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By David Morrison
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M women’s golf team had
its back against the wall last week in Norman,
Okla., needing a good showing to have a
chance at reaching the regional tournament.
The Aggies came through with a fifth-place
finish as freshman Nicole Melton carded her
fourth top 10 finish this spring.
A&M will need the same results this
weekend as it competes at the Big 12
Championships in Manhattan, Kan.
“I think if we do no worse than fourth or
fifth we should go to regionals,” said A&M
head coach Jeanne Sutherland.
The Aggies are ready for a tournament
that will be played in the windy plains of
Kansas, anci are confident in their ability to
deal with the conditions.
‘We have had a lot of experience playing
in that [wind] this spring. Everyday at prac
tice we have had to deal with that,”
Sutherland said.
The three day 54-hole tournament will be
the Aggies last chance to improve their rank
ing before the NCAA West Regional in May.
This spring, the Aggies have rebounded from
a tough fall season and have put together two
top 10 finishes in the past two tournaments.
But in order for the Aggies to make some
thing happen in Kansas the whole team will
need to play well.
“We definitely need four low scores to win
conference,” Sutherland said.
This week in Manhattan, the Aggies will
have four of their conference competitors
nipping at their heels: Texas Tech, Kansas
State, Missouri, and Nebraska will all be
waiting for A&M to slip up.
With the team’s recent success coach
Sutherland is confident that A&M will be on
top in the end.
“We have played better on a consistent
basis than most of the other teams,”
Sutherland said. “(A&M) will be prepared.”
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Aggies roll over Oklahoma State
By Kevin Espenlaub
THE BATTALION
STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION
A&M sophomore Khaled El Dorry hits a backhand during the Aggies' match
against the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Thursday at the Varsity Tennis Center.
The No. 17 Texas A&M men’s
tennis team took a step closer to a
share of the Big 12 regular season
championship on Thursday as it
topped the Oklahoma State
Cowboys (10-7, 2-4) at the Varsity
Tennis Center, 5-2.
The Aggies (18-4, 5-1) struggled
through doubles competition to
open the match before the duo of
freshman Derrick Bauer and senior
Jarin Skube rallied from a three
game deficit to win the third and
deciding match for the doubles
point and put A&M ahead 1 -0 going
into the six singles matches.
“I think we might have under
estimated our opponent a little in
the doubles matches,” Bauer said.
“Finally Skube and I stepped back
for a minute and decided we had to
come back and win because we
were not going to go into singles
down a point to these guys.
“We made some shots and got
things done.”
After leaving the locker room,
the Aggies came out firing in sin
gles action, quickly claiming wins
by Bauer and sophomore Khaled Ei
Dorry to take a 3-0 lead.
“We pretty much got what we
expected from them today,” said
A&M head coach Tim Cass. “I
was a little disapointed with the
doubles because I thought we came
out a bit flat and I really cannot
understand why, but we found a
way to win the point. In singles 1
was pleased, and I think we made a
good early statement, especially at
courts five and six to go up 3-0 and
put the pressure on them.”
Junior Ryan Newport was the
first Aggie singles player to go
down when he lost the tie-breaker
in the second set to give OSU’s sen
ior Matt Prentice the 6-3, 7-6 (5)
win on court one.
Skube was able to clinch the
overall match for the Aggies soon
after however with his victory on
court four in which he survived
his own tiebreaker to win 7-6
(10), 6-2.
Freshman Ante Matijevic put the
Aggies up 5-1 with his win on court
three, and freshman Lester Cook
rallied the second set into a
tiebreaker before losing a 5-2 lead
to fall in the final match of the
evening.
The Aggies will now have Friday
off before entering a 6 p.m Saturday
matchup with the No. 7 Baylor
Bears at the Varsity Tennis Center.
The Bears are the only undefeated
team in the Big 12, and an A&M
victory would throw the Aggies into
a three-way tie for the regular sea
son conference championship with
Baylor and the University of Texas.
“1 think everybody on this team
is going to come out fired up on
Saturday,” Bauer said. “These guys
want a share of the championship
and I know when I came here this
year, I wanted a ring, and Saturday,
we have our chance at it.”
JOHN LIVAS *THE BATTALION
Texas A&M’s Ty Garner tags Southwest Texas’ Jason
Washington on Wednesday. A&M plays Baylor this weekend.
A&M, BU set for crucial series
By Doug Puentes
THE BATTALION .
The Texas A&M baseball team’s stretch
drive toward the Big 12 regular season cham
pionship begins this weekend as it takes on the
Baylor Bears in a pivotal three-game series.
The series against the No. 15 Bears is the
first of four consecutive weekend series against
Big 12 opponents for the Aggies.
With the conference race still up for grabs,
A&M’s performance over the next couple of
weeks will determine whether it sinks or swims.
Oklahoma State leads the conference with a
7-4 record while A&M (30-13) and Texas are
tied for second place with a 9-6 record.
Baylor (27-13), which is in fourth place, is
just a few percentage points behind A&M and
Texas with a 10-7 record.
“As we say every week, this is a big series ”
said A&M head coach Mark Johnson. “Baylor
feels, and rightly so, that they are contenders
for the championship and a regional playoff
team. They’ve done well. They’ve hit bumps in
the road like everybody. They’ve got pretty
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