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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
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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
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