SPORTS
The Battalion I 2.12.15
W. BASKETBALL
TENNIS
Women’s hoops to host
Arkansas at Reed Arena
Aggies look to climb
back into SEC's top five
with a victory Thursday
By Lawrence Smelser
Coach Gary Blair and
r the Aggie women’s
basketball team haven’t for
gotten comments Arkansas
made after their last match
up, which A&M won 52-50
at the final buzzer.
“After the last game, Ar
kansas said their team was
better than ours,” Blair said.
“Our team remembers that
statement. It’s time to put
up or shut up.”
After a tough loss in over
time away to No. 17 Missis
sippi State, the No. 15 Texas
A&M women’s basketball
team will look to bounce
back Thursday at Reed Are
na against Arkansas.
Arkansas (14-8, 4-6 SEC)
comes into College Station
riding a three-game winning
streak with wins against Au
burn, Alabama and No. 24
Georgia. The Razorbacks
are eighth in the SEC, so
they will be looking to move
up in the standings and try to
secure a spot in the NCAA
T ournament.
The Aggies (18-6, 6-4
SEC) are sixth in the SEC.
They are one game back of
Kentucky and will look to
climb back into the SEC’s
top five.
The Aggies are led in
scoring by junior guard
Courtney Walker, who is
averaging 14.8 points per
game.
Walker is one of many
weapons the Aggies have.
Junior guard Jordan Jones
leads the SEC and is No. 11
in the country in assists per
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game with 6.6. Senior for
ward Achiri Ade is No. 5 in
rebounds with 8.3 per game.
Walker and junior forward
Courtney Williams are No.
3 and No. 4 in field goal per
centage, and at 14.8 points
per game Walker is No. 5 in
scoring.
Blair stressed
how important
it is to win n
down the
stretch, es
pecially at
home.
“We con
trol our own
destiny by who
we play in the
end. Beat
Kentucky
and LSU
on the road
and we are in good
shape,” Blair said.
“We cannot lose at
home.”
The Aggies are
12-0 in Reed Arena
this season. Their
most notable win
was against then
No. 8 Duke on
Nov. 30. The Ra- /
zorbacks are 4-4
on the road this
season with their
most notable win
being at No. 24
Georgia.
Tip off is scheduled for
8 p.m.
Forward Taylor
Cooper catches a
pass at A&M's Feb.
1 first win over
Auburn.
The tennis
team, including
Rutuja
Bhosate, will
host UT-
Arlington at
the Mitchell
Tennis Center
Thursday.
Cody Franklin —THE BATTALION
UT-Arlington weekend match
to end three-week-long lull
By Seth Stroupe
Nw This year hasn’t gone
according to plan for
No. 18 Texas A&M.
After blanking North
Texas 4-0 in their season
opener, the Aggies went
on to drop their next two
matches to TCU and No. 1
North Carolina. Still, their
most recent loss against the
Tar Heels suggests they
might not be far off track.
“Obviously you’re never
happy when you get beat,”
said head women’s tennis
coach Howard Joffe. “But
on the day I was very pleased
based on the fact that North
Carolina is a very good team.
We played them indoors.
We are not an indoors team.
And it came down to the
last match. Since that match,
we’ve worked very diligent
ly and hard. Our main ob
jective is still to get enough
wins in the season to be well
positioned and playing our
best at the end.”
In the time since A&M
faced UNC in Houston, the
Tar Heels put together dom
inating victories over No. 2
Florida and No. 3 Georgia
en route to capturing this
year’s indoor national cham
pionship crown. Meanwhile,
the Aggies have been idle.
Thursday’s match against
UT-Arlington wasn’t added
to the schedule until two
weeks ago, but it will serve
as a much needed return to
action for A&M.
“Taking the loss to TCU
meant that we didn’t qualify
for indoors this year,” Joffe
said. “To go three weeks
without a match is prob
ably too much in the season.
So instead of us continuing
to beat up on each other in
practice every day, which
is what we’ve been doing,
I think the girls are looking
forward to facing a different
opponent. They’re excited
about tomorrow’s match
against UT-Arlington, but
they’re also just excited to
have someone else to play
against.”
In truth, Texas A&M’s
opponent was mainly deter
mined by geography — Ar
lington is only three hours
north of College Station
— and schedule availability.
Still, the Mavericks — 5-1
on the season — aren’t mak
ing the trip down just to be
someone else’s punching
bag.
“More than anything,
putting it in it’s proper con
text, we are supposed to be
a stronger team than UT-
Arlington,” Joffe said. “That
being said, they played Mis
souri, who is a pretty good
SEC team, to a match score
of 4-3. Aside from the result
of our match today, I’ll just
be looking to see how we
compete. The season obvi
ously hasn’t started off the
way we would’ve liked, and
yet the improvement from
match to match has been sig
nificant. If we can continue
to do that, then we begin to
set ourselves up for the start
of SEC play, which is obvi
ously the critical item in our
season.”
The match begins at 2
p.m. at the Mitchell Tennis
Center.
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