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Special charge numbers such as International Dialing will use bonus minutes and additional surcharges may apply. Bonus Weekend Minutes will deplete with Voice Mail deposits and retrievals. Bonus Weekend Minutes are lost once account expires. See store for details. © 2002 Verizon Wireless. 4B Thursday, April 18, 2002 the BATTau Make up match has Big 12 weight at Austin when they felij I 12 Texas, who had lost only; earlier to Baylor, leaving- than one team hoping V Aggie victory on Saturday, “We are going to be pr our Aggie hats on Sat when Baylor heads down, to College Station,” said Is head coach Michael Cm “Without any big upsets bel Saturday, that will be the us. that decides who gets asht the Big 12 title.” Oklahoma State has opportunity to play spoiler),: ever, days before Baylor cot to town. The Cowboys’ last matcln Saturday against Baylor; were shutout, 7-0. How. OSU was able to bring foui the six singles matchestoa set before bowing out OSU was also scheduled meet Texas late Wednesday “In one week, Texas, Nebraska, State and Baylor," said A freshman Lester Cook. "Tha! not an easy week at all, hi think the loss to Texas wi ly motivate us to come strong against the other lea: [ we’re playing because 1 kro we don't want to lose match. We’ve got to come fired up for every match becas with that loss, every matcli important, and one loss me® we’re out of the Big 12 race By Kevin Espenlaub THE BATTALION The No. 17 Texas A&M men’s tennis team enters Thursday’s makeup match against Oklahoma State University with the pressure of the Big 12 race on its shoulders. The match, originally sched uled for March 13 before the teams agreed to postpone it , will be the Aggies’ third of four matches this week against Big 12 opponents, and without a win against the No. 44 Cowboys (10-5, 2-2), A&M’s chances for the Big 12 title will be virtually eliminated. “We have two very impor tant matches with Oklahoma State and Baylor,” said A&M head coach Tim Cass. "Our goal of competing for the Big 12 championship is still very much alive, and the means for us to achieve it are very simple. It all starts Thursday night with Oklahoma State.” The Aggies (17-3, 4-1) also face undefeated No. 7 Baylor University on Saturday, and the only way for the Aggies to earn a share of the conference champi onship would be to sweep the final two matches. A sweep would give A&M the opportunity to share the title with Baylor and the University of Texas. The Aggies’ only loss of the Big 12 season was last Saturday Magic Continued from page IB Wardinsky, followed suit on his at bat, bunting to SWT first baseman Chris Micheles. Micheles hobbled the ball, load ing the bases for the Aggies. “They had some trouble with the bunts, and that is part of the reason you put a bunt on,” Johnson said. “The bunt has to be defended too if it is a good one. They would of had to make a big play even to get the lead runner out.” With the bases loaded, Johnson called on Jordy Mitchell to pinch hit for Tim Petru. Mitchell lined the second pitch he saw over Gonzalez's head into center field for the game-winnning RBI. “I got one out over the plate and put a good swing on it,” Mitchell said. “Maybe the Olsen magic was on my side a little bit.” The errors by SWT spoiled what was a good performance by the Bobcat pitchers. Starter Empty Continued from page IB when Baylor left fielder Carrie Leerberg slapped a 8 rolin ^ er J°| 1 it e tef ond base and advanced to second on a wild throw. Leaoo Kelly Levesque followed with a base hit back to the P' tc ‘ ier ’ a tosec . took advantage of an Aggie lapse of concentration to advance ond, putting Baylor runners on second and third. . ^ “We got burned the first time, and we talked about it s0 ^ really frustrating to get burned again,” said A&M head c ° us Evans. “We knew they had speed and would put pressur defensively, and we needed to stay focused.” t hatter to A&M pitcher Lindsay Wilhehnson (9-4) hit the nex load the bases before forcing a fielder’s choice at home 0 drive hit back at her by Lady Bear Sarah Caudle. Wilhelmso ^ fly, and two Baylor runners scored on the wild pitch and an A&M catcher Selena Collins. “Thpreist 0 “We completely fell asleep out there,” Evans said. 1 ^ excuse for playing that way. You can’t do that against a goo ^ Baylor third baseman Kristen Lancaster slammed a ^ A&M reliever Jessica Slataper to score Caudle, incre ‘ h p a nie. Baylor lead to 3-0. Slataper allowed no hits for the rest o but the damage had been done. Paul Schappert, who was touched up for eight runs A&M on opening day at01 Field, allowed only five hits and no runs in 4 1/3 inningsof work Wednesday. Relievers BrandonHanfe and Chris Hill combinedH allow two hits before Gull! entered the game in theeigtiit inning. The Aggies, while posting!# hits, struggled with runners scoring position before thee inning. In the first eight fraifc A&M was l-for-8 withrunntt in scoring position withtfe/one hit being an infield single h) Eddie Lang. A&M also hit into three double plays. “I didn’t feel like we were as bad offensively as the score board showed,” Johnson sat “For our ball club, it was about what we normally do. I wish ve could have gotten some balls! fall. The double plays werejio one of those things.” The Aggies return to Big t- play Friday with a three-gamf set against Baylor. A Interne The compt are unaccep Information lems is even occurred thr tinuing — ar With many : and Fall regi able at all tir stress that is CIS Assoc about the [ blockage ar However, tf server has b students fro said these a that he doe frequent ou semester is sible for pre takes every However, a energy shoi outages. A : date direct something i complaints, the problen np tt x IH Managing Ec Opinion Ei News Et News Ei The Battalii and include thi the right to edii son at 014 Ree Reed McDonalc (979) 845-264-; a i.iwu me way we came out swinging - . .. Vitek,” Evans said. “The team that hit the ball harder tonl ^ r op por- win, but softball is not about that. 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