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Page 9
Monday • March 3, 1997
By Jamie Burch
The Battalion
st In Peace. With the head-
now engraved, theTexas A&M
lens Basketball Team (9-17, 3-
rs nailed the coffin door shut on
)96-97 season with a 21 -point
79-58, to the University of
iiiO0s(2O-6, 12-4) Saturday in G.
fopeWhite Coliseum,
ilead Coach Candi Harvey said the
ne perpetuated the Lady Aggies’
son-long trend of starting strong
colapsing in the second half.
Itwasatale of two halves,” Har-
said.“Same situation, different
’unfortunately our home court,
iplayed a super first half.
We came out (in the second
fiwith a great opportunity to
ra iturned the ball over, our con-
«i cnce dropped, and it snow-
pt led.We’ve talked about it sever-
iies (this year).”
Irailing by six points, 33-27 at
isltjbreak, the Lady Aggies failed to
afield goal in the first eight
lutes of the second half. Fresh-
tejnforward Jennifer Burrows fi-
|hitatwo-foot jump shot to put
Lady Aggies on the board. Dur-
the Lady Aggie drought, the
cu-aghorns rattled off 19 points,
pgoffa 19-5 scoring run.
lexas’ senior forward Amie
ithled the second half onslaught
alfa 14 points. Five of those points
came within a six-second span.
Leading 64-40 with nine minutes
remaining, Smith stole the ball from
freshman guard Amy Yates at half
court and hustled to the basket for
an easy two. Smith, fouled on the
shot, hit the free throw to complete
the three-point play. The ensuing
inbound pass was stolen by Texas
sophomore guard Kim Lummas,
who dished it to Smith, and Smith
laid in to complete a five-point run.
Smith said defeating the Lady
Aggies was an important win for
Texas’ confidence because it proved
that they can recover after a tough
defeat by the University of Colorado
Wednesday night.
“Unfortunately, we’ve lost games
we should have won,” Smith said.
“We’ve bounced back from them
before. This team was ready to get 20
wins. And to win at A&M, you have
to be focused and you can’t be think
ing about what happened last
Wednesday night.”
Texas Head Coach Joy Conrad
said her team’s second-half defense
sparked the win.
“I felt like we were suffering
from the effects of Colorado ear
ly,” Conrad said. “We came out in
the second half with defensive in
tensity. We forced lots of
turnovers, got some easy baskets,
and got into a flow.
“The turning point of the game, in
my mind, was the play of (freshman
center) Carla Littleton. She came in
and took charge of the paint. I thought
that gave us some momentum and
we were able to build on that.”
Littleton scored four points
and grabbed three rebounds in
seven minutes.
Harvey said Littleton shut down
A&M’s offense.
"She just really hurts us,” Harvey
said. “We’d done such a good job in
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the first half of fronting, getting
around and getting over the top.
She gets you down there, posted up,
and it’s just impossible to get
around her.”
A&M never recovered from its
slow start in the second half. Trail
ing by 29 points with 8:53 left in the
game, A&M failed to connect on
layups or hit free-throws through
out the second half. The Lady Ag
gies shot just .391 (9-of-23) percent
from the field and .478 (11 of 23)
percent from the charity stripe af
ter the intermission.
Texas, on the other hand, shot .545
(12-22) percent from the field and
buried 21 of 23 (.913 percent) from
the free throw line down the stretch.
Harvey said the biggest problem
was A&M’s mistakes.
“Our (29) turnovers, most of
which were unforced, [killed us],”
Harvey said. "I think more than any
thing it boils down to confidence.”
Senior forward Melissa Roller-
son, playing in her final regular
season game, led the Lady Aggies
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Freshman point guard Natalie
Tucker also scored 11 points.
Texas had three players reach
double figures in scoring, including
Smith, who led all scorers with 17.
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;ld teams brought home
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time view be Baylor Early Bird Invita-
f onal Saturday.
Head Coach Ted
elm said the meet was a
?d a short jodwaytokick 0 ff the out-
ale, whose jjor season.
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are competitive during the
tdoorseason, and I think that
things eadj (apparent this weekend,” Nelson said. “We won
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Senior All-American Russell Nuti won gold
in the weight throw with a toss of 189-11,
which was over 30 feet further than the sec
ond-place finisher. Kelli Schrader and Carrie
Carmen finished 1-2 in the discus competi
tion, with Schrader’s toss of 155-6 winning the
event by nearly 30 feet.
“This was a very good opener for Russ (Nuti),”
Nelson said. “He has to be considered one of the
favorites to win the Big 12 title in the discus. Kelli
(Schrader) probably would have liked to have
thrown further, but this was a good starting point.”
Senior Ryan Theriault and freshman Travis
Grasha finished 1-2 in the javelin throw with
marks of 209-5 and 205-11, respectively, and
defeated Texas’ top javelin entry along the way.
Freshman Travis McAshan won the 400-me-
ter intermediate hurdles with a time of 52.53.
“I think Travis has a shot of qualifying for the
NCAAs,” Nelson said. “He set himself up to be a
scorer for us at the conference meet.”
Other Aggie men grabbing first-place fin
ishes were sophomore Michael Price in the
200-meter dash and freshman Robert Pringle
in the triple jump. Sophomore Kendall Mad
den, and freshmen Richard McDonald and Jon
Nance tied for top honors in the pole vault, all
three clearing 16-6.
For the Lady Aggies, A&M took the top five
places in the high jump with Laura Keahley
taking the gold with a jump of 5-4 1/4.
The Aggies will continue the 1997 outdoor sea
son at the Rice Invitational in Houston March 8.
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Baseball
Continued from Page 7
Sunday’s rubber game had the
feel of mid-winter football with
temperatures dipping into the up
per 40s and a strong north wind
causing fans to break out their blan
kets. But even Mother Nature could
not cool off the bats at Olsen.
Junior southpaw Matt Blank
started for A&M against Baylor’s Kip
Wells. The Aggies ran out to a 7-2
lead in the fourth after Benefield
took Wells’ pitch over the right-cen
ter field wall for a grand slam.
Blank gave up two runs in the
fifth but A&M matched them with
Hunter’s third homer of the series in
the sixth. Blank was cruising into the
ninth, after Stephens knocked an
other Aggie solo homer the previous
inning. He had given up three
earned runs, struck out nine and
started the ninth with a 10-5 lead.
Three hits, three walks and two
home runs later, the Aggies were star
ing down the throat of a terrible loss.
Blank gave up a solo home run to
shortstop Preston Underdown and
then was ripped for a double. Senior
John Codrington relieved Blank and
recorded the innings’ first out before
walking the next two batters to load
the bases. Keens replaced Codring
ton with one out and walked the first
batter he faced to force in the Bears’
seventh run.
Two pitches later, rightfielder Je
remy Dodson was rounding first
base as his game-winning grand
slam was clearing the railroad tracks
down the rightfield line.
As Johnson described it, “You’re
going to have some tough losses,
and it didn’t take us long to get one.”
The offense sparkled for the Aggies
this weekend—highlighted by Bene
field and Hunter. Benefield went five
for 15 with two home runs, seven RBIs
and four runs scored. Hunter
slammed three homers, drove in six
and scored three in his five for 12 per
formance. But it was not enough to
knock off Baylor.
Hunter said even though the
pitching staff has struggled lately,
the team is not pointing any fingers.
“What people are forgetting is
that at the beginning of the year the
hitters were off and the pitchers
were on,” Hunter said. “Everyone’s
entitled to their bad outings. We’ll
just pick it up and move on.”
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'fcrned, they all look to Kappler
Confidence and they all know
represent A&M well.
“He’ll do extremely well at
NCAAs, his goals are the highest of
anybody on the team and that al
lows him to do so well,” Pantano
said. “He will be a large part of why
we do so well at the meet. He is
liked by the team and by himself,
which is good.”
Although Kappler will be at the
NCAA Championships in four
weeks, that is not the last place he
will have a chance to compete. His
teammates said the sky is the limit
for him. Nash said Kappler has no
where to go but up.
“Well, I have already qualified
to compete at the Olympic trials
in 2000, depending on how fast I
get I will train and try to make the
team in 2000,” Kappler said. “Like
I’ve said before, though, right now
I like being in this position and as
long as I am helping out the team
and helping others, I don’t have
any complaints.”
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