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Thursday, January 27,1994
The Battalion
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DREW
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Sportswriter
E very
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read
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knows
someone
who thinks
that they
are com
plete ath
letic studs.
You
know the
guy who
says he
was an All-
American
in 17 sports
in high school, but turned
down countless scholarships
to be a "regular college stu
dent."
He works out 42 times a
week and plays every single
intramural sport.
But when he drops a pass,
misses a jump shot, or strikes
out, it is never his fault.
He blames the guy who
threw the pass, claims he was
triple teamed when he took
the shot, or says the umpire
was blind. So much ego, so
little room upstairs.
Meet a guy with nothing to
prove, nothing to hide, and
now a guy who has nothing
to be ashamed of.
You see I played, or at least
attempted to play, two team
sports in high school.
I didn't really suck that
bad, but I guess I was bad
enough to still be pulling
See Closet/ Page 10
Quiet play leads to tops in conference
Murry: Aggies in race
for SWC crown
By Kristine Ramirez
The Battalion
B rett Murry, Texas A&M's senior forward, has
quietly helped the men's basketball team to a per
fect 4-0 Southwest Conference record and 9-5,
overall.
"I'm going to try to do what ever I need to do to help
us win," the 6-foot, 7-inch forward says. "I'd love to win
the conference championship and get to the NCAA tour
nament."
Murry, who is averaging 10.2 points per game, says
the Aggies are a tougher team now and have a chance of
winning the conference championship.
"We were losing the closer games and are now win
ning them," Murry says. "There are times we have
played bad but still won."
Murry transferred from Southwest Texas State Uni
versity and sat out the 1991-1992 season. In the 1992-
1993, he was third on the team in scoring, and sixth in
blocked shots in SWC play.
Murry says he transferred to A&M because of the
challenge it presented.
"I didn't feel I was getting better there (Southwest
Texas)," Murry says. "The last three years have chal
lenged me to the utmost.
"I came here to a coach who can show me what I can
do. I fit in well here."
Murry considers himself a quiet leader that leads by
example and plays the role that was assigned to him.
Head coach Tony Barone agrees.
"Brett is a leader on the team," Barone says. "Not a
vocal leader, but a quiet leader. You can win with a
whole team of Brett Murry's.
"He is very precise in what he does on the court."
Murry says he is a "jack of all trades and master of
none," concerning his basketball skills.
"I pass the ball pretty good, but sometimes I make stupid pass
es," Murry says. "I try to keep from that. I'd like to step up on my
post defense. I haven't played it as well as in the past years."
Barone says Murry does the little things, and any coach in the
league would want him as a starter. Barone says Murry is capable
of getting 20 points a game.
Murry say that after he graduates he plans to be a coach.
"Education is the first thing I'm worried about," he says. "I'd like
to coach basketball and playing college basketball should help me."
Kevin Ivy/The Battalion
Brett Murry brings the ball up the court against TCU on Tuesday night.
Murry started playing basketball in the third grade and considers
his father as his greatest inspiration.
Murry recalls that he used to get out of mowing the lawn by
shooting baskets.
"He's always pushed me to excel in basketball," Murry says.
Murry has enjoyed his time at A&M and will take away a num
ber of memories from school. Murry says A&M's victory over the
University of Texas on Jan. 12 is his most memorable game.
"No one thought we were going to win the game but us," he
says.
Former A&M
player dies
after assault
The Associated Press
MIDLAND — Police searched
Wednesday for several men who
chased and attacked former Texas
A&M football player James Zach-
ery before he collapsed and died.
Authorities have not deter
mined whether the head lacera^
tions Zachery suffered early Tues
day caused him to die in a hospi
tal emergency room.
Zachery, a defensive lineman
who lettered for the Texas A&M
Aggies in 1977-1979, played
briefly for the New York Jets and
spent eight years in the Canadian
Football League with the Edmon
ton Eskimos.
Police found Zachery, 36,
bleeding on the ground near an
East Midland railroad track at
1:10 a.m.
Witnesses reported seeing a
group of men assault him.
"He had injuries, some bumps
and scrapes," Sgt. David Garcia
said.
Zachery was taken by ambu
lance to Memorial Hospital and
Medical Center, where doctors
said the wounds didn't appear
life threatening, Garcia said. But
he fell unconscious and died at
4:30 a.m.
"At this time, it is being car
ried as an aggravated assault,"
Garcia said. "We don't know that
the injuries were the cause of
death, so we're not calling this a
homicide."
His body was sent to Dallas for
an autopsy.
Zachery is survived by his
mother, Dorothy, and eight broth
ers.
Services were set for 2 p.m.
Saturday with Thomas Funeral
Home.
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