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as A&M hopes for repeat performance of earlier Bearkat doubleheader sweep
BRANDON BOLLOM/The Battalion
nan Ashley Lewis and her Aggie teammates
ke on Sam Houston in a non-conference game.
By Robert Hollier
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Softball Team (28-20-1,4-6) will
take a short break from its tough conference sched
ule when they travel to Huntsville to play a double-
header against Sam Houston State this Tuesday.
Earlier in the year, the Aggies swept a dou
bleheader from SHSU at the Aggie Softball
Complex, and A&M Coach Jo Evans expects her
team to repeat the performance.
“We played them well earlier in the season,”
Evans said. “We have to go out and play them
well, and I think we can beat them twice.”
The Aggies have been on a roller-coaster ride
the last three weeks. They were swept by No. 8
Nebraska in Lincoln and A&M took two games
from No. 11 Missouri. Then the Aggies were
swept by No. 9 Texas.
"We just need more consistency and more ag
gressive play,” Evans said.
The Aggies only managed seven hits and two
runs against Longhorn pitching last weekend,
and Evans and the team know that will not result
in many victories.
“That’s not going to get it done,” she said. “We
were out-pitched and out-hit, and it’s discour
aging. We can play better.”
Senior catcher and team captain Marianne
McGuire agreed, adding the team needs to hit bet
ter in the clutch if they want to score more runs.
“We didn’t get the hits when we needed
them,” McGuire said. “We aren’t getting the hits,
and we didn’t score.”
Evans believes the Aggies may just need a
change of fortune.
“We just need a couple of breaks,” Evans
said. “We hit the ball hard against them (Texas),
but we hit them right at people. If we had hit the
ball in the right spots, you never know what
could have happened.”
“We can’t get discouraged,” Evans added.
“When we scored our first run against them, we
had perfect execution. We just need to do that
more consistently.”
Although Sam Houston will not provide the
same competition as some of their Big 12 oppo
nents, Evans and the Aggies know anything can
happen in this sport.
“They have some quality players, and Shelly
Blair is a good pitcher,” Evans said. “They are very
aggressive at the plate, and they can make some
things happen.”
Next, the Aggies will travel to take on Okla
homa and Oklahoma State next weekend. Both
series will be doubleheaders.
ggies wave goodbye Wade returns; Fobbs
Omar Smith Center lost to track and field
feshman Shuon Madden experiences
nd of perfect A&M record in Boulder
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he No. 17 Texas A&M Men’s
Tennis Team (12-4, 5-2)
will travel to Waco on Fri-
lay to take on No. 25 Baylor at
:3()p.m. and will return home
totheOmar Smith Tennis Cen-
'er<m Saturday for a 6 p.m.
pitch against No. 39 Kansas.
metown Boy Makes Good
[Cody Hubbell, a freshman
in A&M Consolidated High
ool, has won four of his last
matches, including a three-
| victory against North Caroli-
that clinched the dual match
the Aggies.
[Hubbell usually plays in the
6 slot for A&M, but has victo-
playing No. 2 against Mis-
ri and No. 4 against Nebraska.
t With The Old...
The Aggies will take on Kansas
urday night in what will be the
jt match played at the Omar
ith Tennis Center.
With a victory over the Jay-
ks, A&M will have closed out
last season there in style, with
erfect9-0 record.
In With The New
The Texas A&M Varsity Tennis
lenter is set to open in June, and
Smith
is being billed as one of the top
five outdoor tennis facilities in
the nation.
Its 12 courts will allow the
men’s and
women’s
teams to play
dual matches
simultaneous
ly, and it
should have
room for ap
proximately
1,500 fans. It is
already slated
to host next
year’s Big 12 Championships.
The new center is located be
hind the new Reed Arena on
West Campus.
It will replace the old Texas
A&M tennis center named after
Omar Smith.
Rocky Mountain Low
In the Aggies' 5-2 loss to Col
orado last Friday, freshman
Shuon Madden saw his bid for a
perfect season end in a straight-
set loss to the Buffaloes’ Artur
Rusiccki.
Madden, who has been
named the Big 12 Player of the
Week for the past two weeks,
also lost in A&M’s Sunday win
against Nebraska, but he was
playing in the No. 1 slot instead
of his usual No. 3.
Al Lazarus is a sophomore
journalism major.
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T his Thursday, the decath-
letes and heptathletes will
travel to California to com
pete in the Mt. SAC Multi-Compe
tition, with the rest of the team
traveling to Austin on Saturday,
April 18, for a five-way meet.
Fallen Fobbs
The Texas A&M Track and
Field Team is coming off their
best all-around performance of
the season this past weekend at
the A&M Invitational.
The meet included the success
ful return of senior Lairy Wade to
the outdoor season, but also saw the
Aggies suffer the loss of senior
sprinter Billy Fobbs, who injured his
hamstring in the 100-meter dash.
This further hindered the Aggies
in their quest to return theft 4x100-
meter relay team, which included
Fobbs, to action in defense of their
national championship of a year ago.
Freshmen Contributions
This spring, the freshman class
of athletes on the Texas A&M Track
and Field Team have really
stepped up their performance, es
pecially in the outdoor season.
Esther Eisenlauer is one of the
top javelin throwers in the na
tion and has already qualified
automatically for the NCAA
Championships at the end of the
season. Also in the javelin, Lau-
ryn Miller and Jennifer Parker
finished 2-3 this past weekend at
the invitational.
Meshell Trotter has been domi
nant in the throws all year, includ
ing the indoor season, and contin
ues to impress in the hammer
throw and the shot put. Megan
Koonce burst onto the scene this
past weekend winning the discus
and finishing third in the hammer.
Kris Allen and Bashir Ramzy ap
pear to be the next in a line of great
Aggie hurdlers. Ramzy also com
petes in the jumps. Allen and Joel
Nelson could be future A&M
sprinters as well. These freshmen
should continue to produce for
years to come.
Imported Goods
Several athletes competing on
the track and field team are from
outside the United States and con
tinue to make their presence felt.
Freshman Eisenlauer is originally
from Saarbrucken, Germany, and
her family currently resides in
Wadgassen, Germany.
Freshman Joel Nelson was born
in Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada, and currently calls Surrey,
British Columbia, home.
He won the Canadian junior
national championships in both
the 100-meter and 200-meter
dashes. He is currently up for
consideration for the fourth leg of
the 4xl00-meter relay team.
Sophomore Jonan Lannefors
was born in Vasterfarnebo, Swe
den, and his family currently re
sides in Vasteras, Sweden. Lan
nefors is a mainstay of the Aggies’
1600-meter relay team and fin
ished second in the 400-meter
dash this past weekend.
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