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[the four A&M recruits —
[helle Cole (Manteca, Calif.),
a Moscovic (Stockton, Calif.)
| Brandi Mount (Saratoga,
ialif.) — were named to the mag-
jfie’s Fab 50, an annual list of
top high school seniors in the
Intry.
And although the fourth recruit,
D. Achilefu, was not listed in the
50, Corbelli said she believes
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ome the best of the four by the
of their college careers.
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Washington is a 6-2 post and a
senior at Karnack High School, the
Texas 1-A High School State
Championships this past season.
An All-State Tournament selec
tion, the well-rounded Washington
averaged 14.6 points a game and
9.5 rebounds a game. She also av
eraged three blocks and three
steals per game.
Benson averaged 18.5 points a
game and managed to grab 9.5 re
bounds a game during two seasons
at Iowa Central Community College.
Benson and Washington join
LaToya Rose, who signed with the
Aggies during the early signing pe
riod this past November.
Rose is the cousin of current
point guard Kim Tarkington.
Aggies ready for
Nebraska series
The Texas A&M Baseball Team
travels to Lincoln, Neb., to take
on the Nebraska Cornhuskers for
a three-game series this week
end. The first game will start Fri
day at 7 p.m.
Coach Mark
Johnson will start
senior pitcher
Ryan Rupe
against the Corn
huskers on Friday.
Rupe is 7-2
and leads the
team with a
2.43 ERA.
The Aggies
are led by junior outfielder Jason Tyn
er who leads the team with a .380
batting average.
Junior first baseman John
Scheschuk has been on fire re
cently, raising his average to
.353 and slugging nine home
runs and 35 RBI.
The Aggies played Sam Hous
ton State on Tuesday night, los
ing a one-run affair to the Bear-
kats in a wild 5-4 game.
Texas A&M has a 12-6 record in
Big 12 Conference play this season.
The other scheduled starters for
the weekend series with the Corn
huskers are Casey Fossum in game
two and Matt Ward in game three.
Texas A&M cards
second at Classic
The No. 12-ranked Texas A&M
Women’s Golf Team battled
through rain, wind and hail Tues
day to finish second at the Utah-
Dixie Classic at the Sunbrook Golf
Course, just one stroke behind
tournament winner Texas Tech.
The Aggies carded rounds of
303-304=607 while No. 26-ranked
Tech was at 299-307=606.
No. 11-ranked Oklahoma State
finished third at 611 and No. 15-
ranked TCU was fourth at 614.
The teams played 27 holes on
Monday and were scheduled to play
27 holes on Tuesday, but because
of the poor weather conditions it
took five hours for the 20-team field
to complete nine holes.
The final 18 holes were can
celed. The Aggies trailed the Red
Raiders by four strokes after Mon
day’s opening round.
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Nebraska, Colorado await A&M on road trip
By Al Lazarus
Staff writer
The No. 17 Texas A&M Men’s Tennis Team
will take on the No. 41 Colorado Buffaloes on
Friday in Boulder, Colo., and
will travel to Lincoln, Neb.,
on Sunday to face the No. 68
Nebraska Cornhuskers.
The Aggies (11-3, 4-1) are
coming off a trip to North
Carolina last weekend which
saw them face the No. 40
Tarheels and the No. 13
Duke Blue Devils. A&M es
caped Chapel Hill with a 4-3
victory over the Tar Heels,
but suffered a 4-2 defeat in Durham at the
hands of the Blue Devils.
Freshman Shuon Madden, who on Tuesday
was named Big 12 Tennis Player of the Week for
the second consecutive week, said the Aggies
were glad to get out of UNC with a victory.
“Mentally, the win over North Carolina helped
us a lot, because nobody for us was really play
ing their best tennis, but we still got out of there
with a win,” Madden said.
The Aggies did battle with the Buffaloes last
year in College Station and were defeated, 4-3.
Although A&M will be in Boulder to face the
Buffaloes this year, Coach Tim Cass said he
does not think the high altitude will be much
of a factor.
“ (Altitude) shouldn’t be a factor physically for
us. If anything, it might make the style of play
more aggressive, because the ball moves a little
bit faster in the thin air,” Cass said.
The Aggies will leave the mountains of Col
orado for the plains of Nebraska on Sunday to
face the Cornhuskers. The Aggies defeated
Nebraska 4-3 last season in a match held in
College Station.
Cass said although Nebraska is not ranked as
high as Colorado, he still expects the Corn
huskers to provide quite a test for the Aggies.
“They (Nebraska) are on the bubble of getting
in the NCAA tournament,” he said. “We are not
going to take them lightly.”
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Brent Horan hopes to lead Texas A&M to a “Rocky
Mountain High" of their own on their next road trip.
Cass
Softball team faces archrival UT
By Philip W. Peter
Staff writer
When the Texas A&M Softball Team takes the field
Friday evening and again Saturday against the Univer
sity of Texas, it will feel many things. It will feel ner
vousness, confidence and excitement. What it will not
feel is that it is just another game.
“People say it’s just another game,” Texas A&M
Coach Jo Evans said, “and it’s not. When you wake up
and it’s game day and you’re playing Texas, it’s not just
another game.”
What it will be is a matchup between the No. 9 team
in the nation, Texas, boasting one of the nations best
pitchers, and an A&M team that has scratched and
clawed its way into a tie for fifth place in the Big 12 Con
ference. But Evans said she expects the team not to get
over-excited about playing its rival.
“The thing is to be getting excited to play,” Evans
said, “but not being too emotional about it. Some
times you can get too wrapped up in a rivalry and
psych yourself out.”
The main player A&M is concerned with is pitch
er Christa Williams who leads Texas with a record of
19-2. In 147 innings she has posted a 0.48 ERA and
stuck out 241 batters.
“She throws the ball hard,” Evans said. “But she’s got
a great change-up. We’re just going to have to be disci
plined at the plate. We’re going to have to be selective
and not get down in the count.”
Because Texas A&M and Texas have agreed to play
the series as home-and-home rather than a home-and-
away doubleheader system, Evans said Williams may
pitch both games.
“If we were playing a doubleheader we might not get
Christa two games in a row,” Evans said. “Now, we’re pret
ty much guaranteed to get her twice. So there’s that trade
off but that’s ok. We know we have to beat her anyway.”
A&M freshman pitcher Amy Mining, who played in
the same district as Williams in high school, said she
diinks Williams is beatable.
“She throws really hard,” Vining said. “But if you lay
off the rising high stuff, you can hit her all day long.”
Vining apparendy knows something no one else in
the conference knows, because in 21 games Williams
has only surrendered 13 runs on 48 hits. But A&M se
nior catcher Marianne McGuire said no matter the out
come of Friday’s game, they will regroup and be ready
to play again on Saturday.
“It’s not a matter of who’s going to last the longest or
keep their intensity or their focus the longest,” McGuire
said. “It’s just who is going to go out there and give it all
for that two hours. And since we get them here, maybe
we’ll get some people out here to watch.”
The first game is at 6 p.m. Friday in Austin and the
second is at 2 p.m. Saturday in College Station.
Texas coaching searcb expands
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) —The search for a basketball
coach at the University of Texas may be expanded, a
high-ranking university source said Wednesday.
The search, which has included Utah’s Rick Majerus,
Oklahoma’s Kelvin Sampson and then centered on Wash
ington coach Bob Bender, could be expanded to include
Wake Forest’s Dave Odom, said the source, who spoke to
the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
On Tuesday, members of the Texas screening com
mittee had focused their attention on Bender.
Longhorns athletic director DeLoss Dodds had in
dicated he wanted to hire someone by Wednesday, if
possible, because it marked the first day of the national
signing period for high school recruits.
But a group of UT officials onWednesday pushed for
an interview with Odom, who has been at Wake Forest
for nine years and took the Demon Deacons to seven
straight NCAA tournaments before narrowly failing to
make the tournament this year, the source said.
Odom is a proven coach of big men, having been
credited with developing former star center Tim Dun
can, now with the San Antonio Spurs. The Longhorns’
offense figures to form around 7-foot center Chris
Mihm over the next few seasons.
UT officials, however, were unclear if Odom
would agree to meet with them. Odom has expressed
that he’s happy at Wake Forest after signing a new
contract two years ago. He is a native of North Car
olina and also has two sons who coach in the area —
at East Carolina and at Furman.
Odom’s secretary said the coach was out of the of
fice Wednesday at speaking engagements. Wake For
est athletic director Ron Wellman also was out of the
office Wednesday and didn’t immediately return a
message left by the AR
Meanwhile, in Seattle, Bender, 40, held a news con
ference to say that he hadn’t been offered the job at
Texas and didn’t know that he would take it if offered.
“I would hope this is decided as quickly as possi
ble,” Bender said. “But I don’t think this is something
that’s going to happen in 24 hours. They’re going to
need some time.
“They have not offered me anything and I don’t
know what my final decision would be,” he said. “Texas
is a place where you can win a national championship
and Washington is a place where you can win a na
tional championship.”
Bender’s overall record in five years at Washington
is 68-72, but he has improved the team’s mark each
year, culminating with a 20-10 season this year and a
berth in the round of 16 of the NCAA tournament.
“The most important thing is that they were very
honest with me,” Bender said of his interview with Texas
officials on Tuesday. “The first thing you do feel is that
you’re appreciated. There was a lot of respect there.
Washington athletic director Barbara Hedges said
she would be willing to renegotiate Bender’s deal,
which pays him $347,500 annually. Former Texas
coach Tom Penders, who resigned last week, earned
$550,000 annually.
Aggies try to build
on momentum at
MacGregor Downs
By Michael Taglienti
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Men’s Golf Team
will travel to the MacGregor Downs
Country Club in Cary, N.C., to play
in the MacGregor Downs Intercol
legiate Tournament this weekend.
The Aggies are coming off an
eighth-place finish in the U.S. Col
legiate Championships.
A&M was led in the tourna
ment by senior Miguel del Angel
who shot a four-over-par 220 to
finish 15th overall.
Texas A&M Men’s Golf Coach
Greg Ellis said despite the fact this
is the last tournament before the
Big 12 Championship, the team’s
goals entering the tournament re
main the same.
“We go to every tournament with
hopes of winning the tournament.
Winning a tournament is the best
way to prepare for the next tourna
ment,” Ellis said.
Ellis said he thinks the team is
in good shape heading into the
MacGregor.
“I feel good about the team
going out there,” Ellis said. “Late
ly we have struggled with our
short game, but that is coming
around. That has a lot to do with
the fact that we played two less
tournaments this year when we
normally do.
“I would have liked to get more
players some tournament experi
ence, but we have not played in
enough tournaments.”
Ellis said everyone on the
team is starting to play well at the
same time.
“Lee (Reed) is starting to come
on,” Ellis said. “He shot well in the
first and last round (at the U.S. Col
legiate). He played really good golf
those two rounds. It was the middle
round where he had some trouble.
Ryan Tull has been having putting
problems, but he putted a lot better
this past weekend. Then you have
Miguel and Ryan (Palmer) who have
played well all year.”
Palmer and del Angel have
been the Aggies most consistent
golfers this season. They have a
stroke per round average of 72.60
and 74.21 respectively.
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