies have won their last ten match-ups with SHSU. The doubleheader is the team’s first series since their tournament in Sacramento over Spring Break. The Aggies won two games and lost three in the tournament. Senior catcher and co-captain Marianne McGuire said they played well in the tourna ment, but that they need to bring it all to gether at once, something she said the team can do against Sam Houston. “The first three games of the tournament we did pretty well, then we got in a bit of a funk,” McGuire said. “Sam Houston is usual ly a pretty scrappy team, they usually have some pretty decent hitters, but they are very beatable. We play them every year, so we pretty much know what’s in store.” McGuire said the team must concen trate on playing well all around, whether it is at the plate or on the field. “We’ll have our pitching on one day, and then our fielding will be off,” she said, “or our de fense is on and our hitting is off. We need to put it to gether and win games.” Kristina Gan- dara, a freshman and one of tonight’s starting pitchers, said she agrees that the Ag- K "jls McGuire Houston. I just know that we have to come out from the get go, that from the very beginning we need to start hitting and scoring runs.” The Aggie Softball team has played well at home in tournaments, with a record of mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 10-5-1 in non tournament play. Gandara has an ERA of 2.86, as well as two saves and one win un der her belt. Fellow fresh man ace Ashley Lewis is also ex pected to play tonight. Lewis has the lowest ERA on the team at 1.40 “We need to put it all together and win games gies need to step it up and play collectively. “We’ve got to be prepared,” Gandara said. “I don’t know much about Sam and has 90 strikeouts in 85 innings. She was named to the 1998 AirTouch Cellular Capi tal Classic all-tournament team last week. en’s tennis team jumps in rankings; adefeated home season on horizon the tennis j? Ill® The Texas A&M Men’s Tennis Team (7-2, 2-1) will continue Big 12 play on Friday when it plays host to the Missouri Tigers at noon and the No. dahoma Sooners at 6 p.m. r Rankings p (|( the latest Rolex Collegiate Rankings, the Aggies jumped eight spots to No. 19. In the singles rank- freshman Rafael de Mesa is No. 38, and the dou- |re tandem of senior Carlos Tori and freshman >n Madden is No. 42. ne Sweet Home ^M Coach Tim Cass said the Aggies’ goal for the ’th ol March is to remain undefeated at home, and it looks like A&M will accomplish this. After victo ries over Pepperdine, Miami and Oklahoma State, all the Aggies need to do now is knock off Mizzou and OU on Friday to notch their record at the Omar Smith Tennis Center this season to 8-0. El Nino Unseasonably cold weather, high winds and rain have combined to wreak havoc on the Aggies’ sched ule this year. The Abilene Christian match was relo cated to an indoor facility in the Woodlands. The Mia mi match had to be delayed a day and matches against USE and TCU have yet to be completed. Madden Mania Freshman Shuon Madden, who joined the Aggies at the semester, is undefeated in singles play this sea son. Madden, who normally plays in the No. 3 slot for A&M, moved up to No. 2 against Pepperdine and won easily. Madden’s 9-0 record also includes wins against LSU and UT. -Al Lazarus is a sophomore journalism major Dodgers should have enough to hold off rest of N.L. West teams Jeremy Furtick sports editor i^EAGUCPB WEST Part 3 in a 7-part series 2^ LOSANGELES DODGERS 88-74; 2nd in NL West Once again, you have to give L.A. the nod in the National League West Division. They have a solid of fense, defense and pitching staff with a good bullpen and trustworthy closer. So why haven’t the Dodgers been able to put it together these past few years with, es sentially, the same team? No one knows, but this should be the year for L.A., again. The same all-Rookie-of- the-Year-team core of Mike Piazza, Eric Karros, Raul Mondesi and Todd Hol- landsworth, along with Hideo Nomo, returns. But the additions made to fill the middle of the infield last season and this winter are the real story for this team. Please see Furtick on Page 10. 1998 DODGERS AVG. HR RBI SB C-Mike Piazza .362 40 124 5 IB-Eric Karros .266 31 104 15 2B-Eric Young* .273 2 16 13 3B-Todd Zeile .268 31 90 8 SS-Jose Vizcaino* .266 5 50 8 LF-Todd Hollandsworth .247 4 31 5 CF-Roger Cedeno .273 3 17 9 RF-Raul Mondesi .310 30 87 32 SUB-Billy Ashley .244 6 19 0 ‘Young in 37 games with Dodgers; Vizcaino with Giants W-L ERA IP RHP Chan Ho Park 14-8 3.38 192 RHP Hideo Noma 14-12 4.25 207.1 RHP Ismael Valdes 10-11 2.65 196.2 RHP Ramon Martinez 10-5 3.64 133.2 RHP Darren Dreifort 5-2 W-L 2.86 SV 63 ERA RHP Antonio Osuna 3-4 0 2.19 LHP Scott Radinsky 5-1 3 2.89 'You'll need plenty of these if you PQIM > T SissGt SLt: Stror*!ir*g: U niv r e?r*sit:y r # ill] m ■ ■■ IIMIIIIHHli MTobi ^0^ You*11 1-13^0 trhoso irisido you*- 3p3.*~t:nnont: if you PO livo a.t: S»*:o!~Iirig£ L-lnivot-sHry'Vlilsa.g^e! FULL-SIZE WASHER & DRYER IN EVE RY ART. 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