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The Battalion
Texas A&M equestrian team wins third consecutive collegiate title
By Jordan Meserole
THE BATTALION
People often associate many
words with Texas A&M: Corps
of Cadets, football, maroon and
Aggies are just a few. There
might be a new word added to
the long list soon, and one that
many might not expect: eques
trian.
The Texas A&M equestrian
team won its third consecutive
national championship on the
first weekend of May in
Murfreesboro, Tenn. It is the
first time that A&M is the out
right winner of the trophy, shar
ing the top spot with West Texas
A&M in 2003 and Ohio State
University in 2002.
A&M also became only the
second school in equestrian col
legiate history to win three con
secutive titles, the last being
Ohio State.
“It’s quite an
achievement-phenomenal at
that-to win three years in a row
with almost a different set of
athletes each year,” said head
coach Tana Rawson. “It's nice
to not be sharing the trophy too.
I feel like the girls were given
what they deserved.”
The Aggies won in dramatic
fashion, which was strangely
similar to last year’s competi
tion. A&M entered the last
event of the show, needing sen
ior Ashley Shiftier to place sec
ond or higher in the open horse
manship event. Shiftier gave
her team just what it needed,
earning the second place ribbon.
“We all had our arms linked
and were real nervous,” said
sophomore Morgan Senac, on
waiting to hear the final results.
“Deep down though, we all
knew she could do it.”
On the individual side, senior
Jennifer Jones took the top spot
in the beginner horsemanship
class, the fourth time an Aggie
has been a top individual rider at
the national competition.
“It was exciting to win it
because everyone at nationals is
a great rider,” Jones said. “You
have to be perfect there because
one little bitty mistake often
becomes a huge mistake.”
Jones won the individual tro
phy despite having a bad ankle
and back that plagued her during
the season, with both injuries
requiring surgery. Jones
shrugged off doctors 4 sugges
tion that she have the surgery
during the season to keep help
ing her team out.
“It’s like here’s your ribbon,
trophy and saddle. Oh yeah, and
now you’re going to have sur
gery,” Jones said. “But it was
definitely worth it to put it all
off. I’d do it again too.”
The Aggies barely had any
time to celebrate, loading on a
plane back to College Station
See Champs on page 4
Junior Terri Beaudoin, a member of the Texas A&M equestrian team, sits
next to the Heritage Trophy which, is presented to the national equestrian
Brian Wills • THE BATTALION
champion every year. Beaudoin who has only been riding one year, helped
A&M win the trophy by placing third in the beginner horsemanship event.
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SPORTS IN BRIEF
Baseball ousted
from Big 12
Tournament
The No. 10 Texas A&M baseball
team (39-19) was eliminated
from the Big 12 Tournament this
previous weekend at Ameriquest
Field in Arlington.
The Aggies lost in the minimum
two games, giving up a 6-5 heart-
breaker to Oklahoma State in the
opener, and a 13-6 loser’s brack
et decision versus the No. 1
University of Texas.
In last Wednesday’s opener with
the fourth-seeded Cowboys (36-
22), the fifth-seeded Aggies bat
tled 0SU to the end. A&M struck
first and tagged OSU starter
Thomas Cowley for a pair of runs
in the top of the second inning to
take an early 2-0 lead. The Pokes
answered by rocking A&M redshirt
freshman pitcher Jason Meyer for
four runs in the bottom half of the
third to take the lead.
A&M freshman Austin Boggs
and sophomore Coby Mavroulis
each singled home a run in the top
of the fifth to tie the game at four,
but OSU would answer back again
in the seventh and eighth to steal
the game from the Aggies, 6-5.
OSU went on to beat Texas in the
semifinal and the Missouri Tigers
in the title game to take home the
tournament championship.
A&M went on to face the
Longhorns, who lost their opener
against the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Texas (49-13) shelled A&M junior
starting pitcher Zach Jackson for
three runs in the top of the second
to take an early lead.
Senior Cory Patton answered
back for the Aggies, in the bottom
half of the inning, by launching
the first pitch from Longhorn jun
ior pitcher J.P. Howell into the
seats to cut the lead to 3-1. A&M
shaved the Longhorns’ lead to 6-
5 in the fifth before UT blew the
game open in the seventh on a
bases-loaded double by freshman
Drew Stubbs.
The Aggies will begin post-sea
son play Friday against Lamar
University in Houston at 7 p.m.
Tennis season
ends on sour
note for Cook
Texas A&M men’s tennis junior
Lester Cook, who was ranked No.
13 nationally, competed for his
second year in a row at the NCAA
Singles Championship Thursday.
Similar to last year, Cook was
put out of the round of 32 players
after receiving only his third loss
of his final 22 matches in a battle
against Vanderbilt senior Chad
Harris, 7-6 (5), 7-5.
During the 74-minute first set,
Harris was able to even the score
at 4-4 and gain some momentum.
Beginning with the eighth game,
Cook won 10 of the next 12 points.
In the 12th game, Harris had
triple match point after battling
through two deuce points. Cook
was able to fight off two match
points, but gave way to Harris on
the third.
Cook will spend part of his
summer as a member of the USA
Tennis Collegiate Team that will
travel to China to compete in
exhibition matches.
Aggies grab gold,
ticket to nationals
The Texas A&M track and field
team captured a handful of
medals at Saturday's 2004
Midwest Region Track and Field
Championships, and many
Aggies advanced to the national
championships.
Aggie junior Jarrad Matthews
secured the gold medal in the
javelin by launching a 243 foot-6
inch bomb that cleared the sec
ond place finisher’s toss by 14 feet
It was Matthews' second-best
career throw and the sixth-best
throw in school history.
Also qualifying for the national
meet in the javelin was A&M sen
ior Luke Marrs, with a fifth-place
toss of 219-1.
Highlighting the track competi
tion on the women’s side was
A&M senior and six-time All-
American Melissa Gulli.
Gulli won the 5,000-meter run
with a decisive 10-second victo
ry over second-place finisher
Mary Kinyanjui of Texas
Christian University.
Also earning spots in the
national meet were A&M seniors
Ronny Jimenez for the shot put
event and Karenrose Honea for
the women's discus event.
The men and women who quali
fied for the national champi
onships will compete June 9-12 at
Meyer Stadium in Austin.
Teams prepare for pivotal game 5
By Alan Robinson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TAMPA, Fla. — Three times before in these
Stanley Cup playoffs, the Calgary Flames were 2-
2 in a series. Three times they went on the road
and won, then took the series.
Twice before in these playoffs, the Tampa Bay
Lightning played a pivotal Game 5. They won
both, once to end a series and the other time to
take control of it.
So is it any surprise the Flames and Lightning
go into Thursday night’s Game 5 of their tighter-
than-tight Stanley Cup final tied, with Tampa Bay
holding home-ice advantage but neither team real
ly in control?
“I don’t look at what number the
game is,” Lightning coach John
Tortorella said Tuesday. “It’s Game
5, and it’s exactly what it is. It’s the
first of three and we’re looking to get
to four (victories).”
The Flames are so accustomed to
being in this position, they don’t
seem intimidated by the necessity of
having to win at least once more in
Tampa, where two of the next three
games would be played. Calgary is
9-3 on the road and won Game 1 in
Tampa, where the Lightning are 8-3.
“Game 5 has got to be our best
game of the series and then we go
from there,” the Flames’ Craig
Conroy said. “We have done it
before so maybe we’ve learned something from
that, but still this is the first time we’ve done it
in the Stanley Cup finals.”
Conversely, the Lightning are glad to be home
again after getting back into the series with their
1-0 victory Monday in Calgary, goaltender
Nikolai Khabibulin’s fifth shutout of the playoffs.
So who has the advantage in a series where the
momentum, and the favorite, seemingly shifts not
just from game to game, but minute to minute?
If anything, the only two-day break in the
series couldn’t come at a better time for the
Lightning, and not just to recover from Tuesday’s
5-hour flight. Defenseman Pavel Kubina and for
ward Ruslan Fedotenko both get an extra day to
heal after sitting out Monday with injuries.
Also, star Vincent Lecavalier didn’t play the
final 4-plus minutes after being rammed into the
glass face-first by Ville Nieminen. The Lightning
have yet to disclose Lecavalier’s status for
Thursday, and the NHL hasn’t announced if
Nieminen would be suspended.
The Flames’ determination to not be out-hit
or outmuscled has forced Tampa Bay to fight
for every inch of open ice, and it’s been suc
cessful. The Lightning have scored only six
goals in four games, all but two coming in their
4-1 victory in Game 2.
But the Flames paid the price for
their overt aggressiveness by giving
the Lightning a 5-on-3 advantage
early in Game 4, which they turned
into Brad Richards’ record seventh
game-winning goal of the playoffs.
Tortorella, whose team has alter
nated wins and losses over each of
the last two rounds, isn’t surprised
the final has been so defense-orient
ed, even though both teams were
much more aggressive offensively
in previous series.
“As we’ve gone along, Calgary
has gone into more of a defensive
mode and, again, we go about our
business and try to get our job
done,” Tortorella said. “I just think
as you go through the long road in
the playoffs, it’s a matter of trying to
keep momentum.”
Calgary captain Jarome Iginla was as much
angry as he was disappointed the Flames couldn’t
keep that momentum Monday, especially with a
chance to take a commanding 3-1 lead. No team
has rallied from such a deficit in the Stanley Cup
final since the 1942 Maple Leafs.
“Now it’s a best-of-three for the Stanley Cup,”
he said. “It wasn’t supposed to be easy and I
wouldn’t want it any other way. The more on the
line, the more fun it is to play and the more fun it
is to win.”
The more on
the line, the more
fun it is to play and
the more fun it is
to win.
— Jarome Iginla
Calgary Flames Right Wing
and team captain
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