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Mesa notches
round victory
Texas A&M’s Rafael Mesa ad-
d to the second round of the
Oaks International tennis tour-
ment Tuesday with a 6-3, 6-4 win
er Wade Maguire at the River
ks Country Club.
k Mesa, a freshman from Key
^yne, Fla., is currently ranked
8 nationally by the Rolex Colie-
Rankings, while Maguire, who
its from Atlanta, Ga., is ranked No.
L4 in the world by the ATP rankings.
In the second round, de Mesa
1 face third-seeded Sargis
jrgsian, who captured the NCAA
ngles championship and Ail-
nerican honors in 1995 while at
izona State. Sargsian is ranked
d|;74 in the world by the ATP
Jes sweep Big
player honors
xas A&M’s Shuon Madden and
ica Rebolledo have been
ed the Big 12 Conference Ten-
layers of the Week for the week
ng March 29, the league office
unced Tuesday.
adden, a freshman from Mia-
la. (Sunset High), is currently
a 10-match winning streak and
defeated as an Aggie. Madden
built a Big 12 best 4-0 record at
|3 singles for the No. 19-ranked
es and holds a 10-0 overall
rd in dual match play,
ebolledo, a senior from Lima,
i, She is currently 9-0 in league
8jy. The Aggies’ leading singles win
ery with a 21-4 overall record, Re-
» do has tallied a 16-3 record in
match play. She is just two wins
Mof tying the school record forca-
■ singles wins. She holds a 90-33
Eiffeer singles mark to rank No. 3 be-
Nancy Dingwall and Lynn Staley.
By Robert Hollier
Staff writer
On a good team, there are the
players who put up the great num
bers and lead the team in many sta
tistical categories. Then there are
the players who make the sacrifices
and do all the little things necessary
that go unnoticed to help the team
win. This describes the role of Texas
A&M senior catcher and co-captain
Marianne McGuire.
Playing in arguably the most phys
ically demanding position on the di
amond, McGuire said she would not
want to play any other position.
“I love being a catcher because I
love being in control,” McGuire
said. “As a catcher, you’re a part of
every play, and you get to take
charge on the field.”
Freshman pitcher Kristina Gan-
dara said working with McGuire has
been a great learning experience.
"I feel very comfortable when I’m
pitching and she’s behind the plate,”
Gandara said. “She knows all of the
pitchers so well even though we’re all
so different and have different styles.”
“She also calls a great game,”
Gandara added. “When we get into
trouble, she helps keep our confi
dence up and keeps us motivated.”
Freshman pitcher Amy Vining
agreed adding that McGuire has
taught her and the other
young pitchers how to do ® 5
deal with certain situations
that occur during a game.
“She’s helped me so
much in so many dif
ferent ways,” Vining ||
said. “She tells me
how to deal with all
kinds of problems
that happen when
I’m pitching. She
tells us we can do it.
She is such a big
leader on the team.”
McGuire said being a team
leader is something she enjoys,
and she loves the responsibility.
“I love having people look up to
me when they need help,” she said.
“I hold that responsibility very im
portant to me, and I’m always hon
ored when a teammate asks for my
help. I love to talk and help people.”
With that kind of attitude to
wards speaking out, McGuire cer
tainly has chosen the right career
goal when she graduates.
“After I graduate, I really
want to become a motivation
al speaker,” McGuire said. “I re
ally love to talk in front of
groups, even though
sometimes I can be the
biggest cornball.”
Although McGuire
has no plans to coach
softball after she grad
uates, she said she
loves the game and
wishes it was not her
last year to play.
Please see McGuire
on Page 8.
By Philip W. Peter
Staff writer
In softball, a team cannot gen
erate runs if it does not get runners
into scoring position.
So when Texas A&M Coach Jo
Evans looks out of the dugout and
sees outfielder Tiffany Esters on
first base, Evans knows that when
the pitch is on its way to the
catcher, Esters will attempt to
“I always feel like
she can get a steal
on any catcher.
A&M embarrasses UTSA, 18-4
By Travis Harsch
Staff writer
Texas A&M was out for revenge.
The UT-San Antonio Roadrunners
were out of luck.
The Aggies made up for a 3-1
loss on St. Patrick's Day in San An
tonio by turning three big innings
into a 18-4 win that was called on
the mercy rule after seven innings
at Olsen Field.
“They embarrassed us when we
were over there in San Antonio, and
we came out wanting to beat them
really badly today,” A&M shortstop
Steve Scarborough said.
A&M won its sixth straight
game by getting 19 hits and three
home runs.
“ It was a good offensive day for us,
and we really needed one of those,”
A&M coach Mark Johnson said.
A&M got an early start as Steve
Scarborough hit a pitch well over
the left field fence to give A&M a 1 -
0 lead in the first inning.
“He gave me a good pitch to hit
and I hit it,” Scarborough said. “I
guess I’m get
ting in a groove.”
A Roadrun-
ner error, wild
pitch and
passed ball
helped out the
A&M cause in
the second, as
the Aggies sent
eight men to the
plate and scored
four runs on three hits.
Jeff Juarez literally got the Road-
runners on the board in the third
with a shot that bounced off the
scoreboard in left-centerfield to
make the score 5-2.
The score didn’t stay that way for
long, though, as Pat Malone hit a
two-run homer. A&M then got four
Johnson
extra runs on four more hits to
make the score 11 -2.
A Roadrunner homer in the top
of the fourth cut the lead to 11-3. It
would stay there until A&M scored
seven runs in the fifth inning to
make the score 18-3.
The rally included a homer for
John Scheschuk, marking the fifth
straight game he has gone deep.
In the top of the sixth, the Road-
runners got an RBI single to make the
score 18-4, as Courtney Weller took
the mound in relief of Chance Caple.
Caple went five innings and gave
up three runs on six hits. Chris Ful-
bright closed out the seventh and
the game for A&M.
The Aggies will take on Iowa
State in Ames this weekend for a
three-games series if weather per
mits. The series will bd the home
opener for the Cyclones whose
games have been called off due to
the weather.
Jo Evans
A&M Softball Coach
steal second base. And, as has
been the case 94 percent of the
time this season, when the dust
clears, A&M will have a runner in
scoring position.
Esters, a freshman from Burleson,
Texas, leads A&M with 16 steals on 17
attempts, and Evans said, because of
her technique, she is never afraid to
send Esters stealing.
“She’s a great base-stealer,”
Evans said. “She gets a good jump
and a good finish. She really slides
well. I always feel like she can get
a steal on any catcher, and we’ve
been real aggressive. We send her
every time.”
But Esters said she does not
concentrate on getting steals be
cause she has confidence in her
teammates.
“I’ve never really stolen a lot of
bases,” Esters said, “but Coach
(Evans) has given me a lot of
chances, and I’ve just been
able to take advantage of
it when she gives me
the steal sign. I always
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know that when I don’t steal though,
whoever is up behind me is going to
move me around anyway.”
As a catcher, A&M senior Mary
McGuire, who played under-18
summer softball with Esters, is
more impressed with her work eth
ic than her speed.
“When I was playing with her,
she was kind of scared of the ball,”
McGuire said. “Now, what can I say?
She’s leading the team in almost
every category. She’s the most ag
gressive, all-out, go-hard-all-the-
time player we have. She always
goes full-force after the ball.”
Senior outfielder Tanya Klecker
also said that Esters work ethic IS
her defining characteristic.
“She works really, really hard,”
Klecker said. “When you tell her
something she has done wrong, she
tries to do it better, and she is a
quick learner. She really tries hard.
She just has so much heart.”
What Esters has had to learn this
season is not only how to adjust to a
new school in a new town with new
teammates but how to adjust to a
new position as well.
“She came to us as an infielder,”
Evans said. "Now she is playing in
the outfield so she has a lot to
learn. She needs to work on her
fundamentals, but she brings raw
talent. She’s got a lot of power
packed in a small frame.”
Evans said Esters has been a
welcome addition to the
team, and when she is play
ing aggressively and with
confidence, the team has
a higher chance of post
ing a win.
“She’s a big part of
our team,” Evans
said. “When she gets
her confidence up,
she can really set the
tone for our team.
When she gets
rolling, she definitely
holds her own.”
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