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Purdue gained command with a i 7 -point
halftime lead.
Texas A&M was plagued by turnovers.
The Lady Aggies had 29 of them, one
more than their rebounding total.
Purdue, meanwhile, penetrated the Lady
Aggies’ defense and was able to take high
percentage shots from in close. When
Texas A&M clamped down, the Aggies be
gan fouling and Purdue converted 19 of 22
free throws.
The Boilermakers also had 36 rebounds,
with Johnson and Tonya Kirk each pulling
down seven. Kirk also had 1 5 points.
The Lady Aggies were led by Martha
McClelland’s 1 5 points. Lisa Branch scored
14 points, but was only 3 of 12 from the
fiela.
The Boilermakers expanded their half
time advantage by scoring the first eight
points of the second half. Texas A&M
didn’t get its first field goal of the second
half until Bambi Ferguson’s layup with
13:40 remaining. By then, Purdue was out
in front 53-32.
Texas A&M hung close early, but the
Boilermakers turned to their inside game
and started to pull away, using a combina
tion of close-in shots and free throws to
take a 45-28 halftime lead.
With the Boilermakers already in front,
Purdue went on a 14-2 spurt to pull away
to a 39-18 lead with 3:12 left in the first
half. The run started with Johnson and Jen
nifer Jacoby converting five consecutive
free throws between them and was capped
by a Johnson layup.
The Aggies scored eight of the last 1 2
points of the half but still found themselves
down by 1 7 at the break.
William Harrison/ The Battalion
Cam! Williams (right) shoots over Noel John
son during the game against Texas Tech.
Lady Aggies earn respect despite loss
M aybe it was better this way.
After two nerve-wracking,
nail-biting roller coaster
victories, the Texas A&M women’s
basketball team miraculous run
through the NCAA tournament
ended Thursday night in Palo Alto,
California, at the hands of a domi
nating Purdue team.
Purdue took control of the
game relatively early in the contest,
led by 1 5 at tne half, and took the
lead into the upper 30s before set-
ding for an 82-56 victory.
Despite the disappointment of
the loss, the Lady Aggies enjoyed
their most successful season of all
time, and can look forward to big
ger and better things down the
road.
Sophomore Lisa Branch
emerged as the Southwest Confer
ence Player of the Year at point
guard, while fellow sophomores
Martha McClelland and Kelly Cerny
became inside forces to comple
ment Branch’s outside game.
Also becoming key contributors
were freshmen Lana Tucker and
Marianne Miller.
Tucker started in the backcourt
with Branch down the stretch,
Nick
Georgandis
Sportswriter
while Miller was
effective in
spelling either
McClelland or
Cerny when one
of the two
starters needed a
breather or got
in foul trouble.
The season
was full of excit
ing games and
fantastic finish
es, with the biggest wins coming
after the Winter Break.
In January there was a thrilling
one-point win over the Lady Long
horns, but that was no match for
the intensity felt on Feb. 5 when
the then-fourth ranked and de
fending national champion Texas
Tech Lady Raiders came calling to
G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Emotion was already at a fever
pitch that day following the men’s
stunning victory in Lubbock, and
the ensuing altercation between
Aggie players and overzealous Tech
fans.
Scoring the last six points of the
game, the Lady Aggies shocked
Tech 67-64. The G. Rollie White
fa i t h fu 1
stormed
the court,
led by the
Aggie
men’s
team, in
cluding
guard
Chuck
Hender-
son, who
just hours
before had nailed the winning free
throws at Lubbock.
Henderson sifted through the
crowd to fmd Branch, scooped her
up on his shoulder and galloped
around the court with her held
high above the throng of joyous
Aggies. It was a great moment to
remember.
Down the stretch, the Lady Ag
gies stumbled a bit, and fumbled
away the Southwest Conference
crown.
Nevertheless, they provided the
fans and the graduating seniors on
the squad with a splendid regular
season home finale by topping the
century mark in points while rout
ing Southern Methodist 103-85.
Going into the SWC Tourna
ment in Dallas, the Lady Aggies
had put together their first 20-win
season ever. The Lady Longhorns
knocked A&M out of the tourna
ment in the second round, but for
the first time ever, Texas A&M was
going to the NCAA Tournament.
The rest of the season is pretty
recent stuff, but some records are
worthy of space here.
The Lady Aggies became the
lowest seed in tournament history
to make the Sweet Sixteen. They
were the first Aggie team, men or
women, to make the Sweet Sixteen
since Shelby Metcalf’s crew lost to
eventual national champion
Louisville in 1980.
Perhaps the best part of this
whole season is what begins now.
What will come about next year as
Branch, McClelland, Cerny and the
rest of the team return with a great
season’s experience under their
belts is enough to make an Aggie
basketball enthusiast tremble with
excitement.
Now that they’ve shown they
can play in the big time, the Lady
Aggies may be well on their way to
national prominence.
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