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Page IB • Thursday, October 24, 2002
Baylor sweep
By True Brown
THE BATTALION
A 20-kill performance by Laura
Jones helped the Texas A&M vol
leyball team sweep past the injury-
riddled Baylor Bears Wednesday
night at G. Rollie White Coliseum,
30-24, 30-20, 30-22.
A&M (13-6, 5-5 Big 12) turned
in a stellar defensive performance
by recording 76 digs, the most for
the Aggies since they had 78 against
Nebraska on Oct. 6.
“I felt like we were moving bet
ter on defense,” said A&M head
coach Laurie Corbelli. “We’ve
been working a lot on trying to
keep the dig where our attack has
more time to form on transition.
We’d been trying to rush it and our
hitters hadn’t been able to get up
and get good approaches.”
Baylor, which has been plagued
by injuries all season, entered the
match without the services of All-
America candidate Stevie Nicholas,
who is out for the season.
The Bears (8-12, 2-8) suffered
another injury in the third game
when starter Laura Daniela Lloreda
went down with an ankle injury.
The injuries have forced Baylor
head coach Brian Hosfed to juggle
his rotation.
“When those kinds of things hap
pen in the middle of the match, it’s
really tough because we have to do
things that we haven’t practiced,”
Hosfed said. “We’re bare bones as it
is, so when it happens during a
match, it’s really hard.”
After A&M took game one,
Baylor stayed close in the second
and took a 16-15 lead after a kill
by Lloreda.
A&M’s A.D. Achilefu evened
the score with a kill, then Jones ran
off three straight kills to put the
Aggies up for good.
Baylor’s biggest attack threat,
outside hitter Tisha Schwartz, was
held to just two kills in the second
game, as the Bears struggled with
their passing game. Poor passes
limited the Bears’ attack and con
tributed to their meager .131 hitting
percentage.
“Schwartz doesn’t make a lot of
errors, but she doesn’t get a good
swing at everything,” Corbelli said.
“Some of those balls that came at us
weren’t real difficult to dig.”
The Aggies took advantage of the
soft attacks in the second and third
games and turned to Jones and soph
omore Melissa Munsch to capital
ize. Munsch finished with 13 kills.
“We’ve really worked hard on
getting the ball up a little bit higher
so we can have time to create a team
offense and get these big hitters in a
position where they can do some
damage,” Corbelli said.
Trailing 28-17 in the third, the
Bears staged a minor comeback
when Lindsey Long served four
straight points to bring Baylor
within six, but A&M’s Tara
Pulaski finished the match with a
kill.
The kill cemented A&M’s
sixth-straight win over Baylor,
and the .284 hitting percentage by
the Aggies was their highest in
league play.
“We really needed this win,”
Munsch said. “We executed when
we needed to. This gives us a lot of
confidence going into the second
round (of Big 12 play). This win
really starts us off on the home
stretch.”
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Men’s tennis preparing for final Fall tournament
By Gary Livingston
THE BATTALION
Halfway through an interview, Texas A&M
headmen’s tennis coach Tim Cass had to take a
break because a recruit he is hoping to land
called his cell phone. Such is life for Cass, as his
team continues to roll along through preseason
tournaments preparing for the spring season.
This weekend, the A&M men’s tennis team
will head to Ft. Worth to compete in the Omni
Hotels ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor
Championships.
Unlike previous tournaments, where Cass
Absent two or three players, he will send five.
signifying the importance of the tournament.
“There will be very strong schools competing
there,” Cass said. “The tournament definitely
means more, there is a bigger team atmosphere.”
Cass said schools from all over Texas and
surrounding states will be featured at the tourna
ment. The Aggies competing will be junior
Khaled El Dorry, sophomores Lester Cook and
Ante Matijevic, and freshmen Matt Loucks and
John Nallon. A&M has had some luck in this
tournament in the past.
“Shoun Madden won this event twice,” Cass
said. “(Senior) Ryan (Newport) reached the
semifinals last year. We’ve always had a good
showing at this tournament.”
Cass can’t help but be pleased with his team’s
performance thus far this season. Compared to
last year, Cass says the team is further along
than it was a year ago, and the core group of
guys are pushing each other hard in the weight
room and in practice.
“We have high expectations as a team which
will help us continue to improve and to grow,”
Cass said. “I think physically we are making
great strides which will pay dividends come late
April and May.”
This past weekend, A&M continued its success
with impressive showings at two Texas tourna
ments. At the Midland Invitational Tournament,
Matijevic made it to the semifinals, beating quality
opponents along the way. He eventually lost to the
tournament’s No. 1 seed Toni Gordon from Texas
Christian University. At the UTSA Invitational,
Loucks made it to the finals by playing five
matches against top opponents.
Cass said other players looked great in action
this past weekend including Nallon, who looked
very sharp, and El Dorry, who had two top-100
wins. Cass said El Dorry is learning what it
takes to be a top-100 player.
The Ft. Worth ITA tournament will run today
through Monday and Cass said it will give the
team a great opportunity to step up and face a
challenge. This tournament will conclude the
fall season for the men’s tennis team.
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