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Men’s swimming and diving team faces Texas
Friday, join women to take on TCU Saturday
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ison Miles and the men’s swimming team will battle
Ion Friday and join the women to take on TCU Saturday
By Robert Hollier
Staff writer
The No. 20 Texas A&M Men’s Swimming and Diving
Team (3-4,1-1) return to their dual meet competitions
when they host conference rival Texas, Friday at 4 p.m.
After a tough meet last week against Minnesota and
Nebraska, it does not get any easier for the Aggies as
they face the No. 3 team in the country.
“Texas has some of the best swimmers in the world to
compete against,” Men’s Swimming Coach Mel Nash
said. “They will give us a definite measure of where we
are and where we will need to be in the next three weeks.”
Despite the tough competition the Longhorns will
present, Nash said his team is ready and will be equal
ly competitive.
“We have faced some of the top talent in the coun
try,” Nash said. “All four of our losses have come against
top-15 ranked teams.”
Kyle Marden, co-captain and lone senior on the
team, said although the meet will be tough, it will pro
vide a good experience for the team.
“(The meet) will give some of our less experienced
swimmers a chance to see some great competition
from some great swimmers,” Marden said.
On Saturday, the men’s team will join the No. 25
Texas A&M Women’s Swimming and Diving Team (4-
“They (TCU) have a couple of good
distance swimmers and a pretty
good back stroker, but we should
still dominate and win every event.”
Don Wagner
Women's Swimming Coach
6,1-2) to face the TCU Horned Frogs in Fort Worth.
Don Wagner, Women’s Swimming Coach, said al
though TCU has some good swimmers, this is a meet
the Aggies should win.
“They have a couple of good distance swimmers
and a pretty good back stroker, but we should still dom
inate and win every event,” Wagner said.
Stacie Karnes, senior co-captain, said the team feels
good about the meet.
“We will be competing in events we do not normal
ly compete in, but the team is confident and I like our
chances,” Karnes said.
In the diving competitions, the men’s and women’s
teams defeated Minnesota 29-9 and Nebraska 22-16.
Also, junior Mark Naftanel set an A&M record in the 1-
meter high dive event with 320 points against Min
nesota and finished second to Nebraska. The women,
led by senior Jodie Janssen and sophomore Danielle
Guarneri, placed first, second and fourth in the 1-me
ter against Minnesota and first and third in the 1-me
ter against the Buskers.
Diving Coach Kevin Wright said although the diving
team is not prepared for the NCAAs yet, he likes the
teams’ overall effort and positive attitude.
Next week the men’s team will travel to Dallas to face
the SMU Mustangs on Feb. 6, while the women’s team
will host the Rice Owls on Feb. 7.
Women to battle Missouri Track and field off to Houston
iggies looking for second conference victory against Tigers
Bv Michael Taglienti
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Women’s Bas-
ball Team will play the Missouri
/ers (10-8, 2-6) at 2 p.m. Satur-
'/ at G. Rollie White Coliseum,
e Aggies (5-12, 1-6) are coming
a tough 63-58 loss to the
isas Jayhawks in Lawrence,
ssouri is recovering from a 69-
home loss to Baylor.
.^The keys to the game will be
«M’s ability to control Missouri’s
:ssure defense and shut down
hTiger’s inside-outside combo of
iha Bond and Julie Helm. Mis-
bri leads the Big 12 in steals with
per game. Senior point guard
nbra Williams leads the Tigers de-
ise with 41 steals on the season,
j^raging 2.6 per game.
^The Aggies are coming off a
neln which they committed 28
I movers, their most in any con
ference game this year.
Helm leads the Tigers in scor
ing, averaging 20.6 points per
game. Bond is second in scoring at
14.9 points per game, and leads
her team and the Big 12 in re
bounding with 11.5 rebounds per
game. The Missouri offense is run
by Williams, who ranks in the top
ten in the conference in assists and
assist-to-turnover ratio.
In the loss to KU, the Aggies
were led by sophomore forward
Prissy Sharpe who scored 14
points to go along with 14 re
bounds. This was Sharpe’s 13th
double-double of the season,
which leads the Big 12. Against KU,
junior point guard KimTarkington
came up just three assists short of
a triple-double—with 10 points, 10
rebounds and seven assists.
The game against Missouri
marks the beginning of a two-
game homestand for the Aggies.
By Michael Ferguson
Staff writer
On Saturday, the Texas A&M
Track and Field Teams will travel to
Houston to compete in the Houston
Invitational. They will face the Uni
versity of Houston, the University of
Texas, Rice, Texas Christian, Texas-
Arlington and Texas Southern in
what promises to be a competitive
meet.
The Aggies will be following up
an impressive showing at the in
door season-opening Sooner Invi
tational. Al
though it is early
in the indoor
season, Texas
A&M Track and
Field Coach Ted
Nelson said this
meet is still im
portant for his
teams.
Nelson , “ The main
thing we expect
of these early meets is getting our
freshmen’s feet wet and getting
them some competition indoors,”
Nelson said. “At the same time, we
have some experienced people that
have chances to qualify for the Na
tional Championships.”
Senior Adrien Sawyer has al
ready done that, and hopefully after
this weekend, that list will be longer.
The meet will take place at the
indoor track on the campus of the
University of Houston. Field events
will begin at 9 a.m. with the track
events following at around noon.
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RYAN ROGERS/The Battalion
Amy Yates and the Aggies will be
shooting for their second Big 12 win.
U in town to play Texas A&M
By Al Lazarus
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Men’s Tennis Team plays its first
al match of the season this Saturday when the Abi-
e Christian University Wildcats come to town. The
tch will take place at the Omar Smith Tennis Cen-
and will begin at noon.
While Abilene Christian may not be thought of
en strong tennis schools come to mind, its men’s
m is consistently one of the best in its conference.
)oach Tim Cass says he is aware of this fact.
“They’ve got a bunch of good athletes, and they’re
1 disciplined players, so it’s going to be a good
(.tch for us,” Cass said.
Carlos Tori said when small schools get a chance
to play a large university like Texas A&M, they are of
ten intent on coming out and playing their hardest.
Tori, the lone senior on the
men’s team, says he is certainly go
ing to remember this during Satur
day’s match.
“Anytime you’re playing a small
school, they’re so fired up, and they
want to win so badly,” Tori said.
Tori said last season was disap
pointing, and he is ready to get this
season off to a good start.
“Coming out of a year like last
Cass year, we want to come out and
make a statement,” Tori said. “We
have to play hard our first match.”
Texas A&M Men’s Basketball Team travels
to Norman to square off with Sooners
By Travis Harsch
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Men’s Basket
ball Team will continue to seek its
first conference win of 1998 to
morrow at Oklahoma’s Lloyd No
ble Center against the Sooners.
In the first meeting between
the Aggies and Sooners on Jan. 10,
in College Station, OU defeated
A&M 76-66. A&M held Oklahoma
guard Corey Brewer to 19 points,
well below his conference-lead
ing average of 24.1 points per
game. Oklahoma enters the game
coming off an 88-84 loss to Okla
homa State in which Brewer
scored 30 points and was 12 of 19
from the field.
The Sooners (15-6, 6-2) are
battling for the Big 12 South title
and a first-round bye in the con
ference tournament. They enter
the game against A&M with a
one-game lead over Baylor (10-8,
5-3) in the south division.
The Aggies (6-11, 0-7) will try
to rebound from a heartbreaking
last-second loss to Colorado on
Wednesday night. Junior forward
Shanne Jones scored 24 points for
the Aggies to remain in the top
ten in scoring in the conference
with 16.5 points per game, and
junior guard Chris Clayton added
10 points. Coach Tony Barone
called the 68-67 defeat the team’s
toughest loss of the year.
A&M will face an Oklahoma de
fense allowing 67.1 points a game,
third in the conference. The Ag
gies have had difficulty putting
points on the board this year, av
eraging only 63.5 points per game,
ranking last in the Big 12.
A&M will be trying to earn its
first road victory of the season af
ter running up an 0-6 mark away
from the friendly confines of G.
Rollie White Coliseum, while Ok
lahoma will be looking to improve
their 9-2 home record.
The game will tip off at 3 p.m.
and will be televised as one of the
Big 12 games of the week.
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