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Jr V 12,151 ent icials Si] | e to anj^ lorant,”^ eo andfc mt genet. veil thoiif; nd well; d. "Quiif ng tiredti •e not g(q 'e not his.” it open / leave It X) carapc it ofbitld’ ntire cor. e majorii; ' said, la id, ifstu-l ould take 'ngravlaj dng sera- in be pur- ar said lould use ople fra ould boll speakers, of accoai- r that slii i wasgiv- , an inspi- explained hieve our . “He told i rase‘If it Rio Brave ! Friday ■onferenti some Hii' l&M,'’ Vd lance, you t culture; •own." ear’s con- but that j broade: 11 attent re beinj irectio®. $ races - rother. The Battalion Monday February \ 2, 1996 Sports Page 7 GLANCE Coach breaks own free-throw record SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A 58- year-old assistant coach with a pen chant for fundamentals set the only world record during the NBA's All- Star Weekend. Fred Newman, a coach at Cal Tech, broke his own record for free throws made in one hour, sinking 2,034 of 2,243 attempts at the NBA Jam Session on Sunday. He broke his own record of 1,808, which he set Thursday. "Today was the best I've felt so far," said Newman, who performed the feat at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. "When I heard that I was over 1,000 at the halfway mark, I really wanted to finish with 2,000." It will be Newman's fifth entry into the Guinness Book of World Records. The Santa Monica, Calif., native has also held records for con secutive free throws while blindfold ed (88), most free throws in 10 min utes using two balls (336), percent age made in 24 hours (98 percent) and most made in 24 hours (20,371). Newman hit 90.7 percent of his attempts Sunday. UMass routs Temple, remains undefeated AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Carme- lo Travieso's eight 3-pointers and a smothering defense kept top-ranked Massachusetts the only major un beaten team with an 84-55 win Sun day over Temple. The margin was the second biggest for the Minutemen this sea son and came just 10 days after they won at Temple 59-35. Travieso scored 26 points and tied a school record for 3-pointers as he led all five UMass starters in double figures. Marcus Camby was held to 10 points but had five blocks and four assists. Donta Bright, Dana Dingle and Edgar Padilla had 13 \ points each. I The Minutemen led 36-29 at ) halftime but opened the second half ' with 18-3 run as they had five steal^ jn the fifst nine minutes. That made the score 54-32 and they led by at least 19 the rest of the way. They finished with 1 1 steals, eight blocks and just six turnovers while making 52 percent of their shots. Source says boxer Morrison has AIDS LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tommy Mor rison got the news in a crowded casino, only hours before he was to fight a comeback bout. Nevada box ing officials had suspended him, for what a source said was a positive test for the AIDS virus. The heavyweight contender and sometimes actor was in seclusion Sunday in his native Oklahoma, where he flew the night before after being suspended by the Nevada Athletic Commission. Nevada officials refused com ment on why Morrison was not al lowed to fight, citing privacy laws. But a source familiar with the testing told The Associated Press that Mor rison had tested positive for HIV. NBA All-Star Game: East 1 29, West 118 SCORES ROUNDUP UPCOMING EVENTS Men's Basketball The Aggies will play the Univer sity of Texas Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. at the Erwin Center in Austin. Women's Basketball The Lady Aggies host the Univer sity of Texas Wednesday at G. Rollie White Coliseum beginning at 7 p.m. Aggie Baseball The A&M Baseball Team opens its home season Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m. against the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor at Olsen Field. Lady Aggie Softball The A&M Softball Team opens its season Tuesday with a double- header against the University of Texas-San Antonio beginning at 5 p.m. at the Lady Aggie Softball Complex. Swimming and Diving Texas A&M will host the South west Conference Swimming and Diving Championships Feb. 14-17 at the Student Recreational Center Natatorium. Lady Ags fold in Lubbock again □ The Texas A&M Women's Basketball Team has not won at Texas Tech since 1980. Staff and Wire Reports Maybe it’s something in the water. Whatever the reason, the Texas A&M Women’s Basket ball Team once again fell short in Lubbock, losing to the Texas Tech Lady Red Raiders 60-51 Saturday afternoon. The loss dropped the Lady Aggies to 14-8 on the year in cluding 5-4 in the Southwest Conference. The Lady Red Raiders im proved to 19-2 on the year in cluding 9-0 in the conference. They also enjoyed their seventh sellout of the year — as a crowd of 8,470 showed up to rattle the Lady Aggies. The thorn in the Lady Aggies’ side was once again Texas Tech center Michi Atkins. Atkins led all scorers with 24 points and dominated the boards with 15 rebounds. She made it to the free-throw line 18 times, converted 10 of them and also added two blocks and two steals while playing for 35 minutes. Still, the Lady Aggies were able to stay in the contest be cause of defense and a splendid performance by senior post An gel Spinks. Spinks hit for 16 points and grabbed nine rebounds while go ing head-to-head most of the time with Atkins. The Lady Aggies also played extremely tough defense, limit ing Texas Tech to a .349 shoot ing percentage from the floor. Unfortunately for A&M, Tech’s defense was even better and the Lady Aggies’ shooting was even worse. A&M hit on only 27-of-78 shots including a woeful 2-of- 22 from behind the three- point line. The worst offender in the brick house for A&M was senior point guard Lisa Branch, who shot just 3-of-l8 from the floor. The fact that Branch even played in the game, much less for 29 minutes, was surprising. The point guard suffered flu like conditions throughout the weekend and was reported to have a 101-degree fever the day of the game. Lady Raiders 60, Lady Ags 51 A&M ...20 31 -51 Texas Tech ...31 29- - 60 Texas A&M fg-fga ft-fta reb ast stl blk tp Rollerson, M 1-4 0-0 2 0 0 0 2 Sevin, M. 4-9 0-0 6 2 1 0 8 Spinks, A. 7-16 2-2 9 1 0 1 16 Tucker, L. 2-11 0-0 2 1 3 0 5 Branch, L. 3-18 1-2 6 4 4 0 7 Patterson, K. 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Lake, C. 2-6 0-0 4 4 1 0 5 Linder, K. 2-4 2-2 7 1 0 1 6 Ferguson, B. 0-5 0-0 0 2 1 0 0 Totals 22-78 W3 45 15 10 2 51 Texas Tech fg-fga ft-fta reb ast stl blk »P Thompson, A. 5-17 0-2 13 3 i 0 10 White, M. 1-5 0-1 9 0 0 0 2 Atkins, M. 7-14 10-18 15 1 2 2 24 Lake, J. 4-12 2-2 7 9 0 2 11 Parker, S. 0-1 0-1 3 4 1 2 0 Boles, C. 2-3 1-4 3 0 2 1 5 Sumrall, K. 0-2 0-0 1 0 0 0 0 Hanebutt, R. 3-8 0-0 1 0 0 0 8 Tate, A. 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 22-63 13-28 59 17 6 7 60 FG percentage: A&M -.283 Tech-.349 SPTpercentage: A&M -.091 Tech- .231 Attendance: 8,470 Evan Zimmerman, The Battalion Texas A&M senior guard Bambi Ferguson skies for a rebound against Southern Methodist last week at G. Rollie White Coliseum. Red Raiders survive G. Rollie fright Evan Zimmerman, The Battalion Texas A&M junior guard Tracey Anderson swoops to the basket dur ing Saturday's loss to Texas Tech at G. Rollie White Coliseum. □ The No. 13 Texas Tech Basketball Team barely avoided an up set Saturday. Staff and Wire Reports So that’s why they’re 20-1. The Texas Tech Red Raiders blew into College Sta tion Saturday afternoon and barely escaped with their No. 13 ranking intact. It took a strong game from forward Jason Sasser, poor shooting from A&M and a bare ly-missed, last-second three pointer to give Tech a 66-63 win over the Texas A&M Bas ketball Team. The loss dropped A&M to 11- 10 overall on the season and 3-6 in the Southwest Conference. Tech is 9-0 in SWC play. Sasser scored 19 points to lead Tech and was joined in dou ble-digit scoring by Darvin Ham with 11 and bench player Cory Carr with 15. After the game, Carr said the Red Raiders knew how fortunate they were to make it out of G. Rollie White still undefeated. “We feel very luck for the win,” Carr said. The Aggies stayed in the game despite shooting only .345 from the field compared to .469 for the Red Raiders. A&M was led by junior guard Tracey Anderson, who is steadi ly improving from a severe groin injury earlier in the year. Ander- Slfh scored 19 points and grabbed eight rebounds, leading the Aggies in both categories. Dario Quesada, whose three- point attempt at the buzzer nearly sent the game into over time, was just 3-of-14 of the field but was 8-of-8 from the free- throw line to total 14 points. A crowd of 3,691 at G. Rol lie White stayed loud as A&M trailed by just two points at halftime. The Aggies travel to Austin Wednesday to take on Texas. Red Raiders 66, Aggies 63 Tech 36 30 -66 A&M ....34 29 - 63 Texas Tech fg-fga ft-fta reb ast stl blk tp Ham, D. 3-4 5-5 6 1 1 0 11 Sasser, J. 8-16 3-7 5 6 1 0 19 Cooper, G, 2-3 0-0 4 1 0 1 4 Smith, K. 1-10 1-2 5 3 1 1 4 Martin, J. 0-3 2-4 1 2 0 0 2 Bonewitz, S. 3-5 0-0 3 1 0 1 9 Carr, C. 5-7 2-3 4 4 0 0 15 Roberts, D. 1-1 0-0 1 0 0 0 2 Totals 23-49 13-21 33 18 3 3 66 A&M fg-fga ft-fta reb ast stl blk tp Nottingham, G. 3-5 0-0 6 5 1 0 6 Quesada, D. 3-14 8-8 7 3 1 0 14 Strieker, B. 2-4 2-2 2 0 0 1 6 Anderson, T. 6-15 4-5 8 1 0 0 19 Kessel, K. 1-5 2-2 3 4 2 0 5 Hart, D. 2-10 0-0 4 0 2 0 5 Davis, C. 3-5 2-2 3 0 1 3 8 Ockey, J. 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 20-58 18-19 36 13 7 4 63 FG percentage: A&M -.345 Tech- .469 3PTpercentage: A&M -.417 Tech - .467 Attendance: 3,691 For openers, □ A&M defeated Ne braska and UTEP be fore falling to South Alabama. Staff and Wire Reports The Texas A&M Men’s Tennis Team found out exact ly where they stood this weekend. The Aggies blew past fu ture Big 12 opponent Nebras ka and squeaked by a tough University of Texas at El Paso team on Friday, then ran into a brick wall in No. 9 South Alabama on Saturday. A&M blew by the Corn- huskers 4-0 and edged UTEP 4-3 to earn the right to play South Alabama in the winner’s Ags take two bracket on Saturday at the Omar Smith Tennis Center. Texas A&M Head Tennis Coach David Kent was very pleased with team’s effort in the first two matches of the spring season. “We were hurting for match play, but these two matches help out a lot,” Kent said. “Both teams are solid, and that allowed us to work out some early-season kinks.” No. 9 South Alabama defeat ed the Aggies for the first time in three tries. In each of the past two seasons, A&M defeat ed USA at the H.E.B. Team Collegiate Championships in Corpus Christi. “South Alabama has a very strong team, but we had beaten them the past two years,” Kent said. “We had to come out fast and control the action.” out of three Rony Angkriwan, The Battalion Senior Blake Arrant reacts after losing Saturday. Henderson leads Black to win, 92-84 Staff and Wire Reports Chuck Henderson, A&M’s all-time leading three-point shooter, scored 25 points as the Black squad beat the Ma roon Friday night in the Texas A&M Alumni Basket ball Game. Henderson nailed five three-pointers, but was up staged in that category by Lynn Suber, who canned six — including two from the 30- foot range. The Black team led 61-48 at halftime, then held off a second-half rally for the win. Harvey: Where is the 12th Man? Candi Harvey A&M Women's Basketball Coach A large part of my decision to become the new women’s basketball head coach at Texas A&M University had to do with the spirit and tradition that the student body of Texas A&M engage and believe in — over 70,000 at Kyle Field on Saturdays, Silver Taps, Bonfire — all timeless traditions that have been passed down for generations. Everyone told me so much about all these things and yes, after experiencing them, they truly are special in a world where it is so uncool to be tradi tional. But after a year and a half as the head coach of the Lady Ag gies Basketball Team, I am still waiting to see the student body get behind what is rapidly be coming one of the most success ful programs around. In the athletic world, every one says you MUST win to put people in the stands. Well, evi dently that is not the case be cause we do win, and yet stu dents till do not support us. In the past three years, we have made it to the NCAA Sweet 16, been a regular fixture in the Top 25, won an NIT Championship and have a home record of 31-5. Chances are pretty good that you will see a win when you come watch us. Right now we are averaging 1,778 fans a game and probably 200 of those fans are students. The majority of those are great ly appreciated members of the band, Aggie Dance Team, Aggie Gents and the Yell Leaders. Right down the road, Bay lor’s Women’s Team is 1-6 in the Southwest Conference, but they are averaging 1,400 fans a game.What is wrong with this picture? It is my understanding that 15,000 members of this student body have athletic sports pass es. Why do you not support all sports with those passes? A great place to start would be Wednesday night when we play t.u. at 7:00 p.m. at G. Rol lie White Coliseum. We played Saturday at Texas Tech in front of 9,000 scream ing Lady Red Raider fans. On Jan. 17, we played in Austin in front of 8,000 fans in burnt orange. Where is your Aggie pride? I hope our Lady Aggie team sees it on Wednesday, the rest of this season and as we head into the Big 12 in 1996-97. Jordan leads East to All- Star victory □ The Chicago Bulls star scored 20 points in 22 minutes of play. SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Back in the All-Star Game for the first time since 1993, Michael Jordan simply did the usual — make sure his side didn’t lose. Jordan had 20 points in just 22 min utes, didn’t play the fourth quarter and helped the Eastern Conference beat the West ern Confer ence 129-118 Sunday. Leading to the game, Jordan had a let a few hints drop that he was out to avenge the East ern Conference’s 27-point loss last season. His 10 third-quarter points were enough to give him See All-Star, Page 10 Jordan