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SPORTS
Q Mpnday, April 3,2000
^ aves narrowly edge
IWSU w/omen’s tennis team
THE BATTALION
Page 9
BY BLAINE DIONNE
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■ The Texas A&M women’s tennis
/e reason to reach a settler l am dropped a heartbreaker to the sec
ruling could he usedagaiia ; ond-ranked Pepperdine University
aves, 6-3, Friday night at the Varsity
tennis Center.
tell you, that’s a tough loss,”
&M women’s tennis coach Bobby
lass-action lawsuits its
ents.
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mpany is forced to cl
i issues a verdict, hewoui; Geinecke said. “We’re right there —
irings to determine whatkinc
licrosoft would likelyappe
ing up the case for several
timately overturn parts,ih ipset 18th-ranked Ipek Senoglu, 6-4,
1-6 (3) at No. 1 singles to open up the
coring for the Aggies.
The Waves quickly answered with
i victory of their own at No. 6, with se-
rior Kathryn Scott dropping her match
he federal courthouse Sate, igainst Nadine Rastetter, 6-0, 5-7, 6-1,
alting her five-game winning streak.
At No. 4 singles, Aggie sophomore
ials including Gates-Aeah Killen was able to dispose of her
it.
earned lawyers that hen;
ruling as early as Tuesd;
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Sophomore Martina Nedorostova
pponent in three sets, 6-1, 1-6, 6-1,
jving the Aggies a 2-1 lead.
Pepperdine tied things up again af
ter Lisa Dingwall’s three set loss to
The deal fell through,and^orthee Kurz, 2-6, 6-3, 6-0, at No. 5.
The Waves then took the lead for
issues a verdict, he woulct >ood when Monika Horvath beat A&M
.'arings to determine what freshman Olivia Karlikova in three sets,
, 4-6, 6-3 at No. 2 and Cintia Tor-
torella put away Aggie freshman Cassie
rlaas, 5-7,7-5,6-4, at No. 3, giving Pep-
verdine a 4-2 lead going into doubles.
After falling behind early, the No. 2
doubles team of Haas and Hscott fought
back to tie the Waves 7-7 before falling
9-7 to their counterparts.
The No. 1 doubles team of Ne
dorostova and Dingwall actually held
a 7-4 lead at one point before dropping
their match, 9-7, as well.
The bright spot for the Aggies was
that the No. 3 doubles team of Killen
and Karlikova defeated Horvath and
Tortorella 8-5, but it was not enough.
Afterwards, Pepperdine coach
Gualberto Escudero was surprised at
the difficulty his team had in putting the
Aggies away.
“I thought that they [A&M] had lost
enough 5-4 matches to fold against us
when the pressure got great,” Escudero
said. “But they never folded — except
at the very, very end. But no, 1 didn't
really expect it to be this close.”
There was some controversy after
the match over a variable that con
tributed to the Aggies’ play, the crowd.
Members of the men’s tennis team,
who had just upset the Pepperdine men
in a historic match, along with other
fans, were constantly cheering — and
sometimes jeering — the Pepperdine
players. Needless to say, Escudero was
none too pleased.
“It upset the girls quite a bit,” Escud
ero said. “It was just completely unfair.”
Kleinecke had no comment on the
matter.
NCAA tourney down to two teams
Sports in Brief
of 3
• Ags take 2
3 reS12N m Jayhawks
^ The Texas A&M baseball team
risis involving allegations continued its winning ways over the
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c ( hid Justice David Brodi A&M won Friday’s game, 6-3, be
amaging legislative bat a 3-for-5 performance from ju-
of the court wouldn’t be nior third baseman Chris Russ,
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ral lawmakers said his com
litude on the court.
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osejob is at risk, said
institutional. If you have a)'- 1 ]
hers me.”
Junior right
fielder Daylan
Holt rescued the
Aggies in Satur
day’s game as his
two-run home run
in the top of the
11th inning sent
the Aggies to an
8-6 win.
The Jayhawks
won 8-1 Sunday to avoid the sweep.
HOLT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —- Michigan State and
Florida both started the season in the Top 10 and nev
er dropped far below. Now they’re the only teams left.
Similarities over.
While the Spartans are most effective in a half-court
game, where they can crash the boards and be physi
cal, the Gators prefer to play at warp speed, using a 10-
man rotation and full-court pressure.
Michigan State (31-7) was the only No. 1 seed to
reach the Final Four and has lived up to the role in its
bid for the national championship.
The Spartans won every game in the NCAA tour
nament by at least 11 points, including Saturday night’s
53-41 victory over Wisconsin.
Florida, seeded fifth, got a first-round scare from
Butler before wearing down higher-seeded teams
Illinois, top-ranked Duke and Oklahoma State — with
its hectic pace. The Gators (29-7) used the same style
to end North Carolina’s surprising run with a 71 -59 win
Saturday night.
“We like to run, too,” Michigan State coach Tom
Izzo said. “Maybe some of that is our style also. ... I
think we have an understanding for that. I think these
guys want to run, too.”
The Spartans can get up and down the court, hav
ing scored more than 80 pointy nine times this season.
In the tournament, however, they have averaged
68.2 with the five starters averaging between 27 and
35 minutes a game and only two reserves averaging
more than 10.
Florida has averaged 79.4 points in the five tourna
ment games, just off its 84.1 mark for the season. The
10 Gators who create all that havoc on the floor aver
age between 13 and 31 minutes a game.
Michigan State starts three seniors, while Florida
has one on the team and plays seven sophomores and
freshmen in the rotation.
“Our youthfulness has won us a lot of basketball
games this year,” said Kenyan Weaks, Florida’s lone
member of the Class of 2000. “I don’t know if that’s
going to be a big problem in this game.”
The Spartans were going to use an age-old method
to prepare for Florida’s full-court press Monday night.
“We always go against six or seven guys in prac
tice and I’m sure we’ll have a bunch of players out
there today,” Michigan State forward Andre Hutson
said Sunday.
Florida coach Billy Donovan believes people are
getting the wrong impression about his team.
“People think it’s just running and jacking up 3-
point shots,” Donovan said. “We put a tremendous em
phasis on guarding the 3-point line. Basically, every
team in the country, when they go to practice, is going
to practice their half-court offense.
MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
First round Second round Regionals
Thurs., March 16 Sat., March 18
National
Championship
Arizona 71-47
Wisconsin 66-59
Wisconsin 61-48
LSU 72-67
Albuquerque,
Wisconsin 64-60
Purdue 75-66
WEST N.M
Purdue 62-61 March 23 & 25
Purdue 66-62
® Ok'ahona Oklahoma 74-50
(14) Winthrop !
.< 7 ! Louisu " lB ; Gonzaga77-
HOI Gcmrncja | Qonzaga 82-76
(2) St. John’s
.'l.' St. John's 61-56;
(15) N. Arizona j ""
Indianapolis
April 1
: Michigan State 65-38
(16) Valparaiso ] | Michigan State 73-61
(8) Utah
(9) St. Louis
(5) Kentucky
(12) St. Bonaventure !'
(4) Syracuse
Syracuse 79-65
(1) Michigan State
Utah 48-45
I Kentucky 85-80 2QT
| Michigan State 75-58
Syracuse 52-50
(13) Samford
(6) UCLA
(11) Ball State z>
(3) Maryland
(14) Iona
j (7) Auburn
i (10) Creighton ['
j (2) Iowa State
j (15) Central Conn. St. f
Auburn Hills,
MIDWEST Mich. I
UCLA 65-57 March 23 & 25 l Mlch '8a" Slate 75-64
Maryland 74-59
Auburn 72-69
? Iowa State 80-56
Iowa State 79-60
Iowa State 88-78
We try to be as disruptive as possible and take teams
out of what they practice on a regular basis.”
One of the keys to breaking Florida’s press will be
senior point guard Mateen Cleaves.
“You never have a chance to relax,” he said.
“The main thing for the game is you can’t change
your attitude.”
Florida’s subs have scored 175 points in the tour
nament, 132 more than Michigan State’s.
“1 do think we need to get more scoring out of our
bench and 1 think we have the potential,” Izzo said.
“As far as wearing us down, 1 think we’ll utilize our
bench enough so it doesn’t.”
Donovan won’t change a thing.
“We’re going to play our guys like we normally
have and I don’t know if we’ll be able to wear Michi
gan State down,” he said. “We have to just try and play
our style.”
Michigan State is trying to become the first Big Ten
team to win the national championship since Michigan
in 1989.
The Spartans’ only national championship came in
1979 when Magic Johnson led them to the title as a
sophomore.
The Spartans are in the Final Four for the second straight
year. They lost to Duke in the semifinals last season.
“That was cool but we went home empty-handed,”
Cleaves said. “It’s great to get here but you’ll always
be remembered as a national champion.”
Florida is looking for its first national championship
while keeping alive the Southeastern Conference’s
even-year streak. Arkansas won in 1994 and Kentucky
won in 1996 and 1998.
Donovan, one of six men to play and coach in a Fi
nal Four, will try to join even more select company.
Only Bob Knight and Dean Smith have played in a
Final Four and coached a national champion. At 34,
Donovan would be the third-youngest coach to win it
all behind Indiana’s Branch McCracken in 1940 and
Wisconsin’s Harold Foster in 1941.
“I haven’t focused on the fact we’re 40 minutes
from a national championship,” Donovan said. “Prob
ably more that we’re playing Michigan State and what
we have to do to beat them.”
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