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\&M senior Brent Horan volleys during singles play against Ohio State
.University at the Varsity Tennis Center March 24. The Texas A&M Men’s
pennis Team defeated No. 34 Texas Tech University, 5-2, Thursday.
exas Tech falls
to Aggie netters
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
TS
mpaigi
f The No. 14 Texas A&M Men’s
Tennis Team knocked off No. 34
Texas Tech University, 5-2,
Thursday night at the A&M Var
sity Tennis Center.
I The Aggies (12-2, 4-0 Big 12)
started against Tech by winning
the doubles
■oint, something
they have done
in 11 of their 14
■latches this
year.
I “I feel like we
have had some
success here in
loubles,” A&M
coach Tim Cass
MADDEN
said. “The thing we work on is
bonUSCi showing energy and enthusiasm
on every single point.”
| A&M sophomores Dumitru
Caradima and Shuon Madden,
ranked No. 1 nationally, won
■ecisively, 8-2. Senior Brent Ho-
nce
A&M
ran and freshman Jarin Skube,
playing in the No. 2 spot, won
8-6.
In singles action, the Aggies
won four of six matches, includ
ing a 6-3, 6-1 victory from No. 30
Madden over Tech’s Borut Mart-
incevic.
Caradima, playing No. 2 for
the Aggies, also won easily, 6-1,
6-1.
Horan and junior Juan Aram-
buro, playing No. 3 and No. 6,
respectively, rounded out the Ag
gies’ four singles wins.
Cass said he was pleased to
get a victory over Tech.
“I think Texas Tech is playing
very well right now,” he said.
“Overall, we had a good team ef
fort across the board.”
Cass said the match will help
prepare the Aggies for a grueling
conference stretch.
“We are well aware of the
conference race and what it
takes to win,” he said.
ndation
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omen’s Golf Team
places 17th in Tempe
STAFF AND WIRE REPORT
fU The Texas A&M Women’s Golf
1 Team, ranked 38th in the nation,
“ carded a final round of 319 to place
17th in the Ping/Arizona State In
vitational at the Karsten Golf
Course in Tempe,
BECKER
'Ariz., Saturday.
■ The 319
capped a 54-hole
run of 324-325-
1319, the team’s
l|ghest score this
slason. A&M was
llirt by the ab
sence of fresh-
■an Anna Jons-
s|n, who won back-to-back
■urnaments earlier in the spring.
Jimsson suffered a strained back
■uscle March 20 and also was bat
ing the flu.
This year’s competition marked
|/|&M’s third straight appearance in
the event, held annually at the par-
|72, 6,090-yard course.
Host school Arizona State Uni-
I versity won the championship by 20
I strokes, besting No. 1 Duke Univer
sity, who finished second. The top-
Hnked Blue Devils were led by se
nior Jenny Chuasiriporn, the
world’s top-ranked amateur and
Inner-up at last year’s U.S. Open.
Several other teams ranked in
the nation’s top ten also were fea
tured in the field. Second-ranked
University of Arizona placed third,
while No. 4 Tulsa University fin
ished fifth, and No. 5 University of
Southern California finished ninth.
Defending champion Stanford Uni
versity, ranked eighth nationally,
placed 10th.
The Aggies’ top effort was
turned in by junior Anna Becker,
who tied for 26th with rounds of
76-76-80 for a total of 232. Sopho
more Marta Ostos tied for 49th
with a final-round 77 for a total of
237, while freshman Mackenzie
Dyslin tied for 76th with a final-
round 79 and a three-day total of
247.
Sophomore Mimi Epps was
84th with a final-round 83, and
freshman Jennifer Poth finished
91st.
A&M will be back in action April
12-13 for the Susie Maxwell Bern-
ing Classic at the Jimmie Austin
University of Oklahoma Golf
Course in Norman, Okla. The Clas
sic will serve as A&M’s final tune-
up for the 1999 Big 12 Champi
onships in Boulder, Colo., where
the Aggies will attempt to defend
their 1998 Big 12 title. A&M defeat
ed the University of Texas by four
strokes in last year’s champi
onships.
Ags excel at new-look Relays
Good weather, new field help track teams to strong showing
JASON LINCOLNAhE Baitalion
A&M sophomore Kris Allen (right) and Texas’ Kevin Hamilton clear the final hurdle during the
men’s 110-meter high hurdle competition at the Texas Relays Saturday in Austin. Allen finished
second in the race, while teammate Bashir Razey finished fourth.
BY JASON LINCOLN
The Battalion
The sky was ominous for the running of the
72nd Texas Relays, looking to turn this meet into
yet another weather disappointment for the
Texas A&M Hack and Field Team. In the end, it
would be just the opposite, as the weather broke
and the Aggies had their first true look at their
ability against Big 12 competition.
The track season had been a disappointment
for A&M, as the first meets of the season were
characterized by bad weather turning into bad
results for the Aggies. While the Austin compe
tition was not perfect weather, A&M took ad
vantage of all that they could.
“We performed really well this weekend,”
A&M coach Ted Nelson said. “It was a good
meet for us compared to the last couple of
weeks.”
It was not just the weather that turned this
meet into one of the most successful visits by
the Aggies to the University of Texas-sponsored
event. 1999 featured the opening of the state of
the art Mike A. Myers Hack Complex, patterned
to be one of the fastest fields in the nation. And
the result — a sold-out performance with
20,000 in attendance, 18 event records broken,
377 teams from the country’s top high schools,
colleges, universities and sponsors and over
3,500 athletes. All this plus appearances from
such Olympic greats as gold medalist and world
recordholder Michael Johnson.
“Haditionally, the Texas Relays has not been
productive for A&M, but this year we showed a
lot of improvement,” Nelson said. “It’s a step
ping stone for us to gain some confidence com
peting against the best athletes in America.”
The Aggies were led by a combination of sea
soned experience by the veterans and pure tal
ent and determination on the part of ‘99 new
comers.
Senior All-American Detrich Clariett led the
veterans’ performances with a fourth-place fin
ish in the triple jump, shattering the school out
door record by six inches with a jump of 43 81/2
and breaking her indoor record by 3/4.”
“DD [Clariett] has firmly established herself
as the top triple jumper in school history,” A&M
associate head coach Ed Marcinkiewicz said.
“What sets her apart is her consisjency. She’s
very durable, and you can always count on her
being in the hunt at every meet.”
On the side of the newcomers, the highlight
scame from freshmen Natalie Young and Robyn
Burkhardt. Young ran to a fourth-place finish in
the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.51 seconds,
the fourth-fastest in A&M history. Burkhardt
won the high jump in section B for the third
time this season by clearing 5’11.25,” a provi
sional NCAA qualifying height, and would have
placed her in third in section A.
“I didn’t expect to jump this high,”
Burkhardt said. “It feels really good to get the
win.”
Other strong finishers for the Aggies were
men’s 110-meter high hurdlers Kris Allen and
Bashir Razey, who placed second and fourth re
spectively while women’s 100-meter high hur
dlers Christine Ohaeri and Chimika Carter place
seventh and eighth. In the javelin, Esther Eisen-
hauer placed second, while Katy Doyle and
Havis Grasha placed fourth in their respective
events.
The sprint relay of Allen, Toya Jones, Billy
Fobbs and Micheal Price ran a 39.66 for fifth.
The 1600-meter relay of Derrick Woods, Johan
Lannefors, Price and McAshan ran to sixth
place with a 3:05.89.
“We’ve been doing real bad lately,” Price
said. “We haven’t had the weather conditions
to show what we can do. Now we know, so if
we just keep pushing it will be all right.”
The Aggies will look to build on their per
formance when they return to College Station
for the Texas A&M Invitational next weekend
and prepare to continue performing better as
they get ready for the top end of the season
meets.
“This was an important meet for us,” Nelson
said, “because if we can do well here than we
know we can perform at the really big meets.”
Baseball Team sweeps Conihuskers
No. 6 Aggies
move to 22-1
at Olsen Field
BY DOUG SHILLING
The Battalion
University of Nebraska athletic
teams just can’t stand coming to Col
lege Station.
For the second time in six months,
a Nebraska team on a roll came into
town ranked and in the conference
lead and left with a loss.
The first time it was the Aggie
football team that did the damage to
the Cornhuskers’ No. 2 ranking and
their 19-game winning streak.
This time around it was the Texas
A&M Baseball Team’s turn as the
sixth-ranked Aggies swept the 18th-
ranked Cornhuskers and ended their
11-game winning streak this past
weekend at Olsen Field.
The sweep propelled the Aggies
(28-8, 11-3 Big 12) into second place
in the Big 12 just behind conference
leader Baylor University.
The Aggies started off the series
with a bang, taking the first game 14-
4.
Junior third baseman Dell Lind
sey was the hitting star for the Ag
gies going 4-5 with three home
runs, 5 RBIs and five runs scored
on the night. Lindsey tied an Aggie
single game record with the three
home runs. He became only the
eighth person in Aggie history, and
the first since sophomore right
fielder Daylan Holt earlier in the
year, to accomplish the feat.
A&M jumped on Nebraska pitch
er Jay Sirianni early and often. The
Aggies roughed up Sirianni for four
runs in the first inning and four more
in the fourth.
The Aggies were graced with an
other outstanding performance by ju
nior pitcher Casey Possum.
Possum (6-3) limited the Corn
huskers to four runs on five hits in
nine innings pitched.
The first game of Saturday’s dou
bleheader featured the Aggies hitting
power and even a little bit of Mother
Nature’s power.
A 35-minute rain delay in the bot-
J.P. BEATO/The Bai talion
The No. 6 Texas A&M Baseball Team swept the 18th-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers this past weekend at
Olsen Field. The sweep helped move the Aggies into second place in the Big 12 Conference.
tom of the sixth was enough to slow
down the Aggies however as they
cruised to a 16-5 win.
The Aggies scored four times
in that sixth inning with two hits
before and two hits after the rain
delay.
A&M also used big innings in the
second and the fifth scoring five and
six runs respectively.
Holt led the Aggies’ hitting going
4-5 with two home runs, five RBIs
and three runs. Holt’s home runs
pushed his team leading total to 16.
Junior second baseman Sean
Heaney was also hot at the plate go
ing 3-6 with two doubles, a triple, two
RBIs and two runs scored.
Junior pitcher Chance Caple was
solid in the win for the Aggies.
Caple (5-3) gave up four runs on
five hits in 6 1/3 innings pitched.
The last game of the series pro
duced a real nail-biter as the Aggies
won 3-2 in 10 innings.
Freshman designated hitter Greg
Porter doubled in junior Stephen Tru
itt to produce the winning run.
Porter, who had a game-winning
home run against UNLV two weeks
ago in the championship game of the
Aggie Continental Airlines Baseball
classic, went 1 -4 in the game with the
game-winning double.
Sophomore Chris Russ (8-1) got
the win for the Aggies in relief of
starter Matt Ward.
Ward gave up one run on three
hits in 5 2/3 innings pitched.
Russ, who leads the Aggies in
wins this year, gave up an unearned
run on three hits in 4 1/3 innings
pitched.
Nebraska pitcher Shane Komine
pitched admirably in the loss for the
Cornhuskers.
Komine (5-1) went the distance
giving up three runs on ten hits in 9
2/3 innings pitched.
The next game for the Aggies is
this Tuesday against Sam Houston
State University at Olsen Field.
A&M Baseball
vs Nebraska
April 2-3
Game 1:
A&M, 14- 4
W-Casey Possum (6-3)
L-Jay Sirianni (4-2)
Game 2:
A&M, 16-5
W-Chance Caple (5-3)
L-Scott Fries (5-2)
Game 3:
A&M, 3-2 (10 innings)
W-Chris Russ (8-1)
L-Shane Komine (5-1)