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ady Ags squash Frogs 81-63
By Cray Pixley
Sports Writer
( ■he Texas A&M women’s basket-
■ team ended a three-game losing
Ire.ik Wednesday night at G. Rollie
■ite Coliseum with an 81-63 win
«{ • the Texas Christian Lady
I s -
&M upped its record to 10-7
all with a 4-4 Southwest Confer-
; split.
he Lady Aggies won the tip-off
^[anfl scored quickly to begin a slow-
first half. Both teams were
^•■gued by air balls and off-the-rim
'shots as they struggled to put points
■ ^Wilie board.
■ I Karly in the I li st halt AitM’s N'ette
F ^^Rrett left the court with an injury
t seemed to shake-up the Lady
Igies.
|‘We started the first half slowly
when Nette (Garrett) got hurt a
[tic ran through the team,” Head
—achLynn Hickey said.
[IP HGarrett returned to play late in
" le first half.
Bn addition to a slow start, early
trouble kept Lisa Herner,
nna Roper and Lisa Jordon on
bench most of the first half.
Lady Lady Aggie action included
/Vendy Jennings three-point goal
4:46 left in the half that was
quickly followed bv a Roper layup.
Minings had another three-pointer
,85C Hthesecond half.
he Lady Aggies maintained a
ng
small but steady lead throughout
and ended the opening period with
a six-point lead.
Traci Thomas turned in a strong
first half, leading A&M scoring with
12 points.
“Traci had a good start and got
the rest of the team going,” Hickey
said.
A&M opened the second half
strong and steadily picked up the
pace of the game while TCU contin
ued to struggle.
The Lady Aggies pulled away
with a 25-point lead with 5:48 left in
the second half.
“We came out playing hard and
picked up our running game,”
Hickey said. “Our defense im
proved, and we had better team
communication.”
Roper led the team with 18 points
followed by Jordon with 16 points.
Herner and Thomas rounded out
the double-figure scorers with 12
points each.
The Lady Aggies won without
Evelyn Sanders, whose right knee
was injured against Texas.
Sanders will be out for the next
two games but may return for play
against Baylor on Feb. 13.
The TCU game ends a steak of
71-consecutive game in which Sand
ers has played since joining the team
in the 19885-86 season.
The Lady Aggies will play two
road games and then return to the
Coliseum to take on Baylor.
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&M women’s tennis team tops Lamar
By Curtis L. Culberson
Assistant Sports Editor
The gloomy cold weather didn’t
jnpen the spirits or the play of the
Ixas A&M women’s tennis team in
lit season-opener Wedndesday af-
[noon.
Texas A&M easily handled the
tar Cardinals in a 7-2 impressive
Jtory in front of a handful of shiv-
ing fans at the Omar Smith Tennis
Inter.
(Top-seeded senior Gaye Lynn
Insler lost to Lamar’s Isabel Co-
[erin straight sets 7-5, 6-3. Genslei
|re a brace on the knee that
idled her last season, and she
pn’t appear to be 100 percent.
i&M’s Lisa Keller, second-seed
ilimore, had trouble early with
[llOakenfull but beat her 6-4, 5-7,
in what was probably the most
exciting match of the afternoon. Af
ter just missing the straight-set vic
tory, Keller broke service in the first
game of the third set and never
looked back. She charged the net ef
fectively and frustated Oakenfull.
“Lisa played an incredible third
set,” Kleinecke said. “After she lost
the second set it took some of the
pressure off, allowing her to settle
down and play great tennis in the
third.”
But the Lady Aggies were most
impressive in the last four seeds,
dominating the Cardinals in those
matches.
Third-seeded Cindy Churchwell
beat Lamar’s Stefania Laschka 6-4,
6-0. Cindy Crawford whipped
Adriana Camacho 6-0, 6-1.
“Crawford had a great match,”
Kleinecke said. “She was the first
person off the courts.. She plays at
number four, but she’s as good as
any we have on the team.”
In the other two seeds, Susan Wil
liams defeated Angie Ryan in twin 6-
2 sets and Sandi Klein was victorious
over Margit Kumersberger 6-0, 6-4.
Crawford, Williams and Klein all
defeated their opponents in less
than an hour.
Kleinecke said the convincing
wins in the lower seeds were evi
dence of the Lady Aggies’ depth.
“Depth is our greatest stregnth,”
Kleinecke said.“One girl is just as
good as the next. No one will be able
to figure us out this year because we
can change (seeds) at any time.”
The Lady Aggies may be deep but
they’re inexperienced: GCnsler is the
lone senior on the team and Klein
the only junior.
“All the girls were extremely ner
vous just before their matches,” Klei
necke said. In between games he
said he told the players to relax and
to try to hit their best shots
In doubles play the Gensler-Kel-
ler team and the Crawford-Williams
team were victorius over their Cardi
nal opponents, but Churchwell and
Nix lost their match.
Klienecke said he is enthusiastic
about taking his young team in to
Southwest Conference play later this
month.
“Our goal is third, but the all the
girls are really hungry so you can’t
count us out,” he said. “Texas and
SMU would have to be the early fa
vorites to win the conference.”
The Lady Aggies are in action
with the men here again Saturday
when they face the Bobcats of South
west Texas State. The men also will
face Pan American here on Friday.
All matches begin at 1 j30 p.m.
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