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SPORTS
Friday, February 25, 2000
THE BATTALION
Page 5
GUY ROGERS/ I in BATTALION
A&M senior second baseman Sean Heaney reaches second base in
the Aggies 2-1 loss to Sam Houston State University Tuesday.
Ags open Big 12 play
BY DOUG SHILLING
The Battalion
It has been an up and down season so
far for the Texas A&M baseball team.
After taking two of three games from
the University of Arizona last weekend,
the Aggies took a step back when they
dropped a 2-1 decision Tuesday to the
Sam Houston State Bearkats.
The team hopes to be on the rise once
again as it begins defense of its Big 12
title when the Kansas State University
Wildcats come to town for a three-game
series Friday.
A&M baseball coach Mark Johnson
said he hopes the team w ill be able to
bounce back after the setback against
the Bearkats.
“The weekend with Arizona gave us
some hope,” Johnson said. “It gave us a
little boost and we needed that but this
last loss dropped us back down. We’re
kinda on a roller coaster.
"We’re having a hard time getting on a
roll and a lot of that is that we’re not good
enough yet. There are signs that this tiling
can happen but they haven’t happened yet.”
A&M senior second baseman Sean
Heaney said he thinks the team will be
able to put the Sam Houston State game
behind them and be able to build off the
Arizona series.
“After the Arizona series,” Heaney
said, "a lot of guys finally realized that
we can win. After beating them, we
know we can beat anyone.”
Johnson said the team is not quite
ready for conference play, but most
teams are not ready at this point.
“Teams that have very young ball-
clubs like ours are never ready for con
ference to start," Johnson said. “Last year
I was fairly comfortable to get started.
This group, each game we play, we’re
starting to do a few things better, not all
of them. No, we’re not ready to start but
most people are in the same boat.”
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to face TCU
The 18th-ranked Texas A&M
men’s tennis team (2-2) will take on
No. 15 Texas Christian University at
1p.m. Saturday in Fort Worth.
The Aggies are the third-highest
ranked team in the Big 12 behind
only No. 10 University of Texas and
No. 12 Baylor University.
In individual rankings, A&M ju
nior All-American Shuon Madden is
No. 13. Madden and junior Dumitru
Caradima are No. 28 in doubles.
The Aggies’ home opener is
Sunday, March 5, when they host
No. 4 Florida at 1 p.m. at the Var
sity Tennis Center.
Tracksters head
to Big 12 Champs
The Texas A&M track and field
teams head to Ames, Iowa this
weekend for the Big 12 Champi
onship meet. Heading into the
meet, the Aggies have no automat
ic qualifiers for nationals yet, but
possess many borderline athletes
that could push their times ahead
this weekend.
A&M track coach Ted Nelson
said he looks for his team to re
spond over the course of the meet.
“Our ladies have been a little bit
injured, but our men have a good
chance to go up to Ames with a
good shot to be in the top three and
possibly win a championship, we
feel good about that,” Nelson said.
Men’s hoopsters
hit road to Austin
The Texas A&M men’s basket
ball team head to Austin to take on
the 14th-ranked University of Texas
Longhorns Saturday at 12:45 p.m.
The Aggies are coming off an 81-
76 defeat at the hands of the
Kansas State University Wildcats in
Manhattan, Kan.
A&M freshman guard Bernard
King led the Aggies with 25 points
while freshman guard Jamaal
Gilchrist chipped in 18 points.
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’Horns travel to face A&M women
BY REECE FLOOD
The Battalion
The Texas A&M women’s basketball team will
play in front of a home crowd for the last time this
season when they take on the University of Texas
Longhorns in Reed Arena Saturday at 3 p.m.
Lor four Aggie seniors, it w ill be their last time to
play in Aggieland. forward Prissy Sharpe, guard Amy
Yates, forward Kera Alexander and forward Jennifer
Burrows will all finish their A&M basketball careers
at the end of this season.
Alexander has mixed emotions about her last
game in Reed Arena.
“It’s weird,” Alexander said. "It’s exciting and it’s
sad. It’s exciting to think about I’ve made it through
four years. But it’s sad because it’s the end of my time
with my teammates and with coach and everything.”
Coach Peggie Gillom said losing the four seniors
will be a big loss for the Aggies.
“You just don’t replace those kind of people,”
Gillom said. “You don’t replace Kera and Prissy and
Amy and Jen. They’ve been good for Texas A&M.
They’ve been good leaders for our kids.
“Some of our new kids don’t really understand the
rivalry between Texas and Texas A&M, and that is a
problem. But our older kids do. We have a lot of
young people who don’t know the rivalry between
Texas and Texas A&M, so hopefully the [seniors] can
get them fired up for it.”
Texas is definitely one team A&M can get fired up
for. In an earlier meeting this season in Austin, the
Aggies fell behind by 13 points early in the game. But
the Aggies battled back and went into halftime with
a one-point lead of 33-32.
The second half proved to be a disappointment for
the Aggies, as Texas went on to w in 82-54.
Alexander hopes the Aggies can play better
against the Longhorns this time.
“Hopefully we’ll play two halves,” Alexander
said. “I mean we played them well the first half, and
then we just came out flat the second half. We’re both
good teams. It’s all about who decides to come and
play.”
A&M junior forward Jaynetta Saunders said the
team has two incentives for coming out and playing
hard on Saturday.
“We’re going to be playing for two things,” Saun
ders said. "We want to play to win, and we want to
play for the [seniors]. This is their last night and we
want to make it memorable.”
In the previous game, senior forward Edwina
Brown had a big night for the Longhorns with 21
points and 11 rebounds against A&M. This seems to
be the trend for Brown, who is leading her team with
a 21.8 points per game average.
“Edwina is a player,” Gillom said. “It’s important
for us not to let other people get plays. Edwina is go
ing to get her points, but we want to try to stop every
one else from getting theirs.”
JR BEATO/Thk Battalion
A&M junior guard Brandy Jones goes up for a layup in the Aggies’ 66-55 win over the University
of Missouri Tigers Feb. 16 at Reed Arena.
Saunders will play a key role in limiting Brown’s
success. Saunders tallied 16 points, eight rebounds
and seven blocks in the earlier game against Texas.
Saunders said guarding Brown was not easy the
first time, but she thinks she played well.
“I contained her a little bit at Texas,” Saunders
said. “I blocked a few of her shots in the first half and
I had her thinking, l ivery time she shot she was think
ing 'Is it going to get blocked’ ”
Saunders feels confident in her ability to perform
well despite the fact she will have to fight a nagging
ankle, knee and back injuries.
“You don’t feel it in the game,” Saunders said.
“But after the game is when you really feel it.”
Both A&M (11-13, 3-11 Big 12) and Texas (17-
10, 8-6 Big 12) are coming into the game riding two-
game losing streaks.
Alexander said the key for a victory is for every
one to have a good game.
“If everybody plays real well, the weight’s not all
on one person’s shoulder,” Alexander said. “And
that’s the difference. They have great players and we
have great players. But it’s about who plays the best
as a team.”
Women’s tennis hosts conference foes
SALLIE TURNER/The Battalic
A&M freshman Olivia Karlikova hits a
shot against Northwestern University.
BY BLAINE DIONNE
The Battalion
Deflated, discouraged, dispirited,
depressed, dejected — take your pick
of adjectives that SHOULD describe
the Texas A&M women’s tennis team
at this point of the season.
But then you can promptly forget
whichever one you chose, because
none of the above apply.
Even though the Aggies have
dropped three matches in a row after
beginning the season with two wins
and a sense that this would be their
best performance in years, they are
maintaining an emphatically unified
front in the face of questions about
their team makeup.
As always for this team, the con
fidence starts at the top.
A&M women’s tennis coach
Bobby Kleinecke said that while he
obviously would rather have won
than lost the matches against North
western, LSU and Vanderbilt, he has
put the losses in perspective.
“I still believe in this team,” he
said. “Even though we came away
with some losses to some good
teams, I feel like we still have an ex
cellent opportunity this year.”
Even though the losses have been
detrimental to the Aggies’ national
ranking, the season is still young and
the Aggies begin the important phase of
their schedule this weekend by hosting
Big 12 foes Missouri and Iowa State.
The Tigers and Cyclones are not
exactly known for being terrors on
the tennis court, but after the last few
weeks’ humbling performances,
Kleinecke said his team is not taking
anything for granted.
One player that shouldn’t have too
much trouble with her opponent is se
nior Lisa Dingwall.
Dingwall, and freshman Olivia
Karlikova, have the best individual
records on the team so far. Dingwall
said that although she has had a gopd
deal of success so far, her teammates
are not far behind.
“I think that we all have a lot pf
confidence in our play and in each
other,” she said. “I really think that
everyone is doing well.”
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