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A; or Billy Fobbs finished third in the 60-meter dash.
By Michael Ferguson
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Track and Field Teams competed
in the Houston Invitational at the University of Hous
ton Saturday. At the meet, a talented trio of Aggies not
only conquered their opponents, but also conquered
history. Senior Larry Wade and sophomores Jon
Nance and Ann Dwyer each set records in their re
spective events and helped the Aggies complete the
meet with solid performances.
As a whole, the men’s and women’s teams fared
well against the stiff competition provided by seven
other schools. The women finished in third place,
coming from behind to edge Rice by three points in
the final events. The men finished in second place,
trailing only a deep University ofTexas team. On this
particular day though, the spotlight belonged to
three individuals.
Wade streaked to glory by capturing the 60-meter
hurdles title with a Houston Invitational record time
of 7.85 seconds, breaking the old record of 7.93.
Wade, who was held out of the hurdles at the Soon
er Invitational, mentioned some of his inhibitions
going into the race.
“I really didn’t know what to expect because it was
my first race, and because of the weather conditions, we
haven’t had much practice in the hurdles,” Wade said.
“I just sat, focused and tried to do my best in the race.”
Wade was quick to give credit to various people
for his success.
“I do have a great support staff—my family, my girl
friend, my coaches and, of course, God. I just know with
out them, I couldn’t have done what I did today,” he said.
After finishing the Sooner Invitational with a first-
place finish in the pole vault, Nance was expected to
have an exciting sequel in his second meet of this
young season. He did so appropriately by once again
bringing home the gold in the pole vault with a jump
of 17 feet, 1.5 inches, tying a Houston Invitational
meet record.
‘‘Oddly enough, I didn’t feel very good at all the
whole time. I’ve changed a lot of stuff and backed my
run up from 14 to 16 steps,” Nance said. “Everything
kept falling pretty good and once I got to 17, everything
started clicking.”
Dwyer obtained her place in the record books in the
800-meter run. On her way to a second-place finish,
Dwyer ran the event in 2 minutes, 15.62 seconds, break
ing the Texas A&M school record of 2:16.27, set in 1990.
“I took the first two laps at the pace I wanted to and
then I just tried to hold on to it,” Dwyer said. “I felt re
ally strong at the end.”
Dwyer attributed her success to the work ethic of
the team.
“We’ve been training hard for the past three weeks,
doing track workouts four times a week and then we
did the last two workouts kind of easy, so we’d feel fresh
for today,” she said.
There were also many other strong performances on
both sides. Junior Derrick Woods blazed to a second-
place finish in the 400-meter dash with a brisk time of
48.88 seconds. Sophomore Desmond Powell finished
third in the 60-meter hurdles and senior Billy Fobbs fin
ished third in the 60-meter dash with a remarkable time
of 6.70 seconds.
Junior Kelli Schrader and freshman Meshell Trotter
finished 2-3 in the women’s weight throw, as did sopho
mores Jason Jacob and Travis Grasha in the men’s.
Freshman Megan Koonce also contributed with a third-
place finish in the women’s shot put. Senior Christian
Henricksen added a third-place finish in the men’s
5,000-meter run, while senior Milli Ondras finished
third in the women’s 3,000-meter. The women also re
ceived key performances in the high jump from seniors
Paula Greenfield and Laura Keahey.
Following the meet, coach Ted Nelson said his team
did not have as good of performances as it did in the
Aggies’ last meet.
“We really kind of had an off meet for us. We had
some bright spots, but overall I think we’re sort of feel
ing a down side,” Nelson said. “Two weeks ago in Okla
homa we had a good meet, and I think we were feeling
the effects of working through this meet.”
The Aggies will continue competition this week
end as they travel to Reno, Nev., to compete in the Bill
Cosby Invitational.
/omen beat Missouri, 76-61, for second Big 12 win
By Philip W. Peter
Staff writer
\ Bra’ /hen the two teams with the worst records in
[and: onjerence meet, the burden of victory lies on
:69S: ; hwlders of the competitors. And when the
igth behind those shoulders is pure emotion,
iry tastes sweeter than ever,
aturday, Coach Candi Hai*vey and an emotion-
xas A&M Women’s Basketball Team (6-11,2-5)
|h e i C red the flavor of a 76-61 victory over the Mis-
[icker ‘ Tigers (10-8,2-6) in front of 1,328 fans at G. Rol-
hite Coliseum.
ListijWe got excited about the game today, and that
it huge,” Harvey said. “There is nothing wrong
j a p.j playing this game with emotion. Of course,
3 is a time to turn it off and have poise.”
oise is exactly what Texas A&M showed down
stretch. With the game tied at 60, the Texas
1 defense stepped up and held the Tigers to
one point in the final 4:15 of the game.
Tissouri Coach Joann Rutherford gave the
es credit for playing a good game.
They came out and took care of the basketball
we didn’t,” Rutherford said. “They just want-
p te basketball game more than we did.”
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There was no individual who shouldered the
burden for A&M. They won by a total team effort,
with their bench outscoring the Tigers’ by 17.
“We played as a team,” A&M sophomore for
ward Kera Alexander said. “No one person really
took the game over. As a team, we came together
and made the plays when we had to. For the first
time, we had more intensity than the other team
down the stretch. We had the goal that we wanted
to come in and finish and that is what we did to
day. We played hard for 40 minutes.”
Alexander came off of the bench, played 35
minutes and scored 16 points on 6-for-8 shooting.
She was 4-for-4 from the field in the second half,
but it was junior guard Kim Tarkington who led
Texas A&M in scoring with 19 points, 11 in the fi
nal 10 minutes.
“A go-to player develops herself,” Harvey said.
“That’s not something a coach can develop. I think
Kim wanted to be that today, and she was.”
Tarkington was not the only go-to player for
Texas A&M. Sophomore forward Prissy Sharpe
hit all five of her field goals, finishing with 17
points. It was the first 100-percent shooting per
formance of her career.
As a team, the Aggies shot 54.9 percent of their
field goals, their highest percentage since they hit
55.4 percent against Southwest Texas State Uni
versity on Nov. 24,1997.
“Shooting 66 percent in the second half is huge
for us,” Harvey said. “But we were getting good,
easy looks at the basket.”
With easy looks and forced shots, Missouri
guard Julie Helm, who played the entire 40 min
utes of the game, led all players in scoring. Helm,
a 5-foot-11-inch sophomore, scored 23 points on
10-for-21 shooting, but had problems with Har
vey’s defensive scheme.
“We ran a box-and-one (defense) against
Helm, who just had a phenomenal game,” Harvey
said. “I really feel like it took her out of the game,
at least for a couple of minutes. But all the credit
goes to the kids. They had a game plan, they exe
cuted it and they finished.”
Although she praised her team, Harvey saw
room for improvement.
“We still turned the ball over more times than
we would like,” Harvey said. “But we didn’t hang
our heads. We fought through. We picked it back
up with steals on defense and that’s what we’ve got
to continue to do.”
The Aggies host Baylor Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Sports Briefs
Walker injured in
skiing accident
Former SMU star Doak Walker
was critically injured Friday after
falling on an intermediate ski slope
in Steamboat Springs, Colo.
Walker, 71, was airlifted to the
Swedish Medical Center in Engle
wood, Colo., from the mountain. He
was in a coma when he arrived at the
center. His condition has improved,
but he still remains paralyzed from
the neck down.
Doctors at the center said they
are not certain when or if Walker will
regain full use of his limbs.
Walker was the 1948 Heisman
Trophy winner, and his name now
adorns another annual college foot
ball award. The Doak Walker Award
is given each season to the most
outstanding running back in colle
giate football
from staff and wire reports
US bobsledder
cleared by IOC
Brian Shimer, a four-time Olympian
and the driver of the top sleds on the
U.S. Olympic bobsledding team, was
cleared of violations he used testos
terone to enhance his performance
in a meet last November, according
to sources on the U.S. team.
Shimer failed the first phase of
the two-part test following the
meet. He was found to have had
higher-than-allowed amounts of the
hormone in his system. But during
the second phase of the test,
Shimer was found to have normal
levels of testosterone.
It is rare for an athlete to fail the
first part of the tests and then
show up clean on the second. The
tests have been criticized heavily
by the U.S. Olympic Committee as
being unreliable.
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