Special to The Eagle
BASKETBALL
Students to get in free to men's regular-season finale: Texas A&M students will be admitted free to Saturday's men's basketball game at 1 p.m. against Missouri at Reed Arena.
Students who registered and accepted their tickets through the online lottery will be admitted beginning at 11:45 a.m. Students with a valid A&M identification card will be admitted at noon. Once the student allotment of 4,300 seats are filled, additional students will be admitted on a standing-room only basis.
SWIMMING
Aggie women qualify 13 for NCAAs: The Texas A&M women's swimming team has qualified at least 13 for the NCAA Championships on March 19-21 at the Student Rec Center Natatorium, the NCAA announced Thursday.
Aggies who will compete are Triin Aljand, Alia Atkinson, Melissa Hain Codie Hansen, Casey Hurrell-Zitelman, Marissa Jasek, Lindsey King, Megan Latone, Christine Marshall, Rita Medrano, Emily Neal, Maria Sommer and Sarah Woods.
A&M also has qualified all five of its relay teams.
The NCAA will announce additional qualifiers before the meet.
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Aggies set school records: AUSTIN -- Texas A&M men's swimmers set a pair of school records and likely earned spots in the NCAA Championships at the Austin Grand Prix on Thursday morning.
Balazs Makany, Brad Raiford, Casey Strange and Shawn Clarke swam to a school-record 2 minute, 53.48-second time in the 400-yard freestyle relay, a mark that counts as a solid NCAA "B" cut. Makany, a two-time Hungarian Olympian, led off the relay in 42.96, which set a school record for the 100 freestyle and likely qualifies him for the NCAA meet individually.
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Hurrell-Zitelman breaks A&M's oldest women's record: Texas A&M sophomore Casey Hurrell-Zitelman broke the oldest standing A&M women's swimming record on the first of four days of action at the Speedo Championship Series Southern Sectionals at the Student Rec Center Natatorium on Thursday.
Hurrell-Zitelman broke the 19-year-old 1,000-yard freestyle record of 9 minutes, 49.61 seconds set by Joan Wojtowicz at the 1990 NCAA Championships in Austin, winning in 9:43.91.
All 19 of A&M's women's swimming school records have now been set in the past two seasons.
TENNIS
Aggie women fall to Horned Frogs: TCU won the final two singles matches to beat Texas A&M's women's tennis team 4-3 on Thursday at the Mitchell Tennis Center in a back-and-forth match.
TCU (5-5) won the doubles point, but A&M's Lauren Santacroce, Christi Liles and Elze Potgieter won their singles matches to help the Aggies build a 3-2 lead before TCU's final rally.
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A&M men to hit the road: The Texas A&M men's tennis team (3-4) will play Boise State at 2 p.m. Friday in Boise, Idaho, and Washington at 2 p.m. Sunday in Seattle.
SOFTBALL
A&M to host Aggie Invitational: The No. 17 Texas A&M softball team will host Kent State, Lousiana Tech, Stephen F. Austin and Utah in the Aggie Invitational this Friday through Sunday.
The Aggies (14-8) have won nine of their last 11 games and open the Invitational at 5:15 p.m. Friday againt Utah. On Saturday, A&M plays Kent State at 3 p.m. and Utah at 5:15 p.m. Then on Sunday, the Aggies will face Louisiana Tech at 2:30 p.m. and SFA at 4:45 p.m.
-- Special to The Eagle
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