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Aggies host Baylor with Big 12 lead on the line
Women's tennis team attempting to go 9-0 at home
By Blake Kimzey
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Jessica Roland returns a shot against the University of Colorado Sunday.
There must be something about play
ing at home, because the Texas A&M
women’s tennis team now owns an 8-0
record at the A&M Tennis Center. After
beating the University of Oklahoma and
the University of Colorado over the
weekend, the No. 29 Aggies (10-6, 5-1
Big 12) will be looking to continue their
recent, resurgence against Baylor
University tonight.
The match will serve as a decisive Big
12 showdown as the Aggies hold a narrow
half game lead over the No. 44 Bears (6-
9,4-1 Big 12) in the conference standings.
Baylor and A&M have more in com
mon this season than in years past.
Baylor Head Coach Joey Scrivano is the
commander in chief of a team that finds
itself riddled with youth and closely
resembling the A&M team, which
depends primarily on underclassmen tal
ent this season. Amazingly enough, both
teams have just one senior on their ros
ters. With that in mind, Scrivano said he
wanted to bring his team along slowly,
and he is pleased with his players’ desire
to mature as athletes.
“These girls have come a long way
from the start of the year, especially for as
young of a squad as I have,” Scrivano
said. “We’ve really taken things a bit more
slowly because we wanted to fully devel
op as a team.”
The Bears, led by sophomore Daria
Potapova, are in the midst of a frustrating
stretch, as they have lost five of their last
six matches by one point, going down 4-3
in each match.
Baylor should have more confidence
tonight facing their Highway 6 rival
A&M, after having managed a solid 4-1
record in Big 12 competition.
“We don’t get too caught up in who
we are playing,” Scrivano said. “If it is
A&M or Stanford it really doesn’t mat
ter, we just want to go out and get better.
I’m just proud of my girls. We’ve lost
some close 4-3 matches, but they haven’t
given up yet.”
The Aggies, on the other hand, are in
the thick of a friendly seven-match home-
stand, and it appears that the doubles
teams have started to click. Working to
secure the doubles point has been the
theme to this (the) spring season, and
against Colorado this past weekend things
started to come together.
Head Coach Bobby Kleinecke said he
couldn’t be more proud about the payoff
of his team’s hard work.
“I am very proud of No. 1 and No. 2
doubles,” Kleinecke said. “It is the best
we have played at those positions at the
same time. That was very solid play
(against Colorado).”
A&M freshman Nicki Mechem is
undefeated in conference play this year
with a singles record of 6-0. Meanwhile,
A&M juniors Jessica Roland and Roberta
Spencer are riding a nine-match winning
streak in No. 1 doubles play.
However, A&M Assistant Coach
Alison Ojeda is quick to caution her team
against getting too comfortable and com
placent about its strong performance at
home this season.
“We’ve had some really close matches
at home and have even been down in some
of them and had to battle back,” Ojeda
said. “We kind of recommitted ourselves
to our practice and the girls have buckled
down, and that is evident in the way
they’ve been playing the last few weeks.
Come tournament time there won’t be any
excuses, nobody will be able to say we
didn’t do all that we could to prepare.”
Match time is set for 6 p.m. tonight, as
the Aggies will be looking to extend their
unbeaten mark at home to nine matches.
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led in the winning run with
wo outs in the bottom of the
linth Monday in the Houston
\stros’ 4-3 victory over the
'lorida Marlins.
The ending spoiled a strong
uting by Florida left-hander
vlark Redman, who had strug-
led this spring but held the
\stros to two hits and two walks
nfive scoreless innings. The per-
ormance lowered his exhibition
:RA to 6.11 in 17 2/3 innings.
“I felt a lot stronger and more
onfident,” Redman said. “We’re
lose to the regular season and you
an smell the season. This is prob-
ibly my last start in spring training
got pumped up out there.”
Shane Reynolds, trying to
hound from June 2002 back
tirgery for a pinched nerve, gave
three earned runs in six
innings, including two solo
homers by Robert Stratton and
Mike Redmond.
got behind in the count and
wanted to throw strikes and not
(walk anybody,” Reynolds said.
But as far as the whole day goes,
thought it was pretty positive.”
[Officially, Reynolds is 0-1 this
spring.
Reynolds said his back was
feeling “great” after his final
[appearance of the Florida exhibi
tion season.
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THE BATTALION
The Texas A&M baseball
team will return from a rough
roadtrip on Tuesday to take
on the Lamar University
Cardinals at Olsen Field.
The game comes on the
heels of losing two of three
games this weekend in
Lubbock to the Texas Tech
University Red Raiders.,
which dropped the Aggies’
Big 12 record to 3-3.
Lamar (17-6, 4-1 Southland
Conference) is coming to
College Station after taking
two of three games from
Southland Conference rival
University of Texas-San
Antonio over the weekend.
The Aggies (20-8) have lost
four of their last seven games
and have lost three of their last
four on the road including the
losses to Tech and a midweek
loss to UTSA in San Antonio.
A&M will put junior left
hander Kyle Parcus on the
mound against Lamar. Parcus
has posted a 1-2 record this
season with a 6.75 ERA. He
has recorded 18 strikeouts in
21.1 innings of work.
Parcus last saw action on
Saturday in the Aggies’ 10-5
victory against Tech when he
pitched 1.1 innings,, allowing
two runs, two walks, and three
hits. Parcus entered the game
in the sixth inning, and after
walking the first batter he
faced to load the bases and
forcing a short fly-out, he
threw a wild pitch allowing
Tech to score its third run of
the inning.
The Cardinals will counter
with their own left-handed ace
by putting junior Josh Gray on
the mound. Gray leads the
team with 34.1 innings of
work and a 4-2 record. His
ERA stands at 3.15 coming
into Tuesday’s matchup.
The Aggies have posted a
26-7 record all-time against
Lamar, including a 12-10 vic
tory when the teams met last
season in Beaumont.
First pitch is scheduled for
7 p.m.
A&M will return to Big 12
action this weekend with a
split series against Baylor
University. Friday’s game will
be held at the Baylor Ballpark
in Waco at 7 p.m., and games
two and three will be at Olsen
Field on Saturday and Sunday
beginning at 7 p.m. and 2
p.m., respectively.
JOHN C. LIVAS • THE BATTALION
Junior Kyle Parcus delivers a pitch in action at Olsen Field. Parcus
will be starting for the Aggies on Tuesday against Lamar University.
Padres fall to
Rangers, 8-5
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) —
Doug Glanville’s two-run single
highlighted a six-run seventh
inning as the Texas Rangers beat
the San Diego Padres 8-5 on
Monday.
The outburst erased a 5-2
Padres lead and spoiled left-
handed starter Jake Peavy’s best
outing of the spring.
“Doug always played well
against us so this doesn’t surprise
me at all,” said reliever Aaron
Fultz. “This whole offense just
puts up great numbers.”
Peavy gave up two runs on
four hits and striking out eight in
six innings. Peavy came into the
game with an 0-3 record and an
8.18 ERA this spring.
“I finally got ahead in the
count and threw some quality
pitches,” he said. “I hadn’t done
that all spring. I just went out and
pitched.”
Peavy made a splash his rook
ie season last year, moving to
Texas from Double-A Mobile on
June 21. He made his debut the
next night at home against the
New York Yankees, giving up
only one run on three hits, but
losing 1-0.
He finished 6-7 in 17 starts
with a 4.52 ERA.
“That Peavy kid sure is
good,” Texas manager Buck
Showalter said. “It looked like
we were going to be no-hit there
for a while.”
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