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Monday • Aprilj
Aggie Sports Briefs
from staff and wire reports
Baseball wins two
of three over ISU
The Texas A&M Baseball Team
went into the weekend hoping to im
prove on their .667 conference win
ning percentage. They wound up
staying exactly where they were, as
the Aggies took two of three from the
Iowa State Cyclones this weekend to
make their Big 12 record 12-6 and
up their overall record to 29-11.
The weekend did not start promis
ingly for A&M, as they lost 10-1 in the
first game of the series on Friday. Five
Aggie errors helped out the Cyclones,
as only five of the ten runs were
earned. Ryan Rupe started for A&M
and struck out six, allowing four earned
runs and no walks. The Aggies scored
their only run on a ground ball by John
Scheschuk, who had his streak of
homering in five consecutive games
snapped. Because of an Iowa State er
ror, however, the run was unearned.
A&M rebounded Saturday to take
both games of the doubleheader, 10-
4 and 7-4. Casey Fossum went the
distance in the first game, giving up
four runs on five hits while striking
out seven after getting off to a shaky
start, allowing the Cyclones four runs
in the first inning. Daylan Holt had a
solid game, getting three RBI on
three hits. Matt Ward worked seven
innings in the second game, with five
strikeouts, holding the Cyclones to
three runs and giving up one walk. Ja
son Tyner had a solid day Saturday,
going 7 for 10 with four stolen bases,
three runs scored and three RBI.
A&M next plays Tuesday night
against Sam Houston State.
gles win was Kathryn Scott. Scott
battled the Commodores’ Kristy
Blumberg in a three-set match. Scott
outlasted Blumberg and won by the
score of 6-4, 2-6, 7-5, at No. 4. Scott
has won four of her last five match
es and improves her overall record to
19-8 and to 17-5 in dual match play.
The Aggies also lost to Middle
Tennessee State, 6-3, Saturday at
the MTSU Tennis Center.
Recording victories for the Ag
gies in singles were Monica Re-
bolledo, who beat Alex Toelle, 6-2,
3-6, 6-4, at No. 3 to improve to 22-
4 overall and to 17-3 in dual
match play. She extends her win
ning streak to four matches.
The Aggies travel next to Fort
Worth to face the No. 23-ranked
Texas Christian Horned Frogs Thurs
day at 2 p.m.
Men’s tennis team
defeats Tar Heels
Tennis team drops
two over weekend
The No. 30-ranked Texas A&M
Women’s Tennis Team (14-8) fell to
the No. 17-ranked Vanderbilt Com
modores, 5-2, Sunday at the Curry
Tennis Center on the TCU campus.
The only Aggie who tallied a sin-
The No. 19 Texas A&M Men’s Ten
nis Team beat the No. 40-ranked North
Carolina Tar Heels, 4-3, Saturday at the
Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center in Chapel
Hill, N. C. and fell to the No. 13 Duke
Blue Devils, 4-2, Sunday at Duke Ten
nis Stadium in Durham, N. C.
The Aggies (11-3, 4-1) lost the
doubles point against the Tar Heels
but came back with four singles vic
tories to win the match. Senior Car
los Tori, junior Brent Horan and
freshmen Shuon Madden and Cody
Hubbell were all victorious for the
Aggies, with Hubbell’s three-set vic
tory clinching the match for A&M.
Against the Blue Devils, the Ag
gies won the doubles point thanks to
victories from Horan and freshman
Rafael de Mesa, 8-6, and Tori and
freshman Dumitru Caradima, 8-4. In
singles play, Madden was the only vic
torious Aggie, winning 6-3, 3-6, 6-3,
and improving his record to 13-0.
The Aggies will next take on No.
38 Colorado on Friday at noon in
Boulder, Colo.
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Aggies bounce back from poor first game to take advantage of Kansa
By Robert Hollier
Staff writer
It was a tale of two teams and two games Sat
urday when the Texas A&M Softball Team split a
doubleheader with conference foes Kansas at
the Aggie Softball Field.
In game one, Kansas was able to turn five hits,
two A&M errors and five walks by freshman start
ing pitcher Ashley Lewis into five runs to defeat
the Aggies 5-1. Lewis threw six innings, giving up
five hits, five runs (four earned) and striking out
nine in the loss to drop to 10-6 on the year.
Kansas starting pitcher, Jessica Kowal threw
seven innings, scattering three hits and only
walking one to pick up the win.
Kansas opened the scoring in the top of the
first when, after two singles, they executed a dou
ble steal to go up 1-0.
A&M answered back in the bottom of the first
when sophomore left fielder Angie Long walked
and advanced to third on freshman center field
er Tiffany Esters’ single. Lewis then grounded out
to second to score Long.
However, that was all the scoring the Aggies
would do and Kansas added runs in the third and
fifth inning, and scored two more in the fifth to
put the game away.
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mix it up and Mary (McGuire) called a great
game as she usually does.”
“1 knew if I did my job, my defense would do a
good job and get me out of trouble," Gandara added.
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be deja vu for the Aggies as Kansas hit a single and
a double and scored on a sacrifice fly to take a 1 -
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