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Coming into this weekend, the Texas
&M baseball team desperately want-
to start a winning streak.
After beginning the season w ith sev-
ofits first eight games on the road,
teteam thought getting back to Olsen
ield would be the perfect remedy to get
a roll.
They were right — it just took one
:ame longer than expected.
After dropping the first game of their
Wildcats, the Aggies came back and
yon the last two games to wan the three-
;ame series against the Wildcats.
A&M baseball coach Mark Johnson
said the team battled back and accom-
ilished its goals in the series.
“Winning two out of three is some
thing we needed to do,” Johnson said.
gives us a chance to grow with some
positive thoughts. After a Friday night
loss, a lot of teams will stumble and fall,
particularly after our start.
“1 thought we came back and played
hard Saturday and played hard today
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and did some things well. We’re doing
some things better at the plate, we’re not
all there yet but w r e’re giving ourselves
a chance to win.”
The Aggies (5-6) jumped on the
Wildcats (10-8) early in the rubber game
of the series Sunday.
A&M left fielder Carlos Sepulveda
got the Aggies on the board in the sec
ond inning when he hit a single that
scored junior designated hitter JefTFree-
man. Sepulveda later scored on a single
by sophomore third baseman Greg
Porter that made the score 2-0.
A&M broke the game open the next
inning with four runs to increase its lead
to 6-0.
A&M freshman catcher Rusty Mey
er got the big hit for the Aggies in the in
ning when he got a single with the bases
loaded that seored Sepulveda and junior
right fielder Daylan Holt.
A&M senior second baseman Sean
Heaney said jumping on the Wildcats
early was imperative for the Aggies.
“1 think that was key, especially ear
ly in the game,” Heaney said. “Coming
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BY BLAINE DIONNE
The Battalion
“Remember boys, no points for second place.”
While this nugget of advice from the movie Top
Gun may have held true for Maverick and Goose, it
could not have been further from the truth for the Texas
A&M women’s swimming and diving team on Satur
day night.
It was then that the Aggies were officially made the
sole proprietor of second place at this year’s Big 12
Championship meet, held at the Student Rec Center
Natatorium.
While second place is not exactly the most glam
orous of finishes in most situations — silver medals do
not make people swell up with as much pride as a gold
at the Olympics and losing the Super Bowl has never
gotten any football player a visit to the White House
— this finish symbolizes the latest in the slow but
steady developments of successful athletic programs
at Texas A&M besides football and baseball.
Before this past weekend, the closest the A&M
women’s swimming and diving team had gotten to first
place at the Big 12 meet was in 1998 when they fin
ished almost 300 points behind champion the Univer
sity of Nebraska and runner-up the University of Texas.
This year, while the Aggies had no real chance of
overtaking the eventual champion Texas, they were
forced to fight tooth and nail against the Comhuskers
for second place, eventually pulling away by virtue of
a stellar 2-3-4-5 platform diving finish by Danielle
Guameri, Katie Williams, Meghan Zack and Callie
PetrofT.
Nebraska had no divers in the final competition, al
lowing the Aggies to gain a substantial lead they would
not relinquish in the final race of the evening, the 400
yard freestyle relay, once again finishing second to
Texas.
Out of all the success the Aggies enjoyed this week
end however, they only produced one individual Big
12 champion, Clara Ho in the 200-yard butterfly.
Ho said she hopes her time will be good enough to
send her to the NCAA Championships.
“I am excited about it |the winning time],” Ho said.
“Hopefully that time will make it in [to the NCAAs].”
On her team victory. Ho said she was glad to be a
pail of the breakthrough year.
“It’s very exciting,” she said. “That’s a big move-
up for us, I’m proud of our team.”
A&M women’s swimming coach Steve Bultman,
in his first year at A&M, said he could not be happier
for his team.
“We’re really excited about it,” Bultman said.
“When I came in, one of my goals was to obviously get
JP BEATO/The Battalion
A&M sophomore swimmer Clara Ho swims in the 200-yard butterfly in the Big 12 Championships.
The Aggies finished second, their highest-ever finish in the championships.
the swimmers to swim better and to eventually contend
for a Big 12 title and to come up and get second right
now, the whole team is elated by it.”
One downpoint about the meet for A&M was the
fact that they did not automatically qualify anyone for
the NCAA Championship, a problem Bultman said he
and the team hope to remedy next week.
“We feel like we have two swimmers that will go
for sure and we have a bunch on the bubble,” Bultman
said. “We’re going to go to a last chance meet next
week in Austin and hopefully we can get a couple of
other ones to get a little better and see what we can do.”
One team that had no shortage of qualifiers was
champion UT. The Longhorns took 16 firsts of 21
events, a dominating performance that Texas women’s
swimming coach Jill Sterkel said she was surprised
about.
“I didn’t expect we could have done this good,”
Sterkel said. “We’re very young and I think we’re go
ing to get a lot better over the next few years, taking us
back to where I want us to be on the national level.”
According to Sterkel, the most important aspect of
her team's win was their cohesiveness as a unit.
“1 think that the way we supported each other, the
way they kept racing, the way they kept focused, they
still didn’t lose sight of what we needed to accom
plish,” Sterkel said. ”1 think that’s a credit to a great
team.”
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