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Page I B • Thursday, October 16, 2003
a&m tennis teams Ags hold on after near collapse
prepare for the fall
By Blake Kimzey
THE BATTALION
Rarely in team sports is the
individual competitor at the
nexus of the team concept. In
fact, it is actually an oxymoron
and the antithesis of every great
halftime speech ever delivered;
“there is no T in team.”
On closer inspection, howev
er, this is the precept that the fall
tennis season hinges on.
The Texas A&M men’s and
women’s tennis coaches stress
the importance of developing
as an individual in the
autumn months leading up to
the team season that com
mences in January.
“I get a little more excited
about the team part of the sea
son in the spring, but in the
individual season the guys
really start to develop.” said
men’s coach Tim Cass. “We
really pinpoint a player’s style
in the fall and we look for fun
damental adjustments, like not
bending enough or changing a
player's grip, which is why
these individual tournaments
are so important.”
Those sentiments will be
echoed across the state this
weekend as the men head to
Austin for the Texas Invitational
and into West Texas for the
Midland Invitational. Freshmen
Marvin Rolle and Bryan
Wooten along with sophomore
John Nallon will be sent to the
state capital to represent A&M
at the Texas Invitational. Cass
will also send sophomore Brett
loelson, junior Zack Malmgren
#1 senior Khaled El Dorry to
rompete in the Midland
Invitational, another highly
competitive tournament.
Meanwhile, this weekend the
women will be playing for
the opportunity to advance
to the National Indoor
Championships. The women
are guided by coach Bobby
Kleinecke for the 19th straight
season, and will face the
regional netters this weekend
that will invariably challenge
A&M’s defense of the Big 12
title in the spring.
“We will see all of the
schools in the region this week
end,” Kleinecke said. “Last year
we finished first in the Big 12,
but this is a new year, and the
region is a lot stronger this year.”
If anything else, sending his
entire team to the ITA
Southwest Regional tournament
will be a good litmus test.
Furthermore, it will be an
opportunity to test the mettle
and competitive drive of his
team in these individualistically
competitive waters.
“Everybody will be going
to this tournament,” Kleinecke
said. “Thi's will be a good
indicator of where we stand in
our region.”
The tournaments this week
end are the ideal platforms to
put into play the doctrinal com
petitive preaching that typifies
fall practice. All three tourna
ments will begin on Friday and
run through Sunday. Cass uses
the royal “we” when he refers to
the individual success of his
players in the infancy of the
2003-2004 season, whose histo
ry will be written this weekend
and sealed this May.
“We are off to a great start
this year,” Cass sgid.
By Jeff Allen
THE BATTALION
Once the Kansas Jayhawks got rid of the
butterflies, things got a little tight
Wednesday night against the Aggies at G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
The Jayhawks, who had failed in their first
15 tries to defeat the Aggies including eight
losses in College Station, came out of the gate
scoring three straight points, looking to set the
tone and erase some of the ill fate that has
plagued them on previous trips to Texas A&M.
Unfortunately for the Jayhawks, those three
points were followed by a nine point Aggie run
that all but sealed the first game for A&M.
“I think it just took them a game to get in
their rhythm and get comfortable with the
facility,” said A&M coach Laurie Corbelli.
The first game ended lopsided, 30-18, but
from there on it was a tooth-and-nail battle,
including 20 ties and nine lead changes. «
“I thought that in game two our defense and
our blocking got a little sloppy and it didn’t
allow us to continue to attack them,” Corbelli
said. “I felt like that was really our fault, as
close as the game was I thought it was a lot of
things on our side not coming together.”
Standing tall for the Aggies (13-5, 5-3) on
the night was senior outside hitter Beth
Skypala, who set another career high for kills,
knocking down a game high 28. Skypala, who
had set her previous best of 17 in a five game
match against Nebraska in Lincoln, had 16
kills by the start of game four.
“It was really easy to get in a grove, the
passes were dead on and then the sets couldn’t
have been more perfect,” Skypala said.
In the second game, neither team could pull
ahead. The Aggies managed at one point to put
together a four point run to go up 14-10, but the
Jayhawks (12-7, 4-4) simply would not go
away. Kansas chipped away, eventually knot
ting the score at 15 before setting off a see-saw
battle that seemed as if it would never end.
Fortunately for all in attendance, it eventually
did, but unfortunately for the Aggies the
Jayhawks won, 34-32.
The distinct flavor of game two carried past
halftime and into the third game. It was back
and forth again, with both teams scraping with
in a point of each other for most of the game.
The Aggies finally strung a a few together late
Joshua Hobson • THE BATTALION
Texas A&M junior middle blocker Melissa Munsch goes for the kill Wednesday night against the Kansas
Jayhawks. Munsch set a new season high in the match with 21 digs. A&M beat Kansas in five games.
and went on to win 30-24.
It was Skypala again in the fourth game
for the Aggies. She put up nine of her kills in
the frame, leading the team in another close
game, one in which the Aggies trailed for the
better part. Sypala’s efforts however were not
enough to keep the Aggies’ head above the
water.
After taking the Jayhawks to consecutive
match points, the Aggies faltered and let
Kansas slip by, 31-29.
The Aggies came out quick in game five,
setting the tempo out of the gate, and quickly
building a lead.
After going up 5-1, the game returned to the
form set earlier in the match with each team
going back and fourth, the early lead though
was too much for the Jayhawks this time, as the
Aggies put away their third straight match by
winning game five, 15-11.
It was the Aggies 16th straight win
against Kansas.
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