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Swimming and diving
team finishes fourth
The Texas A&M men’s swimming
and diving team just missed finishing in
the top three this weekend at the
Southwest Conference Championships
in Austin.
The team finished two points
behind Texas Christian. The
University of Texas finished first,
followed by Southern Methodist.
Sophomore Wade Diederich
finished sixth in the platform finals for
A&M with a score of 423.90
Also placing high for the Aggies
were junior Scott DeWolf with a
third-place finish in the 200-yard
butterfly, sophomore Robb Pantano
with a fourth-place finish in the 200-
yard backstroke and freshman Kent
Willis, who took third in the 1650-
yard freestyle.
Baseball team drops
series to Cal State
Cal State-Northridge exploded for
eight runs on 14 hits to win Sunday
and take two out of three games from
the Texas A&M baseball team over
the weekend.
The Aggies could manage only six
hits and committed two errors in
falling to 9-7-1 on the season.
The Aggies were still very much in
the game after eight innings, trailing
just 3-1. But Northridge scored five
runs in the top of the ninth to put the
game on ice. First baseman John Curl
had his hitting streak snapped at 12
games with a 0-4 day.
The Aggies return to action on
Tuesday when they host Mary Hardin-
Baylor at Olsen Field at 7 p.m.
Thomas honored at
football banquet
Senior running back Rodney
Thomas was named the 1995
recipient of the Aggie Heart Award at
the annual Texas A&M football
awards banquet at the College
Station Hilton Saturday night.
Thomas was also named the
Offensive Most Valuable Player and
the Offensive Team Captain for the
1994 season. Thomas, a consensus
AII-SWC running back led the team in
rushing with 868 yards and scoring
with 96 points.
Also honored were senior Reggie
Graham as Defensive MVP and
Defensive Team Captain, sophomore
Leeland McElroy as Special Teams
MVP, senior defensive back Billy
Mitchell as Special Teams Captain
and sophomore Kevin Caffey as 12th
Man Most Valuable Player and 12th
Man Team Captain.
Lady Aggies win
last game in style
□ The women's team
faces Texas in the first
round of the SWC
tournament.
Staff and Wire Reports
The Texas A&M women’s bas
ketball team used another ca
reer night by Bambi Ferguson
and a superb shooting perfor
mance by the entire team to rout
Baylor Saturday night, 99-65.
Ferguson, a junior guard from
Jayton, scored a career-high 20
points, grabbed a team-high sev
en rebounds and dished out
three assists in just 23 minutes
as the Lady Aggies finished up
their season 18-8 overall and 9-5
in the Southwest Conference.
A&M shot 52.2 percent from
the field in the game including a
blistering 17-27 (63 percent) in
the second half. Sophomore for
ward Marianne Miller went 6-7
from the field and scored 17
points. Sophomore guard Lana
Tucker added 14 and junior
guard Lisa Branch had 12 points,
nine assists and five steals.
Also turning in another out
standing effort was freshman
guard Carey Owens who came
off the bench to score 14 points
in just 17 minutes. Owens hit
four three-pointers in six at
tempts for the Lady Aggies.
Senior Debbie Biermann, who
was honored in a pregame cere
mony, matched her career-high
with two blocked shots. Bier
mann also scored five points and
collected four rebounds in 10
minutes of play.
The Lady Bears, who fin
ished the season 13-13 overall
and 4-10 in the SWC, shot only
36 percent from the field and
were outrebounded by the Lady
Aggies 47-39.
Forward Tonya Harris led
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the Lady Bears in scoring with
14 points and guard Halley
Bradley added 10.
The game was never in ques-
tion as the Lady Aggies j limped
out to a 20 point lead at half
time, shooting 20-40 from the
field including 6-11 on three
pointers.
A&M, the third seed in the
conference tournament, will face
the University of Texas in the
first round of the Dr. Pepper
SWC Classic on Wednesday at 2
p.m. at Moody Coliseum.
Baylor will face second seed
Southern Methodist University
in the first round.
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Sophomore guard Lana Tucker eyes the loose
ball as Baylor forward Tonya Harris is frozen in
her footsteps.
Aggies even record,
face Rice Thursday
□ Joe Wilbert and Tony McGinnis
spark an 11-point rally past Baylor.
Staff and Wire Reports
The Texas A&M men’s basketball team, down
11 points at intermission, shot 58.1 percent from
the field in the second half to run by the Baylor
Bears 87-78 in Saturday night’s Southwest Con
ference finale.
Senior forward Joe Wilbert, playing in his last
regular season game as an Aggie, led all scorers
with 29 points and grabbed 11 rebounds in 30
minutes for A&M. The win gave the Aggies a 14-
15 record overall for the season and evened their
record at 7-7 in the SWC. The Bears dropped to 9-
19 overall and 3-11 in the SWC.
Senior forward Tony McGinnis contributed
mightily to the Aggies cause, making 11-13 shots
from the floor and scoring 27 points, just one off
his career high.
The Aggies shot just 37.5 percent in the first 1
half and trailed Baylor 43-32 at the half. With the
University of Houston in a tight game with South
ern Methodist Saturday night, the Aggies had to
win to assure themselves of being the fifth seed in
the Dr. Pepper SWC Classic this coming week.
The Bears were led by guard Aundre Branch,
who scored 26 points. Center Brian Skinner
added 21, but no other Bear scored in double dig
its in the game.
Freshman point guard Kyle Kessel dished out
11 assists for A&M and senior forward Damon
Johnson added 12 rebounds to the Aggies’ cause.
The Aggies outscored the Bears 55-35 in the
second half in front of a crowd of 8,142 at the Fer
rell Center in Waco.
Harper worth more than Cowboys think he is
W ith March Madness still
several weeks away and
baseball’s millionaire
crybabies still bickering with
each other, the main focus of
this early part of spring has
been on the National Football
League’s free agent comings
and goings.
While some teams are
searching for the players who
will get them back to re
spectability (the Houston Oilers
come to mind), others are trying
to wheel and deal to get back to
the top. One such team is Amer
ica’s Team, the Dallas Cowboys.
Owner Jerry Jones is faced
with the realiza
tion that he is go
ing to have to
make some big
moves to topple
the champion San
Francisco 49ers
and take the Cow
boys back to their
rightful place atop
the NFL mountain.
The Pokes have managed to
retain the services of such im
pact players such as Michael
Irvin and Tony Tolbert. Howev
er, they have already lost such
mainstays as James Washing
ton and Jim Jeffcoat to the free
agent bidding
wars.
Now the Cow
boys must turn
their attention to
Jay Novacek and
Mark Stepnows-
ki. But one per
son the Cowboys
are overlooking
is the talented Alvin Harper.
With Harper all but gone, the
Cowboys will have to fill the
void of a great receiver who had
the flair for making the athletic
catches.
Harper’s contributions to the
team have been downplayed re
cently. People have complained
that he never plays well in the
big games and is not as strong
or tough as fellow receiver
Michael Irvin.
However, Harper’s accom
plishments have been numerous
and deserve to be recognized as
the Cowboys climbed their way
back.
Who can ever forget the way
the man from Tennessee has
tormented the 49ers in the play
offs over the last couple of
years.
It was his 73-yard reception
two years ago in the NFC cham
pionship game that got the
Cowboys back to the Super
Bowl and erased memories of
the dreaded “catch” from Cow
boys fans’ minds forever.
Receiver Kevin Williams is a
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equate replacement, but no one
will give the Cowboys the big
play threat that they enjoyed
with number 80 running that
familiar route to the post.
While other Cowboy fans will
be glad that the team is parting
with Harper, I think that it will
be a tremendous loss to lose a
player of his caliber.
So long. Harp. Your presence
will be missed.
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