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he Battalion inges yers Aggies try to turn the comer I Press International IRK — Confessed wiWiUMiMi By BRANDON BERRY Sports Writer Wish” Kunm’aniw When the Texas A&M women's ■'Oet/ replaced hi* ^basketball team tips off against iw vet Mo n d av ‘ “Wexas Christian tonight at 7:30 p.m. eys, including i)' 1 Fort W()rth ' 1 atlim w il* be •n mugged ^ "'miing more than just jumping center 'Ke in defense kJ brtheAggi , e ?' » vs before GoeuistrSl Tatum ;, ,ke ,he en,,re Aggic rraigned on ,h " ( l eam ’ wl11 be attem P t,n K to turn rriously wou3» round a season P ,a » ucd with ,rus * 10 asked him rT Wation and pain. ibway train 1) ^1 " ,n J U , rieS . h " ve iuS l ki " ed us ,h i s Reason, said Texas A&M Womens enner, Goetz's | or , RRasketball Coach Lynn Hickey. “We he resigned becatiyBia''en’t been able to keep any conti- •vuh his client overiMmity in HUr sta, ' tin K fme-up. It’s " ease but would noS reat t() h ave Michell back, but that’s re. Xnother change the girls will have to s i < >n is based eniircff eal w ' tl1 - s ‘e irreconcilable "d 0ne thin 8 1 can t find fault with 'e have concern ins® ( the team’s) attitude. They’ve «»the charges sho!ildB iever P ven U P’ no mat ter how diffi- Bt enner said. “| n Malt the situation.” brief association!® Lately, those situations have come him as a person and®' th alarniin l? frequency. T he Ag- sympathize withhiii® es are on the season, but own raeal." Kn 0-3 Southwest Conference record Joseph Kelner JM a f°ur-game losing streak. -k have taken over® F,ome court *°sses to Arkansas ■67-81) and Texas-San Antonio (51- ■61) were sandwiched around a road wit/, a friend of(J& am e loss to Baylor (60-71). essed gunman loldST Hic L e y said the low-point, how- lawyers liecause it-iJever, was a recent 66-62 loss at home unsel on (he ra^ JtoSMU. I twice and could® “That one really hurt because the its feelings. ®girls were really used to beating i he was muggedbyiRSMfi." Hickey said. “I don’t think r to file men's rooniB lhe y expected (SMU) to play so ag- ■ The muggers too|®R ress ' ve fy” eat him unconsciomB Sophomore forward Rochelle also was mugged iRhennett said the Aggies recent woes the drivewav of lB can he traced to one lethal deficiency iome. ■—the team’s shooting percentage, a criminal lawyer J “The shots just aren’t falling for I Mafia suspects in iB us ri ght now and it's really frustra- Rting,” Bennett said. teen dubbed the® . With nationally-ranked Texas or Death Wish"giiM iech, Houston and 1 exas coming •harles Bronson moiiB u P on the schedule, Hickey said the Aggies can’t afford to become dis couraged with themselves. "(The coaches) have never told the girls to win or else,” she said. "But we do demand that they give their total effort out there every night. “This conference has really im proved, while we have had to stay pretty much with the same team we nad last year. Because the coaching change (Hickey is in her first season at Texas A&M) happened so late last year, we didn’t really have a chance to recruit. This team is mostly se niors. “1 think it would be really easy for a senior team to give up after all they have been through, but they haven’t. They’re still out there trying to im prove and learn some of the things we want them to do. This team needs to learn how to win. They need to have that one night where everything clicks. Once they have felt it once, it will happen again." The game with TCU could be just the classroom environment the Ag gies need to receive a passing grade in the win column. TCU is 0-4 in conference play and has a relatively new women s basketball program. Hickey said, despite the apparent talent differential between the two teams, the Aggies cannot afford to take the Lady Horned Frogs lightly. “When you go out on the road, you have to have your head set right,” she said. "We’ve competed with every team we’ve played against, but little things have kept going wrong. The odds have been against this team. I really hope things turn around for them.” The next home game for the Ag gies is Jan. 23 against No. 17 Texas Tech. The Ags play No. 2 Texas this coming Saturday in Austin. ery soft-spoken, gd iho was unfortunattk| position and he hadii elf and he didfSIotnid usly he’s unhappy tb hose that attacked his Connell wins Classic Texas A&M tennis player Grant Connell won the Milwaukee Tennis Classic Monday. The Aggie All-American defeated •rested He doesn’tli®' c ^ e Renenberd of SMU 6-4, 4-6 mkly. he’s not hap# ndin , the fmal before 4,000 in ^ the Milwaukee Tennis Center. i’i want celebrity statu! “It was a great win,” A&M Tennis Coach David Kent said. "This tour nament is the largest tournament be sides the NCAA so it’s quite a feather in his cap. The only set he lost was in the final. We’re just real excited about this one.” Photo by PETER ROCHA Texas A&M’s Mary Ann Swearngin goes high in the air to feed an underhand pass to a teammate against SMU. The Ag gies will attempt to post their first Southwest Conference vic tory when they battle Texas Christian tonight in Fort Worth. tz is not a vigilantt,' “He never before mi onvicted of any crimt id the facts are that It ably and understand- e-threatening situatioi being demanded ol three of his four al have refused to testili id jury. The woundfl ave about a dozei ing against them and n district attorney ha (rant them immunin tion. shooting victims, Dai , remained in a co® in critical conditional Hospital, a spokesma pinal cord was severed ving him perinanenili n the waist down, e of his surrender in re on New Year's Eve d to police that hen® :e the charges. Ne» ficials said Goetz coo-F .hooting and the con-1 ned elements of pK'| :S $2 , '!!u llc»pl On CUT M" 1 IULMAN " EATRESj IM Show Sit. 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College cage experts said SMU was capable of reaching the Final Four in 1985, especially after cen ter Jon Koncak and the Mustangs gave Patrick Ewing and George town a scare in last year’s NCAA tournament. AH those lofty expectations put quite a bit of pressure on the Mus tangs to produce this season. But so far, SMU has done nothing but produce. Victories over power- nouses like Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arkansas and, recently, North Carolina is proof of that. Shelby Metcalfs Ags played their hearts out in front of the largest crowd of the season in G. Rollie White Coliseum (7,346), but it wasn’t enough to upset the Mustangs last Friday nignt. Th^ Stangs dominated the Ags during the last five minutes, turning a slim 54-56 lead into a 73-60 vic tory quicker than you could say “Carl Wright’s a hot dog.” If anyone has any doubts about how good SMU really is, ask North Carolina Head Coach Dean Smith, or, better yet, just ask Shelby himself. Metcalf described the No. 3 Mustangs as well as anyone could during his post-game interviews: “It wasn’t so much A&M. It was just too much SMU. They just wore our players down and we tightened up offensively dtnvn the stretch. We lost the game on the offensive end late in the game. We just showed (SMU) too much respect towards the end. I’m not happy with the job we did in the last five minutes. They’re without a doubt the test team we’ve played this season." I know Arkansas’ Coach Sutton disagrees with Shelby, but the Ra- zorbacks will get another shot at being the best in Barnhill Arena in a few weeks against SMU. Until then, hang in there Eddie. It’s not so bad to have the second best team in the S WC. Is it? 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