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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
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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. UT, Nebraska, Baylor, Texas Tech
and Oklahoma all earned bids. Big 12
Tournament runner up Nebraska and UT each
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