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The Battalion
Ags open with tourneys
SONDRA ROBBINS/The Battalion
Junior guard Sheri Dillard shoots in Friday’s game. A&M men’s
and women’s teams competed in holiday tournaments.
Mens, womens
teams see action
in holiday games
From Staff and Wire Reports
The Texas A&M men’s and wom
en’s basketball teams opened their
regular seasons this weekend by tak
ing part in tournament action.
The men’s team traveled to Cin
cinnati to take part in the Bearcat
Classic. A&M lost to Kent State Fri
day night 79-67, but Saturday were
able to give Kermit Davis Jr. his first
win as the Aggies new coach by de
feating Sam Houston State 103-87.
Guards Isaac Brown and Lynn
Suber lead the Aggies (1-1) to the
easy win over SHSU.
Brown scored 27 points, five of
them coming in a 9-0 run to open
the Aggies scoring, and give A&M a
lead they would never relinquish.
Suber added a 22 point effort,
seven of his points sparking a 22-7
run in the second half after the
Bearkats had closed the lead to 47-
43 at halftime.
Six Aggies scored in double fig
ures, as A&M opened a lead as large
as 19 points during the course of the
game.
Forward Anthony Ware put in 18
ints and had a game-high 12 re-
unds to help the Aggies.
The Lady Aggie basketball team
came up short this weekend as it
opened its season in the Domino’s
Pizza-Holiday Inn Lady Aggie Clas
sic.
After posting a win over Eastern
Washington on Friday, 68-56, the
Lady Aggies fell to Washington State
Saturday 71-54 in the tournament’s
championship game.
Shawn Medlock and Yvonne Hill
lead the Aggies (1-1) and were se
lected to the all-tournament team.
Medlock paced the Aggies at
point guard with 15 points in the
championship game. Dena Russo
added 11 and Hill put in 10 points in
the losing effort.
The Lady Cougars ran off the
first 10 points of the game and A&M
could never close the gap to less than
nine the rest of the way. Coach Lynn
Hickey said the Lady Aggies learned
some things in the game.
“This is the first time we have had
someone play us man-to-man,”
Hickey said. “We haven’t played
against a team this aggressive.”
“But the purpose of this is to pre
pare for January when conference
play begins.”
McWilliams job
far from over:
Aggies, Miami
wait in wings
WACO (AP) — Don’t try to
drag Texas coach David McWil
liams into national championship
talk.
He’s still got to get rid of Texas
A&M’s current hex over the
sixth-ranked Longhorns before
he can even worry about playing
the Miami Hurricanes in the Cot
ton Bowl.
The Longhorns won their first
Southwest Conference title in
seven years with Saturday’s 23-13
victory over Baylor — the first
time Texas defeated Baylor in
Waco since 1982.
On Saturday at Austin, the
Longhorns (9-1) hope to end an
other streak of failures. Texas has
lost six straight to the Aggies (8-2-
1), who play Brigham Young in
the Holiday Bowl on Dec. 29.
Asked if he thought his Long
horns are in the national title
race, McWilliams said, “We can’t
think about that. We’ve just got to
take care of business and let those
things take care of themselves.
“People who do think of those
things haven’t done very well la
tely.”
McWilliams, who started the
season under pressure to pro
duce a winner, was rewarded af
ter Saturday’s game with a new
five-year contract.
“It makes me happy but I’m
more happy for the players,” Mc
Williams said.
Offensive coordinator Lynn
Amedee joked about McWilliams’
new contract.
“Yeh, you got a new contract
but we were all fired at halftime,”
Amedee said.
Texas trailed 10-3 at the half,
but charged back for its sixth
come-from-behind victory this
year.
Olajuwon leads Rockets past
floundering Minnesota, 107-91
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The
last time Houston played Minne
sota, Akeem Okajuwon missed
the game with a sprained ankle.
Buck Johnson was out with a
sprained foot and the Rockets
bmped to a 2-point victory on
their home court.
Sunday night, Olajuwon and
Johnson were at full speed and
the Rockets didn’t have nearly as
much trouble with the Timber-
wolves, winning 107-91.
Olajuwon, the NBA’s leading
rebounder, scored 27 points and
grabbed 20 rebounds and John
son and Otis Thorpe each added
20 points to send Minnesota to its
fifth loss in six games.
The 7-foot Olajuwon credited
good passing by Houston’s
guards and a two-inch height ad
vantage over Minnesota’s Tod
Murphy, who guarded him for
much of the first half.
“They put Murphy on me and
he had a height disadvantage,”
Olajuwon said. “I was taking ad
vantage of that. No way he could
guard me in the post.”
Olajuwon made 13 of 17 shots
and blocked four shots to go with
four assists.
The Rockets smothered the
Timberwolves’ leading scorer,
Tony Campbell, holding him to 3
points. It was the first time in
Campbell’s 94-game career with
Minnesota that he failed to score
in double figures. He was averag
ing 23.5 points per game.
“We did a good job defensi
vely,” Houston coach Don
Chaney said. "Any time you keep
Campbell out of the game you’ve
done a great job. I call that good
defense.”
Houston finished a 2-2 road
trip and Chaney pronounced
himself “very satisfied. We did
have a 1-pomt loss to Indiana.
But when you split on the road,
you can only smile.”
Minnesota was paced by Pooh
Richardson’s 22 points.
Top teams dominate
young hoop season
Associated Press
For those who didn’t stay up late,
Georgetown did beat Hawaii Pacific.
And in a game that was almost as big
a blowout, Syracuse beat Iowa State.
The ninth-ranked Hoyas go to
Hawaii each year to beat up on
teams that they easily outman. That
was the case Saturday when they
beat Hawaii Pacific 72-45. They beat
Hawaii Loa 110-77 on the first game
of the trip.
“We’ve got a lot to work on, but
we know that,” Georgetown coach
John Thompson said. “Every year
we’ve been here, we’ve had a lot to
work on. We come here to get those
things in order.”
Alonzo Mourning scored 21
points for the Hoyas (2-0), who led
35-24 at halftime before pulling
away.
Georgetown’s game was in Hono
lulu. A few islands over on Maui, the
13th-ranked Orangeman easily beat
Iowa State 83-67 in the semifinals of
the Maui Invitational.
“We played real good defense
early and that gave us the lead and
made things happen,” Syracuse
coach Jim Boeheim said. “We
stopped getting those easy baskets
but then we attacked the zone. It
took us a little long but we did.”
Syracuse led 44-32 at halftime
lead as David Johnson scored 18
points. Johnson finished with 26 and
Billy Owens added 25.
Iowa State used a 12-3 to pull
within four points with 10:23 to
play, but Syracuse took back control
with a 16-2 spurt as Owens scored
half the points.
The Orangemen were to play No.
8 Indiana late Sunday in the tourna
ment championship. The Hoosiers
beat Santa Clara 73-69 in the other
semifinal.
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