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High hopes
lens tennis looks to break records in Big 12 Championship
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By Kyle Davoust
THE BATTALION
|Tie Big 12 Men’s Tennis
mpionship represents anoth
er opportunity for underdogs to
at top teams and a chance
the top teams to improve in
onal standings,
or the No. 22 Texas A&M
for
nat
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men’s tennis team (20-7, 6-1
Big 12), a good showing could
be the difference between fin-
m the top l<> and being
picked to host a round of the
MAA Tournament.
PBJrhese opportunities will take
ilpplace in Norman, Okla., at the
Hbil versify of Oklahoma
Haidington Family Tennis
JCaiier starting Friday.
1^0. 2 Baylor University (22-
HhJ'-O) clearly established itself
**' as the Big 12’s top team by
breezing through conference
pla\ unscathed. The Bears were
hardly challenged in obtaining a
perfect record, winning with a
combined score of 45-4, which
tlilcr include shutouts against the
University of Colorado,
4 Urn ersity of Nebraska, No. 33
Itli: University of Texas and No. 29
is.i’cBahoma State University. In
sec fact the closest conference
screpatch Baylor played was a 5-2
I Hd win over A&M on April 3.
[HtKjB'Baylor is maybe one man
iff. better than anyone else in the
colference,” said OSU coach
ytej, |Janies Wadley. “But that doesn't
■an that one man can’t have a
spr ined ankle, bad attitude or
■ even a girlfriend make them
mail. And when you have one
gi| not show up, it affects you
I by two points, and you only
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r k
Senior Mohamed Dakki returns a volley against Oklahoma State last Saturday
need four to win.”
While Baylor has clearly
established itself as the favorite,
A&M has positioned itself as
the Bears’ top challenger after
coming on strong to finish sec
ond in the conference. The
Aggies have won nine of their
last 10 matches, a streak most
teams would like to avoid deal
ing with. Their 5-2 road win
over Texas and 6-1 home domi
nation of Oklahoma State put
the Aggies in position to avoid
Baylor until the last round of
the tournament.
“We’ve been playing better,”
said A&M senior captain
Khaled El Dorry. “We defied a
lot of odds against (No. 12 Rice
University). We lost the doubles
point and came back against
Texas on the road when we were
getting killed for the first hour
and a half. And now we beat
Oklahoma State, which is a real
ly good team, really bad.”
Despite the previous accom
plishments, the regular season
means little when entering tour
nament play. The Big 12 is pos
sibly the toughest conference in
the nation, and each team must
play its best to remain standing.
“The Big 12 is a great con
ference, obviously the best con
ference in the country,” said
Baylor coach Matt Knoll. “We
always have teams competing
for the national championships
Evan O'Connell • THE BATTALION
at the George P. Mitchell Tennis Center,
in every sport. As far as tennis,
we had four teams in the Sweet
16 last year. Ifs just a tough
conference all around.”
The Aggies understand this
as well, knowing they cannot
simply overlook other teams on
their way to a possible final
round showdown with Baylor.
“We have to think about
teams like Oklahoma State and
Texas,” said A&M junior Lester
Cook. “There are some tough
teams, so we can’t just think
about Baylor. There are a whole
lot of good teams in the Big 12.”
The tournament will begin at
9 a.m. Friday when No. 2 seed
Texas A&M faces No. 7 seed
University of Colorado.
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A&M softball
blows out Texas
By Nikki Knight
THE BATTALION
The Longhorns weren’t
even given a full seven
innings to try to defeat the
Aggies Wednesday night. No.
24 Texas A&M (31-16, 13-1
Big 12) run ruled the
University of Texas (23-20, 5-
10) in five innings in front of
an all-time record crowd of
1,470 at the Aggie Softball
Complex, 11-1. The win
moved A&M to No. 1 in the
Big 12 Conference.
“Tonight was awesome,”
said junior infielder Adrian
Gregory. “We hit the whole
lineup, one through nine. The
energy was high because the
fans really packed the
stands.”
Carrying momentum from
the weekend win over the
University of Missouri, the
Aggies started out strong,
allowing no hits in the first
inning and then scoring three
runs on four hits.
Freshman Sharonda
McDonald singled to left field
and advanced to second on an
error. Sophomore outfielder
Rocky Spencer reached base
on a walk, and then junior out
fielder Jana James singled
through the left side, scoring
McDonald.
Later in the inning, sopho
more utility player Kristin
Gunter doubled, knocking in
two more runs.
In the top, of the second
inning, Longhorn junior
infielder Wynter Turner
reached base on an error and
was advanced to third on a
double by sophomore infielder
Chez Sievers. Junior first
baseman Alexis Garcia
reached first on another error,
which scored Turner for the
Longhorns first but only run.
But, senior pitcher Jessica
Kapchinski kept her cool and
did not allow any earned runs.
“It was a little more of a
battle,” Kapchinski said. “We
just had to get the outs and get
out of the inning.”
Kapchinski is now 12-1 in
Big 12 play and was named
Big 12 Pitcher of the Week
Tuesday.
Texas head coach Connie
Clark said Kapchinski’s pitch
ing was phenomenal.
“Christina (Gwyn) and Lizi
(Sowers) are not strikeout
pitchers,” Clark said. “We
have to play defense and score
runs for them, and we didn’t
do that.”
The Aggies returned in the
bottom of the second to put
four more runs on the board,
including a three-run home run
to left field by Gregory.
Sophomore outfielder Rocky
SpenceUs stolen base brought
the team total to 113 for the
season, setting a new team
record. Junior Texas pitcher
Lizi Sowers then came in to
pitch for the Longhorns and
end the inning.
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