SWIMMING & DIVING
Aggies taking 16 to NCAA Championships: WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The Texas A&M women's swimming and diving team will send 16 competitors to the 2010 NCAA Championships set for Thursday through Sunday at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center.
The Aggies will have at least one entry in every race at the meet, including all five relays. Ten of the 16 Aggie competitors will be making return trips to the NCAA Championships, including four seniors who will be attending their fourth NCAAs.
The Aggies have finished in the top 10 at the NCAA meet for three straight years and were eighth last season in College Station.
Representing the Aggies will be seniors Alia Atkinson, Ella Doerge, Melissa Hain, Kristen Heiss, Emily Neal, Julia Wilkinson and Sarah Woods, juniors Melanie Dodds, Lindsey King, Jaele Patrick and Maria Sommer, sophomores Rita Medrano and Janie Potvin, and freshmen Kendra Chernoff, Maureen McLaine and Tess Simpson.
TENNIS
Aggies upend No. 14 Arkansas: Texas A&M's Elzé Potgieter defeated Anouk Tigu 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 to give the women's tennis team a much-needed 4-3 victory over Arkansas on Wednesday at the Mitchell Tennis Center.
With the victory, the Aggies evened their mark at 5-5, while Arkansas, an NCAA Sweet 16 team last season in College Station, dropped to 12-5.
A&M won all three doubles matches and then got the three points it needed for the victory from its top three lines.
Morgan Frank got the best of two tiebreaks to down Kate Lukomskaya at No. 2, which gave the Aggies their third point.
Freshman Nazari Urbina made quick work of Emily Carbone, winning 6-2, 6-2 at No. 3.
Stephanie Davidson and Frank put A&M up 1-0 in the doubles (8-3) and Christi Liles and Sheri Olivier then clinched the point with an 8-5 win at No. 3.
Moments later Potgieter and Urbina made it a sweep with a 9-7 decision.
A&M's next match is at 4 p.m., Friday at the Mitchell Center in the Aggies' Big 12 opener against Kansas. The men will also play that day, at noon against Lamar and at 6 p.m. vs. Pepperdine.
-- Eagle staff reports
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