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.”
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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.
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