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Friday, December 5, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9 Sports adyAgs to host eekend tourney e 3S By Doug Hall Sports Writer ■ The Texas A&M women’s bas- kptball team will open its home Mason tonight against Mississippi [ollege at 8 p.m. in G. Rollie hte Coliseum in the second game of the Converse Lady Ag- Bes Tournament. ■ The four-team tourney, which pts Nebraska against Lamar in tlieG p.m. opener, gives the Lady Bggies a chance to improve their 1-2 record. ■ Coach Lynn Hickey, who’s be- ■nning her third season at A&M, ■id 3-0 Nebraska will be the team to beat this weekend. ■ “Nebraska upset Iowa last ■ght (Tuesday) and Iowa was jinked in the Top 20,” Hickey id. “We beat them last year on a st-minute shot, but they have erybody back off of that team.” I Hickey also said Nebraska has line of the finest college ballplay- Bs in the nation in Maurtice Ivy, |fi5-9 forward whom Hickey char- nterized as a “running, leaping Bachine.” I The Aggies, however, are not gjbout to throw in the towel. In gii(t, with the return of center Kette Garrett, who is coming off ■ stress fracture injury, the Aggie pout line will be returned to full ■rength. I Hickey said Garrett, who aver- Iged 7.1 points a game last year as a freshman, will take about two ■eeks to get back in to top form, but will give immediate help to Starting center Lisa Jordan. I “Lisa has really improved over last year,” Hickey said. “She fi- lally got angry (in last weekend’s mthern Invitational Tourney) nd played with some intensity. “I’m sure with Nette on the |oor, that will give her more con fidence. When they’re both on (he floor together they will be whilf^ able to back each other up. With Tisa, this year is like night and day from last year.” I Hickey attributed last week- Nette Garrett end’s two losses, one of which came in double overtime after leading by 14 points at the half, to the team’s youth and inexperi ence. “I thought we should have come up with at least two wins,” she said. “The first night was just terrible. The second night we had four people foul out and we still took them through two over times. “I just think we are much younger and more inexperienced than I realized. We started off so well against the Yugoslavians (the Aggies winning their exhibition match 77-68) that I got really ex cited. I learned a lot this last weekend.” The winners of tonight’s games will square off at 8 p.m. on Satur day, following the 6 p.m. consola tion match. Lady Aggie Notes . . . Neeley Hall, with the help of the Lady Aggies, is sponsoring a canned food drive for Saturday’s games amongst the dorms on campus. Anyone who brings non-perisha ble food to the game will get in for $ 1 and prizes will be given to the dorm that brings the most food. Aggies pull off sloppy86-78 win By Homer Jacobs Assistant Sports Editor Ugly. Sloppy. Scary. Call it what you will, but Texas A&M’s 86-78 victory over Southwest Texas State University Thursday night before 2,576 fans in G. Rollie White Coliseum was any thing but pretty. The Aggies led the Bobcats 68-5 1 with 11 minutes, 28 seconds left to play, and all seemed well. But seven min utes later, the Bobcats were within seven points at 70-63 after a three-point play by Patrick Williams, and a game that started out as a sleeper for the Aggies was soon turn ing into a rude awakening. “We didn’t do all the things we’re capable of tonight,” senior guard Todd Holloway said. “Mentally, we weren’t ready to play.” A&M Head Coach Shelby Metcalf said he was pleased with his team’s play for about 10 minutes of the game. “I thought we played pretty good defense for about 10 minutes starting the second half,” Metcalf said. “But I was very unhappy the first half. “I was disappointed in our rebounding, especially our offensive rebounding.” Although the Aggies were much bigger than the Bob cats, the Aggies were outrebounded 39-35. Mike Clifford did pull down 12 boards for A&M, however. Holloway and senior Winston Crite were the Aggies’ leading scorers with 18 apiece, while Bobcat sharpshooter Eliezar Gordon bombed the Aggies for 25 points to lead all scorers. A&M junior college transfer John Trezvant added 16 points for the Aggies. A&M had leads of 9-2 and and 37-22 in the first half, but sloppy A&M defense and three three-point shots by Gordon kept the Bobcats in the game with a 53-40 deficit at halftime. “They go down there and they (SWTSU) can shoot the three-point basket,” Metcalf said. “It didn’t take long for the lead to dwindle when they shoot like that.” The lead also didn’t take long to dwindle after a 21.3 percent performance in the second half at the free-throw line for the Aggies, and a poor rebounding performance in the first half from A&M’s 6-8 forward Jules Moor and 6-40 center Jessie Spinner. “We didn’t play the big guys (Moor and Spinner) the second half, and I rotated them the first half, and they had one rebound between them,” Metcalf said. “There’s not much advantage in playing the big guys if they’re not going to go in and take care of the boards for you.” Crite led the Aggies down the stretch in the second half with some key blocked shots and nine points, after a sub- par performance in the first half. “Winston got going there a little at the last,” Metcalf said. “He started relaxing and playing a little more like Winston.” The Aggies shot 51.5 percent for the game, but allowed the Bobcats a 57.1 shooting percentage, which points to the lack of defense on A&M’s part. 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