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GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION
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he Aggies hit the road to face TCU at 2:30 p.m.
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By Kevin Espenlaub
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M men’s ten-
nu-Kashmir. Iris team will be in its final run
blamesthemih Tore resuming its Big 12
ays they were: ihedule with a Wednesday
> a perilousmillatchup in Fort Worth against
ivals. Be Texas Christian University
lomed Frogs at 2:30 p.m.
m I The match comes on the
11 s) |/'A|els of A&M’s doubleheader
Hd-lVv|eep against the University of
■xas- San Antonio and No. 35
Tiiversity of Tulsa on Friday
|at improved its overall season
:ordto 13-2.
"Tulsa has really had a great
|ason." said A&M head coach
m Cass. “They had beaten
ugh Rice and TCU teams ear-
:rthis season, and I think a lot
our players really played their
[st matches of the season (on
iday) which is a positive for
lit team.”
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after scoring an upset of the
No. 26 Washington Huskies
before falling in the finals to
No. 1 1 Pepperdine University
in the Pepperdine Shootout last
weekend.
“We were really pleased with
the win against Washington,”
said TCU head coach Joey Rive.
“Much like A&M, we're playing
with a lot of new faces on the
roster this season and we
dropped some matches earlier
this season that I think we could
have won, so Fin pleased we
seem to be heading in the right
direction.”
The Horned Frogs roster is
stacked with five freshmen,
including Fabrizio Sestini, who
Rive sees as an important factor
coming into Wednesday’s
match up.
“Everyone there at A&M
knows to watch out for (junior)
See Break on page 2B
Slataper, Rippee
lead A&M to victory
over N’western St.
By Kevin Espenlaub
THE BATTALION
Back-to-back complete game shutouts
by sophomore Jessica Slataper and junior
Lindsey Rippee led the Texas A&M softball
team to a doubleheader sweep of the
Northwestern State Demons on Tuesday at
the Aggie Softball Complex.
Slataper held the Demons (24-19) to one
hit and recorded 1 1 strikeouts in the
Aggies' 4-0 victory in the first game of the
evening. The game marked the eighth com
plete game of the season for Slataper and
the fifth time this season that she has
recorded a double-digit strikeout total.
Not to be outdone, Rippee pitched a no
hitter into the fourth inning of the second
matchup before Demons third baseman
Lindsay Leftwich hit a shot up the middle
for a single, for the first of only two hits
managed in the game by Northwestern State.
“Both the girls stayed ahead in the count
when they were out on the mound tonight,”
said A&M head coach Jo Evans. “The kind
of performance they had helps this team to
build some confidence as we get ready for
the rest of the Big 12 (schedule) starting
this weekend.”
The Aggie offense left no time for
Rippee to be disappointed, as they put the
game’s first run on the board in the bottom
of the fourth before exploding in the fifth
for four runs to clinch the victory for the
Aggies, 5-0.
Senior Kelly Ferguson, who extended
her current hitting streak to 15 games with
four combined hits in Tuesday’s action,
capped off the rally with a two-run single
that scored freshman Adrian Gregory and
junior Selena Collins.
“My approach to the plate is to tell
myself that I am better than that pitcher is,”
Ferguson said. “I think that I can hit any
RANDAL FORD • THE BATTALION
A&M junior third baseman Jennifer Davis fields a fly ball during the Aggies 4-0 victory over
Northwestern State in the first game of a doubleheader on Tuesday at the Aggie Softball Complex.
pitch she sends at me, and that is usually the
key to good hitting. I think once you get
that first hit it just starts rolling from there.”
The games were the final non-confer
ence contests of the season for the Aggies,
and they came on the heels of two disap
pointing losses to the No. 9 Oklahoma
Sooners last weekend.
“To lose those two games to Oklahoma
was very frustrating for us,” Evans said.
“We think we are good enough to beat
[OUJ, especially when we out hit them
like we did, so I was pleased that tonight
we came out and got some good hits and
some big RBIs. We needed to start feeling
good about ourselves at the plate, and
with the good pitching we had as well, it
really gave us some confidence for the
rest of the season.”
The No. 22 Aggies (26-8) will resume
their Big 12 schedule this weekend with a
visit to Ames, Iowa for a matchup against
the Iowa State Cyclones.
“We have proven that we can play with
some of the best teams in the country,”
Slataper said. “If we just play relaxed and
confidently, like we did tonight, we can
have a strong Big 12 finish.”
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