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Page 4 • Friday, October 18,
Aggies plan to stop Whittemore, Jayhawks
By Kevin Espenlaub
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M football team will look to
post another Big 12 win this Saturday as the
Aggies travel to Lawrence, Kan. to take on the
Kansas Jayhawks.
A week after posting its first shutout of the
season at Baylor, the Wrecking Crew defense
will have to contain Jayhawk quarterback Bill
Whittemore, who led Kansas in both passing
and rushing in its 53-29 defeat to Colorado last
week in Lawrence.
“I don’t think overall, (A&M) has quite the
team defense that Colorado has,” said Kansas
head coach Mark Mangino. “(A&M defense)
is still pretty impressive ... I would say they
probably might be a little bit more physical
than Colorado, but they don’t have as much
team speed as Colorado.”
Whittemore passed for 217 yards and two
touchdowns and added another two TD’s on
121 yards rushing.
“Kansas has a dangerous offense,” said
A&M defensive coordinator Mike Hankwitz.
“They’ve got a quarterback that can make
things happen. They do a good job of spread
ing the ball throughout the field.”
The Aggie offense will look to jump out
early and take advantage of a Kansas team that
has only scored two first quarter touchdowns
so far this season.
Sophomore Dustin Long, who has passed
for 1,016 yards this season while adding 10
touchdowns, will lead the Aggies and will be
looking to take advantage of the Jayhawks who
have been outscored 65-16 by opponents in the
first quarter this season.
“We’re going to start our practices with a lit
tle more intensity,” Mangino said, in response
to improving their first quarter performances.
“Instead of beginning with with a learning and
teaching period, we’re going to get after it.”
The Aggies have scored first in all of their
games this season.
“I think you are starting to see a little devel
opment on offense,” said A&M head coach
R.C. Slocum. “Dustin is making some plays
and he is young in his development. As he is
getting better, I think his supporting cast is get
ting better with him.”
Saturday’s matchup will be the sixth all-
time between the teams and A&M holds a 4-1
advantage. The last matchup was in 1999 when
the Aggies defeated the Jayhawks 34-17 by
scoring the final 14 points of the game.
Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Memorial
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Men’s tennis team readies for West Texas action
By Gary Livingston
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M men’s tennis team will
hope to build on strong showings in its last two
tournaments as it prepares for two more tourna
ments in West Texas this weekend.
Sophomores Lester Cook and Ante
Matijevic teamed up for doubles action and had
the best ever run by an A&M duo and reached
the semifinals of the 1TA All-American
Championships in Chattanooga, Tenn.
“The tournament is one of the top three in
college,” said Shuon Madden, assistant head
coach and former A&M tennis player. “It was
.definitely a big accomplishment for Lester and
Ante to go as far as they did. Especially for that
being the first time they played together. I still
think that there is room for improvement, which
makes the future very bright for them together.”
Together, Cook and Matijevic are ranked No.
14 nationally. Their run through the tournament
ended at the hands of Illinois’ No. 4-ranked tan
dem of Michael Calkins and Amer Delic.
While those two were battling it out in
Tennessee, three other Aggies were in action at
the Balloon Fiesta Invitational in Albuquerque,
N.M. Junior Khaled El Dorry reached the conso
lation finals defeating A&M freshman John
Nallon in the process. Dorry then teamed up with
A&M freshman Matt Loucks and the duo
advanced to the main draw semifinals in doubles.
“It was very good for the younger guys to
get matches under their belts to see what the
college atmosphere is like,” Madden said.
“Overall I think it was a good experience for
them. They got to play against different players
from different schools. Hopefully, it will show
them what their future is going to he like over
the next four years.”
Loucks and Nallon will be back in action
this weekend when they head to San Antonio to
compete in the UTSA Fairway Oaks Invite run
ning Friday through Sunday.
“The tournament in UTSA has been known
to be a fairly solid competition,” Madden said.
“Most of the Texas schools will be there. It will
be good for the guys to just compete rather than
stay here and practice.”
El Dorry and Matijevic will compete at the
Midland Invitational in Midland, Texas, which runs
Friday through Sunday. Madden said the tourna
ment is very similar to the UTSA tournament.
Through three weekends and three tournaments
Madden said the tennis team is looking good,
“Last year was a question mark,” Madden
said. “The freshmen did a great job and they
really stepped up. Now we have everyboi)
back this year. We’ve been having great woa
outs, and we are really working on fundamen
tals and fitness.”
Madden expressed the importance of
fall tournaments because it lets the coachi
staff see where the players are at and
they need to work on. He said it was goodk
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