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Sports Friday • April]; Men’s tennis team takes ACC trip ByAl Lazarus Staff writer The No. 19 Texas A&M Men’s Ten nis Team knocked off No. 30 TCU, 5- 2, Thursday af ternoon at the Omar Smith Tennis Center and will travel to North Carolina this weekend to take on No. 40 University of North Carolina and No. 13 Duke University. The Aggie Cass victory brought to an end A&M’s seven-match losing streak to the Horned Frogs, which dated back to 1994, when the two schools were still doing battle as SWC foes. For only the second time this season, A&M (10-2,4-1) started the match by losing the doubles point. Freshmen Rafael de Mesa and Cody Hubbell won their match, 8-5, but that would be the only doubles vic tory the Aggies could muster. Coach Tim Cass expressed his disappointment in losing the dou bles point against the Horned Frogs. “I feel like our doubles is better than anybody’s in the country,” Cass said. “So I get down when we lose (the doubles point).” In singles play, de Mesa won a three-set batde with TCU freshman sensation Esteban Carril, 6-4,5-7,6-4. Having a much easier go of it for the Aggies in singles play were senior Carlos Tori, freshmen Shuon Mad den and Cody Hubbell and junior Brent Horan. All won in straight sets. Hubbell, a College Station native who attended A&M Consolidated, said Thursday’s victory was an im portant one for the Aggies. “This is a really big win for us; this past month we’ve had a lot of tough matches that we’ve grinded out, and to get another win today was huge,” Hubbell said. After a month-long homestand, the Aggies will take to the road for their next five matches, starting with UNC and Duke. “We have a lot of respect for Duke and North Carolina," Cass said. “We know them well and un derstand their style of play well.” Tori, A&M’s team co-captain, stressed the importance of this weekend’s matches. “This will be a really big weekend for us,” he said. “They are tough road matches, but we need to win them to accomplish our goals.” Texas A&M tackles Volunteers By Katie Mish Staff writer The Texas A&M Women’s Tennis Team (13-6, 6-3) travels to Tennessee this weekend to meetup with Mid dle Tennessee State and Vanderbilt. Coach Bob Kleinecke said MiddleTennessee State is a team the Aggies can definitely beat, but they have a good team and the Aggies still need to play hard. Senior Monica Robolledo said she does not know what to expect from Middle Tennessee State, but that she expects everyone to play hard. “I don’t think we’ve played them before,” Robolledo said. “I expect everyone to do their best and try to win the match. If everybody in the lineup plays their best, 1 think we can come away with a big win.” Vanessa Rooks, senior captain of the team, said Mid dleTennessee State will be a tough match for the Aggies. “We can’t take them lightly,” Rooks said. “It’s really important for us to concentrate on what we have to do, and go in there and take care of business.” Kleinecke said Vanderbilt is a good team, but they have weaknesses, and the Aggies can take ad vantage of the weak points. He said the Aggies need to hit their;, right places and be ready to fight. Robolledo said the Aggies played Vanderbilt a couple ofyears ago in a close match with Vander bilt coming out on top. She said Vanderbilt is a good team, but if the Aggies believe in themselves they can get the win. Rooks said she thinks the Van- lifers sto derbilt match will be tough, and ■fjtest of pro-cl^* the Aggies have to go into the jjJ^fcndannu; match with certainty. iom Saturday. “We can’t go in there thinking, 'WhatiHihSuniga, j Rooks said. “We’ve got to go in there beiiuoflal Organi and just ready to go.” ■rand a jin'* i Rooks said the team is at a strong poii jorj said pro-czr has the fundamentals down even thougl; mfr to voice t! young team. "J|HHth a consex.- "It’s just a matter of playing more maid :e our opinio*:' more experience,” Rooks said. 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