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S( % Mover § Ifflday. November 2, 2000 Sports Page IB THE BATTALION -y, Cotn^ s ifnj wrote in editions d ze stepdai zand am he memorj »r is "bi 2 a new kthorne i, reca &M women to close out fall slate RLE PHOTO/Thi: Battalion m he Texas A&M women's tennis team, led by Vrtina Nedorostova (above), will host the M Southwest Regional Tournament this veekend to close out their fall schedule. m By Jeremy Brown The Battalion The Texas A&M women’s tennis team will finish the fall portion of its season this week end by hosting the ITA South west Regional Tournament. The tournament is held for the top players from all NCAA Divi sion I schools in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. Twenty-seven schools will be represented. A&M head coach Bobby Kleinecke said the tournament is the most important one that A&M will play in this fall. It will deter mine which singles and doubles players will be invited to the Na tional Invitational Indoor tourna ment, which will be held Feb. 1 - 4 in Dallas. The regional winners will receive automatic bids. “Based on the ITA All-Amer ican, I think we will have one of the strongest regions in the na tion, and I think that will help everyone,” Kleinecke said. The A&M doubles teams are seeded high in the tournament “Based on the ITA All-Ameri can, I think we will have one of the strongest re gions in the na tion, and I think that will help everyone” — Bobby Kleinecke A6^M head tennis coach with Ashley Hedberg and Jessi ca Roland at No. 2 and Martina Nedorostova and Majorie.Ter- burgh at No. 3. The No. 1 dou bles team is Vladka Uhlirova and Janet Walker of Texas. Hedberg and Roland had a surprising showing at the ITA All-American, where they made it to the semifinals. No other A&M women have advanced that far in the All-American tournament. “That was a very, very big feat,” Kleinecke said. In the semifinals, Hedberg and Roland lost to the No. 1 doubles team in the nation, Pao- la Palencia and Ipek Senoglu of Pepperdine. The A&M women are not seed ed as high in the singles portion off the tournament because of a poor | See Tennis on Page 2B. ini —Taki awyer$,[t rgest la« up vem :d report ut 250 i Guinpii put up ) each to: it fund, mitinen Eliot lump, he Wall y’seclioii ne theii isn't ini ist loneytol Jingaf t access u Website ic'M- latural sntsof one has i. David the firm's 1 o invest ;s invesi in the dilemmas mateiraf IcComI ; ulbrigh| ting up a en S3 mi ding to( IVaming: Possibility of eruption at any time A&M’s A.D. Achilefu serves as a sparkplug at two positions on the court By Bree Holz The Battalion Texas A&M volleyball coaches Laurie and John Cor- belli had to do a lot of per suading to convince A.D. Achilefu to become an Aggie three years ago. “I really did not want to come here at all,” Achilefu said. “I was stuck on going to UT because I thought this place was crazy.” However, Achilefu loved A&M as soon as she visited the campus and did not make any other recruiting visits. “I came on a visijt and fell in love with it,” she said. “I thought the campus was real ly friendly, and, along with the strength of the coaches, it made a good combo.” Achilefu, a sophomore from Houston, is a 5-foot-8 middle blocker. The average height for a middle blocker at the Divi sion- 1 level is 5-foot-11. “When we saw how athlet ic and explosive she was, we were amazed,” Corbelli said. “We didn’t know exactly where we would need her. We just knew we needed her on our team.” Achilefu sees competing against taller players as a challenge. “No one expects me to come out and play that posi tion,” she said. “They never know what I can do, so I’m re ally never intimidated by taller players.” Achilefu has been compet ing at the middle position and the outside hitter position. Because of her power and versatility, she has become one of the team’s most trusted players off the bench. “We really consider her our seventh starter,” said middle blocker Heather Marshall. “She just has that fire in her See Achilefu on Page 2B. FILE PHOTO/The Battalion Heather Ragsdale, shown here against Baylor, had a goal and an assist in the Aggies' win over Colorado in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament. Aggies defeat Buffs to begin Big 12 Tourney Staff and Wire Heather Ragsdale and Kristen Strutz each had a goal and an assist to lead No. 9 Texas A&M past Col orado, 3-1, in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 soccer tournament at the Blos som Athletic Complex Wednesday. The Aggies started the scoring early as Juli Coin tallied for the fifth time this season in the fifth minute. Strutz played a ball from the midline to Heather Ragsdale on the left flank that Ragsdale headed past the Col orado defense to Coin. Coin hit a shot with her left foot that slid past the diving Colorado keeper, Whitney Peterson, and found the net just in side the left post. Strutz and Ragsdale earned their eighth and ninth assists, respectively. With 19:27 left in the first half, Melissa Cartmell beat Aggie goal keeper Esther Thompson from the top of the 18-yard box to make the score 1 -1 at the break. The match was played evenly in the first half as the teams each had eight shots and each goalkeeper col lected three saves. “I thought we played really sharp in the first ten minutes of the game,” said A&M coach G. Guerrieri. “Col : orado outplayed us the last 20 min utes of the half and scored a goal to tie the game.” In the second half, however, the Ag- _ gies controlled the pace of the match • and outshot the Buffaloes, 15-3. The Aggies regained the lead for good in the 50th minute as Ragsdale scored her 14th goal of the season with a blast from the top of the 18-yard box. Jodie Mitchell played the ball into Ragsdale from the midline and was^ credited with the assist, her third. , Strutz solidified the win with her ninth goal in the last nine games and her 10th of the season. Strutz defeat ed a couple of Colorado defenders and scored from 15 yards out. “I think that Colorado deserves* some credit because they came out and played hard,” Guerrieri said. s “We had to step up and in the second* half and play our best to win. Rags dale and Strutz give us big play po tential even when we are not playing particularly well. 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