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Page 5 • Monday, April 19, 1999
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Early struggles hurt women versus Rice
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BY AL LAZARUS
The Battalion
MbHui The University of Texas Men’s Tennis Team
arts three top-60 singles players and a doubles
m ranked No. 16.
But it was the unheralded portion of the Long-
rns’ squad that keyed UT to a 5-2 victory over
cas|A&M Saturday afternoon in front of 579 fans
the A&M Varsity Tennis Center.
No. 5 Texas’ three unranked singles players and
o pnranked doubles teams were victorious
tinst the 15th-ranked Aggies.
“Texas is just a great team all the way through,”
Mloach Tim Cass said. “They’re an experienced
imlvith three seniors, and it certainly showed
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jThe loss drops the Aggies to 14-4 overall and 6-
>n Big 12 play. The Longhorns improve to 18-4
d 6-0 in Big 12 action.
The Aggies received singles victories from Shuon
idden and Dumitru Caradima, with both wins
ming over ranked opponents. The sophomores,
iked No. 1 in doubles, also were victorious in
?ir match over UT’s Gwenael Gueit and Paul Mar-
, ranked No. 16.
Madden quickly defeated UT’s Paul Martin, 6-3,
i (7 4). Caradima then quietly defeated his not-
-quiet opponent. Longhorn freshman Brandon
iwk.
Hawk, ranked No. 42, repeatedly drew attention
himself on the way to losing to Caradima, 7-6 (7-
, 6^4, at one point turning to the crowd and de-
iring, “I’m going to win this match.”
Caradima said he did not let his overwrought op-
nent bother him.
“I kvas not worried about him,” he said. “I just
d to play my best; it’s not my style to be loud.”
The only ranked Longhorn player to win was
20 Jack Brasington, who played in the No. 3
ot against A&M’s Cody Hubbell and won 6-4, 6-
After dropping behind early in the No. 1 and No.
lingles matches, the Longhorns looked to the bot-
m of their order for help.
UT went on to post victories in the last four sin
es spots, giving the Longhorns five points to the
^gies’ two.
The Aggies return to action Saturday at noon at
e A&M Varsity Tennis Center against No. 8 Bay-
r, who will take on Texas two days prior to play-
SALLIE TURNER/The Battalion
Sophomore Dumitru Caradima goes to the forehand
swing during singles action against the University
of Texas’ Brandon Hawk Saturday.
ing the Aggies. If the Bears defeat the Longhorns
and then fall to the Aggies, the three teams will be
tied for first place in the Big 12.
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BY SANTOSH VENKATARAMAN
The Battalion
Imitation may be the sincerest
form of flattery, but the Texas A&M
Women’s Tennis Team picked a bad
day to mimic its male counterpart
Saturday, dropping a 6-3 decision to
Rice University at the A&M Varsity
Tennis Center.
The loss dropped No. 34 A&M to
12-7 overall, while No. 37 Rice im
proved to 14-5.
The women captured their three
victories at No. 1 and 2 singles and
No. 1 doubles, just as the men did.
The two Aggie teams played their
matches simultaneously at the ten
nis center.
The Aggie women started slowly
against the Owls and quickly fell be
hind. The early struggles in singles
play were what hurt the Aggies most,
A&M coach Bobby Kleinecke said.
“I thought that we had a shot to
win going into the singles,” he said.
“Then we lost the first set in five of the
six matches, and that is tough to come
back from. We tried to fight back, but
we kept giving up cheap points.”
Especially galling for the Aggies
were the scores of those first-set de
feats. A&M dropped two first-set
tiebreakers and lost the other three
by scores of 6-4, 6-4 and 7-5.
The lone Aggie to overcome her
first-set deficit was freshman Marti
na Nedorostova, who rallied to de
feat Rice’s top player, Elle Lewis, 4-
6, 6-3, 6-4, to improve her record to
21-9 overall.
The Aggies also received a strong
performance from junior Lisa Ding
wall, who crushed the Owls’ Char
lotte Feasby, 6-1, 6-0. Dingwall and
Nedorostova then combined in dou
bles for a 8-0 whitewash at No. 1
doubles over the Owls’ Erin Waters
and Justyna Gudzowska.
“I was impressed with Lisa’s play
today,” Kleinecke said. “She came
out ready to play. I was very proud
of the top of the lineup.”
The middle of the Aggie lineup
did not fare as well. At No. 3 sin
gles, Aggie senior Monica San
Miguel was defeated by Gudzows-
SALLIE TURNER/Thh Battalion
A&M junior Lisa Dingwall returns the volley during singles action against
Rice University’s Charlotte Feasby. Dingwall defeated Feasby, 6-1, 6-0
in the match.
ka, 7-6, 4-6, 6-2.
“That was very exciting,” Gud
zowska said. “Especially with this
being my last match [in dual
meets]. ”
Junior Kathryn Scott lost another
three-setter to Judith Ffagedorn of
Rice, 7-5, 1-6, 6-4. The Aggies’ No.
4 singles player, freshman Leah
Killen, dropped her match in two
tight sets, 7-6, 7-6.
“We struggled at three, four, five
and six,” Kleinecke said. “We need
to play better at the bottom.”
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