nancy? we help y tests nselors y Service en those flattops? slorris" at ace Barber ay-Friday ollege Station Tuesday, November 26,1985/The Battalion/Page 7 I" Sports Banjos Amps • Buy • Sell • Trade • Repair tas, C.S. water tower >98 Ags win home opener Women cagers down Abilene Christiaa 66-4 By DOUG HALL S—ACUwithHpo c- ¥4- •• t h f -i t In I i i i o i, ■ Hirkf»v saiH I UVTERUKBArV 47 i 1 0 I m X, ox ies 1 3y Printing | *846-3024 | IDA By DOUG HALL Spoi ls Writer Even though the Texas A&M women’s basketball team found a way to defeat Abilene Christain Monday night, 66-47, Coach Lynn Hickey wasn’t happy with the Lady Aggies’ means of doing so. Of course, Hickey u'as happy with the home-opening victory at G. Rollie White Coliseum, but she wasn’t pleased with the Lady Aggies quality of play. “I’m really disappointed,” Hickey said of the 2-0 Lady Ags. “We were a lot sharper the other night (in A&M’s season-opening victory over Stephen F. Austin Friday, 83-59).” Hickey’s disappointment stemmed from the Lady Ags’ inabil ity to convert 27 steals into points and their ability to throw the ball away constantly. A&M committed 29 turnovers on the night. “The thing that hurt us was that we couldn’t do anything with our steals,” said Hickey, A&M’s second year head coach. “We’d either miss a lay-up or throw (the ball) away — a lot of hard work, but a lot of wasted “The thing that hurt us was that we couldn’t do any thing with our steals. We’d either miss a lay-up or throw (the ball) away — a lot of hard work, but a lot of wasted motion would be the best way to sum it up.” —A&M Coach Lynn Hickey motion would be the best way to sum it up.” A&M senior guard Lisa Langston, who became the Aggies’ all-time leading scorer Friday against SFA, agreed with Hickey. “(The ACU win) was terrible,” Langston said. “I think it w'as just a case of the first home game jitters. We all wanted to impress the fans and the community so bad, we just tried too hard. We were a little out of control.” Langston, who scored only four points in her 22 minutes of playing time, wasn’t pleased with that per formance. “I just couldn’t get on track,” she said. “It seemed the harder I tried, the worse it got. But we’re not going to get down on ourselves.” The Lady Ags, who had 13 play ers contribute to the scoring, were led by 12-point performances by freshman guard Donna Roper and junior forward Paula Crutcher. A&M opened up an 11-2 lead just over five minutes into the game and never relinquished its advantage. By halftime, the Lady Ags led 33-13, despite being out-rebounded by the Wildcats, 20-15. “We’re still having rebounding troubles,” Hickey said. “Once again, we really have to get something going on the inside.” ACU opened the second half try ing to press A&M in the backcourt, but could never draw closer than 16 points. Senior guards Claudia Schleyer and Deonna Moore led ACU with 14 points each. Hickey said the Lady Ags spent too much time before the game con centrating on humiliating the the Di vision II Wildcats. “We talked too much before the game about blowing them out,” Hickey said. “We should have con centrated more on our own execu tion. We need to work on slowing it down a bit.” A&M will travel to Corvallis, Ore., this weekend for the “Big O” Tour nament, where it will face UCLA Friday at 11:00 p.m. Hickey said the Bruins are a young team with a weak inside game and average ball han dlers. “It looks like we have a chance of matching up a little bit better than we’d hoped,” she said. Hickey also said A&M is prepar ing for a rough December schedule in which it will tangle with national powerhouses Oklahoma, Louisiana State and Louisiana Tech before opening conference play against Baylor Jan. 2 at G. Rollie White. “We’re going to find out real quick what the big time is all about,” she said. 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