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SPORTS THE BATTALION Ags open season with wins Women's tennis team posts victories over SFA, UTSA CODY WAGES/Tiik Hai i m ion A&M junior Majorie Terbough hits a return against SFA's Meredith Watson on Saturday morning at the Varsity Tennis Center. By Kevin Espenlaub The Battalion The Texas A&M women's tennis team started the season on a positive note Saturday by shutting out Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) and the University of Texas- San Antonio (UTSA) at the Varsity Tennis Center. The Aggies (2-0) defeated SFA (0-1) in the early match, 7-0. A&M swept all three doubles matches to win the doubles point and take a 1-0 lead in the match. A&M freshman Ashley Backus capped the sweep of the Ladyjacks with her super-tiebreaker singles vic tory over SFA freshman Jessica Beauchene 2-6, 6-1, (11 -9). Backus also decisively won her singles matchup against UTSA fresh man Emily Foster, 6-0, 6-0. “I think it’s always tough playing your first dual matches ever,” said A&M coach Callie Creighton, who filled in for head coach Bobby Klei- necke, who attended the Rolex Na tional on Saturday. “Ashley seemed a little nervous during that first match, but she came out for the sec ond and seemed much more relaxed and comfortable.” The Aggies continued to roll in the afternoon match against UTSA, sweeping the Roadrunners, 7-0. Courts one and two hosted some heated action during the UTSA match, as A&M sophomore Olivia Karlikova faced stiff competition in her first set against Svenja Fuhrig. Karlikova withstood that challenge a It's always good to win two matches as far as your confidence goes” — Eva Marcial A&M tennis team member and then breezed in the second set to down Fuhrig, 6-4, 6-0. On court two, A&M junior Mar tina Nedorostova held off UTSA’s Eveline Folkerts in three sets, 6-0, 5-7, (10-6). “It’s a little intimidating to come and play in such a nice facility,” said UTSA coach Brenda Niemeyer. “Every one of [A&M's] players is nice and solid, including the doubles teams. But it did show our girls what the higher level of play is and what it takes to get there.” Another notable contributor for the Aggies was junior Majorie Ter- burgh. Terburgh played in and won four matches, two doubles and two singles, including her 6-1, 6-0 vic tory over UTSA’s Eva Soderkvist. “Majorie came out so fired up and ready to go that I think it made a world of difference to our team,” said senior team captain Eva Marcial. “During practice, she gets on herself so bad, but she came out today and had fun, which is great to see.” Also on Saturday, the ninth- ranked Aggie doubles team of Jessi ca Roland and Ashley Hedberg ad vanced to the consolation semifinals of the Rolex Indoor Championships in Dallas. Roland and Hedberg defeated Kavitha Krishnamurthy and Shikha Ubroi of Princeton, 6-4, 6-4, in the quarterfinals. The duo fell in the semifinals to No. 13 Lauren Barnikow and Lauren Kalvaria of Stanford, 7-6 (3), 7-5. The Aggies' next match will be Saturday against 23rd-ranked Louisiana State University (LSU). It will be a double dual match, the men’s team will also face LSU at the Varsity Tennis Center. “It’s always good to win two matches as far as your confidence goes,” Marcial said. "But playing against LSU is meeting a com pletely different caliber team than we’ve faced today. We're going to have to regroup and start preparing right away.” Monday, R'bnii- SWIM Continued from}. 200 freestyle, Howard won; butterfly. . Senior David Morrow ufljmTPI 50 freestyle and the 100 M and swam the last leg oU; winning 400 freestyle relav row outs warn SMU's Mich cobsson in the last 50,yardsn A&M the win in the relay. "Everybody stepped upa great swims,” Morrow said. it was a phenomenal meet fail, teams.” Mansour also u as ontheviJ 400 freestyle relay, finished in the 2(X) freestyle and swamS * reer-best time in the500frees®*’ Ba event in which he doesnotiil The participate. ffil has Nash said Mansour'sperfi tored b helped inspire the rest of tl t J* 111 - L even though the senior didjjpy any individual events. j Ct Saniois Michael Collicj^ Michael Greene were on the |c , 400 medley relay. Colligaim^Kyyi on the 4(X) freestyle relay. n j t j a i v The TAPPS swimmer yut ofc were in town for the TAPf tna swimming and diving comp®The at the Student Recreation ‘the He Natatorium Saturday, were* the large crowd that wairrH A&M honored its seniors^ peted in its last dual meet: season. Softball begins season with doubleheader spl a By Jeremy Brown baseman Kelly Ferguson who transferred from strike out the side. ||kV m The Battalion PATRIC SCHNEIDER/Tm: Battalion A&M first baseman Kelly Ferguson slides into third base on Saturday against the University of Texas-San Antonio at the Aggie Softball Complex. The difference between the Texas A&M soft- ball team’s first two games of the season was the experience of the pitcher, as A&M split a doubleheader with the University of Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners at the Aggie Softball Complex Saturday. Behind the experience of senior pitcher Amy Vining, the Aggies cruised to an 8-0 win against UTSA in game one. In the first game, Vining gave up only three hits, all in the third inning. She finished the game by sitting down 10 straight UTSA batters and tal lied nine strikeouts. A&M got on the board in the third inning when senior left Fielder Holly Hayden drove in junior sec ond baseman Lisa Klam with a double to left field. The Aggies’ offense got rolling with six runs in the fourth inning. The onslaught was started by junior first UTSA last season. After senior rightfielder Tiffany Esters grounded out to start the inning, Ferguson hit the Aggies’ first home run of the season. The rest of the inning was downhill for UTSA, as A&M got two more hits and had two batters walk and two batters advance to first after being hit. Ferguson finished the game with two hits, a dou ble and a home run, and was walked once. “I was very excited,” Ferguson said- “I was very ready to play them. I knew I wanted to come out and play a very good game against them." Game two started out a lot tougher for the Ag gies. Freshman pitcher Jessica Slataper gave up singles to UTSA’s first two batters before getting the first strikeout of her career. Michelle McElyea followed up the strikeout by hitting a three-run home run to put the Road runners up 3-0. Slataper walked the next batter, but recovered to Slataper settled down and did not aim other hit in the the next three innings. Ferguson got A&M going in the sixibT I <- by driving in freshman Nhcruh Atkim Ll(A ble to right. After being put in to pinchninll guson. Hayden advanced tothirdonauii;?^ KoB She scored on a single by senior second^ a - Rachel Lewis. || In he Lew is then advanced to second on asii NiSC sophomore shortstop Crystal Martin. (BAC) The inning ended when Lewis triedttshowca third on a throw into the dirt that was Jpetry s caught by the catcher. ; Hare She originally was safe hut wascalleSwahili when her momentum carried her past third jn Afric "Obviously. 1 would like to seethe ball:.lents o the catcher before you make that deem.''/ rheaten said. 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