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Page 7A • Wednesday, March 31,1999
omen netters to face Harvard
«IKE PUENTES !
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The Battalion
The Texas A&M Women’s Tennis
Bam returns to action tonight at the
Busity Tennis Center when they
^^Ast Harvard University at 6 p.m. in
i'Jnon-conference ma t c h. The Ag-
s, currently ranked 34th in the
|ation, are corning off a dominating
1 victory over Texas Tech Univer-
si y Monday night.
¥ In the single matches, the Aggies
■failed to drop a set in the matches
■ey won and was led by Monica
San Miguel's 6-0, 6-0 blanking of
ch’s Ghislane Hernandez.
Freshman Martina Nedorostova
ftntinued her hot play of late with
a 6-4, 6-4 victory at No. 1 singles.
She has won 12 out of her last 13
ug fiscal years B 310 ’ 165 3nd is 7 ~° in the 12 in
si ;les.
I Texas Tech won only 30 total
j|Hnes in the nine matches in com
parison to A&M’s 90 games. The
ies are now 11-4 overall and 6-1
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third of their three-match trip to
Axas. The reigning Ivy League
cl ampion Crimson dropped a nar-
iw 5-4 decision to Baylor Universi-
Sunday but rebounded for a 5-4
fctory over the University of.Hous-
caoeSv tc,n on M ° nda y-
I 'hi In both matches, the Crimson’s
, , strength in doubles was evident as
tOrai v d w °n four out of six doubles
^Batches in the two days. Against
lo/.ensot FF.Baylor, the Crimson rallied from a 4-
cializingin ■ 2 deficit to tie the score only to lose
tlie match at No. 1 doubles. In the
■ouston match, Harvard rallied for
fie victory after their top three sin
gles players all were defeated,
fl The Crimson feature the 1998
fyy League Player of the Year Ivy
|Wang, who compiled a 23-5 record
|nst season. Harvard will also count
• on first-year player Andrea Magy-
era. The heralded Magyera was
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A&M junior second baseman Sean Heaney goes for the tag during the Aggies’ game against Lamar University
March 24 at Olsen Field. The Texas A&M Baseball dropped a 7-6 decision to No. 4 Rice University Tuesday
night in Houston to fall to 25-8 on the season.
Owls’ early runs doom Ags
A&M Baseball Team’s road woes continue with 7-6 loss
MIKE PUENTES/T he Battalion
A&M junior Lisa Dingwall returns a volley during singles play against the
Red Raiders of Texas Tech University Monday. The Texas A&M Women’s
Tennis Team will host Harvard University Wednesday night.
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in the nation and defeated Baylor’s
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“This match is going to end a
very tough stretch of matches for
us,” A&M head coach Bobby Klei-
necke said. “After beating a tough
Colorado team and then doing
what we did against Oklahoma
and then just taking care of Texas
Tech, we need to continue our
momentum.”
The Harvard match will end a
stretch of four home matches in six
days for A&M. They will break for
10 days before hosting No. 8 Van
derbilt on April 10 in another non
conference match.
BY DOUG SHILLING
The Battalion
Many people say that it is not
how you start, but how you finish.
For the sixth-
ranked Texas
A&M Baseball
Team last night it
was quite the op
posite as their
start came back
to haunt them.
The Aggies al
lowed four runs
by fourth-ranked
Rice University in the first inning
en route to a 7-6 loss in front of a
record crowd of 3,214 at Rice’s
Cameron Field last night.
The loss pushed the Aggies’
record on the road below the .500
SCARBOROUGH
mark at 6-7.
Freshman pitcher Khalid Bal-
louli started the game for the Ag
gies and gave up the Owls’ four-
run outburst. For the game,
Ballouli pitched six innings and
gave up six runs on 12 hits. He
struck out two and saw his ERA in
crease to 5.35.
After falling behind 4-0, the Ag
gies battled back to tie the game by
scoring two runs in the top half of
the second, one in the third and
another in the fourth.
The Owls came back to take the
lead at 6-4 when they tallied a run
in both the fifth and sixth innings.
In the top of the eighth, the Ag
gies put two runs on the board to
tie the game at six. However, in the
bottom half of the inning, the Ag
gies gave the lead back to the Owls
as sophomore pitcher Chris Russ,
who came into the game an inning
earlier in relief of Ballouli, gave up
the winning run.
The loss was the first on the
year for Russ (7-1).
Leading the way for the Aggies’
offensively was junior shortstop
Steve Scarborough. Scarborough
went 2-4 on the night with two
runs batted in and his second
homerun of the season.
Freshman designated hitter
Greg Porter also had a decent night
at the plate, going 2-3 with a dou
ble, a run scored and two RBIs.
Next up for the Aggies is a se
ries with the conference leading
and 19th-ranked University of Ne
braska Cornhuskers. The series
kicks off Friday night at 7 at Olsen
Field.
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