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By Joel Hudgins
THE BATTALION
Even to hard-core Aggie ten
nis fans, the Texas A&M men’s
tennis team that heads to
Houston to play in the Met/Rice
Indoors Tournament on Friday
may not seem terribly familiar.
Just one tournament into the
season, . the Aggies have
already proven that the more
things change, the more they
stay the same.
The No. 13 Aggies travel to
Rice this weekend, hoping to
continue the success they began
last weekend in the Miami
Hurricane Invitational.
Freshmen Lester Cook, Ante
Matijevic, Derrick Bauer and
Hunter Emmott all won at least
one match, with Cook and Bauer
each winning two. Some of the
freshmen became enrolled with
in the last week, making their
play more impressive.
“We were both ineligible on
Friday, then at 4:30 p.m., we
became eligible,” said Cook.
“We played Miami on Saturday,
and Clemson on Sunday. It was
a little rushed, but it was a great
experience.”
“Our kids have come in with
an awful lot of experience
already,” said A&M head
coach Tim Cass. “I think that
they came because the oppor
tunity was there for them to
contribute immediately. I think
last weekend was a good first
step for them, because these
kids hadn’t even started yet.”
The field at the Met/Rice
Indoors Tournament features five
of the nation's top 25 teams,
including No. 9 SMU and No. 21
Texas. Like last weekend’s tour
nament in Miami, the Rice tour
nament is an individual tourna
ment, and the results will not be
reflected in the team record.
Cass said that does not take
away from the importance of the
tournament to his young team.
“This is the last of our indi
vidual tournaments for the year,
and it gives our guys a chance
to build some team chemistry,”
Cass said. “It’s a very strong
held, probably the best tourna
ment in the country for this
time of year. It will be a test for
both our older guys and our
younger guys.”
The Aggies also have some
experience to go along with
their youth. Seniors Jarin
Skube and Keith From and jun
ior Ryan Newport are returning
to the team, after pla\ir;
every match a year ago. C|
said the trio will provide-
ership and experience.
“We have Jarin, Keith, i
Ryan, who have played ine
match since they’ve been at!.
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core group that’s got some;
rience, and that should help
The tournament at Rice
sists of two singles flight
two doubles tVhis. It
Friday and ends Sunday.
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Battle of the Brazos
GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION
Texas A&M sophomore center Nolan
Butterfras and junior guard Bernard
King go for a rebound against Texas
Tech. The Aggies (6-11, 0-3 Big 12) will
play the Baylor Bears (12-5, 2-2')
Saturday at Reed Arena at 5 p.m.
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By Kevin Espenlaub
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M women’s basketball team will
be in Boulder, Colo., to face its third-straight
nationally-ranked opponent Saturday against the
No. 22 University of Colorado Buffaloes (12-6, 2-
3 Big 12) at 1 p.m.
The game comes after two straight home
appearances in which the Aggies (10-6, 2-2) were
victorious over the then-ranked No. 5 Iowa State
Cyclones, 88-71, last Saturday and were narrowly
defeated by the No. 9 Kansas State Wildcats on
Wednesday, 66-61.
“We're not going to change anything going into
the Colorado game.” said A&M head coach Peggie
Gillom. “They’re a big team while we’re really pret
ty small. It takes a lot of energy playing against all
these bigger teams, but we’re gonna have to pressure
the ball and do the other things that we’re good at
doing. We’re also going to have to get our shots to
start falling a little more.”
In Wednesday’s action, the top scorer for the
Aggies was junior forward Meg Banahan who. after
missing practice because of soreness in her knee,
scored 26 points including the first nine of the game
for the Aggies. Banahan is the Aggies’ leading scor
er this season with 12.1 points per game.
Colorado’s last competition was also on
Wednesday when it defeated an University of
Kansas, 70-35 in Lawrence, Kan., behind the off-the-
bench performance by sophomore guard Kate Fagan
who scored 16 points to lead the team. The Buffaloes
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Nelson’s back
surgery succesful
IRVING, Texas (AP) - Byron
Nelson had successful back sur
gery Thursday and will remain
hospitalized until next week to
recuperate, a spokesman for his
golf tournament said.
The surgery had been previous
ly scheduled for Nelson, who
turns 90 on Feb. 4.
Mike Prusinski, spokesman for
the Byron Nelson Classic, said
Nelson was resting comfortably.
No other details were released.
Nelson, who retired from tour
nament golf in 1947, won the
Masters and PGA Championship
two times, and also the
Open. He is best known forv
ning 11 straight tournament;:
1945, considered one of ther]
untouchable records in sports
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May 9-12, is one of the r:
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