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February 2,191
Aggie Ladies fall to hot Cougars
reaffirms dominance
by Gaye Denley
Battalion Staff
Coach Cherri Rapp had
promised that Monday night’s
game with the University of
Houston would be nothing like
the Lady Cougars’ 73-36 blow
out of the Aggie Ladies in last
week’s Southwest Conference
tournament.
“Next time we play Houston,
it won’t be that kind of game,”
she had said.
It wasn’t. Though they drop
ped their second straight game
to the Lady Cougars 77-65 Mon
day in G. Rollie White Coliseum,
any resemblance to Thursday’s
tournament game, Texas
A&M’s worst of the year, ended
there.
Freshman post Michell
Tatum broke the 20-point mark
for the second time in less than a
week, scoring 22 Monday to
spark an inside game that
accounted for 37 of Texas
A&M’s 65 points. Tatum was 10
of 17 from the field, while her
team connected on 28 of 55
attempts for 50 percent, the
Ladies’ highest of the season.
“We had a great offensive
game,” she said. “We hit the
boards not quite as well as we
should have, but we hung in
there.”
Another freshman post, Ann
Trinka, was the other half of the
Ladies’ inside attack, finishing
with 15 points on seven of 13
attempts and one free throw.
Guard Romy Gandy had eight
points, and Jenni Edgar added
four to give the Aggie freshmen
a total of 49.
“Our offense was much bet
ter,” Rapp said. “Romy Gandy
did an excellent job at point
guard. I’m pleased to have the
freshmen come through like
they did tonight.”
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offense, however, wasn’t
enough to put away a Houston
team with a pair of all-SWC
posts of its own. Vickey Finch
and Tylenia Nichols combined
for 43 points to lead Houston’s
58 percent shooting perform
ance. The Lady Cougars also
sank seven of eight free throws
for 87 percent, compared to
Texas A&M’s 85 percent.
“Our post defense was terri
ble,” Rapp said. “It’s the reason
we lost the game. And Houston
was really playing well — they
w’ere hitting everything they put
up from the floor, and it’s really
hard to beat a team when they’re
playing like that.”
Houston coasted to a 39-30
halftime lead, doing most of its
scoring in the last five minutes of
the first half, Tatum said. At one
point in the second half, the
Cougars were ahead by 22 until
the Aggie defense began to
tighten in the closing minutes,
she said.
“Our defense was so much
better in the last five minutes,”
she said. “If only we could’ve
held the posts (on defense), we
could’ve won.”
The loss, their third straight,
drops the Aggie Ladies’ season
mark to 7-15 with five regular-
season games remaining, most
of them against SWC teams. The
Ladies travel Wednesday to
Waco to play Baylor, which de
feated them 74-60 when they
met Jan.9.
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staff photo by Sumanesli Apt
University of Houston junior post Vickey
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