The Battalion
Tuesday
November 21, 1995
At a
Glance
Sports Briefs
Women's Golf Team
adds two recruits
Houston natives Mimi Epps and
Anna Becker of Lund, Sweden have
each signed national letters of in
tent, Head Golf Coach Jeanne
Sutherland announced today.
A three-time all-district selection,
Epps is in her final season of compe
tition at Memorial High School,
where she earned all-region honors
as a junior in 1995.
Becker, who reigns as the wom
en's club champion at the Lund
Akademiska Golf Course, is a two-
year member of the prestigious
Trygg Hansa Teen Tour, a national
tour consisting of five tournaments
and featuring the top players in
Sweden under the age of 1 8.
Etchberger takes 84th,
Priest 136th in NCAAs
Texas A&M senior Shannon
Etchberger finished 84th Monday at
the NCAA Women's Cross Country
Championships in Ames, Iowa. In
the men's division, the Aggies' Matt
Priest placed 1 36th.
Etchberger, a senior from LaMar-
que, finished the women's, race in
18:25, while Priest, a senior from
Mesquite, completed the longer
men's event in 33:23.
Game time moved for
A&M-TCU matchup
The football game between Texas
A&M and TCU Saturday has been
moved from 2:30 p.m. to 2: 00 at
Amon Carter Stadium in Fort Worth.
Sports Roundup
Third time, but no charm for Lady Ags
□ The Texas Volleyball
Team defeated A&M in
three games in the
SWC Tournament final.
The Texas A&M Volleyball
Team met its nemesis one more
time Monday night with the
same results.
The University of Texas Lady
Longhorns swept the Lady Ag
gies in three straight games to
take the Southwest Conference
Tournament Championship, 15-
8, 15-7, 15-11.
“It really
wasn’t a
match
tonight,”
A&M Head
Volleyball
Coach Laurie
Corbelli said.
“We really
weren’t ready
to play them.
As a coach,
it’s frustrat
ing to see. We were not there at
all, mentally.”
The Lady Aggies’ normally-
potent offensive attack was un
characteristically stagnant at
Hofheinz Pavillion. A&M’s
match hitting percentage was
.047 — a season low.
Sophomore outside hitter
Kristie Smedsrud led the Lady
Aggies with 10 kills, but hit at
only a .167 hitting percentage
while SWC Player of the Year
Suzy Wente managed only 25
assists and five digs in her final
SWC match.
“I think we had too much anx
iousness that fed into our play
today,” Wente said. “Our energy
fed into us negatively. They’re a
good team, ranked high, they’re
expected to beat us.”
The Lady Longhorns were led
by outside hitter Angie Breiten-
field, who rang up 11 kills and
10 digs, and SWC Newcomer of
the Year Demetria Sance, who
recorded a match-high 14 digs
along with her six kills.
Despite the loss, A&M had
three players make eight-player
All-Tournament team. Outside
hitters
Kristie
Smedsrud
and Page
White,
along with
middle
blocker
Cindy Van-
derWoude
were all
named to
the All-Star
team. UT’s Breitenfield was
named the Tournament Most
Valuable Player.
“We’ve played the guys a lot,”
Breitenfield said after the win.
“We know their tendencies. That
helps.”
Despite the loss, it is unlikely
that the Lady Aggies’ 1995 sea
son is over.
Ranked in the Top 25 for much
of the season and finishing the
year with a 22-6 record, A&M is
nearly certain to garner an NCAA
tournament selection, and may
host a first-round game.
"We were not
there at all,
mentally."
— Laurie Corbelli
A&M Volleyball Coach
Evan Zimmerman, The Battalion
A&M's Bonn! Chafe dives for a ball during the Lady Aggies' three-game loss to Texas Monday night.
Hot-shooting Anderson leads Ags to 78-67 win
NFL
49ers 44, Dolphins 20
NBA
Rockets 98, Celtics 93
Magic 101, Warriors 95
Jazz 105, Nets 79
Trail Blazers 1 1 3, Clippers 94
NHL
Montreal 4, Hartford 3 OT
Colorado 3, Edmonton 3
Upcoming Events
A&M Football
The A&M Football Team will
travel to Fort Worth Saturday to take
on Texas Christian University in the
two teams' last meeting as members
of the Southwest Conference. The
game will begin at 2:00 p.m. at
Amon Carter Stadium.
NFL Football
Thursday: Kansas City Chiefs at
Dallas Cowboys
Sunday: Denver Broncos at
Houston Oilers
NBA Basketball
Today: Seattle at Toronto
Chicago at Dallas
Atlanta at Denver
Portland at L.A. Lakers
Wednesday:
Houston at Philadelphia
Vancouver at Orlando
Golden State at Miami
Boston at Charlotte
New York at Cleveland
Washington at Detroit
Seattle at Minnesota
Chicago at San Antonio
Toronto at Milwaukee
Tim Moog, The Battalion
Texas A&M junior forward Gary Nottingham treats fans to an
unfamiliar sight — a slam dunk — during Tuesday's game.
□ The junior transfer
guard led all players with
23 points in the win.
By Tom Day
The Battalion
Like any other young basketball
team playing its second exhibition
game of a new season, the Aggie
Men’s Basketball Team’s intensity
wavered Monday night.
Luckily for the Aggies, however,
they were able to overcome their fo
cus difficulties to hold on for a 78-67
victory over the Conoco Oilers at G.
Rollie White Coliseum.
“I thought we showed pretty good
toughness overall tonight,” A&M
Head Basketball Coach Tony Barone
said. “When we got after them defen
sively, we did pretty well, but we’re
way too inconsistent.
“They had way too many dribble
penetrations, and that destroys
your team when you give a team
easy lay-ups.”
With freshman center Brad
Strieker out indefinitely with a bone
spur in his ankle and forward Joel
Ockey seeing limited action due to an
ankle sprain, the Aggies had just
enough firepower to hold off the free
lance Oilers.
Junior transfer Tracey Anderson
led the charge for A&M, dropping in
23 points on 9-of-l3 shooting while
fellow transfer forward Gary Notting
ham added 15 points, 11 rebounds
and four blocked shots.
“I thought we had a major setback
when Strieker and Ockey went out,”
Barone said. “The numbers disap
peared dramatically, and we really
lost the continuity that we thought
we were going to have.
“There’s a plus for that though be
cause Calvin Davis (eight points,
nine rebounds, and three blocks) has
been forced into playing, and he’s
been totally impressive.”
In the early going, it looked like
the.,Two teams were content on hav
ing a three-point shootout. Sopho
more guard Kyle Kessel, forward
Max Schleder and freshman Derrick
Hart all hit from downtown for
A&M, staking the Aggies to an ear
ly 16-10 lead.
After a basket by Conoco’s Rod
Gregwire brought the Oilers to with
in four, the Aggies exploded, using a
17-6 run to build a 33-18 lead with
7:45 remaining in the half.
However, Conoco’s group of college
veterans took advantage of the young
Aggies’ mental and physical letdown,
mounting a 15-4 run to cut the A&M
lead down to 39-33 at the half.
“We went into a fog,” Barone said.
“Our shot selection was bad, we did
n’t go to the offensive glass and we
gave-up the easy-dribble drive.”
A&M also had trouble at the line,
hitting only 5-of-l3 free throw at
tempts in the first half.
“Coach was on (our case) pretty
hard at halftime,” Anderson said.
“We’ve played two games now, and
we haven’t played close to our po
tential.
“It has a lot to do with learning
the system — learning Barone ball.”
Behind Anderson in the second
half, the Aggies had just enough in
them to get the job done. After the
Oilers closed to within four points
with 9:02 remaining in the game,
A&M went on an 11-2 surge to grab a
74-61 lead with 4:30 left. The Aggies
would coast home the rest of the way.
Anderson led the A&M charge
with 15 second-half points.
“I was trying to do something to
get us fired up and get us back to the
level we had at the beginning of the
game,” Anderson said.
“(Anderson) made a lot of key bas
kets for us,” Barone said. “He played
with real toughness offensively and
he makes a major difference in our
lineup.”
Sophomore center Dario Quesada
contributed 10 points and eight re
bounds for A&M while the Oilers
were led by Gregwire’s 17 points and
11 rebounds.
Despite winning, Anderson said
he believes the Aggies are capable of
a lot more.
“We got the win, but it wasn’t
what we wanted to accomplish at
all,” Anderson said. “If we want to
make the nation believe what we can
do, we have to put whole games to
gether and not just play in spurts.”
Aggies 78, Oilers 67
Texas A&M.
...39 39
-78
Conoco
...33 34-
- 67
Conoco
fg-fga ft-fta
reb
ast
stl
blk
tp
Hamilton, D.
1-3
0-0
6
2
0
0
3
Campbell, D.
1-6
0-0
3
1
0
0
2
Whittaker, R.
6-8
1-2
4
0
1
0
16
Turner, C.
6-13
2-2
2
8
3
0
14
Dotson, T.
4-8
0-0
1
3
2
1'
8
Green, Z.
2-8
0-0
1
2
1
0
5
Smith, K.
1-4
0-0
2
0
0
0
2
Gregwire, R.
6-14
4-8
11
2
.1
0
17
Totals
27-64
7-12
34
18
8
1
67
Texas A&M
fg-fga
ft-fta
reb
ast
stl
blk
tP
Nottingham, G.
7-12
1-3
11
i
1
4
15
James, Q.
0-1
0-0
1
0
0
0
0
Quesada, D.
4-9
1-2
8
0
2
1
10
Anderson, T.
9-13
1-1
1
3
0
0
23
Kessel, K.
2-3
1-6
3
9
0
0
7
Hart, Derrick.
3-10
0-0
3
8
1
0
7
Schedier, M.
2-4
0-0
2
1
2
0
6
Davis, C..
3-8
2-3
9
1
2
3
8
Ockey, J.
0-2
2-2
1
0
0
0
2
Totals
30-62
8-17
44
23
9
8
78
FG percentage: A&M
- .484
Conoco- .422
FT percentage: A&M
Attendance: 1,897
-.471
Conoco -
583
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