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By Doug Puentes
THE BATTALION
WACO — After defeating
iBaylor on Friday night at
loisen Field, the Texas A&M
[baseball team needed only
[one win at Baylor Ballpark to
[come away with a series win
[over the Bears.
However, the No. 16
I Aggies were missing one key
[component of winning —
offense. No. 15 Baylor shut
them down on Sunday, 4-2, to
take the series and leap frog
the Aggies in the Big 12
standings.
A&M lost by a combina
tion of an anemic offense, one
big inning by the Baylor
offense and superb pitching
by the Bears’ Justin Taylor.
Taylor (7-1) pitched seven
innings, allowing only three
hits and striking out seven.
“Our offense didn’t get
going,” said A&M head coach
Mark Johnson. “You can credit
that to Taylor. He threw very
well. He got the breaking pitch
in there and it became a prob
lem for us.”
“Warpinski threw well.
They had one good inning,
but that was it. He held them
at bay. I was pleased we came
back and got ourselves in
position to win. We got the
tying run to the plate but
weren’t able to pull it off.”
The Aggies (31-15, 10-8
Big 12), left with a bad taste in
their mouth after losing in the
bottom of the ninth on
Saturday, 6-5, and could not
come out on Sunday to make a
statement early in the game.
Instead, the Bears (29-14,
12-8) came out and staked their
claim early, putting up four
runs in the third inning.
Paul Witt and Trey Webb
started the inning with con
secutive singles off A&M
starter Ryan Warpinski.
Paul Richmond reached
first safely on a bunt, driving
in Witt and leaving runners
on first and second with no
outs. Chris Durbin supplied
the big blast, as his triple to
right center field plated
Richmond and Webb.
Ross Bennett, who was the
Aggies’ nemesis in the games
in Waco, capped the scoring
as his sacrifice fly plated
Durbin to give the Bears a 4-0
lead.
The Baylor hitters came up
big in the third as three of
their five hits in the inning
came with two strikes.
“That was key,” said
Baylor head coach Steve
Smith. “We practice hitting
with two strikes all the time
just like they do. It paid off
for us and was the difference.”
“Baylor did a great job of
hitting with two strikes and
hitting the ball up the middle
and to the opposite side when
they got themselves behind in
the count,” Johnson said.
Warpinski (2-3) settled
down after the third, but still
was saddled with the loss. He
gave up four runs on nine hits
in 6 2/3 innings of work.
The Aggies mounted a
See Sputters on page 10
Aggies fall short against Bears
STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION
A&M freshman Ante Matijevic hits a forehand during the his
match against Baylor on Saturday at the Varsity Tennis Center.
By Kevin Espenlaub
THE BATTALION
The No. 7 Baylor Bears took the
drama out of the Big 12 race on
Saturday with their 4-3 victory over
the No. 17 Texas A&M men’s tennis
team at the Varsity Tennis Center, to
claim the outright regular season title
while handing A&M it’s first confer
ence loss at home since 1999.
The Aggies (18-5, 5-2 in Big 12)
entered the match with an opportunity
to earn a share of the conference title
with a victory that would have given the
Aggies, Bears and the University of
Texas Longhorns the co-championship.
However, after starting in the hole
by losing the doubles point, the
Aggies were unable to win four of
six singles matches and left the
Tennis Center in third place in the
conference.
“Doubles has not been what I
would consider our strong suit this
year,” said A&M head coach Tim
Cass. “When you’re playing a team as
good as they are, it is always tough to
go in the hole and have to win four
singles matches.”
The singles effort was looking up
for the Aggies as they claimed wins in
the first set at three courts and fresh
man Lester Cook rallied back from a
4-1 deficit to bring his set into a tie
breaker.
Cook, who faced tie-breakers in
both of his sets against Oklahoma
State on Thursday, took the 5-2 lead
with the support of 675 fans in atten
dance, but Baylor’s 22 year-old soph
omore Markus Hornung rallied for
five consecutive points to claim the
first set.
Aggie sophomore Khaled El Dorry
put the Aggies on the board with his
6-1,6-2 win at court No. 6 before sen
ior Keith From, who has been battling
injury for the past two weeks, lost on
court No. 2 to Baylor’s Zoltan Papp,
who is No. 42 in the nation.
“We just don’t have the depth that
we’ve had in past years because our
team hasn’t been 100 percent healthy
qll year,” Cass said. “Keith was proba
bly at about 60 percent out there today.
He’s a senior and wanted to play, so I
felt like I owed the opportunity to him.”
See Short on page 10
Women’s tennis team rolls over KU
By Dallas Shipp
THE BATTALION
The Aggie women netters entered the
weekend looking to rebound from their
loss to Texas and set up a possible
rematch in the Big 12 tournament finals.
The Aggies bounced back strong,
knocking off the Kansas Jayhawks who
entered their weekend trip to the Lone
Star State with a perfect 9-0 record in
Big 12 play.
Kansas, however, left Texas with two
losses, one from the Aggies and one
from the Longhorns, setting up a possi
ble rematch between A&M and Texas in
the Big 12 tournament title match.
“This was a very hard fought match,”
said Aggie head coach Bobby Kleinecke.
“I was proud of the fight and the tenaci
ty that the girls showed. We went out
there and did whatever it took to win.”
The win also set a new school
record for wins in a season improving
the Aggies record to 21-4 overall and
matching the school-best 9-2 confer
ence record.
“The girls were excited about [set
ting the new record],” Kleinecke said.
We set that goal a long time ago. I am
See Rolls on page 10
STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION
A&M sophomore Roberta Spencer hits a forehand during
her match on Friday at the Varsity Tennis Center.
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