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Lady Raiders thump A&M, 75-61
By Lara L. Zuehlke
The Battalion
It was a hard-fought contest for
the Texas A&M Women’s Basketball
Team Wednesday, who fell 75-60 to
the No. 15 Texas Tech Lady Red
Raiders at G. Rollie White Coliseum
in front of 1,155.
The loss drops the Lady Ags to 9-
16 overall and 3-12 in Big 12 play,
while the Red Raiders improve to 18-
7 overall and 10-5 in the conference.
Texas Tech, led by junior center
Alicia Thompson,came in unpre
pared for the Ag-
“Fm proud of our
effort tonight,
and for about 30
minutes we were
right there.”
Candi Harvey
A&M head coach
gies strong first -
half showing.
The Ags came
out on fire, lead
ing by as many as
10 points in the
first-half. Howev
er, the Lady
Raiders went on
a 7-0 run with
5:05 left in the
first-half and
brought every
thing to an even
keel at halftime, 29-29.
“I thought A&M did a great job
tonight,” Texas Tech Head Coach
Marsha Sharp said. "I thought they
came out with a good plan. They
made us be awfully patient with the
basketball on our end of the floor.”
The Lady Aggies were led by
freshman forward Prissy Sharpe,
who posted her fifth double-double
of the season with 12 points and 14
rebounds. Freshman forward len-
nifer Burrows contributed 12 points
and three boards, and senior for
ward Melissa Rollerson added 10
points and four rebounds.
In the second half the Lady
Raiders stepped up their play be
hind the hot hand of All-American
candidate Thompson, who led the
Raiders with 20 points and eight re
bounds, and by sophomore Julie
Lake, who scored nine of her 11
points in the second half.
Sharpe said the Lady Ags started
out strong, but Tech capitalized on
the Aggies’ lack of concentration.
‘At the beginning of the first half,
we played so well as a team,” Sharpe
said. “We lost our focus for a few
minutes, though, and things start
ed to snowball on us.”
A&M Head Coach Candi Harvey
said she was pleased with the Lady Ag
gies’ play, but the team lost its poise in
the final minutes of the game.
“I’m proud of our ef
fort tonight, and for
about 30 minutes we
were right there and
had an opportunity to
win," Harvey said.
“What we had done so
well in the first half was
move the ball and really
make them work, but in
the second half we got
impatient. We’d make
one pass and shoot it.”
Harvey said the
game was deter
mined on the defen
sive end of the floor.
“I thought the difference down the
stretch was Tech simply played better
defense than we did,” Harvey said. “We
had breakdowns on the defensive end
that were crucial. We gave up three-
point plays and that can’t happen.”
The Lady Raiders also proved to be
the better team on the shooting end,
connecting for 46 percent (28-61),
while the Ags shot 34 percent (21-61).
Harvey credited the A&M fresh
men with stepping up and coming
through for the Lady Ags.
“I just can’t say enough about these
younger kids,” Harvey said. “This is
the 15th-ranked team in the nation
and for 30 minutes we’re right there
with them. This says a lot about
their potential and their heart. We
just need to get smarter, and that’s
just something that will have to
£
LI
Rogge Heflin, The to
Sophomore guard Kerrie Patterson passes the ball off against Tech.
come with time.”
Harvey said despite another loss,
the Aggies are building and learning
with each game.
“We come in here and talk about
another loss, but it’s not an empty
loss,” Harvey said. “The kids are
learning great lessons, and I’m very
proud of them.”
Season dedicated to Robinson
NEWYORK (AP) — Baseball dedicated its 1997 sea
son to Jackie Robinson on Wednesday and will donate
$1 million to his foundation in honor of him breaking
the sport’s color line 50 years ago.
“It was baseball’s proudest moment then. It’s still
baseball’s proudest moment, and I believe it will always
be baseball’s proudest moment,” acting commission
er Bud Selig said. “Should it have come earlier — cer
tainly. There never should have been a barrier.”
At a news conference attended by Robinson’s wid
ow, Rachel, Selig said:
—all major and minor league players and all major
league umpires will wear “Breaking Barriers” arm
patches this season;
—all teams will use balls with the commemorative
logo in their home openers;
—100,000 gold and 200,000 silver commemorative
coins will be sold by the U.S. Mint;
—teams will show Robinson video spots created by
filmmaker Spike Lee on their stadium scoreboards and
television broadcasts;
—the All-Star game in Cleveland will be dedicated
to Larry Doby, the first black player in the American
League, and he will be honorary captain of the AL team.
“The residue of racism is still with us and the strug
gle is still on,” Rachel Robinson said. “We need to have
a vision and we need to have a plan.”
When Robinson made his big league debut for the
Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15,1947, he became the first
black in the major leagues since Moses Fleetwood
Walker of Toledo in the American Association in 1884.
President Clinton said Tuesday he will attend cere
monies at Shea Stadium on April 15 to mark the anniver
sary and will speak from the field during the game be
tween the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Mets.
“The Robinson challenge was not just to the pitcher,
but to society as a whole,” said NL president Len Cole
man, the chairman of the Jackie Robinson Foundation.
Guillory
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leading a full life.
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do well,” Wagner said. “lamp
ing to miss her very muchvp
she is gone.”
Tech looks to improve athletic academics
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Texas
Tech will improve its athletes' aca
demic performances and vigorous
ly fight a lawsuit filed by a former
football player, Chancellor John
Montford vowed Wednesday.
“Texas Tech, as should all univer
sities, exists to educate students,” he
said. “There is too much emphasis
today on winning in sports at all
costs. Reforms are needed.”
In a speech carried live on local ra
dio, Montford listed several proposed
academic reforms, some of which al
ready have been implemented this
semester. He stressed that recent
news reports of academic in egulari-
ties among student athletes did not
prompt most of the actions.
In a related matter, Montford an
nounced that the university has
tapped a mini “dream team” of trial
attorneys — including famed
lawyer Joe Jamail and fellow Hous
tonian Harry Reasoner, managing
partner ofVinson & Elkins — to de
fend it against a federal suit filed last
week by former defensive lineman
Stephen Gaines.
Gaines seeks unspecified dam
ages, claiming Texas Tech used him
for his playing ability while ignoring
his scholastic life. Gaines’ attorney,
Christopher Kalis, offered to settle for
$300,000 last month, Montford said,
adding that Tech offered nothing.
Kalis declined to discuss the ne
gotiations, only to say that school
officials had about two
weeks to mull a settlement.
“To me it’s ironic that
the university choos
es the day after the
10th anniversary
of the SMU
death penalty
to hold this
press conference
to respond to this
suit,” Kalis said.
An NCAA investi
gation of the Texas Tech
athletic program turns a
year old Friday, and Montford said
it could drag on another six months.
Gaines’ allegations comprise a
“substantial part” of the NCAA
probe, Montford said.
“1 don’t know anything about the
NCAA thing, but I do know lawsuits,
and this looks like it is totally with
out merit,” said Jamail, who is work
ing for free. “But we’ll just have to
see what the court decides.”
Among the reforms, Montford
said Tech will develop a written pol
icy to prevent athletes from partic
ipating in postseason events with
sub-par grades.
The Houston
Chronicle re
ported recently
that junior star
running back Byron
Hanspard played in
the Alamo Bowl last
December despite hav
ing a fall grade-point av
erage of 0.00. Hanspard
has decided to enter
the 1997 NFL draft.
Texas Tech is willing
to restrict its own fail
ing athletes even if other Big 12
schools don’t follow suit.
“I think it’s a leadership issue,”
Montford said. “And frankly, I sup
pose this happened to the least like
ly person (Hanspard) that I thought
this would have happened to.
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“When there’s the opporti®
to waive their senior yearfo^ :
money, I can’t blame themfo# I
ing interest. 1 don’t agree with®
procedure, but I can certainly 18
derstand how an individuals 1 '
lete would feel.”
Increased monitoring of
letes’ class attendance already® |
begun, as has a “supplemental 15 1
struction” program in whicho®
students tutor athletes infourp 1
ular classes in which athletes®'
struggled in the past. The prog®
may be expanded to about adoi'j
classes next fall, Montford said.
All Tech athletes with a GPAl 1
low 2.0 must attend a closelyitfj
itored study hall for at least 1 !
hours a week. On road trips,
letes can check out laptopcomp 1 iy ]eat j|
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have access to tutors at other Big 1 - j str j I
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