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Tied 4-4 in the bottom of the seventh, junior ishortstop Robert Harris scored the winning |run on an error made by McNeese State center- ;fielder Curt Lowry. With two outs and the bases empty, Harris Ibelted a 1-2 pitch deep to centerfield. Lowry played the ball off the wall; however, it slipped flout of his hand as he attempted to make the re lay throw to his cut-off man. After he noticed Lowry's error, A&M head Icoach Mark Johnson waved Harris around cthird base. The play was officially scored as a triple and an error on Lowry. "He (Lowry) didn't play it off the wall good |so it turned a double into a triple," Johnson Isaid. "(Lowry's error) made it an easy See Baseball / Page 8 Stew Milne/The Battalion Texas A&M shortstop Rob Harris, tries to tag McNeese centerfielder Robert Lawry during the fifth inning of the Wednesday after noon's game. A&M travels this weekend to play the University of Arizona. fen's tennis team smashes ortheast Louisiana Lady Ags upset by UH From Staff and Wire Reports The Texas A&M men's tennis team improved its record to 4-0 ith a 6-1 victory over Northeast ouisiana Wednesday at the mar Smith Tennis Center. An injury to Bernardo Mar- inez during the Aggies' victory bver Southwestern Louisiana on uesday caused a change in &M's singles lineup. Junior Ri cardo Rodarte took Martinez's spot in the singles part of the match and defeated NEL's Anto nio Diaz 6-2 and 6-3. "We had to switch around our singles lineup because of Bernie's injury, but everyone re sponded to the challenge," Texas A&M head coach David Kent said. See Tennis/ Page 8 The Associated Press HOUSTON — Houston used a season-high 56 rebounds Wednesday night to upset Texas A&M, 74-63, handing the Lady Aggies their second loss in a week and knocking them out of sole possession of first place in the Southwest Conference. Texas A&M, which went un defeated through the first half of SWC play, fell to 16-5 for the sea son and to 8-2 in league play, tied for first place with No. 8- ranked Texas Tech, which beat SMU 85-68 Wednesday night. Houston improved to 9-11 overall and 4-6 in the league. Freshman forward Pat Luckey scored 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for Houston, which also got 17 points and 11 re bounds from senior guard Michelle Harris. Freshman forward Marianne Miller led Texas A&M with 14 points. Houston's Lady Cougars jumped out to a 10-2 lead and never trailed. Texas A&M pulled to within three points midway through the first half, then got to within four points, at 48-44, with 13:37 left in the game. But Houston scored the next six points, and the Lady Aggies couldn't get close again. A&M had 38 rebounds, 18 fewer than Houston. Men's hoops clip pesky Cougar team By Nick Georgandis The Battalion Senior guard David Edwards scored 19 points and dished out 12 assists in a record-setting performance as the Texas A&M men's basketball team defeated the University of Houston 93-87 Wednesday night at G. Rollie White Coliseum. With his totals, Edwards be came the first player in South west Conference history to at tain career totals of 1,000 points, 500 assists and 200 steals. A&M's head coach Tony Barone said he was amazed by Edwards' accomplishment. "When you consider he only played here for three years, and in two of those we won six and 10 games, it's relatively incredi ble," Barone said. Helping the Aggies shake off the pesky Cougars were senior forward Brett Murry, who scored a career-high 22 points, and junior forward Joe Wilbert who added 24. Murry said he was able to make so many easy shots be cause the UH defense was fo cusing mainly on Edwards and Wilbert. The Cougars were led by sophomore forward Tim Moore who scored 23 points, and senior guard Anthony Goldwire, who led all scorers with 28. UH was as close as 83-78 with 1:02 left in the game, but the Aggies were able to beat See Aggies / Page 8 Pagel t promote environl i whiles! >use. people lot wants dealers,.to ■rs' mar® to be foiijl nd not to d. "We tf ug enforce i saying, aw/peop e . .Whit a start.” Euret, pe licans aac : najor, sail- lot focusC r problem ’to ever o' is to woti p* id stop' -om those 1. ducatiom United; n stopp't : ter id. "But' expert d. He's' countries’ ning . r pen 3 ' 1 !! 1 ets in iBe r see ini an eii rutting ! Clinton),! sibihty- nton f; work if M IS R PARACHUTE? SEMINAR Featuring DA\(§ SWANSON, of the “What Color is Your Pa rach u te? 5 l htemationa I Workshop Team 7:00 pm, Tuesday, Feb. 22 nd Rudder Theatre COME HEAR TIPS ON: ♦ JOB HUNTING TECHNIQUES ♦ CAREER DECISION MAKING ♦ LIFE AND WORK PLANNING verely . w®* 1 L. 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