Page 12/The Battalion/Monday, February 3, 1986
Lady Ags
blitz Bears
Crutcher paces A8dVI
to 70-44 win in Waco
By DOUG HALL
Sports Writer
After completing the first round
of Southwest Conference with a me
diocre 4-4 record, Texas A&M wom
en’s basketball team cranked up its
offense and applied a tough pres
sure defense to overwhelm the Bay
lor Bears 70-44 Saturday evening in
Waco.
It was an impressive win for A&M
Coach Lynn Hickey and her 11-9
Lady Aggies who have struggled this
season to combine a strong offense
with an equally tough defense.
“Things just seemed to come to
gether, both on offense and de
fense,” said Aggie forward Paula
Crutcher, who led all players with 19
points and 14 rebounds. “We played
real well as a team. We applied
tough defensive pressure and kept
our intensity up the whole game.”
Baylor, on the other hand, ruined
any chance it had of imprpving its 5-
14 record by hitting only 18 of 64
shots from the field (28.1 percent).
The Bears fell to 3-6 in the confer
ence, 5-15 overall.
Crutcher, whose season average is
only 9.8 points a game, was one of
four Aggies to score in double fig
ures. Freshmen Lisa Jordan and
Donna Roper had 11 points each,
while senior Lisa Langston contrib
uted 10.
“Paula Crutcher played really
well,” Hickey said. “She scored well,
was tough under the boards and was
under control. Lisa Jordan also re
bounded well and Donna Roper did
a nicejob.”
The Aggies’ pressure defense
forced 25 Baylor turnovers, many of
which the Aggies converted into
transition points.
Hickey said opening up a 38-25
halftime lead gave her the chance to
use 11 of her 14 players, eight of
whom scored.
“We used our running game very
well,” Hickey said. “We switched a
lot of people in and out of the game,
and that’s good. The way I look at it,
the more people you play, the better
off you are. At the same time, our
nucleus played a good bit.”
In addition to using the Lady Ags’
running game, Hickey said she was
forced to use a lot of players because
of the oppressive heat in the Heart
O’ Texas Coliseum.
A&M’s Rosalind Brown (12) drives past a Baylor defender for an
easy layup Saturday in Waco. The Lady Ags buried the Bears, 70-44.
“I’m not sure what the problem
was,” she said. “Somebody told us
that the heatets were on when we
got there. We were sweating just sit
ting on the bench.”
Crutcher said she was pleased
with her strong performance, add
ing that she hoped it would continue
through the Lady Ags’ eight remain
ing regular-season games.
“I hope to carry a better load this
half,” Crutcher said, “but I don’t
know if it will be on offense or de
fense.”
Crutcher also said the Lady Ags
need to continue playing 40 minutes
of intense basketball to compete with
the better teams in the conference,
namely Texas, Houston, Texas Tech
and Arkansas. All of those teams de
feated the A&M in the first half of
SWC play.
“I think we’ve done real well this
season,” Crutcher said. “We might
have expected too much, but, con
sidering our youth, we’ve done well.
“We’re at the point now where we
hoped to be a little bit better. But
that comes with the territory.”
A&M men netters serve
i
up 2 weekend victories
By KEN SURY
Assistant Sports Editor
The Texas A&M men’s tennis
team played both at home and
away this weekend, and in the
end the results were the same —
victory.
The 15th-ranked Aggies beat
Pan American 8-1 Friday at the
Omar Smith Tennis Center, but
the wins were harder to come by
against No. 25 Southwest Loui
siana Sunday as the Aggies
sneaked by 5-4.
On Friday, Mark Smith was the
only A&M victim against Pan
American, but Sunday, “He saved
the day,” A&M Men’s Coach Da
vid Kent said. “He had just a phe
nomenal comeback. He was down
5-2 in the third set and came back
to win.
Kent said his team faced adver
sity from more than just the
Southwest Louisiana players.
“It was the worst-acting crowd
we’ve ever played in front of,”
Kent said. “The fans were just
horrible. It was like a wrestling
match out there.
“It’s tough to win on the road,
so this is really a good plus for
us.”
A&M’s Kimmo Alkio remains
undefeated in spring singles play,
but it took three sets to do it Sun
day as he defeated Ashley Rhone
6-1,4-6, 6-4.
A&M women crush NTSU
The Texas A&M women’s ten
nis team defeated North Texas
State with such ease Saturday that
it took an injury default for
NTSU to gain its only win.
A&M’s only loss came in the
No. 2 singles match between
A&M’s Kim Labuschagne and
NTSU’s Holly Pugsley. Labus
chagne had won the first set 6-1,
and was leading 4-1 in the second
when she twisted her ankle as she
appproached the net to return a
volley.
A&M Coach Bobby Kleinecke
said her injury was not as serious
as it first appeared, but she was
kept from continuing her match
to allow as much healing time as
possible before she and doubles
teammate Karen Marshall com
pete in the ITCA nationals tour
nament Thursday through Sun
day.
Photo bv GREG BAIU\
Texas A&M’s Russ Simmons returns a forehand volley Friday
against Pan American. The Aggies defeated the Broncs 8-1.
The 4th Bryan-College Station
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Sunday, Feb. 9,1986
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