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    Page 5 • Tuesday, March 30, 1999
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Jm junior Lisa Dingwall returns the volley during singles play Monday. The
\&M Women’s Tennis Team defeated Texas Tech University, 8-1, Monday
afthe Varsity Tennis Center.
tennis team tops Tech
No. 34 Aggie women overcome weather to win, 8-1
Killen to win their doubles match, 8-0.
BY TRAVIS HARSCH
The Battalion
fllhe next time Mother Nature
thi iks about raining on the Texas
A&M Women’s Tennis Team’s parade,
she had better check with the Ags first.
■ In a match that started 30 minutes
eady and at several points looked as
ifii would have to move to an indoor
facility in Houston, the 34th-ranked
Kgies defeated Texas Tech Universi
ty, 8-1.
■ “1 don’t think the girls wanted to
dpive to Houston tonight,” A&M
coach Bobby Kleinecke said. “This is
not a bad Tech team, and we just
came out and got it done.”
■ The Aggies (11-4, 6-1 Big 12) got it
done quickly, finishing all of their sin
gles matches in a little over an hour,
with Monica San Miguel dispatching
Tech’s Ghislane Hernandez, 6-0, 6-0,
in under 30 minutes.
til San Miguel did not lose a game on
e day, teaming with freshman Leah
The Aggies went 5-1 in their sin
gles matches, including a 6-4, 6-4 win
by 61 st-ranked Martina Nedorostova,
a 6-1, 6-3 triumph by Kathyrn Scott
over a former high school teammate
and a 6-2, 6-0 victory by Eva Marcial.
A&M was looking to rebound from
a loss to the University of Oklahoma
over the weekend, its only Big 12 loss
of the season.
“This is exactly what we needed af
ter the Oklahoma loss,” Kleinecke said.
“That was a devastating loss for us,
and everybody felt pretty bad about it.
But they came out tonight and just
took care of business. ”
As dominating as the Aggies were
in singles, they outdid their perfor
mance in the doubles matches. In ad
dition to San Miguel and Killen’s win,
the Aggies took the other two match
es quickly, winning 8-2 and 8-1.
A&M will next play Wednesday,
when the Aggies will host Harvard
University at 6 p.m.
Ags to face Owls in Houston
BY JASON LINCOLN
The Battalion
Despite a dominant record at Olsen Field,
the Texas A&M Baseball Team has struggled
mightily on the road. While the Aggies
record stands at 19-1 at Olsen Field, away
from home they are a paltry 6-6.
The Aggies took a step forward in ad
dressing their road struggles last weekend
at the University of Missouri, winning the
series two games to one. Up next for the Ag
gies on the road, they will have to face one
of their toughest opponents of the season,
fourth-ranked Rice University.
Earlier in the season, the Owls were the
top-ranked team in the nation, the first time
an athletic team from Rice has achieved that
honor.
A&M coach Mark Johnson said that
while this game is a big one for the Aggies,
he’s preparing the team for this weekend’s
upcoming games.
“We’re not as armed as I would like to be
for Rice,” Johnson said, “but we’re trying to
save all our juice for Nebraska.”
Because of the impending series against
conference leading University of Nebraska
Cornhuskers, A&M will rely on freshman
righthander Khalid Ballouli. Ballouli is 3-0
on the season with an ERA of 4.60.
Leading Rice’s rotation is junior Jeff
Nichols, who stands 9-1 on the year with a
4.64 ERA.
“We’re all aware that this will be one of
our biggest games,” Ballouli said. “But
we’re just going to go out and play our game
and hopefully it will all work out. I just have
to relax, make sure I don’t get caught up in
the hype and pitch my game. From there we
MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion
A&M junior third baseman Dell Lindsey takes a swing during the Aggies’ game against the
University of Michigan March 20. The Texas A&M Baseball Team will travel to Houston
Tuesday to take on No. 4 Rice University.
have the bats to score and the gloves to
field.”
A&M has won the last two matchups in
the 75-year history of the series. Last year’s
matchup up at Olsen Field provided one of
the best comebacks in Aggie history. The
Owls jumped out to a 9-0 lead through five
innings. The Aggies came back with three
runs in the sixth and seven more in the sev
enth inning to defeat the Owls, 10-9.
The Aggies return home this Friday for
the first of a three-game series with the
Cornhuskers at 7 p.m. at Olsen Field.
Texas A&M Baseball
vs Rice (28-7)
Probable Starters:
Texas A&M :
Khalid Ballouli (3-0)
Rice:
Jeff Nichols (9-1)
UConn upsets Blue Devils for NCAA crown, 77-74
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) —
Connecticut spoiled the Duke Invi
tational.
The Huskies beat top-ranked
Duke, the team no one thought
could be beaten in this NCAA tour
nament, for their first national
championship in their first Final
Four appearance.
The 77-74 victory Monday night
ended Duke’s 32-game winning
streak, kept the Blue Devils from
an NCAA record for wins in a sea
son, and prevented them from end
ing the ’90s with a third national
championship.
Richard Hamilton led third-
ranked Connecticut (34-2) with 27
points, but it was some tremen
dous team defense and a big shot
and free throws by Khalid El-Amin
that won it all.
Tfajan Langdon led Duke (37-2)
with 25 points, but Duke’s last two
possessions ended with him mak
ing turnovers. And so the Blue
Devils fell short of what everyone
had expected — another title.
Connecticut was able to keep
the game at a pace it liked. The
quick pace made for what seemed
like constant lead changes, the last
coming with 3:50 to play when
Hamilton’s free throws gave the
Huskies a 70-68 lead.
Suddenly, Duke was playing a
role it had very little experience at
this season — the chaser.
William Avery’s free throws
with 54 seconds left got the Blue
Devils within 75-74. El-Amin,
whose driving basket had given
Connecticut the 75-72 lead, missed
on a drive with 24 seconds left and
Duke had life.
The crowd of 41,340 at TTopi-
cana Field, the court where Duke’s
season ended a year ago, was roar
ing as the Blue Devils went for the
final shot without calling a time
out. Duke would not get off a shot
as Langdon fumbled the ball away.
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