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The Battalion
Tuesday
February 6, 1996
Page 7
sports
GLANCE
Poll shows Frisco ap
proves new stadium
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fifty-
two percent of the city's voters favor
a measure to construct a $255 mil
lion privately financed stadium in
the city's China Basin District, ac
cording to a poll in Monday's San
Francisco Chronicle.
Thirty-four percent oppose the
measure, which will appear on the
March 26 ballot, while 14 percent
of those surveyed were either unde
cided or had no opinion.
The poll sampled 500 registered
voters and had a margin of error of
j 4-5 percent.
The poll is the first independent
measure of support for the ballot
measure since the Giants unveiled
I their plans. It was conducted for the
! San Francisco public relations firm
j ofSolem & Associates.
Dallas brass downplays
Haley's TV outburst
IRVING, Texas (AP) —-' Charles
Haley's trashing of the defensive
coaching staff at the Pro Bowl
! brought more chuckles than con-
I cern at Valley Ranch on Monday.
"That's just Charles being
Charles," said public relations
director Rich Dalrymple. "It's
old news."
Haley trashed his coaches again
Sunday in Hawaii during the NFC's
20-13 victory over the AFC.
He was asked about the opening
on the defensive line coaching staff
which was vacated when John
Blake left after the regular season to
take the head coaching job at Okla
homa. Some reports had mentioned
defensive assistant Craig Boiler as a
possibility to replace Blake.
Haley said the Cowboys "need
to go out and get a qualified guy
to come in and try to coach some
of the young guys. Like always,
they'll probably stay in house and
keep a guy in here that's not real
ly qualified."
SCORES ROUNDUP
NBA
i Trailblazers.90, Raptors 87
/(nicks 97, Pistons 91
Heat 103, Kings 92
Timberwolves 104, Mavericks 92
Jazz 92, Grizzlies 83
Warriors 128, Clippers 124
UPCOMING EVENTS
Women's Basketball
The Lady Aggies will travel to
Waco Wednesday night to take on
Baylor University in SWC action.
A&M Football
Wednesday is national signing
day for high school players. A&M
Head Football Coach R.C. Slocum
will announce A&M's 1996 class.
A&M sweats out win against Bears, 67-64
□ A late run by Baylor gave
the Aggies a scare before
they put the win away.
By Tom Day
The Battalion
As a group that is rich on talent but
lacking in experience, the Texas A&M
Men’s Basketball Team has often
found it an adventure this season to
simply close out a sure win.
Monday night was no exception, as
the Aggies controlled their Southwest
Conference contest with Baylor most
of the way, only to sweat out a 67-64
victory at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
A&M Head Coach Tony Barone said
even though the game’s outcome was
closer than it should have been, the
Aggies benefited.
“We backed into the win,” Barone
said. “I don’t think we played well, but
if you learn from the win, it becomes a
real good experience for you.”
From the outset, it was A&M’s team
defense that set the tone of the game.
Limiting the Bears (6-13, 1-6 in SWC) to
just five points in the first eight minutes
of the game, the Aggies jumped out to
an early seven-point lead.
After Baylor closed to within 14-9,
A&M (11-9, 3-5) used two consecutive
steals by junior forward Gary Notting
ham to fuel a 7-0 burst highlighted by
a fast-break layup by swingman
Tracey Anderson and a three-point
field goal by Kyle Kessel.
The next nine minutes was charac
terized by what a fuming Barone and
the 2,415 fans at the game might con
sider shoddy officiating. With the two
teams pounding on each other in the
paint, it was Baylor that seemed to be
getting all the calls.
The game officials called 14 fouls on
A&M in the first half, while the Bears
were only whistled five times. Luckily
for the Aggies, Baylor made just 12-of-
22 free-throw attempts in the first half.
After the game, Barone declined to
comment on the officiating, but Baylor
coach Harry Miller said he was pleased.
“I thought the officials did a great
job,” Miller said. “A&M is very physi
cal and in the first-half they got some
things done because they were allowed
to be physical.
Tony may disagree with me because
there were so many fouls called on his
players, but mostly, they were just try
ing to stop (center) Brian (Skinner).”
With Kessel forced to sit out the fi
nal 8:23 of the first half with three
fouls, A&M remained focused. A Dario
Quesada jump shot and a fast-break
slam dunk by Nottingham pushed the
A&M lead to 30-17.
Then, to the delight of the crowd,
seldom-used reserves Joel Ockey and
Matt Haralson added some fireworks
for the Aggies. Haralson’s jumper
and Ockey’s three-pointer staked
A&M to a fourteen point advantage
going into halftime.
“That was amazing at the end of the
first half,” Barone said. “(Haralson)
hadn’t scored a basket in practice, so I
See Aggies, Page 10
Evan Zimmerman The Battalion
Texas A&M junior guard Tracey Anderson drives to the basket during Monday night's win over
the Baylor Bears. Anderson scored a career-high 21 points in the win.
Strength in numbers: Aggies outgun Baylor’s Skinner
Baylor's Brian Skinner challenges
A&M's Brad Strieker Monday night.
□ The super sophomore
had 29 points in the
Bears' loss.
By Philip Leone
The Batialion
Fans who showed up at G.
Rollie White Coliseum on Mon
day night to see the Texas A&M
Men’s Basketball Team face Bay
lor University witnessed a mis
match. Baylor sophomore center
Brian Skinner took on the Aggies
all by himself.
The rest of his teammates
showed up, of course, but they
were of little help to Skinner in
Baylor’s down-to-the-wire 67-64
loss to the Aggies. No other player
was a factor for Baylor. Skinner
played all but three minutes of the
contest, pouring in 29 points on
12-of-16 from the floor.
Only one other Bear, junior
guard Damon Mannon, scored in
double digits. Skinner also
grabbed 13 rebounds and had four
blocked shots.
Texas A&M Head Coach Tony
Barone was certainly impressed
with Skinner’s performance after
the contest. So impressed, in
fact, that he jokingly called for
Skinner to leave school early to
play in the NBA.
“Skinner was just outstand
ing tonight — I was totally im
pressed,” Barone said. “He
should leave (school) early. He’ll
make a lot of money. I think he
ought to go.”
Earlier this season, Skinner
scored 25 points in Baylor’s 74-67
upset of A&M in Waco, and
Barone said before Monday’s ac
tion that his team was not going to
allow Skinner to have that same
kind of game in College Station. In
his postgame press conference,
Barone stuck to his guns in spite
of Skinner’s repeat performance.
“He didn’t (have the same type
of game) — he had a better game,”
Barone said. “I just said Tie wasn’t
going to have that same kind of
game.’ So, he had a better game.”
Though Skinner consistently
burned the Aggies with easy in
side points, Baylor’s perimeter
game was held in check by A&M
defensive pressure. The Bears shot
a dismal 6-of-2l from the field in
the first half, allowing A&M to roll
to a 39-29 halftime lead. Baylor
would shoot the ball only slightly
better in the second half, but Skin
ner would keep the game in ques
tion until the final moments.
Barone was pleased with his
squad’s overall defensive play and
believed it was a definite factor in
escaping with the three-point vic
tory.
“I thought that our defense was
excellent for the most part,”
Barone said. “I thought that we
played good pressure defense and
forced their perimeter players in
to making tough plays. Skinner
just kept them in the game. ”
Another telling factor in Bay
lor’s demise was poor free-throw
shooting. The Bears only hit on
22 -of-38 from the line for a 57.9
percentage.
“We simply weren’t making
our free throws,” Baylor Head
Coach Harry Miller said. “That’s
where we lost the ballgame if
you really want to get down to
it. There’s always one certain
area in each game where we fall
off the cliff. That’s the way its
been for us this season.”
The Bears actually outscored
A&M in the second half 39-28
but never managed to overcome
their first half deficit. Smith,
pleased with his team’s effort,
said the Bears’ second rally was
a reversal of the way things
have gone this season.
“Usually in the first half we’ll
get up by 10 or 11 points and then
fade in the end,” Smith said. “This
game, we came back. But again, it
was close but no cigar.”
Aggies 67, Bears 64
A&M
....39
28
-67
Baylor
....25
39
- 64
Baylor
fg-fga
ft-fta
reb
ast
stl
blk
tp
Brandt, D.
1-6
3-4
8
0
2
0
5
Perkins, J.
0-3
2-2
5
3
1
1
2
Skinner, B.
12-16
5-10
13
1
1
4
29
Mannon, D.
4-16
2-4
4
2
2
0
11
Smith, R.
1-6
2-8
4
3
1
0
5
Richard, J.
0-2
1-2
1
0
0
0
1
Clyde, K.
1-3
7-8
7
0
0
0
9
Miller, R.
1-5
0-0
0
4
2
0
2
Ramirez, G.
0-0
0-0
0
0
0
0
0
Totals
20-57
22-38
45
13
9
5
64
A&M
fg-fga
ft-fta
reb
ast
sti
blk
tp
Nottingham, G.
2-4
2-3
6
1
2
2
6
Quesada, D.
5-11
0-1
5
2
0
0
11
Strieker, B.
2-7
0-0
3
0
0
0
4
Anderson, T.
7-12
6-6
4
4
0
0
21
Kessel, K.
4-8
0-0
3
7
3
0
11
Hart, D.
0-6
3-4
0
2
1
0
3
James, Q.
0-0
0-0
0
1
1
0
0
Davis, C.
3-4
0-0
5
0
3
0
6
Ockey, J.
1-1
0-2
1
0
0
0
3
Totals
25-54
11-16
32
18
10
2
67
FG percentage
: A&M
-.463
Baylor-
.351
3PTpercentage: A&M
- 462
Baylor -
- .118
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