4B
SPORTS
THE BATTALIOS
Friday, April 11, 2003
Tribe
Continued from page IB
“Playing William & Mary
is another great opportunity
for us, and we’re hoping we
can step it up and come away
with a quality win,” said A&M
Head Coach Bobby
Kleinecke. “They are a very
tough team to play because
they are a grinding-type team
and they hit the ball really
hard. It is going to take all nine
slots to beat them, and we’re
looking forward to it.”
But no easy points will be
won, with a total of three sin
gles players ranked nationally
within the top 100. Junior
Jessica Roland, ranked No.
100, relentlessly leads the
Aggies at No. 1 singles.
William & Mary looks to rook
ie Megan Muth (No. 78) and
sophomore Candice Fuchs
(No. 27) to set the pace on its
side of the net.
The battle should be fierce
ly fought for the doubles point.
The Aggies’ 38th-ranked duo
of juniors Roland and Roberta
Spencer should have its hands
full at court No. 1. Roland and
Spencer will square off against
Tribe sophomores Kate
Boomershine and Candice
Fuchs, the No. 12 doubles
team in the nation.
Though William & Mary
heads into Saturday with a 10-
match winning streak, the
Aggies are trying to treat the
match like business as usual.
A&M Assistant Coach Alison
Ojeda said a quality win this
weekend could give A&M the
credibility it needs to assure an
NCAA tournament bid.
“Working on our doubles
this week has been the empha
sis to prepare us for the
remainder of the season and
tournament play,” Ojeda said.
“But, we need to notch a big
win against William & Mary
so that it will make it easier for
us to get into the tournament.”
The Aggies’ lone senior,
Ashley Hedberg, will be hon
ored before the match. First
serve is set for 11 a.m.
Saturday morning.
Kansas
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made her only mistake of the
evening, although a fatal one, as
Sievers took Slataper’s pitch
over the left field wall for the
game-winning home run.
Even though the Aggies lost
a close one to Texas, they still
have plenty to be confident
about. Not only did they go into
a hostile environment and play
down to the wire with the No. 5
team in the country, but they are
fresh off of sweeping a streak
ing Oklahoma State team the
previous weekend.
“I was really excited about
our offense,” Evans said. “We
came out aggressive and disci
plined at the plate, and we also
played some great defense.
Lindsay Wilhelmson and
Lindsey Rippee pitched great,
and Jessica Slataper was incred
ible. We simply came out and
put everything together.”
Meanwhile, the Kansas
Jayhawks have not had as much
success as the Aggies in confer
ence play. The Jayhawks have
had an up-and-down season so
far, but some of that can be
attributed to injuries and a tough
early conference schedule.
Although KU is far from hold
ing the best record in the con
ference, it does not mean that
A&M will have an easy time
taking two games from the
Jayhawks.
“We played well early on
this year, but we have been a bit
inconsistent of late,” said
Kansas Head Coach Tracy
Bunge. “We are hoping to
bounce back, and I think we
will be able to do so. We are a
very opportunistic team with
some good hitters that can put
the ball out of the yard.”
Aggie second baseman and
Big 12 player of the week
Adrian Gregory said she knows
Kansas is not a team to be
underestimated.
“We always expect to have a
tough go with them,” Gregory
said. “It’s always tough to play
on the road, and we haven’t
played as well as we could have
lately. We just need to bring the
same intensity every game
because each game is huge for
us down the stretch.”
After taking on the Jayhawks
this weekend, the Aggies will
head back to the Aggie Softball
Complex for a doubleheader
with Texas A&M - Corpus
Christi on Wednesday.
Men’s tennis team to meet Nebraska
By Jeff Allen
THE BATTALION
When the Nebraska men’s tennis
team heads into College Station on
Sunday it will be confronting two
daunting streaks. First, the No.10 Texas
A&M squad has been steady at home
this year, having won all 15 matches at
home this season.
Second, the Cornhuskers (10-8, 1-4
Big 12) have yet to notch a win against
the Aggies (19-6, 3-1 Big 12), in the
eight meetings between the schools
dating back to when the clubs first met
in 1990.
That does not distract this year’s
Aggie team. Since early in the dual
match schedule Head Coach Tim Cass
has preached to his team that it is up to
the players to make a name for them
selves this year. So far they have.
“It’s their team and I stress that an
awful lot,” Cass said. “They have done
a good job of playing hard together as a
unit and developing a chemistry. It
seems like it is an individual sport, but
we have to support each other, and the
guys have really done a good job with
picking the slack up for one another
throughout the year.”
So far in the schedule there has been
little slack to pick up. This year the
Aggies were faced with what some
might term “rebuilding,” an assessment
that was based on the fact that the men
carried only one senior, All-American
Ryan Newport, on their roster. Newport
brings a national ranking of No. 19 into
Sunday’s action along with a 17-2
record, all of which was accomplished
at No. 1, but the real strength of the
Aggie team has come from its middle,
sophomore Big 12 Player of the Week
Lester Cook, and last week’s Big 12
Player of the Week, sophomore Ante
Matijevic.
“In order for our team to have suc
cess, individual players have to com
pete at a high level,” Cass said. “If we
continue to do that, more success will
come our way.
Matijevic has posted the most
sparkling numbers of the pair. Since ris
ing from oblivion to a No. 48 national
ranking, Matijevic has won 14 straight
matches, contributing to an impressive
dual match record of 20-4.
Cook has not been far behind.
Nationally ranked No. 39, he has post
ed four straight wins and accumulated
a record of 18-4.
Things have not gone quite as well
this year for the Huskers. Since posting
a seven-game winning streak in
February, the Huskers have struggled.
They dropped their first conference
match to Texas Tech and have yet to
fully recover.
More ominous for Nebraska as it
prepares to face the Aggies is the fact
that in six tries this year, the Huskers
have yet to beat a ranked team. They
have fared little better in the Big 12,
having only won one match.
The Huskers did manage to take
down Oklahoma last Saturday by a
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good,” said Nebraska Head Coach
Kerry McDermott. "And we knew we
would need that.”
The Huskers will be coming into
College Station led at court No. 1 by
sophomore Florian Preissler.
Preissler has carried the team at No.
1, compiling a respectable 9-7 record
JOHN C I.IVAS • THE BATTALIO
the A&M Tennis Center on April 6 when
conference Player of the Week twice this seas?
against the best the competition hask
to offer.
Freshmen D.J. Geatz has postedit*
best numbers thus far this season
Nebraska. He has put up an 11-6 recor.
in dual matches, playing mostly
courts No. 3 and No. 4.
The Aggies will host
Cornhuskers Sunday at noon at it*
Texas A&M Tennis Center.
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