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i gradual; saving 4 n g shap; s as coj • anticip, decided Hopgoi arin ) celebra in Colk ht ofKv 1 compo Univers; J a capta nal Guar ceived as Servi; during I n 1999. lingYot' State 1 with i ^ssociati succesi er. Dun; Titten 1 ads at be: Dallas a ses Para a. USC claims NCAA tennis title over Georgia A&M’s Newport earns berth in Sweet 16 in singles, doubles ;sident ew becar >ointed isory cor to identr :y, this tt said. :e office Sports The Battalion Page 3 • Monday, June 3, 2002 By Kevin Espenlaub THE BATTALION The NCAA Men’s Tennis Championships wrapped up last week at the A&M Varsity Tennis Center with a few surprises. The University of Southern California Trojans, the tournament’s No. 11 seed, knocked off the top- seeded and defending national cham pion, University of Georgia Bulldogs, in the finals to claim the team cham pionship, sending retiring coach Dick Leach out with his fourth national championship. Georgia, who eliminated the Aggies in the round of 16 earlier in the tourna ment, had hosted the tournament for 22 of the past 25 years before the event came to A&M this season for the first time in its 118-year history. The 10-day event brought 11,132 fans to the Varsity Tennis Center. “This is unbelievable,” Leach said. If we would have been playing them |(in Georgia), it might have been tougher, but playing on the road, we’ve done pretty well this year. There’s no doubt that I’m moving to College Station to retire. It was a great atmos phere and a great tournament from the nj Spain beats Slovenia, 3-1 YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Spain ould [i finally figured out how to start a World ing pub fi u P with a victory. England still does e weak not know how to beat Sweden anywhere. »0 fineai . Spaniards broke a 52-year win less spell in World Cup openers, dating ago-ba|ii ,53 of' ) pUb: ' percej C LJ P stry mo] vorldwl also bfr ac,c to a 1950 victory over the United re 0 ffifp tates - Goals from Raul, Juan Carlos rms. P a l e ron and Fernando Hierro lifted the jsses cat fP an iards over Slovenia 3-1 Sunday t gainst! (Sunday morning EDT) at rch I4,ii Kwangju, South Korea, to emen See World Cup on page 4 very beginning.” The Bulldogs did not leave College Station empty handed, however, as top-seeded Matias Boeker brought home the singles national champi onship with his 7-5, 6-0 victory over Kentucky’s Jesse Witten. It was Boeker’s second consecutive NCAA singles title. Texas A&M junior Ryan Newport advanced into the round of 16 in the singles competition, earning his spot as an All-American before being eliminat ed by Georgia’s Brandon Wagner. Newport was the Aggies’ only repre sentative in the singles competition and managed an upset over the tourna ment’s No. 2 seed, Tennessee’s Peter Handoyo, en route to his Sweet 16 appearance. He also joined freshman teammate Lester Cook in the doubles tournament in which the duo advanced through the first round before being eliminated in the Round of 16. “I’m pleased about this season overall,” Newport said. “At the begin ning of the season, we didn’t know what to expect, but we had a lot of new guys come in and they did a great job. I’m pleased with how I played and I felt overall we had a GUY ROGERS • THE BATTALION USC’s Teige Sullivan and Ruben Torres celebrate their win over Georgia’s doubles team of Adam Seri and Brandon Wagner, 8-4, in the NCAA Men’s Tennis Championship. The win clinched the doubles point for the Trojans, who went on to win, 4-1. great season.” No. 2 seeded David Martin and Scott Auburn’s tandem of. Andrew Lipsky from Stanford. Colombo and Mark Kovacs won the Following the tournament, the sea- doubles tournament with an upset over son’s final rankings were released, and the Aggies finished as the No. 16 team in the nation with Newport finishing as the No. 36 singles player. Newport and Cook finished at No. 17. Ags miss postseason for third straight year A&M softball earns berth in regional final FILE PHOTO • THE BATTALION Second baseman Ty Garner and the Texas A&M baseball team missed postseason play after struggling in late April and May. By True Brown THE BATTALION For the third straight year, the Texas A&M baseball team found itself on the outside look ing in at the NCAA tournament. The Aggies, who finished the season with a record of 35-24, suffered a steep decline in the last month of the season to fall from a tie for first place in the Big 12 all the way to eighth. In the Big 12 Tournament at The Ballpark in Arlington, A&M managed to beat No. 4 Texas in the tournament opener for both teams, but went down quietly to Oklahoma the next day, 9-1, and then lost to the Longhorns, 9-4, to be eliminated from the tournament. Texas went on to claim the conference crown. A&M had the misfortune of having to face the Longhorns five times in the final eight days of the season, and the Aggies’ lone win was not enough to convince the NCAA selection com mittee that they were worthy of earning a spot in the NCAA tournament. UT also swept the Aggies in the final series of the regular season, including two wins at Olsen Field. “(Texas) dominated us,” said A&M head coach Mark Johnson. “They have been the bet ter ball club. They do a good job of offensive production, they can move the runners well and they are good at extending the lead once they get it.” Despite A&M not making the final 64-team field, five Big 12 schools earned berths in the tournament. 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