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THE BATTALION
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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,
â– 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.
â– 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.
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