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THE BATTALION Page 15 Women’s tennis downs SMU SALLIE TURNER/The Battalion I junior Dumitru Caradima hits a forehand during the Aggies’ match against University Apr. 4 at the Varsity Tennis Center. lAMU-CC, Tulsa travel to face ninth-ranked Ags BY AL LAZARUS The Battalion ■he ninth-ranked Texas A&M men’s tennis cam has defeated live of the top 20 teams in the jtektWingspanBank.com computer rankings, ■kfore the Aggies go for a sixth top-20 victo- paturday in Austin against No. 13 Texas, they vill host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Tulsa to- lay at the Varsity Tennis Center. A&M (13-5,4-1) vill face the Islanders at noon followed by the Wth-ranked Golden Hurricane at 6 p.m. ■While a victory in Austin Saturday would add in exclamation point to an already impressive reg- ilar season, A&M men’s tennis coach Tim Cass said he Aggies will not look past Thursday’s matches. p^Our approach all season has been to try to rtilize every match as a chance for improve- nent,” Cass said. "1 don’t expect our guys to be looking past anyone on Thursday because we have some things to improve on.” That the Aggies have room for improvement may be a scary notion to their opponents. A&M al ready has knocked ofTNo. 3 Florida, 5-2, and pre- viously-undefeated No. 4 Pepperdine, 4-3. In this week’s individual rankings, A&M junior Shuon Madden remains No. 2 in the nation. Mad den, who is riding a I O-match winning streak, cut the margin between himself and top-ranked Daniel Andersson of Virginia Commonwealth to 3.01 points — down from the previous spread of 6.31. A&M junior Cody Hubbell joins Madden in the rankings at No. 92. Hubbell has now appeared in three straight ranking periods and has won 13 of his last 15 matches. In the doubles rankings, Madden and junior Dumitru Caradima jumped 11 spots to No. 14. Ranked No. 1 all of last spring, the duo has de feated two of the nation’s top five doubles teams in the past three weeks. BY BLAINE DIONNE The Battalion In what had looked all day like it would be a rainout, the Texas A&M women’s tennis team usurped Mother Nature and washed Southern Methodist Uni versity off the courts themselves Wednesday night, 6-1. The Aggies won five singles matches and SMU ended up forfeit ing the doubles matches because of injuries. Despite playing without fresh man Olivia Karlikova due to a sud den case of bronchitis, the Aggies were able to do away with the in jury-stricken Mustangs with a fair amount of ease. A&M women’s tennis coach Bobby Kleinecke said that he was proud of his team’s performance. “I thought that this was an excel lent team win,” Kleinecke said. “I was a little nervous before the match started because we’ve got Olivia out with the sickness. We talked about coming out and stepping it up to make up for Olivia not being here, and 1 think they did that.” The Aggies opened up their scoring quickly when Eva Marcial disposed of SMU’s Sara Love Swaney 6-0, 6-1. Lisa Dingwall pushed the score to 2-0 with her 6-4, 2-0 de fault victory as the Mustangs’ Katie Pruett injured her back, forcing her to forfeit. SMU posted their only win of the night next at No. 5 singles as Kathryn Scott was beaten by SMU’s Lindsey Bruce 6-1,6-1. A&M never looked back after that, however, as Cassie Haas, Leah Killen and Martina Nedorostova all came out with victories at No. 3, 2 and 1 singles, respectively. The only one who had any trou ble was Nedorostova as she was pushed to a three-set tiebreaker that she eventually was able to wrap up, 6-2, 5-7, 7-6(12-10). SALLIE TURNER/The Battalion (Above): A&M junior Eva Marcial hits a forehand during her match against SMU’s Sara Love Swaney Wednesday. (Below): A&M freshman Cassie Haas prepares to serve. On a night full of bright spots for the Aggies, perhaps the brightest was Killen’s win at No. 2, where she tilled in quite nicely for the injured Karlikova, winning 7-6, 6-2. “I’m happy I won the tie break er,” Killen said. “Because I think it would have been a lot more difficult if she had the momentum in the sec ond set.” After the match, a*visibly-disap- pointed SMU women’s tennis coach Claire Bailey said that the Pruett injury was just another in a line of Mustang injuries lately. “Our No. 4 girl [Pruett] injured her back,” Bailey said. “And we lost a player last week when she tore her ACL, so we’re down to five players. Our backs are feeally against the wall.” The Aggies, who had been hav ing an up and down season, all of a sudden could not be further from the proverbial “wall” as their last three matches, all against'Big 12 foes, are at home. BEEN there PlAVEO that? Finally, a way to swap all those CDs ill rm I • you DON’T want for CDs you DO want. 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