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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
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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
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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.”
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play Friday with a three-gamf
set against Baylor.
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