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SPORTS
THE BATTALION
A&M opens road swing
with match against OSU
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By Dallas Shipp
THE BATTALION
The No. 21 Aggie women’s
tennis team begins its six-match
stretch on the road this week
end as it travels to Oklahoma
State on Thursday and the
University of Oklahoma on
Friday for a weekend series
north of the Red River.
The Aggies are coming off a
5-2 win against Tulsa in which
the entire team played hard to
get the win.
Sophomore Jessica Roland,
who struggled in a loss to
Tulsa’s Alicia Pillay, said the
match served as a wake-up call.
“1 would like to play a lot
better this week,” Roland said.
“I don’t think I played very
well last week, but I practiced
a lot harder this week in prac
tice. I am looking forward to
getting back out on the court to
redeem myself.”
Junior Ashley Hedberg will
try to extend her team-best win
ning streak to 10 matches on
Thursday after she was named
the Big 12 Player of the Week.
Hedberg and Roland are also
leading the team in doubles as
they moved into the No. 16 spot in
the Omni Hotel women’s tennis
rankings last week.
The duo serves as a strong
foundation for the doubles
matches that have been impor
tant to the Aggies’ success this
season. A&M owns a 14-0
record when winning the dou
bles point and is 12-1 when
Roland and Hedberg win on the
No. 1 court.
Thursday will be an opportu
nity the Aggies have been wait
ing for since last year after los
ing to OSU, which proved to be
race and are looking forwardto
the match.”
I he all-time series is tied
7-7 with A&M winning seven
of the last eight matches
between the two schools, utpeople up.'
Looking back on
the loss, it kept us
out of the champi
onship at the end
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of the season.
— Bobby Kleinecke
women’s tennis coach
on last season’s
match with OSU
the match that kept A&M from
winning the Big 12 regular sea
son championship.
“The match last year was the
difference in the season,” said
A&M head coach Bobby
Kleinecke. “It was early in the
season, and looking back on
the loss, it kept us out of the
championship at the end of the
season. The girls know the
importance of the conference
The Cowgirls will try to win
their second consecutive
match over the Aggies.
The Aggies have won six
straight matches and improved
their school-best start to 14-1
The Aggies are undefeated in
Big 12 play.
Friday’s match up against
the Oklahoma Sooners will be
the Aggies’ first trip to Oil’s
tennis facilities, which opened
this season.
“It will be exciting to see
their new facilities,” Kleinecke
said. “They are a much betiei
team this year, and should havea
new look.”
A&M leads the all -time
series with Oklahoma, 7-4,
has won the last two contesis
and six of the last seven.
The Aggies will try lo
improve to 16-2 and 5-0 in the
Big 12 with wins over boil;
Oklahoma Big 12 schools.
The Aggies’ next match will
be at the University of Houston
on Wednesday. The Aggies do
not play in College Station
until April 13 against Kansai
State.
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He has pushed aside every opponent except
one. Longhorn sophomore lan Crocker.
The rivalry between Rose and Crocker has been
brewing for some time. On Jan. 25 during the
teams’ annual dual meet. Rose out-touched
Crocker in the 50-yard freestyle by .05 seconds. It
was Crocker’s first loss of the season.
One month later at the Big 12 championships,
Crocker bit back as he took the 50-yard sprint by
.03 seconds. The loss was Rose’s first loss of the
season in the event.
“lan is one of the great racers in our country,”
said Texas head coach Eddie Reese. “Eighty per
cent of good athletes like to win; 20 percent of
them hate to lose. Ninety-five percent of the
Olympic team is made up of that 20 percent, and
[Crocker] is one of those.”
Two days later. Rose came back by pounding
Crocker in the 100-yard freestyle, winning by .30
seconds in front of a nationally-televised audience.
Both Rose and Crocker are Olympic hopefuls.
Crocker represented the United States in Sydney
by swimming the 100-yard butterfly and hopes to
go back again in two years. Rose hopes to repre
sent Canada in Athens, Greece, in 2004.
“For the last Olympics I was third in Canada,
so 1 just missed that one, and it got the fire burn
ing,” Rose said. “It's a long ways away, but it’s in
the back of my mind.”
At this week's NCAA Championships in
Athens, Georgia, the Longhorns will try to raise
another national championship banner. Even
the Aggies do not have a chance to catch Texas.
Rose plans on putting a large dent in
Longhorns’ armor.
“He’s just a name,” Rose said about Crocker.
“I’m not out there strictly to beat Ian Crocker.’
In Georgia, both men have a chance to win
either race. In the 50-yard, Rose is ranked No. 20
while Crocker is ranked No. 14. The leader board
is tight — the top 25 are separated by only 2W-,.
onds. In the 100-yard, Rose is ranked No. 15, and
Crocker is No. 24. The two are separated in the
rankings by only .3 seconds.
This rivalry is just starting to heat up. Both
swimmers have two more years ahead of them,
and they will meet each other several times m
those seasons. It looks like the beginning of a
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