i-'t) -■‘■'t': MSU - Sports ^Thursday, February 24,1994 The Battalion Page 7 Aggies split games against Bobcats pAlc ( wil Brntv: 3o 6ic> fccj CM am A&M loses first to SW Texas State, looks to rebound By Drew Diener The Battalion Fifth ranked Texas A&M suf- jffered its first loss of the season in the second game a doubleheader jwith Southwest Texas State sWednesday afternoon at Olsen iField After defeating the Bobcats, 5-4, sin 10 innings in game one , the Ag gies went cold in the nightcap, los ing 6-1. The loss dropped the Aggies' irecord to 9-1 on the season. Southwest also dealt the Aggies ^their first defeat of the season a lyear ago. Senior designated hitter Billy jHarlan said A&M was in a rut all day long. "You have to be ready every For some : weren't pitch," Harlan said, reason or another ready to play today." The Bobcats broke it open in the second inning of game two by touching A&M starting pitcher John Cordington for four runs. The sophomore righthander was pulled from the game with two outs in the inning after the fourth run scored following an er ror on sophomore centerfielder Chad Alexander. Alexander collided with fresh man second baseman Tom Collard on a routine fly that allowed Bob cat second baseman Mack Steele to score from second. Junior lefthander Spencer McIn tyre replaced Cordington and walked the first batter he faced. Bobcat designated hitter Chad Potts, on four straight pitches. With two on and two out, McIn tyre fanned first baseman James See Split/ Page 8 Lady Aggies lose first of two against Mavericks By Stewart Doreen William Harrison/The Battalion Southwest Texas State shortstop Rocky Padilla (right) is picked off of first base by Jason Stephens (26) in the second game of the Aggies- Bobcats doubleheader Wednesday. A&M lost 6-1. ire C Houston 3 decide v . :al decisic A&M women's basketball survives poor-shooting drought, out-rebounds Lady Horned Frogs to clinch 18th win By Jose de Jesus Ortiz The Battalion The Lady Aggies had their second-worst shooting performance of the year yesterday, but pulled down 63 rebounds -32 offensive- and downed Texas Christian University 86- 65. Texas A&M senior forward Beth Burkett, who scored scored 16 points and led A&M on the boards with a career-high 1, said the Aggies were not bothered by their shooting. "Everyone wants their shots to fall," Bur kett said, " but we did such a good job re bounding that it didn't bother us." Head coach Lynn Hickey also said she was not worried by the shooting because A&M (18-5, 9-2 in the Southwest Conference) hustled and Most of the players saw action. "We have a lot of kids," Hickey said. "And as a coach, a good way to keep team unity is to give kids a chance to play. "I am not going to be down by beating someone by 20. We scored 83 points, got 63 rebounds and played 14 players; I am very satisfied." Sophomore center Martha McClelland 22 points against TCU (5-17, 1-11 in the SWC) tied her career-high scoring and was her fourth 20 point-plus scoring performance this season. McClelland said her teammates did a good job getting her and sophomore center Kelly Cerny the ball. "Each time we took the ball down court," McClelland said, "the focus was for us to put it in to me and Kelly." The Lady Horned Frogs trailed Texas A&M 28-25 with 7:37 left in the first half, but that was the closest TCU got to A&M the rest of the way and started the second half 43-33. The Lady Aggies went on several six- point scoring drives, and Hickey, with 4:00 minutes remaining in the game, took out most of the starters. Only sophomore point guard Lisa Branch, who scored 12 points and had six assists, played more than three quarters of the game for A&M. The Battalion The Texas A&M Lady softball team, coming off their champi onship weekend, split a double- header with the Lady Mavericks of the University of Texas at Ar lington. The Aggies lost the first game, wasting a strong performance by freshman pitcher Christy Bunting. The Aggies gave up two runs in the top of the seventh and had their comeback come one run short in the bottom of the seventh. The Aggies offense that had come to life during this week end's tournament was shut down in the first game by UTA's Christina Grimes, who held the Aggies to one run on five hits. Despite the lack of offense, the Lady Aggies seem quite pleased with Bunting's 10-strikeout per formance. "She had every reason to win the ball game," assistant coach Shawn Andaya said. "If we'd got a couple hits here and there maybe we would have won." Bunting's record fell to 0-4, but Andaya insists that the record is quite deceiving. "Two of the losses are against Arizona, which is the No. 1 team in the nation, in which she did pitch a great game," Andaya said. "I think Christy is going to be one the most promising pitch ers of the future." The Lady Aggies got their wake up call in the second game. After UTA scored one run in the top of the first, the Aggies used a double by freshman Mary Mapp to start the hitting onslaught and to build a 3-1 lead after the first. That lead would stay safe with staff ace, senior Kim Gonzalez on the mound. However, Gonzalez did get help when Gina Perez made a run-saving, diving catch with two on in the top of the fourth. Gonzalez raised her record to 7-3, allowing only four hits over the five innings she pitched and the Lady Aggies went on to win See Lady Aggies/ Page 8 Wilbert leads Aggies to victory over hapless TCU men's team The Associated Press FORT WORTH - Texas A&M's Joe Wilbert hit all seven of his field goal tries and scored 18 points Wednesday as the Ag gies remained in first place in the Southwest Conference with an 86-60 victory over Texas Christ ian. Texas A&M (17-6, 10-1 SWC) led 46-34 at the half, then shut down the Homed Frogs (6-17, 3- 9) in the second period. TCU scored just two points in the first eight minutes of the second half. The Aggies outrebounded TCU 48-28, led by Brett Murry's 11. Jeff Jacobs paced the Frogs with 17 points, including four-of- five 3-pointers. Damon Johnson added 13 points. TCU managed to trim the Ag gie lead to 59-45, but A&M closed out the game with a 27-15 run. 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