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Friday, October 3, 2003
THE BATTAIN!
ITA tournament
awaiting Aggies
Aggies host streaking K-State
By Jeff Allen
THE BATTALION
By Blake Kimzey
THE BATTALION
Members of the Texas A&M
men’s and women’s tennis
teams will be scattered across
the country this weekend at their
respective Intercollegiate Tennis
Association
All-American
tournaments.
Some of
the nation’s
most talented
netters will
wait for senior
Khaled El
Dorry and All-
American jun
iors Lester Cook
CASS
and Ante
Matijevic at the annual ITA tour
nament held in Chattanooga,
Tenn.
The 10-day event is the
largest single tournament of the
season, drawing more than 300
competitors; it is also the first of
three national championship
events at the Division I level
during the season.
A&M men’s coach Tim Cass
said the ITA draws the nation’s
finest individual competitors
every year, making the event a
virtual “Who’s Who” of colle
giate tennis.
“The fall season is basically
our individual season,” Cass said.
“The ITA, in particular, should be
a great measuring stick for these
guys because 45 of the top 50
college players in the nation will
be there. This is our biggest tour
nament of the fall and it will be a
good chance to see where the
guys stand nationally.”
El Dorry will start competi
tion in the pre-qualifying round
that begins today, and he will
need to win five matches to
reach the 64-player qualifying
round and then two matches in
the qualifying round to reach the
64-player main draw next week.
If El Dorry makes it through
the pre-qualifying round of 256
players, he will be joined by
Matijevic and Cook when they
begin main draw singles and
doubles play next Thursday.
The women, however, will
head west to the ITA Riviera
All-American tournament in
Pacific Palisades, Calif, where
the top women’s players in the
country will be looking to set
themselves apart.
“We’ve been working for a
month now, and as the fall sea
son goes on it is a learning
process,” said A&M women’s
coach Bobby Kleinecke. “The
ITA is the second strongest tour
nament of the year for us, which
includes the spring season.”
The pre-qualifying round for
the women’s ITA starts this
Saturday. A&M will send pre
qualifying freshman Helga
Vieira, sophomore Nicki
Mechem, junior Lauren Walker
and senior Roberta Spencer.
Spencer and Walker will also be
playing in the first round of pre
qualifying doubles play.
Senior Jessica Roland,
ranked No. 36 in the preseason, |
received a berth in the qualify
ing portion of the tournament
beginning Oct. 7.
The ITA All-American tour
naments should provide exposure
for some of the more experienced
and nationally ranked netters in
the men’s and women’s tennis
teams. Kleinecke said this tour
nament will set the bar for the
rest of the year and will be a good
benchmark for where his team is
headed.
“The ITA is very comparable
to the NCAA Tournament, and
our preparation for the year
starts here (at the ITA),”
Kleinecke said.
Folks around College Station are familiar
with the adage that any team can win on any
given day. For the most part, the concept has
been drilled into the Aggie sports conscious
ness for longer than most Aggies care to
remember and, for better or worse, it’s a les
son that nearly every team, regardless of
where it’s from, has to learn.
On Sept. 24, Kansas State was reminded
of the tough lesson on the floor at the Ferrell
Center in Waco. The then-No. 9 Wildcats,
carrying their highest-ever national ranking
along with a 12-match and 19-game win
ning streak, got beat by an unranked Baylor
team in four games.
The match was one of great contrasts; the
Wildcats hit .500 as a club in the second
game, thrashing the Bears, 30-11, but then
went totally silent and hit just .062 in the
next game en route to the consecutive losses
that ended the match.
The letdown was enough to inspire the
now No. 12 Wildcats for their trip home to
play Oklahoma, a team that has been play
ing the role of painkiller in the early going
of Big 12 volleyball.
When the Wildcats (13-3, 3-1 Big 12)
come into G. Rollie White Coliseum
Saturday, they'll be looking to keep building
off the recovery they managed against the
Sooners. The Aggies (10-4, 2-2), however,
will be coming off one of the toughest
stretches on their schedule — one including
road matches against Texas and Nebraska.
“I think playing the best team helps us
realize the truth about our team,” said
A&M coach Laurie Corbelli. “Where we
JP Beato III • THE BATTALION
A&M outside hitter Laura Jones and the Aggie vol
leyball team host No. 12 Kansas State on Saturday.
are, what we have to pinpoint and what we
have to fix for the future. I feel like it’s eas
ier to get prepared and fired up when you
have a great challenge. I’d rather prepare to
play a top team than anyone else.”
Fritz, who was named Big 12 Coach of
the Year last year in her third year coaching
the Wildcats, will be bringing some experi
ence with her. The Wildcats returned six
starters from last year’s second place Big 12
squad. Senior Laura Downey-Wallace,»;
was named the Big 12 Libero of the Year
season, currently leads the Big 12 in digs.
Downey-Wallace has company at the
of the Big 12 charts, as K-State se«
Lauren Goehring leads the Big 12 a
nation in hitting percentage and hasea»j
Big 12 Player of the Week honors. Tin
accolades go along with her fourAl
Tournament selections this year.
Rounding out some of the heavy
for K-State is junior Valeria Heijas, who
a career high in kills against the Sooi®
while reigning as Big 12 Player of the W«|
“They have some really nice at
Corbelli said. “They’re all returners
are we, so I feel like we know what we
going to meet.”
The Aggies have handled their
schedule admirably to this point, but hai
come up short against ranked opponents,
including losses against No.l Sc
California and No. 7 Nebraska, and thinj
seemed in hand late Wednesday night again
Texas when the Aggies went up twogamestu
the Longhorns.
"We didn’t get smoked or anything
Corbelli said. “We were very friendly ani
gave our rivals a real nice present and I
we are more mad at ourselves, and not
we’re trying to turn the anger and frustratioi;
into action.”
During the match the Aggies had five
players reach double figures in kills, coi
uing the pattern the club has set of late.
Junior Kendra Felder also continued to
strong play, posting her fourth straight dou
ble figure performance in kills, while seniot
Beth Skypala lead the team with 19 digs
First serve Saturday night against K-Sl
is at 7 p.m. in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Aggies on the road
against OSU, Kansas
The Texas A&M soccer team
will play two games away from
the Aggie Soccer Complex this
weekend.
The No. 3 Aggies (8-1, 1-0
Big 12) play at Oklahoma State
tonight before traveling to play
the University of Kansas on
Sunday.
OSU enters the match with a
perfect 10-0 record, including
two wins in the Big 12. The
Cowgirls high-powered
offense knocked off Texas Tech
and Baylor last weekend, and
has outscored its opponents
49-3.
OSU’s Adrians Radtke has
12 goals and seven assists to
lead the Cowgirls.
Flowever, A&M is a perfect 4-
0 in Stillwater.
The Jayhawks also boast a
strong record at 9-2, and split a
pair of Big 12 games last
weekend. Both of Kansas’ loss
es have been by one goal.
Forward Caroline Smith
leads the Jayhawk offense with
11 goals and two assists.
Goalkeeper Meghan
allowed just 10 goals in 1,007
minutes.
A&M will counter with goal
keeper Katie Jo Spisak, who
earned defensive player of the
week honors from the Big 12
during the last month of
September after posting her
fourth shutout of the season
last Sunday
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