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SPORTS
THE BATTALION
Aggies resume play in Florida
By Marcus White
THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M women’s
golf team heads to Parrish, Fla.
Monday and Tuesday to com
pete in the Central District
Challenge at the River
Wilderness Country Club. This
will be A&M’s first competi
tion since last fall’s Las Vegas
Shootout where the Aggies fin
ished sixth among 15 teams.
A&M will be looking to
kick off the spring season suc
cessfully after what proved to
be a questionable fall “season.
“Each tournament we play
this spring will be important
due to the inconsistent play we
had in the fall,” said A&M
women’s Head Coach Jeanne
Sutherland. “I feel much more
prepared going into this tour
nament than I did going into
any of them in the fall.”
The Aggies will be repre
sented at the two-day tourna
ment by sophomores Kyla Neal
Nicole Melton, freshmen
Ashley Frey and Brenda Norris
and junior Mira Bendevis.
Bendevis, who will be com
peting in only her third compe
tition of the 2002-2003 season,
was recently named co-captain
of the women’s squad. The
Fredericksvarek native has
the transition from life in
Denmark to College Station an
easy one, relying on strong
friendships with her teammates
to help bridge the gap between
home and college.
“I have been really lucky
and 1 have great friends,” she
said. “It is weird to think that I
have known them for only two
or three years.”
Melton placed second indi
vidually at the Las Vegas
Shootout, capping off the
three-day competition with a 4-
under-par 68 on her way to a 1 -
under-par 215 (76-71-68). The
I feel much more
prepared going into
this tournament
than I did going into
any of them in the
fall.”
— jeanne Sutherland
A&M Head Coach
2002 Big 12 Freshman of the
year has finished among the
top two golfers in each of her
last two competitions.
“Mira and Nicole are play
ing well and if we get solid
play from our young players, I
think we will have a good tour
nament to start out the year,”
Sutherland said. “It will be
important for us to have a good
showing to improve our
chances of postseason play.”
The Aggies will face a strong
field of central district teams in
Florida, including No. 19
Indiana University.
The Hoosiers will depend
on the increasingly impressive
play of junior Karen Dennison,
who is attempting to capture
her fourth first place finish in
five events this season.
Dennison is currently ranked
among the top five golfers in
the women’s NCAA competi
tion, according to the
Golfweek/Saragin
Performance Index.
“I think it's my putting,” she
told Golfweek writer Lance
Ringler. “I have always hit a lot
of fairways and greens and now
I am making putts.”
Indiana Head Coach Sam
Carmichael said Dennison’s suc
cess can be attributed to her
relentless work ethic.
“Karen is a really good
player who makes the effort
everyday to become better,”
Carmichael said. “She has the
chance to become an outstand
ing player.”
Several highly-ranked teams
will be participating in the 54-
hole event, including No. 28
Kent State and No. 29 Baylor.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Aggies sweep weekend series
The No. 31 Texas A&M women's tennis team
completed a strong weekend of play in which
the Aggies defeated the University of Texas —
San Antonio, the University of Houston and the
University of Nebraska in successive matches.
Against UTSA, the Aggies swept the doubles
matches on their way to a 5-2 victory.
A&M faced Houston in the nightcap of Friday's
doubleheader. A 6-1 A&M win extended the Aggies
undefeated streak to four consecutive games.
Led by the tandem of Ashley Hedberg and
Lauren Walker, the Aggies shutout the Nebraska
i of the seventh but//® ^ (omhuskers on Sunday to complete the weekend
feries sweep.
The Aggies are in the midst of a six-match home-
stand and will return to action on Saturday against
Big 12 rival Oklahoma State University.
Saturday's game is scheduled to begin at 1:30
p.m. at the A&M Tennis Center.
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ADAM A. KRAZER • THE BATTALION
Jessica Roland returns a serve against Nebraska.
Weir shoots 66, wins Nissan Open
By Doug Ferguson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Mike
Weir staged another unlikely
comeback Sunday, making up a
seven-stroke deficit against
Charles Howell III and winning
the Nissan Open with a birdie
on the second playoff hole.
Weir closed with a 5-under
66 on tough Riviera Country
Club, then waited nearly an
hour as Howell played his final
seven holes in 2 over.
Weir, winless on the PGA
Tour a year ago, won for the
second time in four starts and
moved to the top of the money
list with just over $2 million.
“It’s a dream start to the
year,” Weir said. “Hopefully, I
can keep it going.”
A month ago in the Bob
Hope Classic, he rallied from
four strokes behind in the final
round and won by two shots
when everyone else around him
made mistakes.
Sunday at Riviera was not
much different.
Howell had a three-stroke
lead going into the final round,
and still led by three heading to
the back nine. But he missed a
few fairways and a couple of
key putts, each one allowing
Weir to slowly creep back into
the picture.
Both finished at 9-under 275.
Nick Price had a share of the
lead until bogeys on the 15th
and 16th. He finished two
strokes behind after a 72, tied
with Fred Funk (68).
Tiger Woods had the best
round of the day, a 6-under 65
that lifted him into a tie for fifth
at 278. It was the eighth consec
utive top-10 finish for Woods,
dating to the British Open at
Muirfield (tie for 28th).
As Howell squandered one
chance after another, Weir made
a tough par on No. 13 to stay in
the game and didn’t make a
bogey over his final 13 holes.
Weir appeared to have a
clear advantage on the second
playoff hole, the 311-yard
10th, by playing safe off the tee
with a fairway metal. He hit a
sand wedge to 8 feet.
Howell went with the driver
and hit it right into a bunker, a
position where few players man
age to even make par. Still, he
hit a tremendous shot from 35
yards to a skinny green, the ball
trickling 6 feet past the hole.
“Charles hit a hell of a shot,”
Weir said. “It was just my day.”
Two of Weir’s five victories
have come in a playoff, the other
one in the Tour Championship
two years ago in Houston.
Woods, meanwhile, now has
played the Nissan Open six
times without winning, the
most at any other PGA Tour
event. He didn’t lose his sense
of humor.
“It definitely was a goal to
get in the top 10 so I can get
Ryder Cup points,” he said.
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