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kM junior Kathryn Scott lunges for the backhand ground stroke in her singles play against Vanderbilt
niversity Saturday at the Varsity Tennis Center. The Texas A&M Women’s Tennis Team dropped the team
atch to Vanderbilt, 8-1.
Aggies fall to Vanderbilt
Women's tennis team readies for match with ‘Horns
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The Battalion
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Vanderbilt rebounded by
sweeping the rest of the singles
matches to clinch the victory, as
four different Vanderbilt players
recorded 6-0 set victories in
straight-set wins.
A&M’s best efforts came at the
No. 2 and No. 4 singles. Fresh
man Leah Killen, playing her first
career match at No. 2, extended
Vanderbilt’s Callie Creighton to a
first-set tie-breaker before suc
cumbing, 7-6, 6-0. At No. 4 sin
gles, senior Monica San Miguel
fell at No. 4 singles to Vanderbilt’s
Kate Burson, 6-1, 7-6.
The showdown at No. 1 sin
gles between A&M freshman
Martina Nedorostova, ranked
54th in the nation, and No. 12
Julie Ditty of Vanderbilt, the Na
tional Player of the Month, never
materialized as the more experi
enced Ditty pulled away for a
convincing 6-2, 6-0 victory.
The poor showing in singles
set the tone for the match, Klei-
necke said.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
0 behind a masterful pitching per
formance by junior pitcher Casey
Possum. Possum (7-3) tossed a
complete game four-hitter with 14
strikeouts, tying his season high.
A&M clubbed the Wildcats (13-
21, 5-12 Big 12) in Saturday’s
game. Sophomore right fielder
Daylan Holt led the way for the Ag
gies going 3 for 5 with five RBIs,
three runs scored and two home
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runs to push his team leading to
tal to 18.
Holt is closing in on the A&M
single-season home-run record of
25 set last year by former A&M
third baseman Craig Kuzmic.
The Aggies capped off the se
ries Sunday with a 7-2 win.
The Aggies return home Tuesday
to take on UT-San Antonio at 7 p.m.
at Olsen Field.
Ags sweep weekend foes
Men’s tennis team defeats Colorado, Kansas
BY AL LAZARUS
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Men’s Tennis
Team’s match Friday night against
the University of Colorado marked
the first of four
consecutive con
ference matches
to close out the
Aggies’ regular
season. After
trouncing the Buf
faloes, 6-1, and
defeating the Uni
versity of Kansas,
5-2, Sunday in
Lawrence, Kan., the No. 15 Aggies
appear determined to go out with a
bang.
“We’re good enough to win the
Big 12,” A&M sophomore Cody
Hubbell said after Friday’s victory.
“We’re believing it now, and there’s
no reason why we can’t do it.”
The Aggies, who improved to
14-3 overall and 6-0 in Big 12 play,
accomplished their weekend sweep
without the help of their No. 2 play
er, Dumitru Caradima, who was out
with a sore elbow.
A&M coach Tim Cass said the
MADDEN
Aggies responded well in Friday’s
match to the task of playing with
out Caradima, who is part of the na
tion’s No. 1 doubles team.
“Without Caradima in the line
up, the team rose to the occasion,”
Cass said. “We kept control of the
match, and I think that this was one
of our better efforts of the season.”
The Aggies fell to the Buffaloes,
5-2, last season in Boulder, adding
a little more emotion to Friday’s at
mosphere.
A&M junior Juan Aramburo,
who won in singles competition
against the Buffaloes, said the Ag
gies were motivated Friday by last
season’s loss to CU.
“Revenge is always sweet,”
Aramburo said. “It brings out a lit
tle bit more excitement than usual.”
Caradima’s doubles partner,
Shuon Madden, teamed with fresh
man Keith From at No. 1 doubles.
The duo lost to CU’s Doni Papadia
and Boris Sepesi, 8-6.
The Aggies responded, though,
with victories in the No. 2 and No.
3 spots to win the doubles point.
In singles play, only the top two
matches were close, as both went to
three sets. At No. 1, Madden
dropped the first set before buckling
down to win, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3. Senior
Brent Horan then dropped his three-
setter at No. 2, 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 6-4.
Hubbell, playing at No. 3, won
easily, 6-3, 6-0. Also notching deci
sive victories for the Aggies were
From and freshman Jarin Skube,
playing in the No. 4 and No. 6
spots, respectively.
In Sunday’s match against KU,
the Aggies had to be careful not to
look past the 40th-ranked Jay-
hawks to Saturday’s showdown
with the University of Texas.
“We were a little worried about
Texas,” Cass said, “but I thought
the guys showed maturity and com
posure out there, and we got out of
here with a win.”
With Caradima out again, the
Aggies fielded the same lineup that
had worked so effectively Friday
night.
Highlighting the victory over the
Jayhawks was No. 34 Madden’s
victory over KU’s Luis Uribe,
ranked 18th in the nation in singles
play.
The Aggies’ match against Texas
will take place Saturday at 1:30
p.m. at the Varsity Tennis Center.
“I was a little disappointed
we made a lot of errors early in
the singles.” he said. “We need
ed to hang in the points in the
beginning, and that’s where we
lost it.”
A&M rebounded for a better
performance in the three doubles
matches. Nedorostova and Ding
wall lost, 8-5, at No. 1 doubles to
Ditty and Burson, while A&M
sophomore Eva Marcial and ju
nior Kathryn Scott’s spirited rally
at No. 2 doubles fell short, 8-4, to
Vanderbilt’s Creighton and Anne
Plessinger.
“We held our heads a little
higher in the doubles.” Kleinecke
said. “They came up with some
good shots.”
A&M will return to Big 12 ac
tion Tuesday when the Aggies
travel to Austin for a 5 p.m.
match against conference-leading
No. 13 University of Texas.
“It will be a tough match.”
Kleinecke said. “But in an A&M-
Texas match, anything can hap
pen.”
Second verse, same as the first
No. 15 Longhorns again edge Aggie Softball Team, 1-0
BY BEN WESTBROOK
The Battalion
The 19th-ranked Texas A&M Soft-
ball Team dropped another close
game to the 15th-ranked University
of Texas in front of 1,252 fans at Red
and Charlin McCombs Field in
Austin Saturday.
The 1-0 loss marks the second
time in two weekends the women
have dropped a game to the Long
horns by one run.
With the defeat, the Aggies fall to
33-10 overall and 3-3 in the Big 12.
The Longhorns moved to 28-12 on
the year and into sole possession of
first place in the Big 12 with a 5-1
conference record.
Picking up the win for the Long
horns was All-American Christa
Williams, who raised her season
record to 14-4. Taking the loss was
A&M sophomore Amy Vining, who
dropped to 18-8 on the year.
Vining had yet another good day
on the mound, giving up just six hits
and one earned run, but the Aggie
bats failed to provide any run sup
port, as Christa Williams held the
Aggies to just three hits while the UT
defense committed just one error.
Sophomore second baseman
Rachel Lewis, freshman catcher Lisa
Klam and sophomore right fielder
Tiffany Esters recorded hits for the
Aggies, and freshman center fielder
TERRY ROBERSON/Thl Battalion
A&M freshman center fielder Tammy Donnell stretches for the stop
during the Aggies’ game against the University of Texas Saturday in
Austin. The Texas A&M Softball Team dropped a 1-0 decision to the
No. 15 Longhorns, their second 1-0 loss to UT this season.
Tammy Donnell reached base on a
walk. But the Aggies would leave all
four runners stranded on base.
The winning RBI came in the
third inning when Texas center field
er Autumn Eastes knocked a triple
into right-center field to score Tiffany
Valdehueza from first. The run
would be all the ‘Horns would need
as William’s dominated the rest of
the game from the mound.
The loss marks the second
straight year A&M has been swept
by Texas in the season series. The
Aggies’ next matchup is a non-con
ference doubleheader against South
west Texas State University Wednes
day at the Aggie Softball Complex.
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