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By Kyle Davoust
THE BATTALION
So far this season, the No. 9 Texas A&M
men’s tennis team has traveled to Indiana
and Illinois to take on top-ranked competi
tion. This Saturday, the road won’t get any
easier as they head to Durham, N.C., to face
the No. 8 Duke Blue Devils.
“Our schedule is arguably going to be
one of the toughest in the country before it’s
all said and done,” said A&M coach Tim
Cass. “With that in mind, I think this poses
another great challenge for us. Duke is a
very good team, and like us, over the last
four years they’ve been one of the most con
sistent teams in the country.”
While the Aggies (4-1) have faced some
early season tests, Duke (0-0) has yet to
play together as a team this year. Their
first match is this Thursday against
William & Mary.
However, members of their team com
peted in the ACC Indoor Championships in
Winston-Salem, N.C., last week where the
team of Peter Rodrigues and Jonathan
Stokke captured the doubles title.
Blue Devils coach Jay Lapidus said he
likes what he has seen of his team so far on
the practice courts as well as in the ACC
Championships.
“I feel like we’re a little more experi
enced than last year with most of the
guys," Lapidus said. “We lost (Michael)
Yani off the team from last year and that
kind of hurt us, but most of the guys have
all improved, and we have a good new
freshman named Peter Rodrigues from
Portugal who has played good, so I think
we’ll be strong again.”
The return of three-time All-American
Phillip King, who last year teamed with
Yani to make up the nations No. 3 doubles
team, and sophomore Ludovic Walter, who
is ranked No. 7 nationally in singles, has
given Lapidus good reason to be optimistic.
With such evenly-matched teams, there
is a good chance that Saturday’s contest will
come down to the doubles point, where
there will be an intriguing early season
match-up of a No. 1 versus a No. 2.
A&M’s top-ranked doubles team of
Lester Cook and Ante Matijevic will face its
toughest competition yet as they square up
against Duke’s No. 2 ranked team of Jason
Zimmermann and Walter, winners of the
ITA National Indoor Tennis Championships
doubles title last fall.
“If you look at most every dual match,
the doubles point is so important,” Cook
|P Beato III • THE BATTALI
A&M men's tennis head coach Tim Cass looks on as the Aggies defeat UT-Pan American 6-1 on
Jan. 19. Cass and the Aggies face No. 8 Duke in Durham, N.C., on Saturday.
said. “We played them earlier this year at
All American, and we beat them indoors.
But, obviously, it’s totally different now that
it’s a dual match, and they’ve got a little
experience under their bell also. 1 think it
will definitely be a key factor in the match.”
Cass said he believes it is going to take a
little something more from the Aggies since
they are playing on the road again.
“On paper it looks like its going to he
Watkins
Continued from page 5
experience. Despite losing 2003
National Player of the Year T.J.
Ford to the NBA’s Milwaukee
Bucks, the
Longhorns
are still
loaded with
seniors that
went on a
deep NCAA
Tournament
run last sea
son.
That [ WATKINS
experience
is something the Aggies have yet
to gain during Watkins six-year
tenure.
“Texas has won some close
ballgames,” Watkins said.
"They’re coming off a Final Four
year, and they have the confi
dence to make plays. We know
they won’t beat themselves.
We’ve got to do things right for a
full 40 minutes.”
In the series the Longhorns
have won 28 of the last 31 meet
ings dating back to the 1989-90
season. Texas has also captured
the last nine games played in
College Station.
But A&M has played every
opponent close at Reed Arena,
including a two-point loss to No.
13 Texas Tech and a five-point
loss to No. 12 Kansas.
“Obviously Texas is one of the
better teams in the Big 12,”
Watkins said. “But we got them at
home. We want a good crowd.”
This is a must-win game for
the Aggies. Climbing out of an 0-
6 hole in the Big 12 conference is
like ice skating with roller blades
It can be done, but not without a
serious amount of concentration.
Starting the conference sea
son at 0-5 is hard enough, but
the Aggies say that their confi
dence is still high despite the
bad start. A loss to Texas,
though, might just kill any con
fidence they have left.
“Our spirits are good,”
Watkins said. “We just got to go
out and get a win.
Aggies
Continued from page 5
Senior point guard Toccara
Williams will lead the team once
again and is within 13 steals of
the Big 12 record for steals (418).
“What we have to do is some
shots off transition offense,”
Blair said.
Williams’ career high steals
is nine during the Jan. 25 game
against Texas.
Last Saturday’s loss to Tech
in Lubbock was the first game in
Williams’ 101 game career she
did not record a steal.
After starting the season with
a 7-4 record, A&M has dropped
seven straight. The Aggies have
been able to keep their dignity
through January with only one
win, versus Texas State on Jan.
3, by suffering close loses to
only ranked teams.
The only non-ranked oppo
nent the Aggies have lost to in
January was Oklahoma State,
and that loss was a last second
defeat by two points.
The rivalry game against
Texas, which Texas coach Jody
Conradt described as her team
surviving, came down to the
final minute and was decided
by two points.
Texas freshman forward
Tiffany Jackson said the crowd
noise at Reed Arena interfered
with the Longhorns play.
“The crowd was going loud
after they got up early,”
Jackson said.
Blair said the strong student
support is an important part of
the team’s performance.
“I’d like to thank the students
for what they did at that last
game, they really are difference
makers,” Blair said.
Blair said he hopes a 500
bobblehead giveaway, and half
time BMX show will help bring
spectators to Saturday’s game.
“This is Super Bowl week
end; you got (A&M men’s bas
ketball versus) Texas, you got us
playing Iowa State and you got
Carolina playing New England,”
Blair said. “What else are you
going to do this weekend, no
one is going to be studying.”
evenly matched, but I always feel like
when you play on the road that the team is
probably about 10 percent better at
home,” Cass said. “So clearly, if we’re
playing them on the road and indoors, we
have to figure out how to make up 10 to
15 percent.”
The Aggies will take on the Blue Devils
at 12 p.m. on Saturday at Duke’s Sheffield
Indoor Tennis Center.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Former Aggies
seek Super Bowl
rings as New
England Patriots
When the New England
Patriots take on the Carolina
Panthers Sunday in Houston at
Super Bowl XXVIII, two Aggies will
suit up in the the Patriots’ red,
white and blue.
Former Texas A&M receiver
Bethel Johnson and defensive
lineman Ty Warren were drafted
in the first and second round,
respectively, of the 2003 NFL
Draft by New England.
Warren is a native of Bryan,
Texas, and has 33 tackles and
one sack in his first year as a
professional.
Johnson has 16 catches for
209 yards on the season with two
touchdowns. He has also
emerged as New England’s prima
ry kickoff return specialist, averag
ing 28.2 yards per return includ
ing a touchdown this season.
Johnson held the A&M record
for receiving yards until it was
broken by A&M junior receiver
Terence Murphy in 2003.
Johnson also held the A&M
career receptions record of 117
until 2003 when Murphy ended
the year 120 career catches.
Johnson, Warren and the New
England Patriots will take on the
Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl
XXVII on Sunday at 5:25 p.m.
Aggie archers
take aim at Texas
State Indoors in
Fort Worth
Texas A&M archery looks to
continue its nationally-dominating
performance in Fort Worth this
weekend at the Texas State
Indoors Tournament.
With a phenomenal 10 All-
Americans, the A&M archery
team seems to be headed in the
right direction.
"We look to win another
national championship," said
A&M head coach Kathy Eissinger.
“And we have as many All-
Americans as we did last year."
Top shooters for A&M are
juniors Mary Zorn and Lorinda
Cohen and sophomore Amber
Dawson.
Zorn is the defending world
champion while Cohen is a three
time All-American shooter in the
recurve who looks to qualify for
the 2004 Olympic Games in
Athens, Greece.
“I just want to have fun and
get my degree," Cohen said..
With the season underway,
A&M’s roster is that of an
Olympic team already.
The Aggies will not compete in
another tournament after the
Texas State Indoors until they host
the South Indoor Nationals at the
A&M Student Recreation Center.
A&M men’s
swimming and
diving move up in
the polls
Texas A&M men's swimming
and diving team moved up in the
polls Thursday as they climbed to
No. 13.
The Aggies moved up into a tie
for the 13th spot with the
University of Tennessee. The rank
ing is the highest the Aggie men
have reached this season.
The women maintained their
No. 14 ranking.
The men will face Southern
Methodist University in Dallas this
Saturday at 4 p.m. while the
women have the weekend off. The
Aggie women will next face Rice
University Friday, Feb. 6 at the
A&M Student Recreation Center
Natatorium.
For the women, their meet
with Rice will be their last home
meet of the season until Texas
A&M hosts the 2004 NCAA
Women’s Swimming and Diving
Championships.