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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 |
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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
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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.
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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. That is exactly what
they did tonight.”
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