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THE BATTALION
BIG 12 CONFERENCE
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Ready to serve up a winner this fall
Aggie men’s tennis on verge of stellar season
By Jeremy Brown
The Battalion
With all’ six singles players re
turning from the 1999-2000 Texas
A&M men’s tennis team that fin
ished No. 8 in the nation and the ad
dition of the nation’s top junior play
er, the men’s tennis team is A&M’s
best shot at a national title this year.
Over the last several years, the
team has developed enough national
respect to allow A&M to host the
2002 NCAA Tennis Championships.
While the fall portion of the sched
ule does not count toward standings,
it does provide opportunities for de
velopment of a championship team.
“In September and October, we
have a chance to build our foundation
FILE PHOTO/The Battalion
Shuon Madden, A&M's only four-time All-American, will compete as an
amateur in professional tournaments this fall to prepare for the spring.
Women looking to realize potential in 2000
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for the rest of the year,’’ said assis
tant coach Scott Treibly.
According to Treibly, the players
will see some top competition this
fall, at tournaments such as the 1TA
All-American Tournament, held last
weekend in Atlanta, Ga.
Cody Hubbell competed in the
main draw of that tournament but lost
in the first round to Louisiana State’s
Ajay Ramaswami.
If Treibly and head coach Tim Cass
are looking to set a good foundation,
they could not have asked for a better
group of players to put into the mix.
The star of the team is Shuon
Madden, who enters the season
ranked No. 2 in singles and No. 18 in
doubles. He has been named All-
American twice in singles and twice
in doubles, making him the only four-
time All-American in school history.
In 2000, Madden was named Big
12 Player of the Year after finishing
with a singles record of 36-9.
Madden did not participate in the
ITA All-American, but will play in
several professional tournaments as
an amateur this fall.
“It is a chance for him to save up
and have a master blaster spring
time,” Treibly said.
Sharing the No. 18 rank with Mad
den in doubles is Tres Davis. Davis is
the nation’s top junior doubles player
and the No. 2 junior singles player.
See Men’s Tennis on Page 8.
By Jeremy Brown
The Battalion
There is an atmosphere of excitement surrounding the 2000-
2001 Texas A&M women's tennis team.
Eight of the 12 team members are newcomers, bringing with
them a great deal of talent and expectations for success.
With leadership from those four returning players, the
team is looking to do great things this year, including mak
ing a run at the Big 12 title.
“I’m really optimistic about our chances — singles, dou
bles and teamwise,” said coach Bobby Kleinecke.
Kleinecke’s optimism has most likely been fueled by the
team's accomplishments earlier this fall.
In the Illinois Midwest Blast, both teams that made the fi
nals in doubles were from A&M. A third A&M doubles team
advanced to the consolation match.
“We went out to Illinois trying to strengthen our doubles,
and I feel that we did that,” Kleinecke said.
Individually, Ashley Hedberg took third place and Eva
Marcial won the consolation match.
Thursday, the women tried to continue this run of success
when they traveled to the ITA All-American tournament.
Jessica Roland, Ashley Hedberg, Leah Killen and Majorie
Terburgh competed individually in the prequalifying round, and
Roberta Spencer competed as part of a doubles team with Killen.
However, all were eliminated in the first round.
“We did not have a good day,” Kleinecke said.
The qualifying round of the tournament will begin Tuesday.
In the qualifying round is Martina Nedorostova, who will
be competing as an individual and in a doubles team with Ter
burgh. Also in the qualifying round are Roland and Hedberg.
Kleinecke said he was disappointed with his team's per
formance but pointed out one positive.
“It was very hard to get in,” Kleinecke said.“So I feel good
that we got this many in.”
See Women on Page 8.
FILE PHOTO/The Battalion
Texas A&M's Martina Nedorostova, ranked No. 77 in the nation
in singles and No. 33 in doubles, is the Aggies' top 2000 returner.
Big 12 South no longer pushover to North’s big boys
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T he Big 12 South may have
found its answer to the North’s
powerhouse teams Nebraska
and Kansas State.
Saturday, in a showdown of un-
beatens between the North and
South, then-No. 8 Oklahoma over
came then-No. 2 Kansas State,
showing the southern division of the
conference may finally have a na
tional contender.
Last week, the Big 12 boasted
three undefeated teams. This week
there are only two, and the national
total dropped down to six schools
with unblemished seasons.
Once again, this time on Oct. 28,
the Big 12 conference will get brag
ging rights to the clash of a second
group of undefeated titans.
It appears that, before the month
is over, the nation will have seen the
prelude to the Big 12 Championship
game. Nebraska or Kansas State has
the North sealed up with only one
true threat: 5-1 Iowa State, whose
only loss is to the Cornhuskers.
Meanwhile, in the South, it
looks like Oklahoma finally has
enough consistency to make it to
the championship game.
The biggest excitement of the
race to win the Big 12 is not the Big
12 trophy, but what will most likely
be the right to contend for the na
tional championship trophy.
Home-field advantage, no more
Last weekend, for the first time
in the history of the Big 12, every
team on the road captured a win.
The Sooners ended Kansas
State’s 25-game win streak in Man
hattan; Iowa State rallied against
Oklahoma State to get the win with
just 18 seconds remaining.
BCS rankings approach
If any conference team hopes to
even contend for the national title in
the Orange Bowl this January, it will
have to come out in the top two spots
in the decisive Bowl Championship
Series rankings.The first rankings of
the season will be announced Monday.
Last season, the Big 12 had the sec
ond-most teams in the BCS Final 15.
Television schedule
The final schedule for this week’s
Big 12 games was announced Mon
day. The games that changed times:
Colorado at Kansas: 11: 30 (Fox)
Texas A&M at ISU: 2:30 (ABC)
Texas Tech at K-State: 6:00 (Fox)
Fox Sports also announced the
A&M vs. Kansas State game will
be the Big 12 Game of the Week.
Jason Lincoln is a junior
journalism major.
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