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THE BATTALION
Monday, April 1, 2002
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Aggies take two
from Centenary
The Texas A&M baseball
team scored 25 runs and col
lected 34 hits as it swept a
doubleheader from Centenary,
10-4 and 15-3, at Shehee
Stadium in Shreveport, Friday
afternoon.
In the first game of the
afternoon, A&M (23-10) used
seven doubles and three
home runs to slug its way
past the Gents (9-24), 10-4.
David Evans had three
doubles while Rusty Meyer
and Neal Stephenson each
had a home run, a double
and a single. Meyer's home
run was his first of the year
and Stephenson's was his
seventh.
Ty Garner also collected
three hits and Tim Petru
drove in four runs and hit his
fifth home run of the season.
Matt Alexander, Meyer,
Travis Wong and Ryan
Wardinsky each had three hits
in the second game to pace
the A&M offensive attack. All
three of Alexander's hits were
doubles.
David Evans hit his third
home run of the season in
Waves drown out Aggie rally, 4-3
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Sooners, 5-2, Friday. The No. 21
Aggies rebounded from a dis
appointing 4-3 loss to
Oklahoma State on Thursday.
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after taking two of the three
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STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION
Texas A&M freshman Lester Cook returns a backhand against Pepperdine on Saturday
night at the Varsity Tennis Center. The Aggies fell, 4-3, to the Pepperdine Waves.
By Kevin Espenlaub
THE BATTALION
Trailing 3-1 to the Pepperdine Waves
on Saturday at the A&M Varsity Tennis
Center, the Texas A&M men’s tennis
team needed to sweep the final three
matches to avoid having their nine-game
winning streak snapped. Unfortunately
for the Aggies, the nation’s No. 3 player,
Pepperdine senior A1 Garland, had other
plans in mind.
After falling to A&M junior Ryan
Newport in a second set tiebreaker.
Garland returned to form and claimed
the third and final set to take a 6-3, 6-7
(6), 6-3 victory that gave No. 1 1
Pepperdine the fourth and deciding point
in the contest.
The overall match was Pepperdine’s
(16-4) second victory over a top-10 team
in three days, with the other coming in
Austin on Thursday when they handed
No. 8 Texas its first loss of the season.
For the No. 10 Aggies (14-3), it was only
their seventh loss at home since the
opening of the Varsity Tennis Center in
1998. They have compiled a record of
60-7 over that period.
“The atmosphere and intensity here
at A&M is amazing,” said Pepperdine
head coach Peter Smith. “It is much
harder to win here than anywhere else in
the country.
“Tonight I think Garland’s experience
was a big factor in this match for us,
because he was not extremely confident
going in to that third set, so he had to
really step up so he would not let his
team down. He did that for us and we
won a good match.”
Perhaps one of the most impressive
matches of the night for the Aggies was
the court No. 3 doubles match, in which
the freshmen duo of Ante Matijevic and
Derrick Bauer crushed their opponents,
8-1, before A&M dropped the next two
doubles matches to lose the doubles
point for only the third time this season.
“That was probably the best court 3
doubles match of the year for us,” said
A&M head coach Tim Cass. “I think at
times we did some things well in the
other doubles matches, but we were play
ing a good team, and we made a couple
of mistakes and that cost us that point.”
Matijevic quickly closed the 2-0 gap
from the doubles point and senior
Keith From’s loss on court No. 3 by
defeating Pepperdine senior Steve
Racioppi, 6-1, 6-2, in singles on court
See Waves on page 7
Indiana, Maryland ready for final showdown
ATLANTA (AP) — Pick a point, any point: History,
style, coach, expectations. Indiana and Maryland are
not close on any of them.
They are, however, the only college basketball teams
still playing, and one will leave the Georgia Dome on
Monday night as national champion.
Indiana is trying to win its sixth national title.
Maryland is in the championship game, for the first time.
Indiana is a slower team that thrives in the halfcourt
and averages 71 points. Maryland loves the transition
game, lives off big runs and is among the nation’s top
scoring teams at 85 points a game.
Indiana’s Mike Davis is in just his second season as
a head coach. He has not only survived being Bob
Knight’s successor but has been successful.
Maryland’s Gary Williams is in his 24th season as a
head coach and his only other Final Four appearance
came last season.
Indiana was the No. 5 seed in the South Regional and
was not expected to get to the round of 16 in the NCAA
tournament, let alone knock off top-seeded Duke and
play for a third weekend. Maryland, the No. 1 seed in
the East, was supposed to return to the Final Four.
Anything else would have been considered a failure.
Otherwise, these teams are almost identical.
“I look at who we played to get here and their tradi
tion,” Williams said, referring to Kentucky, Connecticut
and Kansas, all former national champions who fell on
the Terrapins’ run. “We’re trying to establish ourselves.
Our program probably hasn’t been as smooth as a lot of
those other programs. As we go along here, I think
we’re establishing our own tradition.”
The banners hanging in Assembly Hall in
Bloomington are testaments to Indiana’s rich history.
The five national championships came in 1940, 1953,
1976, 1981 and 1987.
The last three were under Knight, fired by Indiana
in September 2000. Davis, an assistant to Knight,
stepped into what many people considered an impos
sible situation.
Instead, he survived the turmoil and put his own
stamp on the program, including news conferences dur
ing the tournament filled with laughs and feel-good sto
ries. Knight’s were noted for rants, tongue-lashings and
once, even a bullwhip.
“As 1 said from Day One, I’m just a basketball
coach,” Davis said. “Over the last couple of days I
understand how some coaches can forget who they are
when people start patting you on the back. I’ve had
three guys kiss me, tell me they love me. If you don’t
know who you are, it’s easy to get caught up in it.”
The Hoosiers (25-11) beat Oklahoma 73-64
Saturday night, coming up with a great offensive effort
against a stellar defensive team. They were 8-for-13
from 3-point range, a good effort but nowhere near the
See Tournament on page 7
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